Earlier this week, the White House asked people to forward “fishy” emails they receive that may be spreading misinformation about health-care reform to [email protected].

In response, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) wrote in a letter to President Obama that it’s “inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House. You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program.”