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Monday, August 17, 2015

Backup Server would be very bad news for Hillary

From Legal Insurrection:
As I mentioned in prior posts, from the very start Hillary Clinton’s email and server stories were inconsistent and self-contradictory.

On the one hand, in her March 10, 2015 press conference, Hillary said the server housing her email system would not be turned over because it contained personal messages between her and Bill. Hillary’s answer suggested that the server existed and was under her control.

On the other hand, we now know that the actual server which ran the email system while Hillary was Secretary of State was taken into the custody of Colorado-based Platte River Networks in or about June 2013, the data was transferred somewhere, the server was wiped clean, and then physically stored in New Jersey.

(Bookworm Room has a very helpful chronology with sources of the email and server stories and events.)
So what and where was the server Hillary was refusing to turn over in March 2015 that contained personal information? It could not have been the wiped server just turned over the the Feds by Platte River Networks because that server was blank and not under Hillary’s control.
The server with the data had to be somewhere else, as I suggested in How did Hillary’s lawyers search a server no longer in her possession and which had been wiped clean?

Another discrepancy suggesting the existence of a second server was that Hillary’s attorneys in the Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit represented to the court that Hillary did not ask for her attorneys to search her emails on clintonmail.com until “late 2014.”

But how could they search the emails if the server had been wiped clean over a year earlier and was sitting in a storage facility in New Jersey, unless there was [another] place where all the data resided? (The thumb drives possessed by the attorneys apparently contain only the emails Hillary acknowledges are federal records.)
So, Hillary’s refusal to turn over the original wiped server appears to have been something of a mislead, as I explained in Hillary refusal to turn over server for months may have led people off the trail.

There had to be a second server or at least database somewhere with all the emails in undeleted form. That was the only consistent story, though it was not the story Hillary or her attorneys were telling.

But it was the story I thought had to be the case.
There has always been something wrong with the timeline. That's especially true, since the story(excuses) keeps changing.

David Kendal, Hillary's lawyer is a very smart lawyer, but may have been boxed in by his client.

The Federal Judge who is handling the case has a history of not tolerating any BS. It is finally time for Hillary to be indicted? Held in Contempt?

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