Attorney General Eric Holder used fake names in official DOJ emails

published 11 March 2015

As Hillary Clinton attempts to move past allegations that she flouted State Department transparency rules by using a personal email account for official business, the Justice Department revealed on Tuesday that Attorney General Eric Holder also has a history of email funny business.

While Holder's emails were all at the @usdoj.gov domain, he employed several fake names, apparently in an attempt to weed out spam and emails from the public:

Holder's first alias, Henry Yearwood, was a combination of his mother's maiden name and the first name of another family member. His second alias, David Kendricks, came from the names of two members of the Temptations: singers David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.Fallon, who described Holder's choice of email addresses as "soulful," declined to provide Holder's third and current email alias, but said it is based on the name of an athlete. [The Huffington Post]

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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