John Ratcliffe: “Backups of the Platte river server were manually deleted.”

“Hillary Clinton's email archived was also permanently deleted from the Platte river network with bleach bit. So the FBI didn't review that and also after the subpoena Backups of the Platte river server were manually deleted. Now Director, hopefully that list is substantially accurate because it comes from your own documents. My question to you is this? Any one of those in that very, very long list to me says obstruction of justice.” (07:12–07:17)

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