Joe Barton (T-TX) once again confirmed that he is willing to pass off any information as fact in his maniacal effort to discredit ACA.
This morning he arrogantly brought out another smoking gun: he produced a screenshot of some source code from the healthcare.gov website. The code contained the line "You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or any data transiting or stored on this information system."
Joe was, perhaps, trying to prop up his baseless and discredited claim that healtcare.gov violates HIPAA. But it came off as an accusation of something nefarious going on with the site. He didn't say what that thing is, but it's bad, mkay?
What struck me was the fact that the code, was that starting on line 1406 and ending on line 1411, that piece of code was COMMENTED OUT!
Yes, the offending text, the smoking gun, was bracketed by the <!-- --> html tag which stops it from showing up on the website.