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Amid Probe, NY Governor Cuomo Orders Mass Deletion Of Government Emails

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In an Onion-esque story almosty too unbelievable to be real, IB Times reports, in a memo obtained by Capital New York, Cuomo officials announced that mass purging of email records is beginning across several state government agencies. The timing of the announcement, which followed through on a 2013 proposal, is worth noting: The large-scale destruction of state documents will be happening in the middle of a sprawling federal investigation of public corruption in Albany.

 

As IB Times reports, earlier this month, New Yorkers watched an inferno tear through a
warehouse full of old government records from the bygone paper era.

 Many probably felt relief in thinking that such records are now often digitized and therefore not at risk of being accidentally incinerated. Yet as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is showing this week, many records are vulnerable to another form of destruction: deliberate deletion.

As Capital New York reports...

The Cuomo administration has now fully implemented a policy of automatically deleting emails of rank-and-file state workers that are more than three months old, resulting in an effective purge of thousands of messages in recent days.

 

According to memos obtained by Capital, mass deletions began Monday at several state agencies after officials finished consolidating 27 separate email platforms to a single, cloud-based system called Office 365. It lets I.T. administrators purge any older messages, and can be set up to do so each day.

 

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But more than a dozen advocacy organizations—including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York-based good government groups—sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank-and-file employees for seven years.

 

“In this era, government runs on email, and access to email and electronic records has become a cornerstone of public transparency. Our groups are very concerned that the administration’s June 2013 policy of using centralized software to automatically delete state employee emails after 90 days is resulting in the destruction of emails that are considered public records under New York’s Freedom of Information Law,” wrote the groups, which were organized by Reinvent Albany. “This policy was adopted without public notice or comment. Furthermore, we are extremely concerned that the inevitable destruction of email records under your 90-day automatic deletion policy directly undermines other public accountability laws like the False Claims Act.”

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IB Times goes on to note that Cuomo’s move to purge state emails follows a similar move he made as state Attorney General.

International Business Times confirmed that in 2007, he put in place a mass deletion policy for emails in the New York Attorney General’s office that were more than 90 days old, making it difficult for the public to know how -- or whether -- his office investigated bank fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008. In the Cuomo administration’s announcement this week, the governor's chief information officer, Maggie Miller, justified the new email purge as a cost-saving measure aimed at “making government work better.”

 

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Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department official, said the timing of the move raises significant legal questions.

 

“This is potentially obstruction of justice,” she told IBTimes. “The only reason that the government destroys records is so no one can question what it is doing, and no one can unearth information about improper conduct. There’s no reason for New York not to preserve this information.”

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Is anyone really surprised?

 

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Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:56 | 5831677 ukspreads
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Delete  away, but there will always be a copy saved somewhere

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831693 InjectTheVenom
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i got a better idea...how about a mass deletion of arrogant sociopathic fascist criminal politicians and their masters ?!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:16 | 5831788 knukles
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Open criminality run rampant. 
Remembrances of Robin Hood

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:28 | 5831852 N2OJoe
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Do they actually expect people to believe that the government is SUDDENLY interested in "a cost-saving measure aimed at “making government work better."???

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:44 | 5831926 NotApplicable
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FYI, this is going on everywhere. Positions are even created to ensure compliance with retention policies.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:48 | 5831952 JonNadler
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HA HA, just try the deleting the copies of the e-mails at the NSA

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:54 | 5831978 JonNadler
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 whether -- his office investigated bank fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.

but for the bank fraud the bankers did not go to jail so how can you blame this clown for not investigating something that supposedly was not really fraud because if it were the bankers would be in jail? 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:25 | 5832149 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Meanwhile, every business needs to keep every schnitzel of paper for at least 7 years.  Who audits the auditors when the auditors have become corrupt?  Who audits the IRS when the IRS has become corrupt?  Who audits .gov when .gov has become corrupt?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:06 | 5833050 imbtween
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When evidence has been destroyed, the jury is instructed to consider it as an admission by the defendant that the emails were evidence of wrongdoing.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 23:54 | 5834209 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"NY Governor Cuomo Orders Mass Deletion Of Government Emails"~

 

 

Kinda' make you want to call for the mass deletion of government employees, don't it?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:52 | 5831972 A_MacLaren
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An attempted mass deletion of emails brought down Oregon's now former governor.

Public records are what preserve the Republic against even more rampant cronyism.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:04 | 5832040 OilCaptain
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"Mass deletion of emails"

It's kind of laughable.  Cuomo and Silverspoon should have taken lessons from the Lois Lerner case and shredded hard drives.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:16 | 5832105 overmedicatedun...
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but but the IRS did it, and they are just fine..mass deletion of emails, he hired Lois Lerner to lead his team.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:21 | 5832131 Withdrawn Sanction
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"Public records are what preserve the Republic against even more rampant cronyism."

If that's true, and I think it is, then perhaps the presumption of innocent until proven guilty should be waived for public officials who willfully destroy public records.  That is, any public official who knowingly/willfully destroys public records shall be deemed by that fact alone as guilty of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:28 | 5832162 Beam Me Up Scotty
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That meme only applies to private business and private citizens and employees.  Public employees are exempt from the law and if they aren't they just change the law to exempt themselves.  Even unlawful acts can be made lawful if 50%+1 vote for it.  Murder could be made lawful by a simple majority.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:58 | 5831998 t0mmyBerg
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Obviously not.  Emperor Cuomo and his sycophantic state legislature cannot let the hoi polloi know anything about the inner workings or there might be a revolt.  Well, probably not.  In NY as everywhere else people are either too busy or too stupid and lazy to care what the fuck takes place in politics. 

The failure of the Founding Fathers to make provision for term limits (even though the Supreme Court was wrong, as they seemingly are on everything these days, in striking down the term limit movement among the states) will prove to have been the achilles heel of the current republican experiment. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:59 | 5832005 tarsubil
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But disk space is so expensive! *snicker*

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:21 | 5831815 astoriajoe
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Is there a button for that?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:06 | 5831752 DavidC
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America is so fucked.

DavidC

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:18 | 5831796 Oracle 911
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Is that sudden realization or not?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:25 | 5832153 DavidC
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Oracle,
That made me smile! No, it's not!

DavidC

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:15 | 5831786 Bunga Bunga
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That will be true for mass surveillance data only.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:56 | 5831680 City_Of_Champyinz
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Are you fucking kidding me?  Can this corruption be any more in your face??  I see an arrogant NY douchebag in prison garb soon...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:00 | 5831709 BanksterSlayer
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You mean like all those orange-jumpsuit-clad Wall Street arrogant douchebags that we still haven't seen?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:13 | 5831779 SDShack
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It's the Corzine way.... Free John Corzine!

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 09:51 | 5834945 wwxx
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It is the Mike Huckaby (past Republican Governor of Ark) way of doing things.  http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-tale-of-the-tapes/Content?oid=863230

 

wwxx

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:19 | 5831805 thamnosma
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Give ISIS time. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:30 | 5831862 City_Of_Champyinz
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Yep, I could not have said it any better myself...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:01 | 5831714 onewayticket2
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"delete?  why?  it's easier than that, silly!"

 

best, 

Lois Lerner  (currently enjoying my $124,000 bonus)

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:26 | 5831840 Normalcy Bias
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW, and run off into the hills, or wherever. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:44 | 5831929 Oldwood
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Sometimes you have to destroy justice to save it. Sound familiar?

The ends ALWAYS justify the means.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 15:14 | 5832377 island
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If only.  Corzine is still a free man.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:58 | 5831688 LawsofPhysics
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Like I have said before, these fucking fascist/crony fucking criminals will never indicte themselves...  If they cannot change the laws quick enough they will destroy evidence and eliminate wittnesses...

 

same as it ever was...  (especially in jew york)

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:30 | 5831861 N2OJoe
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They never hang themselves from lamppost either.

"It takes a village"

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:59 | 5832002 Deacon Frost
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"It takes a pillage"

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:58 | 5831696 clade7
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Cool!  delete my taxpaying US citizenship status while you are at it, you dirty fuck!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:46 | 5831935 NotApplicable
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Sorry, but that's an inalienable status. Revocation DENIED!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831697 williambanzai7
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Makes perfect sense. Makes government work better.

This is the rule everyone should follow for their personal financial records: 90 days.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:44 | 5831925 Meta_Consciousness
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Gmail's claim to fame was that you'd never need to delete email. They have you a ton of space to store it all.

After two years of storage, by law, your emails become theirs and no warrant is needed to search them by government officials.

Of course, we've both used it to communicate and in a couple years they'll know you provide great service when folks buy your art. Even if postal services bork the hard cardboard tube you seal the print in. Jerks.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:59 | 5831704 winflation
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It's all hebrew to me anyway

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:59 | 5831705 maskone909
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hey it worked for lois lerner

 

thanks lois.  way to set the bar.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:59 | 5831708 GMadScientist
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Here's to the "Snowden" who will assuredly scuttle that shit off to a thumb drive before wiping.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:01 | 5831716 Panic Mode
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New policy: we can sue you but you can't sue us. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831718 replaceme
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Well to be fair, his face should be punishment enough for any crime. and the obligatory fuck him with a chainsaw.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831721 dexter_morgan
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.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831722 dexter_morgan
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Cuomo is a fucking evil bastard and he looks like a crazy fuck. NY'ers must be crazy to elect a douche like this.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:34 | 5831886 moonman
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NYC elected him. The rest of us? not so much

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:03 | 5831726 permarig
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Another day in the world reserve currency providing banana republic.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:04 | 5831727 Herodotus
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They made their 1st mistake in putting them in cloud storage.  There will now be a copy of all the deleted emails.  The feds will be able to get these directly from Microsoft or their cloud storage vendor.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:47 | 5831946 NotApplicable
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Gmail, bitchez!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:03 | 5831729 illyia
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This is so unbelievably disgusting that I am nearly speechless.

Nearly. I actually will tell everyone I meet.

Grotesque...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:03 | 5831730 Panic Mode
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We deleted some emails.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:40 | 5832233 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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We deleted some emails, on some folks!

 

there, fixed it.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:04 | 5831734 czarangelus
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God forbid the NSA actually do something useful with all its spying and nail this guy.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:08 | 5831760 overmedicatedun...
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News just out:

"As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters."

this idiot will start a civil war, folks the pols are removing evidence and soon the internet is under thier thum.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:23 | 5831828 TrumpXVI
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I saw this coming from miles (and years) away.  Stockplied several thousand SS109s a looong time ago on my reloading bench........ban THAT bitchez.

 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:34 | 5831888 N2OJoe
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I got into shooting too late to snatch up any of that old black tip .308 but I'd give my left nut for a few K.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 16:43 | 5832743 Buckaroo Banzai
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SS109 is a shitty penetrator, calling it "armor piercing" is a joke. M193 is just as effective as SS109 against soft body armor. Against plate armor, neither M193 or SS109 is effective.

The real reason that Obama is pulling this stunt is that there is a shit-ton of manufacturing capacity for SS109/M855 and huge stockpiles of it now that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are over. This will prevent that from getting into civilian hands.

They are absolutely terrified of their own people.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:49 | 5831957 doctor10
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The NSA?!!! Who ya kiddin' here?!!  The NSA works FOR the Cuomos-and the Clintons...and the Bushs

Mario and Andrew are "made men" -NSA is their tool

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:41 | 5832239 Ignatius
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In a sense, the NSA IS that guy.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:06 | 5831746 Smuckers
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I think I gotta get me one of those agency mailboxes.  Are they planning any similar Gmail invites soon?

 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:08 | 5831759 p00k1e
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This is another example of why stealing is OK in private life.  That means you and me.  Grab what you can!! 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:54 | 5831763 NuYawkFrankie
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No surprise here - Cuomo started out as Slick Willy's  Hood from HUD.

Untold $Billions went "missing" during his "tenure". (Nuttin poisonal - juss biznuss.) 

It's hardly surprising that Andy & Hillary are such good pals....

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:09 | 5831766 TheABaum
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He'll run for President.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:09 | 5831767 Consuelo
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A fish rots from the head down.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:09 | 5831769 Eahudimac
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Nothing will happen to Cuomo except maybe a cabinet appointment by Obama or the next fuckwad-in-chief. Corruption is the norm, not the exception. Laws only apply to the sheep. Government is now immune from all crime and accountability. 

Fuck them all. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:17 | 5831793 Meta_Consciousness
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I see his affirmative action hired son on CNN every day at work and it's a great lift me up. Makes me laugh every time I see his slimy face.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:38 | 5831905 Stumpy4516
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Yet many private individuals have been prosecuted and some convicted for cleaning up the hard drive on their personal home computers.

Here is something that his father said when he himself was getting the jewish vote and support.

“The Jews need a shabbos goy [Sabbath gentile] because they can’t do everything for themselves."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:10 | 5831770 Panic Mode
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It has to be almighty corrupted to get this Governor Cumon elected.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:12 | 5831774 Gringo Viejo
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Up your nose with a rubber hose America!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:13 | 5831778 Bill of Rights
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40 years of Liberal corruption, I'm shocked shocked I tell you.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:14 | 5831780 NuYawkFrankie
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Come back Tammany Hall.

All is forgiven.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:14 | 5831781 yogibear
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Another captain of corruption. Just so many of them there wouldn't be enough prison space.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:15 | 5831785 Meta_Consciousness
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I love having no rights. Without them, I have nothing to defend. That man's I'm free! /s

 

 

The same analogy goes for corrupt politicians.

 

I'm glad they have the right to break the law! That means politicians aren't criminals! I'll vote for them! /s

 

The media cover for this will be intense. I love that jihadi John is blowing Obama's lie out of the water. A rich Londoner needs a job  to prevent his becoming a true Muslim? He had money, why did he need a job Mr president?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:16 | 5831789 Lin S
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Today, federal probe due to alleged misconduct.

Soon, rectal probe applied with epic misconduct in federal prison.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:16 | 5831791 Wahine
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I used to work for New York State.  Worker's Compensation Board.  I woud approve payments to medical providers and they would get notice in the mail that a check would be coming at some point within the next 4 months.  I then had to pretend I was checking on the status of those payments because we were forbiden from conacting the department in charge of cutting the checks because they didn't actually have any money or intent of paying anything.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:52 | 5831947 Wahine
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Also when people asked for a copy of a case's file, we had to tell them that we did not keep those records.  Except I would give them another"department" to call - and give them a copy of the file in exchange for a check in my name - 75 cents per page.  Made an extra $100 a month that way

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:17 | 5831792 semperfi
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what would be shocking to me is finding ANY politician that is NOT a criminal, that NOT a liar, that is NOT corrupt - that would truely be shocking

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:22 | 5831824 Bill of Rights
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And then find me one that isn't a Lawyer...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:53 | 5831976 NotApplicable
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There's always a few. Stalin referred to them as "useful idiots."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:18 | 5831797 FreeNewEnergy
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As a New Yorker (upstate, where most - well, some - people are fairly cogent, honest and righteous) and 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Sicilian (the better half, of course), I hold this fucker personally in contempt. He's single-handedly given New York and Italian-Americans another scar on their already collectively-beaten faces.

Cuomo is as guilty of high crimes as any banker on Wall Street. Here are some myths and the actual truths about this puke of a "governor.":

Myth: It's been said that Governor Cuomo sucks Lloyd Blankfein's dick twice a week.

Truth: Four times a week (twice on Sunday).

Myth: Cuomo had sex with Hillary Clinton

Truth: He had sex with a goat while Hillary and Bill watched.

Myth: Cuomo's nickname is Dickmouth.

Truth: It's actually Cockass.

Myth: Cuomo has a four-inch pecker.

Truth: He has no penis (h/t to Mike Myers)

Myth: Cuomo plays with himself.

Truth: Yes, he does, usually with Sheldon Silver in attendance.

Fuck you, Cuomo.

Sincerely,

All NY residents North and West of Poughkeepsie.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:25 | 5831836 Jethro
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Sicilians are supposed to hold a grudge.  Do your righteous duty paisan.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:29 | 5831798 WTFUD
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If Barry so desires the NSA BoozAH would've been way ahead of the game and already sitting on the dirt. OR NOT. GCHQ have their backs and rightly so, NSA being their pay-master general an' all.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:19 | 5831800 semperfi
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The elites write the rule book. The laws and system are set up to protect the elites from
the masses/serfs. When you write the rule book you will never be a criminal, which gives
you the latitude to do anything you want whenever you want. Full-spectrum dominance. Total
and complete control. Absolute power.

The current arrangement crafted by the elites is nothing more than the age-old concept
of absolute rule over the masses/serfs.  Their power is derived from their rule that its
legal for them to create/print as much "money" as they want and that it is illegal for
anyone not in their club/circle (ie, the masses/serfs) to create/print money.  If you
can create limitless amounts of "money" then there is no limits to your power and control.
You can buy, own, and control everything and everyone.  Which is why the fiat "money"
creation will never stop.

Its the new "Totalitarianism" of the West by the Western banksters and those that they hired
to do their dirty work.  Its an insidious, covert form of Totalitarianism.  Most people do
not know that they are ruled by this new Totalitarian regime.  And that's how the banksters
get away with it.  The best slave is the slave that doesn't know he's a slave.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:21 | 5831812 Jonesy
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How can anybody stay in the US?  Get out while you still can.  I realize the globalists dreams make it so other countries are alike than the past, but the US is it's own giant experiement for the JWO to see how much they can screw a country over.  We even get to be their murderers working to enslave ourselves, if we don't get killed in the process.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 15:25 | 5832431 TradingTroll
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Uhm, leave the US for where?

 

At this point North Korea, Cuba and Iran dont look bad.

 

Iceland looks great

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:21 | 5831814 pragmatic hobo
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i dunno ... makes perfect sense to me ...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:22 | 5831822 Jethro
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With all that additional free space on their drives, think of all the porn they can download now.....

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:26 | 5831848 FreeNewEnergy
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Here's a suggestion for all New Yorkers:

Wait until after April 1 to file your taxes, and send in a blank form, with a note saying "the governor ate my records."

Bankrupt the fuckers.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:28 | 5831854 silentboom
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We've gotten to a time now where the people in power are no longer accountable to the tax payers.  They do what they want when they want.  I would suggest that it all stems from a monetary system that allows them endless blank checks.  How big can a government get and still be accountable?  The Constitution is nothing more than a footnote at this point.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:30 | 5831865 Monty Burns
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I love Italians, but they're corrupt as hell.  Cuomo and his old man being prime examples.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:25 | 5835060 Vin
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@Monty Burns:  Come on, "Italians are corrupt as hell"?  That's a huge generalization that's no different than saying "All blacks are stupid".  All peoples have corrupt individuals, it's human nature.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:30 | 5831866 nakki
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Its all good the NSA has all those emails in question. J Edgar's closeted ass would be so jealous.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:33 | 5831879 petaloka
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I hope this bastard gets a fish bone stuck in his asshole.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:46 | 5831937 Shad_ow
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We live in a freaking banana republic.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:47 | 5831942 RabbitOne
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What is the down-side to deleting emails for Cuomo. There is none.

When I was a DBA I would have got 20 years minimum sentence behind bars for doing what Cuomo just ordered. I was required to read the laws regarding Email data storage and sign off that understood them.

 But…with no press to cause public outcry and no threat from Washington from Obozo and the gang… who cares…corruptions and tyranny are here to stay…

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:58 | 5831996 NotApplicable
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I'm guessing that all of those laws have been changed to ensure mandatory deletion upon expiration as per the retention policy for whatever category an email is in.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:40 | 5832229 SykeWar
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As a DBA, I'm sure you may have seen your share of "book copying" for the purposes that are less than... legal, shall we say?  You don't have to answer that.  The bad thing about technology is, it makes corruption easier and the corrupt more effiecient and harder to stop.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:50 | 5831962 Vinividivinci
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How fitting that Cuomo's son is an Anchor at CNN.
The rotten apple never falls far from the rotten tree.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:01 | 5832011 Fix It Again Timmy
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Yeah right, you want something done so you tell a government agency to do something? - good luck with that!...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:01 | 5832013 roadhazard
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You would think the Fed would stop that. Tampering with evidence = jail time.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:30 | 5832174 SykeWar
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 They're hiding the fact they've been skimming a little too much off the top.  Their fedral masters won't be pleased.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:37 | 5832215 bugs_
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will anonymous go after a dem?

will a whistleblower step forward with a copy of the emails?

i think someone is starting to look presidential!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 15:04 | 5832332 loveyajimbo
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No worries... Holder will step in and do a full, honest investigation...

 

HaaaaaHaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 15:06 | 5832344 mendolover
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Most people already know that this creature is supposedly bangin Sandra Lee of Food Network fame.  She has a strange fascination with costumes.  Wonder which one is his favorite?  

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2010/10/11/Sandra-Lee_Cleopatra-Hallowee...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 16:00 | 5832580 silentboom
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Ha, FUCK YOU CUOMO!

Microsoft Changing Its Retention Policy for Deleted Office 365 E-Mails

Microsoft gave notice today that it plans to change how long deleted e-mails get retained for organizations using Office 365 services.

The current default policy is that deleted e-mails are still recoverable for 30 days after they get deleted by an end user, but after that period of time, they become unrecoverable. The new policy will eliminate this automatic removal aspect. Deleted e-mails always will be recoverable.

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/02/20/microsoft-changing-email-reten...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 16:02 | 5832584 discopimp
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In non-bananna republics that is call tampering with evidence.  

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:09 | 5833062 TheAntiProgressive
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I would pose that technically he has ordered the destruction of government property.  This is not his to destroy, it is the people's property, the taxpayers property created on the taxpayers dime.  He has no right to demand such action without something "legal" like passing a bill or something.  We are being "governed" by crooks and criminals and yet they demand we comply and then they simply ignore the same laws.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 00:11 | 5834256 goldstandard
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As long as the hard drives exist, the ability to ressurect e-mails is still there. The IRS mysteriously lost their e-mails and then several months later, they reappeared. Where's there's a will there's a way. Go get'em Elliot Ness....:)

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:21 | 5835048 Vin
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This guy's a fascist 100%.

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