The head of the Office of Personnel Management, Katherine Archuleta, resigned today.  Under her watch the OPM was hacked and the private information of 25 million government workers and contractors was stolen.

However, as typical, the White House doesn’t call it “theft” per se’.  In Clintonian fashion they have created a new parseltongue verb:

See, it wasn’t really hacked; nothing was actually stolen; data was merely “exfiltrated” – no biggie.  Of course all of this avoids pointing out that Archuleta had no basis for being in charge of the OPM in the first place. The sum total of her experience was her position as national political director for Obama for America, the President’s reelection campaign.

But rather than point a finger toward the White House for selecting such an incompetent doofus for a leadership position within an agency of such importance, a different direction is taken:

…..It’s the Republican’s fault for approving her.

ps. Watch who takes the position next.  If history is any prediction, they’ll select a White House advisor who will be given instructions to keep a lid on the issue and work on political damage control.  Actual competence secondary to the necessary need to hide what’s going on.