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2003-06-27
The Hartford Advocate has a piece called We're Not Making This Up: You can't talk back to the Office of Homeland Security, the basic jist of which is as follows:
...[T]his reporter was confounded last week at the arrival of several faxes, here at the Advocate's office, from the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Cabinet department created by President George W. Bush in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, to consolidate America's defenses against future and potential terrorist attacks. The faxes failed to include contact information for the agency's press offices, and did not include details concerning from where, specifically, the fax had come. The fax claimed to come from the Office of the Press Secretary, but that person wasn't named. There were no names or phone numbers or addresses on the fax. As the article points out, this is against the law:
...[E]very fax transmission must include what is called "identifying information," to allow recipients of said faxes the opportunity to respond to the whoever had sent it. That's the law -- the Federal Communications Commission, an independent United States government office requires that, at the top of all fax transmissions, the name and telephone number of the fax's originator be displayed.
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