Apparently transparency is a relative term for some. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com
Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery > > > Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the > Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using > secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their > inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a > review by The Associated Press. > > The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: > Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees' > email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act > more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to > pay more than $1 million for its email addresses. > > The AP asked for the addresses following last year's disclosures that the > former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency had used > separate email accounts at work. The practice is separate from officials > who use personal, non-government email accounts for work, which generally > is discouraged - but often happens anyway - due to laws requiring that most > federal records be preserved. > > The secret email accounts complicate an agency's legal responsibilities to > find and turn over emails in response to congressional or internal > investigations, civil lawsuits or public records requests because employees > assigned to compile such responses would necessarily need to know about the > accounts to search them. Secret accounts also drive perceptions that > government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions. > > > http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130604/DA6MPFHG2.html > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
