Katie Pavlich | Jun 04, 2013
We've known for months now that former EPA Head Lisa Jackson used multiple non-governmental email accounts when doing government business.
Late last year, the EPA's critics — including Republicans in Congress — accused former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson of using an email account under the name "Richard Windsor" to sidestep disclosure rules. The EPA said emails Jackson sent using her Windsor alias were turned over under open records requests. The agency's inspector general is investigating the use of such accounts, after being asked to do so by Congress.
An EPA spokeswoman described Jackson's alternate email address as "an everyday, working email account of the administrator to communicate with staff and other government officials." It was later determined that Jackson also used the email address to correspond sometimes with environmentalists outside government and at least in some cases did not correct a misperception among outsiders they were corresponding with a government employee named Richard Windsor.
An EPA spokeswoman described Jackson's alternate email address as "an everyday, working email account of the administrator to communicate with staff and other government officials." It was later determined that Jackson also used the email address to correspond sometimes with environmentalists outside government and at least in some cases did not correct a misperception among outsiders they were corresponding with a government employee named Richard Windsor.
The same goes for former Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Tom Perez, who President Obama has nominated for Labor Secretary. Perez has used a non-government email account more than 1,200 times since 2009 for official DOJ business. His personal emails were subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee months ago and Perez has refused to comply. ….To Read More…..
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