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United Airlines Investigating Ted Cruz Data Leak
One Mile at a Time ^ | FEBRUARY 20, 2021 | BY BEN

Posted on 02/20/2021 9:59:12 AM PST by conservative98

The basics of Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun

This past Wednesday Ted Cruz flew from Houston to Cancun on United Airlines with his family. While he tried to fly under the radar (no pun intended), this was making national headlines by Thursday, as people caught onto what was happening.

Cruz started by throwing his kids under the bus, as one does, claiming he was just trying to be a good dad, and was just dropping his kids off, and would fly back on Thursday:

“With school canceled for the week, our girls asked us to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.”

Text messages revealed a different story, though. Heidi Cruz (Ted Cruz’s wife) had texted friends in Houston, stating their house was “FREEZING,” and inviting others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton Cancun (where they’ve stayed “many times”), and stated that rooms were $309 per night.

At this point people started looking at the upgrade list for the United flight from Cancun to Houston, noticing that Cruz was just barely missing the upgrade.

Again, Cruz claimed he was just dropping off his kids, but then it was revealed that Cruz had actually changed his flight. A source at United clearly accessed his reservation, and reported that at around 6AM on Thursday he changed his return flight from Saturday to Thursday.

Cruz eventually admitted this, and said “it’s been a tough week.”

United Airlines now investing data leak Most of the information about Cruz’s trip to Mexico was made public through “legitimate” means — there were pictures of him at the airport, his name was on the public upgrade list, etc. However, there’s one detail that someone could get in trouble for.

Specifically, someone had leaked that Cruz had changed his flight from returning on Sunday to returning on Thursday. Politico reports that United Airlines is now investigating this, and that the person who made the leak could be terminated:

“It’s against United’s policies to share personal information about our customers and we are investigating this incident.”

The airline states nothing is “off the table,” and the outcome depends on if they can figure out with certainty who disclosed this information.

Employees with access to United’s reservations system can easily see the record of flight changes that have been made. United can also easily tell who accessed Cruz’s record, either just to view it, or to make an actual change. The catch is that I’d bet quite a few employees had looked into this (purely out of curiosity), which might make it tough to figure out who the actual leak was.

Flight attendant union tells United to drop it Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants (often referred to as the most powerful flight attendant in America), is telling United to drop this investigation, saying that they are “all the leak.” She stated that Ted Cruz is “not a customer,” but rather that “he’s a public servant who has lied too many times.”

Bottom line

Ted Cruz’s trip to Mexico has created a lot of controversy. The trip itself aside, he first threw his kids under the bus and then lied about it. That lie was exposed when an airline employee revealed that he had in fact changed his itinerary to return on Thursday rather than Saturday.

United Airlines is now investigating the incident, and threatening to terminate the employee behind it. I’ll be curious to see if anything comes of this — I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a few United employees had accessed Cruz’s record, which could make it tough to definitely tell who actually leaked the information.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afa; blm; cruz; flightattendants; leak; saranelson; tedcruz; unitedairlines; unitedarilines; winterstorm
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To: Slyfox

Your post was about fag pedos.


61 posted on 02/20/2021 10:57:20 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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To: conservative98

An employee accessed private information not directly related to the task at hand using her work access? And the private information was about a Republican? Happens all the time. And the employee is never held accountable.


62 posted on 02/20/2021 10:57:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Slyfox

I agree. The Fascists do the same and the media shoves their heads up their exit hole. I see what he did, and I am not offended in the least.


63 posted on 02/20/2021 10:59:43 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: Jeff Chandler

No, I just told about one warning that I heeded and never let my boys travel by plane unescorted. Take heed about the warning about passengers.


64 posted on 02/20/2021 11:00:14 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Jane Long

Tennesse. We got just as much ice and snow as you did. No blackouts! No power issues! No water shortages! More conservative than Texas. Lived in Texas 30 years. Left when I saw what Rick Perry was doing to make it California of the west. Enjoy being mediocre. Texas greatness is gone!


65 posted on 02/20/2021 11:00:56 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“no one cares that Cruz took a vacation. This is a nothing burger...Cruz had ZERO to do with the power issues”

While it’s true that Cruz had nothing to do with losing power, LOTS OF PEOPLE CARE about his vacation, and they get to vote not just on him, but on everyone else in Texas.

As to whether they should care: NOPE - even if Cruz had tried to be a ‘hero’ and volunteer, he would have distracted from efforts more than helped.

So, back to your first point - I care, because doing something like this is TOTALLY IDIOTIC and does nothing but give the Dems ammo for gullible voters.

Will it affect my vote? Of course not - I always base my voting on where people stand on the issues and their past performance regarding stuff that affects me. In Cruz’s case, he’s 100% with me (other than his cheap shots at Trump), so I’ll vote for him again in November, 2024, should he make it to that election.

But in a Primary...I’ll see who’s running against him - he was a lightning rod even before this mess, now he’s radioactive, so short of a flaming-liberal Republican, I’ll likely vote against Cruz in his next Primary...but I will always vote for him in November, as voting against Republicans (or sitting out November elections) accomplishes nothing but destroying this country for our children*.

*and yes, I realize 500,000 Republicans in Georgia didn’t give a crap about their kids and sat out the runoff, but don’t count me in, I would have voted there, if I lived there.


66 posted on 02/20/2021 11:02:33 AM PST by BobL
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To: Texas56

You stay out of this until you are instructed how much to be outraged. If not, just fake it like all the others.


67 posted on 02/20/2021 11:08:16 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: conservative98

Ted must be destroyed because of this. Several Freepers say. Give up Texas to democrats. He made the unforgivable sin of vacation and leaving his dog with his guard when he should have put on lineman spikes and started fixing powerlines and thawing out windmills himself.


68 posted on 02/20/2021 11:11:21 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: conservative98
This is why muck-a-dee-mucks vacation via private jet in places like Nantucket etc where it is all owned by fellow Progs, and anyone and everyone in their orbs, chefs etc have to sign non-disclosure agreements as to who and what they were doing at said location.
69 posted on 02/20/2021 11:12:44 AM PST by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: conservative98

Insider to Ted Cruz: Don’t look now, but you have been chosen by the Left as the New Trump. Everything you do, think or say will be bashed 24/7 by every media person and every politician from this moment on.

Ted? Ted? Uh, oh, he fainted.


70 posted on 02/20/2021 11:13:24 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: BobL

This may destroy Cruz’s political aspirations and would also destroy the aspirations of any politician in either party.


71 posted on 02/20/2021 11:13:55 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: Texas56

[[No sane person in Texas is holding that trip against him.]]

Nope- only CDS Never Cruzers do

[[It is the media stirring the pot and liberals piling on that are trying to create a mountain out of a molehill.]]

And CDS Never Cruzers helping the liberals-


72 posted on 02/20/2021 11:15:23 AM PST by Bob434
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

which state ism ore conservative than texas?


73 posted on 02/20/2021 11:17:43 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Meatspace

ROFLOL!!! After watching the media and left pull these fake shrieking hysteria shiny object episodes nonstop against Trump for 5 years, you appear to have learned NOTHING.


74 posted on 02/20/2021 11:17:52 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Organic Panic

“Ted must be destroyed because of this.”

Agree, we don’t need him if he STUPID ENOUGH to think he could sneak out to Cancun while his voters are literally freezing to death.

“Several Freepers say. Give up Texas to democrats.”

Who? Not me. I want him out now because he is a LIGHTNING ROD that will drive DEMOCRATS to the polls and convert idiot ‘moderates’ to side with the Dems. He had plenty of chances to not be an idiot, but eventually one pushes things too far. We can do better in finding politicians with a tiny bit of COMMON SENSE, much better.


75 posted on 02/20/2021 11:19:27 AM PST by BobL
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To: Cecily

Federal level? Same feds that sent the state 60 generators that are still sitting in Ft. Worth? They also sent 10,000 gallons of fuel in case you’ll run out of gas too.


76 posted on 02/20/2021 11:20:50 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: BobL

Earth to space, earth to space, come in... idiot ‘moderates’ don’t vote for someone like Cruz.


77 posted on 02/20/2021 11:23:59 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Bob434

Which state is more conservative than texas?
Tennesse
Wyoming
North Dakota
South Dakota


78 posted on 02/20/2021 11:32:20 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Thanks,


79 posted on 02/20/2021 11:35:26 AM PST by Bob434
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To: BiglyCommentary

“Earth to space, earth to space, come in... idiot ‘moderates’ don’t vote for someone like Cruz.”

Ok, ‘idiot conservatives’*, the ones who make up the last 10% of the vote that Republicans need to win statewide elections, at least in Texas.

*and don’t try to tell us there aren’t ‘idiot conservatives’, as most people, even here, still send their kids to government schools, DESPITE everything they read and hear about them.


80 posted on 02/20/2021 11:35:28 AM PST by BobL
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