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| 150 Fewer Hothead Whistleblowers |
| 2007-10-29 |
| This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence." But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:"... It's not immediately clear whether the mistake will lead to the exposure of those who had contacted the committee. There are more than 150 recipient addresses revealed in the email. Some of the email addresses appear to be transparently fake, but there's also, much more troubling, a vice_president@whitehouse.gov carbon copied on the email, which is the public email address for Vice President Dick Cheney. In other words, an email containing the email addresses of all the whistleblowers who had written in to the committee tipline was sent to public email address of Vice President Cheney... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 My question is if any whistleblowers will come forward again soon. I mean, they were outed by the people who swore to keep their identities secret! It's such idiocy! And the juicy thing is, one whistleblower may be ratting on another whistleblower. And now they know he/she is! I can't help but wonder, is this a Karl Rove plot from before he left, just now taking root? Did he have Cheneys E-mail put on the list, then an agent of his mail it to everyone? Or was it a latent program put onto the computer to send those e-mails back to senders? Either way it's probably a Rovian plan. |
| Posted by: Charles 2007-10-29 17:07 |
| #8 2) Using Dick Cheney's public email means that either some "whistle blower" was spoofing congress, or that one did not trust them with his or her real email address. And rightly so, it would seem. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-10-29 15:59 |
| #7 #6 I always did suspect Cheney was really king of the mole men. NO FAIR ed! I sprayed! then I snorted! my nose hurtz! ROLF! |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-10-29 12:31 |
| #6 I always did suspect Cheney was really king of the mole men. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-10-29 11:48 |
| #5 1) The whole program of congress soliciting anonymous tips is troubling. There are a lot of malcontents in an organization as large as Justice (which itself employs people with overenlarged egos). The program seems more like a source for political ammunition. 2) Using Dick Cheney's public email means that either some "whistle blower" was spoofing congress, or that one did not trust them with his or her real email address. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2007-10-29 11:03 |
| #4 which is the public email address of Dick Cheney. It is highly unlikely that anyone who knew Dick Cheney well enough to send him the names of secret leakers would use Dick Cheney's public e-mail address. I would suspect that this is more likely an attempt to expose who is leaking within the organization. The fact that they included Dick CHeney's public e-mail address would make me suspicious that whoever did it wanted to make it look like it was an evil Cheney-Halliburton venture but was unaware that it was not his personal e-mail address. |
| Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-29 05:05 |
| #3 So, iff I'm interpreting this artiiikle correctly, VPOTUS Cheney is the head honcho turning 'em over to the Bildeburger Group/Global-Space Illuminati??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-29 00:39 |
| #2 Wow! Dick Cheney is a hothead whistleblower!? Whoda thunk it? |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2007-10-29 00:33 |
| #1 Had the Republicans done this the MSM woudl be SCREAMING about a conspiracy and demanding an investigation by an independent prosecutor. But its the Dems so barely a whisper. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-10-29 00:28 |