Chelsea Clinton's secret identity: 'Diane Reynolds'

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/chelsea-clinton-diane-reynolds-secret-email-115786.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


Chelsea Clinton's secret identity: 'Diane Reynolds'

By Nick Gass

3/5/15 7:57 AM EST

Chelsea Clinton also had an account on the homemade website domain that Hillary Clinton used exclusively for emails during her time as secretary of state, The New York Times reports. The domain name had a server linked to the family’s Chappaqua, New York, residence. But her real name is absent from the email address.

She used her clintonemail.com account under the pseudonym “Diane Reynolds,” which the Times reports she often used when checking into hotels.

Longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin also had a clintonemail.com account, according to the report, an apparent prized symbol of status within Clinton’s vast network of advisers, well-wishers, and hangers-on.

According to Philippe Reines, another close Clinton aide and former State Department official, Abedin was the only department official other than the secretary to use a clintonemail.com account.

Clinton tweeted late Wednesday that she wants the public to see emails from the 55,000 pages she handed over to the State Department.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981270/Chelsea-called-Diane-Reynolds-Hillary-planned-wedding-account-used-Secretary-State-Secrets-Clinton-emails-revealed.html

Domain name was registered to Eric Hothem, the aide who packed up and carted off furniture from the White House that he said was 'Clinton’s personal property'
The furnishings were later determined to be government's and the Clintons were required to pay $86,000 in restitution for the items they kept

[DCPatriot]

She has/had more than a few email accounts.  The server for those accounts was in her basement, with all state-of-the-art protection.

She could/did change and delete her accounts at will, since they were on private property.  Her property.

All the rest here is squirrel chasing with a tennis racket.

The NYT breaking the story should have been all the tip-off you'd need.

[GourmetDan]

Chelsea Clinton's secret identity: 'Diane Reynolds'

She certainly grew up to be like Mommy Dearest...     

[mystery-ak]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981270/Chelsea-called-Diane-Reynolds-Hillary-planned-wedding-account-used-Secretary-State-Secrets-Clinton-emails-revealed.html#ixzz3TXXBkPvl

Chelsea called herself Diane Reynolds – and Hillary planned her wedding on same account she used as Secretary of State: Secrets of Clinton emails revealed

    At the center of the controversy: Hillary Clinton's personal email account - hrd22@clintonemail.com
    Domain name was registered to Eric Hothem, the aide who packed up and carted off furniture from the White House that he said was 'Clinton’s personal property'
    The furnishings were later determined to be government's and the Clintons were required to pay $86,000 in restitution for the items they kept
    Clinton's arrangement to have her correspondence run through a private domain name and server have set off alarms
    Her sensitive communications could be being hacked or destroyed: Republicans want investigations into the matter

By Francesca Chambers For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:09 EST, 5 March 2015 | Updated: 13:28 EST, 5 March 2015

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981270/Chelsea-called-Diane-Reynolds-Hillary-planned-wedding-account-used-Secretary-State-Secrets-Clinton-emails-revealed.html#ixzz3TXndJNqE

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Longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin also had a clintonemail.com account,

So Huma married Wiener what year? I guess Huma wouldn't have emailed him with that clintonmail account while he was still in congress.  I wonder how many in congress are scrubbing their email accts now.

[mountaineer]

WashPost blogger tries to explain away, defend and justify Chelsea's use of a fake name (without addressing the elephant in the room, namely, Hillary's secret email thingey):

Evaluating and explaining Chelsea Clinton’s alias, “Diane Reynolds”
By Philip Bump March 5 at 3:10 PM  Follow @pbump 


Upon learning that Chelsea Clinton used to use the name "Diane Reynolds" when checking into hotels, two questions immediately came to mind. First: Why would she do that? And second: Is that a good alias? There is also a third question: Can we use this as an excuse to explore other terrible political aliases? The answer to that one is yes.

First, let's talk about why Clinton (or another celebrity) would want to use a fake name. We spoke with two people over email who currently work for companies that manage high-end hotels. Neither wished to be identified, which is very much in the spirit of the discussion, so we'll call them "Carlos" and "Danger," in honor of former representative Anthony Weiner's chosen pen name.

How does the alias-at-a-hotel system work? Fake names are as useful to protect against staff as against the outside world, Danger pointed out, writing: "Staff is trained and required to sign confidentially agreements about guests overall, but when it's really big name sometimes they can get excited and forget." But why does it matter? Paparazzi, for one. "Paps often try to pay line-level hotel employees for inside info (room numbers, etc)," Danger said. "Leaking that info was a fireable offense at our property."

It's not only to shield celebrities from the paparazzi, but from stalkers, those horrible people from the media, and other guests. Or political opponents, according to Carlos. "We have had members of royal families who don’t want anyone to know where they are for political reasons." Clearly it is not the case that Chelsea Clinton is from a royal family and wouldn't want to be seen in Ottumwa, Iowa for political reasons.

If the celebrity doesn't want to be discovered, it's usually achievable. "If a celeb doesn't want to be found out," Danger wrote, "we could ensure that they stay anonymous with back entrances, private elevators, orchestrated security, etc." But some clearly want to be found out. "Sometimes they spend so much time walking around the hotel you’d think they were looking for paparazzi to photograph them," Carlos said, adding, "Jeremy Piven was like that."

When it comes time to pay, someone has to come across with a real name and a real credit card. As for the fake name itself, a stupid one like Carlos Danger doesn't make a big difference, but "they are usually pretty realistic sounding ones," our Carlos wrote.

That brings us to the next question: Is Diana Reynolds a good alias? We've established one important criterion for the name: Making it obviously fake doesn't do much harm, but it doesn't help. You probably also want a name that is 1) easy to spell, to avoid the annoyances that hard-to-spell names can cause, and, 2) a name that isn't too common. You don't want to be one of 17 Carlos Dangers at the Ottumwa Marriott.

To establish how unusual Clinton's pseudonym is, we turn to the semi-scientific resource at HowManyOfMe.com. This is a site that uses Census data to figure out how many people in the United States have the same first, last, and full names as yourself. (There are three "Philip Bumps," a.k.a. me, in case you were curious, which you weren't.) A name that is too common is John Smith -- there are 46,260 of them, from a pool of 5.2 million "John"s and 2.8 million "Smith"s. So we'll set that as the bar for "too common."

We looked at four nicknames in addition to Clinton's and Weiner's:

- "Richard Windsor," used by former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson
 - "Eric Hoteham," the name (probably just a typo) used to register the Clinton's home internet access
 - "George Fox," used by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer
 - "Cage Hunt," used by Tom Cruise


The results:

Diane Reynolds is a pretty good fake name. It's not too common, but it is a name that sounds like a real name, unlike "Cage Hunt" (because "Cage" is obviously fake) or "Richard Windsor" (because "Windsor" isn't very common). If you search Facebook for "People named Diane Reynolds," you get a lot of results in response. None of them, we will note, live in Chappaqua, N.Y.

The moral of the story for celebrity seekers: Always assume every name you hear in any hotel is actually a pseudonym for a famous celebrity. At the very least, it gives you a bit of excitement during your stay in lovely downtown Ottumwa.