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How quaint! It’s hard to connect now to a time when that was enough to be a scandal.

Still a scandal. Gov officials purposefully deleting data AFTER a subpoena is criminal.

And given this is Hillary Clinton we are talking about, the lack of follow through is a major reason we even have the current right wing leadership... It's in many ways direct blow back to the abuses swept under the rug for so many years

Is it really blow back if the public demanded that all politicians be able to get away with it instead of just the Clintons?

There is definitely an argument to be made for that.

Corruption thrives in environments where there is no trust in institutions. An apathy and cynicism then chokes out all claims of being trustworthy and having integrity, leaving only forthright grifters with the last semblance of "honesty in their dishonesty". The only honest way forward that folks perceive then is for everyone to get the bag for themselves and knock down the ladder on the way up.

I think this line of argument is overly simplistic and puts too much at the feet of "but her emails", but I have zero doubt that this is how a lot of people who support Trump rationalize things.

It was a Platte River Networks employee who erased and used Bleachbit on the archived .pst files after the subpoena but had been ordered to do the deletions three months before the subpoena and failed to act until after the subpoena.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/the-fbi-files-on-clintons-...

I can only imagine what’s going on now, what will go on before they go out, and what will be unearthed after that happens.

I sincerely hope all the data they already ordered to be deleted is preserved somewhere.

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