Breaking: Wikileaks reveals 467 cellphone numbers from Coleman database

By Paul Schmelzer
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 4:44 pm

cellphoneWikileaks has again made available sensitive data from Norm Coleman’s senate campaign. this morning, the site made available “[d]etails of the 467 subscribers to Senator Norm Coleman’s SMS ‘Alert’ service” as well as links where the information can be downloaded. Wikileaks.org is hosting the data, but the other 13 mirror sites are located around the world, in places like Tonga, Latvia, the Netherlands and the U.S. The site’s explanation seems to suggest more political motives than previously revealed: “The list, and its order, reveals key players in Senator Coleman’s political machine.” The leaked information is rumored to include names cellphone numbers, e-mail addresses, zip codes and provider name.

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PJN2112
Comment posted March 13, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

I think that the incremental releases of info parsed from the Coleman database suggests that WikiLeaks has only recently received the database. Had they received it circa Jan. 28th, they would have had ample time to parse the various fields and dump them into spreadsheets to be included in one massive story link rather than numerous smaller stories. Other than this observation, I think I’ve heard just about all I need. Coleman screwed the pooch and left his supporters most vital data hanging out there – Data that might prove to any interested legal authorities that Team Coleman failed to follow the rule of law when it comes to the collection and compilation of information. There’s really no need to publish the names and sensitive info of folks who did nothing other than support a specific political candidate. I’m as liberal as they come, but this is getting ridiculous. WikiLeaks proved the point they originally wanted to make – That Coleman screwed up. We all know he screwed up. Hammer him, not his victims/supporters.


Tim Barsness
Comment posted March 14, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

Wikileaks thrashes the people that trust Coleman. Well big boo hoo. Now they know how the
rest of us feel when we get our data shoved around to spammers, phoners, insurance companies
and the criminal banks that Coleman supported as a “free market” jerk.

Back a criminal, you’re an accessory.


Dave Porter
Comment posted March 14, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

All these stories on all these websites amounts to gaming Google.

It’s the next step in the ever-evolving construction of echo machines that serve to confirm and re-confirm
one’s pre-existing point of view.

The problem with this sort of thing is that we each end up hibernating within our own preconceptions and
further divide ourselves against our fellow Americans.

Slice and dice got rolling with Nixon, accelerated with Rove, and is going into hyper-drive now that
the progressive liberals realize how effective and easy it is.

Coleman’s going down. That’s a done deal. How about Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, whose specious bribery conviction was engineered by Karl Rove? Looks like he’s going back to jail unless people wake up enough to give Obama enough cover to cut through the b.s. and pardon the guy. And Dick Scushy, the supposed briber? He’s still in federal pen for being so terrible as to donate money towards supporting a lottery that would have improved the public schools. In exchange, he got appointed to an unpaid advisory board with no authority and no power. Big whoop.


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