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John Poet

(2,510 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 04:33 PM Mar 2015

Two Names The Press Omits From Email Coverage: Colin Powell And Jeb Bush

From Media Matters (a more balanced representation than some other links posted around here):

By omitting important information and context from the Hillary Clinton email story, are reporters and pundits guilty of trying to make the episode more interesting and more nefarious than it actually is?

As the press demands answers regarding which private emails Clinton handed over to the State Department and which ones she withheld because she deemed them to be personal in nature, many journalists fail to include relevant information about prominent Republicans who have engaged in similar use of private email accounts while in office, specifically former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

By omitting references to Powell and Bush and how they handled private emails while in office, the press robs news consumers of key information. It's also material that deflates the overheated suspicions of a wide-ranging Clinton cover-up.

Appearing on ABCs This Week on Sunday, Powell was asked how he responded to the State Department request last year that all former secretaries hand over emails from their time in office. Powell confirmed that he had used private email while secretary but that he didn't hand over any emails to the State Department because his private emails were all gone.

"I don't have any to turn over," he explained. "I did not keep a cache of them. I did not print them off. I do not have thousands of pages somewhere in my personal files." Powell's revelation is important because it puts into perspective the email protocol of a former secretary of state. By his own account, Powell's emails, unlike Clinton's, include his regular communications with foreign dignitaries. What was he emailing them in the lead-up to the war in Iraq? We'll never know.

To date however, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have largely downplayed references to the fact that Powell's private, secretary of state emails are all gone.

Why is Powell relevant to Clinton? Because after she took questions from the reporters yesterday about the email saga, the press focused in on the fact in reviewing her private emails, Clinton found roughly 60,000 messages. She handed over 30,000 to the State Department and determined the other 30,000 were personal in nature and disgarded them.

Read more:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/11/two-names-the-press-omits-from-email-coverage-c/202847

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Two Names The Press Omits From Email Coverage: Colin Powell And Jeb Bush (Original Post) John Poet Mar 2015 OP
Wasn't there a special email server used by the Bush-Cheney regime? raging moderate Mar 2015 #1
Yes, John Poet Mar 2015 #2
Private emails from Bush WH (incBush,Cheney, Rove) went to private RNC servers blm Mar 2015 #3

raging moderate

(4,281 posts)
1. Wasn't there a special email server used by the Bush-Cheney regime?
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 04:52 PM
Mar 2015

It seems to me that I read something about a special email setup used by at least one person in the Bush-Cheney regime, which was based somewhere out West? Does anybody else remember anything about this?

 

John Poet

(2,510 posts)
2. Yes,
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 06:11 PM
Mar 2015

something like 5 million emails lost...


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/10/flashback-when-millions-of-lost-bush-white-hous/202820

Excerpt:
"Of course, back in 2007 Fox News seemed utterly uninterested in the Bush email story days after the news broke. A search of Fox archives locates only one panel discussion about the story and it featured two guests accusing Democrats of engineering a "fishing expedition."

From then-Fox co-host, Fred Barnes: "I mean, deleted e-mails, who cares?"



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy

blm

(112,920 posts)
3. Private emails from Bush WH (incBush,Cheney, Rove) went to private RNC servers
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 02:43 PM
Mar 2015

Media yawned at the lack of access to MILLIONS of emails.

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