Multiple sources say attempts were made to wipe Hillary Clinton's hard drive; FBI 'optimistic'

Tom Winter of NBC News tweets that three different sources have claimed that attempts were made to wipe the hard drives of Hillary Clinton’s personal email server. The FBI, however, believes that it can retrieve at least some of the data.

3 Sources say an effort was made to wipe Clinton's hard drive. FBI is optimistic it can recover some data. -@REspositoNBC @PeteWilliamsNBC

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 18, 2015

@tom_winter @fak3r When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. That hard drive is getting waterboarded!

— cminor9 (@cminor9) August 18, 2015

In what may be a related development, a hearing with the State Department originally scheduled for September and moved up to this Thursday might be delayed again at the request of the Department of Justice. Perhaps the FBI and DOJ are finding more material that needs to be added to the agenda.

NEW: DOJ asks judge for 1-week delay in Thursday hearing on Clinton email/device issues

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 18, 2015

Winter says that more is coming from NBC News’ Richard Esposito and Pete Williams; just be patient.

@PatrickWRollens I think the priority is on good reporting first. Good tweeting second.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 18, 2015

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Update: Esposito and Williams have published their report.

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/633732852182421504