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031115-742979-private-emails-can-take-down-public-officials.htmInvestors Business Daily:

Former CIA Director David Petraeus plea-bargained to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material after having given classified government information to his onetime mistress, Paula Broadwell.

 

How was Petraeus' transgression uncovered? By exposure of a nongovernment email account that he had set up with to communicate with Broadwell free of CIA scrutiny.

 

After a series of Democratic scandals in the New York state legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is instituting a policy to have the emails of state employees automatically deleted after 90 days. Apparently, Cuomo did not want e-trails of politicians' communications.

 

Meanwhile, the former speaker of the New York state assembly, Sheldon Silver, faces charges of corruption and was forced by subpoena to turn over computer correspondence.

 

Under the Cuomo plan, a politician like Silver could delay and obfuscate for three months, and then safely assume that almost all of his communications had safely vanished — in a fashion that pre-email politicians could never have imagined.Scissors-32x32.png


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What happens in New York... Stays in New York.

Well, that's kinda good. Just don't spread NY to the ret of the countrywink.png

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