{"id":21492,"date":"2014-09-18T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21492"},"modified":"2014-09-18T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:10:15","slug":"a-%e2%80%9ccover-up%e2%80%9d-of-healthcare-govs-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21492\/a-%e2%80%9ccover-up%e2%80%9d-of-healthcare-govs-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cCover-Up\u201d of Healthcare.gov&#8217;s Security Risks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one Obama administration official is complaining of<a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2014\/09\/18\/government-insider-warned-healthcare-gov-security-risks-tired-cover-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a \u201ccover-up\u201d that seeks to conceal \u201chigh-risk\u201d security weaknesses<\/a> in Healthcare.gov, the federal website where millions of Americans input their private health and financial data.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive allegation came to light when House Oversight Committee investigators uncovered an email from a mid-level official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) saying she is \u201ctired of the cover-ups,\u201d and that she intended to give \u201ca truthful update of exactly what was going on\u201d in a status report she was tasked to write.<\/p>\n<p>CMS is the federal agency responsible for overseeing the development, launch and maintenance of Healthcare.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative reporter Sharyl Atkisson broke the story for The Daily Signal.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is particularly bad for CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner who is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee today.<\/p>\n<p>Previous reporting documented specific instances where CMS officials in charge of the website\u2019s security were either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/memo-warned-of-limitless-security-risks-for-healthcaregov\/ \" target=\"_blank\">mislead or kept in the dark<\/a> about the portal\u2019s &#8220;limitless&#8221; security risks.<\/p>\n<p>This new revelation will only increase the suspicion that the integrity of Americans\u2019 private information takes a backseat to whatever saves face for the Obama administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one Obama administration official is complaining of a \u201ccover-up\u201d that seeks to conceal \u201chigh-risk\u201d security weaknesses in Healthcare.gov, the federal website where millions of Americans input their private health and financial data. The explosive allegation came to light when House Oversight Committee investigators uncovered an email from a mid-level official at the Centers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21498,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492\/revisions\/21498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}