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| Keywords: Grassley Reiterates State Department Document Request, Seeks Inspector General Involvement in Special Government Employee Inquiry.jpg Grassley Reiterates State Department Document Request Seeks Inspector General Involvement in Special Government Employee Inquiry Mar 20 2015 WASHINGTON “ Sen Chuck Grassley is ramping up his inquiry into whether the State Department misused the Special Government Employee SGE designation for outside expertise in light of revelations of private email use at the State Department Grassley reiterated his unanswered request from 2013 that the State Department provide all communications between the State Department and an outside firm Teneo A top State Department employee Huma Abedin worked both for the government and Teneo at the same time and reportedly had a private email account on an email server in the Secretary ™s personal residence A number of conflict of interest concerns arise when a government employee is simultaneously being paid by a private company especially when that company Teneo ˜brings together the disciplines of government and public affairs ™ Grassley wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry Moreover these concerns are heightened when high level employees such as Ms Abedin may have used non-government email accounts to engage in both government and private business Furthermore Ms Abedin and other State Department employees appear to have been improperly categorized as SGEs Grassley made a new request of the agency inspector general He also expressed concern that the private email use could impede State Department fulfillment of Freedom of Information Act FOIA requests FOIA is in the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee which he chairs The Senate Judiciary Committee which has direct legislative jurisdiction over FOIA needs to have a clear understanding of the effects that these email practices at the State Department have had on FOIA compliance Grassley wrote to State Department Inspector General Steve Linick Additionally it is important to understand whether the State Department ™s excessive use of the SGE designation undermines standards of ethics Grassley ™s letters ask a series of detailed questions about the SGE designation and the use of private email to conduct State Department business Grassley ™s letter to Kerry is available here Grassley ™s letter to Linick is available here http //www grassley senate gov/news/news-releases/grassley-reiterates-state-department-document-request-seeks-inspector-general Government Business on Private Email is Detrimental to Good Government March 20 2015 U S Senator Charles Grassley see also https //web archive org/web/20150321032603/http //www grassley senate gov/news/news-releases/grassley-reiterates-state-department-document-request-seeks-inspector-general archived by the Internet Archive 2015-03-20 United States Senator Charles Grassley s Grassley Reiterates State Department Document Request Seeks Inspector General Involvement in Special Government Employee Inquiry at Wikisource Chuck Grassley Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2015 Hillary Rodham Clinton email use as United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton-related documents PD-USGov | ||||
