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Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup

2020-04-16

[ZeroHedge] Google has been ordered to turn over all Hillary Clinton emails from a Gmail account believed to contain backups to communications from her personal server which her IT specialist, Paul Combetta, reportedly scrubbed using BleachBit.

Combetta allegedly used the Google account to transfer Clinton's emails from a laptop to a server at Platte River Networks, after which BleachBit was used to remove all traces from the device.

On Wednesday, watchdog group Judicial Watch

...doing the work the FBI should have done...

announced that Google had been served with a subpoena seeking all Clinton email from January 21, 2009 until February 1, 2013 from her time at the Obama State Department where she served as Secretary of State.

The Google subpoena comes in a Judicial Watch’s lawsuit that seeks records concerning "talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack" (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). Judicial Watch famously uncovered in 2014 that the "talking points" that provided the basis for Susan Rice’s false statements were created by the Obama White House. This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015. -Judicial Watch
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It will be interesting to see what Google turns over - if anything. Maybe they'll simply smash their servers with hammers?

Bubba Claing1437 submitted the Judicial Watch press release, which has even more, commenting:

About to strike the mother load of 30,000 deleted "baby picture and recipe" emails?

Posted by:Clem

#5 Of course the NSA has an electronic copy somewhere. This is not a technical but a political matter.

Posted by: Lex 2020-04-16 09:09

#4 Why can't they leave that poor woman alone? Hasn't she been humiliated enough? [snicker]

Had she faded away, quietly, maybe she'd have been left alone.

Posted by: Bobby 2020-04-16 09:07

#3 That doesn't necessarily mean the law was followed. I mean, she was flagrantly violating the law in all sorts of other ways. Also, what makes you think she was being targeted for a wiretap? CALEA does not require that all communications everywhere go to the FBI (only that the FBI be able to easily tap every device and account). Although regardless of the law on the matter, I'm pretty Homeland Security does maintain a copy of every electronic communication ever sent on the open internet.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-04-16 08:43

#2 Hopefully there's a wikileaks fan in a gurgle datacenter somewhere right now.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-16 08:39

#1 These folks need to look at the CALEA wiretap law. It requires all data communications be copied to the FBI.
This implies that somewhere in the FBI databases is every single email.

Posted by: 3dc 2020-04-16 06:06

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