Kobach's email account

[Joods]

After all the hating on Hillary for her email scandal take a look here at what I found thanks to a link in another thread: 

Kobach is using a personal email account

One might think that any politician who paid the slightest bit of attention to the 2016 election might be wary of using a personal email account for government business. But Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is the vice chairman of Donald Trump's voter fraud commission, is using a personal Gmail account and intends to continue to do so. His argument is that he is on the commission as a private citizen, not as a Kansas official, so there is no problem using his Gmail account for commission work. His real reason for doing so is that Gmail accounts are not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. Consequently, public interest groups cannot sue to get them. ProPublica has said that since he is working on a government commission, private citizen or not, he must comply with federal records retention laws, but clearly he has no interest in complying and it is unlikely that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is going to do anything to make him.

One thing that Kobach is probably not thinking about (but should be) is the possibility of emails leaking. Probably only one or two people had access to Hillary Clinton's email server and nothing leaked. A Gmail account is very different. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of system administrators and other Google employees no doubt have access to all the Gmail accounts. They need that access to keep the servers running. Of course, they are strictly forbidden by company policy from leaking any emails sent using the service, but sometimes stuff happens. It's also worth noting that part of what kept Clinton's mail server (reasonably?) safe was the fact that virtually nobody knew it existed; this is sometimes called "security through obscurity." On the other hand, everyone knows about Gmail, and now everyone knows that Kobach has an account. That makes him quite a juicy target for ill-doers worldwide, as well as insiders. (V)

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[Minimalist]

"It's DIFFERENT when we do it."

[The Valkyrie]

It's only a bad thing, against the law, when others do it.

Well, only if those others are part of the opposition.

[Minimalist]

Still seems to me that Hillary's email server was about the only one in Washington that wasn't hacked.  She should give lessons.

[brewer]

How does this website author know what his "real reason" is? How does the author know he has "no interest in complying" with federal records retention laws?

This author seems to be making some assumptions.

[Joods]

How does this website author know what his "real reason" is? How does the author know he has "no interest in complying" with federal records retention laws?

This author seems to be making some assumptions.

Considering you commented on that same website here and didn't have any problems with it, why take issue with it now?

[brewer]

How does this website author know what his "real reason" is? How does the author know he has "no interest in complying" with federal records retention laws?

This author seems to be making some assumptions.

Considering you commented on that same website here and didn't have any problems with it, why take issue with it now?

Different article for this thread. Didn't read the articles for the other thread. My comment in the other thread was a joke image, nice try. 

What your issue, my comments are valid?

[Minimalist]

Since 2014 it has been a law.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2...etary.html

Under a law passed this past November, a government official can use private email accounts to conduct government business—but only if that official copies or forwards the email to his or her government account within 20 days. Violating that law can result in disciplinary action but carries with it no criminal penalties. But Clinton’s private emailing occurred well before that law went into effect. According to the National Archives, the official definition of what constitutes a federal record did not “clearly include electronic records” until Obama signed the 2014 law, which represented “the first change to the definition of a Federal record” since the Federal Records Act was passed in 1950. Similarly, it wasn’t until August 2013—six months after Clinton had left office—that the National Archives and Records Administration issued guidance making it clear that email records of some senior officials are permanent federal records.

But as the WLB and Leona Helmsley made clear..... laws are for little people.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I regard that Voter Fraud Commission as a conduit for government voting data to the FSB.

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How does this website author know what his "real reason" is? How does the author know he has "no interest in complying" with federal records retention laws?

This author seems to be making some assumptions.

Considering you commented on that same website here and didn't have any problems with it, why take issue with it now?

Perhaps you should answer his questions. They're fair.

[Joods]