Environmental Protection Agency officials are
keeping mum today about a potential landmine of a lawsuit that claims
senior executives there have used secret email accounts to conduct public business without being subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
The suit was filed last week by the
Competitive Enterprise Institute's senior fellow, Christopher C. Horner,
Hans Bader, CEI's counsel for special projects, and Sam Kazman, the
conservative think tank's general counsel.
Ih the suit, CEI asks the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia to order EPA to produce "certain records
pertaining to 'secondary,' non-public email accounts for EPA
administrators, the existence of which accounts Plaintiff discovered in
an Agency document obtained under a previous FOIA request."
...
Federal law requires all
government employees to use only official email accounts. If they do use
a private account to do official business, however, they are required
to make that available to their employing department or agency.
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