Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Bee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:22:22 GMT

Yeah, and Madoff wasn't a target at first either.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Jody, Iowa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:24:35 GMT

Amazing how quickly a few commentors were on another post to claim the Obama administration crooked. Thanks for the facts, FR.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Jose Von Hussein - The United States of America — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:32:38 GMT

Let's see how fast Limbaugh and Hannity can obscure the facts and take this out of context to make the President look bad for no reason whatsoever.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

MSierra, SF — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:33:19 GMT

HEY FBI...

Dick Cheney is over there
and there's George Bush......

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:33:57 GMT

"GONZO-GATE".

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Ron Indiana — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:34:26 GMT

"The FBI vetted his White House appointment. If he had been thought to be involved in any corruption at that point, it would have been flagged...

The FBI again foiled the conspiracy theorist. Yesterday the FBI clarified the rumor of Nancy Pelosi's plane travel. Today the FBI clarified that they were not investigating an Obama appointment. In their circular thinking, the conspiracy theorists will suspect the FBI.

Actually I'm glad to see the FBI investigating potential wrong-doing. Our technology/computer systems are a point of risk. Keeping our network secure is a big deal. Now lets have two degrees of separation between what the FBI is doing and what our President is doing.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Trish Stelten — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:38:55 GMT

Thank you for your honest coverage of this situation. The Huffington Post's headline suggests that Obama's appointment was involved and should reflect on The President. Shameful reporting! Thank you again for treating this ethically.

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Trish Stelten — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:39:52 GMT

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

no joe, no bo, nj — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:40:51 GMT

"But, the official caustions, who knows where it goes fron there?"

Another crook on the Obama staff.

Wonder if he'll 'waive' the standard,.

This guy makes Clinton look like an altar boy.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Jonathan, Seattle — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:59:20 GMT

""But, the official caustions, who knows where it goes fron there?"

Another crook on the Obama staff.

Wonder if he'll 'waive' the standard,.

This guy makes Clinton look like an altar boy."
no joe, no bo, nj

Hey njnb, do you ever have anything positive to say? ...At all?

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Sheila, Pikesville, MD — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:11:07 GMT

If the Obama appointee is the target then the FBI is guilty of malfesance because the vetting process and background check by the FBI should have excluded this individual.

For all the idiots out there ready to tie this person to the President, just remember, he knows NOTHING about anybody that he appoints except their public persona. He leaves it up to the professionals at the FBI to ferret out the crooks.

There is no pleasing a loud minority who see evil in everything the President does.

I don't think the Limbaughs and Hannity's of the world have a monopoly on integrity. Afterall, Rush is a non-convicted drug addict who broke the law with his doctor shopping and Hannity promoted the croked financier, Mr. Stanford who is a target of federal investgators. Can you say glass houses?

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Brian Crooks, Naperville, IL — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:54 GMT

Thank you FR. You should have seen how this thing blew up on the CNN blog. Their entire first article was something like "FBI officials raided the offices of Obama's new appointment early this morning." That was the whole thing. The right-wing hacks went CRAZY. Thanks for waiting until you had the whole story. You guys are the best.

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eagle1776 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:33 GMT

If Vivek Kundra is not the target of any investigation than what's all the hubb bubb? This seems like a non story intended to find something, desperately anything to discredit this Administration. shame shame shame!

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MN in Phoenix, AZ — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:40:26 GMT

Corruption on its scale and magnitude is slowly being revealed and hopefully will continue to do so for the sake of the people. Because we can't heal if we don't resolve the root problem.

I saw this on the other blog and wow, that blog exploded into the President can do no right and he is absolute in corruption. Although it stated what FR stated, no one read that line.

The hate for this administration is painfully loud on these news blogs yet when you talk to the average person, they are supporting our President.

I'm still waiting for those who tout that President Obama is running the country into the ground.. just look at the dow. It's down.. 'fill in the blank' points. yet for the last three days they have been strangely quiet. *puts finger to lips* hmmmm

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Tanya, Canton, GA — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:42:03 GMT

Thank you, First Read.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Brian Crooks, Naperville, IL — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:04:23 GMT

MN in Phoenix, AZ: We're both thinking the same thing. There was this clown who called himself "Bob Smith, Obamanation, USSA" who came on every day with a market report and no matter what it was, if it was -10 or -150, he said it was all Obama's fault and what a terrible President he was and that he was deliberately killing the market to open the door for socialism...I wonder where he is now? Probably posting under another of his dozen aliases.

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Remind me again — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:06:55 GMT

Afterall, Rush is a non-convicted drug addict who broke the law with his doctor shopping....
Sheila, Pikesville, MD (Sent Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:11 PM)
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As long as you all keep calling Rush a drug-addict, I'll keep reminding you that Obama is a coke addict. He admitted to it in his books. However the moderators keep censoring my reminders.

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Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:15:21 GMT

What many of you don't understand is this has been going on for years in DC. I for one know that Vivek Kundra and the City Council were told of these issues when the CTO started and have been consistently not doing anything. Mr. Kundra took this job in DC Govt as a stepping stone and nothing else. You should all look at his resume and notice he hasn't done anything more than 2 plus years. Its this type of arrogance that is being placed on him and the Obama administration. This is what is called inexperience. He may not be a part of the investigation but it happened on his watch!

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nuanced — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:35:16 GMT

The hate for this administration is painfully loud on these news blogs yet when you talk to the average person, they are supporting our President.
---MN in Phoenix, AZ

I am convinced that they are "infested" with paid Republican operatives. No honest person can put out so much misinformation day after day and not realize once in a while that they are mistaken. I saw a big increase in this sort of sleaze during the campaign when McCain's website urge supporters to go to the major news blogs and post anti-Obama messages. They were to report back what they had posted and when and were to receive points redeemable for prizes. I believe some such program is still in existance because the mindless nonsense continues unabated.

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Larry J, Fremont, CA — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:54:11 GMT

All this happened right under Kundra's nose and leadership!! And he's suppose to be saving us taxpayer money. This is another distraction to Obama and Kundra should resign IMMEDIATELY - There are a ton of other cios out there.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

clearvoice — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:55:25 GMT

I see all the liberals are going back to their rat holes screaming Bush Bush Bush did it...
Cheney Cheney Cheney did it
Liberals are so low that Catfish even suck the venom from their bodies.
New Game Show. "The First 50 Days"
How many criminals do you have on your staff?

Also we have a renaming ceremony:
The Titanic is now The "Ms NoBama"

What a pathetic piece of poop!
You have to use the right words now because the pathetic liberals will cry racist!!! How dare you!!!

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Monkberry Moon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:00:14 GMT

Not a target? Did the Obama people threaten them? Did they buy anybody off?

It's amazing that the obama corps are tax cheats and even worse but never get into trouble. Even Geithner never had to pay penalties. What the hell is THAT all about?

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Robert, Pronceton — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:00:50 GMT

Amazing how the Obama Kool-aid lovers are quick to cover up the fact that once again the Obama team has not done its homework.
As the CIO you are responsible for knowing and putting in place the controls that not only protect information but protect the integrity of your shop. If this guy couldn't run a relatively small shop like the DC government how is supposed to be in charge of the US?
Or what pictures does he have?

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Cjake — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:04:11 GMT

More egg on the face of the anti-Obama contingent on the web. But to give those people credit, my reaction would have been different if this was in the vicinity of a Bush appointee, only due to a lack of trust and confidence. The difference Bush earned my distrust...right now Obama hasn't proven himself untrustworthy by most. But this Vivek Kundra should not be smeared by partisans.

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

David LeVack, Florida-Michigan-San Jose, U.S. — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:07:39 GMT

Its amazing the naiviete people seem to have, Im not saying right or left wing people, I think those titles are ridiculous. It's schoolyard antics, but on an adult level, people are acting like everything is rosy and there's a few bad eggs. The fact is, and we know this otherwise our arts wouldn't reflect it: everything is corrupt, and there's a few good eggs. Personally, I'm glad the people who have cheated and tried to get ahead have been found out.

What is interesting to me is if you look at the background of many people in the last administration, many things were divulged about those officials that were questionable but never questioned. I think a lack of loyalty to honor and truth, and instead to "ideals and sides" is dangerous to human existence.

Would you rather the last administration that was so shadowed and hid things well, or an administration that consists of real people, that may be honest, may be cheats, but the cheats are found out and let go?

Feds: Obama appointee not a target

Richard Stiennon, Birmingham, MI — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:41:30 GMT

As much as everyone wants the new CIO of a $78 billion IT spending budget to be exonerated you have to keep in mind that the office he just vacated is being investigated. If you look at the Indian outsourcing firm whose CEO was arrested this morning, AITC, you see that they survived solely on DC local government projects of a wide variety.

One task I hope Vivak Kundra takes very seriously is putting in place controls to avoid the types of under the table deals that occur in many government contracting situations.