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One of the under-appreciated angles to the story about Hillary Clintons email problem is that Hillary Clinton isnt the only one with an email problem. In fact, in an ironic twist, some of the former Secretary of States leading Republican critics have also relied on personal email accounts and shielded selected messages from public scrutiny.
Aliyah Frumin explained this week, for example, that several potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates are facing email and transparency issues of their own and they also leaned heavily on private emails during their time in office and have been criticized in the past for not releasing other documents just as they skewer Clinton for not being forthright with her personal emails.
The Wall Street Journal today, for example, takes a look at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bushs (R) record.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, primarily used a personal email account on his own computer server when he was in office from 1999 to 2007. In December, he posted online hundreds of thousands of emails from both the private and government accounts. Mr. Bushs spokeswoman said that emails from the private account unrelated to government business werent turned over to the state or preserved. [
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R): Though he called Clintons use of a private email address an outrage, Walker is at the center of a Wisconsin controversy surrounding his use of a private email address.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-republicans-who-did-exactly-what-hillary-did?cid=sm_fb_maddow
krawhitham
(4,646 posts)I thought we were better than the GOP, guess I was wrong
Wonder if the Florida Government had a rule against using personal emails, we know the State Department did
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)being slammed for it?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that Bush did not "fully comply with state law that requires governors to turn over their records upon leaving office" during the 8 years between leaving the governor's mansion and releasing some of his emails earlier this year.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/05/new-york-times-digs-in-on-email-double-standard/202773
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)for retroactively following the 2014 law -- and yet excuse all the Republicans in the same position.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)still_one
(92,358 posts)to be investigated to make sure that they are NOT using personal email for government related activities. We could tie this into a broader investigation that can last until 2016 when the next election takes place. The Congress has already decided to not get anything done, so we might as well waste the remaining time investigating them.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)None who were SOS are running for President. Hillary has baggage, and now she gave them even more. Like sniper fire another brilliant lie she decided to go with. Not too smart if you ask me.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Do they?