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Eight charged with accessing Obama records plead not guilty
qctimes.com ^ | May 24, 2010 | By Dustin Lemmon

Posted on 05/24/2010 11:47:33 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Eight of the nine people accused of accessing Barack Obama’s student loan records without permission made their initial appearances in a Davenport courtroom Monday and entered not guilty pleas.

The ninth, Gary N. Grenell, 58, of Coralville, was out of the country and set to return, his attorney told Judge Celeste Bremer.

The rest had their trial date set for July 6 with a preliminary hearing June 14.

No new details about the case or the intentions of each defendant were disclosed at the hearing. They each remained free on recognizance bonds.

The indictments were filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court, Davenport. The defendants are charged with exceeding computer access. Each faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.

According to court records, the defendants worked for a Department of Education contractor in Coralville, Iowa, and each accessed the records on different dates between July 26, 2007, and March 13, 2009.

The others charged include Andrew J. Lage, 54, Patrick E. Roan, 51, Sandra Teague, 54, and Mercedes Costoyas, 53, all of Iowa City; Lisa Torney, 49, of Coralville; Anna C. Rhodes, 32, of Ainsworth, Iowa; Julie L. Kline, 38, of West Branch, Iowa; and John P. Phommivong, 29, for whom no hometown was listed.

The records were accessed while Obama was a candidate for president, president-elect and after he took office.

Davenport attorney David Treimer, who is representing Phommivong, spoke outside the courtroom, saying the charges relate to the accessing of the records and not about how they were used or disseminated. He said all of the defendants worked for the same employer but not in the same office. He declined to discuss further details about the case.


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To: Jet Jaguar

Maybe I missed it, but weren’t the state employees who accessed AND released Joe the Plumber’s files prosecuted? And what about the Pentagon employees who accessed AND released private information in Linda Tripp’s files?
NOT!


21 posted on 05/25/2010 3:32:16 AM PDT by RightGuy
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To: Jet Jaguar
My viote is Not Guilty. Duh'bumba is in public office. All his records need to be in the public domain, available for public scrutiny.

IMO- he gave up his right to privacy when he decided to become a public official.

22 posted on 05/25/2010 3:38:40 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

What’s the kenyan tyrant going to do?

Destroy the lives of people who want to know who the hell he is?

The Identity Thief in Chief belongs in prison for fraud and theft.


23 posted on 05/25/2010 4:18:29 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Candor7; Jet Jaguar

” Multiple SS numbers, student loan fraud? Attended as a foreign student? Falsification of US citizenship? “

I am convinced this actually happened...at least the credit fraud on the student loans part.


24 posted on 05/25/2010 4:41:35 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Prole

“What’s the kenyan tyrant going to do?

Destroy the lives of people who want to know who the hell he is?

The Identity Thief in Chief belongs in prison for fraud and theft. “

Why so I believe Holder will take a prominent role in this case, as these are not Black Panthers ;-)


25 posted on 05/25/2010 4:43:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: LucyT; BP2; hoosiermama; rxsid
Lots of pics

Eastern Iowa News Now

26 posted on 05/25/2010 5:57:10 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
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To: carcraft

So did the investigators and reporters on FOX who gained access to the records of Anwar Al Aulaqi. Passports, student loans, etc. The very same records Barry has scrubbed from the unverse.

I am not saying 2 wrongs make a right. If it against the law, it is against the law. I am not saying the reporters should be investigated or should reveal their sources.

Is it about Obama or the law? If it about the law, they can find out who accessed Al-Aulaqi’s records as easily as they learned who accessed Obama’s.

But we all know it is not about the law. It is about Obama.


27 posted on 05/25/2010 6:31:24 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Jet Jaguar

If I were the defense attorney I’d subpoena Neil Sheehan to testify as to Public Right to key government records. Any government held record of the sitting or presumptive Commander-In-Chief and Chief Executive is a duty-to-know as far as I am concerned, only excepting those executive memoranda, papers and communications that are produced while he is serving, and for some limited and fixed number of years afterwards, as those are a necessity of office to be kept private.


28 posted on 05/25/2010 6:35:27 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Jet Jaguar

If the birth certificate don’t fit you must aquit....jury nullification-take back our country


29 posted on 05/25/2010 7:24:51 AM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: Candor7

You’re right. We know the who, what, when and where about this but not the WHY!! I want to know why they did it and if they worked together, separately or under orders from *some other person(s).*


30 posted on 05/25/2010 8:27:30 AM PDT by azishot (J.D. Hayworth...U.S. Senator FOR Arizona...http://www.jdforsenate.com/)
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To: urtax$@work; LucyT; hoosiermama; rxsid; STARWISE; All

Whoa ... the pictures of the plaintiffs are primarily female and/or minorities.
I have to admit ... I was honestly expecting a bunch of angry, white guys.

I wonder what their motive REALLY was ... and what they discovered.


31 posted on 05/25/2010 8:58:27 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: LucyT

I hope these people are keeping aware of their surroundings and either availing themselves of the right of self-protection (if possible), or have hired bodyguards. They don’t want to end up like that one guy who accessed Obama’s passport!

[BTW: Do you remember the name of that guy who ‘died’ - or was murdered - in the passport case? I have to put him on my list of suspicious deaths surrounding Obama.]


32 posted on 05/25/2010 9:08:37 AM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Candor7; Jet Jaguar

I think it’s pretty safe to assume that there is something HIGHLY irregular regarding the SS# Obama is currently using (assinged to some guy who was born in 1890), and the sheer volume of the list of other social security numbers in relation to Obama himself and other family members (like his mom).

Here’s a list of all the numbers/addresses/names:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=3326


33 posted on 05/25/2010 9:12:35 AM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Candor7

The latest post re Orly has in it that someone has identified 0’s origin as Equatorial Guiney not Kenyan or Hawaiian. Who knows what he is?


34 posted on 05/25/2010 9:19:55 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping List-freepmail me to be included or removed. <{{{><)
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To: BP2; All

Me, too!

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http://www.vangent.com/

For the record, the nine:

The nine defendants –

Andrew J. Lage, Patrick E. Roan, Sandra Teague,
John P. Phommivong, Gary N. Grenell, Lisa Torney,
Julie Lynn Kline and Mercedes Costoyas


35 posted on 05/25/2010 9:20:43 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, hunker down & go Galt)
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To: LibertyRocks

Mr. Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr

His first name was Lieutenant. He hadn’t attained the rank of *a* Lieutenant.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2421197/posts

Interestingly, google search shows several articles about him:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=lt+harris+death+obama&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=1&cad=b


36 posted on 05/25/2010 9:24:49 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: Spaulding
I'm so glad you said CIA because a lot of us think you are absolutely right.

And this goes back to at least the early 80's if not before.

Zeros' cover up is so well done and so many pages are blacked out so quickly that it has to be a professional job. When you start thinking about which agencies can do such a professional job the list is short.

What constantly puzzles me is why the CIA wants to plunge the country and much of the world into Marxism/Communism.

37 posted on 05/25/2010 9:45:21 AM PDT by rodguy911 ( Sarah 2012!!! Home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: LucyT

I followed this story. This guy got into zeros files and later was found shot dead in broad daylight in Chicago i believe. His first name caused me hours of searching until I figured out what you said. His first name actually is Lieutenant.


38 posted on 05/25/2010 9:48:50 AM PDT by rodguy911 ( Sarah 2012!!! Home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: tutstar; All
> The latest post re Orly has in it that someone has identified 0’s origin as
> Equatorial Guiney not Kenyan or Hawaiian. Who knows what he is?

Hmmm ... perhaps Equatorial Guinea was his "point of entry"
in/out the Communist Block as a Patrice Lumumba University student:



39 posted on 05/25/2010 9:49:14 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: tutstar; Candor7; Jet Jaguar; LibertyRocks

” The latest post re Orly has in it that someone has identified 0’s origin as Equatorial Guiney not Kenyan or Hawaiian. Who knows what he is? “

Oh, we know WHAT he is, just not his history ;-)


40 posted on 05/25/2010 9:49:36 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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