And here I thought all Texas moms were MAKING $100,000 by doing internet research from home.
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Now that would be one weird trick which doctors wouldn’t want me to know about!
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That is just un-be-fucking-lievable. It shouldn’t matter who asks for the records or what they relate to at all- the public benefit is that the public has access to know what the people who are supposed to be working for us are doing, with public money and public power. She shouldn’t have to show diddley-squat.
Good on her, and we need more of this.
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The headline seems wildly overblown. Over what time period were these acts? How does an agent hiring a same-sex prostitute (and why did that differentiation have to be made?) and another buying a date-rape drug add up to a “culture” of corruption and sex scandals. Both of these acts were things done privately and in fact if revealed would and did humiliate the agents involved. A “culture” at an agency refers to something altogether different.
Furthermore, many of these incidents were available through the FOIA because they had been internally exposed and the actors were disciplined and/or dismissed. That means, to some degree, that a system of oversight is working.
The incidents I read in the actual article were hardly “hot enough to scorch my fingers.” I’m sure there are problems aplenty in the Secret Service but I’m also pretty sure this woman’s time, money, and outrage could have been put to much better use.
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Hold your horses—not until January.
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ah yes, I forgot the delay between election and handing over of the nuclear briefcase
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Be careful what you wish for. There are numerous government agencies providing services that certain sectors of society (either left or right) disapprove of. If information requests are free, it shouldn’t be to hard to get 100,000 people to issue information requests that totally consume the budget of these departments.
It’s always unwise to give people a weapon until you’ve figured out exactly how it will be used against you.
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Or - that information could always just be accessible online, then there would be no additional cost.
That’s assuming that one’s self is somehow more special than anybody else. Adversarial relationships are for bored people who prefer drama to information anyway.
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Texas mom? Patronisng sexist headline. Please amend to something better such as Texas lawyer
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secret service agents hate her!
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Gotta get that clickbait title in somehow.
This Texas mom discovered a massive culture of corruption and sex scandals at the US Secret Service from home! Find out how you can too!
EDIT: Also the first sentence of the article points out that she self-describes as a stay at home mom who also happens to be an attorney.
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Sounds to me like her hobby is journalism.
Sad day when hobbyists can outclass the pros who currently have their eyes glued to every twitch of that orange-infected sleazeball who wears elf mittens.
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West Virginia gal discovers misspelling in Boing Boing headline: “Texas mom ucnovers…”
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I’m trying to get my head around who exactly is being diminished here, but I agree someone is. She’s not just a former attorney she’s a former senior partner. It seems like her modesty is unhelpful here.
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And not just an attorney: a “former senior partner at Thompson & Knight law firm in Dallas”.
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Strategic thing maybe? “Former Senior Partner at Dallas Law Firm …” does sound a bit less…impressive? More achievable? It’s just not as good a headline as a mom, and, possibly intentionally on her part, creates a bigger barrier to entry to it. Senior Partner does something, well that’s what they’re supposed to do and a big barrier to entry, a mom does it? Well a ton of people are moms; being a mom is normal. She might be trying to encourage more people to do FOIA requests.
That or we’re just way overanalyzing a woman’s choice of words, of course.
“Ucnovers”??? Interesting word (see title of Mark’s post)
She asks to be described as a mom. You should call her and tell her you disapprove.
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That is how she refers to herself, but I do see @anon74729030’s point: If a woman has children, often she will be referred to only as a mom, as if that’s the most important thing about her. Like it’s supposed to be amazing that she has kids and still manages to do other things. It’s more unusual to see a man referred to as a dad, unless the story has something to do with his children.
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Why was the gender of the male prostitute mentioned, but the genders of the other prostitutes weren’t?
I don’t like this woman. In the video, she says “they were coercive both before and after the lawsuit” and immediately jumps to talking about “the level of this coercion” as accepted fact, without providing an example. I don’t think she argues well. Her motives seem to align with mine, so why don’t I trust her? I don’t like the way that the presenter inducts her as a patriot. I believe she’s a complicated and simple woman with noble and ignoble motivations (maybe I should write horoscopes).
“Married men are sleeping with other women!” is presented as if it was public business. I don’t like that any more than I did when they did it to Clinton. It’s disrespectful to the wives to drag it up, and I think it has little bearing on their job. There’s no mention of the hypocrisy of being a high-level federal government employee and breaking the law. It’s just “look at this dirty laundry”. In a private company I wouldn’t be too inclined to be that nice to the lady calling up and asking about my coworker’s sex lives, so I understand why the Secret Service doesn’t like her either.
Edit: it seems that most commenters agree. Did this site have some shakeup in the editorial standards? That link is bullshit for stupid people. I was drawn to the “liberal” side because it made more sense, but I’m increasingly put off by this kind of laziness and pandering.
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