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House Committee Screws Up Whistleblower Email
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-10-29
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Someone accidentally sent an email containing all the whistleblower email addresses to the entire list of addresses that submitted tips about abuse in the Justice Department. Then it gets worse.
The House Judiciary Committee has been looking into firings of US attorneys since Democrats regained control of Congress. To facilitate the investigation, they established an online tip form during this past summer.
In the words of Terry Pratchett, that effort just turned pancake-shaped. An email sent to all of the tipsters placed all of their email addresses in the To: field, rather than the preferred BCC: field. As TPM Muckraker found, another email address made it into the list:
There are more than 150 recipient addresses revealed in the email. Some of the email addresses appear to be transparently fake, but there's also, much more troubling, a vice_president@whitehouse.gov carbon copied on the email, which is the public email address for Vice President Dick Cheney.
In other words, an email containing the email addresses of all the whistleblowers who had written in to the committee tipline was sent to public email address of Vice President Cheney.
To put the final insult cherry on top of the injury sundae, the email sent to the tipsters illustrated new procedures the Committee planned to use to review the tips that had been submitted.
House Judiciary Committee, Justice Department, US Attorney, Firings
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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