Reuters: With more missing data, Reid seeks VA chief's ouster

[Eugene]

With more missing data, Reid seeks VA chief's ouster

Reuters
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; 2:33 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday called
on Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson to resign after the department
disclosed that another batch of personal information on veterans was missing.

"Enough is enough," Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said. "Less than a month after
promising to make the VA the 'gold standard' in data security, Secretary
Nicholson has again presided over loss of personal information of thousands
of veterans."

The VA on Monday announced that a subcontractor reported personal information
on up to 38,000 veterans was missing from the company's offices.

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The subcontractor, the Unisys Corp., said a desktop computer was missing from its
offices in Reston, Virginia outside Washington. Unisys was hired to assist in
insurance collections for VA medical centers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080800656.html

Related LBN thread: VA loses another computer with personal info

[butterfly77]

1. This is some more bushit ...

I posted about this subject in the past months, something is mighty flakey that every month their is missing data from somewhere. I do not put it past bush and his minions to be planning something this was very evident during the NSA hearing and other hearings about privacy. Bushites are working every where. Yesterday there was something posted about AOL and them revealing names of customers on the internet there was some problem with a large database.

[lebkuchen]

2. Nicholson used to head the RNC

He's a vet yet turned money down that the democratic party was trying to give the VA because it was broke. It was broke when Nicholson took it over.

I agree with the poster above. Something is NQR (not quite right).

I hope Reid is successful in getting rid of Nicholson. Here's hoping Rummy leaves with him.