Jeb Bush Takes A Swipe At Hillary Clinton Over Private Emails

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during a question and answer session at the Mountain Shadows Community Center in Las Vegas Monday, March 2, 2015. Bush distanced himself from his family on Monday as he courted sen... Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during a question and answer session at the Mountain Shadows Community Center in Las Vegas Monday, March 2, 2015. Bush distanced himself from his family on Monday as he courted senior citizens in Nevada, the first stop in a national tour aimed at key states on the presidential primary calendar. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, Steve Marcus) MORE LESS
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) took a shot at Hillary Clinton early Tuesday over a report that she exclusively used her personal email account to conduct business at the State Department.

The potential 2016 Republican presidential contender took to Twitter to challenge Clinton to release her official correspondence and trumpet his own transparency efforts:

Bush set up a website last month to release about 275,000 personal emails from his time as governor as he ramped up his likely presidential campaign.

But Bush’s team quickly scrubbed many of those emails after an independent audit of the documents found the names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of more than 12,000 people were exposed.

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  1. Coming from a fool who released e-mails containing people’s Social Security numbers…

  2. yes, jeb, you are so transparent so lets see all your emails as governor and emails regarding your illicit business dealings. spare me your moralizing

  3. On the one hand, Jeb’s got a point. WTF is Clinton doing using personal e-mail as Secretary of State? The encryption is lousy, and someone could just stumble along her account in a massive hack. It’s not only poor transparency, but really really dangerous.

    That said, why are there Social Security numbers in Jeb’s e-mails? I’ve been an HR manager and never sent a SS# over a corporate account, much less over a personal account. And why would a Governor have anyone’s SS# in the first place? Doesn’t he have people for that?

    Sounds to me like they’re both idiots about this.

  4. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    I think there’s a bit of a difference between the two. Are you doing … because Hillary … already?

  5. Hillary Clinton. Still making unforced errors.

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