Deputy AG Involved In Jan. 6 Investigation May Be Breaking The Law By Allegedly Using Pseudonymous Email Address, Lawyer Says

Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco's alleged use of a "Pseudonymous email account" may be breaking "Clearly applicable laws," a lawyer responsible for uncovering Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's false identity told the Daily Caller on Monday.

Buried in an early-Monday morning New York Times article about Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was a revelation about how Monaco conducted business - and Washington, D.C., lawyer Chris Horner says it raises questions similar to those asked when he learned Jackson used "Alias" email accounts.

Exceedingly wary about cybercrime, she used a pseudonymous email address.

Horner, in an emailed statement to the Caller, argued that Monaco's alleged use of "a pseudonymous email account is a terribly poor exercise of judgment for a government official." Horner specializes in open records matters and, in addition to Jackson's false identity, uncovered other chicanery within the Obama administration.

Horner noted that Jackson's "Alias" email accounts ran "Afoul of the Federal Records Act," which requires "That all parties to correspondence be identified." He suggested Monaco's alleged use of a pseudonymous email account could pose similar problems.

"A pseudonymous email account by a government official - let's say, 'Richard Windsor' when your name and position are 'EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson' - runs afoul of the Federal Records Act requirement that all parties to correspondence be identified," Horner said, citing one of Jackson's aliases.

"So the first halfway-corrective measure is to bcc: your actual official email account on all such outgoing correspondence and forward to your official email account all incoming correspondence. I suggest the likelihood of this being done by anyone creating a false-identity account is very, very low. But who knows we may have a first time here," Horner speculated before highlighting how this would aid in "Both FOIA and FRA compliance."
 

https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/25/lisa-monaco-pseudonymous-email-account-law-concerns-chris-horner/