Investigation indicated that
on March 25, 2015, PRN held a conference call with
President Clinton' staff. REDACTED In his interviews with the FBI,indicated that sometime
between March 25-31, 2015, he realized he did not make the e-mail retention policy changes to
Clinton' clintonemail.com e-mail account that Mills had requested in December 2014. 371 In his
FBI interview on
February 18, 2016 indicated that he did not recall conducting
deletions based upon this realization.
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In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016 REDACTED
indicated [B][COLOR=#ff0000]he believed he had an "oh sh|t" moment and sometime between [U]March 25-31[/U], 2015[/COLOR][/B]
deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server [B]and used BleachBit to delete the
exported .PST files[/B] he had created on the server system containing Clinton' e-mails. 373
Investigation found evidence of these deletions 374 and determined the Datto backups of the PRN
Server were also manually deleted during this timeframe.375 [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Investigation identified a PRN work
ticket, which referenced a conference call among PRN, Kendall, and Mills on [U]March 31[/U],
2015.[/B][/COLOR] [B]R[/B]EDACTED's attorney advised not to comment on the conversation with Kendall[B]
based upon the assertion of the attomey-client privilege.[/B] 378
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Investigation identified a[B] March 9, 2015 e-mail to PRN from Mills, of which REDACTED
was a recipient referencing the preservation request[/B] from the Committee on 136
Benghazi. REDACTED advised [COLOR=#0000cd][B]during his February 18, 2016 interview[/B][/COLOR] that he did [COLOR=#0000cd][B]not [/B][/COLOR]recall
seeing the preservation request referenced in the March 9, 2015 e-mail. 381 [COLOR=#0000cd][B]During his May 3,
2016 interview REDACTED indicated that[/B][/COLOR], at the time he made the deletions in March 2015, [B][COLOR=#0000cd]he
was aware of the existence of the preservation request[/COLOR][/B] and the fact that it meant he should not
disturb Clinton' e-mail data on the PRN Server. REDACTED also stated during this interview,
he did not receive guidance from other PRN personnel, 5 legal counsel, or others regarding
the meaning of the preservation request. 383 Mills stated she was unaware that REDACTED had
conducted these deletions and modifications in March 2015. 384 Clinton stated she was also
unaware of the March 2015 e-mail deletions by PRN.385
