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When Karl Rove deleted 22 million White House emails and the media yawned. [View all] pnwmom Jul 2016 OP

BUT BENGHAZI!!!!1! Orrex Jul 2016 #1

Bush White House email controversy - a quick history... spanone Jul 2016 #2

That incident is exactly why I expect better from our candidates and office holders loyalsister Jul 2016 #4

Hillary behaved far better than her predecessors. She was the only one who pnwmom Jul 2016 #43

"not as bad" is a very very low bar loyalsister Jul 2016 #107

Why are you blaming Hillary for not being "transparent" enough pnwmom Jul 2016 #108

There were rules specifically designed to facilitate transparency loyalsister Jul 2016 #109

You're avoiding the point. The reason she could produce those emails pnwmom Jul 2016 #111

So, it was impossible for her to delete anything - ever? loyalsister Jul 2016 #118

At the State Dept in 2011, only .0006% of .gov emails were preserved. pnwmom Jul 2016 #119

Democrats liberalmike27 Jul 2016 #96

Vitter is their problem loyalsister Jul 2016 #100

The bush white house's private email account was set up by Michael Connell Botany Jul 2016 #19

Bingo!!! billhicks76 Jul 2016 #75

This is all well known but the Ohio Dem. Party and the National Dem. Party will not say a word. Botany Jul 2016 #85

Jeff Gannon Scarsdale Jul 2016 #94

And the fire in Cheney's office underpants Jul 2016 #3

Fire? I've never heard about this. nt arthritisR_US Jul 2016 #13

Fire and his missing emails underpants Jul 2016 #21

Interesting, thanks! :) nt arthritisR_US Jul 2016 #34

If what Karl Rove does is our guiding light of right and wrong we are truly screwed krawhitham Jul 2016 #5

We did MUCH better. Hillary retained all her emails and produced them, in paper as the law pnwmom Jul 2016 #8

Well, No not all emails were turned over krawhitham Jul 2016 #53

She has said before that when she sent emails to staffers, she expected pnwmom Jul 2016 #60

Your premise is false--not a single one of us "did it too." MADem Jul 2016 #24

How Did You Get That From The OP? ProfessorGAC Jul 2016 #28

but the media should treat people equally treestar Jul 2016 #44

Pointing out Republican hypocrisy... davekriss Jul 2016 #72

And yet we here at DU were losing our shit when he did it. Cheap_Trick Jul 2016 #6

No, what they did was much, much worse. Hillary produced her emails pnwmom Jul 2016 #11

Except she didn't TeddyR Jul 2016 #54

Comey made it clear he didn't think that was intentional. And it involved pnwmom Jul 2016 #55

No, that's not correct either TeddyR Jul 2016 #58

Because the small number of hers was probably unintentional, due to pnwmom Jul 2016 #59

Ok, I agree that Hillary's transmittal of secret/top secret emails might have been unintentional TeddyR Jul 2016 #61

She didn't lie about it. She couldn't control every email that came in, only the ones pnwmom Jul 2016 #62

But she TeddyR Jul 2016 #64

He doesn't say that she sent any officially classified email. pnwmom Jul 2016 #67

Your arguments are shocking. Rilgin Jul 2016 #76

You don't understand that Hillary was the Head of the State Department -- not an pnwmom Jul 2016 #78

That is a new argument. One used famously by Nixon Rilgin Jul 2016 #113

No. Nixon was making that as a general claim. This relates to a specific procedure, pnwmom Jul 2016 #114

The right thing to do would be to produce all your tax returns, correct? Loki Jul 2016 #91

Yup, there was screaming about it here. And he wasn't even running for president. (n/t) thesquanderer Jul 2016 #12

Here and virtually nowhere else. And he was working for the WH and this was in pnwmom Jul 2016 #16

re: "The standard has always been set higher for her." Or any Dem. thesquanderer Jul 2016 #20

It can be difficult to understand difference in specific instances when your bias relies on that... LanternWaste Jul 2016 #15

Excuse me, but she printed out her emails and provided them to State. MADem Jul 2016 #26

Comey certainly will get his payday GummyBearz Jul 2016 #102

People are in prison for negligence of handling classified information. onecaliberal Jul 2016 #50

Who? MaggieD Jul 2016 #56

James Hitselberger GummyBearz Jul 2016 #103

Who are the "some people" of which you speak? MADem Jul 2016 #104

Did you read the article? GummyBearz Jul 2016 #106

"Showed them to someone else..." "Got ahold of his PHONE..." MADem Jul 2016 #110

False equivalence, but you know that already uponit7771 Jul 2016 #88

"Because he and now she get away with it"? Loki Jul 2016 #90

It's only bad when a Clinton does it mcar Jul 2016 #7

Which buffoonish rule maintains the pretense that two wholly separate instances are precisely the sa LanternWaste Jul 2016 #18

I completely forgot about that.. Peacetrain Jul 2016 #9

Massive K & R. Thanks for posting. So spot on. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #10

DU didn't yawn. Marr Jul 2016 #14

^^^THAT^^^ onecaliberal Jul 2016 #51

IOKIYAR FuzzyRabbit Jul 2016 #17

Exactly. HeartoftheMidwest Jul 2016 #48

It is a real freedom-fest for those in high places. Meanwhile, police are bringing charges silvershadow Jul 2016 #22

That is unrelated to Comey's conclusion about this case. MADem Jul 2016 #27

I was commenting on the OP about Karl Rove. silvershadow Jul 2016 #29

The OP is actually about the difference in the way the Bush regime was treated in contrast to MADem Jul 2016 #33

White House staff communicated via RNC servers and frigging YAHOO MAIL.... MADem Jul 2016 #23

Then there's the aspect of this story that isn't publically known yet. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #38

I raised this with a Trump Guy at the gym and began spewing spittle and vile at me. I laughed. kairos12 Jul 2016 #25

Was Rove privy to state secrets at the highest level? avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #30

Hah! Is that a serious question? Of course he was. pnwmom Jul 2016 #32

+1,000 malaise Jul 2016 #31

K & R SunSeeker Jul 2016 #35

Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #36

Under the applicable law, a private AOL account was treated exactly the same as pnwmom Jul 2016 #39

Republicans are corrupt, so they don't prosecute themselves. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #37

Each and every one, Republican or Democrat, mrr303am Jul 2016 #40

People are only indicted and imprisoned for breaking actual criminal laws. pnwmom Jul 2016 #41

Does that include Bernie and the theft of Clinton campaign data? MaggieD Jul 2016 #57

Any politician reguardless of who they are mrr303am Jul 2016 #70

epic kick Blue_Tires Jul 2016 #42

Kick Hekate Jul 2016 #45

Kick Hekate Jul 2016 #46

Kick Hekate Jul 2016 #47

k&r n/t lordsummerisle Jul 2016 #49

K&R DesertRat Jul 2016 #52

AOL BainsBane Jul 2016 #63

Encore! When will the M$M give us the truth! ffr Jul 2016 #65

thank you yurbud Jul 2016 #66

I will bet you that they said nothing because there was probably enough in those cstanleytech Jul 2016 #68

didn't rove try to hide stuff as well? MariaThinks Jul 2016 #69

Worse. Rove deliberately leaked Valerie's name to the reporter Robert Novak. pnwmom Jul 2016 #80

Once upon a time there was a man named James Hatfield Loki Jul 2016 #92

+1000! DemonGoddess Jul 2016 #97

Yup - your point should be an OP ed on its own MariaThinks Jul 2016 #99

Kick. Rec. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2016 #71

Don't forget which administration and which useless atty. gen'l declined to pursue Bush admin. crime Hoppy Jul 2016 #73

When Obama came into office we were losing 800,000 jobs a month and he had to use pnwmom Jul 2016 #74

A crime is a crime and war crimes are war crimes. Hoppy Jul 2016 #87

Wrong. Our whole country was sinking fast and Obama's first priority pnwmom Jul 2016 #93

So that makes it ok. Hiraeth Jul 2016 #77

It makes it extremely hypocritical and self-serving. They know Hillary pnwmom Jul 2016 #79

Rules do not apply. Got it. Thanks. Hiraeth Jul 2016 #83

No , you haven't figured it out yet. You just think you have. pnwmom Jul 2016 #84

Right. Only follow the good rules. Hiraeth Jul 2016 #115

There was no rule or law barring the use of a private email account. pnwmom Jul 2016 #116

Last paragraph. Jackpot. Thanks. Hiraeth Jul 2016 #117

I've always had a theory of why the media hates the Clintons; ericson00 Jul 2016 #81

It was all of that and more. From the very beginning, pnwmom Jul 2016 #82

Those guys have 401Ks and investments, too. MADem Jul 2016 #105

MSM is a degenerate institution. Scientific Jul 2016 #86

There it is then uponit7771 Jul 2016 #89

Just going to correct you. Powell did NOT do 'the same thing'. peace13 Jul 2016 #95

K&R! DemonGoddess Jul 2016 #98

Perhaps a Dem could start asking those questions during Ryans asiliveandbreathe Jul 2016 #101

Kick. sarcasmo Jul 2016 #112

K&R napkinz Jul 2016 #120