Apr. 24th, 2007

winterbadger: (re-defeat Bush!)
White House staffers ignore basic security procedures, with no repercussions

Security practices at the White House are dangerously inadequate say current and former employees of the security office there, according to a letter sent today from the House Oversight Committee to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, asking that he cooperate with the committee's investigation into the alleged security lapses.

"These security officials described a systemic breakdown in security procedures at the White House," wrote the chairman of the committee, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Among the lapses cited by the security officers, who spoke to the committee anonymously, are multiple instances of breaches being reported to the security office that were ignored and never investigated. Several of those instances allegedly involved the mishandling of SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information), which is the highest level of classified information.

In one instance, a White House official reportedly left SCI material behind in a hotel room during a foreign trip with the president. The CIA did recover the highly classified material, but the security office did not investigate the incident or discipline the individual, according a security officer's account in the letter.Read more... )
winterbadger: (british brigade)
I'm hosting a Revolutionary War miniatures wargame this Saturday. We have several players signed up, but there is certainly room for a few more players. You can command some of the plucky, numerous, but somewhat undisciplined Continentals, or a portion of the tough and battle-hardened (but slightly outnumbered) forces of the Crown. The rules are easy to learn, troops and terrain are provided.

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