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White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say
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Posted on 08/08/2009 12:40:26 PM PDT by 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."

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To: Typical_Whitey

obumpa


141 posted on 08/08/2009 9:34:35 PM PDT by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

142 posted on 08/08/2009 9:48:44 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Flint

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


143 posted on 08/08/2009 10:11:45 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Hey............How's that Hope and Change Thingy workin' for ya?)
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To: Typical_Whitey

144 posted on 08/08/2009 10:33:34 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: Shady
Bill O has lost it.

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

145 posted on 08/08/2009 11:04:55 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Jeff Head

I love those posters especially the last one.


146 posted on 08/08/2009 11:57:29 PM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Long time lurker.)
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To: Typical_Whitey
" 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.

147 posted on 08/09/2009 12:10:07 AM PDT by spokeshave (USA #1; Pirates -3...Voting them all out of office would be a sufficient pay cut)
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To: BenLurkin
Flag....flag.....isn't that something to do with scientology....?

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

148 posted on 08/09/2009 12:15:44 AM PDT by spokeshave (USA #1; Pirates -3...Voting them all out of office would be a sufficient pay cut)
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To: Typical_Whitey
FISHY

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


149 posted on 08/09/2009 5:03:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

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


150 posted on 08/09/2009 5:07:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: CitizenM

Great idea......


151 posted on 08/09/2009 7:11:35 AM PDT by teg_76
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To: timestax

bttt


152 posted on 08/09/2009 2:55:25 PM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: databoss
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.
153 posted on 08/09/2009 5:05:50 PM PDT by antonia (A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow)
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