Documents Show Senior Kerry Aide Used Private Email to Send Steele Reports to State Department Colleagues

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From The Epoch Times:

WASHINGTONโ€”Eleven pages of State Department documents released on Jan. 7 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch show that Jonathan Winer, an assistant to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, used his private email address to convey information he received from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to top U.S. diplomatic officials.

โ€œI will send them to her [his assistant, Nina Miller] from my non-State email account, not copying myself,โ€ Winer said in response to a December 2014 email from Paul Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs.

Jones wanted Winer to use the State Departmentโ€™s secure email system, known informally as the โ€œhigh side,โ€ to transmit reports from Steeleโ€™s firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

โ€œGiven our ongoing concerns about security of open net, [then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland] and I wonder if it would be possible for you to flip Orbis reports to this system before sending them to us. Understand thatโ€™s yet another step in the process for you. We just want to be sure we donโ€™t inadvertently undermine a very good source of info or worse.โ€

Winer, who was then-special coordinator for Libya under Kerry, continued in his response, telling Jones โ€œshe will then send them to us. You know who they are coming from, so even high side from here I will just refer to them as โ€˜O Reports,โ€™ and strip out any other identifying information as to sourcing.โ€

Winerโ€™s use of his private email to conduct official U.S. government business may have violated federal regulations and State Department guidelines.

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