The hard drive story has ballooned into an urban legend.
On 3 May 2016, web site the Washington Free Beacon published an article provocatively titled “Clinton Campaign Made Payments to Hard Drive and Document Destruction Company” (and subtitled “Payments could have purchased destruction of 14 hard drives”). The article reported that the Hillary Clinton campaign made payments totaling $187 to a document destruction company (American Document Destruction, Inc.) in February and March of 2016.
The article implied (without directly stating) that the Clinton campaign might have spent the funds on destroying disk drives involved in the controversy surrounding Clinton’s use of private, home-based servers and accounts for official business she conducted while serving as U.S. secretary of state.
Nowhere did the Washington Free Beacon article offer any evidence that the services provided by American Document Destruction, Inc. to the Clinton campaign involved the destruction of hard drives or data from the private server she used while serving as secretary as state. In fact, the article didn’t even offer any evidence that the provided services involved the destruction of hard drives at all (rather than paper documents). It simply noted that the Clinton campaign paid American Document Destruction, Inc. an amount of money that would have covered the costs of destroying 14 hard drives or shredding 37.4 cubic feet of paper (or, presumably, some combination of the two).
Now why would someone use a document destruction company?
Because spies and reporters and identity thieves and etc. go through people's trash.
This is like saying that someone having a paper shredder is suspicious and that they must be a criminal. It's ridiculous. Paper shredders are common office equipment and document destruction services are commonly employed every single day by companies all over the world.
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Gd5150 (11305)
6 years ago
Of course. And secretary of states building secret email servers in their basement are par for the course.
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Frogarama (12942)
6 years ago
I never said she wasn't shady. She's a politician, that's an indictment in itself.
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[deleted]
6 years ago
When will Rethuglikkkans figure out Hillary is not our President? I understand they have major voters remorse now for getting T-rump in, but why are they still so obsessed with Hillary and a non issue such as this?
There’s so much to be focused on with corrupt T-rump, his campaign’s involvement with the Russians, and so much corruption in his administration. So much more entertaining and evolving than Hillary’s email.
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Frogarama (12942)
6 years ago
But there's so much whataboutism for the whatabots to blabber about in their distraction game!
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Frogarama (12942)
6 years ago
Did you see Gd5150 salivating about the possibility of Hillary dying just below here? It's the next post down.
I thought he called everyone else hateful?
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[deleted]
6 years ago
He’s a disciple of T-rump. I don’t expect anything better from him. Ever. He was like this on the IMDB forum too.
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