Clinton Foundation Board Member Is Ex-EPA Administrator Who Used Fake Email Name ‘Richard Windsor’
Lisa Jackson, the former Environmental Protection Agency
administrator who was caught using an email account under the pseudonym
“Richard Windsor,” sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation, the
charity of Hillary Clinton, of HDR22@clintonemail.com fame.
Jackson’s — or “Windsor’s” — position on the board has not been a
secret, but it has received little media attention during the Clinton
email scandal, which threatens to derail the Democrat’s White House
hopes.
Jackson’s biography on the Clinton Foundation’s website shows that
she took her position there in 2013. The bio states that Jackson is
currently vice president of environmental initiatives as Apple. It
details her career at EPA but makes no mention of her shady email
habits.
Jackson’s tactics were not exactly the same as Clinton’s. While the
former secretary of state exclusively used a personal email account
hosted on a server housed in her basement, Jackson used the account windsor.richard@epa.gov as a secondary email address.
Jackson and the EPA defended the use of the Windsor account at the
time, saying that it was a necessary step because Jackson’s regular
email address was listed on the EPA’s website and received an enormous
amount of correspondence. Officials at the agency said that using two
email addresses was not an unusual step for senior government officials.
But critics countered that most secondary email account are not set up
using aliases. The critics charged that using the Windsor account
allowed Jackson to skirt congressional inquiries and Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Ironically, Jackson’s email chicanery prompted a Freedom of
Information Act request filed with the State Department for information
about Clinton’s email accounts. But that request, which was filed in
Dec. 2012 by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
in Washington, was denied by the State Department which falsely claimed
that no relevant records existed.
