Posted on 09/12/2015 3:33:10 PM PDT by kristinn
The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.
Clinton and her advisers have said for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that 31,000 e-mails were gone forever.
There is a distinction between e-mails being deleted and a server being wiped. If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device and the e-mails can often be restored.
To make the information go away permanently, a server must be wiped — a process that includes overwriting the underlying data with gibberish, possibly several times.
That process, according to Platte River Networks, the Denver-based firm that has managed the system since 2013, apparently did not happen.
“Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped,” company spokesman Andy Boian told The Washington Post. “All the information we have is that the server wasn’t wiped.”
Clinton and her staff have avoided directly answering whether the server was ever wiped.
In a memorable exchange at a campaign event in Las Vegas last month, Clinton turned aside a question about whether the server had been wiped with a joke: “Like what, with a cloth?” she said, adding, “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”
Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon gave a similar answer this month, telling CNN: “I don’t know what wiped means. Literally the e-mails were deleted off of the server, that’s true.”
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“Does seem to be them saying, “It wasn’t us!””
It is even more simple than that. Being that they were in custody of classified material, since they operated, housed and maintained the server in their office, apartment or whatever, that places them right in the cross-hairs of a Federal espionage charge.
I saw leanings of this position some weeks ago when it was discovered they were the custodian of the system. I will submit that the story of it being at her home was just misdirection hoping that the true location would remain a secret.
Interesting.
How did “going commando” get started?
It would seem that either the FBI is getting played by the Clintons or the FBI is playing along with the Clintons.
>> Hillary was not SOS back then and would not have had the email account or server spoken of here <<
Maybe. But I thought the server had originally been set up many years previously, to handle emails for Bill. So perhaps Don just told Bill to pass along his thanks to Hillary.
Most recently , a Charmin (TP) commercial.
As part of the way back , probably when clean underware ran out , or was already dirty ,..
or whie trolling for action, and easy access .
Well.... There goes my appetite. Thanks, I guess I should shed a couple pounds anyway.
Are you implying that the $hit will be coming out at Xmas time? Are the Clintons friends of Mr. Hanky?
One other point to consider is that when the hacker made it public he had retained the “Sent Items” folder, not only her posts, but also those to which she answered were also there all in a neat little package to provide what might be called an audit trail of the entire conversations back and forth along with any attachments.
There was no longer any way out but to cooperate with the FBI. I still say this is all orchestrated by the WH because they want the Clintons gone and totally out of power so they can continue their subversive plans even after the election.
But, like the establishment pols are now starting to figure out, they too will be stymied by a new administration that thinks so far out of the normal box that they will also be outed and flummoxed and strike out in even more blatant ways that will expose the wizards that they are not.
Throw down server just like a throw down gun.
There is more than one server.
Lower than that!
A security wipe.
And most do not trust that! Gotta put it through the shredder.
It’s been my theory that Platte River Networks was brought in as an unwitting stooge. The device they allegedly picked up in Chappaqua could have been wiped, then the e-mails Hillary had approved put back on it, before Platte was involved. Platte doesn’t know what was done with any of this before their time, and they have not claimed to have done any sort of forensic investigation. This is why Pagliano will never talk. The Clintons let the public and journalist-operatives create impressions in lieu of facts. Note that no one has given sworn testimony or any sort of proof as to when “ Hillary’s top aides” removed her “personal” emails. Some assume it was after the Benghazi committee’s demand for documents. It could have been long before that.
The WaPo, particularly these writers, are little more than Hillary campaign operatives, used to spread her scheme de jour.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.
My first recollection of the term is from an episode of FRIENDS. Joey puts on all of Chandler’s clothes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSCV5wUOFE
The title is THE ONE WHERE NO ONE IS READY
Not even with Hillary’s towel?
Actually, the first character of the filename was changed to a hexidecimal value of ‘e5’. That is no longer true unless they were using a FAT filesystem. Most likely if it was a windows server it would be using NTFS which handles such things differently.
You can still recover data from ntfs partitions, but it is not as straightforward.
Thanks for the corrections. It has been quite a while since I worked with IT!
Well, the reason I know exactly what happened when you deleted a file way back when, was because I had a really cool program back in the day that let you view your disk at the individual sector level. Because there was no security at all in DOS, you could actually view and edit the FAT table directly. I did some experimenting with it, and discovered that you could undelete a file by changing that ‘e5’ back to a standard ascii value. You could also do interesting things like make the first character of a file a space (hex 20). Doing so made the file really difficult to manipulate. I zlso played with hiding data after the ‘real’ data in a file. If you knew there was data there you could find it, otherwise, it was pretty well hidden as long as you didn’t copy the file somewhere else and then delete thw original file. FAT is a really primitive filesystem. Even FAT-32 isn’t much better.
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