UPDATE: the story keeps changing, see below.
As a follow up to our story yesterday: Is the EPA running a black-ops program?
According to a report in POLITICO, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson named her internal email account “Richard Windsor” due to this:
The name came from that of a family dog when Jackson lived in East Windsor Township, N.J., an EPA official said Tuesday.
The reason for having a second email account is said to be:
The internal account exists so that Jackson’s communications with other government officials aren’t buried under the crush of emails flooding into her public account, jackson.lisap@epa.gov, which got 1.5 million emails in fiscal year 2012, EPA says. The agency says such dual- account arrangements have been standard practice since the Clinton administration, when EPA Administrator Carol Browner was first assigned two @epa.gov email addresses.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84112.html#ixzz2CriKF2cD
I have to wonder though, why the EPA official who contacted me yesterday didn’t come right out and say how the dog name came about in the communication sent in response to my story?
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From: Johnson.Alisha@xxxxxx.epa.gov
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:16 AM
To: awatts@xxxxxx.xxx
Subject: EPA Statement
Want to make sure you have EPA’s statement on your story this a.m. This is attributable to EPA, the Agency.
For more than a decade, EPA Administrators have been assigned two official, government-issued email accounts: a public account and an internal account. The email address for the public account is posted on EPA’s website and is used by hundreds of thousands of Americans to send messages to the Administrator. The internal account is an everyday, working email account of the Administrator to communicate with staff and other government officials.
Given the large volume of emails sent to the public account –more than 1.5 million in fiscal year 2012, for instance – the internal email account is necessary for effective management and communication between the Administrator and agency colleagues.
In the case of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, both the public and internal accounts are reviewed for responsive records, and responsive records from both accounts are provided to FOIA requesters.
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Seems like they are making this up as they go along. Chris Horner expects them to comply now with this second email account.
Excuse me while I go setup a secondary email account for WUWT called “KenjiButteCounty” named after my dog. I wonder if Richard Windsor is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists like Kenji is?
UPDATE: just for fun I did an email check.
windsor.richard@epa.gov – Result: Ok
MX record about epa.gov exists. Connection succeeded to mseive02.rtp.epa.gov SMTP. 220 mseive02.rtp.epa.gov ESMTP Postfix > HELO verify-email.org 250 mseive02.rtp.epa.gov > MAIL FROM: <check@verify-email.org> =250 2.1.0 Ok > RCPT TO: <windsor.richard@epa.gov> =250 2.1.5 Ok
UPDATE2: This LA Times story has a different account for the name “Richard Windsor”, and no mention of a dog.
Jackson’s account had the unusual name Richard Windsor because she was asked to come up with a name that meant something to her. Jackson was born in East Windsor Township, N.J.
Steve Keohane says:
November 21, 2012 at 7:13 am
tallbloke says:November 21, 2012 at 6:40 am
Her dog was called Richard? Really?
So what did she shout to call the dog in at night?
I had a neighbor thirty years ago who named his two dogs; ‘Shut Up’ and ‘Dammit’. It was hilarious to hear him calling the dogs in at night.
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No worse than a relative’s pony named ‘WHOA Dammit WHOA’. (Drove a milk wagon route and the pony freaked out when he saw a street car or train and took off at a full gallop.)
Check out this link:
http://www.rebootcongress.net/2012/11/sockpuppeteer-lisa-jackson-must-go.html
It shows this image of an email header from the fictitious email
address of Richard Windsor, who we now know is actually Lisa Jackson,
Obama’s appointee who runs the EPA.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3OQy4Glbos/UKk-YvLSCTI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/FWnfB6CcJQ0/s1600/email+from+Richard+Windsor.jpg
Check out the names of the people privy to this subterfuge/fraud. All
the people in the header received this email from “Richard Windsor”
knowing full well that it was Lisa Jackson behind the sock puppet email
address. They are all demonstrably complicit in an attempt to evade US
transparency laws at the EPA at the highest levels.
These are the people involved in this one email:
Daniel Kanninen
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=132630
https://twitter.com/dkanninen
http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html
http://www.northlandconnection.com/news.php?NWArticleID=283
Kanninen appointed White House liaison to EPA
January 18, 2010
The Development Association
News Release
Superior native Dan Kanninen has been appointed White House Liaison to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Kanninen who currently serves as Governor Jim Doyle’s legislative director will be leaving for Washington, D.C. to begin work with President Obama’s administration on February 1.
According to an email distributed by Governor Doyle’s Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Boyce last week, Kanninen will be working directly with the White House, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and other senior officials at the EPA “to help advance the President’s agenda of creating clean energy jobs and scientific based environmental policy.”
Prior to joining Governor Doyle’s administration, Kanninen served as Chief of Staff to Senator Bob Jauch.
“Dan Kanninen is an excellent choice for the position of White House Liaison to the EPA,” stated Andy Lisak, Executive Director of the Development Association of Superior and Douglas County, WI. “I had the opportunity to interact with Dan while he served as Senator Jauch’s Chief of Staff. I was very impressed by Dan’s ability to comprehend all sides of very complex environmental issues such as the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact and ballast water regulation,” stated Lisak.
“President Obama is lucky to have such a talented person on his staff and Superior is honored to have a native son serve in such an important position,” Lisak said.
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Bob Perciasepe
Deputy Administrator EPA
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/da.html
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Alisha Johnson
Office of the Press Secretary
Alisha Johnson, Press Secretary
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Arvin Ganesan
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
Arvin Ganesan, Associate Administrator
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Betsaida Alcantara
http://gsa.gov/portal/content/144943
Betsaida Alcantara – Communications Director
Portrait of Betsaida Alcantara
In April 2012, Betsaida Alcantara was appointed Communications Director of the U.S. General Services Administration. In that role, she serves as the principal advisor to Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini on media relations, communications strategy and public outreach.
Prior to joining GSA, Alcantara served as the Press Secretary for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In this role, she served as the spokesperson for the 18,000 employee agency and its Administrator. While at the EPA, she helped manage press activities around major actions to clean up air and water pollution and to promote clean energy. This included helping to manage communications on behalf of the agency following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast in 2010.
For almost two years, Alcantara worked in various capacities for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez in Washington, D.C., and was later a spokesperson for the Obama presidential campaign in Florida.
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Bicky Corman
http://www.epa.gov/womenandgirls/bios/corman.html
Bicky Corman, Deputy Associate Administrator Office of Policy
EPA
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Bob Sussman
Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/history/admin/deputy/sussman.html
http://www.socma.com/assets/file/socma1/pdffiles/gcrc/2011/robert-sussman-bio.pdf
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Gina McCarthy
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/oaraa.html
Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation
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Janet Woodka, Director of Regional Operations and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Administrator
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/oro.html
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Laura Vaught
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-vaught/6/768/320
Senior Advisor at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Michael Goo
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/opeiaa.html
Michael L. Goo, Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy
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Sarah Pallone
http://www.epa.gov/ocir/contacts.htm
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Sarah Hospodor-Pallone, Deputy Associate Administrator (202) 564-7178 (pallone.sarah@epa.gov)
Manage EPA’s relationships with national associations and individual State, local and small town governments on environmental issues, programs and initiatives including: State relations, Local Government Resource Center, Local Government Advisory Committee, Small Community Advisory Subcommittee, and the National Environmental Performance Partnership System.
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Seth Oster
http://epa.gov/aboutepa/oeaaa.html
Seth Oster, Associate Administrator for the Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education
Seth Oster serves as Associate Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In this role, he is a senior advisor to EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and oversees EPA’s External Affairs and Environmental Education operations, which include the agency’s communications, media relations, public engagement, environmental education, web communications and multi-media groups.
Over the course of his career, Oster has held senior-level positions in government, organized labor and the entertainment and high-tech industries. Prior to his appointment to the EPA, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Communications at the Motion Picture Association of America. Before that, he was a founding partner of Entertainment Strategies Group, a consulting firm specializing in labor and public relations in the entertainment industry. He also has held senior positions at the Screen Actors Guild, Napster and the American Film Institute, and is a former top communications aide to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/browse_frm/thread/3f3530005e9a017d#
Get with it! Don’t you know that personal private information the government demands and surreptitiously collects about private individuals is “public record”, but plans and actions by corrupt government officials and functionaries are strictly confidential and must be kept from lowly subjects.
The agency says such dual- account arrangements have been standard practice since the Clinton administration, when EPA Administrator Carol Browner was first assigned two @epa.gov email addresses.
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The practice started with the Clinton/Gore administration? Why would anyone have any doubts about the ethics or integrity of a practrice they started?
Will PETA be upset by the abuse of that poor dog’s name?
Being a former neighbor of Jackson, in East Windsor NJ, I can tell you she never had a dog named Richard, so that story from her people is baloney.
I can also confirm that she is a tool.
The next question is who else at the EPA is using a similar sock puppet email address for themselves and their unofficial/off-the-record discussions of EPA matters?
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the EPA’s “Richard Windsor” is revealed in FOIA-released emails to have had discussions on how to suppress Steve McIntyre’s 2009 statement about “EPA guidelines require that highly influential scientific assessments meet a variety of sensible standards for TRANSPARENCY, data availability and due diligence – policies that CA readers know not to have been implemented by the IPCC.” http://climateaudit.org/2009/06/23/climate-audit-submission-to-epa/
tadchem… You’re saying that the IT department would dictate to the Administration! You must be drinking mind numbing koolaide. Richard Windsor exists for one reason. Hiding behind a veil of transparency to communicate incognito.
The Real Richard says: “I can also confirm that she is a tool”
Please share with us what you know. Whose tool and In what ways?
as it is at epa.gov then FOI applies.
“From the divisive discussion about environmental protection today, you might expect that the EPA was founded by a tie-dyed, peace sign, flower power liberal. But that doesn’t quite fit the description of President Richard Nixon, who created the agency in December 1970.”
Lisa P Jackson
On the other hand perhaps this was her dog:
http://oddpicsblog.com/funny/a-dog-named-richard/
The argument that she needed a second address to keep down the junk doesn’t hold water. All modern email programs; Thunderbird, MS Live mail etc.have the ability to add filters to organize emails. For example you can send all emails from *.epa.gov to a work folder. If you want messages from the president or a deputy director to go to folder marked important, then you can.
Filtering by email addresses is a basic computer skill in the workplace now. I’ve got my email set so family members go in one folder, Paypal stuff goes in it’s own folder along with receipts for online purchases. Work emails go in their own folder and the boss’s emails go into a folder named “important” under my work folder. It also flags his messages as important. Everything else is either in the Inbox, blocked by website or sent to spam.
If she can’t handle emails, she needs to get rid of her secretary and find one that understands how to optimize emails. They’re not doing their jobs.
From a technical point of view, this sounds quite unnecessary. Most modern email clients permit you to filter mail into different mailboxes using rules.
Start with something like this:
if $FROM ends with “.gov”
move to mailbox “Internal”
else
move to mailbox “External”
endif
Add additional rules to refine it further, if needed.
East Winsor NJ requires that dogs be licensed. If there are any East Windor residents out there, perhaps you could FOIA East Windor to determine whether Lisa Jackson Lee ever licensed a dog named Richard.
Stay on this one. EPA is the most corrupt segment of the Fed Govt these days. And they started out so nobly with a REAL cause. Just a joke now.
tadchem says:
November 21, 2012 at 10:14 am
No Federal IT office I know of would permit any employee to maintain a ‘false flag’ account for security and liability reasons.
Did anyone else *immediately* think of the Monty Python “Cannibalism Episode?”
“There is NO cannibalism in the British Navy. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I would care to admit.”
MostlyHarmless said (November 21, 2012 at 7:57 am)
“…“Dog ate my data” becomes “Dog hid my emails”. FYI a “Richard” is cockney rhyming slang for a turd, a piece of faecal matter, excrement; “Richard the third”…”
Don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or just change my handle…
Surely if it is known that an internal address is being used for official business then that internal address is the primary one for any request for information to be referring to. It would be understandable if they failed to send the data from the more personally directed requests from individual members of the public out.
“Mpaul says:
November 21, 2012 at 5:27 pm
East Winsor NJ requires that dogs be licensed. If there are any East Windor residents out there, perhaps you could FOIA East Windor to determine whether Lisa Jackson Lee ever licensed a dog named Richard.”
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Not sure it would be possible to get this info. without falling foul of data protection rules on personal privacy. Upthread we had a visit from an ex LJ neighbour – I wonder if a crowd sourced pic of “Richard” out on his walkies would be possible instead??
“Richard Windsor” may be a reference to the present Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, of the house of Windsor. A greenpeacer whose family history goes back at least to the Angevins and Richard the Lion Hearted.
An awareness of the “house of” this or that fits the Jackson profile better than rembrance of dogs or streets.
–Speaking of which a Malamute of my acquaintance was named “daisy” – but didn’t respond to her name unless you included the important second part: “Daisy, NOooo!!!”
Apparently, there was a Richard Windsor who was a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enforcement attorney, passed away on December 7, 2008 and had worked with former EPA Administrator Carol Browner, according to this source.
She could have used LisaJackson2 or LisaJackson.Internal@epa.gov