I think what happened here is that the e-mails came from Richard_Windsor@epa.gov, not Lisa_Jackson@epa.gov.
This is a practice that predates electronic mail by the way. It happens for a variety of reasons. The administrator sends an e-mail or even a snail mail from a non-existent employee.
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source for this? If true, it would be really easy to trace things out and identify others who are doing the same thing by any competent tech.
My suspicion is that the House committee may already have the emails. Now it's a matter of getting Jackson to hand them over to show her cooperation even though the committee already may know what's in them.
For this particular story, I don’t have one....other than the fact that Richard Windsor is not identified. Don’t you find that suspicious? If you were a reporter, wouldn’t you explain somewhere in the story what Richard Windsor’s position was (Chief of Staff to Lisa Jackson, Program Manager, etc.?)
For the practice in general, check the Washington Post about 22 years ago. I don’t remember for certain whether the story focused on the public or the private sector.
Go to epa.gov — click on “Working With Us.”
Go to Staff Directory. Enter Windsor as the Last Name. Click on “Search.”
The request will return no results — so there is no employee by that name, if indeed there ever was.
Enter Jackson as the Last Name. The request will return 62 records, one of whom is the Agency Administrator herself — so it’s not like the top staff are not listed.