Hillary Clinton has been embroiled in quite the battle about her use of a private email server to conduct exclusive State Department business. Now, it seems as though Jeb Bush may be facing the same kind of scrutiny over his use of a personal email.
The Washington Post reported that during his tenure as governor of Florida, Jeb Bush used his own private email server to discuss topics, such as military actions and judicial appointments:
“His e-mail server was housed at the governor’s office in Tallahassee during his two terms; he took it with him when he left office in 2007.
He later turned over about 280,000 e-mails for state archives under the requirements of Florida records laws, or about half of the total e-mails on the server.”
Topics covered in Bush’s emails ranged from discussions about utilization of the Florida Air National Guard a few days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, to the possible deployment of troops to the Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida.
When asked about the use of a private server, Bush aides argued that no classified information was sent over the private email server. Reuters reports that most of the topics discussed were of public knowledge:
“‘There is no private, sensitive security information in the emails the Post is writing about and they don’t cite any examples that weren’t already public at the time,’ a Bush aide said told Reuters.
‘The information was non-classified and publicly reported. It was all subject to sunshine laws that were abided by.'”
The topic of Jeb Bush’s emails have drawn particular scrutiny in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s State Department controversy. However, Bush denied the perceived similarity:
“We complied with the law and we have now made my emails, long before Mrs. Clinton’s issues came up, we made them public for you to see,” he said. “So it’s totally different.”
Only time will tell what affect this may have on Jeb Bush’s chances in 2016.
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