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posted by martyb on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-good-for-the-goose... dept.

At least four senior officials in President Trump's White House have active accounts on a private Republican National Committee (RNC) email system, according to a new report.

Counselor Kellyanne Conway, White House press secretary Sean Spicer, chief strategist and senior counselor Stephen Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner — Trump's son-in-law — all have rnchq.org email accounts, Newsweek reported Wednesday.

Trump repeatedly attacked 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton last year for using a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State.

[...] Newsweek added the rnchq.org email system caused controversy during former President George W. Bush's administration.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) accused Bush White House staffers in 2007 of using the system to evade transparency.

The rnchq.org email system was involved in the loss of 22 million Bush administration emails, Newsweek reported, many from around the start of the Iraq War.

Former President Obama’s administration found the lost emails after private lawsuits were filed, it added.

Those messages are now in the National Archives, according to Newsweek, but remain under the national security shield and have not been seen by the public.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316130-trump-wh-senior-staff-have-private-email-accounts-report

[Update:] Newsweek updated its story and is now reporting:

Since this story was published, the RNC has deleted the emails of Bannon, Kushner and Conway. RNC spokesman Ryan Mahoney told Newsweek Wednesday night that the emails were set up only for distribution lists, “There is nothing wrong with having an RNC account if it is not used for any official government business,” he said. “In this case, the officials previously employed by the Trump campaign never had functional email accounts with the RNC. The RNC has various distribution lists to communicate with state parties or campaigns, and as a byproduct these contact groups are assigned RNCHQ.org addresses that only forward to external accounts at their respective organizations.”


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:18PM (#459068)

    Meanwhile, Trump is still wandering around with a foreign intelligence-gathering device [wired.com] in his pocket.

    That phone has got to be the biggest foreign intelligence agency "get" in the entire world right now. The only hope we have is that all the different spy agencies are trying to push each other out of it, like playing king of the mountain, so that they can have sole pwnership of it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:43PM (#459122)

    Before talking near it, he should pop out the battery or put it in a sound-proof box. An easier solution is to hand it to one of his many armed guards, who can then step out of the room.

    Trump doesn't use email. The phone needn't hold very much that is even private. I could see stock traders wanting to see a tweet as it gets typed, and I could see many people wanting to post things as Trump. Other than that, the device might hold very very little value. Even tracking via GPS is of little use, since his location is pretty damn well known already.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:55PM (#459130)

      Before talking near it, he should pop out the battery or put it in a sound-proof box. An easier solution is to hand it to one of his many armed guards, who can then step out of the room.

      Haha. You think he's that conscientious?
      What world have you been living in?

      If he were disciplined enough to do that, he'd be disciplined enough to get a phone physically modified to disable the microphone and bluetooth and motion sensors... all the stuff he doesn't need to tweet.

  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday January 27 2017, @07:28AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday January 27 2017, @07:28AM (#459362)

    The only hope we have is that all the different spy agencies are trying to push each other out of it...

    I wouldn't worry about it. The listeners will all be in aural shock, a perpetual state of "WTF???... He can't be serious!!!... Does he know that we know that he knows that we know that he knows???..."

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    It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.