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FBI Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server
The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation. ... A review by Clinton and her aides determined that about half of the 60,000 e-mails she exchanged during her four-year tenure as secretary of state were of a personal nature, the presidential candidate has said. ...
In 2013, the Clintons turned the private server over to a Colorado-based technology company to manage. The firm, Platte River Networks, installed the device in a New Jersey data center and managed and maintained it.
Andy Boian, a spokesman for the Platte River, said the FBI last month asked the company to hand over the server. Platte River asked the Clintons what it should do, and within 24 hours a representative for the Clintons told the company to provide the device to agents, Boian said.
There has been some question as to whether Clinton deleted her messages or took the more thorough and technical step of "wiping" the server. Boian said Tuesday that Platte River had "no knowledge of it being wiped."
Wow. What are the odds she just deleted the emails rather than doing a real wipe? It's obvious that she wanted personal total control over her emails -- that is the whole point of personal server -- and if she failed to get competent advice on how to actually wipe a machine, it demonstrates her own lack of competence in selecting people who are actual experts to help her do the things she wants. Doing a multi-pass overwrite with random data isn't exactly esoteric knowledge -- that's pretty basic stuff. There is of course the brute force method as well. Surely she remembers the Air Force personnel smashing computer equipment when they had to land in China after a midair collision. Or the destruction of The Guardian's Snowden hard drives.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by snick on Thursday September 24 2015, @01:02PM
So, if she had done a secure wipe, That would be seen as a smoking gun; making it clear that she was hiding something.
The fact that she did a simple delete on the other hand, is a smoking gun, and makes it clear that she is technically incompetent.
If you are determined to hate on her, I guess today, (being a day ending in "-day") will give you an excuse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @01:40PM
She should have hired the IRS to manage her email server hard drives.
(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday September 24 2015, @02:09PM
Ah. I thought you were going to say that the simply deleted files are cover for the few securely deleted files...
(Score: 2) by snick on Thursday September 24 2015, @02:13PM
... the fact that the simply deleted files have completely overwritten all trace of the securely deleted files is clearly PROOF that she engaged in this practice.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday September 24 2015, @03:21PM
I hate her for being a warmongering neocon wallstreet whore. Anything that damages her fills me with glee.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Thursday September 24 2015, @08:53PM
i feel the same way, but its not only meaningless and but far worse for us if constitution-shredding precedents are set in the process of smearing or destroying her. "its ok to ignore her rights, the constitution, and the law because she's evil"? thats the exact mindset every DEA and police officer have. how's that working out for us?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday September 24 2015, @09:36PM
HRC willingly turned over her server -- there's no violation here. Secondly, she never had a privacy interest in her employer's emails -- those aren't hers. If she asserts such a privacy interest because she has in effect stolen them from SOS office and squirreled them away, then she should come right out and make that assertion. However, there is not really an issue here because she voluntarily turned over the server.
Besides all that, HRC would be terrible for the Constitution -- just look at Libya and the way the Obama administration destroyed the War Powers Act. Hillary played her part in that. I can't recall if she was directly involved in the misdirection about the movie as cause for embassy attack -- but she was part of the admin that did (very cynical attempt at harnessing bigotry against muslims BTW). She was all on board for Iraq, voted for the NSA bullshit essentially, wall street shill. Seriously, if you care about the constitution, you'd do everything in your power to see her lose. But even then, she willingly turned over the server, so no issue.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tathra on Thursday September 24 2015, @11:38PM
the ends do not justify the means. i care enough about the constitution that i'll do everything in my power to keep it from being further eroded and shredded, even if that means a few bad guys slip through the cracks due to technicalities. the constitution is meaningless if you think shredding it and throwing it away is a valid method of "protecting" it; i mean, sure, once everyone's constitutional rights are "temporarily" suspended they can't be undermined anymore, but at the same time you've ensured the rights have ceased to exist.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Thursday September 24 2015, @05:02PM
Or, Hillary did a secure wipe, and the NSA handed over their copy, but Hillary can't admit she intentionally violated the law and the NSA can't admit it was spying on her. So therefore, the files were "recovered from the server". Or from backup tapes, but that's boring.
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