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wow was that a security camera within a room? isn't that some sort of breach of privacy?
Report: Video shows Vance McAllister kissing staffer
Freshman GOP Rep. Vance McAllister of Louisiana — who ran for office as a principled conservative Christian — has been caught on video in a romantic encounter with a woman believed to be on his congressional staff just before Christmas.
The Ouachita Citizen, a newspaper based in West Monroe, La., posted a Dec. 23 surveillance video purportedly from inside McAllister’s district office in Monroe.
The video shows McAllister kissing a woman identified by the newspaper as a congressional staffer for the first-term lawmaker. Federal payroll records show she is a part-time aide who began working for McAllister the day after he won his seat last year.
McAllister won a special election on Nov. 16 to replace Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.). McAllister won in the heavily Republican district by playing up his conservative credentials, including his Christian faith and his 16-year marriage.
McAllister’s Washington office door was locked Monday. He issued a statement in the afternoon apologizing for the incident and asking for forgiveness.
McAllister also asked for privacy as his family deals with the fallout from the scandal. McAllister and his wife, Kelly, have five children.
“There’s no doubt I’ve fallen short and I’m asking for forgiveness. I’m asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff, and my cons uents who elected me to serve,” McAllister said in his statement.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...er-105435.html
wow was that a security camera within a room? isn't that some sort of breach of privacy?
dunno, there's a link to the video on the story
yeah i watched the video. looked like security cameras with night vision in a private room...
i don't know what's more concerning here, the fact that politicians publicly display a lie to get elected (which we all know) or that people resort to clear breaches of personal privacy in order to oust politicians in apparently politically motivated acts.
looks like a video of a screen of the monitor of a multi-camera security system. It's standard for lots of security cameras, even cheap ones, to have infrared LEDs that switch on when the light level drops, so the camera works in darkness.
What's a questionable here is why they resorted to videoing the monitor screen rather using the server software to export just camera's video segment to an external file, eg, of a crime for police evidence, or to send to TruTV to show on "World's Dumbest" Christian Hypocrites.
Looks as if whoever video'd the screen didn't have enough privilege in the server software (or didn't know how) to export the segment, which would have been much higher quality.
Nor did whoever took the video of the screen know he could, or didn't know how, to playback that one segment fullscreen.
No breach of privacy. Probably not the hypocrite's premises anyway.
totally a breach of privacy...especially if as you are assuming, someone who didn't have official access to the security cameras did take video. come on boutons.
no breach of privacy.
The hypocrite was probably, if not obviously, on somebody else's apparently commercial premises secured with video cameras. He has no right to privacy on somebody's else premises.
If the inculpating video of the screen was not done by the owner of the premises, then the video was STOLEN from the owner, but no breach of privacy of the subject in the video. You're saying a customer in a store has right to privacy of not being recorded.
lol what it was on the grounds of his office? no two wrongs make a right.
At least he's not a like the last GOP'er caught tbh
if you can't agree that the measures used to obtain that footage and disperse it to an outlet with full intention of outing someone isn't more extreme than the crime itself, then i have lost all faith in humanity. mr. orwell would agree.
if it was HIS office, then how did he not know HIS office was running a security camera system? oh, right, it's redneck Louisiana dumb God lover.
you've never done something stupid in the heat of the moment in a private setting? okay.
There’s no doubt I’ve fallen short and I’m asking for forgiveness. I’m asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff, and my cons uents who elected me to serve,” McAllister said in his statement.
So tongue was involved. It's all good though, he has asked for forgiveness.
Look, when you run on your moral Christian values, there are no heat of the moment events. And if there are, you have lied to your cons uents so time to resign, like a good Christian.
no, and he has every right to be thrown to the wolves. however, i think both the act committed and how it was caught should carry equal weight in the court of public opinion.
Looks like it was probably a Security Guard who was on watch and has probably seen this many times before and decided to video the screen in anticipation of it happening again.The incident occurred at roughly 1:39 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2013, inside McAllister’s congressional office at 1900 Stubbs Ave., Suite B, in Monroe.
Probably not a breach of privacy, but I get The Reckoning's point that society continually stoops lower and lower to "get" people. With that said, doesn't excuse the hypocrite from being a hypocrite.
It all depends on the purpose of the cameras. If they were installed to deter theft, then usually there is nothing illegal with doing that.
Similar to dressing room surveillance in clothing stores.
heil hydra
Looks like grounds for termination on a security guard or something... you would think he would know there are security cameras in his workplace...
This thread made me curious enough to Google "liberal christian".
Found some gems.
This would have had to be taped by the security working at the time. It was a real time recording, and I'm pretty sure someone lost their job over this. That is, unless the security room was unmanned and someone broke in.
Raw clip:
Actually, I would like to revise my "lost job" statement.
I can access my security system real time on the internet. All someone needs is the link and password, though that did look like the base system.
Definitely a fireable offense.
Heat of the moment...
They have known each other, in more intimate ways.
I got money on that. The casual couple. Bah...
Does anyone care if this is a guy with values that include go for it, the wife has her own staffer meetings?
I don't.
He's no mare a hypocrite than any other politician, portraying an image for votes.
I love technology, but it is the abuse by those who I say are the scourge. Such people in positions of trust, need to be severely punished for violations of that trust. I hope this guy is fired and the revelation of his backstabbing follows him.
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