Chicago Sun Times : After fighting in court to keep his private email accounts completely concealed from public view, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday released a trove of messages from throughout his nearly six years in office and announced a new city ban on using private email to conduct official business.
The records released by his administration showed Emanuel has frequently used a private Gmail account and another personal, unofficial email address — mayor_re@rahmemail.com — to communicate with top aides, business leaders, political supporters, national media figures and others who wanted to discuss city government with him.
Emanuel’s reversal followed more than a year of litigation to stonewall Freedom of Information requests filed by the Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune.
The lengthy legal battle was contrary to Emanuel’s campaign promise to shine the light on city government and run a transparent administration. MORE
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A public figure these days has to be fucking crazy to use email. In fact you can go so far as to say, if you’re viral, you’re compromised.
Mark my words, human couriers with verbal messages only will be back – if not already being used.
A “trove” of e-mails BUT not “all” of them.
He’s had a year to pull a Hillary….how many were deleted, missing and what was the subject matter?
More will be released over the next 4 years.
He learned from the best