article_snippet: It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario - short of nuclear winter - where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level-head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,' its cabinet-level-head officer said.
article_snippet: I can recall no instance... when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,' Bush told the newspaper.
article_snippet: Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive in Washington D.C. Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive in Washington D.C. added: 'Personal emails are not secure.
article_snippet: Senior officials should not be using Personal emails.'
article_snippet: According to the Times, most experts believe that private email accounts should only be used for official government business in emergencies, for both security and in the interest of the public.