Bingo!
While the media was distracted yesterday by the shiny bauble also known as Donald Trump, real news was being made during a House Oversight hearing on the hack of sensitive information from Office of Personnel Management computer systems.
Thankfully Roll Call put together a video of lowlights from the hearing that show OPM Director Katherine Archuleta getting grilled by members of both parties and providing no real answers as to what happened or who’s to blame. It really does make for good T.V. and we wonder why the cable newsers were more interested in Trump than “cyber Pearl Harbor.”
Anyway, like we said it the title, her performance was infuriating and you’ll probably want to grab a pitchfork and storm the proverbial castle after giving it a view:
Time for Archuleta to get fired? Rep. Jason Chaffetz says “yes”:
Oversight chairman: Obama needs to fire OPM chief http://t.co/2xdMuNyAAY
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) June 17, 2015
And that this happened at all is especially egregious since we were warned:
Bush could've stopped 9/11 based on a vague warning and 36 days, but Obama has no blame for the OPM hack, given multiple warnings and YEARS.
— Razor (@hale_razor) June 17, 2015
Yes, the IC did warn us about cyber & CI threats esp from Russia & China. So what, it's not like anything was done. http://t.co/TZj3v7khd9
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 17, 2015
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Worst of all, OPM was warned 2 other systems contained data on applicants for security clearances.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) June 17, 2015
More bad news. The hack seems to be getting bigger:
Email to all House staff this a.m.: OPM breach wider than 1st thought. BG files of ppl w past/present security clearances maybe exposed.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 17, 2015
Are they just going to keep saying the OPM hack was slightly bigger than thought until announcing on July 4 at 7pm that ALL OF AMERICA WAS?
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) June 17, 2015
Via @washingtonpost — cyber hack at OPM "pathetic breach of responsibility" http://t.co/c8CYbKr45e
— Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) June 17, 2015
Pathetic is right and it’s about time President Obama did something about it.
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