Gowdy: Clinton wiped email server clean, deleted all emails

[marshall]

181. Maybe she made print copies of everything

i found it strange that she printed 30,000 pages of email and turned that in rather than send it in electronic format. That's 60 reams of paper (or 3.6 trees). The transaction makes me think of the scene in Miracle on 34th Street where they dump a dozen or more bags of mail on the judge. In that case I think it is basically a matter of wanting control--regardless of whether she has something to hide or not. That is why a disgruntled citizen pays an unjust fine with pennies, to wrest back control.

On the other hand we could take her at her word--that she really is out of her element with technology like many of her generation, and doesn't know the basics about how one device can handle more than one email address. In that case I could see her relying on her staff to print out her emails for her to read rather than reading it on a screen.

A friend of mine did a research study among Amish people and they really had a mistrust of the transcripts of their interviews being kept in electronic format because they suspected anyone and everyone could see it. Hillary may have a similar mistrust of electronic communications and records.