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A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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The Denver Libtard Post
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Date: September 13, 2016 08:23PM
A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
By THE DENVER POST EDITORIAL BOARD
PUBLISHED: September 8, 2016 at 1:39 pm | UPDATED: September 13, 2016 at 9:23 am
The latest controversy involving Hillary Clinton’s decision to run her State Department e-mail through private servers contains a hard-to-believe shocker that ought to give reasonable people pause.
Her supporters will join her campaign in decrying a “conspiracy” to spoil her presidential aspirations. But really, how can an objective observer not find problems with this latest story, which suggests a dark conspiracy indeed: An errant engineer decides on his own volition to delete e-mails from her private account after a congressional committee orders them preserved?
According to documents the FBI released recently to summarize its investigation into Clinton’s e-mail arrangement, that’s the official story.
The FBI said that in December 2014 a top Clinton aide told Denver-based Platte River Networks to destroy an archive of e-mails from her private server, but the company failed to do so. Then, after The New York Times reported in early March 2015 details of then-Secretary Clinton’s use of a private server, the House committee investigating the deadly attacks on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, ordered that her e-mails be preserved, and subpoenaed those related to the attack. Three weeks later, the story goes, the engineer responsible for deleting Clinton’s archive suddenly remembered the failed duty, and acted on it by deleting the e-mails with a program (wonderfully named BleachBit) that apparently rendered most of them unreadable.
Around the time of the engineer’s sudden remembrance, the FBI said, Platte River officials joined a conference call with a longtime Clinton aide and personal lawyer. But when the FBI tried to look into this call, they met with frustration. Platte River’s attorney told the engineer who did the deed to claim attorney-client privilege.
That just looks awful. So little wonder the Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Clinton’s e-mail arrangement — Utah’s Jason Chaffetz — has asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether she or others were involved in the decision to destroy those e-mails following the preservation order.
Given that FBI director James Comey’s decision to clear Clinton of wrongdoing in the e-mail scandal came with his unusual denunciation of her actions as “extremely careless,” the information from the bureau’s summary of its investigation doesn’t sit well. It’s reasonable to ask why the FBI didn’t look deeper. It’s reasonable to ask why the engineer would act if, as the logic of the cover story must argue, the e-mails were simply personal notes about yoga appointments and being a grandmother.
No wonder Chaffetz would seek to dig in. He’s asking the Justice Department “to investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statutes that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries and concealment of cover-up of evidence material to a congressional committee.”
Whether that’s just smart opposition-party politics or genuine truth-seeking, the fact of the new probe illustrates once again how the Clintons’ loose regard for following the rules — at the very least — creates troubling distraction where it shouldn’t exist.
We worry that Chaffetz is right on this one. Something about this story feels whitewashed — or maybe bleached out is the better term for it now.
By THE DENVER POST EDITORIAL BOARD
PUBLISHED: September 8, 2016 at 1:39 pm | UPDATED: September 13, 2016 at 9:23 am
The latest controversy involving Hillary Clinton’s decision to run her State Department e-mail through private servers contains a hard-to-believe shocker that ought to give reasonable people pause.
Her supporters will join her campaign in decrying a “conspiracy” to spoil her presidential aspirations. But really, how can an objective observer not find problems with this latest story, which suggests a dark conspiracy indeed: An errant engineer decides on his own volition to delete e-mails from her private account after a congressional committee orders them preserved?
According to documents the FBI released recently to summarize its investigation into Clinton’s e-mail arrangement, that’s the official story.
The FBI said that in December 2014 a top Clinton aide told Denver-based Platte River Networks to destroy an archive of e-mails from her private server, but the company failed to do so. Then, after The New York Times reported in early March 2015 details of then-Secretary Clinton’s use of a private server, the House committee investigating the deadly attacks on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, ordered that her e-mails be preserved, and subpoenaed those related to the attack. Three weeks later, the story goes, the engineer responsible for deleting Clinton’s archive suddenly remembered the failed duty, and acted on it by deleting the e-mails with a program (wonderfully named BleachBit) that apparently rendered most of them unreadable.
Around the time of the engineer’s sudden remembrance, the FBI said, Platte River officials joined a conference call with a longtime Clinton aide and personal lawyer. But when the FBI tried to look into this call, they met with frustration. Platte River’s attorney told the engineer who did the deed to claim attorney-client privilege.
That just looks awful. So little wonder the Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Clinton’s e-mail arrangement — Utah’s Jason Chaffetz — has asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether she or others were involved in the decision to destroy those e-mails following the preservation order.
Given that FBI director James Comey’s decision to clear Clinton of wrongdoing in the e-mail scandal came with his unusual denunciation of her actions as “extremely careless,” the information from the bureau’s summary of its investigation doesn’t sit well. It’s reasonable to ask why the FBI didn’t look deeper. It’s reasonable to ask why the engineer would act if, as the logic of the cover story must argue, the e-mails were simply personal notes about yoga appointments and being a grandmother.
No wonder Chaffetz would seek to dig in. He’s asking the Justice Department “to investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statutes that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries and concealment of cover-up of evidence material to a congressional committee.”
Whether that’s just smart opposition-party politics or genuine truth-seeking, the fact of the new probe illustrates once again how the Clintons’ loose regard for following the rules — at the very least — creates troubling distraction where it shouldn’t exist.
We worry that Chaffetz is right on this one. Something about this story feels whitewashed — or maybe bleached out is the better term for it now.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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Inquisitive One
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Date: September 14, 2016 04:45AM
Nobody ever dreamed that James Comey was as corrupt as everyone else that has an elected position in Washington. It almost proves that the entire Federal government is corrupt and in need of cleansing.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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The Purge
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Date: September 14, 2016 04:10PM
"...in need of cleansing". It's "purging". The word we want is "purging". Has a stronger connotation.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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This Stinks
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Date: September 14, 2016 04:51PM
In addition, the Justice Dept (that's laughable now) also granted immunity to the two people with the closest access to the server...the guy who wiped it (Paul Combetta) and Bryan Pagliano. Gee, I wonder if Comey predicted they would get a bsubpoena to testify in front of Congress.
This stinks to high heaven and the entire system is completely corrupt.
This stinks to high heaven and the entire system is completely corrupt.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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Bribes
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Date: September 14, 2016 04:53PM
This Stinks Wrote:
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> This stinks to high heaven and the entire system
> is completely corrupt.
Sad but true
Trump should be in jail
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> This stinks to high heaven and the entire system
> is completely corrupt.
Sad but true
Trump should be in jail
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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Corruption runs deep
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Date: September 14, 2016 05:00PM
Comey is as corrupt as Lynch. He protected those two guys knowing full well they would be subject to charges for what they did and throw Shillary under the bus. Protecting Shillary no matter what the cost was Obama's directive. Truly sad.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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YdMyb
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Date: September 14, 2016 08:30PM
Corruption runs deep Wrote:
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> Comey is as corrupt as Lynch. He protected those
> two guys knowing full well they would be subject
> to charges for what they did and throw Shillary
> under the bus. Protecting Shillary no matter what
> the cost was Obama's directive. Truly sad.
Don't forget Lynch meeting Bill Clinton for 30 minutes one-on-one on a tarmac when she went to his plane. No pictures or phones were allowed and all aids were asked to wait outside. Corruption everywhere.
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> Comey is as corrupt as Lynch. He protected those
> two guys knowing full well they would be subject
> to charges for what they did and throw Shillary
> under the bus. Protecting Shillary no matter what
> the cost was Obama's directive. Truly sad.
Don't forget Lynch meeting Bill Clinton for 30 minutes one-on-one on a tarmac when she went to his plane. No pictures or phones were allowed and all aids were asked to wait outside. Corruption everywhere.
Re: A fishy story in Platte River Networks’ purge of Clinton e-mails
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Vexxxed
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Date: September 14, 2016 09:13PM
Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> Nobody ever dreamed that James Comey was as
> corrupt as everyone else that has an elected
> position in Washington. It almost proves that the
> entire Federal government is corrupt and in need
> of cleansing.
+1
Been saying that very thing for years.
They only choose party affiliation to keep the public at odds with one another so they can carry on with the business of being a politician.
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> Nobody ever dreamed that James Comey was as
> corrupt as everyone else that has an elected
> position in Washington. It almost proves that the
> entire Federal government is corrupt and in need
> of cleansing.
+1
Been saying that very thing for years.
They only choose party affiliation to keep the public at odds with one another so they can carry on with the business of being a politician.