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Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses reporters in New York about her exclusive use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Republicans and some Democrats are questioning whether all of the emails she sent during her tenure were archived or if she is withholding some. We look back at another controversy involving thousands of White House emails that were sent on a private server that were deleted in this April 2007 Washington Week.
In 2007, when Congress asked the Bush administration for emails surrounding the firing of eights U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed that many of the emails requested could not be produced because they were sent on a non-government email server. The officials had used the private domain gwb43.com, a server run by the Republican National Committee. Two years later, it was revealed that potentially 22 million emails were deleted, which was considered by some to be a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/missing-white-house-emails
Bush that started a war and almost the second great Depression without prosecution, Screw The Republicans, War Crimes and leaving the country Trillions more in debt should be re-opened for true justice!
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)as Gore Vidal used to say...
sofa king
(10,857 posts)Destroying evidence can be considered primary evidence of guilt, and there's no federal statute of limitations on murder, fraud, embezzlement, war crimes, kidnapping, or treason.
Take just one example we know about, child molester Dennis Hastert. It's now obvious that the Bush Administration was coercing Hastert by threatening to tell on him. Through Sibel Edmonds we know they knew, and we know they covered it up, and we know Hastert rolled over for Turkey over the Armenian genocide issue, which suddenly makes it an open-ended espionage case.
Many facets of that one issue will be open to prosecution forever, and everyone who discussed it and then attempted to destroy the discussions faces an open-and-shut case. Forever.
How many of the 20+ million destroyed Bush-era emails discussed those things, and far worse things? The fun part of it is that we probably already know, because the emails were almost certainly not destroyed, just removed from the public record. Did they really hide them from NSA? Did no Republican sociopath retain a thumb drive as a dead-man's switch or blackmail opportunity? Did other countries somehow fail to steal them?
We will be able to hold this over the heads of Republicans for another fifty years. They're done.