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GOP Oppo Group Tries New Tactic: Crowd-sourcing Dirt on Democrats
National Review Online ^ | 03/17/2016 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 03/24/2016 7:52:06 AM PDT by Tortmegood

Within hours of the news breaking that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state, employees across the federal government fired up their computers to share their disbelief.

“How is this even possible?” Michael McDonald, general counsel at the National Endowment for the Humanities, asked his deputy Lisette Voyatzis in an e-mail sent March 3, 2015. “They [the State Department] are as ass-backwards as NEH when it comes to records management. That’s comforting,” she replied.

Charles Beamon, the top ethics official at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, sent Clinton’s story staff-wide as a cautionary tale, calling it “another scandal involving the use of personal e-mail for official business.” The acting inspector general at the National Archives and Records Administration sent a tersely worded e-mail to Paul Simms, the agency’s chief records officer. “Were we aware the gov email system was not being used by Ms.Clinton?” He asked. “If we were not aware, why not?”

These new messages, together with previously published government e-mails from incredulous Labor and Treasury department employees, undercut the Democratic front-runner’s persistent claim that her private e-mail set-up was commonplace and aboveboard. But they would have remained on federal servers, far from the public eye, if not for a painstakingly thorough public-records operation launched by America Rising, one of Washington’s most powerful Republican opposition-research firms.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432894/america-rising-foia-shop-democrats-beware

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: americarising; archive; foia

1 posted on 03/24/2016 7:52:06 AM PDT by Tortmegood
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To: Tortmegood
GOP Oppo Group Tries New Tactic: Crowd-sourcing Dirt on Democrats

They're going to need a facility to rival the size of the one the NSA is building to save all the data!

2 posted on 03/24/2016 8:00:37 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Baraq Hussein 0bama has made AMERICANS CITIZENS second class occupants in their own country.)
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To: Tortmegood

Reminds me of TMZ.


3 posted on 03/24/2016 8:06:20 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Tortmegood

Since when has ‘dirt’ kept the socialist down?


4 posted on 03/24/2016 8:18:31 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Tortmegood

Behind the curve. Didn’t Larry Flynt already try to do this?


5 posted on 03/24/2016 8:39:35 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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