See also the &quot;Bush White House email controversy&quot;: [1]<p><i>&gt; The &quot;gwb43.com&quot; domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation.</i><p><i>&gt; Waxman sent a formal warning to the RNC, advising them to retain copies of all emails sent by White House employees. According to Waxman, &quot;in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications.&quot;</i><p><i>&gt;The Republican National Committee claims to have erased the emails, supposedly making them unavailable for Congressional investigators</i><p>It is hopeless to expect voluntary transparency by the government, there is no incentive to<p>1) comply with the rules when transparency is clearly detrimental to your backroom deals or<p>2) to punish the very people that appointed you to your high positioned job or<p>3) to punish the opponents in the other party when they fail to comply while, after 4 years, the positions can be reversed and you may be in the crosshairs in a similar investigation.<p>Nothing was done when Bush did it, nothing will be done now that is Hillary doing it and don&#x27;t expect anything different regardless of what party manage to snag the congress and White House.<p>If regulatory capture is a significant problem in the private sector imagine inside the government itself. It is hopeless.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bush_White_House_email_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bush_White_House_email_controv...</a>