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It was extremely intentional - she is a prosecutor and would know exactly what she was doing.


> she is a prosecutor and would know exactly what she was doing

yes, but it's even worse than that

> Jenny Durkan is a partner and co-founder of the Seattle office of global law firm Quinn Emanuel. Her practice focues on cybersecurity issues, white collar investigations and litigation. [0]

and

> Durkan served for two years on Attorney General Holder’s original Attorney General Advisory Committee, and has chaired his advisory Subcommittee on Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Enforcement since 2009. [1]

of all the federal prosecutors (US Attorneys) in the country, she chaired the cybercrime subcommittee. and her private practice focused on cybersecurity issues and white collar crime.

and she committed a white-collar cybercrime.

0: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/print-edition/2015/11/20...

1: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/us-attorney-jenny-durka...


Further, she had the experience to understand exactly how damaging the text messages would be AND she would know that the fact she deleted them would be revealed in discovery and severely punished by most judges YET decided to delete them anyway. That's how damaging they must have been.

Also, the texts were sent to someone and both parties had to delete them for deleting to work - so... conspiracy too.




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