OPM -- Mugged by China
Last year, for Public Service Recognition Week, the Office of Personnel Management handed out coffee mugs with the OPM seal and the mantra "Working for America" emblazoned on it. But the mugs were made in China.
This year, OPM gave away plastic non-spill coffee mugs -- "Made in America." There were also leather memo-pad holders and very sharp dark-blue tote bags, both with "Working for America" on them (the totes have the OPM seal). Those were made in -- you guessed it -- China.
Computers' Loyalty Questioned
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Speaking of how just about everything -- and not just low-tech stuff -- is made in China these days, it
seems the State Department has decided to buy 16,000 computers from Lenovo, a Chinese-owned company.
This set off the security sensors at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, especially over 900 of the computers that are to be part of a classified network that would carry Pentagon as well as secret State Department information.
That, in turn, set off the sensors in the office of Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.). Wolf last week wrote the secretary of state to say he was "distressed to learn that your department may be jeopardizing this [$4.2 billion] investment in a secure [information technology] infrastructure."
Washington Post Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Page A23
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