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Obama administration may have a fourth big scandal
American Thinker ^ | June 4, 2013 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/04/2013 11:03:40 AM PDT by jazusamo

The Associated Press has uncovered what may become a vast new scandal for the Obama administration: the possibly widespread use of covert email accounts by political appointees, enabling evasion of sunshine laws designed to protect the public. Jack Gillium of AP reports:

Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press.

The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees' email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

This looks very bad indeed. Former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has already lost her hob owing to her use of the pseudonym "Richard Windsor" in correspondence with both agency officials and outsiders, including environmental activists. These communications ought to be available through Freedom of Information Act requests, but the use of a covert email account circumvents FOIA search requests.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: jazusamo

“Fourth”? Ha, we’re now serving number 50 or so in Obama scandals. Get in line behind Solyndra, unconstitutional appointment of NLRB commissioners, Fast and Furious, selective Obamacare waivers, sequester shell games, Black Panther voter intimidation...


21 posted on 06/04/2013 11:15:30 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Stingray; stephenjohnbanker

Bump.


22 posted on 06/04/2013 11:15:45 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

Everyone of those emails should be thoroughly investigated. This is the most corrupt administration possibly in our history.


23 posted on 06/04/2013 11:15:57 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: Spruce

....and certainly don’t forget Pat McCrotch.


24 posted on 06/04/2013 11:17:15 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: jazusamo
and there is no reason to have secret email ... Right. Secrets that cannot be shared if obama says so. Too many secrets, all the time in the world to investigate. Go to it AP!
25 posted on 06/04/2013 11:18:15 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: mountainlion
I expect there are scandals in NASA, FAA, EPA, and in energy related sectors.

You just know the EPA is in this up to their eyeballs with this type of thing, lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

26 posted on 06/04/2013 11:18:38 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: boycott

I think these are our Nixon tapes. And -— I suspect - there’s an electronic trail such that the old notion of taking the tapes out back and burning them - I suspect that there electronic trails that will keep this from happening. Petraeus had a “secret email account” that didn’t turn out to be so secret after all. Nixon had his tapes that weren’t secret at the end of the day. Technology changes but human nature never does!


27 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:11 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: boycott
This is the most corrupt administration possibly in our history.

Hint .. AP ... the surface is only being scratched on.

28 posted on 06/04/2013 11:19:49 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; jiggyboy

Exactly...This is #4 in the last week or two, there’s been too many to count since he took office.


29 posted on 06/04/2013 11:20:17 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

AP has probably mined all the ‘alternate’ email addresses...

Time to start with WH IT. Tech guys sure ain’t going to jail over something like this, haul their ass up, too, they’ll talk.


30 posted on 06/04/2013 11:21:55 AM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: The Cajun

IRS. Who knows how many there.


31 posted on 06/04/2013 11:22:22 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Stingray
For real? Dude, Romney used private email accounts while Gov, so did Karl Rove, RNC, etc.

It seems the only time we have a standard is when the other type are in charge.

32 posted on 06/04/2013 11:22:54 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: The Cajun
You just know the EPA is in this up to their eyeballs with this type of thing, lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

Yep. Conservative groups were targeted by the EPA the same way they were targeted by the IRS. People are speaking up.
ALL those secret emails from every department have to be found. We tax payers own them, and we have the right to see them.

33 posted on 06/04/2013 11:24:18 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: The Cajun
lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

Probably with Al kiada and the Saudis also.

34 posted on 06/04/2013 11:24:28 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Theoria

Go After Both Sides AP! Will Be Good For the Nation! Stand at the gates of Heck, with us out here in fly over country. Too many liars out there!


35 posted on 06/04/2013 11:25:02 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: jazusamo
The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

Wish I'd bought popcorn stock six months ago.

36 posted on 06/04/2013 11:25:15 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: mountainlion
yep that is America if one is an obama supporter.
37 posted on 06/04/2013 11:26:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Work on the mystery AP! All you have to do AP is hit cruise control to find the obama crowd's lies.
38 posted on 06/04/2013 11:29:14 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

I have vision of loud noises(bang,bang...) and rope in his future.


39 posted on 06/04/2013 11:29:49 AM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: jazusamo

It’s obvious that this was fully sanctioned by their departments. That IRS administrator was completing internal required online courseware using the fraudulent email address and it was being credited to her. Anyone who works for a large corporation knows exactly how those crappy “security awareness” things work, and that whether or not you’ve completed them are tied to individuals. The fact that she was comfortable enough to use her alias, shows they were aware and approved of it.


40 posted on 06/04/2013 11:32:14 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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