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Ivanka Trump used personal email for official White House business
First daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump used a personal email account dozens of times to conduct official White House business, The Washington Post reports, citing an internal White House investigation. It's an ironic revelation given her father's obsession with Hillary Clinton's own use of a private email server during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Federal law requires government officials to preserve written records of their activities—and that includes email. Government email systems are set up to comply with these laws, and federal IT guidelines require government officials to use their official email accounts for all official business. The use of official email accounts may also reduce the risk of sensitive communications being intercepted by foreign intelligence agencies.
[...] Ivanka Trump's use of a personal email account was discovered in September 2017. Ivanka said she was simply unfamiliar with rules requiring official business to be conducted via official email accounts—despite the fact that her father had made Hillary Clinton's violation of the same rules a central theme of his campaign.
Last year Politico reported that Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kusher, had been conducting official business using an email address on the same ijkfamily.com domain. But at the time it wasn't known if Ivanka was doing the same thing. We learned about Ivanka's use of the ijkfamily.com domain for government business last November, but until now we didn't know the extent of Ivanka's use of this activity.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 22 2018, @03:45PM (3 children)
> Ivanka used a commercial email account for logistics and scheduling very early in the administration and stopped in short order.
Well that's clearly bullshit as well. If the contents of these emails are already known, why the hell is the House Oversight Committee (re)opening a bipartisan investigation1 into Ivanks and Jared, specifically to find out what was in the emails? ( https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/20/ivanka-trump-email-investigation-cummings-1008233 [politico.com] )
1 After the Republicans shut down the initial investigation, because, ummm... wholly legitimate reasons, I'm sure.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:05PM (2 children)
What do you think Democrats would NOT call for investigating in they way of activities of members of the current administration?
Just curious.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @09:26PM
My guess is that we will be finding out when the new congress is seated n January. Wonder if Trump's face will not be orange when he is sitting in front of a house investigation committee but a bright red. Ha Ha
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday November 23 2018, @11:36AM
You appear to have missed the word BIPARTISAN in my post above.
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