Saving Hillary, But at What Cost?

Saving Hillary, But at What Cost?
Nothing to see here, move along. "Lost in the heat of the closing days of a campaign for the White House have been the revelations that close aides and advisors to Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, received immunity from prosecution in exchange for their cooperation in the investigation into Clinton’s “homebrew” server. In exchange for this courtesy, both Clinton confidantes agreed to surrender their laptops but only on the condition that the FBI would not search them for evidence dated past January 31, 2015, and would destroy them soon afterward. “Think about that: Before the authorities knew what was on the laptops, they agreed to destroy potential evidence in their investigation,” the Journal observed. “The evidence was also under a congressional subpoena and preservation order.” And what kind of cooperation did the FBI receive in exchange for this concession? Not much, it seems. Mills continued to serve as Clinton’s counsel despite having received immunity, a privilege that betrays the fact the FBI saw her as a material witness to what might have been a crime. The immunity deals the FBI was doling out like candy effectively prevented them from carrying out a thorough investigation into the bizarre behavior of the State Department officials in Clinton’s orbit. Clinton’s email scandal first became public when the New York Times broke the details of it on March 3, 2015. Shortly after that, Clinton’s server was wiped of information deliberately and with the use of special software designed to ensure that destroyed digital information is rendered forensically irretrievable. It is because of these immunity deals that “investigators were barred from looking at emails authored around the time Mills and David Kendall, Clinton’s lead attorney, held a pair of conference calls with technology contractor Paul Combetta that immediately preceded his use of BleachBit to erase thousands of Clinton’s emails,” wrote the Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood."