Census Department Cant Count Laptops

After all of the brouhaha over the Veterans Administration and other federal agencies losing laptops, the Department of Commerce sheepishly raised their hand and announced that they have lost laptops too.

Over the past 5 years. Over a Thousand laptops have gone missing. Most of them went missing from the Census Bureau.

These guys are responsible for counting the millions of us Americans every ten years. You would think that they could count their laptops every year to make sure none have gone missing.

From the AP here:

The Commerce Department has lost more than 1,100 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night.

The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers. Of those, 246 contained some personal data, the department said in a statement. However, no data from any missing computer has been known to have been improperly used, the department said.