Newsweek reports that the George W.
Bush administration “lost” 22 million emails covering
a time of crucial decisions about the war in Iraq.
“For 18 months, Republican
strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have
been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s 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 citations—all of it still unsolved and unpunished.
“Clinton’s 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 “lost” 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of
emails written during the darkest period in America’s 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.
“It’s about as amazing a double
standard as you can get,” says Eric Boehlert, who works with the pro-Clinton
group Media Matters. “If you look at the Bush emails, he was a sitting
president, and 95 percent of his chief advisers’ 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 Clinton’s emails set up on a private DNC server?”
Double standard, anyone?
What will Donald J.Trump say?
Will
he start ranting about the “crooked Bush administration”?
Will he threaten to
throw the ex-President in jail?
Will the FBI launch an investigation of the 22
million missing emails?