Six Obama administration officials used alias email addresses, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Whether connected to a government network or not, it is unusual for government officials to use an email alias. Not only is it peculiar, it raises questions about why Obama administration officials utilized aliases and whether government secrets were compromised.
Below is a list of six U.S officials who used an email alias within the Obama administration:
1) Lisa Jackson, 2013: Jackson used the “Richard Windsor” alias as the former EPA Administrator, according to the Washington Post:
2) Loretta Lynch, 2016: Lynch used the email alias “Elizabeth Carlisle” as Obama’s attorney general
3) Eric Holder, 2015: Holder used three separate alias email addresses after he took office in 2009 as the attorney general, the Los Angeles Times reported
4) Barack Obama, 2016: Obama used an alias email address to communicate with his secretary of state, two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. None-for-profit Marco Polo unearthed his alias as “Obama725.”
5) Joe Biden, 2016: Joe Biden used aliases “Robert Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB Ware” for personal and professional use
6) Hilary Clinton, 2016: Hillary Clinton used two alias email addresses “hdr22” and “hrod17
Source: The Washington Free Beacon