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.
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Re: White House's "fishy" Information Collection May Be Illegal
Nothing's going to come of this. Makes me sick.
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The plus side is I have a new email addy to use for spam or taking polls on the intenet
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