Comments on: White House switching to private email.

By: styles hair braided

styles hair braided — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:37:24 +0000

By: Raymond Funamoto

Raymond Funamoto — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:10:42 +0000

“Hey TURD-BLOSSOM, Bring Me Here That Lemon Juice…I Got Me A Secret Message I Has To Write…Make Sure Gannon/Guckert GETS IT, HEAR?” “Tell ‘Em To Have A Candle Ready….NO, NOT TO SHOVE UP OUR ANUSES!!!!! LIGHT THE F*CKER SO THE SECRET MESSAGE APPEARS, SHIT-FOR-BRAINS!!!! WEREN’T YOU EVER A BOY SCOUT?????” From THE NOT-SO-SECRET CHIMPya TAPES, VOL. 3 NO. 4

By: GOP All the way

GOP All the way — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:50:28 +0000

I cannot believe Clinton and his cronies were this stupid. He should be sent away for high crimes and misdemeanors! I’m so sick of democrats enabling terrorists and not caring about the security and the integrity of our government. Oh, this was done recently, under the bush administration? Ohhh. In that case, why are libs making a federal issue out of this? It’s another lib witchhunt! Leave bush alone!

By: Dreary Urbanite

Dreary Urbanite — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:44:13 +0000

#30 â€“ More than a few keystrokes but probably doable. One common e-mail scenario is that there is a senders copy of the e-mail, a receivers copy, and a log copy on both the senders and receivers servers that the sender or receiver cannot delete. If there are CCs or BCCs or the ISP has logging enabled, or the FBI is â€œlisteningâ€ the number of copies of any given e-mail could be very large.

By: DM

DM — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:12:35 +0000

Um. As an IT person… WTF.

Making sure that Congress cannot investigate your official business years after the fact has now taken precedence over enterprise IT security for the White House?

I can’t express how stupid this is. The Secret Service must be crapping cinder blocks over this.

By: hellinabucket

hellinabucket — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:05:48 +0000

Another fine example of this transparent govt. If they didn’t know before, they do now. Every hacker with an itch will be lurking. Brilliant you asshats. A poster above said it so well that our national security is now in danger to save the GOP.

Trolls, this is on your shoulders. Congratulations for backing a back stabber.

By: kelso

kelso — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:52:15 +0000

Hackers will do their thing which is expose/exploit WH communications hacked from insecure servers.

kinda hard to call every email ‘confidential’ when you’re using a blackberry. Some 10 year old computer wiz is going to make the members of this administration look as stupid as they really are.

Sounds like a blogger bonanza to me! Can’t wait to read all about it.

By: Not Canadian

Not Canadian — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:44:59 +0000

#20,
Disposable phones are called “burners” by the unscrupulous among us.
Though it does make sense that criminals in the government are stupider than street criminals.

By: * Hater

* Hater — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:39:18 +0000

Oh, delicious irony, how I love thee.

Gee whiz, it sure sucks when your own Nazi jackbooted thug legislation comes back to bite you in your own corrupted little asses.

If you can do it to US, we can do it to YOU, and you better believe that we will subpoena every single last document.

As for the private email, this needs to stop. We are the employers of those bastards, every last one of them, and we need to stand up and say NO.

(Oh, and my husband does tech…he says it would be the matter of a couple of keystrokes for an experienced hacker to gain access to everything. Compromising national security for the sake of partisan politics and hiding their own corruption…maybe their domain can be valerieplame.com.)

By: Dreary Urbanite

Dreary Urbanite — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:37:55 +0000

Tom â€“ I donâ€™t thing this regime is sending any e-mails about national security since that does not seem to be their focus. When they say â€œthe enemyâ€ they donâ€™t mean Al-Qaeda, they mean Democrats or anyone else in opposition.

By: tom baker

tom baker — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:34:19 +0000

Bush wants to give terrorist hackers access to vital information pertaining to national security, so he can better cover his own ass. That’s what courage really means, people!

By: editor

editor — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:29:02 +0000

I guess it depends on what “purely professional communications” means. IF I knew my personal emails would be made public, I’d like a backup. Although they already had that in the RNC.
IF all inter- and intra-office communication prior to a finalized policy decision is going to be considered “personal” then we’ve got a problem.

By: Georgette Orwell

Georgette Orwell — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:23:59 +0000

Jebus, you are so right on with #9. Let’s just set up a little listening post across the street…

By: Dreary Urbanite

Dreary Urbanite — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:20:03 +0000

This is the same government that would throw me in prison if I were to â€œloseâ€ my companies e-mail if it were under investigation.

By: dlet

dlet — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:05 +0000

I’d love to see those messages and emoticons.

Iran took brit hostages. Ahmadinejad >:-[

By: Yachts and Lattes

Yachts and Lattes — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:05:05 +0000

There they go again, acting as if what they do with our government is their own business. Let’s not forget they “derive their powers from the just consent of the governed.”

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:04:25 +0000

They are compromising security with their personal systems, they are mightily trying to escape scrutiny in future investigations – but, as the Bushies are so wont to tell Americans: “if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?”

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:02:25 +0000

So how are these alternate methods of communication protected from an internatinal hacker?

By: HeartlandLiberal

HeartlandLiberal — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:01:30 +0000

Heck, all they have to do is buy stacks throwaway plastic credit card phones. Use and loose. Move on to the next one in a day or so. Drug dealers have had the good sense to do this for years. Given the level of criminal corruption in the White House, I am frankly amazed they have not already moved to this tactic.

By: shane

shane — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:58:37 +0000

Are thses private email and text messaging accounts now going to show up on expense reports? Between the Blackberries and the price of texts we’re talking some real money. Should be good for laughs when that gets out.