Chuck Hagel also used private gmail account for official business, investigation reveals

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Email obtained by @NBC4ITeam sent by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in Oct 2013 copies this GMAIL address


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No detail as to how many govt emails received or sent at private address of Chuck Hagel.  Pentagon: "limited occasions.. may have been sent"

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Pentagon:  "While in office, Secretary Hagel carried two Blackberrys - one for personal and one for official government business"

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White House declines to answer question of why Chief of Staff Denis McDonough wrote to private GMAIL account in official email to Cabinet

 
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Pentagon:  Any emails sent to or from the wrong account by former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel *would be retained* under agency policy


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EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Hagel also used private email for some governmental correspondence

Story from NBCWashington.com:

Former Sec. of Defense Hagel's Private Email Address Found on Official Email From White House
By  Scott MacFarlane

Updated 18 minutes ago


The White House emailed former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at a private email address during his time in charge of the Pentagon, according to an investigation by the News-4 I-Team.

Hagel used two separate BlackBerrys, one of which accessed a private email account and was used for at least a “limited number” of government emails, a Pentagon aide told the I-Team.

On at least one occasion, in October 2013, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough wrote to a group of US Cabinet Secretaries and copied a private address: cthsd24@gmail.com – an email that is believed to belong to Hagel.

McDonough wrote to the official, “.gov” email addresses of other Cabinet members. Hagel’s official, “.mil” email address is not seen, but "cthsd24@gmail.com" is listed as a recipient.

When asked about the Gmail account, a Pentagon spokesman said Hagel used two separate phones while serving as Secretary of Defense, including both a governmental and private email account.

“He understood the need to keep the two separate and to keep government business on his official e-mail," the spokesman said. "On some limited occasions an email may have been sent to or from the wrong account.”

A Pentagon spokesman says Hagel’s successor, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, also had separate personal and governmental email accounts.

A White House spokeswoman declined to comment on why McDonough used a private email address for a government email to a Cabinet member. She referred the I-Team to a prior statement from the White House press secretary about email practices.

The statement reads, “It’s the responsibility of the agencies to maintain their own records management plan, if you will, but they certainly do that in close coordination with the experts at NARA, at the National Archives and Records Administration.”

The Pentagon spokesman told the I-Team said personal email correspondence with other official accounts “would also be retained per policy.”

He said, “Emails received and created by the Secretary of Defense on official e-mail are maintained in accordance with the Federal Records Act (44 USC 3301), DoD and OSD policy and regulations."

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Also being reported in The Hill

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Eric Holder, et al. ...

Reports: Eric Holder, Chuck Hagel used alternate emails
By Adam B. Lerner
  | 3/10/15 8:34 PM EDT
 
   
The Obama administration’s email headaches aren’t over.

Only hours after Hillary Clinton answered questions at the U.N. about her use of a personal email address while at the State Department, the Justice Department revealed that Attorney General Eric Holder has used government multiple email aliases. Shortly afterward, an NBC affiliate, News-4, reported that former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel had used a personal email address in at least one correspondence.

Holder uses multiple accounts under the names Henry Yearwood, his mother’s maiden name combined with another family member’s name, and David Kendricks, an amalgam of two members of the Temptations, the Huffington Post reported Tuesday.

All of Holder’s accounts are official @usdoj.gov accounts and thus stored on government servers, a Justice Department spokesperson told the website. Many cabinet members do not use their names in email addresses, the spokesman said, a practice that “helps guard against security risks and prevent his inbox from being needlessly inundated.”

The spokesperson added that the people who process FOIA requests know about the aliases and provide messages from all three accounts, when appropriate, albeit with the secret addresses redacted.

In June 2013, the Associated Press reported that multiple Obama administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, were using secret email accounts similar to Holder’s.

Hagel’s email issue is different.

Like Clinton’s, it deals with the servers on which messages are stored and not the names of the addresses.

Hagel allegedly used two BlackBerrys while in office, one for private emails and one for government emails.

But News-4’s report found an email from White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that landed at a Gmail address — cthsd24@gmail.com — and not his official Defense Department email.

A Pentagon spokesperson told News-4, “On some limited occasions an email may have been sent to or from the wrong account.”

The report did not say what percentage of Hagel’s official emails went through each account.

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Hillary sez you guys are amateurs, at least I set up my own server!