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Private e-mail end run around FOI?

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if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } WASHINGTON- A private watchdog group asked the Education Department's inspector general on Wednesday to investigate the possible improper use of private e-mail accounts to conduct official department business.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics executive director Melanie Sloan said the apparent use of such accounts is making it difficult for the group to obtain documents it is seeking under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Published Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:21 AM by JoelCampbell

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