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The company responsible for maintaining Hillary Clinton’s private email server stated that it has no reason to believe it has been “wiped.”
There is a difference between “wiping” and deleting emails from a server according to Platte River Networks.
Company spokesman Andy Boian stated: “Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped. All the information we have is that the server wasn’t wiped.”
For a server to successfully be wiped, the date must not only be deleted, it must be written over with “gibberish,” possibly several times, the Washington Post reports.
That process has not happened with Clinton’s server according to Platte River, which means in all likelihood all of the former secretary of state’s emails will be recovered.
As reported by Western Journalism, the FBI already indicated that it would be able to retrieve some or all of the data.
Clinton turned over 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department in December, in response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. By court order, those emails are being reviewed by the department and released to the public in batches of several thousand at a time.
Judicial Watch reported on Monday that it has discovered a five-month gap in the emails that the State Department released.
The gap in emails received by Clinton run from Jan. 21, 2009, when she became secretary of state, to March 17, 2009. The gaps in emails sent by Clinton from from Jan. 21, 2009, to April 12, 2009, and from Dec. 30, 2012, to Feb. 1, 2013.
According to Judicial Watch, these revelations cast doubt on her written affidavit to the court last month, under penalty of perjury, which stated: “I have directed that all of my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State.”
As reported by Western Journalism, the State Department confirmed in June that Clinton did not tell the truth regarding turning over all her work-related emails to the agency. This revelation came following Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal’s testimony for the Select Committee on Benghazi in June, prior to which he turned over numerous emails between himself and the secretary, some of which the State Department had not received.
Further, Clinton told MCNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last week that: “the facts I have put forth [regarding her email server], have remained the same,” which is untrue.
After the scandal broke in March, Clinton said: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.” The presidential candidate reiterated: “I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
After the State Department began to find emails with classified information in them (currently numbering well over one hundred), Clinton changed her tune stating she had not sent or received any emails that were marked classified at the time.
You can watch Hillary Clinton’s evolving answers regarding the use of her private emails server in the video above.
h/t: IJReview
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