<p>As previously noted, the reporting was false, so my questioning of Malkin as the source was correct.</p>
<p>I don’t recall the exact story, but fairly recently she was involved in “outing” some college
students for some activity she didn’t like, but which was not illegal, and published their
private information on her blog, and exposed them to danger.</p>
<p>Sort of like the “creep” who outed Weiner and Acorn - cyberstalkers, busybodies and miscreants who destroy lives. I believe there is also one in England who is being taken more seriously than the U.S. ones, and he is being indicted.</p>
<p>I would think that anybody who logs onto her website has lost privacy, and there are probably
safer and more accurate places to get your information.</p>
<p>I still find it troublesome that the department of education’s office of the inspector general has the authority to call in a swat team. The department of education shouldn’t have that type of authority. If they have criminal charges they want pressed on someone, there are ways to go about it. They shouldn’t be allowed to arbitrarily make such choices. Then again, most of the federal government is overstepping it’s power and is unconstitutional.</p>
<p>“I still find it troublesome that the department of education’s office of the inspector general has the authority to call in a swat team.”</p>
<p>The inspector general is the “audit” arm of the feds, and it is their job to identify fraud in all areas of the government. Since the whole story isn’t available, it is hard to say why a SWAT team was involved, it may not be true, and you certainly can’t “judge” if it is an appropriate action. IMHO</p>
<p>An Inspector General should never have the authority to call out a swat team. We have law enforcement agencies for a reason. Then again, the federal government has been stealing more and more power every day. I suppose some people think it’s OK that the feds have the power they do. I don’t.</p>
<p>Yep, our government is having way too many various arms with accumulated power in each one. Very much like some other countires that left such systems behind. Too much central power, too little freedom. They definitely know how to buy their power too, just collect more taxes and give them away and then say, do what I told because I gave you money. Very simple and very old concept that failed time and again.</p>
<p>I thought this was going to be a thread that reminded folks that they need to have a plan BEFORE they borrow because it’s VERY difficult to get educational loans discharged in bankruptcy or anything else!</p>
<p>A SWAT team does seem very excessive, except if there is other dangerous criminal activity and a search warrant for the same.</p>
If that’s the best you can do then you’re the one with no credibility. No specifics, can’t remember when, can’t remember what the student did, etc. No, that’s not not enough to persuade me that MM is lacking in any way.</p>
<p>And in case none of your teachers has informed you yet, name calling is not considered a legitimate debating tactic.</p>
<p>And aligning yourself with Weiner and Acorn, fine, if you think that’s going to win people over to your side, then go for it.</p>
<p>Maybe you could try reading five or ten of MM’s columns and then decide for yourself what her value is. Or you could just go on pushing the talking points that some middle-aged white guy has chosen for you.</p>
<p>Sheesh, read the links above.
MM is pretty widely acknowledged to be bat-**<em>t crazy, has been shown to be seriously lacking in credibility not once, but *multiple</em> times.</p>
<p>Students protest, Malkin posts their personal contact info on her blog, the students get death threats, and she then RE-posts the phone numbers. This is your shining example of journalistic integrity?</p>
<p>"Sort of like the “creep” who outed Weiner " </p>
<p>Weiner outed himself. He tweeted a photo of his own grown to a freshman journalism student . . . and 47,000 other Internet followers of his Congressional database.</p>
<p>But you are correct that the Congressman with the digital raincoat is a creep.</p>
<p>“Department of Education Press Secretary Justin Hamilton confirmed to The Huffington Post that the agency’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) did indeed order the action, although he said it was not about an issue over student loans in default.”</p>
<p>It was the Department of Education that ordered the raid. But it was not over late payments, but for alleged fraud regarding a student loan.</p>
<p>Who knew the Dept. of Education was involved in this sort of law enforcement activity? I thought that is what the F.B.I. was for.</p>