An outbreak of vanishing emails

By Post Editorial Board

March 5, 2015 | 10:56pm

Photo: AP

They’ve got mail — and they don’t want you to see. We mean public officials and the official business discussed in their emails that’s meant to be publicly accessible.

Turns out, these officials are going to absurd lengths to ensure the public never actually sees their communications.

To wit:

• Team Cuomo recently ramped up its policy of purging all emails more than 90 days old, even as a federal prosecutor is probing the administration.
•  Emails belonging to Lois Lerner, who’s at the heart of the IRS targeting scandal, were said to have been lost forever when her hard drive crashed. Yet two batches of Lerner emails recently surfaced. The IRS inspector general says he is now conducting a criminal investigation into why the IRS falsely claimed the Lerner emails could not be recovered.
•  The former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, used an email under the fake name Richard Windsor. On Monday, a federal judge blasted the agency for being “offensively unapologetic” in its response to a conservative group’s Freedom of Information request for emails.
•  In a suit against Eliot Spitzer, a judge found the then-attorney general used private email for official business. Spitzer claimed no such emails exist and, anyway, private email could be kept secret.
•  Here’s one that takes the cake: Not only did Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, conduct all her official business on private email, she actually used her own private server, located in her house in Chappaqua — even while warning State underlings not to do so, citing departmental rules and procedures.

Makes you want to know what they were so desperate for us not to see, doesn’t it?