White House Passes Blame on Unsolicited Health Care E-Mails


	White House Passes Blame on Unsolicited Health Care E-Mails

n2sooners

8-16-2009 11:19 PM

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blame game, email, health care, politics, spam, white house

n2sooners says:

The White House passes blame on EVERYTHING...

Seriously though, I find it hard to believe they didn't already have a system where you have to confirm being put on a mailing list like pretty much every other legit e-mail list on the internet.

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