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Which apparently contains at least 60 classified messages. Game over.

Whoa: ABC reports it's 'highly likely' there's a complete backup of Hillary's e-mail server



Recipes. Yoga routines. Chelsea's wedding plans. That's the stuff Hillary says she deleted from her homebrew e-mail server because, hey, why would anyone care about that? Everything work-related, she had her staff print out (!) and she handed it over to the State Department. That's it. It's all there. There's nothing else. None of it was classified. And she can't wait for you to read it.
That's been her story all along, so if it turns out there was a backup of her entire server kept by the company that managed it, and Trey Gowdy will soon be able to subpoena the backup so we can all read it . . . well, Hillary will be thrilled because it will prove she was telling the truth all along. Gonna happen that way, right, Hillary backers? Sure you think so: I'm not sure I get the whole "highly likely" thing. Did Platte River Networks keep a backup or didn't they? Don't they know?

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Then again, it makes more sense if you assume they're part of Hillary's cabal. Of course there's a backup, but they weren't going to say anything until the FBI asked, and even then all they were willing to say was, Oh, yeah, well we suppose it's highly likely we made one. What's that? You want us to give it to you? Yeah, we were afraid you might say that. By the way, if I were Trey Gowdy, I'd be issuing my own subpoena for the backup server pretty quick because how sure can you be that the FBI is really under orders to take this investigation seriously? Especially given what is likely to be found on it. Just six classified e-mails, huh? That's a good one:
While media coverage has focused on a half-dozen of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal emails containing sensitive intelligence, the total number of her private emails identified by an ongoing State Department review as having contained classified data has ballooned to 60, officials told The Washington Times. That figure is current through the end of July and is likely to grow as officials wade through a total of 30,000 work-related emails that passed through her personal email server, officials said. The process is expected to take months. The 60 emails are among those that have been reviewed and cleared for release under the Freedom of Information Act as part of a open-records lawsuit. Some of the emails have multiple redactions for classified information. Among the first 60 flagged emails, nearly all contained classified secrets at the lowest level of “confidential” and one contained information at the intermediate level of “secret,” officials told the Times. Those 60 emails do not include two emails identified in recent days by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III as containing “top-secret” information possibly derived from Pentagon satellites, drones or intercepts, which is some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.
There's a school of thought, especially among doom-and-gloom conservatives, that none of this is going to matter because the average voter just doesn't care about the IT nuances of a private server and what-not - even if it is demonstrated that Hillary clearly broke the law and lied about it. It's going to be Lying About Sex 2015, not an important enough lie to matter. I sort of agree if that's as far as it goes, and that's why the recovery of a server backup is so important. There's a reason Hillary deleted all those e-mails, and it's not because she didn't want us to read about her yoga routines. (Besides, the thought of Hillary doing yoga . . . yeah, I don't want to read about it either.) This is ultimately going to come down to what's found on that server. If she was recklessly putting top-secret material at risk of exposure, or if she was talking to Sid Blumenthal about how to further cover her Benghazi lies, or if she was blatantly pimping for Clinton Foundation payola while talking to foreign officials as part of her duties as Secretary of State . . . that's when we've got something that could take her out of the race. So let's get on with it. That company knows perfectly well if it made a backup of the server. Let's see it and see it now. Joe Biden's not getting any younger, you know.


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