Remember that time the Bush administration lost 5 million emails — and Republicans shrugged?

[DonViejo]

NEWSWEEK
25 AUG 2016 AT 07:15 ET

The frenzy and furor over Hillary Clinton’s email habits while at the State Department, now into their 16th month and still going strong, have predictably and effectively chipped away at her reputation, so a sizable majority of Americans (67 percent in a poll last month) find her “untrustworthy.”

That’s what a year of FBI investigation—leading to no recommended charges—a budding congressional investigation and a relentless right-wing watchdog’s lawsuit buy you in American politics. But take a moment away from pawing through the tens of thousands of her personal and professional emails now on public view and consider the long list of elected and appointed Republicans who have done exactly the same thing as Clinton—and worse.

Between 2003 and 2005, the George W. Bush White House “lost” around 5 million emails, including messages related to the firing of federal prosecutors who didn't adhere to Bush’s conservative agenda. A federal judge ruled that the White House didn’t have to look for them.

Those emails were among some 22 million messages that the Bush administration “lost” during its time in power, most from right around the period that it was crafting a scaffolding of lies to sell what turned out to be the greatest American foreign policy debacle in a generation: the Iraq War. The emails were eventually found in 2009, when Bush and Dick Cheney were safely back at their ranches, but long after thousands of young Americans were dead and maimed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were dead, and as Islamists were mustering to eventually capture swathes of lawless, war-ravaged turf for their hideous “caliphate.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/remember-that-time-the-bush-administration-lost-5-million-emails-and-republicans-shrugged/

[liberal N proud]

1. Republicans are notorious for their hypocrisy

[colsohlibgal]

2. Just a Stunning Double Standard

That story, like Rummy announcing on 9/10/01 there were trillions they couldn't find, got no traction at all.

I doubt all those emails vanishing was accidental. If the MSM had any credibility at all they would have pursued that story as hard as this thing with HRV.

[One of the 99]

3. Not just the GOP but the media too. nt

[MineralMan]

4. Our collective memory is very faulty, and

the Republicans count on that. We don't remember very well anything that happened more than about 5 years ago, and if we do remember, we probably remember incorrect.y

Our memory gets worse yet when memories are even older. We remember only positive or negative highlights of the past, and never remember other things. We're also to impatient to wait for reminders of events of the past.

We don't know, and we don't care, so people with an agenda can say just about anything they want about the "good old days," and most people will simply accept it without actually thinking about what really happened.

[SticksnStones]

5. I was just commenting on a similar vein in another thread

If the redundancy will be allowed, it's worth repeating, IMO

Remember the ongoing court fight to get Cheney to release his White House visitors logs so we could see who had access to the Vice President?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101900816.html

Remember how instead of releasing the documents, Cheney ordered the logs maintained by secret service be destroyed ?
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheneys_secrecy_far_greater_than_reported_0623.html

Yeah, no great outrage from the right then. Simpler times, right?