National Journal’s Ron Fournier, fwiw, is not buying any of the hackery that we told you about this morning from Paul Begala and his comparison of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server that handled classified material and Jeb Bush while he was governor of Florida:
@PaulBegala A fact u can't spin, my friend: If her activities became SOP, there would be no FOI, legislative oversight or historical memory
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala Fact. Think it out, Paul. If public servants all had private servers, there would be no public documents, no public memory. 1/
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala Did she violate regs? Well, yes — clearly one that took affect a few months into her term. That's a fact.
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala Did she or her aides violate law? We don't know. But it's a fair question b/c classified info doesn't belong on private server
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala Oh, and surely you know that people are convicted for mishandled UNMARKED classified Info. Can you retire that taking point?
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala why didn't you publicly demand that she give the server to IG in March, with ALL emails intact?
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala Re Jeb: 1) He wasn't Sec/State 2) Didn't violate fed regs 3) has been relatively transparent and …
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
@PaulBegala finally and most importantly: Why is it good enough to be as bad as the GOP? Be better.
This is why America hates us in DC.
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 1, 2015
Well, one of the reasons.
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