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The George W. Bush White House āLostā 22 Million Emails
By Nina Burleigh On 9/12/16 at 7:31 AM
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clintonās personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citationsāall of it still unsolved and unpunished.
Clintonās email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House ālostā 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in Americaās recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons
Like Clinton, the Bush White House used a private email serverāits was owned by the Republican National Committee. And the Bush administration failed to store its emails, as required by law, and then refused to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking some of those emails. āItās about as amazing a double standard as you can get,ā says Eric Boehlert, who works with the pro-Clinton group Media Matters. āIf you look at the Bush emails, he was a sitting president, and 95 percent of his chief advisersā emails were on a private email system set up by the RNC. Imagine if for the last year and a half we had been talking about Hillary Clintonās emails set up on a private DNC server?ā
George W. Bush's White House "lost" 22 million emails
Yet we never hear a word about this.
By Nina Burleigh On 9/12/16 at 7:31 AM
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clintonās personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citationsāall of it still unsolved and unpunished.
Clintonās email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House ālostā 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in Americaās recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons
Like Clinton, the Bush White House used a private email serverāits was owned by the Republican National Committee. And the Bush administration failed to store its emails, as required by law, and then refused to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking some of those emails. āItās about as amazing a double standard as you can get,ā says Eric Boehlert, who works with the pro-Clinton group Media Matters. āIf you look at the Bush emails, he was a sitting president, and 95 percent of his chief advisersā emails were on a private email system set up by the RNC. Imagine if for the last year and a half we had been talking about Hillary Clintonās emails set up on a private DNC server?ā
George W. Bush's White House "lost" 22 million emails
Yet we never hear a word about this.