DOJ: Hillary Clinton Had Authority To Delete Personal Emails

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech at Texas Southern University in Houston, Thursday, June 4, 2015. Clinton is calling for an expansion of early voting and pushing back against... Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech at Texas Southern University in Houston, Thursday, June 4, 2015. Clinton is calling for an expansion of early voting and pushing back against Republican-led efforts to restrict voting access, laying down a marker on voting rights at the start of her presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) MORE LESS
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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton had the authority to delete emails she deemed personal from the private email account she used as secretary of state, lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department said last week in a court filing.

The filing was entered Wednesday in a public records lawsuit brought by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, according to the Associated Press. DOJ lawyers argued in the filing that Clinton’s personal records are not subject to public records law and that she was within her rights to determine which emails were personal and then delete them.

“There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server,” the filing said, as quoted by the AP.

Clinton said earlier this year that she deleted roughly half of the 60,000 emails she sent and received from her private account because she deemed them personal.

A spokesperson for the firm that managed Clinton’s private email server, Platte River Networks, said this weekend that the company had no knowledge that the server had been “wiped,” indicating that those deleted emails could still be recovered. The FBI is currently investigating the security of Clinton’s so-called “homebrew” server.

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  1. Ah, the facts come out. But, no matter to the Pubs, for sure.

  2. I’m sorry. This won’t do. I’ve got some deep Vegas action on this Horserace. We can’t have Clinton running around here without something “equivalent” to the folks in the Klown Kar.

    It messes up the Spread.

  3. The MSM is still giddily reporting on HRC “tanking” in the polls but somehow seems to have largely buried the two stories here. 1. She had authority to delete her personal emails. 2. There was no attempt to wipe the server in some effort to cover up god-only-knows-what fantasy the RWNJs are pushing at the moment. The MSM has been relentlessly demanding that HRC apologize for something, well, anything. So, when this all goes to the same place as the forgotten WH Xmas card scandale, will HRC get an apology from the MSM. No, they’ll just write more stories about what a bad relationship she has with them all.

  4. The Civil Rights people. The Rosa Parkses and the MLK’s.(whom Evil people like Huck love to reference)…they all DID things, independent of the Press and under more arduous condidtions.

    They communicated

    By snail mail, telephone and bus.

    The MSM is Republican. For reasons tied to who OWNS the MSM.

    Being able to fathom that is the key to accepting it, using the data un-emotionally and then using the communication methods available for the People to communicate, organize and ACT.

    Just like the blacks (and Latinos and whites) did in the 1950s and 1960s.

    Hillary, if she is the nominee, cannot lose…unless the People are simply too asleep and distracted to act.

  5. Avatar for azjude azjude says:

    HA! HA!

    Suck on the gop/bags. Who incidentally didn’t give a crap about mittens email sever, or jebs emails for that matter.

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