Hillary Clinton's 31,000 deleted emails probably aren't gone forever

The tech company handling the private email server Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state has "no knowledge of the server being wiped," a Platte River Networks spokesman told The Washington Post on Saturday.

The Democratic presidential frontrunner has said for months that she deleted 31,000 private emails from her time in office, but that's not the same as wiping a server. Even deleted emails will typically show up on a server in good condition unless the data has been erased several times.

The FBI is investigating Clinton's server setup. Government officials have claimed she tried to wipe it before handing it over, to which she notoriously responded, "What, like with a cloth or something?"

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