If The Bush White House Had Let A Contract Like This....

If The Bush White House Had Let A Contract Like This....

The mainstream media would be screeching about domestic spying and an "enemies' list":

NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.

The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”

In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003, it is posted at FedBizzOps.com. Click here to download a 51-page pdf of the solicitation.

Now, I think that there may well be a perfectly legitimate reason for this. It appears to be related to keeping data in support of Presidential history. But the abuse potential should be obvious--and I'm amazed how rapidly the left loses interest in governmental data base abuse once they are in charge.