Late last month, I wrote to you about the stunning revelation that personal information for 26.5 million veterans had been stolen -- and that even after this massive screw-up, the Department of Veteran's Affairs waited nearly 3 weeks to tell anyone about it.
But as we've often seen from this Administration, the story actually gets worse. Last week, we discovered that the personal information of 2.2 million active duty, Reserve, and National Guard troops was stolen as well.
As if our men and women in uniform don't have enough to worry about, now they and their families have to deal with potential identity theft as well. This is a huge mess -- and the Bush Administration must fix it.
Send an email to VA Secretary Jim Nicholson now -- urge him to provide credit monitoring services to the 26.5 million veterans and 2.2 million active duty personnel affected by his department's security breach!
Incredibly, VA Secretary Nicholson had already testified before Congress about the security breach affecting the 26.5 million veterans. And he promised that his department had already done a careful assessment of what went wrong and how to fix it.
But now we find out that the situation was even worse than we first knew -- that either Secretary Nicholson wasn't being forthright and telling us the full story about the security breach affecting active duty personnel, or that even after a month of investigating the problem he still didn't know how extensive it was.
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