Why can you never focus on the point....
The point is that these people had ZERO business ever getting their grubby little hands on that information. The lack of more dire consequences for them changes that not one iota. To portray them as either victims, or noble and unjustly wronged individuals transcends all standard levels of hypocrisy, and is utterly absurd.
Given the expense they cost the company; is it even remotely possible that you're unable to understand that they likely weren't on management's best dressed list, and that the company did it's utmost to make it all go away, solely for their own benefit, and in doing so, covered up and/or obfuscated as much as they could?
Perhaps, just perhaps, these fine gentlemen were indeed too dense to extract the SSN's....but...they had/have them, as none can even pretend information once gained, just vanishes. If this had been personal information on all west pilots that went into the hands of the most vehemently anti-west people out east...individuals, wihout ANY legitimate reason for having said info....well...would you be thrilled.....?
I've no care as to how many "Integrity Matters" T shirts are ever printed up...there's ZERO reason for me or anyone out east to put any more trust into adorable little Fergie and the Boys than to offer the same faith towards a rattlesnake.....period.
For anyone to essentially brag about their not properly suffering severe consequences for their treacherous BS is most telling indeed....Perhaps, in lieu of any more "Integrity matters" shirts...consideration should be given for a new theme = "Tee Hee!...We got away with it!" on the front, with "Arent we cute?" on the flip side....just plain disgusting....