That's laughable. MSFT has scores of ex-DOJ employees and they pay them a
lot more than DOJ did for the purpose of allowing Brad Smith's legal army to
run interference. Preferable as they are, and as superior as candidates as
Obama, Edwards, and Hillary are compared to the Bush rubberstamped white
men--they still will run government beholden to rich interest groups. Rudy
( in NYC during 911 and made it easier to happen and helped facilitate
chronic irreversable pulmonary disease in thousands of cleanup workers and
rescue workers and made sure the firemen died because communications among
EMTs, Fire, and police were non-existent and still are non-existent six
years later) Guilliani and whatever works today as a position Romney are a
joke and pretty much ensure the Republicans will lose the White House Jan.
20, 2009.
Scott Charney the former chief of computer crime at DOJ and a partner at
New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers,is but one of many examples--he's now
Corporate VP of "Trustworthy Computing." That's the same Trustworthy
computing that turns over your Live MSN Searches to the government and saves
them for two years to do it while claiming they don't. Many MSFT employees
were upset when they found out, but not one of them should have been
surprised.
Of course up until very recently, DOJ, NSA, and many other wire tapping
alphabet agencies were laughably putting their backup servers on top of
their day to day servers and MSFT had been servicing them for millions while
this was going on and did nothing to stop it. So much for the pompous
proclamationst that parts of Vista were done in collaberation with NSA--and
if they were that was to facilitate programs like Magic Lantern to be Trojan
dropped on your computer so that the complete wire tapping of your phone
conversations and internet email traffic could be facilitated.
You're being wiretapped now and your email is being totally absorbed and the
cowed and totally ineffective Democratic congress is doing nothing to
protect you. MSFT is glad to help.
A great example is that the phone companies and DOJ in multiple appellate
cases and in pending legislation before Congress who claim they have broken
no laws, are asking for total retroactive immunity from any law suits.
People who are certain they have broken no laws in wiretapping you like
Verizon, Comcast, and ATT always ask for unprecedented retroactive indemnity
and send McConnell head of NSA to beg for it as they did last week.
MSFT also gives a ton of money to politicians on both sides of the aisle and
on key committees because Gates, Ballmer and scores of others learned as
kids that the US government considerably with considerably more laws
systemically broken in the Bush administration always runs with its hand out
and has long ago become responsive only to those who have the bucks to buy
it.
The Allito and Roberts appointments to the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the
little guy which will not be reversed for at least 40 years, and if Bush
gets the chance or on the remote chance that the Republicans win the White
House with their old white men array of terrible candidates--Thompson reads
newspapers with shallow understanding equal to Bush--to replace a Justice
the Court will become a complete rubber stamp for the extreme right wing.
Right now--it's a 5-4 rubber stamp as the last term and the term to start
Tuesday will illustrate.
CH
