Posted on 08/16/2009 6:02:00 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The White House said Sunday night that it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures after some recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they had not asked to receive updates.
“We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individual’s behalf,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement Sunday night.
After a few such recipients appeared on Fox News, White House officials determined that advocacy groups on the right or left could have sent in the names without the person knowing it.
For instance, a group might have sent WhiteHouse.gov a comment from each person who had signed an online petition, and the White House would have captured the e-mail address.
FoxNews.com reported: “FOX News has offered the White House examples of what hundreds of people say were unsolicited e-mails.”
Shapiro said in the statement: “The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House website. The White House doesn't purchase, upload or merge from any other list. … [A]ll e-mails come from the White House website as we have no interest in emailing anyone who does not want to receive an email.
“If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the email, we hope they were not too inconvenienced. Further, we suggest that they unsubscribe from the list by clicking the link at the bottom of the e-mail or tell whomever forwarded it to them not to forward such information anymore.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
LOL...the sheer chutapah.
It is as if they are grinning and spitting in your eye when they say that...:)
Oh, wait...they ARE!
** “we suggest that they unsubscribe” **
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Reminds me of Jimmah Cahtah’s suggestion for Americans
to adjust their thermostats to use less electricity and to wear
a sweater and etc. !!!
Absolutely!! :)
Ask FOX to ask the question and see if they get an answer.
FASCISTS!
Hmm, Obama’s administration is backing down on the single payer system, the death panels and the e-mails.
I think we need to protest the ACORN census of illegal aliens- and don’t forget cap & tax, too!
Ummm, the problem was the people receiving the emails had NEVER signed up ... for anything. The White House should NOT have had their email addresses any more than they should have had their unlisted phone numbers... or their cats names. Creepy stuff.
Wow, this administration is being eaten alive. But they keep poking the hornets nest. At what point will they realize they’ve got an uprising on their hands?
Nobody will tell them. They live in a bubble.
nazi emailers
they canned the term GATE and did birther badprotesterifyouarenotliberaler blah blah blah
so we have to coin a term for this other than e-mail/filer gate
The OOPSbama Administration..
flying airplanes close to buildings in NYC...
stealing email addresses...
I know there’s tons more, add on anyone..I am so flipping mad I can’t think....
Excellent!
I think those words "the WH by law" is a travesty & a joke for a commie pig like 0bozo who flaunts the law with his use of 44 czars accountable only to him, the illegal firings of Inspector Generals, AF 1 fly bys over NYC, corrupt crooks & tax cheats serving as Treasury Sec & other cabinet posts, his steadfast refusal to prove his own constitutional eligibility to be pres____ent of the U.S., and the list goes on. 0bozo will only follow the law if & when it suits him. He is a commie pig!!!
You may question as to how I was able to ascertain your e-mail address and name, it is been given me by a trusted family advisor HONORABLE Rahm Emanuel, ESQUIRE, Barrister and Counsel. I am HIS EXCELLENCY Barack Hussein OBAMA, Junior, son of the late esteemed bureaucrat and Marxist Philosopher Barack Hussein OBAMA, Senior of Kenya. As I was elected PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AmeriKKKa in 2008, and was unfairly deposed on a technicality relating to my birth certificate and other minor issues in 2009. Whilst I was in the Executive palace, I was able to squirrel away several BILLIONS of USD, with the assistance of HONORABLE Timothy Giethner and my proud princess and First Lady. What I propose is for you to forward, post haste, your banking and exchequer information to Mr. EMANUEL, in which we may deposit the profits from my short-lived REIGN, in exchange for, we will forward to you 1/20th of the FORTUNE, to the tune of $100 MILLION USD. Time is of the essence, as the newly installed PALIN administration is hot on our heels and we are also making ourselves scarce from Mr. Soros and his henchmen.
Freeper Nachum has been running a site compiling the stupid ass moves the current administration does and had done.
He also pings FR members with updates.
Give him a request if interested.
Major said today that if they had been from Axelroad’s own account ... or another direct WH account that would be the case.
He said the law was fuzzy on emails coming from message@whitehouse.gov . It may not fall under the law of WH archiving.
thanks!
Now, all of the sudden, they “admit” to this.
They have tipped their hand by admitting to this so quickly.
There’s something more here!
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