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White House sued for free speech violations
sfgate.com ^ | August 28, 2009 | Jaikumar Vijayan
Posted on August 29, 2009 12:32:56 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Two conservative organizations, a physicians’ group and a social policy think tank, are suing the Obama administration for privacy and free speech violations over a recent attempt to get people to e-mail the White House about any “fishy” misinformation they hear regarding health-care reform.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, claims that the call for such information was designed to shut up opponents of President Obama’s health-care reform proposal and to chill free speech.

In the lawsuit, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CARE) claim the White House had “illegally” used its power to collect information on political speech. It claimed that the White House knew its data collection would chill free speech and in fact intended to do just that. The suit demands that the White House remove any information it might have already collected and that it be prohibited from collecting personal data in the future.

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