From: FedScoop
By Dan Verton
The 168 words that Stephen Warren added to his opening remarks just an hour before testifying on Capitol Hill Monday may have only lasted 58 seconds, but they succeeded in putting the beleaguered chief information officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs back in control of his relationship with Congress.
The last time Warren appeared before the committee, he sat stiffly and silently, resigned to his role as VA’s sacrificial lamb before a Congress demanding accountability for a major security breach involving state-sponsored hackers from at least eight nations. That was 17 months ago, and the experience was not a good one.
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