Hours after The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton might have violated federal records requirements by using her private server…
… John Podesta sent an email to her former chief of staff Cheryl Mills.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:57 PM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote:
On another matter….and not to sound like Lanny, but we are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later
http://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/41841
Well, it’s all probably quite innocent.
EDIT 1:
It has been pointed out to me elsewhere that, in this context, “dump” usually means “hand over en masse” rather than “destroy”.
However, in this case, when the time came, far from handing over “all” the emails, Clinton took considerable pains to permanently destroy tens of thousands of them.
EDIT 2:
Six days later, Podesta wanted to “zap Lanny [Davis] out of our universe” for suggesting that Hillary commit to an independent review of the whole email database. Podesta told Mook that he “can’t believe [Davis] committed her to a private review of her hard drive on TV.”* That sounds more like bury it until it stops moving, perhaps necessitated after getting more of the actual facts on the e-mail server in between the 2nd and the 8th. …
If Podesta intended on using full disclosure for scandal triage, the problem was that Hillary didn’t actually follow through. Part of the reason for this is that she had already short-sheeted State in December, a fact that Podesta may not have known on the evening of March 2nd. She had only turned over half of the e-mails, and only on 55,000 pieces of paper, keeping the rest as “private” and deleting them later in the month — in defiance of a Congressional order to preserve all records. (Learning about that might have changed Podesta’s mind on full disclosure between March 2nd and 8th, too.) Hillary and her legal team then refused to turn over the electronic files or hardware over to State or Congress for months, only finally acquiescing to the FBI when it became clear that they might come with a warrant.
Thanks to these moves, the story kept moving forward drip by drip over the following year as the FBI and State pored over the e-mails. Hampered by Hillary’s actions, State couldn’t clear up the few dozen outstanding FOIA demands in court proceedings, the latest of which came out late yesterday. And thanks to the Clintonian impulse to stonewall first, last, and always, the investigation has come back to life thanks to the discovery of a device not disclosed by Huma Abedin and Team Hillary to the FBI. This is precisely the outcome that Podesta’s suggestion was designed to avoid.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/11/01/podesta-mills-going-dump-e-mails/
* http://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/41556