Group Wants Probe of Education E - Mails

[wakeme2008]

Source: AP

May 16, 2007
Group Wants Probe of Education E - Mails
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:44 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A private watchdog group asked the Education Department's inspector general on Wednesday to investigate the possible improper use of private e-mail accounts to conduct official department business.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics executive director Melanie Sloan said the apparent use of such accounts is making it difficult for the group to obtain documents it is seeking under the Freedom of Information Act.

Sloan said the group's lawyer, Dan Roth, had two separate conversations recently with Education Department officials in which he was told that some information he was seeking regarding a reading program might be unavailable because it was not stored in e-mail accounts accessible to the government. Department officials told Roth that agency employees often use private e-mail accounts rather than their government-issued accounts to do official business, Sloan said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Education-E-mails.html

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In other words, probably all Bush Depts were using Private Emails to get around the "Federal Records Act"

[jtrockville]

1. WHAT do these people have to HIDE? nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. everything

apparently. :mad:

[loudsue]

3. These worms are hiding under every single rock you turn over!!!

I'm fed up. And right now I'm really wondering about BOTH parties that rule this country. WHY isn't impeachment on the table? WHY aren't there arrest warrants issued? The crimes are endless!!!

:kick: