.....covering up enemy mass espionage:
The White House waited roughly four weeks before telling the public that hackers had stolen the personal information of millions of people associated with the federal government, two people directly involved with the investigation tell the Associated Press....
Press guidance from the administration sent by email to industry executives on June 2nd explained vaguely that an issue with implications for the U.S. intelligence community was about to be disclosed and predicted that it would generate some minor news coverage in Washington and trade periodicals. The AP was read a copy of the guidance.
i.e. "Nothing to see here, move along".
A White House official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the break-in, said the delay was needed to identify what information was exposed and how many people were affected, ensure that a public announcement wouldn't interfere with the investigation and establish a process to notify affected employees.
Sounds plausible, doesn't it? Even responsibly prudent.
Here comes the other shoe, right on schedule:
Roughly six weeks later, the U.S. still doesn't know exactly what information was exposed or how many people were affected, and it has not provided detailed warnings to employees whose information was compromised. [emphasis added]
I interpret all of this that the White House estimated how long the lid could be kept on this story, kept the lid on it for as long as they could, then tried to provide a "soft landing" for itself that would attract as little attention as possible. Which I suppose is what passes for "advance planning" with this Regime.
But the planning, all their attention, was and is focused on covering their own asses, not on safeguarding all the personal data and state and national security secrets they've entrusted to themselves, which have now all been scattered to the proverbial four winds. They could care less about our enemies knowing everything we know, other than to help facilitate it for "fairness" purposes.
And now that We, the People know all about it.....so what? Either Obama is president-for-life or a lame duck. Whichever it is, he doesn't have to give one leaf off the fig tree about this. It's just one more disastrous fait accompli, plopped right in our laps, about which we can do precisely nothing, because the damage has been done.
And he knows it.
How's "hopenchange" looking to you now, sixty-two million numbnut Obama voters?
Maybe I shouldn't ask that question.....
UPDATE: Better and better: The federal agency that was mega-hacked by the ChiComms apparently outsourced some of its data management to … Red China:
Some of the contractors that have helped OPM with managing internal data have had security issues of their own — including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project “was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People’s Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is ‘so what’s new?'” [emphases added]
Three years trumps four weeks? This also means that it makes no never-mind whether OPM had encrypted its databases or not, because the ChiComms had already penetrated them on the U.S. taxpayers' dime. And now the notification emails the feds are sending out to millions of current and former employees are providing convenient cover for the exactly the kind of ChiComm "phishing" attacks that would dupe recipients into clicking links to sites that would infect their computers with the malware that would mine whatever personal information our friends in Beijing hadn't stolen already.
Aaaaaaaaand a separate enemy cyberattack has compromised the SF-86 biographical info of hundreds of thousands of service members, perhaps including....special forces personnel.
How is it we're even still alive?
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