You know your post 9-11 tax dollars are hard at work when the Transportation Security Administration can't even protect themselves. The TSA, an arm of the Homeland Security Department somehow lost a computer hard drive containing financial and Social Security information on about 100,000 of it's employees from a "secure area". Maybe their idea of secure is different than ours?!??!?

Sigh... It's this sort of utter incompetence that makes us not feel so bad about the potential infringement of our rights from the use of the Patriot Act. When the "Three Stooges" are "Big Brother", there's less to worry about except asphyxiation from uncontrolled laughter. MSNBC Reports...

WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employee records.

Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA headquarters. TSA Administrator Kip Hawley sent a letter to employees Friday apologizing for the lost data and promising to pay for one year of credit monitoring services.

"TSA has no evidence that an unauthorized individual is using your personal information, but we bring this incident to your attention so that you can be alert to signs of any possible misuse of your identity," Hawley wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press. "We profoundly apologize for any inconvenience and concern that this incident has caused you."

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