Unanswered questions about the Internet Snitch Brigade
Guy Benson asks them:
One gentleman told me he’d emailed Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) to register opposition to the House health care bill. He received an email response from Bean’s office the next day (entirely appropriate), followed by the Axelrod email a few days later. Another caller said she’d contacted Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) office for a similar reason. She, too, heard first from Stabenow’s staff, then from Axelrod. Again, neither caller had ever been in touch with the White House.
The suggestion I raised above merits further scrutiny. Could the aforementioned “outside groups” include the political offices of elected Democrats? It stands to reason: If the White House set up a (now defunct) email account asking average Americans to inform on one another regarding health care “misinformation,” wouldn’t constituent correspondence sent directly to elected representatives serve as a natural gold mine for culling opponents’ arguments against the president’s plan? One wonders if certain Democratic members chose to pass along this information on their own initiative, or if they were responding to encouragement (read: following orders) from the White House to do so…
…members of [the] public have a right to know how the White House got its hands on scores of private email addresses, and whether Democrats were surreptitiously using constituent correspondence and the flag@whitehouse.gov email account to assemble new mass lists—without the knowledge or permission of those on the lists—in order to distribute partisan talking points.
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This Admin reminds me of one saying….
“Snakes in the Grass”
OT but have you seen this?
The whole bunch exchanges data. That’s a demonstrable fact.
They may as well exchange on-line data.
They already use the same playbook.
Makes sense, Michelle. I haven’t heard from Axelrod, even though I sent a number of emails to flag. My senators and rep. are Republicans.
I did send emails to my Rep and to the WH via the comments once. The WH heath care email came about a week and a half after the email to my rep.
Kinda had to say why but nothing really surprises me any more.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Orwell’s “Nineteen-Eighty-Four” was very prescient, but since it was published, people have had the wrong idea of where an American totalitarian government was going to come from. People thought it was going to come from the right – Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush – but in reality, those on the left have made far, far more preludes to totalitarianism than anyone on the right.
If you’re going to do it do it right! I got on the list because I sent Obimbo an email about half way through the first Health Scare speech. The entirety of the email was: “Dear Mr. Obama, I know that you’re lying because your lips are moving.”
I came by my spam the HONORABLE way!!! By insult!!!
Don’t be holding your breath for an investigation any day soon.
It’s par for the course for these losers.
RWR
ww.rightwingrocker.com
eBay and Amazon afford emails more privacy than elected officials.
The inmates, crooks, and corrupticrats are running the assylum.
Well stated, but it seems to me that Obama’s ‘army’ is like the Borg; once one knows a thing, all know. Obama is the Borg queen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29#Borg_Queen
“More like the Borg queen”, I should’ve said…it’s not my intent to question Obama’s gender or “preference”.
I got one of Axelrod’s spam emails. I never contacted the WH. I did, however contact Snowe, Collins and self proclaimed progressive aka very liberal Chellie Pingree.
Hmmmmm.
Interesting.
I say if one of your “friends” forwarded one of your e-mails to the snitch line, that is how they got it.
Our country has fallen into the grip of thugs, thieves and liars. The Obama administration has already earned a shamefully place in American history. And it’s not because of his skin color.
Well, the WH snitch website is still up:
Obama – Report Your Friends, Families & Neighbors Snitch Site
It’s an open, valid question as to just exactly how the submitted snitch info has been/is being processed and used by the Obama WH. It bears investigation if for no other reason than “transparency”.
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
The continuing presence of this issue is PRECISELY why the Dems are dredging up the whole Cheney/torture controversy. When you can’t deny, divert.
There was a woman on Cavuto last week who said she received an Axelrod email and that only AARP had that email address.
Anything from @.gov is spam.
moonsbreath #20 aarp leadership is part and parcel of the dnc. any seasoned citizens who don’t know that haven’t bothered to read their monthly newsletter.