Posted on 01/17/2009 7:22:47 PM PST by Red Steel
Chalk up one possible win for Obama: He might be able to keep his BlackBerry after all.
He's been resisting the advice of lawyers and others to give up the e-mail device upon taking office because he views it as his connection to the outside world.
“I think we're going to be able to beat this back,” Obama said in a CNN interview of the pressure on him to give it up. “I think we're going to be able to hang onto one of these. Now, my working assumption, and this is not new, is that everything I write on e-mail could end up being on CNN. So I make sure to — to think before I press ‘send.’
“It’s just one tool among a number of tools that I'm trying to use, to break out of the bubble. To make sure that people can still reach me. But if I'm doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an e-mail and say, ‘What are you doing?’ ” Obama said. “I want to be able to have voices, other than the people who are immediately working for me, be able to reach out and — and send me a message about what's happening in America.”
Obama didn’t describe what kind of arrangement he had made to keep the BlackBerry. After the interview, host John King said on CNN that Obama had not one but two BlackBerries with him Friday.
He wants to be able to talk to his old cronies without being taped on those WH phones systems...
Why does this remind me of Bill Clinton insisting on having his own private telephone line into the White House so he didn’t always have to go thru the WH switchboard? I remember asking my husband why that was necessary, something about it seemed very fishy to me. He needed his privacy. We learned that was the Monica Lewinsky excuse...
I think these things can be tracked when they are on. If so, a realtime record of his location could be kept and sent to the Secret Service every few days. Just to let them know. A copy to Biden and Michelle might help, too.
LOL
Wait until someone hacks his Blackberry.
It’s just amazing to me how this guy can just step around the rule set up after Watergate. If Bush did this can you imagine Chrissy Matthews and Olberdrunk letting it go?
Weren’t they all over Palin using a personal e-mail account as governor during the election ? As well isn’t there a blackberry for goobermint that is 5220.22-M, NSA and Gutmann compliant ?
Oh please, please, please tell us more about Superboy!
Yeah, like that sinking feeling a spouse gets when they realize their husband/wife has a secret email account, or a cell phone they didn't know about, or a credit card/bank account... The only reason to insist upon secrecy is to keep secret something that needs to be kept secret due to its embarrassing, illegal, or immoral nature.
If O wants to keep his "personal" communications link, he must have good reason to push-back on this. Makes me suspicious. If I trusted this guy, I wouldn't think a thing of it. But I don't trust him at all.
“So Bill Ayers, George Soros has told me to come clean on that COLB thing; What do you think?
As always, my future is in your hands!
Thanks,
Barry Davis
I hope it doesn’t interfere with the football.
Yes, all that has to happen is someone at Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc. (any major telco) get his number and they can get the device ID and see which cell towers are in range of the device. Position can generally be triangulated to within a few yards.
I would think that kind of exposure would drive the Secret Service slightly nuts. I know it must drive their IT guys nuts. Heck, even my company forbids connecting personal IT devices (PDAs, smart phones, laptops, thumb drives...) That is to a corporate network with simply company private info. O will be in/around networks with TS material on them...
Obama is the biggest walking, talking, texting, emailing, VOIP national security risk.
I already mentioned in another thread that you can’t get booty calls and powdered cocaine without BlackB@rry.
The man just isn’t bright. Expect more screw-ups.
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