Posted on 09/04/2009 9:29:23 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty
Obama was reported not to be operational without his blackberry communication device. He even had a "special", extra secure device configured just for his use.
Is it not a requirement that all communications orginating from the President of the United States have some kind of transcript so as to be able to reconstruct events in case of a disaster, or a gross mistake made by our elected officials?
How can any kind of transcription made from a blackberry conversation? Is it recorded?
Who is Obama talking to in secret on his blackberry?
Inquiring minds just asking questions....
Every little controversy added to all the other controveries helps Obama to fail in implementing his extreme leftist agenda.
The more "flies" he is swatting at, the less time he has to push socializing everything.
I take it you’ve never had a Blackberry.
YOu’ll never know ... till AFTER he does his dirty work.
Obama is sneaky.
Obama lies.
Obama is ALWAYS up to no good.
Obama is a cockroach. He can’t stand the light.
Obama operates best in the dark because he is EVIL.
good point. I think there is some law requiring all communication to be preserved.
Sara = Sarah
I have a friend who was in army intelligence in Turkey during the 80’s. He said even back then that they were able to listen in on any phone conversations in the Soviet Union, and it was his job to surveil various phone and other communications. Now back then, it was mostly if not all landlines. Wouldn’t use of a presidential Blackberry be a SERIOUS security risk — if we can listen in, so can they!
Whoever issues the key material for the encryption device, will certainly be able to know what is going on. I’m sure every transmission is recorded.
There’s a convention going on in his blackberry.
That’s the reason he says “um and uh” so much.
If you could look into his earpiece you would
see Soros, Valerie Garrett, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy
Pelosi, Ezekiel Emanuel, Michelle, Van Jones,
Jim Jones, et al.)
Obummer is Charlie McCarthy. A dummy with a bunch
of hands up his butt.
Obamas a ‘reader’ ....er except the bills he is signing.
where did you think mails to flag@whitehouse.gov were going?
What’s your point with that elitist crack, Arguendo? I, for one, have a Blackberry and use it all the time, including in meetings and while I am talking with my boss. If anything, Blackberry conversations are almost like oral conversations, and a record of them could well be critically important to understanding the dynamic of an administration, even one that is transparent.
Barry, this is George...I want you to give the Brazilian oil company, Petrobas, $2 billion...and do it quickly because I have $811 million tied up in it.
LOL!!
iT’S easy to READ Obama.
He is rather “transparent”.
And I though Clinton was dysfunction and ....
Because anyone who used a Blackberry would realize that it is far easier to keep a record of Blackberry communications than ordinary cell conversations, so there’s no reason this would be more of an issue because he has a Blackberry.
I apologize for mis-reading your post. I read your insinuation as a belief that it would be difficult to maintain such a record.
Still, I don’t know why you had to sneer at the other poster that obviously he or she never has had a Blackberry...
And as has been pointed out the SS/NSA got him a "secured" version. Someone has to have the keys to that. :)
As for a "paper trail" or "log" of communications, it would be possible to do. But I know of no requirement for every personal communication to aides and others, be recorded. Is some stenographer listening in when a president whispers an order in an aides ear?
I don't think so.
Should there be one? That's a slippery slope. Like it or not, some things have to be covered under executive privilege . Otherwise, overzealous attempts to restrict, or monitor such things will come back and bite a good president, and will be used by the left against them.
Be careful the double edged sword.
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