Jared Kushner's Coronavirus Task Force Is Using
Private Email Accounts To Conduct Official Business
Mar 30th 2020
If you're a public official, your communications
and documents are supposed to be accessible by
the public. That's not me being an absolutist
on open government. That's the law. And yet,
here we are, watching an administration that
rode into office on chants of "Lock her up!"
once again conducting government business off
the grid, using the same sort of private email
accounts Trump repeatedly declared should have
landed Hillary Clinton in the slammer.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW) has taken note of the
latest violation of multiple laws by the
Trump Administration and wants to know what
the White House is going to do about it.
Jared Kushner’s shadow coronavirus task force
appears to be violating both the Presidential
Records Act (PRA) and Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) by using private email
accounts with no assurance their communications
are being preserved and by meeting in secret,
according to a letter sent today by Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW). The failure of the White House to
comply with any of the PRA and FACA
requirements leaves the public in the dark
about the work the shadow task force has done
and the influence of private industries on
the administration’s response to the
coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200327/12535044183/jared-kushners-co
ronavirus-task-force-is-using-private-email-accounts-to-conduct-official
-business.shtml