It's about competence, among other things

George W. Bush, May 13, 2006: "The privacy of all Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities."

News reports, May 24, 2006: The Department of Veterans Affairs, warned for years that its information-security efforts were inadequate, waited two weeks before asking the FBI to help investigate the theft of data on 26.5 million veterans from the home of a VA analyst who shouldn't have had it there in the first place.