Another email scandal has rocked President Barack Obama’s administration — and this one may have put our national security at risk.
The Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that Defense Secretary Ash Carter used a potentially unsecured personal email account for government business during his first months on the job.
Worse still, Carter continued using the account for months after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was caught doing the same.
Carter’s press secretary, Peter Cook, released a statement saying Carter admitted the use of personal email for work-related business, and said the practice was a mistake.
The Pentagon statement was in response to a report published late Wednesday by The New York Times. The newspaper reported it had obtained 72 work-related emails that Carter sent or received from his personal email account.
Hillary Clinton came under heavy criticism when it was revealed in March that she had used a personal email account as secretary of state.
Carter took office in February, and according to the report continued to use his personal email account for work purposes for two months after the Clinton scandal broke.
The Times said the emails it received under the Freedom of Information Act were primarily exchanges between Carter and Eric Fanning, who was his chief of staff at the time and is now the acting secretary of the Army.
The emails were on work-related topics, the Times said, including some references to classified material disposed of in so-called “burn bags.”
The revelation is almost certain to prompt a Congressional inquiry, and GOP members of Congress have long demanded that Obama set and enforce tighter guidelines with regard to how his top advisers use email.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
What do you expect from a bunch of losers.
Did not expect this…. I am shocked to realize there is at least one person that is honest in the Obama Administration, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter did not hesitate to admit that he was at fault and did so because he holds himself to a higher standard as Secretary of Defense… The Old Obama Secretary of State is still denying that she did anything wrong on her personal emails while Secretary of State…. No wonder people are shocked to hear something honest out of the Obama Administration, it is very very unusual to say the least !
Coming forward is NOT being honest. It’s trying to spin the truth before it was exposed by someone else. He should be forced to resign but then he works for the most secretive , dishonest and treacherous administration in American history. FDR now comes in second for the number of communists in it’s employ.
Everything that this REGIME Does is PLANNED….They know they are violating the Constitution and the Law….And they are 0nly concerned with covering their own ASSES….
Forced to RESIGN HELL…..Hang the AHOLE along with that bitch hillary!
Ditto!
OH, REALLY??? HE MAY BE “HONEST”, BUT THAT DOES NOT “EXCUSE” HOW “UNBELIEVABLY
STUPID” HE IS!!! WHERE “HAS” HE BEEN, IN VIEW OF ALL THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE EMAILS, SERVERS, ETC., WITH “MISS PIGGY’S” “LACKADAISICAL SECURITY”???!!!??? HE SHOULD BE “FIRED IMMEDIATELY”!!! ‘the Donald’ WOULD!!!
Can’t anyone see that liberal people cannot do anything correctly, especially running AMERICA. They are trying to change CHRISTIANITY, GOD’S way of marriage, killing babies, trying to make AMERICA like communism, putting up with liars like HILLARY and OBAMA, terriosts, illegal immigration! OBAMA is on a path of destruction and no one is doing nothing to stop it! Does no one care??
Sure someone cares. Can you afford a body guard 24-7? Can you raise the money to pursue taking on such a task? Are you willing to give up your privacy, time, and free leisure time as well as your personal assets to follow the example of our founding fathers to pursue this task? The ones who can afford this are in it for themselves. This takes a real patriot to organize and fund this. The funds may be forthcoming from the people, but who will lead us in this fight? It will not be Washington D C. It will be those who love freedom and are willing to give everything to preserve it. True AMERICAN PATRIOTS.
Well said, Marilyn, well said.
YES! THERE REALLY ARE MANY OF “US” THAT ACTUALLY “CARE”!!! OTHERWISE, I CERTAINLY DO!!! AS I CONTINUE TO READ SOME OF THESE ‘COMMENTS’, WITH “DISGUST”, I COUNTER OR AGREE WITH SOME OF MY OWN COMMENTS!!! I AM ENCOURAGED BY THE GROWING NUMBER OF THE “GREAT SILENT MAJORITY”, OF WHICH I AM ONE, STARTING TO “WAKE UP” AND “SPEAK OUT” FOR THIS COMING ELECTION! KEEP THIS IN MIND!!! “WE” OUTNUMBER ALL OTHER “GROUPS” COMBINED!!! THAT INCLUDES “BABY BOOMERS”!!! THINK ABOUT THAT AND SEE IF “THAT” ALONE GIVES YOU ANY “HOPE” FOR “OUR” COUNTRY?!!? “KEEP YOUR FAITH”!!! “EVERYONE” HAS NOT GONE “MAD”……………..YET!!! CONSIDER “WHO” YOU BELIEVE IS THE BEST CANDIDATE TO “GIT ‘ER DONE” AND VOTE FOR THEM!!!
Exactly. Obama has been a criminal since day 1. Hillary has been a criminal since the ’60s. I have never met or seen a liberal who wasn’t a lying killer and thief. Get these crooks out NOW, not next year! We need for this country to come back to what it was, not a Muslim-controlled hell-hole. Many have been without work for decades, but it has gotten much worse since the Muzzie-in-Chief has closed down one business after the other by forcing Obamacare-less on us and making statements that people have made enough money. These criminals must be brought to account, including Obama’s sick, Chewbacca-twin wife, who has no business getting involved in something she wasn’t elected to, especially since her demonic husband clearly cheated his own way into office. Bring ALL of these wackos to justice NOW, and that includes Hillary and her criminal husband.
The Keystone FLOPS strike again! They all should be tried for treason and face a firing squad! They are using our Muslim-Marxist jihadist’s creation, ISIS, as the bloody bogeyman to breakdown the old, free America in order to bring in the NWO AMERIKA! Armr====================================?, you’ll be needing them as he recruits more terrorist immigrants into this country!
Right….Carter and Hilbe-Beast Killery are just following their ‘Commander’s ??’ lead…this entire Obongoild & his Administration are ALL corrupt! beyond belief, eh?
All these people know better!! I say throw the book at them and let them rot in Gitmo!!!!
Sure, but who’s going to throw the book? At this point the Supreme Court, the current administration, the whole frickin Govt is in the back pocket of Obama. How did this one community organizer come to wield so much power over our Nation?
Mass ignorance. Obama didn’t vote himself into office….people did…emotionally-thinking, racially-fueled, a d bribery of those same people, who desire handouts that nobody is taken to account for. The People did this by forsaking God in their lives and falling down to worship the world, pretending to understand it, but guess what…
Hosea 4:6, written thousands of years ago, says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Nobody knew anything about Barak except the color of his skin…something of the flesh. God still is on the throne, and will fight for His people. The system worshippers? They’re on their own, alongside everyone else that seeks a worldly answer for today’s problems.
SADLY, MY FRIEND, AMERICANS “VOTED” OBAMA IN,…………… “TWICE”!!! AND, MANY, WOULD “VOTE” FOR HIM AGAIN?!!? THE QUESTION IS: “WHERE YOU ONE OF “THEM”??? OBAMA HAS BEEN A “MUSLIM MOLE”, EVEN BEFORE “HE” WAS “ELECTED PRESIDENT”!!!
George Soros, who backed Bill Clinton, then Obama and now Killery.
Why support them? People that are guilty of treason should be shoot.
The bribes are huge for traitors!
We get the right man in office, the cost will be high also!!
The difference between Carter and Clinton is that he didn’t try to hide what the correspondence was…and when found out didn’t try to wipe the drives clean and erase the paper trail that would prove illegal activity…….
So are you saying it’s okay because this idiot admitted it ?????? He knew it was illegal to do but did it anyhow and the only reason he admitted it is because he got caught !!!!!!!
“NO MERCY”!!! THIS IS “OUR COUNTRY” AND “HE” WAS “EXTREMELY STUPID” TO DO IT!!! HE’S AN “IDIOT” TOO!!! HE SIMPLY “CARRIES WATER FOR OBAMA”!!! OBAMA WILL NEVER “FIRE” HIM!!! “WE” KNOW SOMEBODY THAT WILL!!!
Just another day in the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States..
Our goverment will reap what they are sowing, the distruction has God has promised is coming upon them along with our Muslin president, his reason for pushing gun control is to disarm us so his people can do with us wht they ARE SAYING , Gods word says in the l,ast days I will cause a diversion and people will believe a lie it is here, wake up people stand up and fight for what we believe in or we are doomed………………
That is why they call it the DISTRICT OF CRIMINALS…
With all the evidence obtained from Hillary Clinton’s deliberately wiped server demonstrating both classified and Top Secret e-mails? When does director Comey provide these documents to Loretta Lynch? And when does Ms. Lynch issue indictments.
OBAMA WON’T LET HER ISSUE THOSE “INDICTMENTS”!!! YOU “REALLY” ALREADY “KNOW THAT”, THOUGH, DON’T YOU?!!? YOU SHOULD REALLY CONSIDER VOTING FOR A PRESIDENT THAT YOU BELIEVE WILL “GIT ‘ER DONE”?!!? I’M VOTING FOR A CANDIDATE THAT I KNOW WILL “GIT ‘ER DONE”!!!
She won’t. She’s part of the cover-up.
We as a nation will be the next fifty years erasing the Obama carnage of our life stile and our history. He has done everything a dictator can do to ruin us as a country. Shame on this criminal Obama, he should be taken out and shot as a traitor to the United States. A pox on the man.
I’t past time to throw out the Obummer JV team and replace it with the Professional TRUMP Team……
Yet another “official” appointed by the treasonous kenyan, and another scandal! None of this surprises anyone, we are now used to this illegal alien impostor and his minions putting all of us at risk by ignoring national security, and support of the terrorists they say they are fighting. We know this criminal is a muslim, he isn’t fooling anyone, except Congress seems too corrupt to protect us anymore, they only protect their own interests!
You could save yourself a lot of time and just cut and paste the above to all Topics with the word Obama in them.
Did a copy and post on this following article. Don’t mind admitting it shook me up some.
Obama does not support our Constitution. He has been meeting secretly, since 2008, with U.N. officials who want him to replace our Constitution with the U.N. Charter, making the U.S. a puppet state of the U.N. Obama has done a number of seemingly innocuous actions that are a threat to our national sovereignty, the biggest one was to allow U.N. forces, working with HSD, to occupy the U.S. in the event of a “national security” issue with martial law. His actions elsewhere are in writing, requesting Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell, working separately, to work towards dismantling our First & Second Amendments. History will show, if we live long enough as a Country, that Obama is the worst, the most damaging, the most anti-American President we have ever had. The Constitution is very clear on how we should deal with this situation, but the other two branches of our government are doing NOTHING Our military is following the Commander-in-Chief in lockstep, and no matter how morally unethical some of his demands to them have been, they were carried out to the letter without one word of dissention. If we find ourselves in a state of national security and martial law, Obama will demand that ALL of the military, HSD forces, and the foreign forces invited into our Country to shoot to kill American citizens. If you think that we are living in the remainder of Obama’s second term, all he has to do, as he has been doing since 2008, is to issue his infamous late-night, last minute E.O.s on Friday to suspending the Constitution, and keeping himself in office on a semi-permanent basis. Ask yourself another question: Who was in control of the entire voting process in 2008 & 2012, who was instrumental in not having ANY military vote counted, who owns the Spanish company that controls ALL voting tallies in this country and has already been given control of the same for 2016, who owns the largest percentage of the rolling stock supplying crude oil into the U.S. from the north, whose business would be devastated if the Keystone Pipeline was signed into law: Soros.
So, if I rob a bank can I just say it was a mistake and I won’t do it again, do I get to keep the money and go home?
NO, YOU HAVE TO BE A “GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE” TO ROB A BANK, REPENT AND ONLY THEN WILL YOU GET TO “KEEP THE MONEY” YOU ROBBED!!! KEYWORDS: “GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE”!!! MAKE A “NOTE” OF IT!!!
This dumbass president is too conceited and self-important to ever correct his mistakes. He obviously feels he can do no wrong. If he makes a decision that doesn’t work out it is the fault of the republicans. This is why his approval ratings keep going down. On this path, by the time he leaves office, he should have a negative approval rating.
And there it stays! Nothing done. Good job congress. Just ask obama to put tighter policies in regards to Top Security info being used on personal email servers! WOW! The whole administration…Wow! Paul Ryan…Wow! Whatever did happen to Treason & prison? Money & Power! Who wants to go without those fine amenities! So disgusting. I am so glad that Trump is shaking up all the rules set by the establishment….He just wasn’t supposed to happen….Where did he come from?
‘the Donald’ came from being “TOTALLY FED UP” with everyone in Washington, DC!!! “HE’S ON A MISSION FROM GOD”!!!
This is why the liberals AND the GOP RINO candidates are so angry and they’re all ganging up on Trump to get him out of the running. Clinton or Bush were the party’s choices to run with Clinton “winning” with her rigged polls. Trump’s entry upset quite a few apple carts! Now isn’t that a crying shame??!!
The law is an obstacle for these people.
HAHAHA……..THE OVOMIT ADMINISTRATION IS A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK!!!! DUH!!!!
This may be to protect hillary. She can say, look at all the others that did it! Of course Carter didn’t try to cover up!
It doesn’t surprise me any with this crooked Bunch in the whitehouse they all need to be arrested . And put in Gitmo prison. From Obama Kerry Hillary Paul Ryan. When are they going to impeach all of this Bunch.
You’ve got that one right for sure!! Cruz would know the names of the traitors as well as the names of those opposed to what’s going on but are outnumbered. They can’t ALL be rotten apples, can they??
Still! It gives me concern that someone that is supposedly smart enough to work at the top level of the Department of Defense didn’t understand that using a personal email system was against written rules for security. I really don’t think that this person should remain at the helm. Some,much lower, with no access to classified information, position would fit Carter!
Has anyone else noticed that obozo’s crooks always get replaced by the same type of people when the original gets caught ???? clinton gets replaced by kerry who is no better than she was. boehner gets replaced by ryan who immediately starts kissing obozo’s butt and giving him whatever he wants. Now we have a new sec. of defense that commits the same illegal act as clinton. When will we learn or better yet — when will congress learn — oh wait —- congress is part of the problem !!!!
Obama is a traitor to the U.S. I am a Vietnam disabled vet and never have I seen or heard such disgraces coming from a so called chief for armed services. He should be terminated in any way possible.
Clinton and Carter both need to be taught a lesson. Prison.
Under Obama any member of his staff thinks they are above the law.
That the president gets to change the heads of government agencies is crazy.
It allows the whole administration to break the law. This has to stop aah and Hillary need arrested along with anyone else else who has done this.
Ash
“For every one striking at the root of the problem, there are a thousand hacking at the branches.” Thoreau, iirc.
The thing is, presidents are not their own masters; the banksters pull their strings. They will do what their owners tell them to do. The REAL trouble is due to the dishonest monetary system these banker/gangsters and their corporate buddies have foisted on us. We’re all debt-slaves, now. FRN’s are not money. They are dollar “bills,” that is, BILLS for dollars. Debt notes. Promises to pay dollars that, by operation of “law,” the banksters NEVER have to pay off on, ergo LYING promises.
Until this situation changes, all politicians are but riders on the same debt-horse, and hacking at the branches by trying to hold them accountable to “laws” made by the corporations, for the corporations, and of the corporations will simply be a dog-and-pony show to distract the masses from the real problem and the real culprits…and everything will stay the same. Oh, you’ll get different riders, different masters, those who PRETEND they want to be your public servants and employees – but in truth, whom they serve are the banksters and their allies, who have the real money and therefore the real power.
Learn to love your slavery, or be killed off, made irrelevant, jailed or impoverished.
This is the truth…at least, for now. The BRICS nations are sick to death of the FRN and debt-slavery, which is why they’ve been steadily amassing reserves of gold and silver to back their paper with. Soon, the “dollar”(because it’s so in name only) will fall, and with it, almost everything you’ve foolishly trusted in…for when no nation will accept it, it will be worthless. As Rousseau(and many others have said over the long centuries) “Paper money always returns to it’s intrinsic value, eventually: zero.” Ask the Germans about their Reichmarks of the 1920’s; ask the Zimbabweans, lately.
Isn’t it interesting that everything that has already happened and every word that you posted was prophized in the bible? Currency will no longer be used and there will be a one world order. Many Christians believe that since it’s going to happen anyway that we shouldn’t fight the process. I disagree and find it deplorable that a God fearing Christian wouldn’t stand up for righteousness if only to prolong the inevitable. Our God is a just God and we battle against the injustices of our nation. America has deteriorated to the point that it’s become unrecognizeable to me. The brainwashing of our younger generations has been successful. They can not tell the difference between good and evil even to the point of arguing for what’s untrue.
Wasn’t it cool that all the dumb White people that voted for Obama the first and second time. Make no mistake it was the White people who voted him in. Blacks are going to vote Democrat all the time, why, who knows. They never get anywhere and that’s how the Democrats want it. But the dumb white people is another story! Hopefully they have seen the light and some Blacks have also seen the light.
Congress needs to investigate. The issue for me isn’t about derailing Hillary’s campaign. The issue is high ranking government employees using unsecured email accounts to handle classified information. This has to stop. It will only take one or two people being prosecuted or losing their job to get the point across that those who handle classified information needs to do it through a government issued email account on a secured device.
It’s like trying to teach children to do the right thing or understand a problem. But these are supposedly adults running our so called government. I have the same problem with some of the managers where I work. Management and government. It’s as if they think that the spelling of these two words ends in meAnt. As if they MEANT to manage or govern, but they don’t know how.
Appears everyone working for this regime cant follow rules or national security. These people cant be this stupid- its all on purpose. Hilleries email issues, obamas phone not recorded and IRS targeting innocent people, our massive debt, getting rid of good generals, dividing a nation, shutting down WH visits, arresting wwii vets at open air monuments, trying to stifle speach and guns, attack on our vets, obamacare forced, no jobs, companies shutting down by the thousands because of regulation, funding the UN, beghazi, forte hood, boston, shooting by muslims against americans, refugees coming in with plans of attack, release of prisoners, massive regulation to stifle america, QE never worked…. clearly our nation is under attack.
Who vetted these so called professionals shows you the corruption runs deep and wide. They built this- the left vetted every single one of these people.
God help us all!
There is NO excuse for this drunkard. It is obvious the negro picked him, or rather approved of him, (a woman runs this country now) was picked for being an incompetent louse.
he should be tried for treason. All the rules that go with the job are in writing there is no mistake. Firing squad or rope treason is treason that’s in writing also.