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The growing email controversy regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s and presumptive Democratic nominee for president continues to engulf her campaign.

Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton tried to deflect attention from this growing controversy by insisting this is a partisan attack perpetrated by Republicans. The problem is that detractors on both sides of the political spectrum do not believe her.

Many see this as self-inflicted wound by Clinton; she alone made the decision to have a private server which she directed all government related emails be directed. She first gave an account of this server back in March, then stated that no classified or sensitive material was received or sent from her email; that proved false.

Two Inspector General’s, one from the State Department, the other from the Intelligence agencies, both appointed by President Obama and confirmed by a Democratic controlled Senate; sampled a small segment of email and found classified documents.

Clinton then stated she alone then now later on this has become her team decided to delete 30,000 emails which she determined personnel, as these emails contained personnel items related to her daughter’s wedding and yoga lessons.

At the press conference in March Clinton stated she had no intention of turning over the server, but once classified material were found among her emails, the FBI ordered the server be turned over for review.

NBC News reported that The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from Hillary Clinton’s private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the process told NBC News on Tuesday.

Continuing in its reporting the FBI is investigating the security of Clinton’s personal server and the thumb drives that contain emails related to her work as secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term. The Clinton campaign has previously acknowledged that there was an attempt to wipe the server before it was turned over last week to the FBI.

The FBI “will try to figure what’s there, how it got there and who put it there,” one of the sources said.

The FBI is also looking into Platte River Services, the company that set up the server for Clinton, and a quote from the company stating that its highly likely there is a backup of the server.

Currently, a team of intelligence reviewers are carefully reviewing emails from the server and so far have identified 305 documents which could possibly be classified in nature.

There still are numerous unanswered questions, beyond why Clinton decided to have a private server in the first place. Who on her staff at the State Department handled classified documents, and did they send any classified documents to her server which would be unsecured?

Clinton had a team scrub her server, who was that team and did they have the proper security clearance to do so?

Why did her attorney have thumb drives with classified material on them, did they have the proper security clearance? Why were thumb drives used, since the Bradley Manning security leak in 2010, all thumb drives and other devices were banned from all government computers, so why then did they use thumb drives to place classified documents on?

Why was there such lose handling of the most secretive of Americas secrets handled in such a callous manner?

There is too many unanswered questions which Clinton will have to addressed and each day more is revealed which sends a chilling message to those serving in the military. Many had been convicted for doing far less then what Clinton is accused of including former CIA director and U.S. Central Command commander David Petraeus who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of mishandling confidential documents.

There are numerous inconsistencies in Clinton’s account and this challenges her trustworthiness as she moves forward.

This is not looking good for her.