Posted on 11/28/2007 1:18:32 AM PST by CutePuppy
The total charge [for Geeks on Call] was $1,149, paid with an agency credit card, the receipt shows.That's the part that makes me sick. All those fed employees with their own personal credit card. Obviously, they're not required to get preapproval before charging $1000+. Whatever they can self-justify...just charge it.
I share your outrage. The phrase in the article, "Bypassing his agency's computer technicians," leads me to believe that he bypassed support that our tax dollars had already paid for. So we got billed twice. Hope the IG spanks him big time, perhaps fired for cause and fined...
They’re not personal credit cards per se, even though many federal employees illegally use them that way, but agency credit cards, which have become a standard way of handling small scale business transactions (such as basic office services and travel) without having to jump through the whole contracting nine-ring circus to just get a copier machine fixed.
You just can’t run “Format C:” and do this kind of “sanitization.” The seven-level wipes described in the article (and are standard DoD procedure for eliminating classified info on hard drives) require very special software and an expert technician to do them, otherwise, an entire hard drive can be destroyed. $1,200 for two calls to do this specific job on a desktop computer and two laptops sounds very reasonable.
He’s a lyin’ rat bastid!
LLS
He turned to the dark side.
LLS
“Think: Colin Powell,...”
Heard on the news yesterday that Hillary is promising that affirmative action weenie a job in her administration. Another reason not to vote for her.
Looks like this guy got his training in the Clinton Administration.
I’m betting that he was primarily concerned about deleting emails from Dem politicians and operatives who were directing the investigation into Rove’s activities. I also suspect that a seven level erase doesn’t completely eliminate all evidence of emails since emails might travel over the internet.
The Bush Administration is resembling the Clinton Administration.
Well, if so, it didn't stick...since he has used his position to overturn Clinton-era policies, even where the official Bush position has been to keep them in place.
Where do you get your information...or are you just knee-jerk speculating?
HUH?!?
MODERATE-TYPES?
His first act in the position was to remove reference to sexual orientation from the website and to deny protection to homosexuality--something that is out in front of the Administration, which said they were going to follow the laws.
Complaints were filed against Bloch for not following civil service laws, and he has been under fire from the moderates/left!
Overturning Clinton era policies? So what? Clinton did it himself, over and over again. These folks do whatever is most politically expedient at the time.
You can tell that he got his training from them because of his modus operandi. It reminds me of the documents in the pants, and the billing records in the conference room.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper for him to buy a new laptop?
I didn't mean to imply Bloch was a wishy washy moderate.
In fact, I really haven't read or heard much about him.
My point is that GWB promotes his own enemies when he, for example, pushed the idiotic "Valerie Plame leak" case; when he (and Chertoff) pushed this Amnesty for Illegals legislation; when he appointed the anti-oil drilling Christie Todd Whitman as EPA chief; when he refused to stand behind AG Gonzales' decision to fire eight ineffective Federal Prosecutors, ..... and on and on and on.
GWB has a mind block when it comes to facing the hard truth that if you GIVE your liberal political enemies ammunition, they will use it to shoot you EVERY SINGLE time.
Never fails.
This investigation into Rove's 'deleting' emails should be fought vigorously, with all the might and power the Bush Administration can muster.
Not because Rove did or didn't do anything.
But because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, and GWB should stand up and say so.
Washington special interest groups -- notorious for their anti-religious hostility toward conservatives -- are conducting a coordinated smear campaign against Scott Bloch, George Bush's appointee to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC)...
He shoulda known that DC weren’t like Texas.
‘the enemy within’
That was my (tongue-in-cheek) point.
...a standard way of handling small scale business transactions (such as basic office services and travel) without having to jump through the whole contracting nine-ring circus...
Yes, I know. But there's a wide gap of accountability between "contracting nine-ring circuses" and a credit card with inadequate controls. The article doesn't really say how they caught it in this case. But I've read too many horror stories at all levels of government where they give these cards to people and then seem to just trust them not to use them improperly. I hate to think how much their abuse is costing us.
Gotcha! Yep, I agree.
Means little... I will reserve further comment until we get the truth as to what is going on.
LLS
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