E-mail Madness

Remember that snitch e-mail address, and the White House request for the American people to turn each other in for opposing Obamacare? The White House was very insistent that they weren't doing any such thing as compiling an enemies list or starting up a snitch line. No, no, they weren't even going to do anything with all those e-mail addresses that started flowing in! Never mind that the White House is legally obligated to keep all correspondence that is sent to it, and never mind the obvious question of why they wanted that information if they weren't going to do anything with it.

Then Major Garrett of Fox News went and peed in the punch bowl, asking how the White House is keeping track of all those e-mail addresses:

Huh.

Apparently, the fact that people are receiving e-mails from the White House despite never having signed up for e-mails didn't seem at all worthy of further investigation. Because, you see, the White House just doesn't do that sort of thing.

Except when they do:

A former Reagan and Bush 41 administration official, long out of government, has found herself on the receiving end of one of those White House e-mails from Obama aide David Axelrod. I have seen the e-mail.

She never wrote to the White House. Just as Fox's Major Garrett has been revealing with others.

Back in campaign season, however, she signed up for Obama campaign e-mails out of curiosity to see how the Obama campaign was marketing itself.

Which would seem to indicate that the Obama team has merged its campaign e-mail lists into those of the White House and the government.

Hmmmm.

Hmmmm is right. The enemies list is expanding, isn't it? But hey, we can trust the White House not to abuse its e-mail addresses.

There's my two cents.