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US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the oh-whoops-our-bad-honest dept.

iluvcapra writes "The US House Judiciary Committee recently emailed all of its potential whistleblowers information about how it was restructuring its whistleblower program. Unfortunately for its sources, it emailed them this information with their addresses in the "To:" field (and not the Bcc: field) It also cc:'d this email to the Vice President. I'd like to think think this is some sort of ingenious subterfuge, but I'm doubtful."

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  1. Re:Could be worse by drgonzo59 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Teh libertarians?

  2. Re:Both the Dems and the Reps... by drgonzo59 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The ironic thing is that they advertise themselves as the "morality" party despite scandal after scandal after bribe after...

    I call that the Google syndrome (Do no evil, ever... unless of course it, interferes with making money...)

    If the Reps never bothered to claim a higher moral ground, nobody would have paid this much attention to all their sexual escapades and bribes. But as soon as they said "oh look at those immoral Democrats, we'd never kill babies, commit adultery and so on", they immediately shot themselves in the foot because now the voters will scrutinize them more closely. And I actually believe both parties are equally evil. It is just necessary to recycle them once in a while. As soon as one party stays in power too long, they become more lazy and corrupt. It gives the other party(ies?) a chance to use that to kick them out.

  3. Re:Could be worse by apparently · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    (and to be completely honest, our problems are more due to GWB taking incompetent action than taking malicious action)

    Bull. Our problems are due to the GWB administration incompetently implementing malicious action. Iraq was not an incompetent mistake: the administration knew that WMD's weren't present, that Saddam wasn't tied to 9/11 or Al Qaeda, and that invading Iraq would result in a quagmire, but yet the invasion was marketed to the American people as a necessary and relevant front to the "Global War on Terror". That is treasonous malice.

  4. Re:Both the Dems and the Reps... by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    OK, I'll bite.

    Why are they evil? What is it about their day-to-day thinking and mentality that makes them evil? What evil deeds have they done? If you can answer it, how are these "evil" organisations lingering in a democratic system with decent freedom of (political) speech? How much of them is undeniably evil, and how much is just decisions you don't personally agree with?

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  5. Re:Who's fault is this? by Sergeant+Pepper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Someone did not RTFA. ;)

    That's why it's partisan: Democrats did NOT do this. The House Judiciary Committee did. And, in case you weren't aware, the House Judiciary Committee is made up of both Republicans and Democrats - we have no idea who actually was responsible.

    In summary, you are an ignorant asshat (to use your word).

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