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Report: FBI Recovers Emails Hillary Clinton Claimed She Deleted From Server

Sep 23, 2015 Rachel Blevins Leave a comment

After Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed she deleted 32,000 out of the approximately 60,000 emails she sent and received on her private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State, reports suggest that investigators have succeeded in recovering a number of the emails.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that “according to a person familiar with the investigation,” investigators at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have “recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state.”

The FBI began looking into Clinton’s email practices after it was revealed that the private email server she used for government business contained classified information.

While Clinton has claimed that none of the emails she sent or received on her server contained classified information “at the time,” the FBI has upgraded over 300 of the 30,000 emails she handed over, and reports suggest that those emails were in fact “born classified.”

Clinton also insisted that she deleted about 32,000 of the emails from her server, because they were “personal,” after her email practices were revealed in March. However, when looking into the 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the FBI, investigators found gaps of months at a time in her records.

A spokesperson for Platte River Networks, a Denver-based firm that has managed Clinton’s server since 2013, said that the firm had “no knowledge” of Clinton’s server being wiped, and that if the emails were simply deleted, they might still be retrievable.

Bloomberg noted that while “the exact number of personal e-mails recovered by the FBI could not be learned,” the FBI’s success at “salvaging personal e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate’s correspondence eventually could become public.“

The FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s emails practices could last for several months, and in a letter to the State Department, following a court-ordered inquiry, the FBI refused to give any kind of update regarding information that has been recovered from Clinton’s server. The agency also would not confirm or deny whether an investigation into Clinton’s email practices was actually taking place.

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Tech Company Used By Hillary Clinton Claims ‘No Knowledge’ of Server Being Wiped

Sep 14, 2015 Rachel Blevins Leave a comment

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed for several months that she wiped her private server that contained about 31,000 emails, sent and received during her tenure as Secretary of State, which she’d deemed “personal.” The technology company that managed the server has now indicated that it may have never been “wiped,” and that the emails may still be accessible.

Andy Boian, the spokesperson for Platte River Networks, a Denver-based firm that has managed Clinton’s server since 2013, told The Washington Post that if the entire server had been wiped, then the data would be permanently gone; if the emails were simply deleted, they might still be retrievable.

[quote_center]“Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped,” Boian said. “All the information we have is that the server wasn’t wiped.”[/quote_center]

Clinton has continually refused to clearly answer whether or not her server was wiped clean. When asked by a Fox News reporter in August if she had her server wiped, she answered with her own question: “Like what, with a cloth?”

“I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” Clinton added.

When asked about the server by CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Sept. 3, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, claimed that he didn’t know what the term “wiped” meant.

“There’s been no — I don’t know what ‘wiped’ means,” Fallon said. “Literally the emails were deleted off of the server, that’s true.”

Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business, during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, came under scrutiny after her practices were revealed on March 2.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, released a statement on March 27, claiming that Clinton “unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.”

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told the Washington Post that the difference between a server that has had its emails deleted and a server that has been wiped clean is “night and day.”

“Wiping is designed to make the material that was underneath not recoverable. That’s the whole point,” Hall said. “The probability of recovering material is very, very much higher if you haven’t wiped it.”

After previously stating that she did not need to apologize for her use of personal email for government business during her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton changed her tone on Sept. 8, and said she was sorry that the controversy surrounding her email use “raised all of these questions.”

In addition to other inconsistencies within her story regarding why she used her personal email for government business, Clinton has claimed that she did not send or receive any classified information on her private email.

In contrast, out of the 30,000 emails Clinton released to the State Department that are currently being examined by the FBI, over 300 have been marked as containing classified information.

As the Democratic frontrunner, the controversy surrounding Clinton’s private email use has affected her presidential campaign. According to a poll from Rasmussen Reports, 46 percent of likely voters think Clinton should suspend her campaign until the legal issues surrounding her private email use are resolved.

In a recent Reality Check segment, investigative journalist Ben Swann looked at whether the Democratic debates are “rigged” for Hillary Clinton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jai9OQFQeEA

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Hillary Clinton Apologizes For Email Controversy, Insists Emails Were Not Classified

Video Sep 9, 2015 Rachel Blevins Leave a comment

After stating on Monday that no apology was necessary for her use of personal email for government business during her tenure as Secretary of State, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed remorse over her personal email use in an interview published Tuesday and acknowledged that she did not make “the best decision.”

During an interview with ABC News’ David Muir on Tuesday, Clinton said she thinks she should have done a better job answering questions in the first place when it came to her email practices, and that ultimately using two accounts was a mistake.

“I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t perhaps appreciate the need to do that,” Clinton said. “What I had done was allowed, it was above board. But in retrospect, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.”

Clinton also claimed that all of the government officials she communicated with knew that she was using a personal email. “But I’m sorry that it has, you know, raised all of these questions,” she continued. “I do take responsibility for having made what is clearly not the best decision.”

Clinton released a statement on her Facebook page on Tuesday evening, in which she reiterated her sentiments from the interview and insisted that nothing she “sent or received was marked classified at the time.”

“Yes, I should have used two email addresses, one for personal matters and one for my work at the State Department,” Clinton said. “Not doing so was a mistake. I’m sorry about it, and I take full responsibility.”

Clinton noted that she wants to be “as transparent as possible,” and has released 30,000 of her emails to the State Department and the FBI. Out of the emails that have been dissected so far, over 300 have been marked by the FBI as containing classified information.

While Clinton did not mention the approximately 32,000 emails she claims she deleted from her server because they contained “personal information,” she did say that she will be “testifying in public in front of the Benghazi Committee later next month.”

Clinton’s apologetic tone contrasted her demeanor on Monday, when in an interview with the Associated Press, she said that she did not need to apologize, because what she did “was allowed.”

“It’s a distraction, certainly,” Clinton said. “But it hasn’t in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we’re making to organize here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country. And I still feel very confident about the organization and the message that my campaign is putting out.”

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Report: FBI Recovers Emails Hillary Clinton Claimed She Deleted From Server

Tech Company Used By Hillary Clinton Claims ‘No Knowledge’ of Server Being Wiped

Hillary Clinton Apologizes For Email Controversy, Insists Emails Were Not Classified

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