"This was legitimate state espionage, one government going after another for information that could contribute to its national security. As director of the National Security Agency, given the opportunity against similar Chinese information, I would not have hesitated for a second...and I wouldn't have had to get anyone's permission to do it."
Money Quote: "This is what serious nation-states do. All of them. There is no shame for China here. This is shame on us."
There's plenty of blame for this disaster to go around. Ms. Archuleta was simply a willing pawn in a very dangerous game orchestrated by the White House's unwillingness to get truly serious about what Gen. Hayden calls "cyberhygiene."
Speaking as somebody whose family got personally affected by the OPM hack (21 million and counting): Barack Obama picked an amazing person to run that agency, huh?
Let me be absolutely clear on this. Katherine Archuleta, OPM Director, was given the job for two reasons: one, she was Barack Obamas national political director for the 2012 campaign. Two, shes Latina
Obama in a nutshell.
Obamas appointment of Archuleta comes after the president faced pressure from Latino advocacy groups to appoint Hispanics to serve in his second-term cabinet. More than seven in ten Latinos voted for Obama in last years election, but the number of Latino cabinet members is set to fall from two to one.
Lois Learner’d
Archuleta?
She’ll get a new GS job with a big pay raise and maybe a bigger desk with a nicer view
and a bonus for this year
bendover
I hope some Chinese woman named “Archuleta” is charging things on her credit cards
I predict - this will be a total surprise to you - that the next person to hold this job will be even less competent and chosen only for his/her willingness to toe the bolshevik line.
Ummmmmm.... the horse has already left the barn. It’s like adding new radar and anti-aircraft to Hawaii after Dec 7th.
First “Latina” to serve as OPM director.
Purely political hire.
Amazing.
Wow! I skimmed an article earlier today in which she said she has not intention of stepping down.
But everything we do is still hooked up to the internet, isn’t it. This weakness will never be corrected. There is no desire to correct it. Just like the VA will never be corrected. Our enemies will continue to exploit us and we will never do anything to stop it.
Gee! What a surprise? Another upward moving affirmative action appointee failing in their job!
Speaking of affirmative action appointees, why hasn’t the affirmative action president been fired yet.
Seeing the competency level of the minions 0bama filled his Cabinet with, he would have done better to go to Goodwill and hire a couple dozen retards from the back room. At least their errors would be purely accidental.
Someone somewhere in America took responsibility for something?
Wow. I was sure nobody ever was held to account for anything ever. See Hillary.
Once again the boss is not being held responsible for national security failures of his subordinates and the pattern of negligence continues.
the thing replacing it doesn't look to be any better
Another Obama woman appointee or promote who has failed. IRS, ICE, DHS, DSS, EPA, Navy, Vets Admin., Sally Jewell now at Interior, Lynch, now at DOJ, Anita Dunn - the Maoist at the White House, Mari Harf - the spokesidiot at State or White House or Red House or Dog House, along with Jen Psaki who was promoted for her incompetence.
Throw in the Mayoress of Baltimore and her pet DA Mosby; any woman on the major city councils of California, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Detroit (old time now dead Reds Maryanne Mahaffey and Erma Henderson), Houston’s mayor, the clowns in Philadelphia, etc.
If there is a war on women, it is by Obama who has chosen or promoted or helped in elections the most incompetent, Marxist, crooked and/or crazy girls around.
Tell me that Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Schakowsky, B. Lee, Sheila My Brains are too Tight Jackson, anyone named Murphy or Murray, Fudge, Warren, etc. are sane, pro-America, not Marxists, and rational.
I LOVE SCIENCE FICTION TALES!
Resigns...with a tax free $100K/yr pension and a solid gold health plan paid for by you and me.