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This isn't even in the same ball park as the long list of war crimes committed by the Bush administration, committed with the full cooperation of the Justice department concocting tortured legal interpretations to condone them. Not justifying what's happening here, but Bush administration is very bad comparison if you are trying to show Obama breaking new ground in "dismantling the rule of law".

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This is worse. This is a secretary of State hiding her correspondence from the american public (eg. FOIA requests), letting it get stolen by foreign governments, lying about it, colluding with an existing administration to avoid prosecution while running for president.

Bush "war crimes" were not political in nature, were bipartisan (evidenced by how little has changed under Barack Obama), are subject to FOIA, and did not put state secrets at risk.

Subject to FOIA? Not so fast... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...

Yes, so fast genius. Was there any war-crime suspected, accused, or even hinted here? No.

The Hatch Act prohibits the use of government resources, including email accounts, for political purposes. The Bush administration stated the RNC accounts were used to prevent violation of this Act.[2][26]

You guys down-vote because you can't come up with reply and can't admit your political hero's are so brazenly corrupt.

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