All the Other Times a Politician Avoided Official Email

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All the Other Times a Politician Avoided Official Email

By Leticia Miranda at Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/propublica/2015/03/hillary_clinton_email_scandal_former_secretary_of_state_is_hardly_the_first.html

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Bush Advisers’ Approach on E-Mail Draws Fire, New York Times, April 2007
The Bush Administration admits that as many as 22 political advisers to the president, including Bush advisor Karl Rove, used their Republican National Committee email accounts for White House related business. At the time, the RNC automatically purged emails after 30 days. Later, a White House spokesperson reported that as many as 5 million emails could have been lost from the White House’s official server.


Jeb Bush Owned Personal Email Server He Used as Governor, NBC News, March 2015
A Mar. 4, 2015 report from NBC News finds that from 1999 to early 2007 Jeb Bush used his own private email server for official business as Florida Governor.


Two ex-Walker aides charged with illegal campaigning, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 2012
Two former aides to Gov. Scott Walker, while he was Executive of Milwaukee County, used a private Internet network to conduct campaign work. They are later charged with illegally campaigning on government time.


Trove of Palin E-Mails Draws Press to Alaska, New York Times, June 2011
In 2011, Sarah Palin releases more than 24,000 pages of emails sent from a private account while she was Alaska’s governor, responding to public records requests made in 2008. The emails reveal less-than scandalous details of her life,including her early attempts to meet John McCain, a draft ghostwritten letter to the editor in response to criticism against her and plans to see a controversial Christian pastor in Juno, Alaska.




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[delrem]

1. The moral of this story is

that the more Republican-like that a Dem can become, the better it is for everyone. All Dems should emulate Republicans in every case, including this one -- because then all is good and finger pointing works a charm.

[MADem]

3. No, the moral of the story is "No one says shit about it if you're a Republican."

Alternately, "HRC Derangement Syndrome is Alive and Well."

[delrem]

4. Well cry me a river.

My mommy said: "if everybody jumped off a cliff, would you?"
It's fairly basic, MADem.

[MADem]

5. Yeah, it is fairly basic--a lie can travel half way round the world before the truth gets out of bed

in the morning.

I'm just surprised that so many people who claim to be liberals would so eagerly carry Breitbart's et.al. water.

[delrem]

6. Nobody on DU is "carrying Brietbart's et.al. water" on this.

Unless, of course, some are saying that it's *OK* because the Republicans did it too.
But nobody on DU would be so stupid as to say that. Right?

[MADem]

8. Oh, really?

Funny how the "latest objections" I hear with regard to this non-scandal are lifted almost verbatim from wingnut sites.

It's illegal...no it's not.

It's wrong...no it's not.

No one but she did this ... not true either.

I think it's great that people are speaking up with their discredited poutrage and being so vociferous about it, too. It's like that old Irish toast that ends with "...so we'll know them by their limping."

[delrem]

9. Yes, really. Republicans did it so it's OK isn't a viable argument. nt

[MADem]

10. Excuse me. Republicans DESTROYED their emails--five million of them.

Clinton archived hers, in accordance with applicable law and procedure.

This false equivalency meme that Brietbart and the Daily Caller put out, that is immediately repeated here, doesn't serve the purveyors well. By their reputations we shall know them.

[delrem]

11. We don't know what HRC destroyed, do we?

Some people might think that presents a problem.

But what they hey, because I don't think "the Republicans did it so therefore it's OK for us" is a good argument therefore I'm a Brietbart clone, and you question my "reputation".

shee...it. just shee...it.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Maybe Trey Gowdy has opened a can of worms he can not put back together.

Sometimes it is best to keep your mouth shut unless you can see the outcome.

[morningfog]

7. Poor judgment all in all. Did these provate accounts mix business and personal?

That is where I see Hillary's biggest mistake. I loathe the list of repugs in the OP, their email stupidity cannot lower my value of them. They start at nil and stay there. It does seem that poor judgment is prevalent in official's email use. But, how many were mixing business and personal on a private server? Any of them? All of them?