Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing US President Barack Obama‘s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.
All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville, Iowa office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing his student loan records while Obama was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.
Six are accused of accessing Obama’s records when he was a candidate, and one is accused of accessing the records when he was president-elect, according to the indictments. An indictment for the ninth defendant was not immediately available online.
Obama's personal information has become Internet fodder.
Although court records did not name the contractor that employed the defendants, it was reported in March 2009 that two low-level contractors who were fired worked for Stanley Inc., a 3,500-person technology firm based in Arlington that had just won a US $570 million contract to continue providing passport services to the State Department.
A third contractual employee working for The Analysis Corp. (TAC), a McLean-based information firm that has helped the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist over the last several years, was reprimanded around the same time.
Questions about Obama’s natural born citizen status began appearing shortly after the security breaches.
Those charged in Wednesday’s indictments 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.
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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Student loan? I thought all the schwartzes got affirmative blacktion and went through school for free on the backs of poor working class whites!! Payback!!
That’s the problem with government security. At some point it hinges around a low-level contractor, present by virtue of lowest bid, if you’re lucky – we know how many contracts are awarded to “connections”.
I am still adamant that if he didn’t have anything to hide, low-level contractors wouldn’t go sniffing around.
Why would anyone want to access Barry Soetoro’s records (his real name)?
Perhaps those records have the vital information on the Kenyan communist/ Muslim agent.
Such information as;
He spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding information that would determine his eligibility to be President.
Show he was a former drug user.
Reveal as to why his academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.
A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan.
Why did he go?
Who paid his expenses?
A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country’s passport did he use?
A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al-Mansour.
A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.
Funny, I didn’t hear anything about this on my evening newscast. You’d think something like this would have been on the AP or sumpthin.
He’s not a citizen!
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