Obama administration may have a fourth big scandal

American Thinker ^ | June 4, 2013 | Thomas Lifson

[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.

[Fair Paul]

A little off topic, but Lisa Jackson was just hired by Apple as a VP of an environmental office created just for her. Is this Apple’s way of paying protection $ to the government?

[TexasTransplant]

4th?

Hell I quit counting a couple years ago

TT

[livius]

I agree. There’s no way this can’t be criminal. Even a private business couldn’t get away with it.

[pax_et_bonum]

Is this the second or third Fourth Big Scandal?

[mountainlion]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/04/epa-accused-singling-out-conservative-groups-amid-irs-scandal/

EPA targeted conservative groups.

[mountainlion]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/04/epa-accused-singling-out-conservative-groups-amid-irs-scandal/

Obmam EPA targeted Conservative groups.

[mountainlion]

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/04/epa-accused-singling-out-conservative-groups-amid-irs-scandal/

EPA targeted Conservative groups.

[jazusamo]

Yes, and more.

[Diogenesis]

DualEmailGate

[techrules2002]

Remember the huge uproar they made over SP’s emails and all the dirt they dug up when they were finally made public - - - I believe she plugged in her tanning bed!!!!!

[no-to-illegals]

Since obama’s EPA is involved too, could it be possible this related and an EPA ruse with an attack in the pipeline via the EPA? ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3027264/posts?page=42#42

[MissMagnolia]

The Obama administration is a boil on the butt of America that has gotten so big, the corruption is beginning to drain. Everything that comes out is going to stink.

[GraceG]

Hey we GOTTA see all of Sarah Palin’s E-mail........

I wonder if we will ever see these people’s e-mail, I bet they are not as innoculus as Palin’s e-mail...

[KC_Lion]

Sarah has nothing to hide.

Grace, You are Too Sweet!

[Fresh Wind]

What about Phil McCracken?

[S.O.S121.500]

Obama belongs in Harare, not Washington DC.

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Obowelmy belongs in a military prison or doing the jute jig.

[jazusamo]

Sarah has nothing to hide.

Amen to that!

I'd bet we'll never see the majority of these criminals emails and the ones that are produced will be non-incriminating.

[cookcounty]

"Fourth Scandal? More like the 17th. Unless we count the smaller ones, then its 135th.

[cookcounty]

The EPA is a rotten pit of tunnel-visioned zealots that care nothing for the Constitution. The only care about snail darters and 3 million jumping mouses.

[willywill]

Yes, maybe AP knew a little more than they were letting on. Obama is so arrogant that he probably never thought the little people, which by now includes all of the press, would get PO’d about being stomped on and thrown under the bus.

very naïve of me I’m sure, but i’m kind of hoping that press (liberal msm, oops that’s redundant), kind of figure, hey even though we’re socialists, we’ll show Obama we can make or break people, because they figure they’ll get another socialist in there anyway.