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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the difference between the bush administration and Hilary's email controversy for you. Absolutely poor judgement from Hilary.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/15/juan-williams/media-reaction-george-w-bushs-email-controversy/

First of all, there’s the difference in who’s at the receiving end of the criticisms. In 2007, it was a group of higher-up White House staffers and advisers (notably Rove) who occasionally used private email accounts for official business. As far as we can tell, though, Bush himself was not suspected as being part of this group. Today, the target is a former secretary of state, who only used private email when conducting official government business.[/quote]
New poster.  You are misrepresenting the linked analysis.  That analysis is saying the Bush and Clinton email situation were actually fairly similar on the substance.  It also is clear that much less criticism was brought to bear on the Bush situation.  The difference that the analysis is discussing is [i]not a substantive difference[/i], but rather [i]why they were [u]treated[/u] differently[/i].  It concludes the two similar email situations are being treated differently because Clinton is running for President in 2016, while Bush had completed his political runs at the time his email misuse surfaced.  Also, Bush's email misuse was secondary to the even-larger scandal if Bush's illegal political firing of several US Attorneys.  Key quotes from the analysis are below.
[quote]Over the course of the investigation, it came out that some White House officials had conducted White House business over private email accounts set up on a server through the Republican National Committee. The White House later admitted that some internal White House emails conducted on the RNC server might have been lost. Democrats in Congress accused the administration of purposefully circumventing recordkeeping processes, while the White House said staffers were supposed to use the RNC emails solely for political affairs, not official business. Comparing the Bush and Clinton email scandals is not exactly apples to apples, but there are some similarities. ...

Clinton is in all likelihood running for president in 2016, so she has a lot of media attention on her to begin with. At the time of their email controversy, the Bush administration was past their 2004 second-term election and the 2006 midterms. Additionally, the White House email controversy was on the periphery of a much larger scandal -- the firings of the eight U.S. attorneys.[/quote]
If you're going to make up stuff, at least find some garbage Breitbart piece that supports your false claims. Posting something that refutes your false narrative is just embarrassing for you.[/quote]

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