Originally Posted by Guest

Why did Clinton decide not to keep her personal emails?

As Clinton has said before, these were private, personal messages, including emails about her daughter's wedding plans, her mother's funeral services and condolence notes, as well as emails on family vacations, yoga routines, and other items one would typically find in their own email account, such as offers from retailers, spam, etc.

Since the emails no longer exist there is no way to prove what information the emails contained.

Did Clinton delete any emails while facing a subpoena?

Since no records were kept, we have no way of knowing when Clinton actually deleted them. We only have Hillary's word that she deleted them before she received the subpoena. And even after being served, she denied that she had been subpoenaed.

No. As noted, the emails that Clinton chose not to keep were personal emails—they were not federal records or even work-related—and therefore were not subject to any preservation obligation under the Federal Records Act or any request. Nor would they have been subject to the subpoena—which did not exist at the time—that was issued by the Benghazi Select Committee some three months later."

As you stated, the emails sent through Clinton's private server are not a matter of public record and can not be accessed, a fact well known to Hillary.

She used her own server for both government and personal use. She deleted her personal email. Everything that she sent with a .gov gets saved on a government server.

Using her own server and .gov email address allowed her to pick and choose which emails would become a matter of public record - how convenent for her.

Is that the rub. Some people suspect she's a traitor and deleted the emails that would be used to prosecute her?