Does this mean they’ve finished collecting names?
From The Wall Street Journal:
By AMY SCHATZ
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday shut down an email account set up to collect tips from Americans on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health-care plan, as congressional Republicans raised new concerns about why some Americans received an unsolicited email from the White House last week.
The White House shut down an email account “flag(at)whitehouse.gov” as congressional Republicans and bloggers continued to raise questions about why Obama officials were collecting negative statements made by ordinary Americans about the president’s health care plan and what the administration was planning to do with the information it gathered.
On Monday, California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked the White House to clarify what it plans to do with the “fishy” information collected, raising concerns about “the potentially chilling effect the White House’s request…may have on Free Speech rights.”
Read the rest:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125055822577138933.html
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