US Ambassador to Japan Caught Pulling A Hillary
I always thought the Hillary Clinton email scandal was just the tip of the iceberg because of how many emails she was sending out and no one was questioning it. That made me think it must be accepted practice in the State Department to use private email to get around Freedom of Information Act laws. Well now we know Caroline Kennedy the US Ambassador to Japan was doing the same thing. Reading all this just makes me wonder what people would say if a US military Brigade Commander was sending out official emails from a Yahoo account. It would raise eyebrows immediately and definitely cause a JAG to get involved:
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and senior staff at the U.S. embassy in Japan used personal email accounts for official business, an internal watchdog report said Tuesday — making Kennedy the latest Obama administration official to run afoul of email security guidelines.
The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) report said it received reports concerning the use of private email accounts for official business, and identified instances where emails labeled “sensitive but unclassified” were sent from or received by personal email accounts.
“On the basis of these reports, OIG’s Office of Evaluations and Special Projects conducted a review and confirmed that senior embassy staff, including the Ambassador, used personal email accounts to send and receive messages containing official business. In addition, OIG identified instances where emails labeled Sensitive but Unclassified were sent from, or received by, personal email accounts,” the report said. [Fox News via reader tip]
You can read more at the link.
GOPers are famous for doing the same thing, including Colin Powell. Hey GI Korea, did you ever create a post about that ❓ Of course you NEVER have because he was a GOPer and you’re like FOXNOTNEWS in reporting about anything to do with Hillary ❗
‘Three Top Fundraisers Flee Jeb Bush’s Campaign’
Perhaps it’s because Jeb Bush “illegally had a personal email account?”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-president-2016-fundraisers-problems-213156?utm_source=HuffPo
“Three top fundraisers have chosen to depart the Jeb Bush for President campaign at a time when the former Florida Governor’s poll numbers are falling.
The Florida-based fundraising consultants — Kris Money, Trey McCarley, and Debbie Aleksander said they left voluntarily and will continue to work for the Bush super PAC, Right to Rise. But others in the campaigntold members of the media the three were let go because they were no longer needed for the current phase of the campaign.”
Shame on Jeb Bush and GOP HYPOCRITS
“Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, primarily used a personal email account on his own computer server when he was in office from 1999 to 2007. In December, he posted online hundreds of thousands of emails from both the private and government accounts. Mr. Bush’s spokeswoman said that emails from the private account unrelated to government business weren’t turned over to the state or preserved. […]
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-republicans-who-did-exactly-what-hillary-did
But much like with Mrs. Clinton, the decision over which emails should be considered official and which remain private was made by Mr. Bush. It is unclear how many emails Mr. Bush withheld because he deemed them unrelated to state business.”
“Bush is hardly the only one among the likely GOP presidential candidates with this email problem. Indeed, most of the Republican field should probably hope this issue goes away quickly:
* Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R): Though he called Clinton’s use of a private email address an “outrage,” Walker is at the center of a Wisconsin controversy surrounding his use of a private email address.
* Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R): The Republican lawmaker deleted emails from his private account during his tenure in state government, despite using his personal account to conduct business related to his official duties.
* New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R): The Bergen Record reported this week, “Nearly a year before revelations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her personal email account for official business, the Christie administration was chastised because members of its own staff communicated through private emails. And that criticism came not from Governor Christie’s political foes, but from lawyers hired by his team to investigate the burgeoning George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal.”
* Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R): Both Republican governors conducted official business from their private email accounts and have not released the emails for public scrutiny.”
Tbone… you must recognize by now this is not a Democrat/Republican issue.
This is an elitist politician avoiding records that could hold them accountsble for their actions issue.
As long as it is presented as “it’s OK we did it because the other side did it too”, everyone will continue to do it… and the American populstion will be the losers as they fight amongst themselves.
No, comrade Chicken Head you are wrong. The party is all that matters. The party is all there is.