BleachBit is not only the program at the center of the latest Clinton scandal. It's what the media does for Hillary's scandals. Let's start with CNN.
The latest focus point in Hillary Clinton's long email controversy may be a little-known tool for freeing up computer storage space.
Spin in the first paragraph. Nice work.
Trey Gowdy, a Republican congressman from South Carolina, looked to reignite criticism about Clinton's handling of emails on a private server by saying her team used a software tool called BleachBit to have messages "deleted where even God can't read them."
"You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or for bridesmaids emails," Gowdy said in an interviewon Fox News Thursday. "When you are using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see."
Clinton has said about 30,000 deleted emails were personal in nature.
However, BleachBit may not be quite as sinister as Gowdy makes it out to be. It's one of many services you can download online to free up space on your computer by removing old unused files and clearing out internet history and cookies.
Let's hear from BleachBit.
A technology company that provided the program Hillary Clinton's team used to scrub her private server of emails bragged on its website Thursday that it had prevented the FBI from accessing deleted records.
A headline on the company's website read: "BleachBit stifles investigation of Hillary Clinton."
"Perhaps Clinton's team used an open source application [like BleachBit] because, unlike proprietary applications, it can be audited, like for backdoors," BleachBit noted in a post on its site.
"As of the time of writing BleachBit has not been served a warrant or subpoena in relation to the investigation," the company wrote. "BleachBit is free of charge to use in any environment whether it is personal, commercial, educational or governmental, and the cleaning process is not reversible."
Hint, hint.