Reply #8: Veteran Data Was Removed Routinely, Official Says

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON, May 25 — Officials of the Veterans Affairs Department told angry lawmakers on Thursday that an agency employee had been taking home sensitive data for three years before some of the material was stolen from his residence, compromising the records of 26.5 million veterans.

"He said that he routinely took such data home to work on it, and had been doing so since 2003," George J. Opfer, the department's inspector general, told senators, some of whom expressed amazement at how the department has handled the theft.

Because the data included Social Security numbers and birth dates as well as names, there has been widespread concern that the information could be used by computer-handy criminals for credit card fraud and other forms of identity theft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/washington/26identity.html
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clearly the fault of "Clintonistas" imbedded in the Department of Veterans Affairs...