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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 05:58 PM Sep 2017

Trump's Sketchy Election Panel Uses Personal Email For Official Business

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 5:45 PM

Members of President Donald Trump’s bogus “election integrity” commission vice chaired by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) used personal email to conduct official business, according to a legal document filed Tuesday.

According to a joint status report filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, members of the panel “have been using personal email accounts rather than federal government systems to conduct Commission work.”

The report said that usage is a violation of the Presidential Records Act and noted that lawyers for the commission said “they did not yet have any settled plan for how they would collect emails from these personal, non-federal government systems.”

The commission’s lawyers filed the status report as part of a lawsuit the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law brought in July against the panel at large, a number of its members and a number of federal offices.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-election-commission-uses-personal-email-for-official-business

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Trump's Sketchy Election Panel Uses Personal Email For Official Business (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Of course. Trump uses a personal Twitter account to conduct official business. SunSeeker Sep 2017 #1
Sounds like a years-long Congressional investigation is needed Zorro Sep 2017 #2
I disagree Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #4
LOCK THEM UP Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #3
LOL Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #5
The same commission lawyers have asserted committee powers the Constitution did not grant. Ford_Prefect Sep 2017 #6
Clearly illegal, period. Lock 'em up NOW!!! 2naSalit Sep 2017 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
5. LOL
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 06:13 PM
Sep 2017

Not in America, my friend.

What is so funny is I am immensely enjoying "Narcos" on Netflix about the Colombian cocaine business starting with Escobar.

Routinely stuff goes south on the DEA because of the corrupt politicians, but I would take any of those guys or gals down there over Trump any day.

Ford_Prefect

(7,831 posts)
6. The same commission lawyers have asserted committee powers the Constitution did not grant.
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 06:23 PM
Sep 2017

We need to shut them down, not tolerate their ignorance, deceit and threats.

Someone has to clean up Guantanamo after the hurricane hits and I see a community service opportunity.

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