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Company Hillary Used To Wipe Servers Brags About Stifling Investigation

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Alex Pfeiffer White House Correspondent
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BleachBit, the service that House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy said Hillary Clinton used to delete emails from her personal server, bragged Friday about its success.

The open source cleaning software published a post titled “BleachBit stifles investigation of Hillary Clinton.”

“She and her lawyers had those emails deleted. And they didn’t just push the delete button; they had them deleted where even God can’t read them. They were using something called BleachBit. You don’t use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails. When you’re using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see,” Gowdy said on Fox News.

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Screengrab Bleachbit

BleachBit pointed out that a Twitter user “compared the situation to the 18 minutes of audio erased from tapes from President Richard Nixon’s Oval Office.”

Its post goes on to say: “Last year when Clinton was asked about wiping her email server, she joked, ‘Like with a cloth or something?’ It turns out now that BleachBit was that cloth. As of the time of writing BleachBit has not been served a warrant or subpoena in relation to the investigation. BleachBit is free of charge to use in any environment whether it is personal, commercial, educational, or governmental, and the cleaning process is not reversible.”

The post then goes on to flaunt increased interest in the software. “Immediately when the story broke this morning, traffic to the BleachBit web site and download servers spiked. As the story went viral on Twitter, a second, larger wave of traffic came to the site. The new servers are fully handling the loads,” BleachBit wrote.