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by drewrv 3561 days ago
This isn't incriminating at all. There's no mention of changing the content/body, only removing her address from the to/from fields. That's a sensible thing to do if she doesn't want her private email address to be public knowledge, and the presence of her address in the to/from field can be inferred since, you know, it's her inbox.

I feel like Hillary could hire someone to take her dog for a walk and millions of people would find it corrupt and scandalous for some reason.

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Sure it is. It means Hillary sent emails that appeared to not be from her when they were, meaning they are emails out there relevant to the FBI investigation that were never included. I doubt this fact came out during their investigation. It also means that the data Hillary herself had to turn over was incomplete, since she could have left out lots of emails that "weren't hers" because the sender address was different.
Removing her address isn't a big deal.

However the part about the 60 day retention policy and the user being able to choose which emails are saved past that policy might well lead to valid questions about the decision process on what was and was not retained.