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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.
[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.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:57PM
> Don't point out a problem if you're not at least thinking about a solution.
Lolwut?
The solution is do not use 3rd party email services.
But really, all you are doing is arguing for pretending the emperor is clothed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @01:11AM
At what level of office, exactly, must people surrender all access to third party services, such as email? Should every mayor in the country surrender their gmail accounts? Or, must they hold a federal office? Senators and congressmen? Every electronic communication they send or recieve must go through an official government server? Everyone in an official elected office in Washington must surrender their gmail, yahoo, or micorosoft accounts?
Or, maybe, only official business should be put on government servers?