Scott Pruitt Did Some Of His Work As OK AG Through A (GASP!) PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS!!!

Eagerly awaiting word of multiple congressional hearings on this one . . .

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Earlier this month, the news station obtained through its own open-records request a set of Pruitt’s emails, which included some messages to and from a redacted Pruitt account. The state’s attorney general office did not return a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. If the redacted account is indeed Pruitt’s non-governmental email, that information contradicts written and oral testimony Pruitt gave as he sought to become the nation’s top environmental chief.

“Have you ever conducted business using your personal email accounts, nonofficial Oklahoma Attorney General email accounts, text messages, instant messenger, voicemails, or any other medium?” Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democrat on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, asked Pruitt in writing as part of his confirmation.

“I use only my official OAG [Office of the Attorney General] email address and government issued phone to conduct official business,” Pruitt replied. He added that he had “used two e-mail addresses since becoming Attorney General of Oklahoma” — an “oag.ok.gov” email for government business and a “me.com” email for personal use.

Similarly, when asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island during his confirmation why a “me.com” email was listed as a business email in a pre-hearing questionnaire, Pruitt said its inclusion was a mistake. “The ‘me’ address is not a business email address,” Pruitt told the senators. “I am not sure why it was designated as such.” Given that the batch of messages sent to CMD contains several email chains that include Pruitt’s “oag.ok.gov” email address unredacted, it’s “likely” that email is his personal account, according to Nate Jones, the director of the Freedom of Information Act Project at George Washington University’s National Security Archive.

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/pruitts-work-email?utm_term=.tadaz3ag9#.odAwYmwOj