Spammer: White House Admits To Sending Out Unsolicited Emails

Proof • August 17, 2009

Spammers pay fines, and in extreme cases even go to jail, for doing this sort of thing. But when Obama does it, it’s different I guess.

The White House for the first time Sunday somewhat acknowledged that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails last week on health care from the administration, suggesting the problem on third-party groups it claimed placed the recipients’ names on the distribution list.
In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not “inconvenienced” by the messages.
“The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn’t purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail,” the statement said. “If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced.”
The White House previously would not answer questions on how the e-mails landed unsolicited in so many inboxes.

Couple this with the White House encouraging people to report their fellow citizens who are dissenting against health care, and you’ve got a real problem. At an extreme, the White House is apparently building an enemies list. Or, more innocently, they’re merely incompetent.
They can’t even run a website/email list, and they want to run health care?

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array HG

I guess Major’s question was just slightly more credible than most libs on this blog were willing to admit. As I recall, they were none to happy with Major for asking a simple question of Gibb’s, nor did they care for Major’s reaction to Gibb’s arrogance.

http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/foxs_major_garrett_eats_robert_gibbs_lunch/http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/foxs_major_garrett_eats_robert_gibbs_lunch/
2Hotel9

I always uncheck the “receive” tab when I go to any USG webpage, if it has one. Congressional, White House, and some other department pages have the option, most are one way, even when you download from them.
http://forgottenliberty.com/ Forgotten Liberty

I love the last line, “They can’t even run a website/email list, and they want to run health care?” It’s so true. Obama keeps saying how the Post Office is not run efficiently yet he wants the same government to run health care. It seems like there is a mental disconnect in the liberal mind between what government historically does and what they think it can do.
sbark

…Rush or Levin brought up the concern….law requires the White House to keep/ retain any type of correspondence..

Those spammed email addy will end up in Obama’s Annendale Ayers Library….financed by contributions from Chavez & Iran.
SigFan

Great, just what I need, another shyster trying to sell me something I neither want or need via e-mail spamming. I winder who they’ll sell their list to, considering how desparate the government is for money?
http://aspect.arjis-connect.com/ ARJIS

They most likely spammed all the email addresses they received from the Administration’s SNITCH CALL a couple of weeks ago.

Paraphrased: “Send any fishy comments on healthcare to flag@whithouse.gov”

Wow… you think any email addresses could have been included in those tips to the FLAG email…? Then Axelrod emails their Healthcare propaganda to those addresses…

Coincidence?
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

guess Major’s question was just slightly more credible than most libs on this blog were willing to admit. As I recall, they were none to happy with Major for asking a simple question of Gibb’s, nor did they care for Major’s reaction to Gibb’s arrogance.

It would appear so.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

I got a couple of those. I reported them both to “flag@whitehouse.gov” for being factually inaccurate, and then reported the same program to the USDOJ for likely violation of 1st Amendment protections of free speech. :^)

Liberals don’t like free speech that isn’t lock step with them. Very fascist if you ask me. Liberals don’t like the constitution either.
sc

A while back I e-mailed the Whitehouse about the unfairness of their bankruptcy plan for GM was, since I was a bond holder and getting screwed. I got no reply, but started getting e-mails from the Whitehouse, including the recent one on healthcare.
I recently, unsubscribed.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

I got a couple of those. I reported them both to “flag@whitehouse.gov” for being factually inaccurate, and then reported the same program to the USDOJ for likely violation of 1st Amendment protections of free speech. :^)

And then he blames “third parties” for this. Please. The whole deal was a heavy handed attempt to intimidate his political opponents into silence, and he should get all the flack we can deliver for it.
2Hotel9

I received all this morning’s “fishy” emails to flag@whithouse.gov back as undeliverable, and just got an email from another blog telling me he did too. Appears they, or someone, have shut it down, and now want you to send your suggestions for health insurance reform to http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck

Imagine that.
TUNA

Apparently the usual suspects have nothing to say on this subject, which says it all.

A second term for Obama is not a lock–even the nomination is not a lock.
Bat One

There’s little doubt that the emails sent out by the White House, and the collection of names of those who disagree with Obama’s domestic policies were not only ill-advised, but quite likely illegal as well.

Now, here’s the tricky part. Should those emails, and the addressees to whom they were sent, and the emails received “ratting out” those who oppose Obama, should those records all be destroyed? Common sense would say that they should. But the law, specifically the Presidential Records Acts (PRA-1978) says tat they must be collected and maintained the same as any other presidential administration record or document.

Rahm Emmanuel has already been taken to task by Congressman Dan Issa of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee for avoiding the PRA requirements by having administration members use their personal email accounts (G-mail) for both partisan and public policy purposes.

Destroying the current emails, incoming and outgoing, would certainly be the prudent thing to do. But it would also be illegal… a clear violation of federal law.

The “Chicago Mob” has managed to once again get its “tit caught in a wringer” to quote the erudite Ben Bradlee.

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