[ISN] Information on Kerry Campaign Lost

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Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 03:15:05 PST

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    ["Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will 
    be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases 
    the information is more valuable than the hardware which 
    processes it."  - Grace Murray Hopper     - WK]
    
    
    By BETH FOUHY
    Associated Press Writer 
    March 15, 2003
    
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's campaign picked
    up $900,000 at a California fundraiser, but lost a laptop computer
    containing sensitive campaign information.
    
    Campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said the laptop was stolen from his
    car while he was eating lunch. Lehane said a waiter told him he saw a
    middle-aged man pull up next to Lehane's car, smash a window, snatch
    the computer and speed off.
    
    "The information in the computer far exceeded the value of the
    computer," Lehane said.
    
    He filed a police report, and a witness wrote down the license plate
    of the suspect's vehicle, but police determined the plate had been
    stolen. Lehane said he didn't believe the computer heist was anything
    more than a routine street theft.
    
    
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