In yet another chapter in the saga of the Clinton email scandal, the use of “BleachBit” is sure to add fuel to the ever increasing fire.
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The US State Department released another batch of 14,900 emails from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of State, causing some observers to conclude that the Clinton Foundation donors received extra government “access” although not necessarily favors.
“It is astonishing that Hillary Clinton tried to delete and hide Benghazi emails and documents”, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the release regarding the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division.
Judicial Watch also said the emails revealed how donors to the Clinton family’s charitable foundation seeked access to her even while she was Secretary of State. The second disc is labeled as emails containing classified information.
The FBI discovered the roughly 14,900 emails by scouring Clinton’s server and the computer archives of government officials with whom she corresponded.
Clinton had released 30,000 in 2014 but the Federal Bureau of Investigation has recovered several thousand more work-related emails.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in May 2015 after disclosures that Clinton had exclusively used a personal email server while secretary of state. Opponents accuse her of a lack of judgement and credibility.
“Companies providing services to Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private email account and server are not above the law”, said Smith. “Once again this right-wing organization that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s is distorting facts to make utterly false attacks”, said Josh Schwerin, a Clinton campaign spokesman.
Among those discrepancies, they said Clinton testified there was “nothing marked classified” on her emails, yet Comey said a “very small number” of emails had markings indicating classified information. Gowdy claims that this action is further evidence that Clinton did indeed have information to hide on her private server during her tenure as Secretary of State. Because Clinton added several third parties into the equation, hackers could have accessed sensitive information without directly hacking U.S. government servers, but instead by focusing on the third parties involved.
Clinton has successful brushed off ridicule after more than 30,000 emails were published over the course of previous year. “The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did”, Powell told People on Saturday.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said, “As we have always said, Hillary Clinton provided the State Department with all the work-related emails she had in her possession in 2014”.
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The Times said its report was based on a leak by Congress of notes from a classified interview. “The information being sought is a crucial step in bringing greater transparency to Secretary Clinton’s “extreme careless” – I would call it dangerously reckless and grossly negligent – email practices”.
