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pepperbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 03:27 AM
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Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy Policy
Source: Washington Post

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether its privacy policy was violated after a news organization reported that an aunt of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya, officials said yesterday.

*snip*

Federal privacy law restricts U.S. immigration agencies from disclosing information about citizens and permanent residents, and DHS policy similarly limits disclosures about the status of legal and illegal immigrants. Asylum-seekers are granted greater protection, because of the sensitive nature of their claims and the risks of retaliation.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/01/AR2008110102187.html?nav=hcmodule
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 03:29 AM
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1. This is a no brainer. It did! They are in serious and major trouble.
This has nothing to do with Obama now, it has EVERYTHING to do with the Government and it's protection of the rights of the people citizen or non-citizen (especially non-citizens seeking residency or citizenship).
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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 04:01 AM
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2. We should keep the pressure on.
Someone needs to answer for this violation of privacy.
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Barbara2423 Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 12:55 PM
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28. Totally Agree. Someone beside Bush should lose their jobs
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 04:20 AM
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3. Look on George's desk. I'm sure you'll find an executive order allowing it.
George is allowed to do anything he pleases. What a dangerous precedent to set.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 07:58 AM
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6. Yeppers. Almost eight years of this:
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wroberts189 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 05:28 AM
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4. next headline.. republicans involved in illegal release of info n/t
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 07:02 AM
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5. SCUMBAG RIGHT WING A-HOLES REACHING FOR AN OCTOBER SURPRISE. Well guess what, #1 it isn't flying. #2
What the SCUMBAGS did was ILLEGAL and they should be PROSECUTED to the full extent of the law.
#3 It isn't flying anywhere because Barack Obama can not and does not have ANYTHING to do with the immigration status or personal actions of a 56 year old HALF-aunt who lives in Boston and whom he hasn't seen in two years. THIS IS NOTHING AT ALL BUT A VERY SAD AND LAME ATTEMPT TO GENERATE A SCANDAL TO HURT OBAMA AT THE END OF AN ELECTION. IT ONLY SPEAKS TO HOW SAD, PATHETIC, AND DESPERATE THE RIGHT WING IN THIS COUNTRY IS. THESE SCROATBAGS ARE SCARED SHITLESS, AND THEY SHOULD BE BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOUT TO BE DROWNED IN A DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI !!!
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:50 AM
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12. WTF is a half-aunt?
:crazy:
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:30 AM
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21. His father's half sister???
I suppose
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:32 AM
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22. Half Aunt - Half Uncle...breaking news soon...
muslim, schmuslim - let's talk about HERMAPHRODITE LIBRUL COMMIE PINKO FURRRINUR SOCIALISTS!
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:39 AM
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7. You Think?
Privacy, what's that?
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:45 AM
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8. I $mell law$uit . What a country
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:45 AM
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9. The government has been turned into a political arm of the rethuglican party. It's time to break
that arm off and beat the rethugs senseless with it.
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bronxiteforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:18 AM
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14. Amen!
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humbled_opinion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:56 AM
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10. "MAY HAVE"
idiots, yes in fact it does. She is a Private citizen and putting her information on the street like this is a direct intrusion of her Privacy. Where is the ACLU on this? I seriously hope someone has helped this poor women so that she doens't get hurt by some type of retaliation.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 12:18 PM
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26. Well, she is a private PERSON. It's pretty clear she ISN'T a citizen, lol.
But I agree with your point.
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Lifetimedem Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:01 AM
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11. If they violated the law they need to find the guilty party and
seeing she also broke the law she needs to be sent back home to await a legal entry opportunity.

Breaking one law does not excuse the breaking of another.
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demokatgurrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:00 AM
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13. The Department of Homeland Securty actually has a
PRIVACY policy? Who knew.
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 07:28 PM
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33. LMAO, thanks! n/t
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bronxiteforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:21 AM
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15. No to mention the danger an asylum seeker faces when publicly denied entry
Edited on Sun Nov-02-08 10:28 AM by bronxiteforever
Now the Rethugs may have put a relative of the POTUS out as bait for kidnappers,blackmailers, etc.
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armed_and_liberal Donating Member (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:22 AM
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16. A day late and a dollar short...
pretty much sums up their October surprise,their campaign and their ideas.
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elias7 Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:33 AM
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17. If it did: Dumbest Move Ever!
Don't they realize that a well placed someone, say the President, would be in a good position to force an investigation? Are they actually gambling that Obama will not be elected?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:45 AM
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18. Some people in Ohio are now being investigated for using "Joe the Plumber's" name as
a test search ... they're trying to pin it on Ohio's Dem S.O.S. as a "politically motivated" thing ...

if they get it done, then Obama's aunt is a real nasty violation ...

Remember, Bush41 had Clinton's mother's passport checked into in 1992 ...
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:20 AM
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19. Ya know, I suspect the vast majority of AMERICANS (be they left, right or center)
don't like the government using private information as leaks for political gain.


Kindergarten Government.

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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:20 AM
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20. Obama's...
next door neighbor's brother in law's cousin is related with a guy who knows someone who have

a speeding ticket.Therefore Obama is a dangerous person.
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iamthebandfanman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:55 AM
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23. lol n/t
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Betsy Ross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 11:59 AM
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24. So? It's not like they disclosed the identity of a secret agent.
:sarcasm:
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Tutonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 12:05 PM
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25. Well since the leak was authorized by Chertoff and went to the McCain
camp why would there be hell to pay? Dirty politics. Obama is gonna have to ride this one one. I think they have taken the best approach.
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wakeuptime Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 12:26 PM
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27. More partisan buttheads
Desperate wingers wanting to pad their buttheaded credentials - in honor of their leaders, McCain and Palin.

Go to: http://www.buttheadpolice.com

Vote for McPalin and other buttheads like O'Reilly to get asses stamped on their heads. This Vote will count!! Spread the word!!
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 01:01 PM
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29. Welcome to DU! And yeah buttheads is exactly what they are n/t
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 01:59 PM
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30. Welcome to DU and a suggestion about what you are posting. Spam is against DU rules.
If you want to get people to look at your website, I'd suggest you post more than one or two different words in your replies as it seems you aren't really contributing much except the copy/paste of your website ad. The way you are going about it seems more like you want us to come to you, rather than contributing anything to the conversation here.

Just a thought. 2 more days.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 02:51 PM
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31. Now....when the Drudge first reported this on his filthy website (I got the info here, mind you)
I wrote to every news organization there is. To every pundit, to every reporter, and to every national newspapers the same letter. Now, I realize that it wasn't my letter that made the difference (the content of which I have people that post here to thank for like Prosense), but I'd like to think that it played a part!


Dear,

You may have noticed that the AP is reporting that Barack Obama's aunt was denied asylum in the US four years ago and is now living illegally in Boston. Convenient timing, isn't it?

This "Aunt" is actually the daughter of Obama's Granfather through his third wife Hussein Onyago is Aunti Zeituni's and Uncle Omar's father, and therefore is his half Aunt. Auni Zeituni would be the daughter of Auma, whom Obama refers to as his "Grandmother", though Barack Obama's real granddmother on his father's side is Akuma.

The real story, though, is down in the third paragraph of the AP story ...

"Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release."

That's about as transparent a red flag as an outfit like the AP is usually willing to give. And there you have it. Quite likely working in concert with the McCain campaign, a Bush administration official is leaking details on an immigration case to try to help McCain three days before the election. It's shades of Bush I's riffling through Bill Clinton's passport files just before the 1992 election in a desperate last minute gambit as they were swirling down the drain.

Note too that the story first got leaked to the Times of London, a Murdoch paper with a history of taking planted stories from Republicans for siphoning back into the US media. This should instead be another Republican fraud to investigate. This is a despicable, and the AP deciding to run the story with the rest of the media in tow shows exactly what the Associated Press is all about. Those in the media saying that the media is biased towards Barack Obama are ridiculous and are only using this as cover and an excuse in their attempt to stop an Obama presidency at the cost of any journalistic ethics. This is election tampering at its lowest.

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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 06:36 PM
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32. I guess this was the "October Surprise". What a farce the Republican Party has become.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:17 PM
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34. Raise you hand if you thought "May" was the aunt's name.
I thought - what the hell, Obama isn't Spider-Man. He's Superman, he admitted as much in that speech at a charity dinner (I don't remember where).
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newtothegame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:46 PM
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35. We as Americans have been way too tolerant of leaks in government, workplaces, etc... n/t
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:53 PM
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36. Is this another Valerie Plame incident of a CIA operative
being exposed for political reasons and threatening their operation and operatives

I think she could have been undercover and is exposed

and we all know that Cheney has NO Qualms of exposing CIA operatives
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