Wouldn't it be nice for BOTH sides of Congress to work together, to craft extremely strong legislation ensuring that federal employees cannot use private emails or messaging systems to hide from FOIA requests? Yes, both sides have done it. It was wrong by all of them. I am tired of hearing "But Powell" and will be tired of hearing "But Hillary" the next time a Republican gets caught doing it. Both parties always pull the same BS, where it is only a problem when the other team does it.
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Powell did it, Condi Rice did not. If not for Benghazi and the fact that Hillary is running for president, nobody would have said diddly squat about Hillary doing it. Just using a non-government e-mail for official business doesn't exempt the information from being covered by FOIA, but State has been notorious for years for trying to do end runs around FOIA requests.
I thought that Condi did it too, but may have just seen it on here. I am pretty sure that the EPA has been really bad about it too, and if I remember correctly, got sued over it. I just want to see strong safeguards and penalties put in place, so that it stops happening. I'm much more interested in this that playing the party politics blame game.
It is this very mentality that drives me nuts about politics. People pick their sides and that's it. After that side is picked there is no objective reasoning applied to any action taken by the people in the arena.
"your side is bad"
"your side is worse"
This being a WVU board, we can all relate to analogous incidents with rival sports programs. Everytime somebody from a rival team gets in trouble we call them a bunch of thugs. When it's one of our guys, we aren't a bunch of thugs, it's that one guy.
Personally, I would rather see none of those incidents in my team. By pointing out the flaws of the other team, it doesn't erase the flaws of our own.
We are all worse off as a country because of this mentality. Whatever side you choose, you should insist that they hold themselves to a higher standard and the rest will take care of itself.
A rising tide raises all boats.
Agreed 100% with this. Further, it's annoying to watch one side demonize a previous person and then turn around and use them as justification why their person is ok with it.