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As attorney general, Eric Holder has used three different email aliases. | ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder has used three email aliases to conduct government business over the past six years, a Justice Department official revealed Tuesday.

All three email aliases, including the one Holder currently uses, are official Justice Department addresses on the @usdoj.gov domain, the official told The Huffington Post. Holder has used the aliases to prevent spam and to keep his inbox from being overwhelmed by the public, not to avoid transparency, the official said. The addresses were known to DOJ officials handling Freedom of Information Act requests and congressional inquiries, according to the official.

"The Attorney General uses a Justice Department email address to conduct official business. As with many Cabinet officials, he does not use his given name in the handle of his email address, Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. This practice is similar to using initials or numbers in an email address and helps guard against security risks and prevent his inbox from being needlessly inundated. It does not in any way impact compliance with FOIA requests. The Attorney General's email address is known to the individuals who process FOIA requests, and his emails are regularly produced, albeit with his exact address redacted.

Holders first alias, Henry Yearwood, was a combination of his mothers maiden name and the first name of another family member. His second alias, David Kendricks, came from the names of two members of the Temptations: singers David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.

Fallon, who described Holders choice of email addresses as soulful, declined to provide Holders third and current email alias, but said it is based on the name of an athlete.

The aliases were changed twice over Holders tenure, once when the email address was accidentally exposed by another federal agency responding to a FOIA request.

The email practices of top officials in the Obama administration have come under increased scrutiny due to Hillary Clintons use of personal email as secretary of state. Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson pointed to indications that Holder used an email alias in a recent post on The Daily Signal. Attkisson noted that the names associated with Holders email address were redacted in documents disclosed by the Justice Department, with his name replaced by Attorney General.

Many high-ranking government officials use email addresses that are not readily available to the general public. Lisa Jackson, for example, came under scrutiny for using an email alias during her tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Although an EPA Inspector General report found a lack of internal agency controls for identifying such email addresses, it found no evidence the practice was intended to dodge federal record-keeping rules.

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Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. has used three email aliases to conduct government business since he took office in 2009, a Department of Justice official confirmed to the Los Angeles Times.

All three of Holder's email addresses, including the one he uses now, are on the Justice Department's system, agency spokesman Brian Fallon said in an email.

Meaning while his email address is noteric.holder@usdoj.gov, it is still preserved for recordkeeping, etc, because it is a DOJ account, Fallon said.

The announcement comes the same day former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly announced she believes she did nothing wrong by using a personal email address for all her official government correspondence while in office.

Using an email alias is a common practice among high-ranking government officials, Fallon said in a statement.

As with many Cabinet officials, he does not use his given name in the handle of his email address, Fallon said in a statement. This practice is similar to using initials or numbers in an email address and helps guard against security risks and prevent his inbox from being needlessly inundated."

Holders previous aliases were Henry Yearwood and David Kendricks, Fallon confirmed. His current alias has not been released.

The alias Henry Yearwood is a combination of his mothers maiden name and the first name of another family member, the Huffington Postreported. David Kendricks is a mashing of Temptations members David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, according to the Post.

Holders alias addresses do not impact compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests, Fallon said.

"The attorney general's email address is known to the people who process Freedom of Information Act requests and his emails are regularly produced, albeit with his exact address redacted, Fallon said in a statement.

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Attorney General Eric Holder has been a lame duck for nearly six months, an extraordinarily long time since he said he wanted out.

But by next weekend he might finally get his long-awaited R&R. We hear hell take a few months to chill before figuring out which board hell join and what speeches hell give.

Our colleague Mike DeBonis reports that after much delay, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he expects to bring the confirmation of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch to a vote sometime next week.

Lynch, who was nominated more than 120 days ago, has languished in the GOP-controlled Senate with some senators holding her nomination hostage over their opposition to President Obamas executive action on immigration. Still, when the vote finally occurs, she is expected to be confirmed easily.

Our colleague Paul Kane wrote last week about the slow-going process. He quoted Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy as saying the White House and Senate Democrats should have moved faster on the nomination before the midterm elections. And after, when they lost the Senate, it was a calculation to hold off on Lynch:

According to Leahy and Schumer, Democrats faced a choice: push Lynch through, or confirm as many nominees to the federal courts as they possibly could before handing over the majority in January.

They chose the judges over Lynch, Leahy said, because federal judges receive lifetime appointments to the federal courts.

I think that was a very good trade-off, Leahy said.

Whenever the Senate does get Lynch into her Justice office, Republicans will finally be rid of Holder.

And hell finally be rid of them.

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