White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform

Fox News ^ | 8/22/09 | Major Garrett and Eric Shawn

[Sequoyah101]

All hell should break loose on this crap.

“the whiteyhouse said others such as Rick Perry use the service”. I don’t give a damn. These SOBs used taxpayer dollars to lobby me and other citizens for a position I don’t want and with messages I didn’t solicit.

Somebody tell me why this is isn’t using government facilities and money for political purposes.

Somebody needs to go to jail or worse for this abuse of power and position.

[khnyny]

I'm sure it's been pointed out somewhere on this thread, but this part caught my eye:

Chris Hansen, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union told FOX News that if the White House used the private firm, it's the same as if it had sent the e-mails.

Even the ACLU attorneys see a big problem with this administration's tactics.

[khnyny]

IMHO, the White House has broken the law on this one. Let’s see what happens or if the MSM studiously ignores this mess.

[IamConservative]

I got those e-mails and ran iptrace and whois on the server that sent them. The IP address was gone and the domain name was available immediately after the messages were sent.

Seems to indicate someone was interested is erasing tracks.

[Typical_Whitey]

The scariest thing is you paid for it. Yep taxpayers paid for this group to send out government propaganda.

Welcome to the USSA.

[txrangerette]

According to a recent comment, research eliminated the possibility that Zach is Stabenow’s husband or son.

Another comment after that indicated the probability that there are two Zach Stabenow’s - one 63 the other 37 - and claimed that the elder is Debbie’s husband’s brother and the younger is her husband’s nephew.

[pray4liberty]

The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.

Hey now wait a minute...how did they get those e-mails without signing up for them? He had to "harvest" those e-mail addresses from somewhere....my guess is from his election campaign.

[benjibrowder]

Forward that to Drudge and Fox.

It seems to me that it would not only be highly unethical and unlawful, it would a violation of international law, data mining people that use those websites also implies they’re data mining people from other countries as well.

[ravingnutter]

You don't remember the arrogant Office of the President-elect?

[NotSoModerate]

I just sent it to Drudge... sent it to Fox yesterday...