[Fester Chugabrew]

The libs keep gasping, “But Bush ‘lost’ 5 million emails!” Not that 2 wrongs make a right, but this deflection needs to be met head on. How?

[monkeyshine]

This has less to do with who is in power than the question of the abuse of power itself. No administration of any party should be allowed to use the IRS or any agency to intimidate, silence and punish their political critics and adversaries. Our democratic ways, and our first amendment rights are literally at stake over this.

[texas booster]

Those emails were hosted on an RNC server, not an official US Gov’t server.

That server was used, as intended, for political emails, so that WH appointees would not violate the Hatch Act.

Emails were found to have been sent to/from a .gov server but no additional info was made public.

The RNC did not keep any emails from 51 officials that used the email system, which did not violate any laws.

It was never 5 million emails nor 22 million emails - those numbers came from DNC operatives.

Obama’s executive branch is accused of willfully violating numerous laws regarding preservation of emails on official gov’t servers, of violating the Hatch Act by ignoring it and passing privileged personal info illegally to outside political sources.

Different world entirely.

[texas booster]

For fun and games, read this WaPo ever-so-balanced article on all of those political “crimes”.

Then compare it to current reporting and this administration's actions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701984.html?nav=rss_politics