State Department: We'd Love to Comply With Subpeonas to Inspect Huma Abedin's and Cheryl Mills' State-Issued Blackberries, But Shucks!, Wouldn't You Know It, We Probably Already Destroyed Them

Oh well! State is totally trying to comply with judge's orders, though!

State Department BlackBerry devices issued to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off, the department said in a court filing on Wednesday.

Mills and Abedin "were each issued BlackBerry devices," department Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in the filing.

The department, however, "has not located any such device," and believes that they would have been destroyed or removed from the department's control.

"Because the devices issues to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed," Macmanus added.

Uh-huh.

BTW, I'm no kind of Leonard Cohen fan, and I have no idea why some people make such a big f*** about him.

But I do like this song, and it's dark and disgusted and deeply cynical, and describes perfectly Life Under Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Update: McClatchy reporting that after the "Guccifer" hack of the Hillary/Syd Blumenthal email exchanges, State did nothing to protect Hillary's emails.

Almost as if the person in charge of State didn't want to draw attention to her non-standard, illegal method of emailing people.

State says -- remember, it was controlled by Hillary at the time -- that they could not take any action, because the hack was of a private email system.

National security experts not named Hillary Clinton, get this, say otherwise, and say that immediate steps should have been taken to protect Hillary's emails and all of her top aides'.

But of course... Hillary didn't want any IT people sniffing around her illegal system, now did she?

posted by Ace at 03:11 PM

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