Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on August 08, 2002, 11:11:32 AM
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Two laptops are missing from US Central Command. Wasn't there a laptop in use at the Aces High convention last week? Hmmm. Coincidence? I think not!
===Text from the official story from a local news source===
There is new information into the disappearance of two laptop computers at MacDill Air Force Base.
The computers were kept inside the most sensitive security room possible. The ultra-sensitive, locked and alarmed room is located deep inside the compound. It’s a room intended to safeguard some the military's deepest secrets in the war on terrorism. Defense leaders say since the room is so protected, they may be able to find out all the people who entered the room.
Centcom Public Affairs confirmed among the two laptops missing, at least one of the them contained highly classified information.
U.S. Central Command at the military base is the nerve center for the war on terrorism. Gen. Tommy Franks controls all military operations in Afghanistan from MacDill. The base is also heavily involved in planning a possible attack on Iraq. When two portable computers were reported missing last Thursday, it quickly became a concern.
The laptops are often used by military strategists to make presentations.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is looking into the disappearance of the computers. A full congressional investigation may be in the works.
Centcom Public Affairs says it won't discuss details of the case because of national security concerns.
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Two laptop computers missing from a secure
room at Central Command for more than a week
were recovered from a residence Friday and a
military man who admitting to taking them has
been arrested, Air Force investigators said in
Tampa. According to Maj. Mike Richmond of the
Air Force's Office of Special Investigations,
investigators were working their way through a
list of people who had access to the secure
room that contained the laptops when the man,
whom officials would not identify, admitting
to taking the laptops. "Over the course of the
conversation with this person, there was a
confession and the confession led to the
location (of the laptops),'' Richmond said.
Officials do not believe the theft was an act
of espionage and believe they have a motive,
but would not reveal it. The laptops do not
appear to have contained sensitive war
information on possible attacks against Iraq,
which some had suspected were the source of
leaks to the New York Times, Richmond said.
"Information that our investigators got does
not indicate any link to a leak nor does it
indicate it was done for any purpose of
espionage,'' he said.
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interesting that this came AFTER the con... hmmmm....