FBI Said to Examine Whether Hillary Clinton E-Mail Was Backed Up

[Purveyor]

Aug 13, 2015 10:16 PM EDT

The FBI is seeking to determine whether data from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server may still exist elsewhere, a U.S. official said.

After acquiring the server on Wednesday, agents are attempting to determine whether e-mails may have been backed up on another machine, said the official, who asked for anonymity. The official said it's one of the next logical steps in the agency's investigation into whether the former secretary of state's private e-mail account handled classified information.

Barbara Wells, an attorney for Platte River Networks, a Denver-based company that has managed Clinton's private e-mail since 2013, said in a phone interview Thursday that the server turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation “is blank and does not contain any useful data.” But Wells added that the data on Clinton's server was migrated to another server that still exists. She ended the interview when questioned further, declining to say whether the data still exists on that other server and who has possession of it.

“Most people don’t understand really what it takes to actually delete things from a computer permanently.”
Peter Toren

Subsequent calls and e-mails to Wells and the Clinton campaign went unanswered.

Justice Department spokesman Patrick Rodenbush declined in an e-mail to comment on whether it is aware of the other server and is trying to access it.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-14/fbi-said-to-examine-whether-clinton-e-mail-was-backed-up

[jonno99]

1. So the server is “is blank and does not contain any useful data.” Ok - nothing to see here folks

move along...

[HooptieWagon]

2. She's sure acting like she's trying to cover something up.

[jonno99]

5. You'd think she would have learned from Tricky Dick - that the coverup is worse that the crime. nt

[arcane1]

3. That's why we all called bullshit on Colin Powell when he said all his emails were deleted.

That would mean he deleted his inbox, his sent items, from his computer and his server, and reformatted the hard drives, and then did the same process for every person he ever sent an email to.

Sure you did, Colin!

[Yo_Mama]

4. You have to do more than reformat the drives.

You have to overwrite them several times with random data.

If you just reformat the drive, a lot of the underlying data can be recovered by scanning the drive surface. In this case, I have read elsewhere that this special procedure was done.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Musical servers. How many thumb drives are out there? How are they all secured?

[PoliticAverse]

7. “Most people don’t understand ... what it takes to actually delete things ... permanently"

Which is why reading a book on the issue can help with the understanding:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tips-deleting-emails-email-book-hillary-clinton-wanted/story?id=33046042

[newfie11]

8. Did they ask NSA?