Ambassador Kennedy used private email, watchdog says

[WestVirginiaRebel]

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Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and senior staff at the U.S. embassy in Japan used personal email accounts for official business, an internal watchdog report said Tuesday -- making Kennedy the latest Obama administration official to run afoul of email security guidelines.

 

The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) report said it received reports concerning the use of private email accounts for official business, and identified instances where emails labeled "sensitive but unclassified" were sent from or received by personal email accounts.

 

“On the basis of these reports, OIG’s Office of Evaluations and Special Projects conducted a review and confirmed that senior embassy staff, including the Ambassador, used personal email accounts to send and receive messages containing official business. In addition, OIG identified instances where emails labeled Sensitive but Unclassified were sent from, or received by, personal email accounts," the report said.

 

The OIG stressed that department policy says employees generally should not use private accounts for official business, citing the risk of hacking and data loss.

 

"Employees are also expected to use approved, secure methods to transmit sensitive but unclassified information when available and practical," the report says.

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The Clinton mail method.