Can Clinton's Email Scandal Get Worse? It Already IsCorruption: Hillary Clinton has complained about the steady "drip, drip, drip" of revelations about her email troubles. This week, the drips became a torrent. Will her presidential aspirations drown in a flood of scandal?
The news cycle turned Tuesday night on reports that a second server handling Clinton's State Department emails has been found, raising questions about just how many people had access to the classified material on her emails.
How much did her negligence increase the country's vulnerability to espionage?
How widely did she expose herself to blackmail?
For months we've known that Clinton used Platte River Networks in Colorado to manage her email server — which had been in her house while she was secretary of state — after she left the State Department.
Now we know that Datto Inc. in Connecticut has been used as a second data storage site for her emails.
This came to light Tuesday when Sen. Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, asked Datto in a letter to turn over any Clinton emails that it has.
That doesn't hold up, though, unless it turns out that a concerned Platte River Networks employee is a Republican operative.
When this employee noticed that Clinton representatives had asked "Datto to reduce the amount of her emails it was backing up," he or she became suspicious, the McClatchy Washington bureau reported. The employee sent off an email that said "this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy (sic) sh*t."
Another Platte River Networks employee — or possibly the same one, it isn't clear — sent an email saying "this is a problem" when "Platte River employees discovered that her private server was syncing with an offsite Datto server," McClatchy reported.
Apparently, the Clinton camp wanted to be sure some emails weren't going to be saved.
That raises another question, one that has been asked many times throughout this scandal but never satisfactorily answered:
What is Clinton trying to hide?The morning after the Datto news broke, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the FBI has seized four State Department servers in its probe of Clinton's personal email system. Investigators want to know "how top secret material was sent to Clinton's private email by State Department aides."
Remember, Clinton has said multiple times that there was never classified material in her personal email. Yet there it is, and the FBI wants to know why.
Clinton has also said constantly that she has turned over all the emails that investigators and officials have asked for. She even signed a statement in which she swore "under penalty of perjury" that she had produced all emails that were, or potentially were, federal records.
Yet, as we have noted, officials keep asking for more emails because they don't think Clinton has handed over everything. So we naturally wonder if she perjured herself when she signed the statement.
Clinton could have avoided all this if she had simply elected to use the State Department's secure email rather than her own account managed by a private server located in her personal residence.
But she didn't, and voters need to know why, just as much as they need to know what her involvement in the Benghazi disaster was.
Even those who fully stand behind her political positions should hold back their support until either Clinton comes clean or the investigations are completed.
If the investigations go beyond the next election, that's just the way it is.
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