The White House’s strategy of stonewalling the flagging operation becomes more difficult by the day. Here is yesterday’s exchange between Major Garrett and Robert Gibbs. Major Garrett was contacted by numerous people confounded as to how in the world they received an unsolicited email communication from the White House. It is unclear whether all of the complaints came from people who flagged themselves or were flagged by others using the flag@whitehouse.gov email. I love watching Robert Gibbs squirm whenever this issue is raised. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite pastimes. His reference to Organizing for America and Obama for America having nothing to do with the White House is completely unrelated to the question Major Garrett is asking. An indication of panic on the part of Gibbs?

Like many of my readers, I flagged myself – multiple times. It now appears the White House is not only collecting this data and is forced by the Presidential Records Act to keep this information, but they are also using the same information gathered by these emails to create an additional database or multiple databases which are subsequently used for list building – the process of collecting emails for marketing, advertising, or information sharing. As someone who does internet marketing on the side, there is a right way to collect peoples emails and a wrong way to do it. Collecting solicited emails – good. Collecting unsolicited emails – bad.

It is interesting to note this unintended consequence of the flag yourself campaign. White House staff, including lawyers now seem completely clueless. Unaware of the backlash created by spying on citizens, they never guessed the flag program would lead to evidence that emails are being collected and used to create additional databases for White House communications; communications that were never solicited in the first place. Lucy, you gotta lota of splainin’ to do.

Here is a partial screenshot of the email I forwarded to another account and that I received, unsolicited, from the White House. Just click on the thumbnail to see the full image.

Note the senders address (info@messages.whitehouse.gov). Hmmm, sounds like the White House to me.

I would recommend to anyone who receives an unsolicited email from the White House to save that email. Note how my email is from whitehouse.gov, and nothing to do with Organizing for America or Obama for America which, thanks to Gibbs own admission, are unrelated to the White House. Shout out to Mr. Gibbs for helping make our case for us – your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Related: Obama Could Be In Trouble: ACLJ Legal Analysis of White House Flag Program

In other news and opinion:

How to kill ObamaCare and get real reform.

Michelle Malkin’s culture of corruption a hate crime? I read it, and if telling the truth equates to a hate crime, then I agree, it’s a hate crime.

Green Czar vs. Glenn Beck; Britain vs. Michael Savage.

The Etiquette Czar’s Rules for Patriotic Protest

Democrats Having Trouble Getting Cap & Trade Passed Because of Democrats. Good news here, now if we can just kill that health care bill.

Is Palin getting ready to tweet again?

Is the White House losing urban Democrats on health care reform?

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