EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Under Investigation For Use Of Private Email Accounts

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM



TOM KLUDT 12:15 PM EST, MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2012

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General announced Monday that it is beginning an audit of agency employees' use of private email accounts and "aliases" or false names in conducting official business.

In November, Republican leaders of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee began their own investigation into the alleged use of private emails after the Daily Caller reported that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used alias email accounts, including one under the name of "Richard Windsor." At that time, it requested inspectors general for several federal agencies, including EPA, to conduct their own investigations.

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1. every good republican knows you're supposed to use official paper and computers!

and then shred the papers and destroy the hard drives when investigators come, or when you leave office!

[SkyDaddy7]

10. This is yet another example of...

We (GOP) do it so they must be doing it too...Lets bust them!!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. It's no coincidence that they keep going after African American officials in the Obama administratio

So what else is new?

[Lasher]

3. Do they remember the GWB White House used RNC email for 8 long years?

I'm not saying I condone the practice, just pointing out the double standard.

[valerief]

9. If the Republicans didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all. nt

[Tempest]

4. Romney in MA and Palin in AK

Both used personal accounts.

Neither were criticized by Republicans.

[Tempest]

5. Bobby Jindal Aides Use Personal Email To Strategize On Medicaid Cuts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/bobby-jindal-aides-email_n_2270645.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[SoapBox]

6. "...use of private email accounts"

Oh, like Ex/Quitter Gov. Palin?

OK for Pukes and Baggers...NOT OK for anyone else.

[Tempest]

7. Groups sue 5 GOP lawmakers over email records

Two groups sued five Republican lawmakers Monday alleging they violated the state's open records law by declining to say whether they searched their personal email accounts for contacts with a conservative organization that works with corporations to draft legislation.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/group-sue-5-gop-lawmakers-over-email-records-c272lu2-172169791.html

[leftyohiolib]

8. it's that bs line of let's move forward and not backward. not going after repube's unethical

behavior. the dems have only themselves to blame b/c of that attitude.the rpube's get a pass on everything they do and the dems wont look past today to address this crap.