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Just a few weeks after getting lambasted by just about everyone outside of the Clinton campaign for dumping investigation notes on the media the Friday before Labor Day weekend, in an obvious attempt to “bury the story”, last night the Federal Bureau of Immunity did it again dropping nearly 200 pages of new, redacted interview notes.
Perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries in the new notes comes from yet another “Undisclosed PRN Staff Member.” Apparently, after receiving a request from Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson (both of whom we no know were granted immunity deals by the DOJ) back in December 2014 to change Hillary’s email retention policy to 60 days, this “Undisclosed PRN Staff Member” wrote a work ticket that referred to the request as “the Hillary coverup operation.” Per the FBI notes:
But don’t worry folks, according to the FBI’s notes on the interview conducted on February 18, 2016, this “Undisclosed PRN Staff Member” assured the FBI that the comment was just “a joke.” Apparently that explanation was good enough for the FBI so we should probably just take it at face value as well.
Though the Trump campaign doesn’t seem to be buying the “it was just a joke” defense as Senior Communications Advisor, Jason Miller, released the following statement last night on the situation:
“The fact an IT staffer maintaining Clinton’s secret server called a new retention policy designed to delete emails after 60 days a “Hillary coverup operation” suggests there was a concerted effort to systematically destroy potentially incriminating information. It’s no wonder that at least five individuals tied to the email scandal, including Clinton’s top State Department aide and attorney Cheryl Mills, secured immunity deals from the Obama Justice Department to avoid prosecution.”
Recall that we previously wrote in detail about the events leading up to the point that Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson requested the change to Hillary’s “email retention policy.”
Now this brings us all the way up to December 2014 when Clinton sent the 55,000 pages to the State Department. Recall, as Politico previously reported, Hillary brought in a former campaign staffer, Heather Samuelson (34 years old), to help determine which emails were “work related” and which “yoga related.”
Shortly after providing that data dump to the State Department, in “December 2014 or January 2015,” both Heather Samuelson and Cheryl Mills requested that all emails be removed from their computers using “a program called BleachBit to delete the e-mail-related files so they could not be recovered.”
For her part, “Clinton stated she never deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her e-mails to avoid complying with FOIA, State or FBI requests for information.”
Of course not. Hillary knew it would be a little too obvious to specifically instruct her staff to permanently delete the emails but she also knew it might be “inconvenient” to have them around. So, she simply “decided she no longer needed access to any of her e-mails older than 60 days.”
See? She never specifically said to delete anything she just made a simple administrative decision on document retention policies.
Those “Undisclosed PRN Staff Members” are such jokesters…