[Carriage Hill]

Gee whiz; *govt spying*. That’s a new idea.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When I logon to my computer at work, I have to acknowledge that the company reserves the right to monitor everything I do on it and that there is no expectation of privacy on company computers.

My choice: their way or the highway. I can see the same thing with any government agency’s computers. If you want to write your congressman, do it on your own computer, on your own time.

[moovova]

While I very much appreciate the whistleblower scientist’s efforts to protect the public with their disclosures...you would think they’ed be smart enough not to do their secret “disclosing” using gubment computers.

[corkoman]

Not to be an alarmist but... there is a shortage of injectable medications such that elective surgeries are being affected. These are generic drugs for which the FDA imposed new costly manufacturing validation requirements. There were no issues with the drugs but that the FDA felt that these existing lines needed to be in compliance with the latest regulations being imposed on new drugs.

The margins on these generic injectables is so thin that many manufacturers have elected to discontinue production.

Hello government-produced shortages.

Interesting to note where the limited FDA resources are being focused.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The FDA and the big pharmaceutical companies are nothing more than a criminal conspiracy designed to make the drug industry entry fees so high that only the big pharmaceutical companies can meet them.

Meanwhile, employees drift back and forth between the FDA and the big pharmaceutical companies in as incestuous a fashion as you could ever design.

[Pharmboy]

What really bothers the Times is that one of their reporters was high up on the monitoring list by the FDA.

[Pharmboy]

What really bothers the Times is that one of their reporters was high up on the monitoring list by the FDA.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[exDemMom]

Whenever I log into a computer at work, I have to click “Okay” on a disclaimer that I acknowledge that anything I do on that computer is subject to monitoring.

A few months ago, I was worried that I might have picked up a virus somewhere, because of something odd my computer did. I called the IT department. They assured me that they would have known right away if I’d gotten a virus.

We’re not allowed to use personal email at work. We are allowed to shop (within reason—no spending all day on eBay). If a government employee does something they shouldn’t do on a government computer, it’s not like they weren’t warned—we’re reminded fairly frequently what we can and can’t do with those computers.