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business, January 6 committee saysMark Meadows, President Donald Trump's final chief of staff, used a personal cellphone, two personal Gmail accounts, and a Signal account for official government business, a report released on Sunday by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot said.
The committee released a 51-page report detailing why it should hold Meadows in criminal contempt for defying its subpoena and cited a slew of documents Meadows turned over to the panel when he was cooperating with the inquiry. The bipartisan committee is expected to vote on the contempt charge on Monday night.
The panel wrote that Meadows, who served as chief of staff from March 2020 to the end of Trump's term, used his own cellphone and two personal email accounts to communicate about "official business related to his service as White House chief of staff." He also sent messages through Signal, an encrypted-messaging app, the report said.
Government officials are required to use government-issued accounts and devices to communicate about their work or forward any private messages to their government accounts for public transparency and accountability purposes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-meadows-used-own-cell-171337739.html
dalton99a
(95,261 posts)tanyev
(49,682 posts)
elias7
(4,229 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,047 posts)Then it came out Ivanka used a personal email account for official govt. business and pubs never uttered a peep
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)and in unison. Maybe that's what we are missing? We don't stay on an offense long enough and loud enough?
lees1975
(7,190 posts)they need to be cranking this out 24-7
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,637 posts)GoodRaisin
(11,057 posts)keep_left
(3,223 posts)...because, guess what? The NSA has the encryption keys to government communications equipment. You're supposed to be keeping things secret from our enemies, not from the government you serve!
crickets
(26,168 posts)Dan
(5,292 posts)Let him disapprove it ..smile. Because no matter what he says, he is still beating his wife (old saying).
fierywoman
(8,631 posts)spanone
(142,059 posts)Takket
(23,802 posts)RevBrotherThomas
(856 posts)You beat me to it.
Irish_Dem
(82,335 posts)aggiesal
(10,915 posts)I'll bet that a future report will show that Meadows used a burn phone to communicate to the 1/6 groups at the Capitol.
AllyCat
(18,989 posts)IronLionZion
(51,551 posts)
Johnny2X2X
(24,435 posts)They don't even care about hypocrisy.
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