Obama shuts down e-mail tip list

The White House on Monday shut down the email account flag(at)whitehouse.gov set up to collect tips from Americans on "fishy" claims about President Barack Obama's health-care plan, as congressional Republicans raised new concerns about why some Americans received an unsolicited email from the White House last week. The congressional Republicans and bloggers raised questions about why Obama officials were collecting negative statements made by ordinary Americans about the president's health care plan and what the administration was planning to do with the information it gathered.

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