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I think the moment is ripe for President Obama to put someone in the job who is part of a same-sex marriage. You know, to celebrate the only thing he has “accomplished” since 2010.

He may need to kill bin Laden again.

JVW (8278a3) — 7/10/2015 @ 10:32 am

Anyone care to bet if 21,500,000 is the final and actual number ?

JD (8c5938) — 7/10/2015 @ 10:51 am

What a Romney bumper sticker could say.

“I fucking told you so !”

Mike K (90dfdc) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:05 am

Actually it’s closer to 22. The 21.5 is one database, and there was another database with 4.2 million, but they overlap to have something like 22 million uniques. Eventually we’ll just run out of possible people that OPM had data on.

nbf (4aae12) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:10 am

If this administration says it’s 21.5 million, I think we can be safe to assume it’s double that–I blame the new math.

rochf (f3fbb0) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:20 am

2. Anyone care to bet if 21,500,000 is the final and actual number ?

JD (8c5938) — 7/10/2015 @ 10:51 am

Not even close.

Also, they’re saying the CHICOMs likely have every SF86 going back to Y2K.

Anyone care to bet they got records going back further than that?

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:27 am

Does Archuleta get a pension? Will it be huge?

Answer themselves, innit?

Fred Z (879d18) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:36 am

…and the incompetence continues. FBI has just reported that the South Carolina shooter “shouldn’t have been sold a gun” due to an error in the background check system. The incompetence rolls on unimpeded. Most incompetent and feckless administration ever!

Bill M (906260) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:45 am

==”shouldn’t have been sold a gun” due to an error in the background check system==

So are you saying that more gun laws (also likely to be incompetently managed) is not the answer then, Bill M.?

elissa (9774d2) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:52 am

If only gross dereliction or criminal negligence resulted in prosecution and a prison
sentence instead of a cushy retirement.

Bar Sinister (b48c12) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:57 am

Only when inept OPM head Archuleta became a PR problem, was she deemed a real problem, worthy of Obama’s attention, and thrown under the bus.

#NeedAdultsInCharge

Colonel Haiku (ddb5f8) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:01 pm

Oh, so it wasn’t actually a data breach or deep personal information stolen from 21 million Americans, It was a “data exfiltration” according to OPM. Nuance!

elissa (9774d2) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:02 pm

The only area in which this administration requires competence is in mendacity.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/07/08/president-obama-says-were-training-isil-white-house-website-corrects-his-remarks-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

President’s embarrassing error during press briefing amended on official transcript

…During his speech, Obama uttered the line, “with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces.”

In point of fact, Tiger Beat is speeding up recruitment and training of ISIS. His @$$clownery is a freakin’ goldmine as far as ISIS is concerned.

You know how to convince people your ideas are better, President Bieber? By defeating their forces in the field and occupying their cities.

The Japanese didn’t ask themselves, “WTF were we thinking? How could we have been so wrong?” Until they saw the USS Missouri and a few hundred of her sisters in Tokyo bay.

Prom Queen accidentally speaks the truth, and his administration corrects his mistake. That is the sole core competency this administration, indeed the entire left, requires. Remember this?

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/chuck-hagel-stumbles-on-iran-question-87001.html

Chuck Hagel stumbled Thursday during questioning on Iran, inadvertently saying the Obama administration supports “containment” and calling the country an “elected legitimate government.”

Does anyone doubt now that Hagel accidentally revealed President Mean Girl’s true views regarding Iran?

“As you know, our policy is prevention, not containment,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Fox News on Tuesday.

The administration sent out someone more comfortable with lying (not good at it, just comfortable with it) to paint over the truth that Hagel accidentally revealed.

This administration has one question in mind when it comes to hiring and retention. Is this person an enthusiastic and unrepentant liar?

Notice Koskinen still has his job.

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:03 pm

i don’t get it

neither the linked article nor the National Soros Radio article on this contain the words “China” or “Chinese”

I don’t think we’re all on the same page about this whole “journalism” thing

happyfeet (a037ad) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:03 pm

Why so hard on her? OPM was warned about this vulnerability just 3-4 years ago. It was still awaiting a priority slot in IT.

in_awe (7c859a) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:36 pm

in_awe, no doubt that Archuleta probably couldn’t do much about the sclerotic pace at which the federal bureaucracy moves (assuming that she wanted to do something about it), but she is the one who made the choice to lie to Congress about the extent of the espionage that occurred under her watch. The Clinton Administration was all about the idea that you could lie as much as you wanted as long as you demonstrated a basic competency; I guess the fact that even Democrats had abandoned her goes to show that lies are harder to countenance when faced with gross incompetence.

JVW (8278a3) — 7/10/2015 @ 12:43 pm

I am trying (and failing) to think of any person whom this administration put in charge of a major agency, or important project, or cabinet post, who was actually trained, or educated in that area or had shown prior actual competence in the field. They are all “quotas” of some sort, political paybacks, Democrat political toadies, and/or known underachievers who could be manipulated and cowed by the president and ValJar.

elissa (9774d2) — 7/10/2015 @ 1:00 pm

Her incompetence was that her actions placed the Nomenkaltura at risk.

You know the Nomenklatura; they help implement Obama’s policies.

If they’re worrying about their personal data you can’t expect them to process those green cards in defiance of a Federal injunction.

John P. Squibob (4affc3) — 7/10/2015 @ 1:38 pm

In nominating Archuleta, the President said: “Katherine brings to the Office of Personnel Management broad experience and a deep commitment to recruiting and retaining a world-class workforce for the American people.” The White House announcement listed a series of chief-of-staff and policy jobs in Denver and Washington before her job on the president’s campaign.

Less attention focused on the agency’s role in handling government security clearances and how it safeguards some of the most sensitive U.S. government databases.

Even less was paid to why Archuleta — whose most recent job was as a national political director for Obama for America, the President’s reelection campaign — was the person to help fix what was an agency already struggling to deal with technology problems and serious data breaches.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/politics/opm-director-resigns-katherine-archuleta/index.html

elissa (9774d2) — 7/10/2015 @ 1:45 pm

Because, shut up, racist.

JD (4a8717) — 7/10/2015 @ 1:56 pm

16. I am trying (and failing) to think of any person whom this administration put in charge of a major agency, or important project, or cabinet post, who was actually trained, or educated in that area or had shown prior actual competence in the field. They are all “quotas” of some sort, political paybacks, Democrat political toadies, and/or known underachievers who could be manipulated and cowed by the president and ValJar.

elissa (9774d2) — 7/10/2015 @ 1:00 pm

Don’t forget Obama’s embarrassing ambassadorial nominees. They were such embarrassments the mere fact that Obama chose them insulted the countries they were going to be posted to.

Then they opened their mouths or otherwise display their ignorance and or contempt for the country where they are stationed and just add to the insult.

http://www.thediplomad.com/2015/07/our-new-and-smart-diplomacy-at-work.html

Words fail me . . . Our Ambassador in the Dominican Republic having a big gay pool party in honor of the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage.

…ISIS must be trembling . . .

I am so glad not to be in the Department now.

Most Dominicans, who are largely conservative Catholics with a large evangelical minority, were enraged when Obama chose Brewster in the first place. Most if not all of Obama’s picks had only one qualification; they were top fundraisers. But Brewster had another qualification. He was a Chicago gay rights activist.

Throwing this well publicized pool party could be no more than a planned insult to the people of the Dominican Republic.

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 2:27 pm

In nominating Archuleta, the President said: “Katherine brings to the Office of Personnel Management broad experience and a deep commitment to recruiting and retaining a world-class workforce for the American people.”

And then an even deeper commitment to selling them out to the CHICOMs. Which should do wonders for recruitment and retention, donchathink?

I have to conclude our Marxist Prom Queen sees this as a feature, not a bug.

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 2:33 pm

The real horror is contemplating what China might do, now that they are well and thoroughly hosed, with the data and with the Zombie administration tuck pointed by JarJar Obinks:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-10/chinas-market-isnt-fixed-and-why-global-bubble-will-keep-imploding

Just one insight, ‘China produced more concrete in the three years concluding with 2014 than America during the whole of the twentieth century.’

That spectacular expansion has just flat out quit. An emerging middle class of 50 million just lost everthing.

DNF (208255) — 7/10/2015 @ 3:47 pm

CNN blames Rs for Archuletta but Rs were in the minority and 35 of their 45 voted against her, while all 55 Democrats voted to confirm the totally incompetent bureaucrat. #SumBallz

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/10/2015 @ 4:26 pm

Trump must want to seize on the chicoms misfortune.
Our pure coal contributed to the madness. And so did U.S. Iron.

mg (31009b) — 7/10/2015 @ 4:32 pm

#23 Col Haiku
“CNN blames Rs for Archuletta but Rs were in the minority …”

= = = = =

“When in doubt, blame the Republicans.” Can’t hurt. Most of the LIVs will believe it. And if the Prog’s frame it just right, the R’s milquetoast “leadership” will act like a puppy who just got swatted with a rolled-up newspaper. Win-win-win.

A_Nonny_Mouse (9ba75f) — 7/10/2015 @ 5:57 pm

She should have been fired a year ago. The layer below her should have been fired. The layer above her should have been fired. All of those people should still be fired. If they can’t be fired, create useless tasks with no power to keep them in until they quit. Preferably without pensions.

htom (4ca1fa) — 7/10/2015 @ 6:41 pm

Archuletan us all go, patron?

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

nk (dbc370) — 7/10/2015 @ 6:48 pm

It was still awaiting a priority slot in IT. Right after they made sure that no one was discriminating against the gender of all the cables and connectors, and no one was forcing a male connecter into a female receptacle if it didn’t want to go there. Yes means Yes.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/10/2015 @ 6:51 pm

She was fired because she is so far down the food chain she doesn’t have any info to blackmail the WH with.

Patricia (5fc097) — 7/10/2015 @ 9:00 pm

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/244272-obama-we-dont-yet-have-a-compete-strategy-against-isis

The Obama administration says it’s too busy looking for a differently abled lesbian of color with the right liberal arts/gender studies degree from a proper Ivy League school and a background in LGBT rights advocacy to replace Archuleta for this technically demanding position.

Also, our top strategy guys are working on the training materials to browbeat the troops for when we integrate the transgendered into the military.

Who has time for ISiS?

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:18 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/military-drag-show_n_4891324.html

…On Saturday, six gay, lesbian and straight service members traded in their military uniforms for some glitz and glam, performing in drag at a fundraising event at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. The show was organized to raise money for Okinawa’s first chapter of OutServe-SLDN, the largest advocacy group for the military’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, reports Stars and Stripes…

Diversity is our strength. Wrist slitting diversity.

Well, that and some glitz and glam.

ISIS is shaking in fear.

Steve57 (4c9797) — 7/10/2015 @ 11:38 pm

She was fired because she was too large PR liability not because she was incompetent. Competency is not s requirement for this admin. Fealty and symbolism are all that’s required

James Davis (03f9af) — 7/11/2015 @ 4:35 am

I would like to see members of the Islamic reps the one cow-tows to run into the GLBTQetc. reps he cow-tows to in the hallway outside of the Oval Office.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/11/2015 @ 6:41 am

31. ‘Diversity is our schtrenth’.

Divide and conquer.

DNF (208255) — 7/11/2015 @ 8:27 am

Incompetent, but corrupt enough to be useful.

ErisGuy (76f8a7) — 7/12/2015 @ 9:20 am

I’m still looking for the reason why the OPM database was administered from Argentina and China. Contract employees with Chinese passports.

The IG was complaining about this for years !

This article is several weeks old but some of the story is here.

By and large, government agencies in the last 20 years have become increasingly dependent on outside contractors to provide the most basic of information technology services—especially smaller agencies like OPM. The result has been a patchwork IT systems and security, and the Office of the CIO at OPM has a direct hand in fewer and fewer projects. Of the 47 major IT systems at OPM, 22 of them are currently run by contractors. OPM’s security team has limited visibility into these outside projects, but even the internally operated systems were found to be lacking in terms of basic security measures.

The administrators were not US citizens ! It wasn’t even a “hack.”

Since multi-factor authentication and encryption were not integrated into any of OPM’s 47 major applications, all an attacker had to do was to gain access to a system on the network—nearly any system. Based on the testimony before Congress and other publicly available data, we know that hackers found at least two systems and were able to easily expand their access laterally within OPM and then contractor and service provider networks afterward.

The admin access people were Chinese ! In China ! Not even a hack.

Mike K (90dfdc) — 7/12/2015 @ 9:40 am

Incredible, Mike K.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/12/2015 @ 2:10 pm

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Katherine Archuleta Resigns

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