How many emails were deleted on their private server by GW Bush and Rove? 22 Million?

[Akamai]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy

"Bush White House email controversy

"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bush White House email controversy surfaced in 2007 during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.[1] Over 5 million emails may have been lost.[2][3] Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove emails, leading to damaging allegations.[4] In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been lost.[5]

"The administration officials had been using a private Internet domain, called gwb43.com, owned by and hosted on an email server run by the Republican National Committee,[6] for various communications of unknown content or purpose. The domain name is an abbreviation for "George W. Bush, 43rd" President of the United States. The use of this email domain became public when it was discovered that J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, was using a gwb43.com email address to discuss the firing of the U.S. attorney for Arkansas.[7] Communications by federal employees were also found on georgewbush.com (registered to "Bush-Cheney '04, Inc."[8]) and rnchq.org (registered to "Republican National Committee"[9]), but, unlike these two servers, gwb43.com has no Web server connected to it — it is used only for email.[10]

The "gwb43.com"[11] domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation.[12] Waxman sent a formal warning to the RNC, advising them to retain copies of all emails sent by White House employees. According to Waxman, "in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications."[13] The Republican National Committee claims to have erased the emails, supposedly making them unavailable for Congressional investigators.[14]"

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I sure as hell would bring this up as often as I could if I were talking to the press about Hillary's email history.

22 freaking million emails gone?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. ShrubCo was the most illegitimate US administration in history, No Contest .

[colsohlibgal]

2. Astounding

I have heard no blurb whatsoever on MSM about this when blabbing on and on about Hillary and emails.

Double Standards R Us with our major media.

And I have little doubt those Bush emails were erased, not lost.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Nobody hears about it because Dem Congress critters don't hold high-profile hearings

and scream to the rafters the way that GOPers do.

The Rs have learned that the loudest voice gets all the attention, and the Dems just shrug and let it pass. I'm getting pretty fed up with Dems who don't have the balls to call the GOPers on their crap.

Where are the Dem hearings on the many, many lives lost in embassy attacks during the Bush administration?
Where are the Dem hearings on deleted emails by the Bush admin?
Where are the Dem hearings on Koch's buying influence and access?
Where are the Dem hearings on the serial GOP lies?

The Dem philosophy seems to be shrug and let them get away with it. Disgusting.

[JoePhilly]

7. When Dems are in the majority they are ...

... to busy actually trying to govern effective to waste time on such nonsense.

Since the GOP has not plan or intent to govern at all, they have nothing else to do but focus on nonsensical hearings and investigations.

That's the real difference.

We could do it too, but then nothing would get done even when we held the majority.

GOP would probably love that.

[shadowmayor]

4. crickets

nothing but crickets

[thesquanderer]

5. Except HRC is not running against Bush or Rove.

"They did it too" or "they did it, even worse" is not going to make a dent against any of her detractors.

[uponit7771]

6. Its not the detractors, no one who's decided is paying attention to them... its the M$M and its lazy

... way of going about with false equivalencies

[JoePhilly]

8. +1

[Akamai]

9. At least one can point out that Hillary's use and erasure is minuscule compared to President Bush.

I would bring that point up time and again, or her surrogates should do that. Only time i hear anyone bringing it up is when Thom Hartmann does.