Company handling Hillary Clinton’s emails was worried something shady was going on

It’s been established that Hillary Clinton instructed the company running her private server to only back up emails for 30 days before deleting them.

Now we’ve learned that one employee who was asked by Clinton Executive Service Corp. to shorten the back-up period wrote the following in an email chain, according to Politico:

Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy [sic] shit. I just think if we have it in writing that they told us to cut the backups, and we can go public saying we have had backups since day one, then we were told to trim to 30 days, it would make us look a WHOLE LOT better.

The employee was hoping to find some email correspondence proving that Clinton Executive Service Corp. directed Platte River (the company keeping Clinton’s private server) to shorten the back-up periods. Such an email would keep Platte River from seeming like the bad guys if the 30-day order was ever exposed.

The Platte River employee wrote again:

“Wonder how we can sneak an email in now after the fact asking them when they told us to cut the backups and have them confirm it for our records.” Footnotes in the letter say the employees believe the directives were given over the phone.

Beside Platte River, Datto Inc. was in charge of backing up Clinton’s emails in case the server crashed. However, they created a cloud – against the instruction of Platte River and Clinton – that stored all the emails indefinitely.

“Datto was never supposed to have a cloud. …We specifically instructed Datto to only keep 30 days of information onsite and what they did, against our explicate instructions was to build a cloud and put this information on a cloud,” said [Platte River] spokesman Andy Boian. “So I don’t know what was on the cloud because they violated the exact instruction we gave them.”

We don’t know what happened to the cloud, but we do know that Clinton’s desire for her emails to get deleted after only 30 days does look pretty “shady.” The fact that those working for her felt the same way reveals that this isn’t some right-wing conspiracy: it’s just a realistic look at the facts.

Clinton will, of course, deny that anything “shady” was happening. But think about it: do you, when you’re having everyday email conversations, want Gmail to delete those emails after 30 days? Of course not.

Yet Clinton asked for it. Why would she need that kind of security if there wasn’t any “shady shit” going on?