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on Tuesday July 31 2018, @11:55AM
from the just-publish-FCC-members'-real-time-location-data dept.
from the just-publish-FCC-members'-real-time-location-data dept.
Gizmodo reports:
In a letter this May, Senator Ron Wyden called on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from an ongoing FCC investigation into companies gathering real-time location data on cellphones users. As an attorney six years ago, Pai represented one of the firms now central to the investigation.
The firm, Securus, a major provider of inmate call services to jails, is known to have provided location data on mobile customers to law enforcement officials without a court order. But despite his past work for Securus, Pai says he will not recuse himself.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:05PM (2 children)
You didn't study US History, did ya? Does Ulysses S. Grant ring any bells? Ya know, come to think of it, Grant and Trump may be more similar that I had thought. Grant was a fairly decent man, but naive and foolish. Helluva general, but a suckass president because he didn't understand people. Lemme try that on for a bit. Maybe Trump is a decent kinda guy, but just ignorant and naive?
Nahhh, it only goes so far. It's not a real good fit for Trump. Kinda like a short skirt that leaves his hairy legs and knobby knees showing.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:31PM (1 child)
In my experience, anyone who says a current president is the "most" anything in history, or "worst" anything in history, or "best" anything in history, is either someone who doesn't know history, or hopes their audience doesn't know history.
As far as US presidents that might have a better claim on being the "most corrupt ever", there are just so many to choose from:
- Andrew Jackson, who invented the "spoils system" which really cemented the idea that federal government jobs should go to political supporters and financial donors to the president rather than people who are highly qualified for the job in question. Effects of this practice include the assassination of William McKinley decades later, and having people with zero understanding of emergency management in charge of FEMA when major emergencies are going on today.
- Ulysses Grant, for reasons described above. Although some of the hatred for Grant has to do with political opposition to his efforts to enforce rights for newly freed black people.
- Woodrow Wilson, because there's never been a major war involving the US without plum contracts being handed out to politically-connected people.
- Warren Harding. The phrase "Teapot Dome" should still mean something.
- Herbert Hoover, mostly for doing everything in his power to save JP Morgan even if that meant screwing over America.
- Franklin Roosevelt, because of the major war effect just like Wilson had.
- Richard Nixon, because of just the stuff he was caught doing, like a cash slush fund.
- Ronald Reagan, because he was diverting $millions to actions not authorized by Congress.
- George W Bush, in case you forgot about all those cost-plus contracts to the vice-president's company, or the naked-body scanner contracts for a company owned by the cabinet secretary for the department that made the contract. And of course the decision to send the country to war mostly to benefit a company owned and managed in part by the president's father.
- Barack Obama, because of his constant protection of the largest banks, who are also his largest financial supporters.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ilPapa on Tuesday July 31 2018, @09:26PM
See, here's the difference:
Some of those other administrations might have been corrupt (although some examples are weak), but at least there were some parts of their government that were actually doing a job besides feathering their nest and running interference for white supremacists and foreign governments.
There is not a single forgotten corner of the Trump administration that is not corrupt. I've tried, and I simply cannot find anyone at the cabinet level or assistant level that is not running some sort of scam. If I've missed one, please enlighten us.
This is important to me because if we can't find someone in the executive branch who isn't crooked as a fucking hairpin, then I will have to begrudgingly acknowledge that Donald Trump is an evil genius of comic book proportions. Think Lex Luther with golfing and porn stars.
You are still welcome on my lawn.