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House leaders order data security review
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 03:10:02 -0600 (CST)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28967.html By John Bresnahan Politico 10/31/09 Following the worst breach in the House Ethics Committee's security in the more than a decade, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner announced Friday that they have ordered a review on the handling of sensitive data. The statement by the two party leaders came after the Washington Post obtained an internal ethics committee document from late July outlining the status of investigations by the ethics panel and the Office of Congressional Ethics. More than 30 lawmakers. names were on the status report, including senior members of the powerful Defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. These veteran members, including Reps. John Murtha (D-Pa.), Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) and James Moran (D-Va.), have been linked to the scandal surrounding the now defunct PMA Group, a once-powerful lobbying firm at the center of a Justice Department criminal probe. The release of the ethics document, inadvertently placed on a file-sharing program by a now ex-ethics committee staffer while she worked from home on her personal computer, has proven a huge embarrassment for the ethics committee and lawmakers named in the report. While many of the allegations about the lawmakers in question had been raised publicly by previous media reports - some going back more than three years - the leak focused renewed attention on Congress. ongoing ethics problems. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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