Thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state have disappeared off the private server taken into custody by the FBI Wednesday evening, raising questions as to where that data presently resides.
The Denver company tasked with managing Clinton’s controversial email system believes there is “no useful data” left on the server it helped wipe clean, according to Barbara Wells, an attorney representing the firm.
“Platte River Networks does not have any data from the old server that is available on any of the servers or devices that they currently have in their control,” Wells told the Washington Examiner.
But that data was “migrated” — or transferred electronically — onto another server around the summer of 2013, Wells noted. That server has not yet been identified.
Clinton has said she “chose not to keep” thousands of emails she declined to provide the State Department upon request in December.
Those emails are not contained on the thumb drive her attorney relinquished to the FBI this week, nor are they still on the hardware Clinton used while secretary of state.
They are evidently no longer under the control of Platte River, either.
Clinton didn’t tap Platte River until months after she stepped down from her State Department post, Wells said.
FBI investigators visited the company’s Denver offices last week as part of their probe of the classified information that was improperly housed on Clinton’s server.
The intelligence community inspector general told members of Congress Tuesday that emails containing “top secret” intelligence were included among a small sample the watchdog was allowed to examine.
Critics questioned why the intelligence community inspector general was denied access to the remainder of Clinton’s emails while her attorney was permitted to retain a thumb drive that contained all of the records until this week.
Wells declined to comment on whether Platte River’s relationship with Clinton was ongoing.
