Pentagon agency faulted for jeopardizing ID data
Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:11pm EDT
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Personal data collected on military, civilian and contractor employees seeking federal security clearances between 1997 and 2005 could be at risk due to inaccurate record-keeping by the Pentagon agency that did the investigations, an audit showed on Thursday.
The Defense Security Service (DSS) was initially unable to account for 501 laptops used by its investigators and loaded with personal identity data, posing an undue risk to those people's privacy, the Pentagon's internal watchdog said in the audit.
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Air Force missile launch crew fell asleep
Jul 24 06:18 PM US/Eastern
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JAMES MacPHERSON
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air Force said Thursday.
The probe found that the missile launch codes were not compromised, but the July 12 incident comes on the heels of a series of missteps by the Air Force that had already put the service under intense scrutiny.
The lapse, which involved a crew based at Minot Air Force Base, was serious enough, however, to prompt an investigation by the 91st Missile Wing, in conjunction with codes experts at the 20th Air Force, U.S. Strategic Command and the National Security Agency.
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