Clinton Server Was Wiped Before Federal Bureau of Investigation Handover

“Clearly, she has handled it poorly from the first day”.

“Isn’t leadership about taking responsibility?” “I have no idea”, she said. What I did was legally permitted.

Clinton said last week that she directed her staff to turn her old email server over to the Department of Justice, and last Wednesday, the FBI picked up the server from a third party data center in New Jersey where the server had been stored.

Neither email was marked classified at the time they were sent, and their discovery reopened a question about whether the government is too quick to designate material as secret.

Removing personal emails before turning over official emails appears to be pretty standard practice.

“Well, my personal e-mails are my personal business, right?”

Information about the security of Clinton’s computer system, who had access to it and whether outsiders tried to crack its contents is in the purview of a forensic examination. Clinton seems not to grasp that simply because she is not being charged with anything doesn’t mean that this whole set-up doesn’t look bad and raise doubts about her among voters. She omitted the fact that over 300 of the emails analyzed to date may have been classified, adding that even if she had used a government account and released her emails for all to see, that “we would have the same arguments”.

That information was made public Monday in a filing with Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington as government attorneys explained why the screeners have fallen behind the schedule he set for making those messages public under a freedom of information request.

There is no evidence that I know of to suggest that Clinton used a private server for any nefarious objective. It’s possible that the Chinese branch of the Clinton family is much larger than they previously knew.

So the security of Mrs. Clinton’s communications as secretary of state is of major concern.

According to NPR, agents will begin questioning close associates of Clinton at the State Department and beyond. That is a part of the ordinary process.

“We wouldn’t be here today if the employee had followed government policy”, said District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, referring to the former secretary of state. So that is what they are sorting out and that is what happens a lot of the times.

However, the Clinton interpretation doesn’t account for the fact that the Abedin email did contain particularly sensitive information at the time it was sent. They should have. And the other saying no, they shouldn’t. I’m not holding my breath at the thought of seeing Clinton in any orange but this orange. If it had been a government account and I said release it, we’d be having the same arguments.

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Reporter: “You said you were in charge of it. Did you wipe the server?”