How Is The Government Getting Private Email Address?
By nzinky
@nzinky (822)
United States
August 15, 2009 1:35pm CST
I heard on the news this morning that the Govenment has starting sending spam to people who have never signed anything to get email from the government the man speaking today said "He hasn't sign up to get any email from David Axlrod nor did he won't it.."
He was wondering since he makes a point not to sign or give out his email address to anyone.......Could Obama's Goon's be hacking into our private email addresses?
It sure wouldn't surprise me......This adminstration is the worsed for breaking laws In the history of our nation....Why isn't anyone trying to impeach this president?
He seems to do what ever he wants too....When ever he wants to......Don't you think it's time for the congress to do something about this........Or does he have speical privelages????????
What do you think about this??????????
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6 responses
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
15 Aug 09
This is definitely a breach of privacy, one that is undeniably illegal. Of course, Obama being Obama and the Messiah of the world, he feels he has special rights that no president before him ever claimed to have. The man is ridiculously arrogant. Frankly, I wish the FBI would start looking into this, because Americans' privacy is being violated more and more with each passing day.
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@nzinky (822)
• United States
16 Aug 09
Your right about us looseing our privacy every day.....But Obama thinks he's above the law....He though when he when into the office with a snap of his finger that he could change any law he wanted to but he had more power in the Senate than he does as president...
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
16 Aug 09
This is an odd situation and one I'd like answers to as well. I received an email from David Axelrod at my AOL email address and I've never given that address to the White House. I've used it to contact my Governor and my state representatives in the past so did my email address end up in some database because of that? It certainly wasn't obtained through a visit to the White House website because it didn't come to the email account attached to my ISP...mainly because I never set one up.
As far as this president being the worst in history when it comes to breaking the law...do a little research on President Richard Nixon, Watergate and illegal recordings. The president cannot be impeached unless he does something that is an impeachable offense. Not agreeing with him does not equal criminal activities.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
16 Aug 09
the government does whatever it wants..it always has..and makes up cover stories if called on it later.it'd be easy for them to get an email.
pft..they probably have whole online histories of the most outspoken people on a computer somewhere.
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 09
I saw the exchange between Garrett and Gibbs over this issue. Isn't Gibbs an arrogant person?
I don't think they've explained this as yet. But it makes one wonder, doesn't it?
@nzinky (822)
• United States
15 Aug 09
Yes Gibbs is an arrogant and a liar??? Have you noticed ever time he doesn't want to give an answer he giggles like a little kid???For someone who is suppost to be the spokesman for the President he sure is kept out of the loop of what's going on....
If I were him I would resign cause he sure doesn't know much of how to answer reporters.....
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
15 Aug 09
There was speculation that it had to do with having gone to the White House website but several people said they had been there and not received an email. However, I saw a comment by one person who said 4 of her friends got White House emails and they had all been sending out and forwarding emails regarding the health care reform bill. There's a chance that those could have been forwarded by others to flag@whitehouse.gov.
The illegality of all if it is immense. Firstly, the White House is not allowed to collect data on private persons, so getting these forwarded emails is illegal. They say they won't use or keep the data, but it's illegal for the White House to destroy communications, so they have to keep them or break the law. Basically, no matter what they do now, they have committed illegal breaches of privacy.
It is a theory that every President commits an impeachable offense within days of taking office. This is mainly because the government has been exceeding its constitutional limits for decades. But I think this president has definitely gone well beyond and managed to rack up a slew of impeachable offenses in a record amount of time. His supporters were right about one thing, he's definitely out to make a change. Too bad it's not for the better.
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@itsmychoice (382)
• United States
15 Aug 09
Well I still insist that he is not legally the President. He is an alien and has not proven he has any right to be President. Why did he have his documents sealed by a court? And why did he spend millions in taxpayer money doing it? Why didn't he just show his legal birth document, because he is not an American, but a Muslim plant and the Government is behind him all the way. What about the citizens of America, do we not have rights to see his documents to let him be President?
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
16 Aug 09
It's the White House--and Yes--white house doesn't mind letting you know that Big Brother is watching, Obama has more than once hinted the rules do not apply to him...he's a lawyer, I guess is his reasoning.
What I think their doing is using software that basically scans the internet and collects every email address, maybe they collect them accordingly but many people do this. Maybe your information has been sold to them? I stopped giving my phone number to stores I shop at, and yes, some will ask you. I did this last week I visited the beach while at the outlet. I told the lady, no thanks, and she seemed to be offended but I explained my information could be sold and she made it clear to me their 'not supposed to do that' but unless I see it in writing, Im opting out.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
16 Aug 09
I partially agree with you...I believe there is email address harvesting going on but I don't think it's as massive as every email address out there. I belong to an online group that messes with scammers...the ones who tell you that you've won an international lottery, that ask for your help moving crates full of money out of the country, that claim to be a wealthy foreigner suffering from a terminal illness who wants to leave you his millions, ect. We run them in circles, frustrate them and waste their time in an effort to keep them too busy to target too many innocent people. I have several "catch accounts"...email accounts that I use to sign guestbooks on various websites...a favorite place for these cons to harvest email addresses...which they do use to contact me. I checked my catch accounts earlier and also two other accounts I use for running counter scams on the scammers. The White House did not email any of those accounts but they did email one of my legitimate email accounts...the one I use to email my governor and state reps. They also didn't contact my business email address which is registered with the state so I believe it takes some type of contact in order for the white house to end up with your email address. Hopefully, we'll eventually find answers.
