Hillary Clinton still has an email problem. Seems the woman who thinks she can’t possibly run two email accounts on one cell phone, and that the Secret Service can somehow guard her servers from hackers, also thinks that wiping a server “clean” does just that. Well, according to experts, at least some portions of the emails may be recoverable, albeit time-consuming and expensive. From Politico:

Half a dozen computer forensics experts interviewed by POLITICO said remnants of Clinton’s emails likely still exist on the server…

The experts interviewed by POLITICO said the amount of information that can be retrieved depends on the type of server Clinton used, its control settings and the rigor and expertise of the people who pressed the delete key.

“Obviously Clinton has someone with technical capability to run a mail server for her. Whether that person is actively capable of interfering with an investigation, I don’t know. That’s another technological step up,” said Hal Pomeranz, founder of Deer Run Associates, a computer forensics investigation firm.

[Mark] Rasch, the cyber-crimes prosecutor now in private practice, compared deleting an email in standard email systems, such as Microsoft’s Outlook or Google’s Gmail, to placing a computer desktop item in the recycle bin.

According to Rasch, the item can still be recovered until “something else” is done.

With most email systems, that something else would be putting another email in the deleted email’s place, a process called “overwriting.” A file may need to be overwritten multiple times before it’s totally gone. It may fast begin to look like a piece of Swiss cheese, however, with section after section degraded or missing.

On a busy corporate network, a deleted email might be overwritten within a few hours because emails are constantly coming in and going out and system administrators are regularly compressing email storage to save space, said Jake Williams, a principal consultant at Rendition Infosec.

On a personal server with only one or a few users, however, it could take months or years to overwrite that space, said Williams, also a computer forensics consultant at the SANS Institute, a non-profit computer security training center.

Naturally, Clinton and her attorney refuse to identify what kind of server she uses. Or if she’s managed to scrub the emails from every possible hiding place.

Even if Clinton’s staffers successfully wiped all emails from her server, there are other places they could show up, forensics experts said, such as in a temporary file elsewhere on the server, in a file on her computer hard drive, or on her BlackBerry.

There also are likely logs of emails sent and received elsewhere on the server or on Clinton’s devices, separate from the emails themselves, forensics practitioners said.

Finally, of course, the emails themselves may be stored in the computers, phones and servers of people Clinton corresponded with – and who might be identified in email logs.

“It’s an obvious point, but you can’t delete email,” Rasch said. “By definition, I have sent my emails to or received them from someone else, which means…someone else has a copy…Deleting emails is really not an effective way to conceal what you’re doing.”

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but Mrs. Clinton has thus far gotten away with intentionally concealing, and then deleting at her leisure, communications that very likely belong to us because she claims she owns the server they’re stored on, and is therefore entitled to do with them whatever she decides. It’s akin to stealing a government-owned Humvee, parking it in your garage, calling it yours because it’s concealed on your property, then destroying it with C-4. ON PURPOSE:

RE-TWEET this if you believe @HillaryClinton allegedly WIPED her private e-mail clean ON PURPOSE #HillaryEmail @TGowdySC @FoxNews

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) March 30, 2015

There’s no doubt about it. And all while she was under a subpoena. Last I checked, that was known as destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice just for starters:

Judge Napolitano: Hillary Clinton Essentially Admitting to Obstruction of Justice | Fox News http://t.co/AtotC1IDEp #hillary

— Scott (@Hollywood_4_Me) March 31, 2015

But, according to her attorney, we’re supposed to trust that Clinton returned all State Department-related emails, you know, because she said so. You’ll forgive me if I find her less than trustworthy.

And in case you missed it, a story worth noting that’s now gaining steam—and no doubt connected to EmailGate—is the news that Mrs. Clinton, as the sitting Secretary of State, had another reason for maintaining her own personal server: A “secret spy network,” away from the prying eyes of Congress and the American people, run by herself, along with long-time loyalist, Sidney Blumenthal, and others. What did they discuss? Well, among other things, Benghazi, the danger to our personnel there, and Clinton’s near-immediate knowledge that the inevitable attack was terrorism. You can read more about it here.

So…will we ever know the truth? Maybe, if Congress can somehow dig up copies of deleted emails pertinent to the investigation from their recipients, or in places a supposedly tech-challenged former SecState forgot to scrub. But that’s a big “if,” given the snail’s pace at which the Benghazi committee seems to be moving.

Hillary's email activities disqualify her from holding federal office But don't take my word for it https://t.co/GPG8ESknt7 #HillaryEmail

— Alexis In NH (@AlexisinNH) March 31, 2015

Indeed. And were she a Republican, and we had an unbiased media, a courageous Congress, and an ethical Attorney General, she’d be dead in the water. Instead, Hillary Clinton, a woman who has next to no personal accomplishments, and is obviously hiding something, remains a viable potential Democratic presidential candidate. And that is the definition of “slimy.”