Are Federal Employees Receiving Unsolicited White House E-mails?

Nancy Ann DeParle with President Obama


CBS has a story that federal employees are receiving unsolicited emails on their government accounts from the White House urging them to help push government health care.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/19/opinion/main6313300.shtml

Allegedly, White House Director of Health Reform Nancy Ann DeParle is the guilty one. This follows months after the White House got caught sending thousands-or-millions? of e-mails to common folks (like me) who had never asked for them.

Didn't they learn their lesson?

As a retired government employee who left service before the e-mail era began in government, I can tell you that if true, this is not only unprofessional but unethical too. There are government regulations that control political activities by government employees, and the White House has no business sending this stuff to them.

If this is true, DeParle should resign or be fired. It seems to me that Congress or Eric Holder's Justice Department could get to the bottom of this by conducting some interviews of those who got them and putting White House officials like DeParle under oath. Elementary, my dear Watson.

But will they?