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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: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:48PM (8 children)
This episode of Whataboutism brought to you by an AC who can't be bothered to remember the last five years of US history, much less bother with the many spectacular failings of the US pertaining to corruption going back to its beginnings.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday July 31 2018, @09:27PM (5 children)
How many indictments, guilty pleas and convictions happened to the Obama administration?
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:59AM (4 children)
Not good enough. Let's review a sample of the actual crimes of the time: 200+ cases of accessory to murder of people in Mexico and the US, fraudulent statements about the Benghazi attacks prior to the 2012 election, illegal IRS interference in the creation of tax exempt conservative groups, and a massive security breach (and subsequent destruction of evidence) committed by a Hillary Clinton for the purpose of bypassing Obama Administration oversight and FOIA requests.
At this point, the question becomes not how many "indictments, guilty pleas and convictions", but rather why we don't have more of them? The administration without the convictions then becomes more corrupt than the one with convictions.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:22AM (1 child)
and with all of the investigations, hearings, etc, how many indictments were there?
And why isn't the Trump Justice Department prosecuting all these crimes? Is the fix in with Trump, too?
Man, you gotta get off the Qanon shit. It's distorted your ability to reason beyond all repair. Tomorrow, you should step away from the computer and go outside, maybe ride your bike around a little bit. Get some fresh air. You might regain some perspective on where you lost your way.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:04PM
Exactly.
Because they'll need protection from the next administration.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:54PM (1 child)
At this point, you should stop trying so hard to rationalize your beliefs and start wondering if maybe, just maybe, you have flawed beliefs.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:28AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:48PM (1 child)
If choosing Tom Wheeler is your best example of Obama being corrupt then two things:
1.) Trump is far, far more corrupt. It's not even close.
2.) Your not trying that hard.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:27AM
It's not.
Bingo.