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Members press VA on employee access and veteran-data protections after cybersecurity incidents
Summary
Committee members raised questions about VA employees who may have accessed AI-related datasets and sought assurances that veteran data were not removed; VA witnesses said they were not aware of data removal and that VA follows security procedures, and GAO highlighted recent cybersecurity incidents affecting contractors.
During the subcommittee hearing, several members requested clarity about VA employee access to AI datasets and whether veteran data had been copied or removed. Representative Basinski named six employees — "Justin Fulcher, Sahil Lavinia, Christopher Russo's, Peyton Raelings, Carrie Volpert, or John Covel" — and asked whether they had worked with VA AI datasets. Charles…
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