Christie Had 2 Private Email Accounts; NJ Governor Blocks Release Of Any Messages He May Have sent

Chris Christie Had Two Private Email Accounts; NJ Governor Blocks Release Of Any Messages He May Have Sent To Government Officials

CHRISTIE:
“Hillary Clinton doesn't want us to know what she's doing -- she believes we don't have a right to know,” the GOP presidential hopeful said in August.

“When I'm president of the United States, you'll have a right to know what your president is doing, and we have the obligation to be held accountable for what we're doing,” he declared. Yet, back in New Jersey, the Republican governor’s administration is asserting executive privilege to block the release of any emails he may have sent to state officials from two private email accounts.

Christie aides won’t confirm that the governor used private email to conduct state business. But there is evidence that he did: As WNYC reported, the legislative committee investigating the August 2013 “Bridgegate” lane closure scandal uncovered an email that Christie sent to a government official from a private Yahoo account. A week before that disclosure, Christie told a New Hampshire audience: "I had a private email account, but I didn't do my business on a private email account.”

In August and September, International Business Times filed open-records requests for emails between state agencies and both a Yahoo address (christopherchristie1@yahoo.com) and an AOL account (hen84@aol.com) -- the latter of which was listed as Christie’s address on a website for alumni of the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office. The agencies indicated they knew both email addresses belonged to the governor, and blocked the release of any emails from the addresses by citing executive privilege.

State records later obtained by IBT show that the agencies and independent records officers coordinated with both the governor’s office and the New Jersey attorney general’s office -- which is controlled by Christie -- on the letters denying the requests.

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