Posted on 05/12/2010 5:16:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Who wants a president with so much to hide?
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/http://eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
I am still amazed that nobody in this country can explain in even semi detail how Obama paid his Harvard tuition. As the mother of a current college student attending a university not anywhere near as expensive as Harvard, I can assure you that every penny of college costs are known.
I guess it’s all Bush’s fault.
If they’re going to jail anyway, might as well broadcast that sh*t all over the Internet before they do!
I just returned home today, hopefully for good, so I can now get back to making regular visits to the site, and catching up on what I've missed since I've been on the road.
Definitely Stinks the High Heavens! We have an alleged POTUS who is Prime Blackmail Material. Does anyone think that Professional Spies from Russia, China, Venezuela, etc. AND ISRAEL DONT know every dirty detail of this arrogant Con-Artist’s Life! Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who refused to give Russiaan 18 Billion Dollar Loan, until his best High School Friend-Advisor went oveer and met with the Russians who told him to inform Clintoon that they knew all about Lewinski! Clintoon authorized the Loan the following week.......:-) Corrections requested if there are inaccuracies here.The questions about BOZO’S Past are critical National Security Issus!
Winter - write up a vanity and even though I am on a self-imposed FR vacation (just allowing myself small checkins) I will post it and ping the lists!!
DO IT! (pretty please.)
Wow! I was unaware of those deaths.
Not to worry we have all made mistakes,but I have seen this one too and still believe it.
.As for Snoops I wish I had of kept the email I got about how phoney they are..It seems they are a husband and wife team that print what they believe like we could do the same..Some things they do say about Obama seem to be explaining the things he does..and most seem to be false to them.As far as I can see anyway..
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
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“My guesses:
1. Why did it take so long for a grand jury indictment of these people?
2. They don’t say who these people are (just names and that they worked for ed. dept. contractor - period) really and they don’t sound like Republicans.
3. The story is from the AP.
4. Iowa?
5. Why haven’t we heard anything about this before; why haven’t we heard anything about what they discovered?
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If this is a created event, what motive is behind it?”
Great observation!
Good!!! I hope they all go to jail. I felt the same way about the guy who snooped in Sarah’s records. We can’t have it one way for one person and not the other. Everyone should stop getting into people’s records on the computer. It is not that difficult.
UPDATE at 9 p.m. Wednesday by Justin Foss/Sourcemedia Group
DAVENPORT — Nine Iowa City-area people face federal charges, accused of accessing the student loan records of President Barack Obama “while he was a presidential candidate, the president-elect or the president.”
Also check out the “lined-out” section of this article on the indictment. Go to the link http://www.easterniowanewsnow.com/tag/andrew-lage/
and see it lined-out for yourself.
Update at 7:55 p.m. by Justin Foss / Sourcemedia Group
IOWA CITY – Sandra Teague, 54, Iowa City, had worked for Vangent for 10 years when she says she was walked out of the building and dismissed from her job.
“The company never told me the reason I was dismissed for,” said Teague.
Wednesday, she found out when we called to tell her a Grand Jury had returned an indictment against her and several former co-workers for allegedly back in 2008, trying to look up the federal student loan records of Barack Obama. Obama was a presidential candidate at the time.
Teague is one of nine people named in the indictment. She says she used to work with at least four of those named. She did not recognize the names of the others.
“I don’t know what the others did, but I know that I did not do it,” said Teague.
Teague said she worked in a department at Vangent where they helped people with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, FAFSA.
“All of it was a shock to begin with, because I knew I had not done that,” said Teague. “I knew that something had occurred and that there was a breach of security.”
Teague said in order to do their job, they had different ID numbers for each database they had to look up. She said they even had different ID numbers for different versions of the same database, and even on different systems. She said those ID numbers would change every 30 days.
“I had seven different numbers, and I couldn’t remember them all, all the time,” said Teague.
She said she wrote them on a sticky-note and attached that to the inside of her desk drawer.
“It was assumed that the building had better controlled access, but it turns out it wasn’t,” said Teague.
Teague said she was questioned by special agents for the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General. Teague said after that interview, the agent suggested a better place to keep her ID numbers. It was at that time Teague thought the matter was resolved.
Teague said what gave her the most relief was when that agent told her she wasn’t checked into the building when Vangent’s computers say Obama’s records were accessed.
Teague said she only found out Obama had federal student loans after someone causally mentioned it at a department meeting.
Teague said she was planning her own wedding at the time of the alleged incidents and didn’t have any reason to look up Obama’s records, ““I didn’t even pay attention to the election, I didn’t have time.”
Andrew Lage, 54, is also named in the indictment. An attorney for Lage said his client had no comment.
We couldn’t find any contact numbers for Vangent company officials late Wednesday night.
By Ann McGlynn
Quad-City Times
Nine people are accused of accessing the student loan records of Barack Obama, when he was a candidate for president, president-elect and president.
The indictments were handed up in U.S. District Court, Davenport, and unsealed Thursday. The nine people worked at a Department of Education contractor in Coralville, Iowa.
Accused are:
Andrew J. Lage, 54; Patrick E. Roan, 51; Sandra Teague, 54; John P. Phommivong, 29; Anna C. Rhodes, 32; Gary Grenell, 58; Lisa Torney, 49; Julie L. Kline, 38; and Mercedes Costoyas, 53.
They are charged with exceeding computer access. Each faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.
Officials say that between July 26, 2007, and March 13, 2009, the defendants accessed the records while working for the unspecified contractor.
Arraignment on the charges is set for 2 p.m. May 24 in Davenport. The case was investigated by the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General.
A spokesman with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa declined comment.
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9 accused of accessing Obama’s student loan records
May 13th
Posted by Mary Sharp in crime, law and justice
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Last modified: May 13, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Update 3:15 p.m. by Trish Mehaffey
Patrick Roan and Anna Rhodes are the only indicted former Vangent employees with any criminal history, according to Iowa Courts Online. Roan was convicted of misdemeanor trespassing in 1993 and Rhodes was convicted of compulsory education violation in 1999. Both served no jail time, only paid fines.
Update at 2:35 p.m. Thursday by Diane Heldt
Catherine Grant, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Department of Education, said officials can’t comment or offer more details about ongoing investigations, which this case is. She said once investigations are completed, officials will provide more information. She didn’t know when that might be.
Update at 11:30 a.m. Thursday by Diane Heldt
In a follow-up e-mail, Vangent spokeswoman Eileen Cassidy Rivera said the investigation was initiated by the U.S. Department of Education, and Vangent fully cooperated with the investigation. Rivera said Vangent officials do not believe the violation of company security policies was politically motivated.
Update 11:24 a.m. Thursday by Trish Mehaffey
I’ve called Lisa Torney and Mercedes Costoyas and left messages for comments.
I sent emails to Andrew Lage, Anna Rhodes. I’ve looked for others on Facebook but they weren’t listed.
UPDATE at 11:10 a.m. Thursday by Diane Heldt
A Vangent company spokeswoman based in Arlington, Va., in a statement today said the nine employees, not Vangent, were the subject of the investigation.
The statement from Eileen Cassidy Rivera, vice president of communications and investor relations, said “An investigation identified a number of Vangent employees, among others, who inappropriately accessed student loan records. The Vangent employees violated Vangent’s security policies and were promptly terminated from the company in June 2009. Vangent was not the subject of the investigation.”
Voting records from the Johnson County Auditor’s office show that four of those indicted are registered as Democrats, and two are registered as Republicans. Three of those indicted — Anna C. Rhodes, 32; Mercedes Costoyas, 53; and Sandra Teague, 54 – were not registered to vote in Johnson County.
The six who were registered all voted in the 2008 general election. Those registered as Democrats are: John P. Phommivong, 29; Patrick E. Roan, 51; Andrew J. Lage, 54; and Julie L. Kline, 38, who was registered in Cedar County. The two registered as Republicans are Lisa L. Torney, 49, and Gary N. Grenell, 58.
Joe the Plumber, OTOH...
What social security number did they use and what names, OHAHA has gone by during his relatively short life.
A columnist friend of mine wrote this in a column a few years ago:
‘I would ask parents who have children — do you know what they are learning? Do you know what your schools are teaching? Do you care enough to fight it like your lives and theirs depended on it?
If we want to stay a free people, struggling to be tolerant of others, struggling to be fair and just and to offer hope and possibility to the rest of the world — we CAN’T be teaching or allowing our spoiled and progressive children via the intellectual elite to destroy us.
“Progressive public education is a disaster and so are “progressive” politics. Someone has to tell “progressive” parents and politicians and university administrators that they WILL be held accountable. We no longer have the luxury of allowing anti-Western spoiled brats to control our society.
Not unless we have a death wish.”
I pinged the below today to one of the lists I help with (even though I’m taking a “vacation” right now); I begged wintertime to put this together as a vanity:
Demoralization, Government Schools, A Plan for RE-moralization of our Nation
May 13, 2010 | wintertime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2512917/posts
Why yes, yes, he is exempt. Of course. And if we get upset about it we are racist enemies of the state.
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