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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: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:49PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:49PM (#459084) Journal

    They need to be monitored. There needs to be somebody watching.

    It would seem the easiest way is to only allow high level officials to use government approved devices. They can have a way to indicate what is personal and official correspondence. The fact is that there needs to be a record, even if it is short lived and never public.

    If the NSA can collect absolutely everything about our personal lives and not call it "collection" because they have not yet searched it, then it seems reasonable to also collect everything about high level officials.

    I seem to remember some old saying about the Goose and Gander having compatible ports, or something, without need of an adapter for compatibility.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @01:03AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 27 2017, @01:03AM (#459231) Journal

    Who watches the watchers?

    Or to rephrase the question, who do you trust to monitor the situation? Obviously not Democrats. Everybody in the world is hacking their shit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:35AM (#459365)

      Who watches the watchers?

      Please use the original Latin, you copyright stealer and pig fucker!

      Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–8).

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @02:42PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 27 2017, @02:42PM (#459471) Journal

        Keep your mother out of my yard, and I'll keep my yard out of your pig! Maybe if I spoke pig latin, I'd have written it your way, LMAO!!

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 27 2017, @02:39PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 27 2017, @02:39PM (#459465) Journal

      Yes, Democrats. And Republicans. And other parties. It may be imperfect, but it's better than no scrutiny at all.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Friday January 27 2017, @02:50PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 27 2017, @02:50PM (#459477)
    You are absolutely right. This is why the NSA and FBI need access to all of our communications. With it being so easy to setup a free account on gmail or hotmail or yahoo, we must allow the government to read and analyze all of our communications so that they can ensure that politicians are not circumventing their government email systems. I expect you, like myself, will be writing your members of congress to make sure this stays the law of the land!