US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops
Stony Stevenson writes “It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. Internal auditors found that the department lost track of $30 million worth of computer equipment, ‘the vast majority of which… perhaps as much as 99 percent,’ were laptops, according to one official. Another official calculated that the average State Department laptop costs US$3,000 and figured that meant as many as 1,000 laptops might be astray — not 10,000 laptops as the US$30 million figure suggests. They’re obviously not very good at maths.”
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