(10-31-2016 08:48 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/georg...97373.html
Wonder if any conservatives will care?
The emails were lost by the entire Bush Administration all together not just Bush. That in and of itself is a distinction between this story and Clinton's situation.
The story never says if there was an official secure gov system that the Bush Adminstration should've been using and didn't, choosing to use the RNC server instead. That is also a distinction. Hillary chose on her own to set up the private system when with a .gov system was already in place.
Buried in the story it explains that WJC used private email also and fought to keep his private just like his predecessors.
"When Bill Clinton moved into the White House, his lawyers supported the elder Bush in his effort to uphold a side deal he’d cut with the National Archives and Records Administration to allow him to treat his White House emails as personal. At the time, George Stephanopoulos—then the White House communications director—
defended the resistance, saying his boss, like Bush, didn't want subsequent, and potentially unfriendly, administrations rooting around in old emails."
Buried even deeper…
"Then, in December 2009—well into Barack Obama’s administration—
the White House said it found the 22 million emails, dated between 2003 and 2005, that it claimed had been mislabeled. That cache was given to the National Archives, and it and other plaintiffs agreed, on December 14, 2009, to settle their lawsuit. But the emails have not yet been made available to the public."
Since this came to light late in Bush's second term if Bush were running in 2008, I'd have cared if I had known but it didn't get much attention.
BTW the write of this piece is a photographer, not a journalist...a photographer.