From CBS News:
CBS NEWS - There are at least six close advisers to President Trump who used private email addresses for government business, The New York Times reports Monday. Former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former chief strategist Steve Bannon were among those named by the report which cites current and former officials.
The New York Times also cites officials as saying other advisers, Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts.
CBS News has since confirmed the initial report and officials say Ivanka Trump also used a private account while she was transitioning into her role as senior adviser.
Late Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBS News what personnel are instructed to do with work-related communication.
"All White House personnel have been instructed to use official email to conduct all government related work," Sanders wrote. "They are further instructed that if they receive work-related communication on personal accounts, they should be forwarded to official email accounts."
CBS News has learned that these communications were largely initiated by people outside the White House seeking to arrange meetings with senior White House staff.
Mr. Trump repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign about the email investigation surrounding the former secretary of state during President Obama's administration. Clinton used a private email server for official government business. The FBI investigated her use of the server and found that nothing was found to warrant criminal charges against her.
Monday's revelation comes on the heels of news that Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law of President Trump, used a private email to conduct White House business.
In a statement, Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell said that Kushner uses his White House email address, but used his personal account between January and August.
"Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account," Lowell said.
"These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal, rather than his White House, address," Lowell added. "All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event."
In light of the recent developments, House Oversight Chair Trey Gowdy has teamed up with the committee's top Democrat Elijah Cummings in sending a letter to the White House requesting details on any senior aide to the president who has used a private email address or encrypted software for government business.
"With numerous public revelations of senior executive branch employees deliberately trying to circumvent [federal] laws by using personal, private, or alias e-mail addresses to conduct official government business, the Committee has aimed to use its oversight and investigative resources to prevent and deter misuse of private forms of written communication," the lawmakers wrote in their letter sent on Monday.
The Committee had previously sent letters to the Trump White House back in March, requesting information if any senior White House officials had used non-official email accounts to conduct official business.
In April, White House Director of Legislative Affairs March Short responded, saying that "there are no senior officials covered by the PRA (Presidential Records Act) with multiple accounts," a statement the Committee now considers to not be accurate.
The lawmakers have now called on the White House to turn over any new information by October 9th.
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