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martyb
on Tuesday May 06 2014, @03:55PM
from the you-can-access-the-emails-we-want-you-to-see dept.
from the you-can-access-the-emails-we-want-you-to-see dept.
In 2008, two of Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email accounts were hacked, revealing the existence of correspondence with other government officials like Alaska's Lieutenant Governor and even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger outside any sunshine record-keeping requirements of the state government. Palin was eventually cleared of any wrong-doing with the account, despite the account being deleted before the investigation even started.
In what feels like the discovery of another tip of the same iceberg, ProPublica has a report about the Cuomo administration's adoption of similar tactics in New York.
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 1) by grumpyman on Tuesday May 06 2014, @05:17PM
...you want big brother (traceability on government), you'll get it, and so will everybody.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Covalent on Tuesday May 06 2014, @06:18PM
Government officials SHOULD be tracked and recorded and scrutinized. They work for us, remember?
Our priorities in this country are completely backwards. With the technology so cheap and easy, it should be criminal for cops to talk on their cell phones unless they are state issued, monitored, and recorded like the police radio is. This is a trivial imposition on the police (they have money for SWAT teams...they can afford phone / radio recording devices).
But for the rest of us?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Yes, I know, the 4th amendment is probably the most eroded of them all, but it's still the law of the land. We should be furious (up in those 2nd-amendment-protected arms) about the erosion of this amendment and the abuse of power currently taking place at all levels of government.
But Kim Kardashian has a huge booty...oooh pictures of cats....CandyCrush...what were we talking about again?
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.