State Department destroyed Clinton aides’ BlackBerrys

Washington Times ^ | August 19, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

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The State Department destroyed the BlackBerry devices issued to two top aides of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and never issued Mrs. Clinton a device at all, officials told a federal court Wednesday.

The filing came a day before officials will have to appear in court to detail the steps they took to try to track down Mrs. Clinton’s emails, and whatever computers or other devices she may have used to send them.

Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm, has sued to get a look at the emails of Mrs. Clinton and two top aides at State: Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.

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[EagleUSA]

More crime.
More destruction of evidence.
More orange jump suits.

[johniegrad]

Clearly, illegal coverup activity by State. This is getting so ridiculous. People need to be imprisoned.

[Ann Archy]

Soooooo....WHO at the State Department was BIG enough to do this??? HILLARY HAD TO ORDER THIS BE DONE!

[blackdog]

Destroying the Blackberry’s does not destroy the messages or call logs.

[TexasCajun]

They really do think the public is stupid.

Their Blackberrys were only devices to retrieve emails from either Hillary's server or State Dept server.

State does not need their Blackberry's to retrieve emails.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Blackberry has it’s own private email system, so a backup is already there.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

It continues.

[Rodamala]

[EagleUSA]

“... People need to be imprisoned.”

I am still a believer in the justice of the Old West. Horse thieves were hung, on the spot. It was an excellent deterrent for crime.

[Blueflag]

Exactly. Who was running the BES and where was it?

[blackdog]

This administration is an embarassment to the world. We also need to point out that Hillary had a boss. It was his job to direct her activities.

[nascarnation]

Well your first two are spot on.
Not so sure about #3...

[atc23]

Destroying the Blackberry’s does not destroy the messages or call logs.

Ma Clinton . . . she's not exactly a tech expert. Perhaps she thinks all the emails are actually stored on the device - like on little bits of paper, inside the phone . . .

[Sir Napsalot]

So I gather, they think we the people are THIS stupid.

Destroying Hillary top aides’ blackberries to cover up (?whatever) one day before testifying look real amateurish, you know.

[Souled_Out]

Exactly, subpoena the IT people and these computer mysteries will disappear.

[blackdog]

So the NSA hacked into Angela Merkel's Blackberry, but has no clue about our own State Dept?

Right...........

[TexasCajun]

Barack never submitted a State Dept. Inspector General for Congressional approval during Hillary’s time at State.

[AFreeBird]

If they were destroyed when surrendered after Hilary’s departure, that would be in accordance with security procedures. They should have been backed up securely of course before hand.

IIRC, Orange book specs require all decommissioned HD and other magnetic media to be destroyed. This has been around for a very long time.