Laptops Stolen From Bush Campaign Office

[Ivan Seeking]

SEATTLE Oct. 1, 2004 — Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday.

Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., after the last campaign worker had gone home from the office in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, someone threw a rock through the office window of Jon Seaton, executive director for President Bush's state campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.

...The computers contained much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state, Vance said. [continued]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041001_2097.html

[ProtoMan]

Eh, It's not as bad as it sounds. Unless the documents and files in the labtop are published. And there are some really sensitive information, which I don't think there is. It shouldn't be such a big issue. I doubt it was politically motivated though. It just sounds like some petty criminals Stealing some Computers. I wonder if anything else was stolen.

[Loren Booda]

You mean someone has appropriated the brains of the Bush organization? It may be the only appropriation there ever to have been effective.

[The_Professional]

Knowing that there is classified information on the laptops, whoever is responsible for keeping them should've use some encryption and stashed them away in a locked metal vault.

[Mercator]

I can imagine the look on the faces of the thiefs, when after days of deciphering they finaly find the whole plan in one message flickering on the screen: "This is God speaking: stay the course! Stay the course!"