House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump's use of personal email for government business

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House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump’s use of personal email for government business

By Felicia Sonmez and Colby Itkowitz
November 20 at 1:43 PM

The House Oversight Committee plans to investigate whether Ivanka Trump violated federal law by using a personal email account for government business, the panel's incoming chairman, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), said Tuesday.

In a statement, Cummings said the committee launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials' use of personal email accounts, but the White House did not provide the requested information. "We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration," Cummings said.

In what appeared to be an acknowledgment of the potential risk of a backlash against Democrats for aggressively probing the Trump administration, Cummings also emphasized that his focus upon becoming chairman of the committee will be to address the everyday issues impacting Americans. "My goal is to prevent this from happening again -- not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton," he said.

American Oversight, the liberal watchdog group whose record requests led to the discovery regarding Ivanka Trump's use of her personal email, said in a letter to the top members of the panel and the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier Tuesday that "it is incumbent on Congress to investigate this matter immediately." It drew a comparison between the use of personal email accounts by President Trump's daughter, a White House senior adviser, and Hillary Clinton when she was serving as secretary of state under President Barack Obama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watchdog-group-asks-congress-to-investigate-ivanka-trumps-use-of-personal-email-for-government-business/2018/11/20/b07931ae-ecce-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html

[Homer Wells]

1. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Cops tell folks this all the time for traffic violations.

[sunonmars]

2. She knew, she just thought she was above the law and got caught.

[java108]

3. LOCK HER UP!

Bwahahaha!

[Johnny2X2X]

4. 2 laws changed after Hillary left that made Ivanka's actions illegal

The US Data Act of 2014, and the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016.

If someone says why was it OK for HIllary, but not for Ivanka you can answer because the laws changed making it illegal.

Under the US Data Act, when Ivanka used her personal email for government business she had 20 days to transfer the emails to a government server, if she didn't do so she committed a crime. Under the FOIA act, if Ivanka deleted any emails from her personal email after she started using it for government business without a government agency looking at them and OKing them for deletion she committed a crime.

Remember "Where are Hillary's 30,000 emails?" That was not illegal for her lawyers to delete her emails they thought were personal, the 2016 law changed that. If Ivanka deleted so much as an ad for 15% off shoes from JC Penny's she committed a crime.

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R