Posted on 11/04/2016 10:24:09 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: r_m_gates@att.net
Date: 2008-11-16 18:51
Subject: Re: Contact Information
Thx.
------Original Message------
From: Bob Gates
To: John.Podesta@gmail.com
Sent: Nov 16, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: Contact Information
John,
If you or anyone needs to contact me or talk with me privately during business hours, you can reach me through my personal e-mail at r_m_gates@att.net (there is an underscore -- r_m_ -- after the r and m in place of a period. I offer that because you indicated you had tried unsuccessfully to reach me by e-mail: the underscores in the address may not have come through in my initial e-mail to you. Only I have access to this account and I check it every hour or so during the workday, and so can get back fairly promptly -- just give me the number to call.
Bob Gates
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
Duhhh. ... Why didn’t he draw a picture...with stick people
Checking private email accounts during work time is not in and of itself a violation of government rules. What Clinton did that was wrong was use private accounts to conduct government business. You can use government computers for personal business as long as you meet three basic conditions:
1) There is no additional cost to the government. Checking email on an existing computer and internet connection don’t create any additional cost.
2) You are not neglecting your work responsibilities. A few moments to fire off a note to your spouse, friend, bank, etc... is considered ok. A quick purchase online is ok as long as you don’t abuse the privilege and ignore work responsibilities.
3) Never use government systems to conduct profit making business. Trading stocks, selling items on ebay, etc... are strictly prohibited.
Did you just eat a bowl of stupid for breakfast this morning? Or are you a CTR troll?
Isn’t Gates the one who likes to sodomize Boy Scouts?
Gates is not on our (America’s) team.
Didn’t he move on to destroy the Boy Scouts after he de-balled the military.
And we now know that the Sect. of Defense has an AT&T informal/personal account,
hopefully no classified information was exchanged through AT&T after this email sent .
So much for OPSEC !!
They can exchange recipes for cheese pizza *AFTER* work.
This is worse than Obama or Hillary’s emails because of the weird spelling r_m_gates@att.net. Classified info could’ve been sent to random people such as rmgates@att.net or rm_gates
Holeeeeee cr@p, (2nd time I’ve said that today)
How many more used personal email for official purposes??!!??
Clean the swamp, indeed!!!
Neither of them take dictation.
If you need to back-channel some information that won't get stored forever on those pesky government issued email accounts...
He did use an underscore in his email id. I’m sure that stopped the Russians,Chicoms and Iranians from any cyber attacks.
Rumor...fbi tried to pick up truepundit guy
I am sure a lot of people check their personal correspondence — or FR — during work. I have a friend who’s an assistant AG in another state. When the talk on an email chain with some friends turned political, he warned us to cut it out or else take it to his personal email account. As I said, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.
This corruption is RANK.
Like Mel Gibson said in “Braveheart,” “Burn it.”
Exactly. Gates shouldn’t need to contact Podesta during work hours if it’s not business related.
...and see how thoroughly corrupt our MSM is in NOT reporting on the Wikileaks releases!! Like Newt pointed out, had the MSM gave the Wikileaks releases equal coverage to the Trump sex talk tape, Hillary would be down 10 even in their corrupt polls.
Had the Wikileaks releases been about Trump, they would be the lead story every night on the MSM nightly news and above the fold page 1 stories in newspapers.
Translation: he's not a golf-addicted deer in the headlights, who'll run to his bedroom to play cards with Reggie on the night of Benghazi and let adults make the tough decisions".
Clinton had her Senate email or her own in 2008. But even so this comes from Podesta not Clinton and if it is in regard to an offer to stay on it should not be on the SecDef’s DoD email as it involves private political not public business. Gates’ private email is exactly where this should have been sent.
When I taught and dealt with bosses about work I used my nyc.gov email, but if a principal offered me a position as say Dean and wanted my thoughts he would use my private hotmail address, and I would respond to his.
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