Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails to conduct official business while avoiding officially mandated disclosure is hardly unique.   Longtime Clinton associate Rahm Emanuel has just been compelled by a court to disclose his private emails that involved city business, thanks to a lawsuit by the Better Government Association, a private watchdog group: As a result of a BGA investigation and legal action, The City of Chicago and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have agreed to release all of Emanuel's private emails related to city business—subject to any applicable legal exemptions—and institute a new policy that will ban city employees and officials from using their private email accounts to conduct city business. The city's change in practices comes in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits filed by the BGA, and separately by the Chicago Tribune, and follows more than a year of hard-fought litigation and rulings by two Cook County...(Read Full Post)