Another Obama Administration Official Is Facing Scrutiny Over Private Emails

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Blaze:

A senior Obama administration official who has allegedly conducted government business from a private email account doesn’t want to provide the contents of those messages.

 

The official is John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, but his case shares similarities with the Hillary Clinton case, according to the plaintiff seeking records.

 

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, filed an opening brief in an appeal this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seeking to reverse a district court ruling that the emails can remain private.

 

Clinton has gained far more attention of late for the private email server she used while secretary of state, with her presidential campaign announcing this week she will turn over her private server to the FBI. There are similarities with the litigation over Holdren’s private email account, which has been going on since late 2013, and the Clinton situation, said Sam Kazman, general counsel for the CEI.

 

“Her case is a prime example of a high official keeping a personal email account,” Kazman told TheBlaze. “In our case, similarly, the official is claiming that not all of the messages in the personal account are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, even when in many cases they are clearly agency-related.”

 

Kazman said the Clinton matter has shed some light on what’s happening throughout the Obama administration – where White House officials such as Holdren, but also Environmental Protection Agency officials, have sought to withhold communications.

 

“It’s not an atypical practice. I wouldn’t say it’s an everyday practice by everyone in the administration, but this White House pledged to be the most transparent administration in history,” Kazman said. “Our joke is when this administration says transparency they mean invisible.”

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Well, people can see right through them...

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