Security Breakdown at the White House?

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407M.shtml

Security Breakdown at the White House?
By Maddy Sauer
ABC News

Monday 23 April 2007

Security practices at the White House are dangerously inadequate say current and former employees of the security office there, according to a letter sent today from the House Oversight Committee to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, asking that he cooperate with the committee's investigation into the alleged security lapses.

"These security officials described a systemic breakdown in security procedures at the White House," wrote the chairman of the committee, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Among the lapses cited by the security officers, who spoke to the committee anonymously, are multiple instances of breaches being reported to the security office that were ignored and never investigated. Several of those instances allegedly involved the mishandling of SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information), which is the highest level of classified information.


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The letter also states that over half of the White House security officers have left the department in the past year due to frustration and poor management.


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[Benhurst]

1. I'm so worried

I can hardly sleep at night. :boring:

[Old and In the Way]

2. Big surprise.

This administration uses any and all classified information for their own political ends. When they aren't breaking the law with impunity, they can't even manage the WH bureaucracy without screwing that up. Heckuva job Bushie.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. How else will the staff's call-boys get in without being officially registered?

Cough *Gannon* cough.

[Sal Minella]

5. That's what I was thinking. JimmyJeff GannonGuckert probably doesn't bother to sign in any more,

much less sign out. I wonder what other scumbags have free run of the place. Well if we're going to let Shaha Riza have free run of the Pentagon without undergoing formal security clearance, whatsa diff.

[Lobster Martini]

4. My thought process when I check out of a hotel

Hmmm...got the little bars of soap, some postcards, hotel stationary...oh dear, I forgot the highly classified information!

Happens to me all the time.