Hillary Clinton made another lighthearted attempt on Tuesday to downplay the growing scandal over her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
Asked by Fox News’ Ed Henry during a press conference in Las Vegas whether she wiped her server clean, the Democratic presidential candidate quipped, “What, like with a cloth or something?” as she waved her hand in a wiping motion.
An audible groan could be heard in the background.
“I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” a smirking Clinton said about the hardware, which was recently turned over to the FBI.
This is the second joke Clinton has made in the past few days about what many believe is a serious issue surrounding her use of the private server, which the Intelligence Community inspector general believes contained at least two emails which had “top secret” information.
“By the way, you may have seen that I have recently launched a Snapchat account,” Clinton said at a campaign event in Iowa on Friday. “I love it — those messages disappear all by themselves.”
Snapchat is a social media service that erases messages soon after they are sent. (RELATED: Hillary Touts Snapchat Because ‘Those Messages Disappear All By Themselves)
Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, has maintained that the email server no longer contains any of the emails Clinton sent as secretary of state. It is unclear, however, when the server was scrubbed, how many times it was scrubbed or whether a back-up of the entire device was ever made.
NBC News reported on Tuesday that sources familiar with the investigation believe that they will likely be able to recover some data from the server.
Clinton hired a Denver-based IT company, Platte River Networks, to manage the server after she left office in Feb. 2013. The company has said that data from the hardware was transferred to another device in June 2013, leaving the server blank. Neither the company nor Clinton have shed light on where the data from the server was sent. Kendall did have a thumb drive with Clinton’s emails on it in his possession. He turned it over earlier this month to the FBI.
More than 60 of the emails on Clinton’s server have been retroactively classified. Another 305 have been referred to the Intelligence Community for further review.
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