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Government Officials Using Private Email

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 06 2014, @03:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-access-the-emails-we-want-you-to-see dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

In 2008, two of Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email accounts were hacked, revealing the existence of correspondence with other government officials like Alaska's Lieutenant Governor and even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger outside any sunshine record-keeping requirements of the state government. Palin was eventually cleared of any wrong-doing with the account, despite the account being deleted before the investigation even started.

In what feels like the discovery of another tip of the same iceberg, ProPublica has a report about the Cuomo administration's adoption of similar tactics in New York.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday May 06 2014, @07:25PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 06 2014, @07:25PM (#40291) Journal

    While your point is valid, it doesn't mean that those records should not be made, and that they should not be possible to be subpoenaed for court records. Redaction should be at the discretion of the judge. The fact that the laws are as you state is one reason there's so much corruption...and they were probably written that way to facilitate corruption already in place.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 06 2014, @08:47PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday May 06 2014, @08:47PM (#40332) Journal

    You assume that the conversation was about official business, rather than the weekend fishing trip, and therefore you expect every police officer's phone calls to be recorded and available for any sympathetic judge to release.

    Would YOU work under such conditions?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:09AM (#40437)

      Nobody is forcing them to be policemen. Just saying.