Unanswered questions about the Internet Snitch Brigade

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 25, 2009 10:07 PM

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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  1. #1
    On August 25th, 2009 at 10:20 pm, ajmontana said:

    This Admin reminds me of one saying….
    “Snakes in the Grass”

  2. #2
    On August 25th, 2009 at 10:26 pm, nlebou said:
  3. #3
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:13 pm, Flyoverman said:

    The whole bunch exchanges data. That’s a demonstrable fact.

  4. #4
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:28 pm, Hangfire said:

    They may as well exchange on-line data.

    They already use the same playbook.

  5. #5
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:38 pm, Little Ma said:

    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.

  6. #6
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm, mattm said:

    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.

  7. #7
    On August 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am, jinxmchue said:

    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.

  8. #8
    On August 26th, 2009 at 1:11 am, Vntnrse said:

    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!!!

    :D

  9. #9
    On August 26th, 2009 at 1:41 am, rightwingrocker said:

    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

  10. #10
    On August 26th, 2009 at 2:31 am, corkie said:

    eBay and Amazon afford emails more privacy than elected officials.

  11. #11
    On August 26th, 2009 at 2:55 am, William said:

    The inmates, crooks, and corrupticrats are running the assylum.

  12. #12
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am, ProudGulfWarVet65 said:

    On August 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am, jinxmchue said:

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Orwell’s “Nineteen-Eighty-Four” was very prescient…

    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

    The Borg Queen is the focal point within the Borg collective consciousness and a unique drone within the collective, who originates from Species 125, that brings “order to chaos”, referring to herself as “we” and “I” interchangeably.

  13. #13
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:12 am, ProudGulfWarVet65 said:

    More like the Borg queen”, I should’ve said…it’s not my intent to question Obama’s gender or “preference”.

  14. #14
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:40 am, beachmom said:

    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.

  15. #15
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:49 am, twiggman said:

    I say if one of your “friends” forwarded one of your e-mails to the snitch line, that is how they got it.

  16. #16
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:50 am, zorro said:

    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.

  17. #17
    On August 26th, 2009 at 8:35 am, purplepeep said:

    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”.

  18. #18
    On August 26th, 2009 at 8:55 am, TC said:

    The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.

  19. #19
    On August 26th, 2009 at 8:57 am, dan708 said:

    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.

  20. #20
    On August 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am, moonsbreath said:

    There was a woman on Cavuto last week who said she received an Axelrod email and that only AARP had that email address.

  21. #21
    On August 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Anything from @.gov is spam.

  22. #22
    On August 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am, cheapseat said:

    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.

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