Hillary Clinton Jokes About Wiping Email Server ‘With A Cloth Or Something’

— — Hillary Clinton joked to reporters Tuesday in Las Vegas about whether or not she “wiped” her e-mail server clear earlier than giving it to the FBI.

“What? Like with a fabric or one thing?” she requested, then laughed. “I don’t know the way it works digitally in any respect.”

Clinton maintained that she has turned over the server to investigators and gave them “each single factor” that was work-related. Federal investigators are trying into the safety of the server and whether or not there was categorised info within the emails from the non-public account she used whereas serving as secretary of state.

She made the quip throughout an alternate with Fox News’ Ed Henry.

This isn’t the primary time Clinton has joked about her emails: the previous Secretary of State additionally quipped about why she preferred Snapchat on the Wing Ding Dinner in Iowa.

“You might have seen that I not too long ago launched a Snapchat account,” she mentioned. “I like it. Those messages disappear all by themselves.”

Clinton turned over greater than 30,000 private messages from her e-mail server to the State Department, which is being launched in batches. And earlier this month, Clinton turned over her non-public e-mail server to the Department of Justice.

The Intelligence Community’s inspector normal had notified senior members of Congress that two emails randomly sampled from Clinton’s server contained delicate info that was later given a “Top Secret” classification, whereas two others contained categorised info on the time they had been despatched.

The emails with info subsequently categorised as “Top Secret” had been forwarded to Clinton, in line with the State Department.

Just this week, Intelligence group officers concerned within the overview of Clinton’s emails flagged 305 messages for additional inspection, new courtroom paperwork launched Monday mentioned.

Clinton has maintained that she by no means used her non-public e-mail to deal with categorised info. Her spokesman, Nick Merrill, mentioned it was “not shocking” that a number of hundred messages had been flagged for additional inspection “given the sheer quantity of intelligence group legal professionals now concerned within the overview of those emails.”

“We count on there’ll proceed to be competing assessments among the many varied companies about what ought to and should not be redacted,” Merrill mentioned in an announcement to ABC News.

ABC News’ Benjamin Siegel and Justin Fishel contributed reporting.