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If confirmation bias is wrong then how come I never seen a reputable source saying that
Amazing that people still don't understand what the problem was with that. They can have personal accounts, but not for classified material.
Politico said:Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
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People familiar with the account say it was primarily set up for Kushner?s personal communications, but he has used it to communicate with acquaintances outside the White House about matters relating to Trump and the administration, according to people who have received messages, as well as with his White House colleagues.
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Private email traffic among White House aides ? some of it sent between personal email accounts rather than to or from government addresses ? could skirt the requirements of the Presidential Records Act, which requires all documents related to the president?s personal and political activities to be archived.
Lowell said Kushner has adhered to government record-keeping requirements by forwarding all the emails to his account, though POLITICO could not verify that.
Other White House officials have also sometimes used personal accounts to correspond with Kushner and with each other, according to emails seen by POLITICO and people familiar with Kushner?s correspondence. They have also used encrypted apps like Signal and Confide that automatically delete messages, prompting former press secretary Sean Spicer in February to issue a warning to communications staffers that using such apps could violate the Presidential Records Act.
National Review said:The Federal Records Act requires the preservation of any official ?record,? which is defined functionally to require preservation whenever a record relates to the performance of a federal official?s duties.
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There is also little doubt, given this functional definition, that e-mail has been covered by the Federal Records Act since its adoption by the federal government during the Clinton administration.
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So was the use of private e-mail allowed when Clinton was secretary? Well, sure, at least to some extent. I suspect every federal employee has, at some time, used a private e-mail account to conduct business. But that doesn?t excuse failure to comply with the Federal Records Act. Best practices have always been that an employee using a private account for government business has to either print the e-mail (which rarely happens) or copy or forward the e-mail to the employee?s official government e-mail account for preservation. Those practices, which reflected the law as it existed before Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, were codified by National Archives Regulations in 2009, which required that any records created on private e-mail accounts must be saved to the federal-records system. And Congress confirmed that in 2013, by adopting a prohibition on the use of private e-mail, unless the employee forwards to or copies an official e-mail account within 60 days of the record?s creation.
1) You're kidding yourself if you think that Democrats aren't all giddy with the thought of getting back at the Republicans over a Clinton-esque email scandal.
2) You're kidding yourself if think that this is remotely as big of a deal as Clinton's email scandal.
So, the concern is that he's skirting the law governing records retention, not classified material. Though the way the media's been 1-2 punching, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up to an alert tomorrow that Kushner was indeed handling classified material through that email. I doubt it, though.
For the record, it would not surprise me in the slightest if many people in our government were in violation of such rules and laws. On both sides of the aisle. I've never had much faith in their competence or integrity. It's simply disgraceful that people try to use non-stories such as this to excuse Clinton's actual crimes.
Speaking of Hillary, remember one of her primary campaign staffers, Huma Abedin? Well, her husband Anthony Weiner just got sentenced to prison for sexting a teenager. Interesting how Hillary was so creeped out by Trump on stage but not by her rapey husband or Huma's pedo husband.
Speaking of Hillary, remember one of her primary campaign staffers, Huma Abedin? Well, her husband Anthony Weiner just got sentenced to prison for sexting a teenager. Interesting how Hillary was so creeped out by Trump on stage but not by her rapey husband or Huma's pedo husband.
Any thoughts on Trumps conflict with the NFL?
I sum it up as Trump overcompensating and trying to keep his base's support.
Any thoughts on Trumps conflict with the NFL?
In other news, Trump is getting triggered by what some professional sports player think of him. What a little bitch.
Cliffs: NFL ratings are falling because a bunch of rich dudes that get paid to entertain us are throwing a tantrum and disrespecting the flag, the country, and the armed forces and fans don't like it.
Personally, I think it's just another distraction from real issues. And it's kind of sad how so many have fallen into it, inadvertently making themselves look anti-American, which isn't going to impress anyone that isn't already on their side. In their attempts to snub Trump, they're being manipulated into snubbing America. Whether they realize it or not, that's exactly what it looks like. Snubbing symbols of our country that have nothing to do with Trump.
Of course, I don't think that was Trump's plan. I think he was just mouthing off as usual. There was probably a Colin Kaepernick story on Fox News that day, or something.