Bill Dyer: Obama campaign's deliberate invitation to credit-card fraud is the sort of flesh-eating political bacteria that may doom any Obama presidency
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... pre-paid credit cards, a/k/a "the pseudo-credit cards you use when you want to conceal illegal activity." This newest disclosure about the pre-paid credit cards, along with belated mainstream media confirmation of what the right hemisphere of the blogosphere has been screaming about for a week now (that someone in the Obama campaign deliberated turned off the normal default-value anti-fraud mechanisms that are standard for processing credit card charges among honest people), comes in Tuesday's Washington Post . But it didn't even make the front page. (It's buried on page A02; ...

Washington Post Hits Obama's Shady Donations Again... Weakly
Ace of Spades HQ — Washington Post Hits Obama's Shady Donations Again... Weakly A little better than last time, but apparently they still haven't heard of AVS, or the fact that you don't need a prepaid credit card to "fool" Obama's insecurity system. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has ...

Millions in potential fraud
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — I was waiting to post on this until some more information came out on it. But it looks like the Washington Post decided page 2 was good enough for the story that the Obama campaign has been allowing donors to use untraceable prepaid credit cards that makes it impossible to trace the limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give and it masks the identity of the person donating. ...

Obama Campaign Accepts Illegal & Untraceable Donations
Gateway Pundit — More Hope and Change... In true Chicago political style, the Obama Campaign is accepting illegal donations that cannot be tracked. It's so bad The Washington Post even noticed: Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the ...

Matt Lewis: 'Untraceable Donations' ...
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Podcasts | Photos | Cartoons | [image] Blog [image] | Your Blogs | Issues | Get Magazine [image] [image] Hugh Hewitt | Mike Gallagher | Michael Medved | Mary Katharine Ham | Kevin McCullough | Matt Lewis | Radio Blogger | Your Blogs Directory [image] Wednesday, October 29, 2008 'Untraceable Donations' ... Posted by: Matt Lewis at 9:24 AM The WaPost reports : "Sen. Barack Obama 's presidential campaign is allowing ...

FINALLY: The Washington Post Breaks Obama Campaign Credit Card Story
The Discerning Texan — Via Glenn Reynolds, the media finally gets a "conscience"? : WASHINGTON POST: "Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from ...

Team Obama deliberately avoided credit-card security checks
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... the Washington Post’s Matthew Mosk for missing a key point in the story of credit-card fraud in Barack Obama’s campaign.  Today he puts that point front and center in his follow-up report.  Team Obama deliberately turned off the systems that would have guarded against the kind of fraudulent donations that have accrued millions to their coffers: Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a ...

The Obama Credit Card Deception
Flopping Aces — ... The WaPo tackles Obama hard on the credit card scandal regarding his donations. They make the point that Obama and Co. had to deliberately turn off the safegards in order to accept CC donations where the name and address don’t match the CC holder: ...

A Modest Proposal
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Let's have more reporting on this . It seems kinda important: Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the ...

OBAMA CAMPAIGN USED ACORN IN DELIBERATE RICO-LEVEL FRAUD
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Evidence of the Obama Campaign's systematic flouting of election finance laws was reported by the Washington Post: ...

The Obama Campaign’s Fundraising Operations Are Akin To Illegal Money Laundering
Patterico's Pontifications — ... the stunning revelation taken from this Washington Post article yesterday that of the $150 million raised by the Obama campaign in September, $100 million came by way of the internet. The only mechanism for donating money via the internet to the Obama campaign is to use a credit card. ...

The Obama campaign's amazing finance "innovations"
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... , a step that would be utterly unheard of in the world of electronic commerce (In fact, it should have "raised flags at Visa and MasterCard... I wonder if they warned the Obama campaign, or worse, ignored it." Or whether the merchant acquirer, Visa and/or Mastercard themselves were somehow involved?). • accept "untraceable prepaid credit cards that [can] be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity". • ...

A Modest Proposal
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Let's have more reporting on this. It seems kinda important: Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its ...

Is Breaking Promises the Change We Need?
GayPatriot — ... Now, I don’t know if Obama broke any laws in raising his record-setting haul, but the evidence we’ve accumulated so far clearly indicates an investigation is in order.  His campaign confirmed that it “is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity.“ ...

Obama Shrugged: An update
Power Line — ... Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk returned to the subject of Barack Obama's online campaign fundraising yesterday in "Obama campaign using untraceable donations." The story was published on page 2. Mosk reported in the second and third paragraphs of the story: ...

Who Is This Guy?
JustOneMinute — ... an official at Boston City Hall said that Ms Onyango was a resident of Flaherty Way but not registered to vote on the electoral roll. However, that Ms Onyango made a contribution to the Obama campaign would indicate that she is a US citizen. Records at the Boston City Hall confirmed Zeituni Onyango’s birthdate as May 29, 1952. It is not clear when Ms Onyango first came to the US. She said: “I have been coming to America ever since 1975. I always come and go.” The Obama campaign seems to have taken the position that donations are legal unless someone can prove they are not. ...

POLITICS: The Credit Card Fraud Campaign
Baseball Crank — ... have confirmed. The Washington Post had a piece yesterday giving an overview of the various types of illegal fundraising that the structure of the website enables: ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/30/2008
Gates of Vienna — ... Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations Won’t Use Basic Security Measures to Prevent Illegal, Anonymous Contributions ...

A SUMMARY ARGUMENT: A REFERENDUM ON AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Obama campaign caught red-handed accepting 100% UNVERIFIED credit card transactions on its official campaign website, reportedly accounting for some $200 Million of the over $400 million the campaign has raised. ...

That's Not The Aunt Zeituni Obama Knew
JustOneMinute — ... from Glenn on the fund raising practices of the Obama campaign. Their "catch me if you can" philosophy seems to be that donations are legal unless someone can prove otherwise.

Could or would
Yourish.com — ... to allow the acceptance of anonymous and potentially illegal donations, the Post followed up - rather late - with an article on the subject, hidden on page A2, a week before the election. There was a ...

The sound of one hand in his pants
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... Furthermore, I thought that wingnuts were officially supposed to be flipped out that Obama was receiving donations in unscreened, small chunks from Homer Simpson, Osama bin laden, Daffy Duck and Raela Odinga. I'm so confused. ...