Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery

AP ^

[bryan999]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press.

The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees' email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

The AP asked for the addresses following last year's disclosures that the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency had used separate email accounts at work. The practice is separate from officials who use personal, non-government email accounts for work, which generally is discouraged - but often happens anyway - due to laws requiring that most federal records be preserved.

[TADSLOS]

Yep, that’s it.

[oldbrowser]

The reason for the alternate emails besides defeating the FOIA is so that all of the emails from the “citizens” can go the published email accounts WHICH ARE BASICALLY A JUNK MAIL ACCOUNT. They do not want to hear from us.