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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

This author has no idea how to contextualize remarks as report casual conversations. What that request was about was reporting to the White House what people were saying about Universal Health care, not monitoring people's thoughts or opinions on the matter. This simply wish to be able to combat against the negative spin being put on their healthcare reform. Nothing really totalitarian about it.

I realize its Fox News....but...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...l-critics-say/

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."