GIBBS Vs. GARRETT.

Major Garrett was right to have questioned Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, about the many complaints he personally received, and also those that FOX News received, from members of the public, in regard to the emails they thought to have come directly from the White House.

He (Garrett) was not a representative of those who were complaining; they only used him as a conduit to get through to the right place for their questions to be answered, The White House Press Room; and it should have been expedient for Secretary Gibbs to show him the courtesy of WH protocol, and told him to wait until he (Gibbs) gathered more information on the issue.

Instead of that, the atmosphere was made to look rather murky by both men, with each one talking over the other, which only went to strain the already strained relationship between part of the public and the Obama administration, caused by the Health Care proposals.

We should all be aware of the fact that, the White House had the authority, as any other Institution, to have a data base from which it could use to contact people and to inform them of its side of any issue; and therefore it should not have been a surprise to FOX News that a section of the public was showing concern about how the email addresses, some of which were private, got into the hands of the personnel at the White House.

Nobody should suggest that some sort of a secret list has been compiled on those opposing the Health Care proposals; and we must be sure, that was not Mr. Garrett's intention, to give the impression that it was so. We could not insinuate that the White House went out of its way to purchase a list of names either, although such lists were bought and sold publicly.

What people could imagine would be that through the progress that the Internet has made, technologically, in recent years, anyone or any organization could glean that progress to obtain any type of information, including email address, for any purpose.

That was what might have happened; and so there should be no hard feelings between Mr.Gibbs and Mr. Garrett, as they were supposed to be friendly toward each other. Besides, they both worked in the White House.