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Change.gov website is illegal!

Posted by Carlos C. on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Barack Obama breaking the law? Perish the (Chicago Political Machine) thought!

Michelle Malkin correctly assumed that Change.gov is a fund-raising website, and one of her sleuth readers (Lance O.) emailed to her all of the documents regarding Change.gov’s illegality, which she has posted on her website.

The FOIA documents sent to Lance O., which he forwarded to me, reveal that the GSA initially rejected Obama’s application for “Change.gov.” On Oct. 21, Peter Alterman, Deputy Associate Administrator of Technology Strategy at the GSA, denied the Obama campaign’s request for a government domain because:

1) It would be a a violation of the government’s naming conventions (too generic); and

2) using ‘change’ in the domain name would be political, since it was the trademark slogan of the Obama campaign.

Here’s the initial denial:

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Here’s Obama transition director Chris Lu’s waiver request:

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Here’s GSA internal email discussing the decision to proceed with the domain main conferral. And yes, that does say “Rock and roll!:”

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Here’s the notice of an official GSA point of contact being assigned to the domain on Nov. 5 and a determination that it’s in the “best interest of the federal government” to register change.gov:

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And here are internal notes and public feedback records by GSA showing the change in policy and attitude:

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From a concerned citizen, who wrote GSA:

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I do not think any of this will materialize into criminal charges against President-elect Barack Obama, however, this scandal keeps to continue to establish a pattern of cronyism among Obama and his political allies and friends.

Sooner or later, all of this will catch up to Mr. Obama.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

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Tags: , Change.gov, cronyism
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3 Responses to “Change.gov website is illegal!”

  1. says:
    December 20, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    I think the Change.gov site is the least of BO’s problems.

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  2. Caroline says:
    December 20, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    What the hell are you talking about? Illegal??

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  3. says:
    December 20, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Government websites are not supposed to support one political ideology over another, plus, the website is a front to fund-raise money.

    Thus, illegal.

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