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White House brushes off House investigators over aides' use of personal email

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What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems

White House brushes off House investigators over aides' use of personal email

The White House brushed off a bipartisan request from House investigators for details of senior administration officials' use of private email and encrypted messaging apps for government work, including possible violations of federal record-keeping laws, a letter obtained by POLITICO shows.

In a terse letter to Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) — leaders of the House oversight committee — President Donald Trump's congressional liaison Marc Short declined to indicate whether any administration officials had used personal email accounts or messaging services, despite reports suggesting such communications were common in the West Wing.
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Short's statement comes despite recent revelations that several senior aides to President Donald Trump routinely used private email addresses and personal devices for government business. Among the current and former aides who POLITICO found at least occasionally relied on private email addresses were Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Gary Cohn and Reince Priebus.
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Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
Gowdy joins Democrats in probing Trump administration’s use of personal email

The letters, sent from Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to White House counsel Don McGahn and the leaders of two dozen federal departments and agencies, demand answers to inquiries about the use of nonofficial email and other messaging accounts to conduct official business. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the panel, also joined the request.

[Kushner used private email account for some White House business]

The letters represent some of the most aggressive oversight of the Trump administration from Gowdy, who took over the reins of the Oversight Committee in June after Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) announced plans to resign his congressional seat. They come after the Republicans on the committee repeatedly questioned Democrat Hillary Clinton’s use of private email, hosted on a personal server, during her tenure as secretary of state.

Kushner used his personal account to correspond dozens of times with White House colleagues, according to a statement from his attorney, Abbe Lowell.
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After years of failed Benghazi hearings and other fake witch hunts, the Republicans got so desperate to hurt Clinton they realized they had to fabricate a scandal. It was never about e-mails, it was always a smear campaign by people with no morals and who valued winning over being honest. All you can hear now on this issue from the right is crickets.
 
Somerville said:
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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Was classified material transmitted through an unsecure network? If not, this is much ado about nothing.
 
Somerville said:
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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We’re they using private servers, or gmail accounts?
 
Somerville said:
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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Did these Emails contain classified information and did this information wind up on a unsecure laptop of one of their advisors ?

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nyda...din-uncovered-weiner-laptop-article-1.3569544
 
Mr Person said:
Is gmail more secure than a private server?
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Of course not. Well it depends on the security practices on the private server. However, any private server with account lockouts, good password requirements, and brute force protection will be more secure than gmail.
 
MaggieD said:
No. But one is covert.
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Both are covert. The government would have better odds of getting emails off of a private server than they would off of gmail.
 
This failed bull****...again.

SO far what has been reported was that Kushner forwarded news stories to a government account. This was shown to be a leftist joke a few months ago when it 'broke'. All it really means is 1- its a slow news day and 2-leftists will find SOMETHING to **** themselves over, no matter what.

Now...caveat that...SINCE the commercial to government email has a record, then if it can be shown there is classified involved...hang him from the talles t tree. Right next to Hillary. Since you care so much.
 
Let me let you guys in on a little secret, Hillary obviously used a private email server because she wanted to control what correspondence was archived. That is the only reason why you would do so. Similarly, Trump Admin officials used private email because they wanted to control what correspondence was archived. So was it just "Lock her up!" when Hillary did this, but not when Trump Admin officials did it?
 
Somerville said:
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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This doesn't rise to anywhere near the level of the security violations of Hillary and her crew.

Thread dismissed.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Let me let you guys in on a little secret, Hillary obviously used a private email server because she wanted to control what correspondence was archived. That is the only reason why you would do so. Similarly, Trump Admin officials used private email because they wanted to control what correspondence was archived. So was it just "Lock her up!" when Hillary did this, but not when Trump Admin officials did it?
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She wanted to control what correspondence was archived ? Yes, we already knew that

She deleted 30,000 Emails which included work related emails and documents.

Problem is thats illegal, and extremely suspicious given her ties to her husbands foundation and the accusations of pay to play
 
Mycroft said:
Originally Posted by Somerville
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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This doesn't rise to anywhere near the level of the security violations of Hillary and her crew.

Thread dismissed.
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Trump supporters really shouldn't jump into the fray when they haven't bothered to read all the stories.

From one of those 'librul' Mainstream Media outlets
At least 6 Trump staffers used private email for White House business

At least six top aides to President Trump have reportedly used private email accounts for White House business, a report said Monday.

The revelation was reported by the New York Times just one day after it became public that three aides — son-in-law Jared Kushner, ex-strategist Steve Bannon and former chief of staff Reince Priebus — have used private email while working in the White House.

Aides Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller also sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, the Times said.

In addition, it was reported Monday that the president’s daughter Ivanka used a private account in the first few months of the president’s term.
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another article
IVANKA TRUMP, JARED KUSHNER HAVE SECRET EMAIL ACCOUNT HOSTED BY TRUMP ORGANIZATION

Updated | A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner denied reports indicating the couple had an email account that used Trump Organization servers in a statement emailed to Newsweek Tuesday afternoon. "Mr. Kushner's and Ms. Trump's personal family email account does not reside and never has resided in, nor passed through, the Trump Organization email server,” they said, noting the account featured a filtering service to block potential viruses and malware and had preserved work-related emails in the White House system. The spokesperson did not explain why multiple public databases connect the email account to Trump Organization servers, nor did they state whether any emails were deleted from the account used to conduct government business after Donald Trump's election.
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and another, which should cause even conservatives to wonder what is happening behind the doors of the White House
White House Rebuffs Committee’s Questions on Private Email, Air Travel

The White House is rebuffing a House committee’s bipartisan request for detailed information about the Trump administration’s use of private email for government work and executive branch use of government and chartered aircraft.

In two letters Monday from White House congressional liaison Marc Short, the top Republican and Democrat on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform were given little information sought on either topic -- prompting a Democrat on the panel to suggest subpoenas might be needed.
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The chairman of the committee, South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy, couldn’t be reached for comment through aides.
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"This gives hypocrisy a bad name," Representative Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, said in an interview.
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He suggested the standoff represents a test for Gowdy, who had led the congressional committee that helped expose Clinton’s use of a private email server.
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Somerville said:
Trump supporters really shouldn't jump into the fray when they haven't bothered to read all the stories.

From one of those 'librul' Mainstream Media outlets


another article


and another, which should cause even conservatives to wonder what is happening behind the doors of the White House
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LOL!!

Lots of unnamed sources in all that nonsense.

As I said..."Thread dismissed".
 
Mycroft said:
LOL!!

Lots of unnamed sources in all that nonsense.

As I said..."Thread dismissed".
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You guys are so cute with your refusal to accept even the slightest possibility of nefarious behavior by the White House. Please tell the reading audience what your thoughts are in regards to the White House's refusal to answer the questions sent to them by a fellow Republican in the House of Representatives - or continue with your hysterical laughter because you don't actually have an answer.
 
Somerville said:
You guys are so cute with your refusal to accept even the slightest possibility of nefarious behavior by the White House. Please tell the reading audience what your thoughts are in regards to the White House's refusal to answer the questions sent to them by a fellow Republican in the House of Representatives - or continue with your hysterical laughter because you don't actually have an answer.
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Well, if someone asked me to respond to nonsense from unnamed sources, I would dismiss the stuff...just like they did.

But hey...you are free to get all bent out of shape over nothing if you want to. Doesn't mean anyone else should.
 
Mr Person said:
One's gmail account is just as private, unless one publicly shares passwords. Not sure what distinction "covert" is supposed to make.
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Then why didn’t HC just have. A Gmail account? Why her own server?
 
MaggieD said:
Then why didn’t HC just have. A Gmail account? Why her own server?
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Why does it matter if the problem was supposed to be insecure communications using non-government private email? Sounds like the only sense in which it matters is that a private server could actually be made more secure than gmail, but that's rather beside the claimed problem in using either means.

But that's really beside the point if we are supposed to be about potentially hackable private emails that also do not necessarily comply with government record-keeping requirements. If those are the two issues, then gmail isn't inherently any better or worse than a private server.
 
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Mr Person said:
Why does it matter if the problem was supposed to be insecure communications using non-government private email? Sounds like the only sense in which it matters is that a private server could actually be made more secure than gmail, but that's rather beside the claimed problem in using either means.

But that's really beside the point if we are supposed to be about potentially hackable private emails that also do not necessarily comply with government record-keeping requirements. If those are the two issues, then gmail isn't inherently any better or worse than a private server.
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Sounds like it’s the same issue to me then. Guess it all depends what was in the emails as to whether or not it’s even an issue.
 
Why would it matter now? Republicans pretty much milked the Clinton email thing for all it was worth. It's all political crap. I doubt any politicians actually cared about the private server. It was blown up to fire up the base. It obviously worked.
 
Somerville said:
What's bad for the Clintons is not so bad for the Trumpites, it seems



Now, isn't this interesting? The response by the White House is, as the Politico piece notes, a response to a request from Trey Gowdy as reported in a Washington Post article on Sept 25
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If it is illegal to use personal email accounts to conduct government business then it is illegal for every government employee.
 
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