Missing Emails 1.0

Illustration created by ChatGPT 4 using prompts written by Darren Phillips on June 16, 2025. Illustration modified by Darren Phillips using Adobe Photoshop.

It seems there was a government email scandal during George W. Bush's presidency that was potentially of much greater significance than anything Hillary Clinton may or may not have done while serving as secretary of state. Where were the ad nauseam congressional investigations, the nightly panel discussions on Fox News, the outrage and irate calls for impeachment in 2007? ☕︎

From the article:

"In 2007, when Congress asked the Bush administration for emails surrounding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed that many of the emails requested could not be produced because they were sent on a non-government email server. The officials had used the private domain gwb43.com, a server run by the Republican National Committee. Two years later, it was revealed that potentially 22 million emails were deleted, which was considered by some to be a violation of the Presidential Records Act."

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