House committee subpoenas Clinton emails in Benghazi probe

Boston.com ^ | 03.04.15 | 3:12 AM | JACK GILLUM and TED BRIDIS / Associated Press

[WhiskeyX]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Benghazi, Libya, attacks issued subpoenas Wednesday for the emails of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who used a private account exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — and also used a computer email server now traced back to her family’s New York home.

The subpoenas from the Republican-led Select Committee on Benghazi demanded additional material from Clinton and others related to Libya, spokesman Jamal D. Ware said. The panel also instructed technology companies it did not identify to preserve any relevant documents in their possession.

[bert]

E mails?

I can’t remember
my minds in a blender
it’s Jello, jello, jello

[CyberAnt]

I understand Hillary has requested the State Dept to release all her emails ..?? Well, if so, that’s going to be difficult .. since she does not use the State Dept email program.

So .. what’s there for the State Dept to release ..??

WHAT NEEDS TO BE RELEASED IS ALL THE MSGS ON HER PRIVATE SERVER AT HER HOME. And .. we need to do it fast, before we have another CRASH like the IRS had.

[rfreedom4u]

It would be so nice for the feds to go in with flash bangs and tear gas to serve a warrant for her emails!

Hell, they could lower the deficit by putting it on pay per view!

[The_Victor]

They had better send a SWAT team out to Chappaqua to secure Hillary’s server, like,... yesterday.

[Travis McGee]

If the server was grabbed from her house right now, would all of her emails be on it in some form?

Could she just mass-delete them and make them unrecoverable?

Or would she have to physically destroy it: smash, burn etc?

[Peter W. Kessler]

Hillary’s private server has been vaporized.

There isn’t a trace of it left.

Take that to the bank.

[Travis McGee]

Chappaqua might be her Chappaquidick.

[Joe Brower]

I agree with Peter -- it's already been crushed to powder, no doubt. Which would do the trick. Utter and complete physical destruction always does.

If that is not so, as we are well aware, 'deleting' files usually does no such thing, but instead leaves the data on the disk but simply marks the VTOC as available.

There are utilities that will actually write zeroes to all data sectors, and some of these can do it in a pre-programmed fashion invoked by a specific keystroke. But even those may take time to run, based on the number of sectors that need to be wiped. So a SWAT team busting in the door and immediately pulling the plug on the CPU would potentially leave some data recoverable.

But again, I'm sure this hardware, and its data, have already been reduced to dust.