Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch picked up an unlikely defender on Tuesday, when her successor said he carries on her tradition of using a fictitious name in official Justice Department email correspondence. “I would say in defense of Attorney General Lynch, that I have a pseudonym also. Top federal officials using email aliases is neither illegal nor new. Eric Holder, Lynch’s predecessor and former President Obama’s first attorney general, used “Lew Alcindor,” the former name of retired NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Lynch’s attorney, Robert Raben, said this summer that the Justice Department acknowledged in February 2016 that Lynch was using the “Elizabeth Carlisle” alias.

Source: Fox News November 14, 2017 20:15 UTC