Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff for President Obama, said in an interview with Ann Coulter, that the Obama Whitehouse is adopting topic maps for all communication logs from the Whitehouse.
Communication logs from the Whitehouse monitor all incoming and outgoing telephone calls (land or cell), all Internet traffic, internal phone calls and other forms of communication (withheld on grounds of national security).
“Topic maps will enable interested citizens to reconstruct who spoke to who in what order on eventful days in the Whitehouse.” said Emanuel. When asked by Coulter, Emanuel admitted that nitpickers would seize upon some of the exclusions.
Exclusions include national security matters, calls to hookers, drug dealers, “cousins” from back East, fast food orders, leaks to the news media, and some other miscellaneous categories. No stranger to those categories herself, Coulter pressed for an example of what would be released.
Emanuel offered the following summary:
- Michelle Obama: Calls to Library of Congress at 9 PM on Sunday nights (homework assignments): 20
- Barack Obama: Pings to Internet time server on the average day: 100
“Barack and Michelle don’t use any of the exclusions,” said Emanuel. “The logs are mostly of Barack and Michelle’s communications, the exclusions wipe out almost all of the rest of the traffic.”
(After the interview ended, Emanuel grinned and said, “You know, they really are that straight.” He also asked Ann to autograph a copy of Guilty.)
Incredible from the first word on! :-)))
Comment by Robert Barta — April 2, 2010 @ 9:32 am
Wow – this is great!
Comment by Darina Dicheva — April 2, 2010 @ 4:40 pm
Almost as great news as changing Google’s name to Topeka 🙂
Comment by Darina Dicheva — April 2, 2010 @ 8:38 pm
Great news!
Comment by Robert Cerny — April 6, 2010 @ 1:39 am