White House Pulls the Plug on the Snitch Line

August 17, 2009
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I guess asking Americans to snitch on their fellow citizens wasn’t such a good idea, after all. Gee, who knew?

Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.

E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”

I wonder how much that little debacle wound up costing us.

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4 Responses to White House Pulls the Plug on the Snitch Line

  1. [...] about Barack Obama as of August 17, 2009 White House Pulls the Plug on the Snitch Line – lonelyconservative.com 08/17/2009 I guess asking Americans to snitch on their fellow citizens [...]

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  2. Always On Watch on August 17, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    I’m sure that the snitch line cost the taxpayers a bundle.

    But there is a good part to it: the BHO administration took one helluva hit with regard to popularity. The snitch line smacked too much of Orwell.

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  3. Daneen on August 17, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Are we all running over to this new site and now and giving them a reality check over there?

    I would still like to know why I am receiving unsolicited emails from the Obama White House (I subscribed to GW Bush, not this bozo) when I have repeatedly “unsubscribed”.

    Rahm Emmanuel is getting beat up in Israel, too–they’ve figured out he’s not to be trusted. Kinda loving that, as well.

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  4. Lonely Conservative on August 17, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Try e-mailing Major Garrett at Fox News. He’s the only one in the media interested in any of this.

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