Apparently Petraeus/Broadwell, Terrorists and sneaky teenagers are not the only ones who want to find a super-secret way to use electronic communications.    Which for public officials is essentially bad enough.   However, when you claim to be  the most “transparent administration ever”, well, that just makes you a liar. 

If you want to avoid a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) public disclosure filing, this is one way – create bogus named email accounts to hide behind.   (Via Daily Caller)  The name Richard Windsor may sound innocuous, but it is allegedly one of  the secret “alias” email accounts used by Obama EPA Administrator Lisa  Jackson.

“That is the name — sorry, one of the alias names — used by Obama’s radical  EPA chief to keep her email from those who ask for it,” Chris Horner,  senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the new book “The Liberal War on on Transparency,” told the  Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.

In his book, Horner revealed the existence of “alias” email accounts used by  EPA administrators. The first such transparency dodge, he writes, came from  Carol Browner, former director of the Obama White House Office of Energy and  Climate Change Policy and Bill Clinton’s EPA administrator.

“You remember Ms. Browner, the lady who suddenly ordered her computer  hard drive  reformatted and backup tapes erased, hours after a federal court issued a ‘preserve’ order … that her lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department insisted  they hadn’t yet told her about?” Horner told TheDC News Foundation. “The one who  said it’s all good because she didn’t use her computer for email anyway? That  one.”

Horner said two former “fairly senior” EPA officials contacted him while he  was researching his book, and gave him the name of one of the email alias names  used by EPA Chief Jackson.

“Richard Windsor” was just “[o]ne of the alternate email addresses she  used,” according to Horner, meaning there could be more.

In September, Horner and CEI filed a lawsuit against the EPA, asking the U.S.  District Court to order them to produce record regarding “‘secondary,’ non-public email accounts for EPA administrators, the existence of which  accounts Plaintiff discovered in an Agency document obtained under a previous  [Freedom of Information Act] request” which the EPA says were known only to a “few EPA staff members, usually only high-level senior staff.”

“These alias accounts, from their origin and use under Browner to their use  by Browner’s successor, are now the subject of a lawsuit I and two colleagues at  CEI also filed grounded in information I uncovered while writing The Liberal War  on Transparency,” Horner said. (Article)