(NPR) Time for a recap:
In March, a House committee demanded that Clinton hand over the private server to a third party so they could make sure that all work-related emails had been turned over.
So we have the usual partisan witch hunters annoyed they couldn't rummage through Clinton's emails on a fishing trip, asking the FBI to investigate on a pretense that they suspected not all the government emails were turned over.
That is hardly the criminal investigation it is being claimed to be.
Clinton cooperated voluntarily.
"But in August, Mrs. Clinton authorized her aides to hand the server to investigators. Computer forensic experts have said that if the change in the server setting was the only measure taken, it would be fairly easy for F.B.I. agents who specialize in recovering deleted information from computers to retrieve the messages."
Clinton has asked the State Department to release all of her work-related emails.
Maybe personal emails were simply deleted and were not as everyone keeps claiming, 'destroyed'. Perhaps they are recoverable because deleting them was not an attempt to hide them.
Now we have the Bloomberg update.
This anonymous source could easily be a complete distortion:
The FBI is investigating how and why classified information ended up on Clinton’s server. The probe probably will take at least several more months, according to the person, who described the matter on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing and deals with sensitive information.
Are they investigating how and why? Really? Or are they investigating if any government emails weren't turned over? Look at how the sentence is worded: "how and why classified information ended up on Clinton’s server."
We know how and why. That's never been a question. So why is the report worded as if no one knows how the emails got there?
And the emphasis on "classified", another attempt to make a crime out of whole cloth. Clinton carried on government business. She made an effort to handle classified information separately from the emails. It wasn't illegal for her to use a private email server.
Which is the supposed crime here? Mistakes in procedure? Or an attempt to hide something?
It's pretty clear the GOP will take anything they can get to make Clinton look like a dishonest criminal, but that they continue to fish since there isn't anything outrageous here. Nothing in Benghazi, nothing in the emails, certainly nothing that rises to criminal misconduct.
Giving confidential information to your girlfriend who is writing your biography, that's a criminal act. Communicating to people in the course of doing your job is not a crime, even if something confidential was mistakenly mishandled.
The Bloomberg article claims this:
Internal government watchdogs have determined that classified information ended up on the system. Their findings sparked the FBI inquiry.
Internal government watchdogs? You mean the Benghazi Committee? Darryl Issa?
Un-distort that claim and you get what the NPR article said:
a House committee demanded that Clinton hand over the private server to a third party
Even that though, doesn't the House committee have a name?
Any claim here there is an FBI criminal investigation is on the same level as Darryl Issa claiming they are conducting a Benghazi criminal investigation.
Now we have a report the FBI has recovered some or all of the deleted emails. Gee, maybe they were just deleted and not covered up after all.
Now look at the Bloomberg report conflating the emails that have been reviewed, redacted and released to the press with 'FBI has recovered emails'. Those are not the same thing. Yet Bloomberg would have its readers believe things the press has found in the released emails are what the FBI has uncovered from the server.
That would exonerate Clinton. Low and behold the emails Clinton passed on to the government and the private emails she didn't were exactly what she said they were.
