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Military Investigates Sale of Sensitive Data
smokeslikeapoet wrote to mention an article being run in the New York Times detailing the sale of sensitive data in Afghan markets. From the article: "The military acted after The Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press reported that computer memory drives smuggled out of the base were being sold in shops. Some drives bought by the reporters contained material marked secret as well as information about insurgency activities and names and personal details about American service members and Afghan agents working for the United States military." Fox News is reporting the sold storage units are being repurchased by the military as they can find them.
One of the drives contained detailed information about the Bush strategy on how to win the war on terrorism, reports are vauge at the moment, however, the following was recovered:
Dear
Please give us either - lots of money or - lots of oil. If you don't do so, we will
have the:
[ ] CIA
[ ] NSA
[ ] FBI
[ ] UN
discover:
[ ] WMD
[ ] terrorist training cells
[ ] Bin Laden
operating within your nation.
Lots of love
Dubya. xoxox
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