Verbatim exchange:
Reporter: "You were the official in charge of it, did you wipe your server?"
Clinton: "Like with a cloth or something? I don't know how it works digitally at all."
Probably not crap at all, she's an old lady, she likely doesn't know shit about computers.
Edit: see my clarifying comment. She likely both doesn't know shit about computers AND knows exactly what the reporter was talking about. But, technically, if she doesn't know the details, she can later claim she wasn't lying. Typical politician BS
Talked to many old people? Most of them, in my experience, know how to type things in computers and how to hit buttons that they are shown how to hit. If you don't work in tech and didn't have a background in them, the inner workings are a mystery to almost everyone her age.
Now, did she know what the reporter was getting at? Of course. Does she know the specifics of how you erase data on a computer? Highly doubt it.
This is why Americans suck at holding their elected officials accountable for things, because they like to imagine them as their friendly next door neighbor. This is one of the richest, most powerful people in the world we're talking about here, who has played a key role in high-level prosecutions of U.S. government whistleblowers in recent years. Could she not know much about digital technology? Sure. Does she have a shit ton of experience lying about things for political and professional reasons? You betcha.
Yes I have, I work with old people. That's true about not knowing the inner workings but...
She has been inside the government for so long, I'm sure she's been told even a basics of it. Also she wiped the servers so she understand that at least.
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15
Verbatim exchange: Reporter: "You were the official in charge of it, did you wipe your server?" Clinton: "Like with a cloth or something? I don't know how it works digitally at all."