said by jobr:Seriously, what sort of IT people do they have?
I'm wondering the same thing... there really is no excuse for this as there shouldn't be a single, portable hard drive floating around that has sensitive data. There's nothing anyone can say that would mitigate the necessity to fire someone, whether it's someone in management that allowed these files to reside on a portable drive or someone in IT that doesn't know what the fuck they're doing.
Sadly federal IT is fractured and there's no unified system of rules and procedures so it doesn't surprise me when an aspect of the federal government has inept IT people.