“A memo the Obama administration turned over to the House Oversight Committee revealed that the White House granted itself a waiver to launch the faulty HealthCare.gov website with ‘a level of uncertainty.’ The waiver was granted four days before the Oct. 1 launch of the Obamacare website, even though it was ‘deemed as a high (security) risk,’ according to CBS News. CBS News reports tests to secure customer information privacy on the federal health exchange website fell behind schedule, with a required top-to-bottom security test before the launch of the site never getting done.”
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