Posted on 05/12/2010 5:16:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.
The U.S. attorney's office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.
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Obama clearly has the answer — just don’t allow anyone to have a valid record on you, then become President so if anyone tries to look at what records might exist, you can arrest them!!
It would be worth the charges to get the information to FreeRep or Fox.
I don’t know. Just doesn’t sound right.
What student loan records? They can’t be convicted for accessing something that doesn’t exist.
In an article that I found, it says they accessed the records between July 26, 2007 and March 13, 2009. Why wait for a year to charge them? And they are only charged with “exceeding computer access”. You’re right. It is strange.
And why would it take nine people to take a gander at student loan records? That may be non-existant anyway?
(I’m supposed to be taking a self-imposed “mental health” break from FR as of today...not succeeding very well.)
Why would they have to look more than once? JimRob is right. It’s weird.
Vangent Inc., division of Pearson NCS in Coralville.
or before they end up like Lieutenant Harris ?
Yup. Smells - sniff sniff - “funny”.
(Like when I find an old icky dishrag hiding in a place it shouldn’t be.)
bttt
The Nine individuals can just say..they had a fat finger.
Lets not forget now that anything the press gets it can report on without repercussions!!!
Sound familiar???
If they just accessed the records, does it mean that there was a trace on the records? If the cases go to trial, will there be discovery? What sort of depositions will be held with that many people? Will the information be part of a public record? Is accessing records alone, a crime if one works for a company with that information available?
I was wondering why the student loan takeover was in the health care bill....no more private companies with access to federal student loan info..
Like his father was a British Subject, G_d save the Queen.
Giving 0dumb0 DUAL citizen status.
Not NBC!
DUAL
Does anyone see the word DUAL in NBC? You might be a leftneck!
The information on those forms would be 1- The name he used, 2- the social security number he was given as a foreign student, 3- his “race” and “ethnic origin,” and 4- the address he used.
Also his finances or whose finances he based his loan request on.
Will all this become public knowledge at “discovery?”
It is interesting that six out of the nine are age 49 to 58 and are not geeky hackers. Also some peeking at Obama’s records occured when he was president elect and then some after he was inaugurated.
I note there is no charge of conspiracy which I believe would have been brought if any of them had been working together or at the direction of others (say Hillary or McCain).
Therefore this seems to have been the result of some kind of simple mass audit of records of who accessed Obama’s records and when it occured and now the identified offenders who had now business reason have been indicted.
Perhaps this is a new signal by the Justice Dept. to anyone who has or would be tempted to access Obama records not to be tempted by curiosity, money or partisan black-baggery to find information in databases around the country that may undermine Obama’s eligibility or reputation in some way.
This suppression of peeking at Obama's records could be especially important given the continuing DOJ defense of Obama and for the 2012 campaign that will begin this coming January. Opposition research will explode then by operatives working for Democrat candidates to the right and left of Obama who could challenge him as well as the GOP candidates and others interested in “influencing” Obama.
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