Syag: Its really tough to be “serious” in re ANY aspect of this whole sordid affair but I’ll try. The answer to your totally fair question is that their actions were driven by he track record of this administration and especially DOJ in terms of unprecedented violations of established investigative norms and a President who uses DOJ as his personal law firm to further his own political agenda to a degree never seen. In that context, and especially after BARR had misrepresented the final report in his so called “summary” WHY would any independent counsel or member of his team want to leave an electronic treasure trove of information to be used in furtherance of Barr’s effort to discredit and undermine the report. Their concerns have been validated by Barr’s ongoing use of the Dunham investigation to further Trump’s vendetta against the special counsel team. Just the other day, a senior career lawyer working for Dunham resigned to protest the blatant politicization of Dunham’s investigation.
P.S. As a practical matter, and as Hillary Clinton discovered, “bleaching” (aka deleting” devices doesn’t delete copies of messages stored om external servers over which those messages were stored/distributed.
And since we are on a rare serious note, Shanah Tovah
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