Every veteran discharged after 1975 stands to be a victim of ID Theft

[kentuck]

Millions and millions of veterans had their records taken out of the VA by a lower level employee. He had the information on a disk. SS numbers, DOB's, medications taking, very personal information. It is difficult to imagine the extent of this gross incompetence. Can't these people do anything right? Do they have to screw up everything? Hopefully, the FBI will discover this information, as soon as they get thru raiding the offices in Congress...

[Scoody Boo]

1. Maybe who ever buys my info...

can clean up my credit for me. It is horrible shape!

[kentuck]

2. Choicepoint uses that type of information....

People with a lot of debt are more likely to commit suicide and their rates are higher for insurance if they have that information...

[Kutjara]

3. Cool! I bought Ollie North's identity.

Am I gonna have some fun with this.

[spacelady]

4. I was going to start a thread about this as a tipping point in that the

military would see this theft as an affront to everything they sacrificed. I hope the Vets can rally forward and join the rest of us who are horrified about this political juggernaut that is plowing a hole through the Bill of Rights. I am of an age that never had to fight UNTIL NOW. Please, Veterans, make your voices heard and lead this country back to where it had some dignity!

[MadMaddie]

5. Utter incompetence....how many of those CD/Discs are floating

around the VA Administration...do they know? How do they keep track of this information and who has it? Hell no....do you hear any outrage from that fucking hack called the President...nope not a peep....

[newswolf56]

6. Probably not a theft -- a black op to facilitate storm-trooper activity.

Three points:

(1)-People with military training -- veterans -- are the only people the Bush Regime sees as any potentially revolutionary threat: rightfully so, since people without such training have no such capabilities.

(2)-It is extremely unusual for a low-level employee to have access to that kind of information and absolutely unheard of for such an employee to be allowed to take it home;

(3)-The government cannot legally provide such restricted information to its private security contractors (Halliburton et al) or to Christian fundamentalist stormtrooper groups (the Ku Klux Klan and possible other future pro-Bush-Regime domestic death squads), but by organizing a "theft" it could easily circumvent all privacy laws.

Since we already know this is an outlaw regime, the likelihood is obvious.


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Edit: misplaced modifier.

[MadMaddie]

7. Interesting thoughts.....

[NVMojo]

8. Great, that would be my dad ....

[DemoTex]

9. Would that be discharged from active duty? Inactive reserves?

I was discharged from active duty in 1972 and went into the inactive reserve pool (whatever that was called) until about 1980. I have a DD-214 from the active duty discharge, but not from the inactive reserves. Should I worry (I mean, more than my usually stupefying paranoia)?


Bu$h just prior to Section VIII discharge