Peter K. made a very good point.  

Members of the Clinton Admin were roundly criticized (Al Gore included)
for the perception that they used government property (phones and
computers) for political purposes (fund raising).  

It may be a bit of a challenging "thing" to determine whether a
particular official or advisor is actually acting in conjunction with
his or her official, government duties, or whether they might be acting
in line with their political duties (and many White House, Senate and
Congressional staff members do have dual responsibilities)......  In
order to ensure that you were doing the right thing, using the right
email system for the right purpose, would you then have to have an
attorney standing over your shoulder advising you?  If you did, would
THAT attorney then be subject to subpoena, investigation, etc.?    

Perhaps its an oddity of our current environment, but I would hope that
we would not create more "catch 22" situations than we may already have
for those in political office.

Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+ 
(with no attorney advising me whether to submit from my personal email
address(es), or work email address)

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<they were trying to comply with requirements of the Hatch Act to ensure
that government issued computers weren't being used for political
purposes>
 
Maybe some of them, maybe some of the time.  My impression though is
whenever certain people wanted certain email conversations off the
public record, they'd just hop over to their private account.  Then it
got to be a habit and all of a sudden massive volumes of the
administration's government-business emails have disappeared.  I hope
I'm wrong and would love to give them the benefit of the doubt...Gary L.
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