October 21, 2003
WHO?
You whipper snappers probably don't remember the WHO DB Hillary Clinton set up in the White House basement. Hell, nobody at the liquor store ever heard of it. Reporting of most Clinton crime never quite made it to the cartoon news networks in the '90s. Anyway, here's the likely payoff, as reported by Prowly.
"We're going to know a lot more about millions of people than we did two or three years ago," says a DNC fund raiser. "This has been Terry [McAuliffe]'s big project. We've spent millions to get this kind of database up and running. What we do with it, who knows?""We've spent millions ... " Well, yeah, millions of taxpayer dollars. Gee, for people who also spent most of the past two years railing about perceived privacy violations by the DOJ, and whose cornerstone tenet is the "right to privacy" in the bedroom, isn't this strange behavior? Does anybody care? Peter? Wally? Dan? Hello?
Some privacy advocates, particularly those who have railed for years about FBI and health care databases that track U.S. citizenry, have been silent on the DNC database front, in part, because the DNC may be willing to sell its database to generally friendly organizations. Such sales might make up some of the cost of putting the lists together.
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