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Jared & Ivanka: Couple 'Continues To Use' Private Messaging For White House Business, Top Democrat Says (thedailybeast.com)
Freshly Exhumed writes: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has revealed that senior White House advisor Jared Kushner's lawyer admitted in December that his client "continues to use" WhatsApp to conduct official White House business. The chairman also said that a lawyer for Ivanka Trump and Mr. Kushner told the committee late last year that they additionally used private email accounts for official White House business in a way that may have violated federal records laws. Mr Kushner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell could not say whether his client used WhatsApp to share classified information. Regardless, Cummings says the communications raise questions about whether Kushner and other officials violated the Presidential Records Act, which requires the president and his staff "take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records." As for Ivanka's use of a personal email account to conduct official business, her lawyer says she sent the emails before she was briefed on the rules.
If you're not familiar with WhatsApp, here's what you should know about it: "As of January 2019, more than 1.5 billion users in over 180 countries use WhatsApp, created in 2009 as an alternative to text messaging," reports USA Today. "Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 to make a bigger play in the rapidly-growing messaging market, along with its own Messenger platform, which also boasts 1.5 billion users." The service features end-to-end encryption, meaning the sender and recipient are the only ones who can view the messages.
If you're not familiar with WhatsApp, here's what you should know about it: "As of January 2019, more than 1.5 billion users in over 180 countries use WhatsApp, created in 2009 as an alternative to text messaging," reports USA Today. "Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 to make a bigger play in the rapidly-growing messaging market, along with its own Messenger platform, which also boasts 1.5 billion users." The service features end-to-end encryption, meaning the sender and recipient are the only ones who can view the messages.
Hillary is the problem and it is she who should be locked up, for being Hillary Clinton!
Look here instead everyone! Here's the real problem!
With Mueller failing to deliver any damage to the President, his haters need new stuff to throw — in the hope, something will stick...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
> While you are likely right, it also sounds like a poor excuse on Ivanka’s part, when her father was voted in due to Hilary’s emails.
Grow the fuck up.
Is Ivanka storing and selling access to US state secrets like Clinton did with her illegal server?
Nope.
No matter how many times clowns like you try to pretend Clinton was 'just sending emails' on her own server and 'everyone else does it too' it isn't going to fool anyone.
Removing and storing US state secret documents from their secure networks IS A CRIME.
Providing access to or selling access to those same US state secrets IS A CRIME.
> Using private email for public business isn't illegal.
Yes
> Deleting important emails like Hillary did is what's illegal.
The emails were under a preservation order from a Congressional subpoena/investigation.
The addition crimes by Clinton were:
* Removing top or other types of US government secret data/communications from the secured US intelligence security network(s). * Selling/providing access to those same documents to third parties - ie. Clinton Foundation donors
Beyond Clinton's major crimes, the damage to United States security is immense. In Clinton's attempts to circumvent US intelligence safeguards for top secret information, her illegal server was completely unsecured and is known to have been hacked by various enemies of the US and the top secret information stolen.
High five Hillary! You fucked your country for hundreds in millions dollars to your sham foundation.
Well, those are your theoretical facts, I have alternative facts so: LOCK THEM UP!!! LOCK THEM UP!! LOCK THEM UP!! LOCK THEM UP!! .....
Are Jared and Ivanka storing US state secrets on illegal external servers outside the control of the US intelligence agencies? Us Intelligence agencies controls Whatsapp? I'm sure there are many people who'd like to know this little fact, including the US intelligence agencies. Have you told them, yet?
You need to work on your reading comprehension. Of course US intelligence agencies don't control Whatsapp, and that's not what the OP was implying. Jared and Ivanka aren't dealing with state secrets, unlike a certain former Secretary of State.
She wasn't corrupt, sure people donated to her charitable foundation with the hopes of gaining some favour. But would you prefer they donated to her campaign or PAC instead? Or hosted a fundraiser? That kind of stuff was literally standard operating procedure in Washington.
Are you serious? Check the donations. They skyrocketed when she ran for President - and fell like a stone when she failed. Then boomed again when she was suddenly in charge of all US International relations (Sec State). And you're telling me people are not buying her?
Like the way her foundation and husband received millions of dollars after choosing not to deny the Russian buyout of Uranium One?
The multiple ties between Hillary and Russia, including secret meetings in 2016
as she was candidate Clinton?
Funding fake dossiers against candidate Trump?
Colluding with personal friends in the media to get advance information about campaign questions and the like?
Wasn't corrupt? I guess the Sahara is a frigid, sodden wasteland in your world...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!