It’s now been reported that a hard drive with “massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration” has gone missing from the National Archives. The theft apparently occurred sometime between October 2008 and March 2009 and contained 1 terabyte of data…
…including Social Security numbers, addresses, and Secret Service and White House operating procedures, congressional officials said Tuesday.
One of former Vice President Al Gore’s three daughters is among those whose Social Security numbers were on the drive, but it was not clear which one. Other information includes logs of events, social gatherings and political records.
Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper said in a written statement that the agency was preparing to notify affected individuals of the breach. The representative of former President Bill Clinton has been notified, but Cooper gave no indication whether the former president’s personal information was on the hard drive.
“The drive contains an as yet unknown amount of personally identifiable information of White House staff and visitors,” the statement added.
The drive is missing from the Archives facility in College Park, Md., a Washington suburb. …the Archives had been converting the Clinton administration information to a digital records system…[and]…the hard drive was left on a shelf and unused for an uncertain period of time. When the employee tried to resume work, the hard drive was missing.
Committee staff members were told there is a copy of the massive amount of information, but Archives officials have only just begun to learn what was on the drive.
Coming just as former President Clinton is named as U.N. envoy to Haiti; coming just as Congress approves the final version of a bill intended to enhance enforcement of financial crimes, including creating commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis, the beginnings of which point to Clinton-era policies and practices; just as other witch hunts about Democrat-approved interrogation of terrorists are being demanded; coming just as the Democrat-derided Bush-era Homeland Security practices foil yet another terrorist attack on American soil; and combined with President Obama’s “do as I say, not as I do” definition of “transparency in government” and track record of gaffes, flubs, blunders, and dangerous policies, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to ask just what potentially-incriminating evidence might be included in that missing data and – most importantly – why is it only being reported as missing now? Now that Congress has pushed Waxman’s enfant terrible cap & trade legislation out of committee. Now that the other parts of the world are developing a nervous tic as they watch Iran aggressively move forward with its nuclear weapons program and Obama gives Iran until the end of the year to decide if it “wants” to “cooperate”.
It’s a serious matter, this data loss. But it’s also a red herring being used to distract Americans from the truth. The truth that things in Washington – and even President Obama – aren’t what the administration wants us to see. The truth, as I and others have noted before, that despite their own foibles at least Bush and Cheney kept America safe and Obama is throwing Israel under the bus in order to force Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran in pure self-defense. Thereby throwing the world into political chaos, if not outright war; which, boys and girls, has historically been the “best” way to American economic recovery.
Deja vu….