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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/23/2013 5:42:15 PM
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REPORT: NSA Recorded 124 Billion Phone Calls -- in One Month...

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/23/2013 6:04:53 PM
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RE: Mr. Obama assured the German leader that the U.S. isn't monitoring her communications Does Merkel know this is the same guy who told us a Youtube video killed our ambassador?

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/24/2013 8:53:31 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 1572942

Obama’s Fault Posted on October 24, 2013 at 5:10 pm by JM Ashby Did you hear that the NSA allegedly monitored the communications of German Chancellor Angela Merkel? That darn Obama won’t leave anyone alone, will he? Actually, by The Guardian’s own account, the alleged monitoring occurred all the way back in 2006 under President Bush. The National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another US government department, according to a classified document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. [...] The memo, dated October 2006 and which was issued to staff in the agency’s Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), was titled “Customers Can Help SID Obtain Targetable Phone Numbers.” Here’s part of the memo Edward Snowden provided to The Guardian. (emphasis mine) Not only was this issued in 2006 under President Bush; 157 of the 200 numbers the program allegedly gathered were already a matter of public record. This would be a good time to point out that Edward Snowden was a member of the intelligence community he now despises until May of this year. He spontaneously developed a conscience after President Obama was reelected.

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/24/2013 8:54:21 PM
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do you right wing neanderthals also blame your erectile dysfunction on Obama? you people are beyond pathetic

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/30/2013 3:57:11 PM
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NSA SPIED ON POPE! Infiltrates links to YAHOO, GOOGLE data centers worldwide... The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (748938)	10/31/2013 2:57:42 PM
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GOOGLE ENLISTED TO FIX OBAMACARE Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare 'Tech Surge' By Alex Wayne October 31, 2013 Google Inc. ( GOOG:US), Red Hat Inc. ( RHT:US), Oracle Corp. ( ORCL:US) and other companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administration fix the U.S. health-insurance exchange website. The help is arriving as the government’s main site to offer health insurance remains plagued by repeated outages a month after its Oct. 1 debut. Among those assisting are Michael Dickerson, a site reliability engineer on leave from Mountain View, California-based Google, and Greg Gershman, the innovation director for smartphone application maker Mobomo, according to a government official who asked not to be identified because the moves haven’t been made public. The administration began touting a “tech surge” on Oct. 20, as a robust response to the software and technology errors on healthcare.gov that have prevented people from enrolling in health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Insurers have said they too are experiencing problems with incomplete or garbled data from the site. “There are dozens of software engineers, developers, designers and analysts, who are methodically working around the clock on performance and functionality of healthcare.gov,” wrote Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in a blog post obtained by Bloomberg News. The administration hasn’t previously quantified the tech surge or identified any participants, other than Jeffrey Zients, President Barack Obama’s incoming chief economic adviser, who was asked to first advise Bataille’s agency on fixes. Dickerson is working with QSSI, the UnitedHealth Group Inc. ( UNH:US) unit that last week was named as lead contractor for repairs to healthcare.gov, Bataille said. Gershman is working with CGI Group Inc., the Montreal-based contractor that built much of the website.