[Seizethecarp]

“All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama’s student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.”

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.

[Defiant]

The lesson: if you have a computer with access to Obama’s records, use someone else’s access code.

[danamco]

Dick Morris said on BOR that he think both houses goes GOP @ November election, hmmm???

[Renderofveils]

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).

Do you really think Zero would bring charges on his Secretary of State's flunkies? That's not the Chicago way. He keeps it quiet and uses the leverage later.

[nina0113]

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.

I'm surprised the company had the network resources to maintain an audit for that long. It'll slow your network enough to be noticeable to end users. We've done them, but only when there was suspicion warranting it, and stopped the audit as soon as justified.