Another instance where it made no sense. They turned over the paper records and electronically deleted the files. They got to decide what to keep and what to delete (without proper security clearances) If this is not against the law, it should be. They incorrectly stored the deleted classified files on a USB (laws broken the first week, laws broken not handing over emails when exiting State).
And the fact that it slowed down the process by months is mind boggling (I know I read that it did), but am IT. Optical Recognition Technology and proper scripting (text conversion program) could have made a searchable database in a week.
It’s even worse—they allowed her bevy of lawyers to decide which were “private” and which “public”. This is yet another way to stonewall, and throw another level of insulation between the crook and the jail. For, questioning her lawyers will raise bogus attorney-client privilege claims and so forth. They are accomplished liars, accomplished crooks and learned the first time around how to block investigations.
Another thing has surfaced—in one of the recent depositions in the JW case, Mills testified that (paraphrasing) “Hllary wanted to do it like she’s done it in the Senate, using private email rather than a government email address.”
So, the state dept. email situation is just one part of this. No one has yet, to my knowledge, investigated how she handled her Senate emails. I do not know whether the had a private server there or not, but I would be my right arm she never turned over anything to archivists upon departing the senate. I imagine those all went “bye bye”.