http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/janet-napolitano-email-89317.html#ixzz3TcFkkS6J
3/26/13
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano doesn’t believe in using email.
“I think email just sucks up time,” Napolitano told an incredulous group of reporters on Tuesday, speaking at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.
Napolitano, who said she doesn’t text or “Twitter” either, said she may use email “at some point,” but right now, it’s not in the cards.
“In many respects, in a job like mine, it’s inefficient,” Napolitano said, noting that she is briefed by staff frequently and prefers to use the phone for much of her work. “I stopped using email when I was attorney general of Arizona. I was like, ‘Why am I spending my time scrolling through this?’”
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If you don’t put anything in writing, it cannot be used against you later in a court of law.
He’s been a military officer in the Reserves. The military uses email all of the time. What’s he do, just read them and not reply? It’s too weird to believe.
People who eschew email are at the least anachronistic Luddites, at worst conniving conspirators who know to leave no trail that can be physically documented. She IS the latter.
I'm sure it's much better use of one's time to use a typewriter to type up a letter and address an envelope and mail it the old fashioned way.
“In many respects, in a job like mine, it’s inefficient,” Napolitano said, noting that she is briefed by staff frequently and prefers to use the phone for much of her work.”
So additional people have to be hired to read her email, print it out or tell her what was in it, read or listen to her dictated response, and then write a response to the original email.
Does she even know the meaning of the word efficient?