Whoops! There go some more state secrets.

It just gets better and better with the Bush Buffoons:

Hundreds of employee laptops are unaccounted for at the U.S. Department of State, which conducts delicate, often secret, diplomatic relations with foreign countries, an internal audit has found.

As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings.

The program provides counterterrorism training and equipment, including laptops, to foreign police, intelligence and security forces.

Ironically, the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program is administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), which is responsible for the security of the department’s computer networks and sensitive equipment, including laptops, among other duties. It also protects foreign diplomats during visits here....

Auditors found that the department had lost track of $30 million worth of equipment, according to one official, "the vast majority of which . . . perhaps as much as 99 per cent," was laptops.

It's keystone kops all throughout this administration. Yes, human beings are fallible, and we all make mistakes. But the level of incompetence demonstrated by this administration is as mind-boggling as the deliberate malfeseance has been. We can only hope that there weren't really serious breaches of national security this time.

Which of course leads to the obvious conclusion: reason #4,297 for not giving any part of this administration access to the kind of information about the lives of Americans that they constantly seek, particulalry with the lack of Congressional oversight they demand. The combination of incompetence and disregard for the law should have long ago sufficient for this Congress to say "enough."