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Subject: Are you going to publish this
one? by The Brew, the
hot-headed litigator
Hi Bart
Are you starting to see the problem with having the government
keep a giant database of everyone's personal information?
Maybe this will help you see the light:
"The company that conducted a background investigation on the contractor Edward J. Snowden
fraudulently signed off on hundreds of thousands of incomplete security checks in recent years,
the Justice Department said Wednesday. The government said the company, U.S. Investigations
Services, defrauded the government of millions of dollars by submitting more than 650,000
investigations that had not been completed. The government uses those reports to help make
hiring decisions and decide who gets access to national security secrets. In addition to Mr. Snowden,
the company performed the background check for Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old military contractor
who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard last year. Mr. Alexis, who died in a shootout
with the police and who Bartcop thinks ought to have access to all your phone records and email,
left behind documents saying the government had been tormenting him with low-frequency radio waves."
Yeah, let's give clowns like Alexis access to all the intimate details of everyone's lives.
What could possibly go wrong?
While you mull that over, the government agency charged with deciding if the whole spying on
Americans without a warrant thing is legal and/or effective at stopping terrorists just decided,
SURPRISE! It isn't legal, it doesn't stop shit, and it ought to be shut down.
"The program “lacks a viable legal foundation under Section 215, implicates constitutional concerns
under the First and Fourth Amendments, raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties as a policy
matter, and has shown only limited value,” the report said. “As a result, the board recommends that
the government end the program.”
So, in summary, the government says the program you are defending may be accessible to a bunch
of nutjobs (after all, Snowden got deep within it, and you think he is the anti-Christ), is illegal, and
doesn't do any good.
So keep right on defending it. Keep digging your hole. Watching you flounder around trying to
justify this steaming pile of crap is more funny than reading Doonesbury.
brew
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us/security-check-firm-said-to-have-defrauded-us.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us/politics/watchdog-report-says-nsa-program-is-illegal-and-should-end.html?hp&_r=0
Hi Bart
Are you starting to see the problem with having the government
keep a giant database of everyone's personal information?
Maybe this will help you see the light:
"The company that conducted a background investigation on the contractor Edward J. Snowden
fraudulently signed off on hundreds of thousands of incomplete security checks in recent years,
the Justice Department said Wednesday. The government said the company, U.S. Investigations
Services, defrauded the government of millions of dollars by submitting more than 650,000
investigations that had not been completed. The government uses those reports to help make
hiring decisions and decide who gets access to national security secrets. In addition to Mr. Snowden,
the company performed the background check for Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old military contractor
who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard last year. Mr. Alexis, who died in a shootout
with the police and who Bartcop thinks ought to have access to all your phone records and email,
left behind documents saying the government had been tormenting him with low-frequency radio waves."
Yeah, let's give clowns like Alexis access to all the intimate details of everyone's lives.
What could possibly go wrong?
While you mull that over, the government agency charged with deciding if the whole spying on
Americans without a warrant thing is legal and/or effective at stopping terrorists just decided,
SURPRISE! It isn't legal, it doesn't stop shit, and it ought to be shut down.
"The program “lacks a viable legal foundation under Section 215, implicates constitutional concerns
under the First and Fourth Amendments, raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties as a policy
matter, and has shown only limited value,” the report said. “As a result, the board recommends that
the government end the program.”
So, in summary, the government says the program you are defending may be accessible to a bunch
of nutjobs (after all, Snowden got deep within it, and you think he is the anti-Christ), is illegal, and
doesn't do any good.
So keep right on defending it. Keep digging your hole. Watching you flounder around trying to
justify this steaming pile of crap is more funny than reading Doonesbury.
brew
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us/security-check-firm-said-to-have-defrauded-us.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us/politics/watchdog-report-says-nsa-program-is-illegal-and-should-end.html?hp&_r=0
Brew, are you this bad in court?
Here you are, screaming "Gotcha" at me because some contractor was a fraud?
I've never heard of U.S. Investigations Services but I assumed they had someone doing background checks.
In typical Obama fashion, instead of charging them with a crime, he'll probably tell U.S. Investigations Services
"Bad on you" and make them promise not to defraud America again - is that on me, too?
Somehow, you're building a case that Bart is for crooked contractors and that just makes you crazy-er.
And then some government agency files a report and you're screaming "Gotcha" over that, too?
About three weeks ago, some judge ruled that the NSA went too far.
I got a ton of mail saying, "See? See? See?" and then a week later, some other judge
said the NSA was well withing their bounds so everyone has an opinion, OK?
And you claim that making these wild-ass assertions are a lot of fun?
We proved yesterday that HALF THE COUNTRY agrees with me, so knock off this
"Ol Bart, all by himself, can't see the facts" when half the country is with me.
At least you kept this super-boring e-mail under 1,000 words.