make that = the most corrupt administration in the country's history.
Posted on 02/25/2016 1:57:58 PM PST by Lockbox
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder is a huge fan of NBA hall of famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
So much so that Holder used Abdul-Jabbar's birth name, Lew Alcindor, as an alias for his official Department of Justice (DOJ) email account, raising more questions about the email practices of top Obama administration officials, and about the ability of US government agencies to track down correspondence in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. he Lew Alcindor revelation was made in a February 16 letter that DOJ sent to VICE News and Ryan Shapiro, a historian and doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in national security research.
"For your information," the letter said, "e-mails in the enclosed documents which use the account name 'Lew Alcindor' denote e-mails to or from former Attorney General Holder."
A Justice Department spokesman told VICE News there was nothing improper or legally questionable about Holder using the identity of a living person for his email account. Nor was it in any way an attempt, he said, to thwart FOIA or the Federal Records Act, which requires government agencies to preserve federal records. DOJ officials who handle FOIA requests and congressional inquiries, the spokesman said, knew of Holder's email aliases.<\B>
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That poor Eric Holder guy has all kinds of identity problems!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5p70YbRiPw
make that = the most corrupt administration in the country's history.
This I can understand. It was on the government server. It was a memorable name, but no one would guess it.
As long as it was not on a private server, it’s ok.
Still prevents FOIA requests.
No it doesn’t. You guys all talk like lawyers.
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