We all know I am a GWB supporter. I voted for him twice. I generally have agreed wth his positions. I even still think the Iraq War was/is not a mistake. But I can not defend the newest revelation that the White House has lost 5 million e-mails of official business. How? Simple, white house staffers did not use official WhiteHouse.Gov e-mail, but instead made use of RNC e-mail or other outside e-mail services which allow the complete deletion of e-mail. For those who did not know, this is explicitly against the law. All White House business is required to take place on WhiteHouse.Gov e-mail servers and anything that does not is still expected to be kept and stored for future use in the presidential archives.
We all know how this will go. The White House will claim (not without some validity) that this is due to staffers who did not understand the technical limitations of e-mail. The Democrats will claim a cover-up or try to make an impeachable offense out of this. GOP pundits will say it is no big deal. Democratic pundits will say it is the worst crime in the history of the country. As a self-proclaimed moderate let me say both sides will be wrong. This is not a "high crime" on the order of the Clinton perjury unless it can be shown this was done truly to hide evidence of a crime, but it *IS* a crime in itself and ought to be prosecuted as one. The next president needs to know that he/she has to play by the rules established by Congress and the president's own board of ethics.
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