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Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

longhairedgnome writes "The curiosity in President-elect Barack Obama's phone records came with a high price tag for Verizon Wireless employees. According to CNN, the workers who snooped on Obama's phone records have been fired. 'This was some employees' idle curiosity,' a company source told CNN and added 'we now consider this matter closed.' Justice served? What about legal possibilities?" Can we expect anyone who followed a warrantless wiretap from the Bush administration to also be fired then? I mean, they violated our privacy as well.

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  1. No. by Penguinoflight · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's becoming increasingly clear that only celebrities and criminals have the right to privacy.

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    1. Re:No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you mean politicans and criminals.

      Same thing.

    2. Re:No. by FredFredrickson · · Score: 4, Funny

      He poked a badger with a spoon...

      Does that count?

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    3. Re:No. by yttrstein · · Score: 2, Funny

      5 insightful points for parroting every revolutionary from Socrates forward?

    4. Re:No. by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Imagine every time you left your house, you had people following you around, asking you questions about what some tabloid rag said about you, and taking enough pictures of you to leave you blind."

      Well, if I had the cash that went along with that status...I think I could live with it.

      Sure makes it easier to get laid whenever you want, by just about whomever you wanted....

      Damn....wish I'd studied to be a world famous guitarist in my earlier years....I've come to find that there are just not that many great looking chicks out there, screaming your name, throwing their panties at you yelling "NICE DATABASE".

      :(

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    5. Re:No. by ThunderThor53 · · Score: 2, Funny

      He poked a badger with a spoon... Does that count?

      Sorry, that sin's no longer original either. So far poking a badger with a titanium spork is still orignal, however.

    6. Re:No. by narcberry · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know what they say, "a good offense is the best offense."

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    7. Re:No. by FredFredrickson · · Score: 2, Funny

      So far poking a badger with a titanium spork is still orignal, however.

      AH.. now you ruined it. No longer original.

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  2. Re:Was encouraged to do this in credit card indust by detox.method() · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, you're asserting big companies encourage bad business tactics? That's horrible!

  3. Profit?? by gammygator · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Get hired at Verizon.
    2. Snoop president to be's call records.
    3. ???
    4. You're a bad toad. Fired! No profit for YOU!!!

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  4. Don't Worry! by madcat2c · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are from the Government, and they are here to help us!

  5. Re:Justice Served by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    (keep your friends close, and your enemies closer).

    What if your enemies have FUCKING SWORDS?

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  6. Re:Justice Served by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That sounds painful as all get out. I mean, even if you put a condom on it - a fucking sword sounds like some kind of torture. Is that what they do at Gitmo? Use fucking swords? Damn. That's just gotta hurt.

  7. Re:Cluster B personality disorders by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi! Stand back in awe as my completly unverifiable anecdotal evidence trumps your generalization!

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