Posted on 12/17/2013 3:27:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
'We didn't really care for a PR pitch' about Obamacare, said one executive
The White House telegraphed in advance that the president wanted to talk up his efforts to fix healthcare.gov, but no one in the room was interested
Tech executives gathered in the Roosevelt Room to discuss the NSA's overreach in seizing their digital records
A federal judge ruled Monday that the practice violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees against unreasonable searches
'That wasn't what we came for,' a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline. 'We really didn't care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.'
One executive said that meeting participants were dead-set against straying from the principal focus of the meeting – the uncomfortable and legally untenable position they are in when the National Security Agency demands access to their digital records.
The White House said in advance that the meeting would include a discussion of healthcare.gov, but the company executive said the only subject that mattered to the participants was the NSA.
'He basically hijacked the meeting,' the executive said. 'We all told the White House that we were only there to talk about what the NSA was up to and how it affects us.'
The unnamed business leader told the paper that 'there's only one subject that people really want to discuss right now.'
The 15 companies, including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Apple and Etsy, issued a one-line joint statement after the 150-minute marathon meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room, saying that they 'appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform.'
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Digital meets Diabolical.
Stop yer b*tchin - you all voted for the putz.
Ping!
If I read thru the covering, it looks like some high tech CEO’s are getting tired of cleaning up Obama’s mess.
Some of these guys are hard core lefty’s but they do have companies to run.
Silicon Valley is not forgiving of bad CEO’s.
me me me me me me me.....sick &^%*
“If I read thru the covering, it looks like some high tech CEO’s are getting tired of cleaning up Obama’s mess.”
No, it’s more than that. They don’t mind carrying his water, but the NSA revelations have put them in a legal pickle. They complied with requests from the NSA, assuming they were lawful, but it is apparent now that they were not. That may leave these companies open to massive legal liabilities for violating their own privacy agreements. That is what they are really upset about.
Talk don’t do squat.
Since the NSA actions and so-called warrants are all so super-secret then when the NSA people show up at your company you have your security folks dispose of them properly. Then when the NSA comes around to look for them you simply say that you can’t discuss anything because of a national security directive.
Problem solved.
Oh, and for those folks at the NSA who are tweaked because I suggested that you all deserve to be thrown down a wood chipper for what you’re doing to Americans?
Yeah, bite me.
No, many of them stayed home because Romney wasn't conservative enough. Kamikaze conservatives have a real knack for helping liberals get elected. They are now even talking about a third party. Shear madness!
I think that’s good. He’s flailing.
Forget the lemonade stand - the guy can’t even run a meeting
Silicon Valley CEO’s thought Romney wasn’t conservative enough? You must not be from here.
You can stay out in the pumpkin patch and keep wishing for Republicans to be conservative then.
Honestly, tell me, with Romney, what would be different?
Reid would still be pushing the GOPe around, bonehead would be giving in as usual and Romney would “moderate” himself to keep Reid and CO happy.
Shades of Fast and Furious when gun dealers smartly contacted lawyers before dealing with atf.
Yup, and at some point. Lucy will let them kick the football.
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