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posted by martyb on Monday March 30 2015, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the of-course-there-are-no-backups dept.

Anyone who follows American politics will have heard of Hillary Clinton's email server. Rather than using an official State Department address, she chose to use a private server for her official email. Federal law requires all official email to be archived on government servers. Armchair lawyers have pointed out that it doesn't require the use of government servers to send and receive the email, but the archival requirement is clear. This requirement was clearly violated in this case: in response to a subpoena, Hillary Clinton's private staff extracted emails from her private server and turned them over to the government. The contents of the server itself were never made available to the government, and now she has had the server erased:

Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.

“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.

As Popehat tweeted:

@Popehat
I ask you, who among us hasn't wiped a server clean after its contents were requested by subpoena?

I naively wonder why she isn't in jail, but that's just me. Comments and views from those interested in American politics?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @01:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @01:47PM (#164224)

    I can think of only one Democratic female that would come close to Hillary's qualifications, name recognition, and electability: Elizabeth Warren. Contrast Hillary Clinton with the right's female stars, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman. Clinton is orders of magnitude more qualified.

    Deleting the emails may be part of Hillary's big evil plan. She brings Benghazi back to the forefront and Republicans talk about it 7 x 24 and can't focus on anything else. The election becomes the prosecution of Benghazi and repeal Obamacare versus equality, environment, economy, etc. Republicans lose.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @06:10PM (#164396)

    Contrast Hillary Clinton with the right's female stars, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman. Clinton is orders of magnitude more qualified.

    Being more qualified than batshit crazy doesn't mean much.