So hang on, when are we investigating Dubya's emails?
Back in 2007, actually
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
Politifact outlines the differences between the Bush email scandal and the Clinton email scandal as follows:
First of all, there’s the difference in who’s at the receiving end of the criticisms. In 2007, it was a group of higher-up White House staffers and advisers (notably Rove) who occasionally used private email accounts for official business. As far as we can tell, though, Bush himself was not suspected as being part of this group. Today, the target is a former secretary of state, who only used private email when conducting official government business.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...ia-reaction-george-w-bushs-email-controversy/
Snopes elaborates further:
In plain terms, some 22 million e-mails had been deleted, though the White House described them as "lost" or "missing" — another apparent point of comparison between the Bush and Clinton e-mail scandals. However, at least some of the 22 million "lost" Bush administration e-mails (unlike Clinton's 30,000) were eventually "found."
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As in Clinton's case, the Bush administration e-mails were sought as evidence in government investigations. No charges were filed and no criminal wrongdoing was found in regard to Clinton's handling of e-mails. Bush aides were found in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas in the U.S. attorney firings investigation, but no punishment was handed down.
http://www.snopes.com/g-w-bush-lost-22-million-e-mails/
All good points, but I think it misses one major important difference: as far as I am aware, no one in the Bush administration was accused of having sent or received classified information over the RNC server.
Still, the Bush episode was problematic. In fact, one person with whom I find agreement on this is...Hilary Clinton, actually.
https://youtu.be/ak4dpqtBiSE
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