Congressmen Confront EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Over Use of Alias 'Richard Windsor'
Two members of Congress sent a letter to EPA
administrator Lisa Jackson over her use of the alias "Richard Windsor."
The congressmen, Fred Upton and Cliff Stearns, want Jackson to explain
her actions.
"In recent weeks, questions have
been raised in Congress and among public interest groups about the use
of one or more secondary email accounts and aliases by you and
potentially other officials at the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)," they wrote in a letter addressed to Jackson. "Given your
reported use of at least one alias email account in your conduct of
agency business, we write to ask that you describe fully the nature and
extent of this practice."
The letter contains a detailed list of questions, including:
"According to press reports, you have a government
issued email account under the alias 'Richard Windsor.' Is this
accurate? Does this email account still exist, and do you use it?"
"According to press reports, on November 20, 2012,
EPA issued a statement indicating that '[f]or more than a decade, EPA
administrators have been assigned two official, government issued email
accounts: a public account and an internal account.' How many email
accounts have been assigned to you at the agency? What are the email
addresses for these accounts?"
"To your knowledge, are there any other heads of
Federal agencies that are assigned an 'internal' email address? If yes,
which Federal agencies?"
As well as several other questions. (Read the letter here.)
Upton is the chairman of the House Committee on
Energy and Commerce; Stearns is the chairman of the subcommittee on
oversight and investigation.
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