There are washcloths hanging next to the sink, but she has to move the framed photo of Chelsea and the grandkid before she 'wipes' it.
Posted on 08/18/2015 4:35:13 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Oh yes: Sources tell NBC that FBI is optimistic it can recover data from Hillary’s wiped server; Update: Hillary dodges when asked if server was wiped
Who do you think is more likely to cry when Hillary is finally arrested, her or Bill?
Right. Bill.
The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from Hillary Clinton’s private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the process told NBC News on Tuesday…
The FBI “will try to figure what’s there, how it got there and who put it there,” one of the sources said.
A team of intelligence community reviewers also looking at emails from the server have identified 305 documents that have been referred to their agencies for further consultation, State Department lawyers said in a court filing Tuesday intended to update a federal judge on efforts to release the emails.
It’s not just the e-mails they’re looking at potentially. Now that they have the server, they should be able to tell how many different users were accessing it, including unauthorized users. Which is to say, even if it can’t be proved that Hillary herself knowingly transmitted classified information in an insecure manner — not the criminal standard of culpability but the moral standard she’ll claim in doing damage control — the feds might be able to tell if foreign spies were reading her e-mail.
It’ll be fun watching her on the trail trying to sell herself as the experienced adult in the room on national security when the papers are full of stories about the Chinese or Russians reading Top Secret documents right over her shoulder. At a minimum, the feds should be able to glean just how thorough her security protocols were. Did she do everything in her power to impede outside access into the system? The early bets on that are … not in her favor.
Another key question: When, precisely, was the server wiped? PolitiFact addressed that question last month and the closest it came to an answer was sometime in the fall of 2014, after the State Department had asked her for her work-related correspondence and she sent them a batch of e-mails in reply. Is that true, or did she actually wipe it much later, perhaps after Trey Gowdy subpoenaed her in March demanding that she produce all correspondence related to the Benghazi attack?
If the answer is “after” then we have obstruction of justice in the form of destroying records to avoid compliance with a lawful demand. In fact, even if the answer is “before,” you could argue that we have obstruction of justice anyway. Law prof Ronald Rotunda made a compelling case back in March that if Hillary had reason to believe her e-mails might be subpoenaed eventually, then destroying them would make her guilty of anticipatory obstruction of justice.
You shouldn’t be allowed to evade punishment, after all, just because you’re quick off the block in erasing damaging material while the authorities are still drawing up subpoenas and search warrants. If it turns out the server was wiped much later than we thought, when she clearly had reason to believe congressional investigators and even the FBI might have interest in it, she might be cooked.
Exit question: Why didn’t she have the server physically destroyed after she left the State Department so that nothing would be recoverable? For that matter, why didn’t she purge her archives and replace the server periodically, precisely so that she could claim it was a normal business practice if/when the feds came calling? The weirdest thing about this scandal is how haphazard Hillary’s behavior was throughout. She took a huge risk to begin with by putting her correspondence on an insecure private server, knowing that spies would be eager to infiltrate it, but instead of shelling out big bucks for the best security money could buy, she ran the operation out of her basement and then turned the old server over to a small mom-and-pop shop in the midwest. I would have thought the Clintons would hire their own white-hat hackers to defend their system from invasive attacks 24/7 and then run the latest server through an industrial shredder every year or so to make sure any data is good and gone. I don’t get it.
It’s really not hard to understand the arrogance they have or the contempt they feel. You can’t really blame them. I mean if people want to be used and crapped all over it’s pretty hard to have respect for them. And to date, no one has ‘held their feet to the fore’ on anything so obviously people are telling them “Please dump on me and rub my face in it. I enjoy the abuse.”
Another key question: When, precisely, was the server wiped? PolitiFact addressed that question last month and the closest it came to an answer was sometime in the fall of 2014, after the State Department had asked her for her work-related correspondence and she sent them a batch of e-mails in reply. Is that true, or did she actually wipe it much later, perhaps after Trey Gowdy subpoenaed her in March demanding that she produce all correspondence related to the Benghazi attack?
If the answer is “after” then we have obstruction of justice in the form of destroying records to avoid compliance with a lawful demand. In fact, even if the answer is “before,” you could argue that we have obstruction of justice anyway. Law prof Ronald Rotunda made a compelling case back in March that if Hillary had reason to believe her e-mails might be subpoenaed eventually, then destroying them would make her guilty of anticipatory obstruction of justice.
I heard a story yesterday that Platte River Networks had a full back-up, and the FBI already has that.
Huma and Cheryl might be willing to fall on their swords for Cankles, but some tech geek in CO sure isn’t gonna do it.
In mass, the media hasn’t turned against her, and may not, but if they do, it will be really ugly.
I just look foreword to the day that Hillary is perp walked into the Courthouse for her arraignment on hundreds of counts of national security violations.
All I can say is She’d better be nice to Obama or she won’t get a Presidential Pardon.
She’s to old to take life in Prison.
I heard the server was installed in a bathroom, which gives der Hildebeast and out: She told the housekeeper to make sure the bathroom was well scrubbed.
I heard the server was installed in a bathroom,
How Charmin’.
Destroying electronic records to avoid producing them as evidence is called spoilation. It will really piss off a judge and it is not likely to succeed as there is never just one copy of an email. As an IT Director, I’ve seen my fair share of these requests. If you run a clean business, electronic records are typically exculpatory.
The server was installed in a bathroom.
So they question now is: Will she go down kicking, screaming, crying, biting and spitting...or will she just kill herself?
It will never happen. Instead, we will get a non stop media barrage about the need for forgiveness and how the nation needs to heal.
Mark my words. She will never serve a microsecond. Barry will have no choice but to pardon her because if he doesn’t, the Clintons will burn him and the entire planet to the core before she takes any real blame, much less serves time. Every major govt in the world is up to their ass in Clinton cash. You would have all hell break loose. Thats WHY she corrupted the entire system and why they all went along for the ride.
“Too big to fail”
"Republicans have a long bench. DEmocrat barely a stool."
Uncle Joe Biden: His mental frailty is becoming more apparent. I wouldn't be surprised if he falls off the stage and hurts himself.
John Kerry: The Iran "agreement" is his Achilles heel. The deeper we dig into it, the worse it becomes. He is too feeble to ride a bike without breaking a leg.
Al Gore: A divorcee who thinks his Man Made Global Warming money making scheme is a hit for Americans. It will be a hit on America's pocketbook while Gore lines his pockets.
Because she knows she is untouchable. She has been collecting stuff on people probably since she worked Watergate to hold over people to get them to dance with her. She has so many different factions protecting her. She has got powerful stuff on that server, many would be exposed and they aren’t going to let that happen. She would be stupid not to have several backups as valuable as her files are. Its a safe bet there are probably multiple backups. I have three backups and I am just a Cat in Pajamas. This is going nowhere. She is like Obama, they could eat a live human or lion baby on the White House lawn on TV and this country full of idiots would say the baby had it coming, just give us our free stuff. Also it seems coincidental that there are huge distraction stories like this piece of slime Jared the pedo and Rosies’s daughter missing. Hell, she has been missing since August 11th and they have been dogging that pedo for months. And today these two stories need to dominate the news over IRAN and Hillary’s email server? Right! Poor Trump, it even knocked him out of headlines. It’s red meat for the circus goers because they go to the Coliseum to see death, destruction and chaos, the more perverse and bloodier the better and Hillary is passing out the free bread. Bread and circuses baby because we are ROME.
I wonder how many numerous crimes will be revealed when the investigation is complete. And, you know, der Hildebeast is hated by Obama. He just does not want this to look like he is behind it. With the FBI doing their careful work, he is off the hook. The FBI should be quite independent of the administration’s control.
Yup!
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