Dan Coats: “Well, we are just learning what damage this is and how it can be misused in any number of ways. Some of this information…”

“Well, we are just learning what damage this is and how it can be misused in any number of ways. Some of this information is classified. But I can say to my colleague from Arizona, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, that this puts some of our people and some of our systems in great peril. It is something that needs to be addressed now and not pushed down the line. Mr. McCAIN. So it seems to me that to those 4 million Americans, we owe them and it is our responsibility--in fact, our urgent responsibility--to try to prevent that same kind of breach from being perpetrated on 4 million or 8 million or 10 million more Americans. If they are capable of doing it once to 4 million Americans, what is to keep them from doing the same thing to millions of Americans more, if we sit here idly by and do nothing on the grounds that the objection is that it is not part of the Department of Defense bill, which seems to me almost ludicrous?”