• Politico, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:51 PM

In a hearing on government secrecy, Lisa Jackson, the former EPA administrator, defended her use of using personal email at work. At the House Oversight and Government hearing she explained that she was not the first government employee to use a personal email account at work. "I had a secondary official government account like my predecessors before me, and that was done for time management and to be able to do my job," she said.

Her Republican critics claim that she used the email in secrecy to get around federal record-keeping requirements. Republicans explained why Jackson used the alias "Richard Windsor" in her personal account.

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