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posted by martyb on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-good-for-the-gander-is-good-for-the-goose dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:26PM (#765289)

    Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case [freep.com]:

    U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman concluded that "as despicable as this practice may be," Congress did not have the authority to pass the 22-year-old federal law that criminalizes female genital mutilation, and that FGM is for the states to regulate. FGM is banned worldwide and has been outlawed in more than 30 countries, though the U.S. statute had never been tested before this case.

    "As laudable as the prohibition of a particular type of abuse of girls may be ... federalism concerns deprive Congress of the power to enact this statute," Friedman wrote in his 28-page opinion, noting: "Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit FGM ... FGM is a 'local criminal activity' which, in keeping with long-standing tradition and our federal system of government, is for the states to regulate, not Congress."

    Currently, 27 states have laws that criminalize female genital mutilation, including Michigan, whose FGM law is stiffer than the federal statute, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, compared with five under federal law. Michigan's FGM law was passed last year in the wake of the historic case and applies to both doctors who conduct the procedure, and parents who transport a child to have it done. The defendants in this case can't be retroactively charged under the new law.

    US and Mexican officials stoke up nationalist backlash against immigrants [wsws.org]:

    On Sunday, right-wing anti-immigrant protesters marched through Tijuana’s high-end Rio area, along the US-Mexico border, shouting “No illegals,” “No to the invasion” and “Mexico First!” Their target was the caravan of over 1,000 migrants which reached Tijuana over the weekend, in what is the final stop on their 2,700-mile-long journey from Honduras to San Diego.

    “We want the caravan to go; they are invading us,” said Patricia Reyes, a 62-year-old protester, told reporters. “They should have come into Mexico correctly, legally, but they came in like animals.” Her sentiments, however, were not shared by all. “This is not what Tijuana is like! All migrants are welcome here!”, an elderly woman shouted at the protesters.

    While the Trump administration is stoking up right-wing chauvinism on both sides of the border, there has been nothing but deafening silence from the Democrats....

    The newly elected congresswoman and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, only once tweeted about the caravan, on October 26, and has since remained silent on the issue, even as the deployment of troops and attack on asylum rights continue unabated.

  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday November 23 2018, @04:48PM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Friday November 23 2018, @04:48PM (#765584)

    The OP stated that:

    Tijuana is pissed at the migrants bringing enough crime to somehow make the place worse. Many have been arrested.

    Yet, the quotes, and even the article linked to do not refer to any arrests or crimes. Only that right wing Mexicans are protesting about the caravan being there in Tijuana.

    The OP is bringing up relevant topics in the past week or two... but does not seem to care if his facts are correct.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @10:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @10:16PM (#765703)

      Of all the articles to pick, seriously, wsws? That is explicitly socialist news.

      If you want that slant, with no mention of the arrests, OK. Enjoy.

      The mayor was out wearing a hat that said "MAKE TIJUANA GREAT AGAIN", oddly in English. Protesters were out shouting that I saw translated to "Mexico first". (they spoke in Spanish, at least mostly)