Departing Obamacare security official didn't sign off on site launch

Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reports:

CBS News has learned that Trenkle, the Chief Information Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was originally supposed to sign off on security for the glitch-ridden website before its Oct. 1 launch, but didn't. Instead, the authorization on September 27 was given by Trenkle's boss, CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner.

As CBS News reported Monday, security assessments fell behind and the website never had the required top-to-bottom tests.

Trenkle and two other CMS officials, including Chief Operating Officer Michelle Snyder, signed an unusual "risk acknowledgement" saying that the agency's mitigation plan for rigorous monitoring and ongoing tests did "not reduce the (security) risk to the ... system itself going into operation on October 1, 2013."

This same Trenkle has left the Administration for a private sector job.

BTW, his boss, Marilyn Tavenner, certified the site as "secure" anyway.

Normally, the scapegoat is sacrificed by this Regime, but this man was allowed to go away quietly. It stinks.