Tag: e-mail

US Ambassador to Japan Caught Pulling A Hillary

| August 27, 2015

I always thought the Hillary Clinton email scandal was just the tip of the iceberg because of how many emails she was sending out and no one was questioning it.  That made me think it must be accepted practice in the State Department to use private email to get around Freedom of Information Act laws.  Well now we know Caroline Kennedy the US Ambassador to Japan was doing the same thing.  Reading all this just makes me wonder what people would say if a US military Brigade Commander was sending out official emails from a Yahoo account.  It would raise eyebrows immediately and definitely cause a JAG to get involved:

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and senior staff at the U.S. embassy in Japan used personal email accounts for official business, an internal watchdog report said Tuesday — making Kennedy the latest Obama administration official to run afoul of email security guidelines.

The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) report said it received reports concerning the use of private email accounts for official business, and identified instances where emails labeled “sensitive but unclassified” were sent from or received by personal email accounts.

“On the basis of these reports, OIG’s Office of Evaluations and Special Projects conducted a review and confirmed that senior embassy staff, including the Ambassador, used personal email accounts to send and receive messages containing official business. In addition, OIG identified instances where emails labeled Sensitive but Unclassified were sent from, or received by, personal email accounts,” the report said.  [Fox News via reader tip]

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