We are now officially in Hillary-in-Wonderland world . . . A senior aide to Hillary Clinton has suggested that the FBI would be happy to discover that Hillary's infamous email server was wiped--and not with a cloth.
Interviewed by John Heilemann on today's With All Due Respect, Jennifer Palmieri--Communications Director for Hillary's campaign--insisted that finding that the server was thoroughly scrubbed is "the outcome they [the FBI] want."
According to Palmieri, finding that the server was scrubbed is "the outcome they want" because the concern of the FBI [which Palmieri euphemistically referred to as the Justice Department] is "whether or not the information is secure." Heilemann countered "no, they will not know that at all, all they will know is that she may or may not have deleted emails that had to do with government business." But according to Palmieri, that's not what their concern is. So the FBI doesn't care if the wiping of the server makes it that much more difficult to determine if the national security has been compromised because sensitive information has been hacked. Right.
We're sparing readers the fork-in-the-eye frustating two minutes in which Palmieri bobbed and weaved around Heilemann's many questions as to whether Hillary ordered emails simply to be deleted or if she instructed people to wipe the server clean.
JENNIFER PALMIERI: Here's the thing: the State Department--excuse me, the Department of Justice, now has the server, so they can see if there's any -- their concern is is there anything on there, any emails on there. Because [inaudible] they want to make sure it's secure. That's their concern. Now they have it and they're able to see.
HEILEMANN: Or not. Or if the thing has been thoroughly scrubbed they may not be able to see anything.
PALMIERIE: Well, then, I think that's the outcome they want! That's the outcome they want because their concern is whether or not the information is secure.
HEILEMANN: No. But they will not know. They will not know that at all. All they'll know is that she may or may not have deleted e-mails that had to do with government business.PALMIERI: That's not what, that's not what they're concerned with.
HEILEMANN: It's what a lot of people are concerned with.
PALMIERI: That's not the Department of Justice's concern. It's a security inquiry. They're concerned to make sure the information is secure.
HEILEMANN: If they find the server has been thoroughly scrubbed, they will have no idea whether they were ever classified e-mails on that server!
PALMIERI: That's not what they're looking for, John. This is a security inquiry. They want to make sure that, if her e-mails, her lawyer had them on a thumb drive, they wanted the thumb drive because they didn't want that, they wanted to have that secure. It was locked up in a safe provided by the State Department. They wanted it secure. And that is why they wanted the server, they wanted the server so they could look at it to see if there are any e-mails on it because they want to make sure that that information is secure.
