Walter Reed Lab Documents Found in Trash Bin
You really have to wonder when the screw ups are going to stop. We are talking about the government, so I guess the answer is never. I can’t seem to remember the last time I read a positive story about Walter Reed. It would be improper to break with tradition so the shoddy work at Walter Reed and its related facilities continues.
I’m sure the lazy employees who to dump the documents instead of shredding them work for an outsourced company. Maybe Halliburton, KRB or one of their greed contract grabbing subsidiaries.
- SILVER SPRING, Md. — Boxes of documents containing personal information from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but instead turned up last week in a trash bin, police said.
- A resident of a suburban Washington neighborhood near the Army medical research’s campus found the boxes Friday and alerted Montgomery County police.
- The files were research study records, said Cynthia Vaughn, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Medical Command. An investigation is under way to determine precisely what information they held and why they appeared off base, Vaughn said Monday. Police said most were from the late 1990s and were likely placed in the bin on the same day they were discovered.
- The records were supposed to be shredded by a Walter Reed research division employee.
- The Silver Spring-based institute is the Pentagon’s largest biomedical research laboratory and is not directly affiliated with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in nearby Washington. Researchers at the facility work on issues such as tropical diseases and post traumatic stress disorder.
- No foul play is suspected and no charges were filed. Police said they do not believe anyone had access to the information other than the person who found the records and called authorities.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Unfucking believable.
It just gets better and better.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
As long as the feds keep outsourcing to contractors like we have now things will only get worse.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Don’t mean to gloss over the ongoing Walter Reed fiasco, but this Sphere widget you’ve got is awesome!
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 am
Civilizer:
No problem. Glad you like the Sphere button.