White House disables e-tip box

[PocketProtector]

The pressure is mounting on Oudini. Looks like the magic powers are fading. Keep it up America....stand for freedom !!!



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26188.html

Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.

E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The email address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”

The “flag” service was introduced Aug. 4, with a White House blog post saying: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at a briefing shortly after the service launched: “We're not collecting names from those e-mails. … [A]ll we're asking people to do is if they're confused about what health care reform is going to mean to them, we're happy to help clear that up for you. Nobody is keeping anybody's names.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote a letter to Obama raising privacy concerns about what the senator called an “Obama monitoring program.”

“I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House,” Cornyn wrote. “So I urge you to cease this program immediately.”

In a later statement, Cornyn said: “Of course the White House is collecting names. … [I]t is inevitable. Anyone with access to the flag@whitehouse.gov account has access to the names and email addresses that are collected in that account. … How are they purging names and email addresses from this account to protect privacy?”

[camper]

I wonder how often the staffers were 'rick-rolled' to gay fetish porn or bukaki when they clicked the links...

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[imashooter2]

I wonder how often the staffers were 'rick-rolled' to gay fetish porn or bukaki when they clicked the links...

camper

I wonder how many were offended by the content.

[camper]

I wonder how many were offended by the content.

Dunno...but I'm curious to know how many of them became bookmarks for 'later'

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[Guns4Fun]

I wonder how often the staffers were 'rick-rolled' to gay fetish porn or bukaki when they clicked the links...

camper

I have no idea - why would you even imply such a thing

[ByAnyMeans]

This is definitely a good thing, many of his decisions and actions lately have undone. Keep up the pressure my friends, it does have atleast some effect.