This is reminiscent of the US attorney firing scandal under Bush/Cheney/Rove. The concern was that they had fired US attorneys who refused to propagate the mass voter fraud myth. In response to a subpoena, the Bush WH claimed to have “lost” 22 million emails. 1/
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1346481586884153344
The Bush/Rove US attorney firing scandal is discussed here. 2/ washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
The DOJ found that Bush's firing of at least one US atty was based on laxness re: voter fraud, but that Rove had impeded the investigation. 3/ 
Discussion of the 22 million “lost” Bush White House emails. 4/ newsweek.com/2016/09/23/geo…
Rove’s IT guru, who was allegedly linked to the 22 M “lost” Bush White House emails, died in a private plane crash soon after he was subpoenaed to testify at trial in a suit alleging that Rove and others had orchestrated electronic ballot rigging in 04. 4/ telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
The “lost” emails had been kept on an email server hosted by Smartech in TN, which had also secretly received and published Ohio’s 2004 election night results, as first reported by Epluribus in 06. 5/ wired.com/2007/04/did-oh…
6/ Article about Smartech’s hosting of the Bush White House emails. newsweek.com/trump-emails-r…
7/ In 2015, Russia hacked some “old” emails kept by Smartech. It did not release most of whatever it got. nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/…
8/ “The controversial [Smartech] system was [also] involved in the loss of some of 22 million emails—many from around the time of the lead-up to and the first months of the Iraq War.” newsweek.com/trump-emails-r…
9/ “Private lawsuits eventually forced the Obama administration to find Bush's lost emails. They have since been turned over the National Archives, but remain under national security shield & have not been made available to the public.” newsweek.com/trump-emails-r…
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