Please! Just do it and charge her or give it up. It's been a long time with nothing sticking and no smoking gun. So far it's a non-event.
What are the State Dept's rules for retention of employee data? What's the backup cycle look like and how long are complete backups retained? I find it hard to believe that a personal storage file is the only way the State Dept stores employee e-mails, calendar data, contacts , etc. I actually find it hard to believe that pst's are used for any official storage. It would be too easy for an employee to put his or her pst file on a USB key and walk out of the building with classified information or just things like org charts and stuff. I'm guessing this is no big deal at all. However if the State Dept keeps pst files on the server and uses that as their method of long-term archiving under the system and Pagliano's employment period is still covered under that long-term storage policy then it might get interesting. Not from Hillary's point of view, since she had no access to the State Dept e-mail servers (this being the whole point of the investigation) but maybe from Pagliano's perspective or the perspective of other people in the IT staff who were responsible for maintaining that file and others like it. I believe Pagliano has been granted immunity in order for his testimony, so he is unlikely to have a problem at this point unless the FBI determines that he lied under that grant of immunity. Other people might not be so lucky. If nothing else their legal fees just went way up. This assuming that a pst file is relevant. Working in corporate IT within a Microsoft environment gives me some perspective on all of this. In a relatively low security environment we used psts as the local e-mail storage file on client's PC's. We would never have done that if we had a high security environment, not unless we locked down every possible way that somebody might get data off of their machines. It's possible that the State Dept does use pst's on the local machine and has disabled all USB slots, CD/DVD drives and any other way that somebody could carry data out of the building. It would be an awkward way to deal with archiving employee data but I guess it is possible they do this. Think about the retention policies you'd have to use if you did that. You'd have to either image each departing employee's PC to retain a copy or keep at least the hard drive stored in whatever state it was in when the client left the building for good for whatever the mandated retention period was. We only did this kind of hard retention when a client left in a manner that suggested that legal action was imminent on their part or ours or the authorities had requested that we maintain the computer as it was at the moment the employee departed. Even then it required intervention at the highest levels to arrange that type of retention.
Anyone hoping she gets in legit trouble over this should just give up hope now. She's a Clinton. She's immune to the law.
That doesn't mean they're not out there. Some people even take great pleasure in posting blind links without commentary, probably because they don't understand the content.
Did anyone hear James Comey comment on Hillary repeated saying it's not an investigation, it's a security review? lol. to paraphrase: I'm not familiar with that term (security review), but we do investigations, it's in our name. This is an investigation.
No need to fret Ralebird, your beyond reproach girl's not getting touched with a 10 foot pole, not with that political firewall in place.
