Latest Jeb Ad Repeats Lie – “I released all my emails”

REPORTER: Two top secret emails have been found in Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Politifact: “None of these emails were marked ‘classified.’” “What’s more, none of these emails were marked ‘classified.’ Without a label, it’s nearly impossible to prove whether Clinton or someone who emailed her passed along classified information, whether willfully or negligently. We don’t know if the sender knew the information was classified, where they got their information from, or who declared the information classified in the first place.” [Politifact, 7/29/15]

Jeb Bush housed emails containing “sensitive security issues” on his private server. “An unknown number of the e-mails housed on Bush’s server were redacted or withheld from public release because they contained sensitive security issues, Bush representatives have said. Communications director Tim Miller said general policy was for Bush to discuss sensitive National Guard issues in person with only occasional briefings by e-mail that ‘wouldn’t contain information that should not be in the public domain.’” [Washington Post, 3/14/15]

RON FOURNIER: A secret server that she kept in her basement had what 1, 2 maybe more private accounts.

Hillary Clinton used one email account during her tenure at State. “Why did the Select Committee announce that she used multiple email addresses during her tenure? In fairness to the Committee, this was an honest misunderstanding. Clinton used one email account during her tenure at State (with the exception of her initial weeks in office while transitioning from an email account she had previously used). In March 2013, a month after she left the Department, Gawker published the email address she used while Secretary, and so she had to change the address on her account. At the time the printed copies were provided to the Department in 2014, because it was the same account, the new email address established after she left office appeared on the printed copies as the sender, and not the address she used as Secretary. In fact, this address on the account did not exist until March 2013. This led to understandable confusion that was cleared up directly with the Committee after its press conference.” [The Facts About Hillary Clinton’s Emails, The Briefing, accessed 7/14/15]

FactCheck.org debunked this RNC talking point. “The Republican National Committee thinks it has the smoking gun that proves Hillary Clinton used ‘multiple secret email addresses’ as secretary of state. It doesn’t. The RNC made its claim in a May 18 blog post hours after the New York Times published copies of emails that Clinton had sent and received when she was secretary. The emails displayed two accounts:[email protected] @clintonemail.com. That seemed to clearly contradict Clinton’s claim that she used [email protected] in office, which was from January 2009 to February 2013. The Republican National Committee thinks it has the smoking gun that proves Hillary Clinton used ‘multiple secret email addresses’ as secretary of state. It doesn’t.” [FactCheck.org, 5/22/15]

Tests run by IT staffers at FactCheck.org proved Hillary Clinton’s explanation was correct. “The Clinton explanation passed two tests — including one conducted for us by Ray Tomlinson, the man who is widely credited with inventing email. Tomlinson ran an optical character recognition on the PDF of the emails that the Times posted to its website, and what he found is consistent with the Clinton campaign’s explanation for what happened. We at FactCheck.org also tested Clinton’s explanation. Our IT staff [email protected] renamed [email protected] An email sent by [email protected]  printed out as if it had come from [email protected] we changed the name of the email account. Tom Conte, a professor at the Schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the IEEE Computer Society, said Clinton’s explanation is ‘technically possible’ and that our test ‘proves it.’” [FactCheck.org, 5/22/15]

Jeb Bush owns the server that houses his private e-mail account. “Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush owns the server that runs [email protected] , the personal email account he used as governor to conduct official, political and personal business. Asked who controls the server that operates that email address, Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell responded: ‘He owns it.’” [MSNBC, 3/4/15]

REPORTER: The controversy surrounding her secret email server is not slowing down.

REPORTER: It’s just one more element out there they’re always hiding something, the Clintons what are the…there’s always a trap door.

Public Policy Polling: “There’s not much evidence from anything in this poll that she’s facing any real backlash over the controversy related to her e-mails.” “Clinton is strong against the entire Republican field in Wisconsin. There’s not much evidence from anything in this poll that she’s facing any real backlash over the controversy related to her e-mails.” [Public Policy Polling, 3/10/15]

NPR: “It doesn’t look like it has had a major impact on Clinton’s standing.” “All of this is to say that this far out from an election, it’s important to take a step back and take in all the data. Unquestionably, this email story is far from finished, but at this point, it doesn’t look like it has had a major impact on Clinton’s standing.” [NPR, 3/30/15]

[ON-SCREEN TEXT: Secret vs. Transparent, Hillary vs. Jeb]

WOLF BLITZER: She’s got problems right now on this issue of honesty and trustworthiness.

REPORTER: She clearly does not have a great explanation for why she did these servers and convenience as an explanation is not particularly good one.

Jeb Bush “hand-selected” the e-mails he turned over to the state archives from his private e-mail server. “The former governor conducted all his communication on his [email protected] and turned over the hand-selected batch to the state archives when he left office. Absent from the stash are emails the governor deemed not relevant to the public record: those relating to politics, fundraising and personal matters while he was governor.” [Tampa Bay Times, 1/3/15]

Jeb Bush took “seven years after leaving office to comply fully” with a Florida statute requiring him to turn over his e-mails to the state. “It took Mr. Bush seven years after leaving office to comply fully with a Florida public records statute requiring him to turn over emails he sent and received as governor, according to records released Friday. Mr. Bush delivered the latest batch of 25,000 emails in May 2014, seven and a half years after leaving the Statehouse and just as he started to contemplate a potential run for the White House, according to a newly disclosed letter written by his lawyer. A Florida statute governing the preservation of public records requires elected officials, including the governor, to turn over records pertaining to official business ‘at the expiration of his or her term of office.’” [New York Times, 3/14/15]

Jeb Bush’s private e-mail server housed accounts for “a number of his official aides…to conduct both official and political business — raising questions about how transparent that email dump ultimately was.”” “But a CNN review of those emails turned up evidence a number of his official aides and family members also had email addresses housed at Jeb.org — and used them to conduct both official and political business — raising questions about how transparent that email dump ultimately was.” [CNN, 3/5/15]

REPORTER: Jeb Bush scored a nice little victory against Clinton and this because he released so many of the e-mails that he wrote when he was governor – some of them are actually pretty revealing of what was happening in his head.

Jeb Bush said he received 550,000 e-mails on his private account during his eight years as governor. “Jeb Bush learned plenty during his eight years as Florida governor, he told a crowd at a United Christian Giving fundraiser in Fort Myers on Thursday. The president’s little brother and former president’s son took few partisan shots, mostly entertaining the crowd with stories from ‘Mount Tallahassee.’ […] Bush said he got 550,000 e-mails on his private account and another 2.5 million on his public account during his eight years as governor. That helped him stay in touch with the people of the state even though the capital is far removed geographically from most of the population.” [Naples Daily News, 7/12/07]

Jeb Bush said he would release just 250,000 emails from his two terms in office. “Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Sunday he will release 250,000 emails from his two terms in office and write an eBook outlining his governing philosophy. The moves have set the political sphere atwitter with speculation he’s closer than ever to deciding to run for president in 2016. In what appears to be a move of classic political procedure — getting ahead of the opposition — Bush told WPLG-TV that his intention is to promote transparency.” [CNN, 12/31/14]

JEB BUSH: My email address, write it down and send me your thoughts, [email protected] . By the way, I just gave out my email address. It’s exactly what I did when I was governor of the state of Florida.

Jeb Bush was reachable from at least one other private e-mail account that he claimed to be unaware of, despite receiving more than 400 messages through that account. “When Bush released thousands of emails from his tenure as Florida’s governor as part of his preparations to run for president next year, he did so from the email account he shared openly,[email protected] Those emails also include references to another email address, [email protected] . Bush said through a spokeswoman that he was unaware of the account, although records showed that people wrote to him there more than 400 times between 1999 and 2004. The same records show no replies from Bush coming from that address. Instead, when Bush responded, he did so from his more well-known email address.” [Associated Press, 3/24/15]

JEB BUSH: I released all my emails; I’m writing an E Book about my emails. I think we need a lot more transparency in politics today.

REPORTER: He gave out his email address [email protected] , which he said he did as governor of Florida and The Des Moines Register reporters, who are here, seem to think that this is the first time that any candidate has stood up there and given out their personal email.

Jeb Bush released some of his private emails from the state archive, but the files were “not complete.” “The files released from the state archive resulted in a stream of positive national press for the former governor — ‘Jeb Bush’s emails depict a hands-on governor,’ the Washington Post proclaimed. ‘Jeb answered immigrant pleas,’ the Hill wrote. Polls now show that if Bush announces, he will be considered the front-runner. The Bush files, though enormous, are not complete, however.” [Tampa Bay Times, 1/3/15]

REPORTER: He came out and said: Look, I’m being transparent, here’s all my emails, here’s a book of my emails.

REPORTER: Saying this weekend that he’s going to release an E Book and 250,000 emails from his time in office to promote transparency.

Jeb Bush said he received 550,000 e-mails on his private account during his eight years as governor. “Jeb Bush learned plenty during his eight years as Florida governor, he told a crowd at a United Christian Giving fundraiser in Fort Myers on Thursday. The president’s little brother and former president’s son took few partisan shots, mostly entertaining the crowd with stories from ‘Mount Tallahassee.’ […] Bush said he got 550,000 e-mails on his private account and another 2.5 million on his public account during his eight years as governor. That helped him stay in touch with the people of the state even though the capital is far removed geographically from most of the population.” [Naples Daily News, 7/12/07]

Jeb Bush said he would release just 250,000 emails from his two terms in office. “Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Sunday he will release 250,000 emails from his two terms in office and write an eBook outlining his governing philosophy. The moves have set the political sphere atwitter with speculation he’s closer than ever to deciding to run for president in 2016. In what appears to be a move of classic political procedure — getting ahead of the opposition — Bush told WPLG-TV that his intention is to promote transparency.” [CNN, 12/31/14]

REPORTER: He set a standard for transparency which Hillary Clinton better — better pay attention to.

White House spokesman: Hillary Clinton’s request for her emails to be made public “certainly would go above and beyond the requirements of the Federal Records Act.” “I haven’t, however, been in the situation where I’ve been asked about Secretary Clinton’s specific request that the State Department take the necessary steps to make those emails public.   That certainly would go above and beyond the requirements of the Federal Records Act, obviously, and I do understand that the State Department has already started working to review those records to comply with that request.” [Josh Earnest, White House press briefing, 3/6/15]

Ex-State Department officials said Clinton was careful to utilize the email address in a manner that went above and beyond regulatory requirements. “Shortly after the Time story was published, Business Insider reached out to Clinton’s spokespeople. They put us in touch with two former State Department officials who argued Clinton was careful to utilize the address in a manner that went above and beyond regulatory requirements and ensured her communications were preserved. The former officials, who requested anonymity in order to freely discuss Clinton’s emails and State Department policy echoed the notion the former secretary’s personalized email address was not kept secret. They said she used it to communicate with over 100 department staffers, other officials, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.” [Business Insider, 3/3/15]

Jeb Bush “hand-selected” the e-mails he turned over to the state archives from his private e-mail server. “The former governor conducted all his communication on his [email protected] and turned over the hand-selected batch to the state archives when he left office. Absent from the stash are emails the governor deemed not relevant to the public record: those relating to politics, fundraising and personal matters while he was governor.” [Tampa Bay Times, 1/3/15]

Jeb Bush took “seven years after leaving office to comply fully” with a Florida statute requiring him to turn over his e-mails to the state. “It took Mr. Bush seven years after leaving office to comply fully with a Florida public records statute requiring him to turn over emails he sent and received as governor, according to records released Friday. Mr. Bush delivered the latest batch of 25,000 emails in May 2014, seven and a half years after leaving the Statehouse and just as he started to contemplate a potential run for the White House, according to a newly disclosed letter written by his lawyer. A Florida statute governing the preservation of public records requires elected officials, including the governor, to turn over records pertaining to official business ‘at the expiration of his or her term of office.’” [New York Times, 3/14/15]

Jeb Bush’s private e-mail server housed accounts for “a number of his official aides…to conduct both official and political business — raising questions about how transparent that email dump ultimately was.”” “But a CNN review of those emails turned up evidence a number of his official aides and family members also had email addresses housed at Jeb.org — and used them to conduct both official and political business — raising questions about how transparent that email dump ultimately was.” [CNN, 3/5/15]