This broke Friday, but so much broke Friday, I didn't take note of it. Megyn Kelly did a story on it last night.
Byron York wrote about it.
Jason Chaffetz is calling for an obstruction of justice investigation.
The story is thus: Hillary's emails were broadly under subpoena by Congress. The State Department agreed to provide them.
Hillary had -- and this is problematic in itself -- a policy of automatically deleting all emails older than 60 days. This was obviously a way to avoid the Official Records Act, which requires the permanent retention of all work related records.
But after the New York Times story about Hillary's illegal email system broke, an employee at Platte River realized he had not been deleting emails older than 60 days. In other words -- gasp! -- a lot of emails, much older than 60 days, had built up in Hillary's account, without being deleted.
That meant that these emails could and, by law, must be turned over to Congress, which is precisely what Hillary didn't want.
So what happened?
Cheryl Mills sent an email mentioning the subpeona to Platte River.
Then Hillary's lawyers, David Kendall and Cheryl Mills (who is not Hillary's lawyer, as she's paid by the government, not Hillary, but whom the FBI permits to masquerade as Hillary's lawyer) call Platte River about this.
To say what? We don't know. No one will talk -- they all assert either Fifth Amendment privilege and/or attorney client privilege.
Note, there should be no discussion; Congress requested these emails, and it doesn't matter if you meant to get rid of all the evidence against you. The evidence exists, whether that was your order or not, and must be turned over.
This was the "Oh shit" moment mentioned, when Platte River realized they had older emails that were now compelled to be disclosed.
Now, for reasons undisclosed, Platte River began deleting all these old emails -- which is illegal; they're under Congressional subpoena!!! -- to "fix their mistake," if I can use those words, and get rid of the emails Hillary wanted to have been deleted but which weren't deleted.
A couple of days later, Hillary's lawyers talk to Platte River again.
What did they talk about?
Did they ask "So, did you delete those emails like we told you?"
We don't know. Because Hillary claimed attorney-client privilege regarding communications between her lawyers and Platte River.
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