Political double standards remain

Benghazi. Familiar?

How many consulates, embassies and embassy personnel were attacked when Bush was president? 39. How many killed? 87. Congressional investigations? Zero.

What a double standard. Bengazi: terrible tragedy; investigated; she was cleared, even by the FBI.

As for her emails and a private server, yes she did. Correspondence was turned over to the State Department. Some deletion was legal but a bad choice. Now recall Colin Powell admitting he used a system similar to Clinton’s, and in 2007 Karl Rove deleted 22 million emails from a private server in the Bush White House, about which the media said little and Congressional Republicans said nothing. Rove sent official correspondence that was required by law to be preserved and sent official emails through RNC servers. Rove admitted deleting 5 million emails; technicians found it was actually 22 million.

Why deleted? Cheney, Rove & Libby outed Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative, for partisan reasons, thus risking her life and those of all with whom she had contact in the field, thus committing legal treason. Any GOP congressional hearings like those for Hillary? No. Any prosecution or “LOCK THEM UP” chants like in Cincinnati? No. Such hypocrisy.

Crooked is she, Donald? Let’s see your tax returns. Corporations are a “person” when they can have a colonoscopy like people; target Hillary when the same standards apply to the GOP.

PS: FOX cut to an anti-Hillary commercial when Khizr Khan told the story of his American Muslim son’s heroic war death? Biased media?

This story was originally published August 10, 2016 at 2:09 PM with the headline "Political double standards remain."