Re: OT: Next political scandal deals with Big Brother issue


"KKT" <sendme.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> CW wrote:
>
>> Many of you know that Senator Schumer (D-NY) authored a bill to protect
>> our medical and financial records. It was a good bill, addressing
>> several types of noxious snooping. However, several his Democratic
>> Senatorial Campaign Committee staff have been caught purloining such
>> records for political purposes. If this can be done against the Lt.
>> Governor of MD it can be done against KKT, or Tick, or me. See this
>> link:
>>
>> http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/134mpbij.asp
>
> More to the point, how can ANYONE get someone's credit report with just a
> social security number? Is that all one needs to get something from
> Equifax, Transunion, etc.?
>
> Are there no controls on what these companies can release and to whom? Why
> not?
>
> Apparently, fraudulently _obtaining_ the information is a crime, but
> _releasing_ it without proper authorizations isn't ... Hmmm.
>
> BTW, you didn't mention it but those folks "resigned" ... as they should
> have ... and that the press release about this incident was released by --
> the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
>
> And you didn't say that:
>
> "Barge, a Democratic operative who led the research unit for a liberal
> media watchdog group run by journalist David Brock before joining the
> committee in February, reported her actions to the committee's executive
> director, J.B. Poersch Jr., within hours. Poersch relayed the information
> to the U.S. attorney's office and suspended the pair with pay until Aug.
> 31, the official said."
>
> "Barge and Weiner resigned earlier this month after an internal
> investigation. Calls to the FBI, which is probing the case, weren't
> returned last night." http://tinyurl.com/bqssp
>
> Looks like the Democrats were policing themselves fairly well ...


Nothing like this gets done without authorization. Moreover, while the
suspension was handed down in late July, the act itself was done much
earlier this year.

CW


>
> And that's the rest of the story ... [with apologies to Paul Harvey].
>
> KKT


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