+1 Ali Hussein +254 770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad
On Mar 5, 2015, at 4:00 PM, S.M. Muraya <[email protected]> wrote:
@Ali
Some technocrats claimed they were directed by a higher power to make Goldenberg payments knowing they were illegal. The issue of written and accessible instructions is not something to be take lightly in a kleptocracy like Kenya.
http://time.com/3731568/hillary-clinton-email/?xid=newsletter-brief
Did Clinton break the law?
Probably not, but we’re still in a legal grey area. The Federal Records Act—passed in November, after Clinton left the State Department—requires government officials’ emails that are sent from personal account to be forwarded to an official account within 20 days. But during Clinton’s tenure, it was never explicitly required that top-level officials like Clinton use government-issued accounts. “What she did was not technically illegal,” Patrice McDermott, a former National Archives staffer and the head of the transparency group Open The Government coalition, told The Hill newspaper. But, she said, “it was highly inappropriate and it was inappropriate for the State Department to let this happen.”
Because her official emails were sequestered on her private email address, much of her correspondence was not openly available via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which gives the public right to access information from the federal government.
Will we ever see Clinton’s official emails? Or have they simply disappeared?
Clinton’s team turned over more than 50,000 pages of emails from her personal email account to the State Department late last year, when the Federal Records Act was passed, at the department’s request.
How do we know that she turned over all required emails?
We don’t. For several years, media outlets have filed requests for Clinton’s official correspondences during her tenure under FOIA. These requests have remained unreturned or unfulfilled, though the State Department has acknowledged their receipt. Theoretically, all of Clinton’s emails concerning government matters during her tenure fall under FOIA’s domain—but they are inaccessible if they were sent between Clinton’s private account and a third-party agency, such as a nonprofit foundation or a private consultancy. Clinton would need to provide these emails herself.
Regards
Murigi / Stanley Muraya
"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote: Yes Sam. Good post.
If government officials the world over were to be sanctioned for using personal emails for official work then we won't have government's left.. :)
Ali Hussein
+254 770 906375 / 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com
"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein
Sent from my iPad
On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:39 AM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote:
Lesson for Kenya..
Transparency forces Leaders perform..
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/05/hillary-clinton-comments-for-firs...
Hillary Clinton Comments for First Time on Email Controversy
Mar. 5, 2015 12:02am Oliver Darcy
Hillary Clinton said in a tweet Wednesday night that she has asked the State Department to release all of her email.
“I want the public to see my email,” she tweeted. “I asked State to review them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
On Monday, the New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated federal rules by exclusively using a personal email address to conduct all official government business while serving as secretary of state. According to the Times, she never had an official government email address.
—Follow Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy)
_______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com
The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.