White House Budget Director Rob Portman cancels request for $160.5 million in funding for free credit monitoring for veterans whose personal information was stolen. VA says it will hire a company to provide data breach analysis to detect potential patterns of misuse of veterans information. VA analyst whose laptop was stolen and his supervisors for poor judgment is needed, report last week blasted the VA analyst for poor judgement. The data was recovered and the FBI concluded that the information was not compromised, the AP reports.”]

