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 aristarchus on Friday November 23 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)
Can we just have a non-binding Soylent Resolution stating that Runaway1956 is in no way representative of SoylentNews, and is really not even quite human, being completely irrational and most likely a Russian bot rather than an actual denizen of Dogpatch. [slate.com] Arkansaws. Says it all.
(Score: 1) by deimtee on Friday November 23 2018, @10:04AM
Other than getting enjoyment from pushing yours and Azuma's buttons, Runaway has mostly seemed to be a fairly smart, nice old guy. Bit on the conservative side but a decent bloke. You know, the "cranky old guy with a heart of gold" as beloved by hollyweird.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.