This purge didn't happen to start about the time Maddy Albright blabbed about them losing the (unencrypted, not even password protected) laptops over there in Eastern Europe or the Balkans, did it?
FBI investigating missing State Department laptop
News Story by Ann Harrison
APRIL 19, 2000 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The U.S. State Department said yesterday that the FBI is leading an investigation into the disappearance two months ago of a State Department laptop computer that might have contained classified information. A department spokeswoman could not confirm whether any sensitive data that might have been stored on the missing laptop was encrypted.