CQ politics-BIG SCANDAL-Hundreds of Laptops Missing at State Department, Audit Finds

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Hundreds of Laptops Missing at State Department, Audit Finds

As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings.

Auditors found that the department had lost track of $30 million worth of equipment, according to one official, “the vast majority of which . . . perhaps as much as 99 per cent,” was laptops.

Mark Duda, a representative of the Inspector General’s office at the meeting, warned the managers that they needed to get on top of the equipment issue before it “blows up.” He said a scandal loomed akin to the one that engulfed the Veterans Administration in 2006, when news broke that a VA official had taken home a laptop with the personal records of 26 million veterans, where it was stolen.

“It’s the worst flaw you can have in management control,” one close observer of the State Department’s problems said.

incompetent buffoons appointed to "run" our government just go home and simply collect their pay checks? They certainly would do less harm.

finally and truly bankrupt. Then their work will be done and they can sit back and watch the Dems try to pick up the pieces!