Like anyone ever believed ol’ Dick Windsor was an administration one off:
The Associated Press is reporting that some of President Obama’s political appointees “are using secret government e-mail accounts they say are necessary to prevent their in-boxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages.”
Among those appointees are Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The Associated Press says the scope of private e-mail use by administration officials “remains a mystery” because most agencies have not responded to Freedom of Information Act requests made more than three months ago.
[…]
“The secret e-mail accounts complicate an agency’s legal responsibilities to find and turn over e-mails in response to congressional or internal investigations, civil lawsuits or public records requests because employees assigned to compile such responses would necessarily need to know about the accounts to search them.
“Secret accounts also drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions.”
Oh, let’s not be so coy. Secret accounts may well “drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide” something, but what they also — and more importantly — do is allow government officials actually to hide actions or decisions. And that’s exactly what they were created for — to get around the obligation to keep records of correspondence, particularly when that correspondence is centered on discussions over how best to destroy the system from within and molest and control the bitterclinging masses.
Fundamental transformation may happen out in the open, but the means for bringing it about must be made to seem like an historical force, not the manipulations of a system by thieving, lying, dangerous anti-American Marxist ideologues positioned in key seats of administrative power.
Perception, like preference cascades and manufacturing consent, is crucial to the left, as Nishi was fond of reminding us. Because were these people to operate in the clear light of day, their “ends justify the means” approach to fundamental transformation would be met with more widespread resistance.
To repeat myself: it’s who they are. It’s what they do.
And they must be stopped. Unfortunately, to borrow from one of heroes of leftist governance, one scandal is a scandal; 5 scandals is a statistic.
[Place final quip about Most Transparent Administration EVER! right here X]
Didn’t the Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) go completely apeshit when they learned that, while Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin used a personal email account for personal, family business?
Obama’s next move will be to seal all the email records from his administration claiming executive privilege.
Kathleen Sebelius, maiden name Gilligan, using “KGS2 (at) hhs.gov”* as her secret email, EPA’s Lisa Jackson picking the name of her dog and her favorite town to get “Winsor.richard (at) epa.gov shows the level of imagination at work. I would bet even a neophyte hacker could devise a program to guess the secret emails of these in-civil non-servants.
Probably cost a lot less than the 1.03 million the Labor Dept. wanted to simply find all the email addys. Why don’t they have a central database of emails addys? They database everything about us.
*Is there at KGS1, or 3, or 4 or…?
. . . seal all the email records
Isn’t it simpler to use a degaussing tool on the memory devices or some such business, to the extent the physical access to those devices is under their control, anyhow?
I swear, I’m about ready for the reintroduction of ostracism –preferably with a Shirley Jackson twist.
Or would that be “too Jewish”?
Laws, like taxes, are for the little people.
chicago trash are trashy
Says the fascist linking just above:
“[…] As a lesson in psycho-pathology, watch as noted paranoid and idiot, Jeff G. (who kind of hides, and his fellow bloggers ACTUALLY hide behind pseudonyms), explaining what hiding behind pseudonyms and fake identities is actually used for:
If true, it explains by negation why SO MANY Reichty bloggers hide behind pseudonyms, doesn’t it? Or, more charitably: Somebody’s off his meds again.”
So Jeff Goldstein and, eg., Darleen Click, we hide behind pseudonyms. Whereas his Vorpal Oriental Porn Sluts? Open, honest, incisive.
I wouldn’t worry about my meds. But I’d counsel that douche to keep on with the penicillin. He’s starting to give off that end of life Nietzsche vibe.
Also, do bloggers work for the government? I mean, I know the lefties bloggers often feel like they do — and some actually might — but over here, I’m pretty certain that we’re not being paid, nor are we required, to keep accounts of our correspondence, or use official channels for our correspondence.
In other words, a certain porn author and noted bizarre-o crank is trolling for hits again.
Pass.
Time was people would quote an old-saw to the effect that “Charity begins at home.”
Nowadays, it appears charity begins at ignorant and vicious speculation about medications.
WOW
So when gubmint officials use fake e-mails to escape accountability — very much against their own regs — it’s NO DIFFERENT than private citizens using pseudonyms in blog comment sections.
That’s the worst false equivalence I have EVAR seen.
Talk about going off meds.
My handle includes the name of my blog AND my last name, and links to the former while my avatar is an actual photo of me. Furthermore on my blog the “About me” link goes to a page that includes my full name. There’s enough info on my site to connect me to other info online that if any person wants to accost me in person it is easily within their reach to do so.
Extricating themselves from said encounter might not be so easily accomplished.
Jeff “kind of hides” on this blog? Well, I must say that I don’t know his shirt or shoe size, but maybe I just missed them. He has been pretty damn open about everything else, especially considering the D.F. incident.
Government officials using fictitious names to communicate with others is NOT hiding, though?
Meds, Definitely meds.
Having skimmed the pingback two comments above this one, and having encountered nothing but word salad, I can provide the iron-clad diagnosis of hebephrenic schizophrenia.
“IRS: It’s a witch hunt.
Except it was the IRS that was doing the hunting.
It’s a peculiar hunt when the prey comes to the door, knocks politely and requests a form to fill out.
Turns out that IRS agents weigh less than a duck.
Hmm….I am not seeing that.
And I can’t recall who we are talking about, in terms of pornographers. That’s how important he is.
Oh, never mind.
Boring. Jesus, what a tediously fatuous twat that guy is.
Sorry, I mean “vacuous”.
Good ol’ Murfreesboro, TN – Home of the Fighting Trolls!
And a damned-fine paella.
Can I assume that whoever is having stuff deleted in this thread is complaining about free speech or the like?
That’s always amusing.
Turns out that IRS agents weigh less than a duck.
she turned me into a newt… fortunately I got better
Oh, that dude again.
Did he ever add those movies to his C.V.? I can’t be arsed to find out.
OT: Lesbian activist “escorted out” of FLOTUS presser/tongue bath: http://drudgereport.com/flash3b.htm
dicentra: “I can provide the iron-clad diagnosis of hebephrenic schizophrenia.”
This guy is pretty old, and that’s generally a disease that manifests itself in youth. He had a career (of sorts) for quite a while, too.
Jeff’s suggestion of general paresis seems somewhat more likely, particularly given the industry our subject was involved in and the time frame when he was involved in it.
I’m sort of complaining that it was all deleted by the time I got to this thread so all I see are various comments responding to it and going “Bwa?!” in confusion. Hazards of working nights, I guess. :-o
SBP says June 4, 2013 at 6:51 pm
OT: Lesbian activist “escorted out” of FLOTUS presser/tongue bath: http://drudgereport.com/flash3b.htm
I don’t know why, but Drudge included a description of FLOTUS’s outfit. I can’t tell if that is subtle mockery, or a measure of his moderate mindset showing through.
@Patrick: it appears to have been the auteur of such notable exemplars of “simple, wholesome goodness” as Black Jailbait and Oriental Lesbian Fantasies.
I’m guessing we didn’t miss much.
It’s labeled as a pool report, mondamay. Some hack thought it relevant apparently.
I saw the references to “the pool” but I guess I didn’t grasp the significance. I still foolishly think in terms of competing news, not pools of sycophant media. And that’s even with knowing that the press has been corrupt for more years than I’ve been alive to see it.
dicentra: “I can provide the iron-clad diagnosis of hebephrenic schizophrenia.”
I was gently mocking myself as The Diagnoser Of All Narcissists, hence “iron clad.”
My dad used to accuse us of being hebephrenic schizophrenics, and when we asked what that meant, he said it meant someone who laughed insanely and uncontrollably.
He was a professor of psychology, so he must have been right.
I’m very upset that there was a game of whack-a-troll and no one invited me to play.
/butthurt
Again, Ernst, I doubt if we missed much. All the juice got sucked out of that particular troll the last time he came around.
hebephrenia.
Oh man, the shit I learn around here by reading. Hey! How comeski this thing itin doing a preview anymore?
Soooo….if the DOJ can get AP and Fox News emails any time they want, and the FBI can get unsubpoened records from Google anytime they want, and if the IRS can snoop our private emails, phone calls, and Facebook any time they want, why all of a sudden is the use of “private” email accounts this big hurdle to information gathering? Isn’t the whole core of a lot of this controversy the very fact that “private” email accounts have become very, very UNprivate of late?
@Steve B: Some animals are more private than others.
“Pool” not making FLOTUS happy. He needs to edit reality better.
I was aware of one pingback from the frumious one before it got deleted, apparently the second such because there had been reference to a previous one I had not seen.
hebe-phrenia?
speaking of “Too Jewish…”
Hebe