Meet Richard Windsor
And who is he? None other than Environmental Protection Agency director Lisa Jackson when she wants to keep some email secret.
It is turning into quite the little Scandal Season for the Obama administration. Skyrocketing energy prices, nuclear Iran, severe recession, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Sex scandals and those emails and now this. From
The Daily Caller:
EPA chief�s secret �alias� email account revealed
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.
More from
The Washington Times:
Congress demands EPA�s secret email accounts
A House committee has launched an investigation into whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency�s own internal watchdog � something that Republican lawmakers said could run afoul of the law.
The science committee has asked Ms. Jackson to turn over all information related to an email account under the name of �Richard Windsor,� which is one of the aliases identified by a researcher looking into the EPA.
The committee has also asked the White House�s lawyer and EPA�s inspector general to look into the matter and report back by the end of this month, saying that the secret email accounts could have been used to keep key information from official watchdogs as well as the public.
EPA did not respond Friday night to a request for comment.
Emphasis mine -- no shit. They are too busy scrubbing servers. We could use a good whistleblower right about now. They don't even have to come public -- after all, the
ClimateGate I and II was handled completely anonymously and ClimateGate II has that
encrypted package that makes a wonderful
Sword of Damocles in the event they do find the leak.
Posted by DaveH at November 18, 2012 12:41 PM