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More on Republican ( (or, at least, Sen. Cruz's) "terrorism"
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
More on Republican ( (or, at least, Sen. Cruz's) "terrorism"
Sandy Levinson
For obvious reasons, I was much interested in Jim Dwyer's column in today's NYTimes, which is devoted to the comments of New York Republican Rep. Peter King about Ted Cruz:
Nah, I'm not going to read him out of the party; Statistically speaking, he's pretty representative of it's establishment, which is to say, this is not an issue he wants to win on, and certainly not if there's any potential cost to trying.
I'd just say that Cruz, (Who may indeed be faking it.) is acting more in accordance with the desires of his party's base, than King.
Sandy's snarky reference to Sen. Cruz:
" ... or is it possible that this is the beginning of the end for the terrorism practiced by the not-yet-ex-Canadian junior senator from Texas?"
recalls this earlier snarkier comment reference (but not by Sandy) to Sen. Cruz:
"Should Cruz be identified as a ;Canadian-American' or an 'American-Canadian'? I understand that in Texas border towns he's described as a 'Snowback.'"
According to Brett, Sen. Cruz is a fellow "anarcho-libertarian" but is this representative of the GOP establishment as Brett claims?
When the debt ceiling debate took place in 2011, there was a semi-serious intellectual effort made to brand the Republican strategy as illegitimate due to an alleged moral and constitutional duty to separate the debt ceiling from debate over fiscal policy. This theory quickly degenerated into labeling the Republican strategy as "terrorism," which is for some reason considered an acceptable form of rhetoric by people who get uncomfortable if actual terrorism is called "terrorism."
Now we are in 2013, and the same rhetoric is being used to describe those who don't want to vote for appropriations bills that they don't support. Apparently it is not only illegitimate to tie fiscal policy to the debt ceiling, it is illegitimate to tie it to fiscal policy. The only acceptable, non-terrorist, approach is to agree to President Obama's demands.
I get that when the partisan passions get boiling, people pretty much act like children throwing a tantrum. But don't you find it somewhat embarrassing to use a professional legal blog for such purposes?
mls asks a serious question: Should the tone of a "professional legal blog" be? Should we always talk in a suitably high-tone language? Yes, if people merit being treated seriously and respectfully. This is why I am often dismayed at the invective directed against Mr. DePalma, who generally adopts a tone of courtesy. Ditto Brett.
Does Ted Cruz merit this courtesy? I would say the answer is no. He has chosen to be, again to use a term of art, little more than a "thug" with regard to people who disagree with him. He is little more than an Ivy League-educated, bi-national Joe McCarthy. The proper response is "Has he no shame?" (And the answer is apparently no.
I take my guidance from Alexander Hamilton, who had no hesitation to refer to the American political system established by the Articles of Confederation as "imbecile" and who questioned the motives of some, not all, of the people who opposed the change he was advocating in The Federalist.
And is MLS as upset at Representative King as he is with me, or is the argument that Balkinization should adopt a higher tone than that found in his comments. I don't mean this to be a snarky question. There's a strong argument that we shouldn't descend to the kind of kindergarten language often found in ordinary politics.
But Rep. King is also making a fully serious argument about what it means to respect the democratic (n.b., not the "Democratic") process. There is something movingly old-fashioned about his belief that the losers of elections--and he has no doubt, since he's not delusional, that the Republicans lost the 2012 elections, since I suspect he realizes that their control of the House, with almost 2 million fewer votes than Democrats, is a function of partisan gerrymandering plus the ideological clustering that increasingly typifies our politics.
I confess I[m generally not a big fan of Rep. King, who has been quite demagogic, I believe, re the "Islamicist threat" within the US. But that doesn't lessen the seriousness behind his dismissal of Sen. Cruz as a "fraud" and "terrorist."
It's comical that you have higher regard for Blankshot than you do for Ted Cruz. You really need to start reading the content of Blankshot's posts, and not just the tone.
I'm curious as to what you think of Reid "filling out the tree" to prevent any substantive amendments in the Senate besides restoration of the Obamacare funding. It doesn't appear to me he wants this actually subject for debate, maybe he's afraid he can't keep his own caucus together if they're not presented with an all or nothing vote?
The House is, procedurally, entitled to do what they're doing. A terrorist is doing things they're not entitled to do, period, but the House is perfectly entitled to write statutes to their liking, and send them to the Senate. That's one of my reasons for objecting to this kind of language: You'r enot entitled to have a legislative chamber fund things you want funded, not even if they were funded in the past. Laws can be changed by votes, and that's what they're doing.
Perhaps if the Senate were actually generating the legally required budgets, and running things in a generally normal manner, instead of keeping us in a perpetual crisis mode, less extreme circumstances for revisiting this subject would be available.
Does mls have no "partisan passions" that reach the boiling point? Should his past employment on GOP staffs in the House suggest that he might have "partisan passions"? Since leaving his past employment, has he been objective rather than partisan? While mls seems to be careful in his own blog, "Point of [Something or Other]," his comments on some legal blogs are a tad partisan. As Sandy points out in his comment on mls' comment, it was GOP Rep. King who chose the Sen. Cruz descriptive. Perhaps mls disagrees with Rep. King. Perhaps mls even disagrees with Sen. McCain's descriptive. But Sen. Cruise will sail along just as long as his name is spelled correctly as no doubt will msl.
"The only acceptable, non-terrorist, approach is to agree to President Obama's demands."
That isn't the case being made and it has been repeatedly explained, repeatedly not using words like "terrorism," though Sandy Levinson uses this blog to vent.
How many times do people have to show the compromises being made etc.? When even Mr. W. gets aggravated trying to explain things, maybe something is a bit off. Also, why is it "Obama's demands"? Not the Senate?
As to Cruz more representing his party's base, I think King probably represents his base while Cruz might his base in Texas. Still, like Rand Paul talking a lot and then voting for someone after getting a one sentence reply that he got before, maybe not.
After all, ACA has many popular aspects and the people, including Republican base, don't disagree. They have a confused view of things while with respect not being as much of a distasteful person Cruz seems to be.
Finally, representatives of the people also have a responsibility to act like mature actors, even if the base of their party's id doesn't want them to. This includes explaining them how things should work in a republican democracy. If "terrorism" is too mean of a word, explain it in some other fashion.
It was a fake filibuster, was negotiated with Harry Reid before it began, and it delayed no votes.
Please pay more attention to events and less to your fixations. "Connect the dots"
It takes a massive amount of obtuseness to believe that Ted Cruz is anything more than a narcissistic self-promoter. The fact that he's the darling of "tea party" (f/k/a as Christian Coalition, f/k/a as Moral Majority) republicans speaks volumes about them.
King has been a RINO of good standing since he arrived in Congress. Nothing remotely new here apart from adopting the reprehensible "terrorism" slander.
What is it you find terroristic about giving speeches on the floor of the Senate?
Or perhaps you were referring to an appropriations bill which declines to fund your preferred programs?
Prof. Levinson ignores the political aspect to BD's continuing flood of commentary on Balkinization. By responding to a high percentage of postings with numerous (often nonsensical) comments on each thread, BD dominates the discussion as others' retorts (unfortunately) give him fodder to continue the disruption. This (again unfortunately) diminishes the value of Balkinization, whose primary posters do provide high quality commentary.
So a few things. I know Ted Cruz and Pete King and, like most other people I know (Shag excepted), they have flaws. Cruz has perfected the art of ticking off everyone in Washington, probably on purpose, and King tends to speak before thinking. I haven't read King's remarks. As Sandy describes it, King is making the argument that because Obama won the election, Republicans have the obligation to fund Obamacare. I find this a somewhat peculiar argument. I agree that Obama's re-election makes it implausible to think that Obamacare is going to be completely repealed or defunded, but this doesn't mean that Republicans have the obligation to support funding it unless their concerns are taken into account. So I would think that both sides have an obligation to negotiate in good faith, but that neither is obligated to reach agreement on the other side's terms.
Now if Obama and/or congressional Democrats were offering to negotiate, and Cruz was demanding that they agree to defund on a take it or leave it basis, I think it would be perfectly reasonable to criticize him harshly. Given that the other side is flatly refusing to negotiate, I find the criticism harder to understand.
Whatever King's point, though, I see no justification for using a word like "terrorism" to describe what Cruz is doing. He is one senator who gave a long speech in support of his legislative position. I am mystified as to how that amounts to terrorism, even by the very loose standards of political rhetoric (death panels, war on women, etc).
I hope this answers Sandy's question.
I don't think mls is "mystified" by the use of the word "terrorism" to describe GOP behavior. On the off chance that he's sincere, it's because the Republicans are threatening to destroy *other* programs in an effort to get their way on this one. Not just "some" other programs, but *all* other programs. In the same way, a terrorist threatens to shoot a hostage who is unrelated to the particular demands made by the terrorist. It's the combination of "unrelated" and "completely destroy" that makes the analogy pretty obvious.
"Cruz has perfected the art of ticking off everyone in Washington, probably on purpose"
On purpose only if he's a grifter who'll be happy making money on the right wing fringe. Some thought he was angling for a governorship, and not more. At this point I don't think he'll get even that.
King is only admitting political defeat. He wouldn't have made the same argument a year ago. And republicans have been filibustering for years, but it's reported mostly in the language of "blocking" or "stopping" not referring to the resulting victory with a minority of votes.
Obama has negotiated, and his base isn't happy. The republicans are are now in the situation on playing to their shrinking base or engaging in the governance of the country.
"Most Americans these days are simply ignoring Republicans. And they should," That's Judd Gregg.
MLS: the thinking man's Bart DePalma. It's not enough. As an old friend once said : It's not the system it's the people. The post is as silly as the responses.
The "base" is a useful term but it doesn't illuminate the underlying structural issues. Senator Cruz has a base of support in Texas but this depends upon two factors: the mobilization of a white male status-conscious constituency and a discouraged and relatively passive minority electorate. These conditions tend to reproduce the structural biases of the Old South. Cruz's victories depend upon one-sided appeals that exacerbate social tensions and intimidate lower status groups. Explicit racism and class prejudice are perhaps absent because attacks on the Affordable Care Act may communicate the same sentiment of disdain for the working class majority at a lesser cost.
Did you and other conservatives consider Rep. King a RINO when he was out front leading W. Bush's War on Terror positions or denouncing the 'ground zero mosque'? I seem to recall conservatives treating him with much love during that period (similar to how they treated Chris Christie with much love when he was simply being rude to union members).
I find Mr. Levinson's work and comments here to be nearly always thought provoking and insightful, and I highly value his willingness to speak uncommon ideas (such as about the flaws of our over-venerated Constitution).
But I find all this recent 'GOP as terrorists' talk to be more than a bit too much. Our system allows, and I believe the Founders intended, for the House to use the 'power of the purse' in a variety of ways. The current GOP use of that power may be silly or irresponsible, and the structure which allows this may be unsound, but a party invoking it is no more resorting to 'terrorism' than an administration invoking something like the 'platinum coin' technicality would be engaging in 'Ceasarism'
Takendo 193Cruz has no more influence than was is given to him by others, particularly in his own party. He has already been unanimously black balled by them. When he turns to the voters, either in Texas or in a presidential primary bid, he will garner the votes of the people who loudly averred that the government should keep its hands off their medicare, or those that believe Obama is a Kenyan national, or that impeachment should be on the table. Keeping in mind that Cruz will always have a base of wacko voters, he should quickly be marginalized, All that is required is that he be properly categorized; his impossible egotism and disrespect for others will limit him. But these times are unpredictable, and peculiar situation could catastrophically elevate him to the presidency.
"Did you and other conservatives consider Rep. King a RINO when"
So, conservatives support a Republican when he advances conservative causes, and denounce him when he begins aiding Democrats in opposing them. Inexplicable, it's almost as though their praise and/or blame were contingent on the facts of the case!
So, calling someone a RINO doesn't mean anything more than "I don't agree with you in this case"? Because it sure sounds a lot worse than that.
Mark- what I am mystified about is the theory on which Cruz, or the Republicans in general, are thought to be doing something procedurally improper (as opposed to simply disagreeing with their substantive legislative objectives). The CR funds the entire government. How exactly is funding Obamacare "not related" to that?
There are House Democrats who want to block the CR unless the overall spending cap is raised. Is this holding the whole government "hostage" to get what they want, or is it just the normal legislative process?
A reasonable way of resolving this impasse might be to say that the question of funding Obamacare should be entirely separated from the question of funding the rest of the government. In that way, the CR would neither "defund" (ie, take away money from prior permanent appropriations) or "fund" (provide additional money to support this FY's operations) for Obamacare. I don't believe, however, that this compromise has been floated by either side so its hard to see why one side is being any more unreasonable than the other.
But even if you think the Republicans are being more unreasonable (which perhaps has less to do with their negotiating position than your views about their substantive goals), saying that someone is unreasonable is very different from calling them a terrorist.
"Mark- what I am mystified about is the theory on which Cruz, or the Republicans in general, are thought to be doing something procedurally improper (as opposed to simply disagreeing with their substantive legislative objectives)."
It's Even Worse than it Looks.
Ask Norm Ornstein
Are you capable of holding a knowledgable conversation about the deficit and debt?
But it's not about the debt; its about the tribe. The Republicans have become the functioning equivalent of the Saudi monarchy: moralizing to the base while screwing them, and wallowing in corruption, cash and muck. I drink with a retired coke dealer who used to work DC. "I was the coke dealer for neo-cons" He got a heads up to leave town after Obama was elected. The Dems had their own connections.
all so stupid
Sandy: " This is why I am often dismayed at the invective directed against Mr. DePalma, who generally adopts a tone of courtesy. "
Considering that during the last time I was here, he flat-out lied about voter suppression, I would say that the tone does not match the words.
"The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz's law-school roommates: "He said he didn't want anybody from 'minor Ivies' like Penn or Brown."
Mr. W:
King is what used to be known as a Scoop Jackson Democrat - a defense hawk and left on domestic issues.
So long as we are discussing domestic issues, King is a RINO.
Folks, Obamacare is a red line issue.
No politician who actually believes in free markets can possibly tolerate the government socializing 1/6 of the economy and simply accept this with a shrug and a comment that: "we lost and nothing can be done."
This goes beyond principle. Progressivism and socialism simply do not work and we in the US need to take a long, hard look at the slow motion civilization failure which is occurring in across Europe as their economies and populations collapse one by one.
Either we join the lemmings leaping off the cliff or turn around now. Once you have leapt off the cliff, it is too late.
This goes beyond principle.
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 6:07 PM
I assume that is why you're decided to ignore the results of the last election?
You mean the election that left Republicans in control of the House, which all funding bills have to pass? No, I don't think that's being ignored. It would be ignoring it to act as though they were a minority there, and had no choice but to pass what Democrats want.
Glad the tea klux party has no guilt about the skewed redistricting that allows them to obtain more seats in the House, despite receiving 2 million less votes.
Fact is the right wing has zero respect for the outcome of elections that don't go their way, at least in my lifetime of 32 years.
Just look at the histrionics involved with raising the debt-ceiling, after the ultimatum of accepting Romney's proposals (despite losing the election).
What I was trying to get at is this way conservatives have of writing off people who have historically been with them on this or that cause. Then they disagree on a cause and, viola, RINO!!!
"Folks, Obamacare is a red line issue."
But Rep. King voted against it. He should be written out of conservatism because he does not think much of Cruz's actions opposing it?
"You mean the election that left Republicans in control of the House, which all funding bills have to pass?"
Strange thing about that election is that, unlike the Presidential one, the one with less votes overall won. If that entire 'consent of the majority' thing has meaning then that election seems to be less evidence of a mandate.
"no choice but to pass what Democrats want"
They have a "choice" but given the Senate is controlled by the Dems and the President has veto power, our mixed government makes it necessary to compromise. That is what the Dems including the President has done over and over again. They rather not, they "want" not to, but that's how reasonable government operates.
And, since in the last election the Senate and the President was re-elected, the latter particularly in a sort of "recall" election, 1/2 of Congress blocking ACA (particularly for the reason Mark Field flagged) is problematic.
The proper republican (small 'r') way to do that is what Rep. King suggested. We were told that even with a supermajority & a year, with constant attempts of compromise that ACA was "rammed down" but now many of the same people hypocritically is much less concerned with bipartisanship.
Unless it means what the majority of 1/2 of Congress wants, the one with less of a mandate if we look at the numbers to boot.
Brett, you got fewer votes. People don't like you. A lot more will dislike you after you kill the economy, again. This isn't going to end well for you.
One could equally say, Democrats have a choice, but given that the House is controlled by Republicans, our mixed government makes it necessary for them to compromise.
Still waiting for you guys to start compromising. Say, to the extent of 1 part in 3?
Seriously, what this comes down to is that you're demanding Republicans give the finger to the people who elected them, and give YOU, not people like me, what you want. I'm HAPPY they're finally starting to put up some trivial resistance, finally beginning to not reflexively cave to you guys. I want to see more of it.
A government 'shutdown'? Cool. Stretch it out half a year or so, and a working majority of the voters might notice it's not really hurting them.
But, so long as Republicans have a majority in even one chamber, I expect them to USE IT.
Brett with this:
"A government 'shutdown'? Cool. Stretch it out half a year or so, and a working majority of the voters might notice it's not really hurting them."
once again demonstrates the "anarcho-libertarian" agenda. A declining tide lowers even the rowboats of "a working majority" and their oars might get stuck in the mud. Brett may be immune to pain but who believes that he speaks for "a working majority"?
As one of the few actual terrorists in Congress, Peter King (IRA-NY) is a particularly odd person to be flinging around allegations of "terrorism" over old-fashioned (or even new-fashioned) political hardball.
The fact that a man who fundraised for the IRA when they were blowing up British and Irish civilians is the Republicans' point man on counter-terrorism policy says more about their fundamental unseriousness than even the daftest budgetary antics.
And you, I suppose, are immune to the pain of all those people ending up in part time jobs instead of the full time they used to have, as a consequence of Obamacare? Democrats never need to take the blame for the "unintended" consequences of your brilliant ideas?
And you, I suppose, are immune to the pain of all those people ending up in part time jobs instead of the full time they used to have, as a consequence of Obamacare? Democrats never need to take the blame for the "unintended" consequences of your brilliant ideas?
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I'm sure there probably are unintended consequences from this law. Fortunately, the wingnut refusal to do anything but eliminate it means that they'll get blamed for the fact that problems are not being fixed.
But brett, your "Cool" comment focused on:
" ... a working majority of the voters might notice it's not really hurting them."
and now express concern with part-timers. So you seem to recognize that a government shut-down would result in harm, at least to those in part-time jobs. Of course a shut-down will also result in complete job losses to many voters who WILL notice it's really hurting them. Brett, blows both "cool" and "hot" at the same time in the manner of an "anarcho-libertarian."
I think the Dems are ready to compromise. We want an end to all agricultural subsidies; repeal of Taft-Hartley; doubling of Social Security; halving the size of the armed forces; a transactions tax on all stock, bond and derivatives trades; increase the maximum tax rate on earnings over, say, 5 million, to 67%; a national voter rights law which eliminates all voter suppression efforts; and the immediate resignation of at Scalia, Thomas and Alito. We're happy to repeal the ACA in return for a single payer system. There's some other stuff too, but we can start with these. What are Republicans willing to give us as part of any compromise?
Mark Field is a helper.
I'm a fair man. They can keep Scalia to keep Ginsburg company.
Seriously, some other sort of compromise will be found, just not one good enough for some. This means, using flexible use of language, Dems are getting everything they want.
Joe's right; that was unworthy of me. It should be Roberts who resigns instead.
It's also fair to add some other issues so the Republicans can't say they were sandbagged: we want proportional representation in the Senate; a constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not "people" and have no rights protected by the Constitution; a carbon tax of, say, $100/ton, which will be used to reduce the taxes of the bottom 90% of taxpayers; break up of the large banks and an order prohibiting their top managers from ever working in finance again; reimposition of Glass-Steagall; repeal of the Commodity Futures Act of 1999; an end to all tax breaks for the oil industry; an increase in unearned income taxes to 100% at $25 million and above; elimination of all "charitable" donations; and a national program for infrastructure rebuilding (I'm thinking $3 trillion, but it's negotiable).
Mark's compromise appears to be in the same spirit as the list of demands that the GOP has released. I'd like to see Reid announce that the debt limit will be increased only if Boehner agrees to those demands.
Boehner, who insists that the "o" is silent, may not he heeded if he alienates the Tea Party, then henceforward being called "former Speaker Bo[eh]ner." But what's in a name?
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The Washington Post reports that "Democrats joined Republicans to overwhelmingly approve a separate measure that would guarantee that active-duty members of the military- as well as civilians and contractors essential to their work- would get paid in the event of a shutdown. That would eliminate one of the most politically sensitive consequences for Republicans if a shutdown occurs.
But Democratic aides said the Senate was unlikely to consider that bill, either."
But, wait. If the House has overwhelmingly passed a clean CR on military funding, and the Senate refuses to approve it in order to keep the political heat on Republicans, isn't that "terrorism"? Using our military as "hostages"?
mls reaches deep down for his concept of a "clean CR." But that "clean CR" if taken up by the Senate might just trigger a Senatorial "hold" by Cruz (or Lee) preventing a resolution on a timely basis to avoid a shutdown. That's "Cruz-ing" on the shoals of the Potomac, the American version of what happened on the coast of Italy.
Perhaps mls with his insider knowledge of how the House works could explain how a "clean" separate military bill was enacted unattached to his suggestion of a "clean CR" military bill that might have pressured Democrats. Maybe mls can untangle the web of deception.
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Whenever another country is involved, I feel there's a chance for more Pennsylvania losses.
The liquor stores have functioned for many years, making money for the state as well as being self-sufficient.
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A Butler Eagle letter writer claimed the liquor stores and postal service have a monopoly. Perhaps health care is the monopoly.
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Brianna Angert of Butler and Seth Walker of Chicora were united in marriage Oct. 6, 2012, at St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church, Butler. The Rev. James Salberg officiated. A reception followed at the Butler Vagabonds.
The bride is the daughter of Todd and Nicole Angert of Butler and Stacy Neff of Butler. Parents of the bridegroom are Jim and Diane Walker of Chicora.
The honor attendant was Miranda Callihan. Bridesmaids included Kim Green, Kayla Angert, Sara Angert, Krista Wash Kau, Brittany McClean and Megan Kober.
The flower girls were Emma Green and Allison Walker.
Performing the duties of best man was Jace Hiles. Ushers included Trevor Williams, Brett Callihan, Beau Bachman, Jacob Walker, Zachary Walker and Ben McLay.
The ring bearer was Aaron Walker.
The bride is a 2008 graduate of Butler High School and a 2011 graduate of Sanford-Brown Institute.
She is employed by Butler Memorial Hospital.
The bridegroom graduated from Karns City High School in 2009 and attended Butler County Community College.
He is employed by Allegheny Ludlum in Leechburg.
Following a honeymoon trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the couple is making their home in Chicora.


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This is the second story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Yesterday, we examined how data can be collected as you go through your everyday life. Today we look at how data-tracking companies are monitoring your online behavior.
While news reports have focused on the National Security Administration and its efforts to monitor people's phone calls and online activities, private companies you have probably never heard of are also tracking what you are doing, just about everywhere you leave a digital footprint.
So, who has access to the personal information you put online? To begin to answer that question, we examined what happens to the intimate information that millions of people share with online dating sites.
"I use Match.com and OKCupid," says Jithu Ramesh, as she joins a throng of 20- and 30-somethings at Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C., cafe. Their tables and the bar counter are covered with glasses of beer and wine and platters of hummus squeezed next to their laptop computers.
Ramesh says she does not hesitate to fill out the websites' questionnaires, such as on OKCupid, because she says it's the best way to find a match.
"It asks you about your drug use, it asks you about how many sexual partners you've had, sexual habits," says Ramesh. OKCupid's computers pair people who seem to fit each other's answers. The users can then message each other anonymously until they decide if they want to reveal more.
"Usually I don't share my name until we've exchanged a few messages and I feel comfortable," says Ramesh.
But when we sit down at a computer with Ashkan Soltani, a digital privacy specialist, he reveals how unprivate this information can be.
He sets up a fake account at OKCupid.com to demonstrate how private companies are tracking what you're doing online.
Soltani used to work at the Federal Trade Commission, where he helped investigate how Google and Facebook handle consumers' privacy. Now a private consultant, Soltani has testified before Congress and written widely about Internet privacy issues.
OKCupid's questionnaire asks Soltani for a wide range of information, including his gender, age, income, religion, ethnicity, whether he's "left wing" or "right wing," and whether he supports abortion. It also asks if he drinks alcohol and uses drugs. "And I'm going to pretend that I drink very often," Soltani says, clicking on that answer. "For drugs, I select 'often,' just for the purposes of this interview."
Then, Soltani launches two software programs — Collusion and MITM Proxy — that, in effect, pull the curtain aside and show the inner workings of the Internet. The Collusion program reveals that almost 50 companies are tracking Soltani's computer as he visits the dating site. The program depicts each company as a white circle against a black background, labeled with its name. Some of those companies are advertising firms, while others collect information and then sell it to ad firms or industry research companies.
There's nothing unusual about OKCupid — websites commonly allow other companies to monitor what users are doing on their sites.
MITM Proxy, the other program Soltani uses, shows information that those companies are receiving from OKCupid as Soltani visits the website. Some receive basic information such as his age, gender and body type. Others get more personal details. "They know that we're Middle Eastern, drinking very often, smoking, yes," Soltani reads.
And the software shows that at least one company, Lotame, learned that Soltani uses drugs "often." Executives at Lotame didn't return our emails and phone calls, and a spokesman at OKCupid declined an interview. However, Lotame's website states, "Lotame does not buy, sell, or otherwise use information related to drug use frequency." But Soltani's software shows us in black and white: Even if Lotame doesn't use that information, Lotame receives it from OKCupid.
"So by me being naive and disclosing to OKCupid that I do drugs," Soltani says about his made-up answers, "this company that I've never heard of gets to know that I commit a crime."
A Not-So 'Creepy' Explanation For Data Collecting
The head of a national group financed by the Internet industry shakes his head when he hears that executives at OKCupid, Lotame and other companies would not give us interviews about how they track people's computers on the Web.
"I think companies haven't figured out how to talk to people about data or privacy," says Jules Polonetsky, executive director of the Future of Privacy Forum. "And we think that's a big part of why the industry has such a bad rap. They're worried that [consumers'] reaction will be, 'That's creepy. I don't like it.' "
But Polonetsky says most companies that track users have an innocent explanation: They are helping other companies advertise their products directly to you, or personalizing their service to buy your loyalty. Have you ever wondered: Weird, I keep getting ads for running shoes; how do they know I jog?
"The other day I downloaded a prayer book app," says Polonetsky. "The first thing it did when I opened it up, it asked me for location, and I'm like, what?"
He says he couldn't figure out why a prayer book app would ever need to know his GPS coordinates. But then the app sent him information on the closest synagogues, including their scheduled prayers.
"So it was actually trying to help me," he says.
Polonetsky says that most of the companies that track users don't know their personal identities. But he acknowledges that the companies can identify their computers. Every time you browse the Internet, companies can put invisible markers on your computer called cookies.
In theory, nobody else's computer has the same cookie. In addition, your Internet service provider tags your computer with another marker known as an IP address. So, as you browse the Web, companies can recognize your computer as it moves from site to site — knowing, for example, that the same computer or mobile device that downloaded Jewish prayers last week also checked out new cars a month ago, researched asthma and heart disease a few months ago, and scouted for hotels in Hawaii last night.
To reassure users who think this kind of tracking is "creepy," as Polonetsky puts it, some Internet providers let you click on a feature now labeled "Do Not Track," or similar language. But researchers such as Jonathan Mayer, of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, say the feature usually doesn't prevent companies from tracking you — it's merely a supplication. Many companies ignore it.
Most companies "go to some great length" to keep your name, email and any personal information from being linked with your searches, Polonetsky says.
Leaks In Personal Data
But some computer researchers say their studies contradict that. "One of the greatest myths about Web privacy is, 'Don't worry, it's all anonymous,' " says Mayer. "There are, in fact, many ways that what you do online is not anonymous."
Mayer and his Stanford colleagues studied almost 200 companies on the Internet, from Home Depot to Facebook. The results showed that more than 60 percent of those websites leaked personal information, such as usernames or email addresses, to other companies that track you.
Researchers use the term "leak" to suggest that the tracking companies may have received the personal information inadvertently. Mayer says inadvertent or not, that information would make it easy for law enforcement or private companies to figure out a computer user's actual identity.
"I at least take many of these companies at face value," says Mayer, "when they say, 'We don't want to know who the users are; we just want to show them a more relevant ad.' " But, Mayer says, "there's a world of difference as far as privacy goes between, 'We know who you are — we just at present don't act on that information,' and, 'We have no way of knowing who you are.' "
Mayer also says that as a handful of companies take over more and more of the digital world, it's becoming even easier to profile Internet users. To give one example, Mayer logs onto Google with the username and password of a willing NPR producer, Emma Anderson.
"And I don't mean to really single out Google," says Mayer, as he logs in to her account. In fact, he says Google is more open than many companies are about some of the personal information it collects.
He clicks through Google's menu until he comes to a section that reveals details about Anderson's life — including appointments and Internet searches that she forgot. For example, the name of the man with whom Anderson had scheduled a meeting on her calendar, her idle Web search one day for the latest gossip about TV reality star Kim Kardashian and her new baby, the YouTube videos Anderson has watched, and the confidential NPR projects she is researching, which she stores in Google's cloud.
Google also knows Anderson went to a pizza bar on M Street NW in Washington, D.C., because she used Google Maps to get there.
A Google spokesperson declined an interview, but sent a written statement: "We are committed to keeping people's information safe and helping them control their personal data."
Google has reported in the past that law enforcement demanded information from its users' accounts more than 21,000 times last year. Google has sometimes resisted, but a company report says it turned over information for roughly two-thirds of the requests. Other big companies like Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft say they get tens of thousands of requests from law enforcement, too. But none of the companies has revealed exactly what kinds of information they surrender.
Meanwhile, back at Busboys and Poets, we told Ramesh that the intimate details she puts on OKCupid might not be as private as she would like.
"It doesn't bother me," she says about big companies or corporations getting access to her personal information. "I feel like I'm just a statistic, or data for them. Will my mom have access to it?" Ramesh asked. "Probably not."
Research for this story by NPR's Emma Anderson.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
This week, we're exploring the many ways you share personal information with the digital universe, whether you know it or not. When you search online, when you shop, when you look for love.
And as NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports, if you leave a digital footprint, private companies you've likely never heard of are keeping track.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, BYLINE: We stopped by a popular cafe one evening here in Washington, D.C. Lots of 20 and 30-somethings, beer and wine, plates of hummus. And the first three we talk to say, yep, they share intimate details about themselves on the Internet.
Hi, guys. Could I ask you a question for a second? Have you ever used one of those dating sites online?
SASHA: Yes, I met my current boyfriend of three years on OKCupid.
ZWERDLING: Can I use your name?
SASHA: Use my first name. It's Sasha.
JITHU RAMESH: My name is Jithu Ramesh. I've tried OKCupid, Match.com.
ZWERDLING: Have you ever used a dating site? Millions of people do. And they spotlight one of the most sensitive questions in the digital world: Who has access to the personal information you put on the Web? Consider OKCupid.
RAMESH: It asks you about your drug use. It asks you about, like, the number of sexual partners you've had, sexual habits.
ZWERDLING: And did you answer those kinds of questions honestly?
RAMESH: I did.
ZWERDLING: Because websites like OKCupid work by automatically matching people who seem to fit each other's answers. Then those people can message each other, anonymously, until they decide if they want to reveal more.
RAMESH: Yeah, usually I don't share my name until we've exchanged a few messages and I feel comfortable. And I feel like, yes, I'm going to meet you.
ZWERDLING: An understandable attempt to protect her privacy. But back at the office, I sit down with a computer privacy specialist and he gives us a striking demonstration...
ZWERDLING: ...to show how un-private the Internet can be. He signs up with OKCupid, as we watch.
ASKHAN SOLTANI: It's creating an account now on this site.
ZWERDLING: And now, OKCupid has said Hooray - exclamation mark.
SOLTANI: That's right. So we're now signing in and we have to choose a username.
ZWERDLING: Ashkan Soltani used to work at the Federal Trade Commission. He helped investigate how Google and Facebook handle consumers' privacy. Now he studies the industry as a private consultant.
SOLTANI: And then we have to create a password.
ZWERDLING: And first, Soltani shows us what you see when you go to OKCupid.com. Sure enough, the personal questionnaire pops up on the screen. OKCupid wants to know your sex, age, job, your income.
SOLTANI: Your ethnicity, your body type.
ZWERDLING: Your religion.
SOLTANI: Your diet.
ZWERDLING: Do you support the right to abortion? Are you left-wing or right-wing? How much do you drink?
SOLTANI: And I'm going to pretend that I drink very often.
ZWERDLING: And then OKCupid asks this question: How often do you take drugs?
SOLTANI: For drugs I selected "often" just for the purpose of this interview.
ZWERDLING: And now, Soltani is going to show us what you don't see. He launches special software that basically pulls the curtain aside and shows the inner workings of the Internet. Suddenly, we see what looks like lots of white ping-pong balls moving on a black background. Each of those balls is a different company that's monitoring him as he visits OKCupid.com. He starts counting the companies.
SOLTANI: Oh, wow. This is a lot. One, two, three, four, five, six...
ZWERDLING: There's nothing unusual about OKCupid. Websites commonly allow other companies to monitor what you're doing on their site.
ZWERDLING: But unless you know how to reveal those companies, as Soltani does, they're pretty much invisible.
ZWERDLING: It turns out that 50 companies are tracking Soltani's computer on OKCupid.com. Some are advertising firms, others just collect information and then sell it to ad firms. Soltani's software shows that some companies are getting basic information like his age, gender, body type. Others get more personal.
SOLTANI: They know that we're Middle Eastern, drinking very often, smoking, yes.
ZWERDLING: And the software shows that at least one company has learned that Soltani uses drugs often. That company is called Lotame. Lotame's website states, quote, "Lotame does not buy, sell, or otherwise use information related to drug use frequency," unquote. But the software shows it in black and white: Soltani's drug answer has gone to Lotame, even if they're not using it.
So this company most of us have never heard of, Lotame, learned that you do drugs.
SOLTANI: That's right. So by me being naive and disclosing to OKCupid that I do drugs, this company, Lotame, that I've never heard of, gets to know that I commit a crime.
ZWERDLING: Soltani says, please remember, he made up that answer and others for this demonstration. In any case, we got in touch with OKCupid and Lotame, and many of the other companies that were tracking him at OKCupid. None would give us an interview. So we met with the head of a group that's mainly financed by Internet companies. It's called the Future of Privacy Forum.
One company after another, the executives have said they will not talk with us.
JULES POLONETSKY: Clearly, there are folks who haven't figured out how to make the case for what they're doing. And we think that's a big part of why the industry has such a bad rap.
ZWERDLING: Jules Polonetsky is executive director of the forum. Dozens of leading companies support it, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Lotame. The group is trying to find common ground between industry and privacy advocates.
POLONETSKY: I think companies haven't figured out how to talk to people about data or privacy. They're worried that their reaction will be: that's creepy, I don't like it.
ZWERDLING: But he says, you know what, most of the companies that track you have an innocent explanation. They're helping other companies advertise their products directly to you. Have you ever wondered: Weird, I keep getting ads for running shoes - how do they know I jog?
POLONETSKY: There's nothing they should be ashamed of if what they're doing is fair and honest. Hey, we're trying to sell you stuff.
ZWERDLING: Polonetsky says it's true, some companies ask for information that seems too personal.
POLONETSKY: The other day I downloaded a prayer book app. And the first thing it did when I opened it up, it asked me for location. And I'm like what, what? Hey, you're some righteous prayer book kind of thing, what are you also doing this? Later on, I learned it was going to also tell me where the closest synagogue was. So it was actually trying to help me, but it didn't say so up front and so I had my guard up right away.
ZWERDLING: In any case, Polonetsky says, most of the companies that track you don't really know who you are. Now, they do know your computer, because every time you browse the Internet, the companies that track you put invisible markers on your computer. They're called cookies, and cookies are like your own ID tag. In theory, nobody else's computer in the world has the same one.
In addition, your Internet company tags your computer in another way; it's called an IP address. So, as you browse the Internet, some companies can recognize, hey, that's the same computer that downloaded Jewish prayers last week and was checking out new cars the other day and was researching asthma and was looking at hotels in Hawaii. But Polonetsky says...
POLONETSKY: Most of these companies go to some great length to keep this non-personal, to keep your name, your email, your explicit information from being linked together with that.
ZWERDLING: To which some computer specialists say...
JONATHAN MAYER: One of the greatest myths about Web privacy is don't worry 'cause it's all anonymous. And there are in fact many ways in which what you do online is not anonymous.
ZWERDLING: Jonathan Mayer researches Web privacy at Stanford University. He's with their Center for Internet and Society. And listen to this. He and his colleagues at Stanford studied almost 200 companies on the Internet, from Home Depot to Facebook. The Stanford researchers found that more than 60 percent of those websites leaked personal information to other companies that track you.
Leak, that's a term Web researchers use. It means the tracking companies might have received personal information inadvertently, or maybe not. The trackers got usernames or email addresses or other information that could make it easy to figure out who you are.
MAYER: I, at least, take many of these companies at face value when they say we don't want to know who the users are, we just want to show them a more relevant ad. But, of course, there's a world of difference - as far as privacy goes - between we know who you are, we just at present don't act on that information, and we have no way of knowing who you are.
ZWERDLING: And as a handful of companies takes over more and more of the digital world, it's becoming even easier to know who you are. Mayer points to Google.
MAYER: And I don't mean to really single out Google. In fact, I actually think Google, on balance, does a lot better than many companies.
ZWERDLING: Mayer means that Google is more open than many companies are about the personal information they collect. If you have an account, you can go to a section on Google that shows some of the details it's gathered about your life. To give us a glimpse, Mayer looked up information that Google has archived about one of our producers. Her name is Emma Anderson. She gave him her password.
MAYER: Google here is indicating that there is a calendar, an event scheduled on that calendar was talking with J.D., not quite sure who J.D. is, on August 15th.
EMMA ANDERSON: Yeah, J.D. is a friend from my university. I didn't realize that I had synched my calendar, I guess, to my Google account.
MAYER: A Web history is kind of interesting. So I guess you were looking into Kim Kardashian's kid just a few days back.
ANDERSON: (Laughing) Apparently I was, yeah, just on my phone, I think.
ZWERDLING: This one company, Google, also knows what YouTube videos our producer has watched. It knows about her NPR projects, which she stores in Google's cloud.
MAYER: The document you worked on most recently is called "Full State by State."
ANDERSON: Another story that I'm working on.
ZWERDLING: Google's computers know where she's gone.
MAYER: You navigated to possibly a bar on M Street in Washington, just a few days back.
ANDERSON: Oh, it's a - yeah, it's a pizza place and I guess there's a bar.
ZWERDLING: We asked Google's spokesperson for a recorded interview and she declined. She sent a written statement, quote, "We are committed to keeping people's information safe and helping them control their personal data," unquote.
MAYER: Okay. Let's see. You were looking to buy a Carl Sagan autograph earlier in the year.
ANDERSON: Yeah, my boyfriend's birthday was coming up. He's into Carl Sagan.
ZWERDLING: So far, Google won't say whether police or, say, the FBI have gotten access to those kinds of personal details. Google has reported that law enforcement demanded information from its user accounts more than 21,000 times last year. Google has sometimes resisted, but a Google report says the company ended up turning over information in response to roughly two-thirds of those requests.
Other big companies like Yahoo and Facebook and Microsoft say they get tens of thousands of requests from law enforcement, too. Meanwhile, back at the cafe bar in Washington, D.C., we told one of the customers, Jithu Ramesh, you know those intimate details you put on the dating site, they might not be as private as you think. Does it bother you?
RAMESH: It doesn't bother me when somebody is - like, something is as removed as like a company, like a big corporation looking at it. It's not personal at all to me. I feel like I'm just a statistic or data for them. Will my mom have access to it? Probably not.
ZWERDLING: But know who can get access to some of your personal digital files? Your neighborhood lawyer. It turns out that some states consider private attorneys to be officers of the court, so lawyers can issue subpoenas for your phone texts, credit card records, even your digital medical files, despite the HIPAA law. Lawyers say that's one of the best ways to dig up dirt these days on people like cheating spouses. Daniel Zwerdling, NPR News.
BLOCK: Our story was co-reported by G.W. Schulz at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Tomorrow, we'll hear how the Bill of Rights has failed to keep up with the digital age. For more on our series, you can go to npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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