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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] comments please regarding snoopy-doopy.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:26 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>it was this data harvesting effort which crashed the HealthCare.gov site, required a 600 million dollar software development effort which failed ignominiously<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Please refrain from such hyperbole. Not only does it do you no credit, but it prevents you from figuring things out: as you noted, you "don't get it" here.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Almost all the data HealthCare.gov collects is already known to the government; no "data harvesting effort" was necessary<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I disagree sir. The IRS had most of this data, but the IRS is not the government. They are not allowed to share what they know. They sometimes do, if the victim is a Tea Party type or a Republican, but it is illegal, as we are watching unfold in the case of Sarah Hall Ingram.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Never assume malice where mere incompetence will suffice. In the case of that site, mere incompetence suffices.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Adrian, I see incompetence here, but I also see plenty of evidence of malice in both the Ingram case and the Lerner case, both of which are applicable to the current situation: the IRS abused its power and leaked confidential information. It will all eventually come out, likely just before the November 2014 elections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>