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11/01/16

The Lost Bush Iraq War Emails

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A George W. Bush painting

(This was the most shared Newsweek online story in history as of early November 2016)

Hillary Clinton's much-discussed email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House "lost" 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in America's recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons.

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Ms. Burleigh, I read with interest your articles on the Trump Administration use of private email servers and phones, but also your article on the GW Bush e-mail scandal. In that article, it has a video of you talking about the Bush e-mail scandal where 22 million e-mails were lost. Can you send me a link or copy of that video attached to that article? The 2+ minute video is attached to http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html but I could not download it. I check on Youtub.com and says it is there, but nothing comes up. Nice articles again. Thank you.

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