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That is HILLARIOUS coming from the government that spilled MILLIONS of classified background checks from the OMB offices a few years ago. Absolutely hilarious a
by X86BSD 9y ago
That is HILLARIOUS coming from the government that spilled MILLIONS of classified background checks from the OMB offices a few years ago. Absolutely hilarious and ironic and hypocritical.
Also, the wife and I were one of the millions whose personal details were stolen from the OMB hack.
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- hossbeast 9y agoSure but do you disagree with the point being made?
- jeffdavis 9y agoThere are two points being conflated: We should hold a high standard. We should not hold a double standard.
- bradleyjg 9y agoI have to say I think there's something to what you are saying. The Senators are beating up on this CEO for a security breach that happened under his watch -- suggesting he ought to be fired. For the OMB hack they were the ones with the power to fire the CEO of the organization responsible, i.e. the President. Did even a single one of them call for impeachment? Did any senators resign for thier lack of appropriate oversight? They attack equifax for having bad security policies and procedures and dismiss the claim that one misfeasant employee is responsible. Well they are the organization largely in charge of writing and overseeing policies and procedures for the federal government. Did they attack themselves for doing a bad job after the OMB hack? Did they change any of those policies and procedures in response? They are calling on equifax to fully compensate people whose information was released. What laws did they introduce and pass to fully compensate people whose information was lost by the organization they are in charge of? Technically the identity of the speaker is of no moment, but it's a little hard to avoid rolling ones eyes in the face of such blatant hypocrisy.
- theevilsharpie 9y ago> The Senators are beating up on this CEO for a security breach that happened under his watch -- suggesting he ought to be fired. For the OMB hack they were the ones with the power to fire the CEO of the organization responsible, i.e. the President. Did even a single one of them call for impeachment? Did any senators resign for thier lack of appropriate oversight? Katherine Archuleta was in charge of the OMB during the time of the hack, lawmakers _did_ call for her to be fired, and she ultimately resigned due to the breach.
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- bradleyjg 9y agoThat's the equivalent of the head of HR, not the CEO of the whole company. No one called for Obama to be fired or resign.
- doctorsher 9y agoI disagree with your analogy. Obama's job concerned way more things than the OPM. However, it was Katherine Archuleta's only job to lead that organization. When considering the OPM only, Archuleta was much more akin to the CEO than Obama was. I think a more appropriate analogy would be that Obama was the "board of directors" of the OPM.
- bradleyjg 9y agoOPM isn't an complete organization. It doesn't have a mission that makes any sense independent of the rest of the federal government. It only makes sense as a department serving as part of larger organization. Like HR or IT in a particular company. Equifax on the other hand is a complete organization. It has a bunch of different departments that all work together to accomplish the overall goal. Just like OPM, the State Department, and the Treasury all work together to accomplish the overall goal of governing the nation. Therefore, the proper analogy for Equifax is the USG, not OPM, and the proper analogy for Equifax's CEO is Obama, not Archuleta. The group that is analogous to the Equifax Board of Directors is Congress.