[RedMDer]

[G Larry]

Well Jay...

Those “alternate e-mail addresses” were created for the expressed purpose of AVOIDING COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL LAW!”

Since they weren’t intended to be found, THEY WERE “SECRET”!!!

[faithhopecharity]

replacing this liar would do no good
the job duties in this administration require it

[plain talk]

If they are not secret then that means all of these “alternate” emails are being collected and archived and managed just like all government emails, right Carney?

If they are not secret then any request for emails by Congress should also include “alternate” emails, right Carney?

If he can’t answer yes to these questions and provide the “alternate” email addresses then they ARE secret email addresses

[Rummyfan]

This smarmy bastard Carney should be tarred and feathered and run out of Washington on a rail. I could name many many others who should be treated the same way.

[hawaiianninja]

Carney: There Are No "Secret" Email Accounts, Only "Alternate Email Addresses"

Carney: There Are No "Secret" Email Accounts, Only "Alternate Email Addresses"...used under fake names to protect the guilty.

Fixed.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I bet their gmail, yahoo and outlook accounts would be REAL interesting. Imagine what. Goes on there to keep it away from the meddlesome public.

[Robert357]

The question is not that they have alternate accounts, it is that when a FOIA request if filed for correspondence the “alternate/secret” accounts are not checked as required by law.

This has been a method used especially at the EPA (and quite likely other agencies, we will learn of shortly) where laws have been broken and people have avoided scrutiny.

I would like to see a special counsel appointed to look into this across all federal agencies. Not so much for having an alternate email address, but for having a system where when a FOIA or court ordered discovery filing it made, the agency IT department is left clueless as to what if any email accounts to search.

[The Great RJ]

Carney is becoming Baghdad Bob. He just needs the uniform.

[tacticalogic]

"Having alternate email addresses for cabinet secretaries and other high-profile officials makes eminent sense.

Lots of people maintain "altternate email addresses".

"Richard Windsor" is not an "alternate email address". It's not an email address at all. It's a fake identity.

[bgill]

Here we go again with what the definition of “is” is.