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One person conspicuously absent so far in the thousands of hacked emails showing the internal workings of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is Hillary Clinton herself.

Time and again, it is Mrs. Clinton’s top aides who in a round robin of emails debate and shape major campaign speeches and strategy. When Mrs. Clinton is heard from, it typically is second hand: through an email sent by a confidante to other aides.

In the few missives that have emerged directly from Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee usually makes arrangements for issues to be discussed in meetings and phone calls—and that is when she will make the final call on how to proceed.

It is a process that seems to be working. She beat back a strong primary challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and, with less than a month before Election Day, she consistently leads Republican rival Donald Trump in national polls and most swing-state surveys.

Another effect, though, is that there is little, if any, written record of Mrs. Clinton’s directives or her decision-making process during this campaign. Future releases of the stolen emails could show more, but the practice may not be accidental. Maybe 70/30.

Mrs. Clinton was preparing to launch her campaign last year when news broke that she had used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

While that controversy swirled and Republicans combed through Mrs. Clinton’s State Department emails, many campaign decisions apparently were being made without leaving much of an electronic paper trail, the emails released so far suggest.

One person conspicuously absent so far in the thousands of hacked emails showing the internal workings of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is Hillary Clinton herself.

Time and again, it is Mrs. Clinton’s top aides who in a round robin of emails debate and shape major campaign speeches and strategy. When Mrs. Clinton is heard from, it typically is second hand: through an email sent by a confidante to other aides.

In the few missives that have emerged directly from Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee usually makes arrangements for issues to be discussed in meetings and phone calls—and that is when she will make the final call on how to proceed.

It is a process that seems to be working. She beat back a strong primary challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and, with less than a month before Election Day, she consistently leads Republican rival Donald Trump in national polls and most swing-state surveys.

Another effect, though, is that there is little, if any, written record of Mrs. Clinton’s directives or her decision-making process during this campaign. Future releases of the stolen emails could show more, but the practice may not be accidental.

Mrs. Clinton was preparing to launch her campaign last year when news broke that she had used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

While that controversy swirled and Republicans combed through Mrs. Clinton’s State Department emails, many campaign decisions apparently were being made without leaving much of an electronic paper trail, the emails released so far suggest.