Obama administration may have a fourth big scandal

American Thinker ^ | June 4, 2013 | Thomas Lifson

[jazusamo]

The Associated Press has uncovered what may become a vast new scandal for the Obama administration: the possibly widespread use of covert email accounts by political appointees, enabling evasion of sunshine laws designed to protect the public. Jack Gillium of AP reports:

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.

This looks very bad indeed. Former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has already lost her hob owing to her use of the pseudonym "Richard Windsor" in correspondence with both agency officials and outsiders, including environmental activists. These communications ought to be available through Freedom of Information Act requests, but the use of a covert email account circumvents FOIA search requests.

[jiggyboy]

“Fourth”? Ha, we’re now serving number 50 or so in Obama scandals. Get in line behind Solyndra, unconstitutional appointment of NLRB commissioners, Fast and Furious, selective Obamacare waivers, sequester shell games, Black Panther voter intimidation...

[jazusamo]

Bump.

[boycott]

Everyone of those emails should be thoroughly investigated. This is the most corrupt administration possibly in our history.

[traderrob6]

....and certainly don’t forget Pat McCrotch.

[no-to-illegals]

and there is no reason to have secret email ... Right. Secrets that cannot be shared if obama says so. Too many secrets, all the time in the world to investigate. Go to it AP!

[The Cajun]

I expect there are scandals in NASA, FAA, EPA, and in energy related sectors.

You just know the EPA is in this up to their eyeballs with this type of thing, lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I think these are our Nixon tapes. And -— I suspect - there’s an electronic trail such that the old notion of taking the tapes out back and burning them - I suspect that there electronic trails that will keep this from happening. Petraeus had a “secret email account” that didn’t turn out to be so secret after all. Nixon had his tapes that weren’t secret at the end of the day. Technology changes but human nature never does!

[no-to-illegals]

This is the most corrupt administration possibly in our history.

Hint .. AP ... the surface is only being scratched on.

[jazusamo]

Exactly...This is #4 in the last week or two, there’s been too many to count since he took office.

[txhurl]

AP has probably mined all the ‘alternate’ email addresses...

Time to start with WH IT. Tech guys sure ain’t going to jail over something like this, haul their ass up, too, they’ll talk.

[wiggen]

IRS. Who knows how many there.

[Theoria]

For real? Dude, Romney used private email accounts while Gov, so did Karl Rove, RNC, etc.

It seems the only time we have a standard is when the other type are in charge.

[concerned about politics]

You just know the EPA is in this up to their eyeballs with this type of thing, lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

Yep. Conservative groups were targeted by the EPA the same way they were targeted by the IRS. People are speaking up.
ALL those secret emails from every department have to be found. We tax payers own them, and we have the right to see them.

[mountainlion]

lots of secret coordination going on with *Greenie* groups.

Probably with Al kiada and the Saudis also.

[no-to-illegals]

Go After Both Sides AP! Will Be Good For the Nation! Stand at the gates of Heck, with us out here in fly over country. Too many liars out there!

[bgill]

The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

Wish I'd bought popcorn stock six months ago.

[no-to-illegals]

yep that is America if one is an obama supporter.

[no-to-illegals]

Work on the mystery AP! All you have to do AP is hit cruise control to find the obama crowd's lies.

[TNoldman]

I have vision of loud noises(bang,bang...) and rope in his future.

[zeugma]

It’s obvious that this was fully sanctioned by their departments. That IRS administrator was completing internal required online courseware using the fraudulent email address and it was being credited to her. Anyone who works for a large corporation knows exactly how those crappy “security awareness” things work, and that whether or not you’ve completed them are tied to individuals. The fact that she was comfortable enough to use her alias, shows they were aware and approved of it.