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Sauce for the goose, but not for the gander. Joe Conason explains:
Which, under present circumstances, might be justified—she happens to be running for president—except for one glaring problem. Very few in the press corps apply the same standards to any Republican politician.
Nobody will ever get to see the thousands of messages erased from the private email account used by former Secretary of State Colin Powell when he held that high office. He got rid of them and got away with it (as most likely did former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who implausibly claimed not to have used email, when the State Department asked for hers).
It goes on. Read it.
I don’t have to be a Clinton fan to say that Conason is quite correct on this one. When she is the topic, the press turns into some weird political Humbert Humbert gripped by a forbidden compulsion.
Via Progressive Populist.
