White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say

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[Typical_Whitey]

The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say. "The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday. "There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said. "If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute."

[Dajjal]

obumpa

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

[Outlaw Woman]

What now? or better yet, what’s next? there.......fixed...just not like the HTML pros on here ;)

[myknowledge]

[Mojave]

Bill O has lost it.

Bill has always been as dumb as a sack of hammers.

[sanjoaquinvalley]

I love those posters especially the last one.

[spokeshave]

" It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said. "If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute."

Hoist...meet Petard.

[spokeshave]

Flag....flag.....isn't that something to do with scientology....?

sounds a bit "fishy" to me....

[Vaquero]

FISHY

Can only read the word CHANGE (dont know what the asia means) from our Sushi-in-Chief

[Vaquero]

Impeach Obama might work after the 2010 elections...but now it is a pipe dream........

[teg_76]

Great idea......

[timestax]

bttt

[antonia]

Remember how Obama said that he was taking the Census out of the U.S. Dept of Commerce and giving it to Rahm Emanuel to administer. I don't suppose that there were any good, for America and justice, intentions behind such an idea.