Labor Dept. Wanted $1M For E-mail Addresses of Political Appointees

Virtucon writes with this snippet from an Associated Press story as carried by TwinCities.com: "'The AP asked for the addresses following last year's disclosures that the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency had used separate email accounts at work. The practice is separate from officials who use personal, non-government email accounts for work, which generally is discouraged—but often happens anyway—due to laws requiring that most federal records be preserved. The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees' email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.' The reason for the $1 million dollar request was to do research including going to backup tapes. Some of the information has been turned over to AP but it still seems that the government just can't get their hands on e-mail addresses for their own people."

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Re:Incompetence

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An identity that later won internal awards for ethics "scholar of ethical behavior.”

Of course this is also the administration who also was caught having visiting with lobbyists at a local Caribou coffee shop (ie secretly) instead of bringing them into the White House where they would show up in the visitor logs.

Most transparent administration evah eh?

Between the IRS targeting conservatives, a few officials being held in contempt of congress (and court), Obama sleeping on the job when his ambassador in Libya was killed, running guns to Mexican drug gangs, HHS seeking protection money from companies they are to regulate (and much much more)... this administration is destined to go down in history as even more corrupt than history has tried to paint Nixon.