9 Indicted For Accessing Obama Records

Comment #6

JAP69 — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:17:05 GMT

Super snooping bill.<br />http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/data-248115-financial-bill.html<br /><br />Hope and change my a

Comment #5

JAP69 — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:13:14 GMT

You better enjoy your free speech and blogging rights now and access to other news sources as their may not be that right in the future.

Comment #4

JAP69 — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:09:17 GMT

What is he hiding with the Elena Kagan nomination? Have an interview presented by the white house being interviewed by a white house staffer. But we do know she is anti first ammendment. <br />We are going to enact extra taxation on BP oil for the oil spill accident. <br

Comment #3

JAP69 — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:58:32 GMT

Looks like we have Obamagate papers. Maybe at the trial the student loan papers will need to be presented as evidence. Of couse 99% of the content will be lined out.

Comment #2

jarasan — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:54:55 GMT

What is there to hide? Why is it such a big deal, nobody hates this charlatan, the problem is he is a fake. Where there is smoke there is fire, and there is so much smoke around this guy he is polluting the entire country.

Comment #1

Tenaj — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:31:11 GMT

These kind of blog posts the Obama haters don't post in. They pretend it didn't happen. Like the people who got indicted for the ACORN scam.

Original Blog Entry: 9 Indicted For Accessing Obama Records

truesee — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:31:39 GMT

May 12, 2010 9:12 pm US/Eastern

9 Indicted For Allegedly Accessing Obama Records

Defendants Charged With Illegally Snooping On President's Student Loan Records

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)

President Barack Obama

Alex Brandon/AP

Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.

The U.S. attorney's office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport.

All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama's student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.

U.S. attorney spokesman Mike Bladel referred questions to online copies of the indictments.

Each of eight indictments posted by Wednesday night were brief, saying the charged individual intentionally exceeded authorized access to a computer and thereby obtained information from a department and agency of the United States and intentionally accessed student loan records of Obama without authorization.

Those charged are Andrew J. Lage, 54, Patrick E. Roan, 51, Sandra Teague, 54 and Mercedes Costoyas, 53, all of Iowa City; Gary N. Grenell, 58, and Lisa Torney, 49, of Coralville; Anna C. Rhodes, 32, of Ainsworth; Julie L. Kline, 38, of West Branch; and John P. Phommivong, 29, for whom no hometown was listed.

Lage told The Associated Press on Wednesday evening he did not know about the indictment and declined comment.

Messages were left for Teague, Torney and Costoyas. A telephone listing for Kline rang unanswered and a listing for Rhodes was disconnected. No telephone numbers were immediately found for Phommivong, Roan or Grenell.

Six of them are accused of accessing Obama's records when he was a candidate, according to the indictments online. One is accused of accessing the records when he was president-elect. An indictment for the ninth defendant was not immediately available online.

Court records did not name the contractor that employed the defendants.

Arraignments are scheduled for May 24. The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.

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