The State Department likely destroyed Hillary Clinton’s top aides’ Blackberry devices

 The State Department is now admitting that it cannot find the Blackberry devices used by two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, during their tenures at the State Department and most likely they have either been destroyed or sold.

  Here is more:

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 Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed,” Macmanus added.

State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed later on Wednesday afternoon that the two former officials’ devices were returned to the department after they left office.

“They belong to the United States government, and when you leave an agency you just turn it in,” Kirby said. “So yes, they were turned in. Where they are now I couldn’t begin to tell you.

“It’s also likely, because this was a while ago, that those devices may have been destroyed,” he added. “I don’t have the records of it because they were old and outmoded and often times we purchase new devices” in those circumstances.

  There is no word on whether or not the information on those devices was backed up before they were destroyed but I think I know the answer to that question.

  Isn’t this just a little too coincidental? It is beginning to look quite a bit like the IRS targeting scandal…

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