Mufson,
Steven. "State Dept. Computer With Secrets Vanishes." Washington
Post, 17 Apr. 2000, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]Arranged chronologically.
Mufson,
Steven. "State Dept. Computer With Secrets Vanishes." Washington
Post, 17 Apr. 2000, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to a senior State Department official, "[a] laptop computer containing top-secret information vanished from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research more than a week ago, and the FBI is investigating whether it was stolen.... The material the laptop contains is classified as 'sensitive compartmented information' (SCI), the government's most sensitive intelligence reports."
Marquis,
Christopher. "Missing State Dept. Computer Prompts Call for Investigation."
New York Times, 18 Apr. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-NY), chairman of the House International Relations Committee, stated on 17 April 2000 that "he would hold hearings next month into 'a long string of security failures at the State Department,' including the loss of the laptop" from INR.
Marquis,
Christopher. "Security Faces Review After Laptop Vanishes." New
York Times, 22 Apr. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
A senior administration official said on 21 April that "[t]he State Department is considering a reorganization of its security system after a laptop computer vanished from an intelligence office with highly sensitive files about weapons proliferation.... Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright may recommend stripping the ... Bureau of Intelligence and Research of its power to manage its own security and place it under the aegis of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the official said."
Mufson,
Steven. "Missing PC Held Trove of Secrets." Washington Post,
22 Apr. 2000, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
State Department officials said on 21 April 2000 that the missing laptop computer "contained thousands of classified documents about arms proliferation issues, including highly sensitive information about the sources and methods of U.S. intelligence collection.... The State Department still has not found the computer, which vanished in January from a conference room."
Barber,
Ben. "Albright Shifts Duties After Computer Loss." Washington
Times, 25 Apr. 2000. [http://www.washtimes.com]
On 24 April 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright "reassigned two officials and stripped her main intelligence advisers of their security duties.... She said that after consulting with the head of the CIA she was shifting the task of protecting national secrets at the State Department to the Diplomatic Security Division.... She appointed the assistant secretary of diplomatic security, David Carpenter, as her senior adviser on security issues."
Kempster, Norman. "Albright Demands Shake-up in Security Procedures."
Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2000. [http://www.latimes.com]
Marquis,
Christopher. "Albright Shakes Up Staff Over Security Lapses."
New York Times, 25 Apr. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Mufson,
Steven. "State Dept. Transfers Security Duties After Criticism Over
Vanished Laptop." Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2000, A21. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Marquis,
Christopher. "Albright Rebukes Diplomats for Security Slips."
New York Times, 4 May 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
In a 3 May 2000 speech "broadcast live on the department's internal television network and beamed by satellite to American missions in dozens of countries," Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright "said she was furious over both the disappearance of a laptop computer packed with classified information and other recent security lapses at the State Department."
Mufson,
Steven. "Albright: Security Lapses Are 'Intolerable.'" Washington
Post, 4 May 2000, A14. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Sands,
David. "Albright Lectures on Lax Security." Washington Times,
4 May 2000. [http://www.washtimes.com]
Mufson,
Steven. "State Dept. Tallies Missing Laptops.'" Washington
Post, 18 May 2000, A25. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
A "broad survey" conducted by State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security "was able to account for all of the [department's] 60 classified laptops with the exception of the one highly classified laptop computer reported missing last month."
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