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Boozman Statement on White House Internet Monitoring

Statement

Date: Aug. 7, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Executive Branch Health Insurance


Boozman Statement on White House Internet Monitoring

U.S. Representative John Boozman today issued the following statement regarding White House Internet Monitoring efforts:

"The Obama Administration has requested that e-mails and internet materials produced by private citizens that are critical of the President's policies be reported to an e-mail address at the White House.

The White House website states: "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

American citizens should be free to criticize the policies of the President or any other elected official, including me, without fearing that the criticism will be policed and monitored by the government.

The First Amendment specifically protects speech, and our Constitutional rights must be protected when we use the internet.

I call on President Obama to disable this e-mail address and I ask that he stop soliciting this kind of surveillance on private citizens."


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