Beeb Report
What I want to know is this: what the fuck was he doing leaving his laptop in his car? Was he too lazy to carry it indoors? Or too forgetful?
Either way, the man isn't fit to be defence secretary of the United Kingdom - imagine if he had been in office and this happened. What secrets might ne'er-do-wells thus glean? Detailed deployment charts of Our Boys in Johnny Arab Land? The launch codes of our luvverly shiny Trident missiles, to be flogged to the highest bidder? The mind boggles at the mischief such rank ineptitude might engender!
Of course, Dr Fox is not without form in this area, as can be seen from his forthright condemnation of the Ministry of Defence's sloppiness in allowing laptops to be, er, pinched:
Another Beeb Report
Dr Fox, for the Tories, said the incident showed "incompetence, mismanagement and poor procedures" on the part of the authorities.
He said it was potentially more damaging than HM Revenue and Customs' loss of 25 million people's child benefit details.
"Clearly we don't know what risks will be faced by those on the databases - it will depend on whose hands it has fallen into," he said.
"But to put our troops and the public at risk in this way is unforgivable because this seems like a systemic failure, not a single act of incompetence or irresponsibility."
Dr Fox said some 68 MoD laptops had been stolen in 2007, 66 in 2006, 40 in 2005 and 173 in 2004.
"What on earth is going on? How much information on our service personnel is floating around out there? Most importantly, why has nothing been done about it?"
We can only hope that Dr Fox's carelessness was merely 'a single act of incompetence' and not evidence of 'a systemic failure'...
Meanwhile, McTodd Hates! backs the defence secretary wannabe's fearless campaign against sloppiness putting Our Boys At Risk by allowing laptops to be pinched and says: "Sack these careless bastards NOW!"
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