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?
(Score: 1) by beernutz on Monday March 30 2015, @03:33PM
I nominate Elizabeth Warren. We need about 100 more of her.
(Score: 2) by TLA on Monday March 30 2015, @04:52PM
somebody commented once that they could have done with five more of me. I took that as such a grievous insult, I actually walked out of a job because of it. Frankly, I could have done with five assistants to deal with the drudge work while I dealt with the important stuff like analysis. You don't need five geniuses, what you need is five robots to deal with the repetitive boring shit and let the genius shine.
Excuse me, I think I need to reboot my horse. - NCommander
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 30 2015, @09:14PM
You are a rare animal, a person with integrity. Might I suggest the Freemasons? They put integrity above all else.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @05:36PM