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Ashley Madison website subscribers included White House, Congress workers
AP via Stars & Stripes ^ | August 20, 2015 | JACK GILLUM and TED BRIDIS

Posted on 08/20/2015 8:35:05 PM PDT by John W

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet connections in their federal offices to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.

The AP traced many of the accounts exposed by hackers back to federal workers. They included at least two assistant U.S. attorneys; an information technology administrator in the Executive Office of the President; a division chief, an investigator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department; a government hacker at the Homeland Security Department and another DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. counterterrorism response team.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


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To: freebilly

Well, this involves his administration and I doubt it is legal.


21 posted on 08/20/2015 8:59:50 PM PDT by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Even Trump is considered a conservative these days.


22 posted on 08/20/2015 9:00:40 PM PDT by sagar
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To: GraceG

A lot of guys might have wives that pay no attention to the news and don’t even own a computer. But I guarantee you that as we speak, there are thousands of people out these putting names, positions, and incomes to these people.

If your name is on there, I’d recommend deleting your FaceBook and LinkedIn account immediately!


23 posted on 08/20/2015 9:02:02 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: sagar

Showing how people will lie to themselves if it gets them what they want.

Then again 70 million voted for a guy that profits from BBQing aborted babies so nothing surprises me.


24 posted on 08/20/2015 9:02:40 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: MNDude

Why would you want to help these people protect themselves from their actions?


25 posted on 08/20/2015 9:07:48 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: haircutter
they sure didn't waste any time going after Josh Duggar...

:-0 I missed that news. If this is what he's been doing as a grown man, a husband, and a father, then he has a serious problem. He'll never be cured.

But, you're right - why not release the names of the gov't employees, too?

26 posted on 08/20/2015 9:13:13 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Norm Lenhart

Good point. They are propagating themselves.


27 posted on 08/20/2015 9:16:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I don’t figure adultery is “conservative”.

Nevertheless, your statement is a logical fallacy, partly because very little in human behavior is 100% consistent.


28 posted on 08/20/2015 9:17:21 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: John W

I remember when this outfit used to run commercials on TV . This one and the other one that alluded to setting up menage a trois . The imagery , the music . It just looked like advocacy for pure sinful behavior to me . I used to think how degrading for our society the open promotion of such sinfulness was . Now it’s blown up in the faces of those that were tempted to actually participate .
I recalled how the Lord once advised “ if thy right hand offend thee , cut it off . Lest your entire body be cast in to everlasting Hell fire “
Adultery is considered a great sin in every religion and belief set that humanity has ever ascribed to . Every one...why ? Because it is dishonorable and totally destroys the sacred trust between two people whom have supposedly committed themselves to one another . Once destroyed that trust can rarely be found again .
One sin leads to another as well . Better , far better , to just get a grip , be an adult and be the master of your impulses . “ Walk through life like a lion of self control , not kicked around by the little frogs of unseemly desires “
Stand for something significant ; stand for morality and decency and faithfulness to ones spouse . Be strong and don’t fall for Satan’s temptations via the internet . They are nothing but hollow lies .


29 posted on 08/20/2015 9:19:19 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: tumblindice

Iiberals meet the definition of a virus. Harmful replicating things that ultimately consume their host and move on.

They also act as a carrier organism for many other viruses. Which is why they should ALL be caged for the existential continuity of the human race. All of them.


30 posted on 08/20/2015 9:20:16 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: ChildOfThe60s

No it isn’t. Adultery is shunned by conservatives just as pedophile is shunned by Christians. It is however interesting that several people on this thread have jumped to make excuses for adulterers. I wonder why that is.

No. I don’t actually wonder at all why.


31 posted on 08/20/2015 9:22:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: John W

Mike Huckabee’s good friend is also a subscriber.


32 posted on 08/20/2015 9:27:42 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Norm Lenhart
Ruh ro!

Of course adultery isn't a "plank of the conservative platform", but Scott DesJarlais, Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, Bill Thomas, Dan Burton, Henry Hyde, Helen Chenoweth, J.C. Watts, John Schmitz, Don Sherwood, Strom Thurmond, Ken Calvert, Randy Cunningham, Sue Myrick, Jim Bunn, Ed Schrock, Vito Fossela, Chip Pickering, Dan Crane, John Ensign, and Mark Sanford all come to mind.

33 posted on 08/20/2015 9:30:41 PM PDT by stormer
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To: Norm Lenhart

I agree with you, Agent Smith. But only if I can poke them through the bars with a stick.
They really are sad human specimens. Once man decides he is the measure of all things, he devolves.


34 posted on 08/20/2015 9:32:41 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The GOP head for Louisiana was outed. Said he signed up ‘for research.’


35 posted on 08/20/2015 9:34:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: haircutter

Anyone who wants to wade into the Tor swamp can check it out.


36 posted on 08/20/2015 9:42:35 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

Got it the day it came out.


37 posted on 08/20/2015 9:44:31 PM PDT by SWAMP-C1PHER (G.A.L.T., Government Absent Laissez-faire Technique)
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To: SWAMP-C1PHER

Well, if you would be so kind...


38 posted on 08/20/2015 9:49:19 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Nope, I am not making any excuses for the behavior of adulterors.

I simply disagree with your process of logic.


39 posted on 08/20/2015 10:05:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: TigerClaws

Yeah sure. Remember Pete Townsend using that to explain his kiddie pictures.


40 posted on 08/20/2015 10:07:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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