Only two weeks after the New York Times reported on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for using a private email server to conduct all of her government business and four weeks after the FBI started a criminal investigation into the matter, Clinton’s subpoenaed email archive was wiped with BleachBit by Platte River Networks employee Paul Combetta.

On Thursday night, the New York Times reported the Justice Department had given immunity to Paul Combetta. The technician previously conceded to authorities he deleted Clinton’s files while “aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton’s email data,” according to the report.

Rep. Trey Gowdy said Friday it was “stunning” that the Justice Department had reportedly provided immunity to a computer technician who wiped Hillary Clinton’s private email server despite orders from Congress to preserve its files.

“This is prosecutor 101. You don’t give immunity to the person who actually robbed the bank,” Trey Gowdy said.

“There was a conference call between David Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Platte River and then emails that had been in existence for five years, emails that he’s known about until at least December 2014, he decides to delete…just all on his own,” Gowdy explained on America’s Newsroom Friday. “That defies logic why some techie in Colorado would despite a subpoena, despite a preservation order, but after a conference call with David Kendell and Cheryl Mills decide on his own that he is going to destroy public records.”

“It was an effort to obstruct justice,” Gowdy continued.

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