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Originally Posted by sware2cod
If Trump shows up at the next debate and brings up Hillary's emails, she might bring this up. Then again, she probably has at least 5 different responses to pivot. But this fact is good for people to know - that it wasn't only Hillary and this was common in government.
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http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/g...ls-497373.html is a Newsweek article written and researched by Kevin Lamarque of Reuters.
In 1978, Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA), mandating all presidential and vice presidential records created after January 20, 1981, be preserved and that the public, not the president, owned the records.
"Despite the PRA, neither the Reagan nor the George H.W. Bush administration maintained email records, even as the number of White House emails began growing exponentially."
The Clinton White House set up a system wherein if anyone tried to delete an email, a message would pop up on screen indicating that to do so would be in violation of the PRA.
Eight years later, in 2003, the National Security Archive was informed that the George W. Bush White House was no longer saving its emails. "The Archive and another watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (which had represented outed CIA agent Valerie Plame in her case against the Bush administration), refiled their original lawsuit."
The plaintiffs discovered that the Bush WH had simply shut down the Clinton automatic email archive beginning sometime around January 1, 2003.
"The White House claimed it had switched to a new server and in the process was unable to maintain an archive—a claim that many found dubious."
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