White House launches probe of private email accounts

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




The review began after a POLITICO report about senior White House officials using private email accounts for government work.

By JOSH DAWSEY and ANDREA PETERSON 09/28/2017 08:03 PM EDT Updated 09/28/2017 08:43 PM EDT

The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter.

The effort began this week after POLITICO reported that both Jared Kushner and a number of other senior White House officials used private email accounts throughout the year to conduct government business. Of particular interest is Kushner and Ivanka Trump's private email domain, because they still work in the White House, two officials said. Accounts of other White House officials are also being reviewed.

The probe could take several weeks or even months to complete, according to one of these people, as officials are searching for all emails sent or received about government business. The White House counsel's office is reviewing the accounts to determine if the messages are germane to any investigations such as the ongoing Russia probes by Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller, one of these people said.

News about the private email accounts caught many White House lawyers by surprise, one of these people said, and infuriated a number of White House officials.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/white-house-launches-probe-private-email-accounts-243281

[Zorro]

1. Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up!

[area51]

14. +1 n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Lock themselves up! Lock themselves up!!

[Bleacher Creature]

3. What's there to probe??

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We were told all last year that not using an email server located in the building of a government agency was the single greatest crime on the books.

[murielm99]

10. They are busy deleting and trying to

hide things. They will destroy whatever evidence they can.

[Merlot]

16. To bad for them that email is a two way street

Destroying evidence is not as easy as it used to be, but I'm sure they'll give it their best effort.

[democratisphere]

4. Private email accounts used for official government business by

members of the current administration immediately VOIDS any and all elections that placed them in the oval office. The electoral runner-up will be immediately installed to replace the heinous scoudrels that committed these email atrocities.

[underpants]

5. Uh... there's little staff. Who's going to do the probe?

[GP6971]

7. Yep....this is going nowhere

and if they had the staff they wouldn't find anything wrong.

[underpants]

6. LOCK HER UP!

[Merlot]

17. wow, that's a really odd picture of jarhead

He looks like he simultaneously wants to cry and kill someone.

[not fooled]

8. What? No Congressional hearings?

Effing hypocrites.

[RussBLib]

9. oh, I am SURE the White House will probe this

long enough to bury whatever they find

who has any confidence in the white house any longer?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. "LOCK YOURSELVES UP!! LOCK YOURSELVES UP!!"........ Just doesn't flow as easily. nt

[C_U_L8R]

12. Delete delete delete

Trump freaks out and calls in the cleaners.
Mueller might want to contact some ISPs.
Trumps are too dump to realize that
nothing online is ever fully deleted.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Good and Bad.

The Good: White House in a panic again. Golf game delayed.

The Bad: Cover. Up.

[C Moon]

15. Orange face turned red.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. This like expecting a police officer

to write himself a traffic ticket