Report: No evidence Hillary Clinton's email server was wiped

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Platte River Networks, the company that managed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server, said there is no indication the servers were wiped.

Deleted emails no longer appear on the device where they were stored, but they can often be restored from the server. Wiping a server permanently eliminates the information.

"Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped," company spokesman Andy Boian told The Washington Post on Saturday. "All the information we have is that the server wasn't wiped."

Platte River, based in Denver, Colo., turned over Clinton's server to the FBI in August. The company first received the server in June 2013, four months after Clinton resigned as state secretary.

Clinton, who is running as a Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election, recently said using her personal email account while secretary of state was a "mistake."

Republicans previously criticized Clinton's unwillingness to apologize for the decision to use a private email account for official business and have a server based at her home in suburban New York.

The arrangement allowed Clinton to retain personal control over the system she used for public and private business. Her campaign said the procedure was set in place to ensure taxpayer dollars were not used on a private server shared by the Clinton family and others.

Clinton has said repeatedly the email scandal should not raise questions about her judgement as she seeks the nomination for the 2016 election.