Jeff Stein reports that his CQ story on 400 missing State Department laptops prompted their being found overnight:

The State Department says it has found the 400 laptops that CQ reported were unaccounted for last week.

A senior official in the department’s Office of the Inspector General, speaking only on a not-for-attribution basis, acknowledged that managers in the Diplomatic Security service had lost track of the computers, which are destined for friendly foreign police services.

But he said that they were located “within 24 hours” after CQ reported them missing over the weekend. ...

Quick work!

Posted by Laura at May 7, 2008 11:23 AM