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The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House has shut down the e-mail account “flag(at)whitehouse.gov,” which it was using to collect collect tips from Americans on “fishy” claims about the President’s health-care plan.

Republicans and bloggers have been questioning what the Obama administration plans to do with the negative comments. Recently, California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, voiced his concerns about

“the potentially chilling effect the White House’s request … may have on Free Speech rights.”

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