More: Exposing the Obama campaign’s illegal foreign-donor loophole
Is the non-use of CVV code verification simply an oversight or mistake made by Obama for America? Most likely, no. The Obama campaign is willing to pay millions in fees in order to accept unsecured contributions on their donation page without the CVV code. Attorney Kenneth Sukhia analyzed the GAI’s findings and this revelation in the following way in a separate report…
OFA isn’t run by amateurs and has a highly sophisticated online presence. OFA is known as the “gold standard” in online technology with a Facebook co-founder, veteran YouTube videographer and an award-winning CNN producer keeping everything running smoothly.
Not to mention, the campaign obviously sees the benefits in using a CVV code to prevent fraud. After all, OFA uses a CVV security code for merchandise purchases. To purchase a sweatshirt or other item in the OFA store, a CVV code must be entered at check out, but the donation page does not require a credit card security code to be used. In addition, the chief technology officer of the Obama campaign, Harper Reed, is a former chief technology officer of the T-shirt company Threadless. Threadless requires a CVV code for online purchases. They clearly know how CVV codes work.
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its not enough, unless you could find the organizations who are creating thousands of dummy accounts to illegally funnel money to Obama its just another campaign finance mess, and this country does not lose sleep over such things.
rob verdi on October 8, 2012 at 9:29 AM
This stuff has been known since 2008
http://www.nysun.com/national/secret-money-floods-campaigns/71113/
jp on October 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM
So, what’s going to be done about it? Does anyone actually care?
petefrt on October 8, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Legally? Nothing will be done. At least not before Election Day. Politically it can be very damaging if Romney surrogates bring this up. Especially if it turns out as reported that there’s a Chinese connection in all of this.
Doughboy on October 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM
What happened to Newsweek’s story on this? That’s the only way this gets out beyond conservative media.
changer1701 on October 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM
I bet Putin is behind a lot of the bank rolls.
jp on October 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Yeah, deja vu. The FEC fine, if any, is a small percentage of the take, so they pay it and pocket the net. O-bots regard the fine as just another cost of doing business.
petefrt on October 8, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Well, here’s hoping more is made of it than in 2008. I don’t recall any serious damage in 2008, but then again, that was McCain, wasn’t it.
petefrt on October 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM
@rob verdi–
True. They know of “mr. Good Will,” but not “his” true identity. This was all known in 2008, but electing the first black president was more important than following laws. Maybe now the general public is ready to look at Obama’s “content of character.”
conservative pilgrim on October 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Ace was all over this during 2008 and surprise, it was picked up by NOONE!
I don’t understand why you conservatives even complain about this kind of garbage anymore. Unless you are going to march on NBC studios to report this you might as well watch another episode of Swamp People. They get to play by a different set of rules and whining about it on a blog will accomplish nothing.
ClassicCon on October 8, 2012 at 9:46 AM
A cartoon from 2008:
http://guvsux.com/guvsux_20081023.jpg
The media didn’t care then, and the media doesn’t care now.
beatcanvas on October 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Most corrupt White House ever.
RBMN on October 8, 2012 at 9:52 AM
No official investigation will come of this, of course. A Super PAC could put out an ad, though.
RedRedRice on October 8, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Gee…Maybe the Attorney General should look into this…oh wait.
NeoKong on October 8, 2012 at 10:00 AM
This is NOT enought proof. We need proven examples of foreign credit cards being used. The article even said nothing illegal has been proven. If we go in like this – the Democrats will just use it against us. Where are hackers like Anonymous now and Julian Assmaggot? I guess these sorts of secrets and corruption arent worth exposing to those maggots. So close…..
gozzak on October 8, 2012 at 10:10 AM
This is the “big” story we have been waiting for?
WisCon on October 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Ugh between the Derrick Bell video, the “race” video from last week, and this, I’m really starting to get pissed about RW media over-hyping their stories. This is old news and we all know fraud is happening but because the way the laws are written, nothing can be proven.
Fezzik on October 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM
INC on October 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM
http://campaignfundingrisks.com/interactive-map/
Click on any state to see which candidates have/don’t have security.
INC on October 8, 2012 at 10:50 AM
It’s not about “foreign credit cards”, it’s about foreign money. Patterico does a good breakdown here.
An example, from one of his commenters:
“There can be no doubt that the Obama web site is wide open for foreign money and fraud. I was over at a buddy’s house a month ago, I watched him log onto the Obama site, use his Visa card to donate $5, with no request for security code. he was moved to a page that asked for his personal info.
He entered Josef Stalin, Apt. 2, the Kremlin, Red Square, Moscow. Job–General Secretary. Employer: Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
It took the donation. his account was charged a couple of days later.”
The problem is getting this past the MSM-Obama firewall so the FEC can’t ignore it. Romney surrogates and GOP congressional leaders (such as they are) should be pounding away at this.
whatcat on October 8, 2012 at 11:28 AM
These transactions are incredibly easy to trace with or without CVV2. Visa and MC would cease to exist if they could not trace these transactions.
Your fraud department of your local bank can do it with a phone call when it happens to you.
Romney could hire a few specialists and make a few points about DooDad Pro and his pals.
One wonders why he hasn’t at this point? It would require a handful of lawyers, ITSEC folks, and a PR. Boom.
CorporatePiggy on October 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Doughboy is right here – well, may be right.
As part of a package – a package on lawlessness, listing just the highlights of law-breaking in the last 3 years, from the inspector general firing in the first month to F&F to the HHS Sec.’s Hatch Act violation etc.
Something for surrogates/Super PACs to hammer on. With a tone of ridicule, and alarm. And as ALWAYS, explicitly mention the dereliction of the “press” in all this, for failing to do what most people think is their job in exposing wrongdoing or pressuring govt. figures for action and accountability. (The Gallup survey and the business numbers don’t lie – the media has a very lowered standing with the public, its role is key, and making them and their collapse part of every response and every story forces their hand and pounds on that open wound of declining credibility).
Lawlessness has always been one of the themes that the GOP campaign this year should feature. From the soft end to the hard (criminal) end of the spectrum – no budget for 3 cycles, failure to defend laws such as DOMA, disregarding the law in immigration enforcement, illegal executive orders, actual felonious criminal acts such as F&F and related obstruction of justice.
I don’t want Romney to win because I like him, or because I hate the other guy – it’s because I expect specific, concrete improvements in governance (huge ones, in this case). I’d like the law, the constitution, and the country to mean something (and I know that’s also how we prosper). Making rule of law part of the campaign means it’s one of the things that can shape a new administration.
IceCold on October 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Funny. I clicked on my state and found … Repub sites secured and Dems … not! Shocked, I tell ya! Not.
IrishEyes on October 8, 2012 at 12:07 PM