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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: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:53PM
I overheard some woman on the bus in brooklyn lampooning Trump's comments on forest management. I didn't set her straight, because i wasn't party to the conversation, but she obviously knew nothing about forest fires or forestry.
I grew up in the Rockies; my mother dated a smokejumper for years. Forest management to minimize fire risk is a real, legitimate practice. It was policy in the 70's and 80's, and began to wane in the 90's. Environmentalists argued that controlled burns and other measures to reduce undergrowth were sops to Big Timber; forests should be left to their natural state without human intervention. Forest fires were part of that natural cycle, and studies were done to show that many species of trees need fire to germinate.
It became quite controversial when the "let it burn" policy was pursued in Yellowstone Park and something like 70% of the place went up in flames in one season.
However, the hands-off school of thought came to dominate federal forest management policy.
So, to me, Trump's comments hearken back to the earlier approach from 40 years ago.
Of course, none of that will come through media controlled by coastal media elites, who have zero understanding of land management or forestry or even their nearest nature preserve, which they have heard is nice but which they've never personally been to. They only want another round to fabricate another installment of Orange Man BAD.
Washington DC delenda est.