伊萬卡夫婦也陷「郵件門」？眾議院發出傳票：交出私人簡訊和郵件

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kusher to be ordered to hand over private emails and texts

伊萬卡·特朗普和賈里德·庫什爾被要求交出私人郵件和簡訊

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The House Oversight Committee voted on Thursday to authorise a subpoena for all work-related texts and emails sent or received by White House officials on personal accounts, part of a long-running probe into whether senior administration aides have violated federal records laws by using private messaging services for official business.

周四，眾議院監督委員會投票授權對白宮官員發出傳票，索要其在個人賬戶上收發的所有與工作相關的簡訊和電子郵件，這是針對高級行政助理是否因公務使用私人信息服務而違反聯邦記錄法的長期調查的新舉措。

The 23-16 vote, divided along party lines, puts into the crosshairs President Donald Trump』s daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, both of whom have admitted through an attorney to using personal accounts in the course of their work.

投票結果為23票對16票，兩黨意見不一。這使得唐納德·特朗普總統的女兒伊萬卡·特朗普和女婿兼高級顧問賈里德·庫什納成為了焦點，兩人都通過律師承認在工作過程中使用了個人賬戶。

The effort is also a turnabout of sorts for House Republican efforts in 2016 to highlight Hillary Clinton』s use of personal emails for her official work as secretary of state.

在某種程度上，這也是眾議院共和黨2016年強調希拉里·柯林頓在擔任國務卿期間使用私人郵件進行官方工作的一種大轉變。

「The committee has obtained direct evidence that multiple high-level White House officials have been violating the Presidential Records Act by using personal email accounts, text messaging services, and even encrypted applications for official business — and not preserving those records in compliance with federal law,」 Elijah Cummings, chairman of the committee, said.

委員會主席伊萊賈·卡明斯表示：「委員會已獲得直接證據，表明多名白宮高級官員一直在違反《總統記錄法》，他們使用個人電子郵件賬戶、簡訊服務，甚至是加密的公務申請——而且沒有按照聯邦法律保存這些記錄。」。

「What we do not yet know is why these White House officials were attempting to conceal these communications.」

「我們還不知道的是，為什麼這些白宮官員試圖隱瞞這些通訊。」

The broad subpoena includes all communications — even messages that contained classified material — sent or received by White House employees, including employees in the National Security Council.

這份大範圍的傳票包括所有白宮僱員（包括國家安全委員會的僱員）發送或接收的通信，甚至包括包含機密材料的信息。

It specifically names Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff.

它特別點名了代理白宮辦公廳主任米克·馬爾瓦尼。

The committee first requested those messages in March 2017 under the Republican leadership of Jason Chaffetz, after reports that multiple White House officials, including Ivanka Trump, were using encrypted apps to conduct administration business.

曾有報道稱包括伊萬卡·特朗普在內的多名白宮官員正在使用加密應用程序處理政府事務，之後2017年3月在共和黨人賈森·查菲茨的領導下，委員會首次要求索要這些信息。

CNN reported in October that Mr Kushner had communicated with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia using WhatsApp, and a lawyer for Mr Kushner and Ivanka Trump confirmed to the committee in March that they both used private email accounts for White House business.

CNN去年10月報道稱，庫什納使用WhatsApp與沙特王儲穆罕默德?本?薩勒曼進行了通訊，庫什納和伊萬卡?特朗普的一名律師今年3月向委員會證實，兩人都使用過私人電子郵件賬戶處理白宮事務。

The White House has not produced a single document in response, Mr Cummings said. The Presidential Records Act requires that nearly all communications with White House staff on official matters be preserved and that officials who use personal accounts either copy or forward an official account on all such messages.

主席卡明斯表示，白宮尚未拿出哪怕一份文件來予以回應。《總統記錄法》要求，幾乎所有白宮工作人員就官方事務進行的溝通都必須保留，使用個人賬戶的官員必須複製或轉發所有此類信息到官方賬戶。

Jim Jordan, the Republican on the panel, painted the efforts as a partisan attack on Donald Trump.

該委員會的共和黨人吉姆·喬丹將此舉描述為針對唐納德·特朗普的黨派攻擊。

「They are so desperate to get the President. They just can』t help themselves,」 Mr Jordan wrote on Wednesday on Twitter.

「他們非常渴望找出總統的毛病。他們就是忍不住這麼做。」喬丹周三在推特上寫道。

Just last month, Mr Jordan and two other Republicans called on the committee to renew its examination of Ms Clinton』s use of a private email server.

就在上個月，喬丹和另外兩名共和黨人呼籲委員會重新審查希拉里使用私人電子郵件伺服器的行為。

Democrats on the committee slammed Republicans』 opposition to the authorisation and charged them with hypocrisy after Republicans demanded thousands of Ms Clinton』s private emails as part of the Benghazi investigation.

委員會中的民主黨人抨擊了共和黨人對傳票授權的反對，並指責他們虛偽，因為此前共和黨人要求將希拉里的數千封私人電子郵件納入班加西調查中。

Mr Trump made Clinton』s private email server a central line of attack in his 2016 campaign for president.

在2016年的總統競選中，特朗普將希拉里使用私人電子郵件伺服器作為攻擊的核心。

「We received those documents, and I called for them to be made public,」 Mr Cummings said. 「Our approach today should not be different merely because Donald Trump is president.」

卡明斯表示：「我們會收上這些文件，我呼籲將它們公之於眾。我們今天的做法不應該僅僅因為唐納德·特朗普是總統就有所不同。」

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