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Hillary adviser urges hiring of criminal defense attorney - FBI inquiry spreads to 2nd data firm



One of the Clinton's oldest and most trusted legal advisers is offering Hillary some stark advice. In an anonymous interview with the New York Post, he suggested that the candidate's email scandal is spiraling out of control and is headed to a potentially dangerous conclusion. He also said that it's time for Hillary to stop treating the situation as a punchline and 'lawyer up' for a potential criminal prosecution.
As the Post reports:
The adviser, who has been a Clinton confidant for more than 30 years, laid out his concerns about Hillary’s legal exposure in a wide-ranging interview. “This email thing is spiraling out of control,” he said. “To paraphrase John Dean of Watergate fame, it’s a cancer on her candidacy. “Frankly,” he continued, “I am used to my advice on legal matters being taken very seriously and acted upon by the Clintons. I’ve told them repeatedly that this FBI email investigation could go in a very dangerous direction very quickly.
The adviser also argues that Hillary isn't doing herself any favors by pretending her secret server, deleted messages, and general habit of obfuscation aren't legitimate problems. In fact, he claims that she's actively antagonizing the FBI in what amounts to a strategic blunder.

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“By joking about her email problem and treating it like a PR issue, she’s only hurting herself, maybe mortally, with the prosecutors. Insulting career FBI and Justice Department investigators is a very bad and ill-advised strategy.”
Bill Clinton, perhaps because he has some history with criminal investigations, allegedly "gets it." Hillary, on the other hand, still has her head buried in the "vast right-wing conspiracy."
“I think Bill takes the matter seriously. But Hillary is still acting as though it’s a political smear job by right-wing zealots.”
If Hillary's not taking the situation seriously, she'd better start. The fact that it's destroying her presidential campaign is only the beginning of her problems. The FBI investigation is ongoing, and it's now spreading to another data company. We all know about the infamous "bathroom closet server" that was housed in a tech startup's Denver loft, but now we're learning about Datto Inc. - a Connecticut based data firm which may have an extensive archive of Hillary's correspondence. From the Washington Post:
The FBI’s probe into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account. Datto’s work on the Clinton e-mail system became public Tuesday when the Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee sent the company a lengthy letter seeking information about the role it and other firms played in managing the Clinton e-mail system. Datto was hired to provide backups for the Clinton e-mail accounts starting in May 2013 by Platte River Networks, the Colorado-based tech firm hired earlier that year by the Clinton family to manage the system after Hillary Clinton concluded her term as secretary.
So far, no one knows for sure what Datto has backed-up, and the FBI is refusing to comment. However, it's clear that Hillary's troubles continue to mount. It also seems likely that the "drip drip drip" is going to continue into the foreseeable future. If that's the case, she's going to have to assemble a legal team at some point and that, after a year of assurances that she did nothing wrong, will be disastrous for her political aspirations. Of course, since her own party doesn't really want to vote for her, her implosion will probably come as a sigh of relief for Clinton-weary Democrats.


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