{"id":2162,"date":"2009-08-16T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:01:32","slug":"white-house-issues-non-apology-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"White House Issues Non-Apology Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House released a statement<\/a> this evening to try to squash the controversy that erupted Thursday over unsolicted e-mails they had been sending<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the administration last week about health care reform, suggesting the problem is with third-party groups that placed the recipients’ names on the distribution list.<\/p>\n

In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not “inconvenienced” by the messages.<\/p>\n

“The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn’t purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail,” the statement said. “If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a classic non-apology apology <\/a>and doesn’t answer the main question which is how they managed to obtain e-mail addresses of people who did not access the White House website nor they signed up for any e-mail updates.<\/p>\n

Since my e-mail address suddenly ended up on the White House distribution list and I hadn’t signed up for anything I would still like to know how they got my e-mail address. Could they reveal which groups had submitted lists from which they got the addresses?<\/p>\n

For an administration that promised to be transparent, it seems to be acting a lot like Big Brother<\/a> to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House released a statement this evening to try to squash the controversy that erupted Thursday over unsolicted e-mails they had been sending: The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the administration last week about health care reform, suggesting the problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,12],"tags":[303,302],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-tom","tag-big-brother","tag-white-house"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t