politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/22/2008
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(CNN) — Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected with a breach of records from a cell phone used earlier this year by President-elect Barack Obama, a Verizon source told CNN Friday.
The source would not say how many people were terminated, but said that "we now consider this matter closed."
Verizon reported the breach Thursday, and Obama [...]
Obama's Cell Phone Records Looked At By Verizon Workers
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 11/21/2008 — WASHINGTON — Verizon employees snuck a peek at President-elect Barack Obama's old cell phone records and will be reprimanded accordingly, the company said late Thursday.
Obama aides said no voicemails or e-mails were accessed.
In a statement, Verizon Wireless President and CEO ...
Would they do it for McCain’s records? —
Daily Pundit
zdnet has this. Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records
It was an old, flip-top phone, not his famous BlackBerry, and the account had been inactive for months. No text messages or voicemail contents could have been accessed. The employees were satisfying “idle curiosity,” a ...
Obama's Cell Phone Accessed —
Drudge Retort
Verizon Wireless said some of its employees gained unauthorized access to Obama's cell phone account. However, an Obama aide saide his voice-mail messages and e-mails were not breached.
Hacking Obama's cellphone —
Ben Smith's Blog
My new colleague Carol Lee reports :
Some Verizon Wireless employees accessed billing records from a cell phone President-elect Barack Obama had used, the Obama transition team and Verizon Wireless said Thursday.
Transition spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Obama no longer uses the cell ...
Barry’s Wireless Records Breached —
Stop The ACLU
Me, I'm waiting for the Outrage Of The Left to kick in
Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday.
Breached may be a little bit over-the-top. It's really not all that hard ...
Barry’s Wireless Records Breached —
Pirate's Cove
Me, I’m waiting for the Outrage Of The Left to kick in
Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday.
Breached may be a little bit over-the-top. It’s really ...
Verizon Employees Peek at Obama's Records —
Politics Daily
CNN is reporting Friday morning that cell phone carrier Verizon Wireless has notified the U.S. Secret Service that some of its employees had "accessed and viewed" calling records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama. According to Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and ...
Privacy —
Eschaton
No privacy for you, even if you're president-elect. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified ...
Now They Know How Joe the Plumber Felt —
Political Punch
As first reported by CNN, the Obama Transition Team (OTT) was notified Wednesday by officials at Verizon that employees of that company had accessed the records of an old cell phone that's no longer in use once used by President-elect...
Bill Ayers unrepentant in DC —
The Swamp
by Clarence Page
Yes, that's Barack Obama's neighbor, the former Weather Underground bomb thrower Bill Ayers, captured above by my cell phone camera as he spoke to an almost- full sanctuary in a Washington DC church - with very little publicity.
"We set this up six months ago," he ...
Obama's cell phone records breached —
CNN Political Ticker
Obama's cell phone records appear to have been breached.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, Verizon Wireless said ...
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