Looks like Hillary was snooped, too:
While the chattering classes all look for nefarious reasons for these invasions, I will simply restate what I said last night- the real scandal is that our government has this much information stored about us. And yes, I am aware that private corporations have much the same information, and no, I am not happy about that, either.
*** Update ***
According to the talking heads on my television, McCain was snooped, too.
PaulW
Was Britney’s passport looked at?!?! (starts snapping photos)
James B.
Then what’s the problem? If everyone’s getting looked at, and no one has anything to hide, what’s the big deal? The government has to know what’s going on. If you don’t want anyone to know anything about you, put on a burqa and live in a cave somewhere.
James B.
Who cares if Britney was looked at? Is there something I’m missing here? What’s that got to do with the issue of the impossibility of privacy in an age of wireless communication and global terrorism?
wingnuts to iraq
ah, James B, throwing everything out the window because he’s afraid of some losers in a cave.
David Hunt
A good reminder that the power to spy on people without any oversite should not be trusted to any Administration regardless of party affiliation. Such unchecked power inevitably leads to abuse. It’s a feature; not a bug.
mellowjohn
reminds me of the scene in “day of the jackal” when they ask the police inspector how he knew which phone to tap to find the leak.
“i didn’t,” he says, “so i tapped them all.”
ThymeZone
I heard that one of the contractors claimed he had twice the IQ of everyone else in the bureau.
Hmm.
libarbarian
99% of REAL AMERICANS have NOTHING in their lives that they would object to having posted in the town square.
The 1% who do are godless, america-hating, nazi, librul, fags.
Thats my story and I’m sticking to it.
James B.
It was thrown out by modern technology. And I’m not afraid of losers in a cave, I’m afraid of the rest of the world pissing on America because we let losers in a cave butt-fuck us with impunity.
Andrew
I dunno. It sort of seems like, for once, this is exactly the kind of information our government should have stored about us. Because, um, they’re the ones issuing passports.
tofubo
does put this in perspective
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597
dslak
Why does everything always go back to anal sex with these people?
Dug Jay
John, you apparently forgot the information provided in a thread last night by The Grand Panjandrum on this subject:
This is absolutely nothing compared to the nearly infinite volumes of data that government agencies will have under either the Clinton or Obama health plans. Hell, some agency will even have big glossies of the results from your latest colonoscopy….and in living color, no less.
James B.
It worked, didn’t it?
If he hadn’t, De Gaulle would’ve been shot. If De Gaulle had been shot, the OAS would’ve won, and France would’ve re-invaded Algeria. If France had re-invaded Algeria, we might have even MORE terrorist nuts running around.
For want of a firing pin, the pistol was lost. For want of a pistol, the soldier was lost. For want of a soldier, the squad was lost. For want of a squad, the platoon was lost. For want of a platoon…
TenguPhule
Shorter Dug Jay: People accessing things they shouldn’t in a government run by corrupt Republicans is nothing to worry about. But people accessing things they shouldn’t under a Democrat will be cause for murder.
James B.
Why does every plan from the Left involve us pissing our pants and running away from a fight?
dslak
Can anyone name the Islamocommie fascist who said this?:
dslak
So you’re upset that more liberals won’t engage in anal sex with you?
Mary
Hmm … water play or anal sex? If Chuck Berry shows up offering scat as an option, I’m outta here.
James B.
Benjamin Franklin, quoted heavily out of context.
Don’t bring that Frenchified dandy into this, anyway. If it weren’t for John Jay, Franklin would’ve turned us into a French puppet state in 1782.
jrg
Clearly we need more extensive piss testing and background checking of State Department employees.
You’ve got to really crawl up someone’s ass to make sure that they respect other people’s right to private information.
mellowjohn
james b.
“day of the jackal” was a fucking MOVIE… not a documentary.
dslak
So what is the original context of this quote, and how does it alter its meaning in any significant way?
The Other Steve
LOL!
BWAAAHAHAHAHA!
You’re shitting me. The latest Republican attack against healthcare is privacy? You’re worried about privacy?
The guys who have made it a point to subpoena medical records from family health doctors so that they could review who has had an abortion? You’re worried about privacy now?
Consistent you may not be, but man you sure do make me laugh.
Svensker
Do you play golf, live in NJ, and post this crap over at Glenn Greenwald’s site all the time? Or this just Wingnut Talking Point #X-22.43?
OMG, “lefties” want universal health care in which a part of the government will know all about our anal cysts. Ipso facto, the NSA should be able to wiretap EVERYONE whenever they want! That pretty much sum it up?
The Moar You Know
Another idiot with no background in history or awareness of “context”. Thank you for forfeiting all your credibility up front – it saves us all a lot of time.
jenniebee
And the even more fantastic thing about the catch in The Day of the Jackal is that the phone taps were done legally! And, even more germane to the subject at hand, The Day of the Jackal is a work of fiction! If we’re going to base public policy on lessons we learn from novels, my vote for the novel is Persuasion: avoid long engagements, do not live beyond your income, if you love each other then get married without delay, and even though it might turn out alright in the end, don’t jump down from heights onto concrete. I think we join hands across the aisle in agreeing that that last especially is very good advice.
Look, as long as we’re storing this information electronically, it’s accessible, and leaks will happen, period. And the only difference I can see between an HMO having my full medical history or the whole banking system knowing where I am ever time I use my debit card or Amazon knowing my reading habits or any of the other zillion different ways electronic tabs are kept on me in the corporate world vs. a gov’mint agency having whatever info they have on me is that the Gov’mint has arrest powers. As long as the FBI, NSA or any other enforcement agency is prevented by law from accessing Medicaid or passport records without a warrant, I just don’t see how Medicaid or passport records are any scarier than all the rest. It’s not like we don’t have proof that an unscrupulous Justice dept or NSA can lean on private enterprise to give up sensitive information with as much impunity as they can pressure their sister agencies.
Pixie
Great, another scandal….I can’t wait for the jackasses in the media to label this PASSPORT-GATE. I’m getting sick of all scandals being tagged with the suffix -GATE unless the root word is “Master” which in that case it would be amusing.
SCANDALGATE is getting old like Bennifer and Brangelina are old. It’s pissing me the fuck off.
LiberalTarian
Heh. What I was thinking.
The French king hated Ben Franklin so much he had his face laminated on the bottom of the palace chamber pots–can’t see what old Ben was doing to so endear us to the French that we became a colony.
We have been seeing a fair number of trolls, lately, eh? It is rather amusing.
Funny how morons never know the depth of their stupidity. Imcompetent people do not recognize their incompetence; “conservatives” fail to recognize fiction.
jenniebee
John, I see your point and I sympathize, but – aside from the point that this is just one of the facts of life of modern society – have you considered that all the information there has been given up willingly?
You may not think about it every time you apply for a credit card or swipe your discount card at the grocery or apply for a job and take a drug test when you get hired, because each time it’s just a drop of information, and the company you give that info to needs it to give you what you want. Your doctor needs your medical history to diagnose you, the State Dept needs your proof of citizenship and all that entails to give you a passport, etc.
My point is, the worry isn’t that the information is out there – you need that info to be in the hands of the people who have it (or at least you did at some point in time – you don’t need Amazon to know right now the history of everything you ever bought from them, but at the time of purchase you certainly did need them to know which item to send you). The worry is how to keep that information out of the hands of anybody besides the specific entity to which you have given the information.
srv
This is what happens when trolls admire the French too much.
Tsulagi
Stupid lefty, you don’t see the big picture. Take it away, James…
It’s not just about their anal sex, they must remain vigilant in fighting their cross dressing proclivities. Man on man anal sex with dignity, bitch.
cleek
fixed
4tehlulz
Quality trolling. 7/10
rawshark
And the KKK were liberals.
zsa
“Pissing our pants” is throwing the fourth amendment out the window because some of us are scared of a bunch of nuts living in caves …
demimondian
James B. — Full marks. You’d have improved your troll by using arcane references nobody could have checked, though; then you wouldn’t have faced any defense from the lefties.
Good job.
Dennis - SGMM
It’s sad when the nation that stood up to Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin and Khrushchev now produces lily-livered little shitbirds like James B. who would surrender the rights of all of us for an illusion of personal safety.
LiberalTarian
What I find most interesting about the “do nothing wrong and you have nothing to fear” frame is how often conservatives underestimate their own depravity.
Is it wrong, legally or ethically, for a man to wear two wetsuits and impale himself with a dildo? No. Absolutely not. So why wouldn’t he want the world to know about it? Why would it embarrass his family and friends and his church community?? It is not the criminality, it is the censure.
Why did Larry Craig, who in all good faith, was a pretty decent advocate for “conservative causes,” for example, keeping Confined Animal Feeding Operations from being regulated even though they are obviously a threat to environmental quality, have to hide his homosexuality? But, it appears his refusal to swear fealty to a retarded boy king, even though he was a “Republican conservative,” seems to have made his companion-seeking toe tapping a national punchline.
And really, what is wrong with being a gay male prostitute? Why would allowing such a person rampant access to the GW Bush Whitehouse be a shocking lapse of security?? Hm?
It is not about doing ANYTHING wrong–it is about having the right to keep your personal foibles and eccentricities to yourself.
I refuse to waste good argument on troglyrights. But, if a heaping dose of disparagement is what they crave, I’ll be happy to give it to them.
demimondian
Umm…Dennis? YHBT. YHNW. HAND.
James B.
That was AFTER the Treaty of Paris, when Vergennes figured out how much of an ass John Jay (who, along with John Adams, was viewed as Franklin’s underling) had made of them in regard to the frontiers of the United States. Vergennes wanted the Appalachian, John Jay cajoled Franklin into playing hardball, and together they browbeat the British into giving us the Mississippi. Open a fucking history book, you stupid bastard.
Exactly.
That’s a fair point. But, why would they arrest you if you aren’t doing anything wrong? Aren’t there a couple million other guys out there on the street doing things far, far more illicit than any marginally-shady activity you’re up to? What do you people think, the FBI’s going to take the time to kick in the door of everybody downloading 18-year-olds’ porn flicks or file-sharing top-40 singles?
I agree.
Um, no.
Look, if you guys want to fuck each other, I don’t give a shit. I don’t necessarily personally approve of it, but that certainly never stopped anyone before. This has nothing to do with stopping terrorism, though, does it? What the Hell are you talking about?
James B.
Fuck you, jerkoff. Tell it to amazon.com and Facebook next time your Birkenstock-wearing Hippie ass wants to go stink up the streets protesting the fall of a genocidal despot who paid Palestinians to blow up schoolchildren. Don’t like your lack of privacy? Shut off the computer, rip up the credit cards, and go live in a cave somewhere. Put on a fucking burqa, so we don’t have to look at your luddite, Ben Franklin-quoting, self-righteous mug. Nobody’s going to miss you around here, that’s for sure.
It’s kind of gross, too, though. I wouldn’t want him to do it in public, just like I wouldn’t want to see him take a shit in the town park. I don’t want my kids growing up in that kind of world. If you do, move to the Third World. You can be as “liberated” as you want out there, I hear.
Well, I guess he was a hypocritical asshole, wasn’t he? That doesn’t mean the ideals he fought for were wrong. Churchill was a drunk, and FDR cheated on his wife; that doesn’t mean we should’ve backed Hitler just because his enemies were shitty people personally.
Jake
And then there’s the fact that plenty of Bush Admin. scandals are worthy of comparison to the antics of Tricky Dick and his Merrie Band of Plumbers. The Liberal MSM has reacted by hitting the snooze button until they can write about BritneyGate.
jrg
What are you talking about, lunatic? Who on this thread is talking about Hippies or Birkenstocks?
James B.
Some asshat’s whining about how government access to his credit records equals Nazi stormtroopers hauling him off to a ditch for a bullet in the head. I’m sick of hearing it. He wants to protest his lack of privacy, let him start with the online businesses. If he wants his privacy, he can start showing it by keeping his credit information to himself. If he wants to be another stinky Hippie hypocrite, he can put his smug Hippie ignoramus blather up his pot-pipe and smoke it.
D-Chance.
Damn. Well, at least the MUPpets got 12 hours of narrative out of it…
James B.
In the final analysis, whining is all it was really about, anyway.
binzinerator
Jaimie Boy:
So you’re not afraid of losers in a cave, you’re just afraid of what the losers in the cave might do. Like inspire the entire rest of the planet to do scary bad things to us.
In other words, you’re afraid of losers in a cave.
Why are you so fearful of the entire world pissing on us when losers like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Donny Rumsfeld and David Addington and John Yoo and Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz have already completely pissed all over every one of us? You didn’t have any qualms about that, did you?
Why do you have so much fear? You are afraid of the entire rest of the planet. That’s a lot of people you’re frightened of. Maybe a stockpile of Depends might help you with some of your discomfort. At least you won’t look silly when you wet yourself. Or rather, at least people won’t know you are wetting yourself. You can just pretend nothing happened. It might relax you. You might even enjoy it. You know. Just like when Bush and Cheney et al pissed on your head. You loved it. And it soothed your many fears.
The truth of it is, the rest of the world and especially the losers in the cave will have little need to buttfuck you. They won’t need to because when you agreed to give up your liberties you’ve done a way better job of it yourself than they ever dreamed they could.
No doubt something like “Give me liberty or give me death” would be quoting heavily out of context too.
LiberalTarian
Bwahahaha. Not quick, are ya James B.???
The point re Larry Craig? He *did* do what his constituency wanted him to do. I didn’t agree with him, but he did a good job for the people that he worked for–agricultural interests in Idaho. So, what ruined Larry Craig??? HIS PERSONAL LIFE. You are an execrable excuse for an intellect.
Bwahaha. But, you are a source for a good laugh, so, please, don’t let anything anyone says here dissuade you. Keep on keeping on–but, I am curious … where did you learn to read?? Ha!!
jrg
Your reading comprehension could use a little work.
Who’s blathering? Again – what does this conversation have to do with hippies? I’ve had conversations with dosed-out Phish followers that were more lucid than you are. Please try to focus.
Porco Rosso
I’ll stop caring about my privacy as soon as Bush and Cheney stop caring about theirs.
James B.
That’s what I’m saying. Even if he’s a hypocrite, that doesn’t mean he was a bad Rep. So, why did you fucks bring him up, anyway?
Fuck you.
James B.
If you don’t want to talk about Hippies, why bring up Phish?
People who whine about how the government having access to their passport records is Third Reich-y are useless, stinking Hippie alarmists. THAT’s what Hippies have to do with this. Sorry for skipping a step, I forgot I was dealing with the intellectually impaired bong-hitters of the Loony Left.
James B.
They’ll stop caring about theirs as soon as wacko Lefties and Islamic terrorists and Colombian drug lords stop trying to kill them.
Is that a fair deal?
jrg
The government issues passports, genius. From the top of the thread:
“The revelation came shortly after Rice said she hed apologized to Clinton’s Democratic presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama for the unauthorized viewing of his passport file by contractors working for the State Department.”
David Hunt
You need to backup and get with the (old) times. To conservatives, it is forever 1968 and the Democrates will forever be the Dirty Fucking Hippies. The two groups are synominous in their minds. I expect that matters will stay that way for as long as the Baby Boomers are a major force in American Politics.
The Moar You Know
Note: none of these things has actually happened in real life, James. Ever. In fact, if you can point me to ANY attempt on either GW Bush’s or Cheney’s lives, I’d appreciate it. I don’t think you can.
But the scenarios you paint so vividly sure make good fiction!
James B.
Exactly.
And my point is, who fucking cares? You assholes act like Bushitler strikes again or something. Who the Hell cares?
I’m 35, jackoff. I wasn’t even alive in the 60s.
James B.
Google “Colombia” and “Bush assassination.” The Marxists were plotting to kill him.
Fuck you very much.
Laertes
Good heavens. Who is this James B. person and how come I’ve never noticed him before? Is he new?
At first glance you might take him for a parody of that angry half-drunk “conservative” at the end of the bar who’s still bitter about the hippie who got the girl he wanted in high school.
But after a little more reading, I think he’s the real thing. That evil stink of hate and fear and paranoia–it’s hard to fake.
James B.
Fuck you too.
Jake
Jesus Christ.
I didn’t think it was possible.
James B. makes JWW seem … reasonable.
James B.
Do you have anything substantive to add, or can I safely assume that I’ve won this conversation?
jrg
You’re right, it’s no big deal. Do me a favor and post your name, your mother’s maiden name, your SSN, your home phone number, your address, and your place and date of birth. Thanks.
James B.
It’s not like the government (or the contractors) sold the information to the Russian Mafya or something. Someone fucking LOOKED at it, for Christ’s sake! Big fucking deal.
I WANT the government to look at the info of people named Hussein, with last names rhyming with “Osama”. If you don’t, you’re either lying, or you’re nuts, or both.
grandpajohn
See what happens when you don’t listen to my advice about not getting into pissing contest with skunks?
James B.
Okay…
B. semaJ
Unfortunately, many electrons and pixels were harmed in the making of that post.
Jake
tBone
I like this James B spoof. He didn’t waste any time trying to establish himself as a reasonable person; he just cranked it up to 11 and started gibbering like a spider monkey on a 3-day meth-and-Red Bull bender.
8.5/10
Laertes
Has he said anything reasonable yet? I felt that after sampling a few posts that I’d taken the measure of his oeuvre, but I’m wondering now if I missed any spells of civility or lucidity.
demimondian
Thanks, Steak.
Now I’ve got to go bleach my brain again.
David Hunt
And I was less than a year old in ’68 and the Chicago Convention took place. My point was not that you’re a Baby Boomer. It was that the political arguments that held sway then still have a powerful influence on our political discourse today and that a good part of that is due to a large number of Boomers being in positions of power today. It’s an explanation of your use of “hippie” as a slur to stereotype people you disagree with politically that doesn’t actually require that you be an actual Boomer.
p.s. I’m curious about whether you’ve ever actually even seen an honest-to-god hippie. I haven’t as they’ve never been to prominent in Texas.
demimondian
No. No, he hasn’t. But he’s sure been amusing while he’s been failing to be reasonable, civil, enlightening, or informative, now hasn’t he?
James B.
You people sound like you’re talking in some kind of code or something. Could someone please start making sense around here?
Whatever, asshole. I’m not a spoof, thanks for playing.
None of you have refuted my earlier points. I regard that as a victory, no matter how many of your pussies crawl out of the woodwork to personally insult me.
James B.
your pussies= you pussies
Is there any way to edit comments around here?
mellowjohn
gibbering like a spider monkey on a 3-day meth-and-Red Bull bender
who says the simile is dead?
James B.
Fair enough. But the stereotype is still valid. The Democrat party imploded in the 1960s, and since then the nuts have been running the asylum.
I saw some in college. Also, at some protest rallies that snarled my commute once or twice.
mellowjohn
“None of you have refuted my earlier points.”
wait a minute. you made points? i’m astounded!
Peter Johnson
I’m not sure that the last name rhyming with Osama should set off red flags, but obviously the Hussein middle name should. Tolerance is great. I’m all for it. I’m also all for being able to take a commercial flight without crashing into a tower.
binzinerator
Well I didn’t hear anything about any attempt, but if they indeed happened, it’s a damn shame they all missed.
James B.
Exactly. But try telling that to these morons. They act like the government should wave in every wacko with a suicide vest on, and any attempt to save American lives immediately puts us on par with Hitler.
Trying to reason with these bastards is like trying to herd cats.
demimondian
Oh, yes, you are. The only question is whether you’re an intentional spoof or not. You’ve already proven beyond the slightest shade of a doubt that you’re a spoof.
I’ve been watching with amazement as your posts have decayed from mere incoherent rants into profane and self-important declarations of victory in a battle that no one but you seems to be fighting. There are two possibilities here, sonny: either you’re an intentional spoof, in which case, well played indeed. Or you’re not — in which case, you’re being played very well indeed.
Either way, I’m having a great time, and I imagine that many of the other denizens of this, the rumpus room of the world wide web, are too.
binzinerator
You earlier points? You mean your spider monkey meth bender gibbering had a point to it?
Gosh, I am soooo sorry! I musta missed it.
It was something about pantswetting in caves while hippies sold your private life to marxist hitmen, wasn’t it?
James B.
What the Hell are you talking about?
Peter Johnson
I’d argue that the party has moved farther to the left. Pelosi and Obama make Abbie Hoffman and George McGovern look like conservatives. Say what you will about those two — they loved this country, even when they criticized its policies. Can’t say the same for so many Democrats today, other than Lieberman.
binzinerator
Is Son of John’s Penis a spoof too?
I can’t remember if he was or not.
It’s getting too hard to tell anymore.
Laertes
That’s interesting, Johnson. Could you elaborate on that a bit? Precisely which policy positions of Pelosi’s or Obama’s are left of Hoffman or McGovern?
I often hear this kind of thing and it’s just half-digested conventional wisdom being spit back up, but right here, in your case, it sounds like you’ve got some real facts to back it up.
I’d like to believe it’s true, and that the party has moved left. What’cha got?
Peter Johnson
Could you elaborate on that a bit? Precisely which policy positions of Pelosi’s or Obama’s are left of Hoffman or McGovern?
For one thing, McGovern was a bonafide war hero. Pelosi and Obama…not so much. For another, on social issues — gay marriage and abortion being too good examples — Pelosi and Obama are way to the left of the likes of McGovern and Hoffman. And finally, McGovern and Hoffman didn’t hang out with preachers who talked about hating American all the time.
jrg
Yes, because not just anyone can get into a low-level government training class.
Yes. We must watch the hippies, too. And everyone named McCain. Everyone named Clinton should have a full-body cavity search before entering any airplane or federal building, but that’s already covered in the Starr act of 1998.
Besides the people mentioned above, everyone else is safe from identity theft other malicious uses of private information.
Hint: I’ll stop harping on this point as soon as you publish the personal information I requested.
No way. Fuck you. I fucking hate hippies way more than you do. I’ll stay here all fucking night to argue, because I care that fucking much about who really hates the fucking hippies more.
Peter Johnson
Dude, I would not want to sign up for that duty. That’s one job the illegal aliens can have.
Laertes
Not really about left-right, though, is that? Was Bush 43 to the “left” of Kerry? Was Bush 41 to the “right” of Reagan?
Peter Johnson
It’s one aspect of the distinction, that’s all I’m claiming. Someone who shed blood for the country can’t be said to hate the country. Of course, John Kerry never shed any actual blood.
Laertes
Okay, so you ARE arguing that Ronald Reagan was to the “left” of John Kerry.
That’s weird, dude.
Peter Johnson
From that one, single aspect. But not from the thousands of others of aspects.
Porco Rosso
1) Fuck you.
2) No, my point isn’t that these are very important criminals at war with other crime lords, it’s simply that they can’t invade my privacy and sheild theirs too.
It’s not because they’re trying to avoid certain death from terrorists.
They’re trying to avoid legitimate congressional oversight by deleting emails so that their actions cannot be examined.
God only knows what Jeff Gannon was doing at the whitehouse, along with Jack Abromoff and all the rest of the greedy obstructionist perverts.
Peter Johnson
Have we been attacked since 9/11? Have we?
Sound of crickets chirping…
Porco Rosso
Yep
Porco Rosso
Remember the Anthrax letters? They happened after 9/11.
mellowjohn
i’m expecting the ghost of graham chapman to show up any minute with a rubber chicken and shouting, “silly. silly. this is all very silly.”
Laertes
Anthrax.
Andrew
Anthrax totally doesn’t count. Nor do the dead Americans in other terrorist attacks. Nor dead citizens of our allies. Nor do 4000 American troops.
LiberalTarian
So, how can we get the trolls to come and play everyday?
Isn’t it funny how they know nothing, do not understand even the simplest historical concepts, even have faulty definitions for “right” and “left,” yet they declare victory?
Gee Dumbya, you’re supporters are here!!
Yeah, James B., you really won with your Franklin comment. You won the “I don’t know the fuck about any fucking thing fucking ever” award for wastrel nuggets.
35, you say? And you went to college? Bullshit. You’re a fucking high school moron half-wit repeating some half digested crap you heard from some mouth breather. I’d hate to think it was your folks, cuz that would truly suck. For you.
Now, go find yourself some diaper wipes. You stink to high heaven.
LiberalTarian
Damn!! YOUR.
TenguPhule
Thank you. You won’t mind if your SS suddenly develops a taste for beer and hookers then.
TenguPhule
“We must give up our privacy or the evil people will kill us!” followed by “Bush and Cheney need their privacy or the evil people will try to kill them!”
Stop the planet, we need to kick some people off.
Consul-At-Arms
Most of what’s in a passport “file” is simply a scan of the application (the one you filled out yourself) and the passport number that was assigned to it, along with the issuance date. Nothing very earth-shattering.
Are there too many questions on the passport application itself? Perhaps, but it’s pretty much just what’s needed to verify someone’s identity and citizenship, you know, the things that would entitle you to that U.S. passport in the first place, plus an (optional) emergency contact.
BTW, please fill that part out, plus the space for it in the passport itself. The life you save might be your own.
James B.
What the fuck do I care? What are you talking about?
James B.
Don’t worry, private non-contractor citizens won’t be able to access your precious paspsport files. Your abusive ex-husband won’t find out your current address.
You treat national security like America was some kind of clubhouse. Well, it isn’t. When I was a kid, terrorists weren’t attacking MY treehouse!
Consul-At-Arms
I’ve quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2008/03/re-big-government-inc.html
MJ
It turns out the snooping was being done by an Obama Adviser. As Glenn Reynolds would say, HEH!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NATION/243762495/1001