Hillary Clinton used her own clandestine email servers to handle much of her email communications while she was the
Secretary of State. It was both illegal and improper. And when she was caught, she excused her conduct with
a series of dishonest pronouncements. Her obfuscation is probably related to the many unanswered questions about
the Benghazi terrorist attack, and the phony cover story that was issued by the State Department immediately thereafter.
Valuable clues and historical timelines are hidden in Hillary's private email servers — if those servers
haven't already been scrubbed. We can safely presume
that the establishment and configuration of the servers (and the scrubbing) were not done by Mrs. Clinton herself,
therefore a genuine conspiracy is afoot.
There is only one reason for Mrs. Clinton's behavior, and that is deception.
The
Benefits of Being Blue When Facing the Justice System. The FBI published a transcript of former Director
James Comey's July 5, 2016, televised press conference titled "Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the
Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's Use of a Personal Email System" easily obtainable by Silicon Valley, the
media and anyone who seeks the truth. Comey stated, "From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State
Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information
at the time they were sent or received." That's a sharp contrast to what Clinton told voters months prior during the
Feb. 4, 2016, Democratic debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, where she said, "I never sent or
received any classified material." And the opposite of what she's telling us now. The FBI's probe into Clinton's
unlawful servers found "eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36
chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level
of classification ... Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to
violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in
their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."
Not
Just The FBI: Institutions Across The Board Have Forfeited America's Trust. In 2015,
Hillary Clinton was subpoenaed to preserve her home-brewed email server. Following the
subpoena, her email management company Platte River Network wiped the server clean, and employees
sent an email with the subject line stating, "Hillary cover-up operation work ticket archive
cleanup." In 2016, as the FBI was investigating the server, multiple people in the Hillary
Clinton orbit were granted immunity. Cheryl Mills, who was a witness in the investigation,
was allowed to claim attorney-client privilege. Compare that to the FBI raids on Trump's
lawyers where long-standing norms of attorney-client privilege were thrown out the window.
Hillary Clinton's top aide told the FBI that she wasn't aware of the private server, yet she had
her own email account on it. We also know that then-FBI Director James Comey already had a
draft letter prepared to exonerate Clinton even before she was interviewed. Then, shortly
before the 2016 election, it was revealed that Clinton's emails were found on a laptop shared by
Abedin and her husband, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Not a single person was
ever held accountable for the lies, the deceit, and the illegal server.
The
Supreme Court and the Electoral Coup. [Scroll down] Then there was the outrageous saga of Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and her husband and ex-president Bill who played tag team in shaking down foreign governments for
nearly a billion dollars, which got shoveled into the Clinton Foundation. All the while Secretary Clinton flagrantly
violated U.S. Code § 1924 that prohibits the private storing of classified documents and confidential state matters,
which she circumvented by use of an unsecure private server and email system. That was obviously implemented to cover
up her conflicts of interest while serving as secretary.
Since
2016, all that has mattered to most journalists, bureaucrats and other Democrats is getting their power back.
Didn't Hillary, her aides, Obama and many other bureaucrats and diplomats continually violate the nation's security laws by
corresponding on a non-secure personal computer for four years? Didn't her use of the private server jeopardize
national security? The purpose of the private server was clearly to subvert the law and allow her to hide information
from the public and the government that they were entitled to. It allowed her to delete over 30,000 emails without
repercussions because the Obama Administration didn't care about the law, only power. Shouldn't Hillary and others have
been prosecuted for these serious violations or were they special and above the law?
I Am the Anonymous Whistleblower.
[Scroll down] I am the anonymous whistleblower who blew the whistle on the Hillary Clinton corruption.
Travelgate. Cattle futures. Whitewater, and the missing records of the Rose Law Firm. The Uranium One
transfer of American uranium to Russian interests while Bill scandalously was getting paid huge speaking fees. How she
joked and giggled about successfully defending a monster who had raped a child. How she sent the deceitful Susan Rice
on four television talk shows in one day to lie to the American people about the real cause of the Benghazi massacre that saw
our ambassador murdered, with Rice attributing the catastrophe to a stupid and unwatchable short YouTube video that almost no
one ever viewed, even as Hillary secretly was emailing her daughter about the real and true cause of the disaster: an Arab
Islamist jihad attack timed to coincide with September 11. How Hillary was using her email account illegally, endangering
the foreign policy of the United States by emailing confidential and highly classified documents in channels that exposed them to
being hacked and intercepted by our enemies, even as she maintained a private server in her home bathroom. How, when she was
called upon to produce those emails, she destroyed 33,000 of them — an outright spoliation felony that would have landed
any other American in prison long-term. How she lied to us, as though we all are idiots, telling us that those spoliated emails
dealt with things like her yoga classes and buying Chelsea a wedding dress — 33,000 emails for yoga and a dress.
Squeaky clean, huh? Obama forgot about
these 25 scandals. [#2] Obama knew about Hillary's private email server. As WND reported, five days after
the New York Times disclosed the existence of Clinton's private email server, Obama told CBS News on March 7, 2015, that he
learned about it at "the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports." That was not true, because Obama
himself had exchanged emails with Clinton on the server. And he even used a fake name, for reasons never explained.
The White House later claimed Obama meant to say he did know of the server, just not the details.
What
Is Justice for McCabe? Hillary Clinton checked every box for a violation of the Espionage Act. So much so
that, in giving her a pass, the FBI figured it better couch her conduct as "extremely careless," rather than "grossly
negligent." [...] In point of fact, the careless/negligent semantic game was a sideshow. Mrs. Clinton's unlawful
storage and transmission of classified information had been patently willful. In contemptuous violation of government
standards, which she was bound not only to honor but to enforce as secretary of state, she systematically conducted her
government business by private email, via a laughably unsecure homebrew server set-up. Her Obama administration allies
stress that it was not her purpose to harm national security, but that was beside the point. The crime was mishandling
classified information, and she committed it.
The
Deep State Will Face Justice Soon! Right? Today, treason and our two-tier justice system are casually
discussed as inescapable facts of today's political landscape. Heads up for those desperately trying to put the
blindfold back on Lady Justice. If a layered legal system is what we have, it has nothing to do with justice —
that's anarchy. And these smug criminals not only revel in their immunity, but rub our noses in it. Take for
example when Hillary Clinton literally laughed out loud at a question about her email investigation — had to wipe
her eyes, she laughed so hard. She laughed at us, at America, for being so clueless as to think she'd ever answer to our
laws. And she's still laughing, because she's right: she's untouchable. The consensus is that even though
we know that the first email investigation was rigged by the FBI to clear Hillary, no one will reopen the case.
Trump
can change history by declassifying three Obama-era documents. [Scroll down] The final Obama-era tranche
that requires declassification concerns Hillary Clinton's email controversy — a highly classified set of documents
that FBI agents identified as important and necessary in the investigation into whether she violated the law by transmitting
classified emails on her unsecured private server. As I wrote last week, the agents never got to review those documents
in 2016 before then-FBI Director James Comey unilaterally decided not to seek criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton.
The Justice Department's internal watchdog in 2018 provided Congress a classified annex explaining how the FBI intended to
examine that secret evidence, but never did. Sources who have seen the annex say it contains explosive revelations about
what really happened with Clinton's emails and the national security concerns that her conduct raised.
Hillary
Ruins the Plan. [Scroll down] Upon becoming President Obama's secretary of state, Clinton improperly set
up a private, non-secure system for email communications. It featured her own personal server, stored in her home and,
later, maintained by a private contractor. Secretary Clinton used this private email system for all of her official
State Department communications, notwithstanding that doing so (a) violated government regulations (which, as the department
head, she was responsible for enforcing); (b) violated governmental record-keeping and record-production obligations imposed by
federal law; and (c) made it inevitable — due to the nature of her responsibilities — that streams
of classified information would flow through and be stored in the non-secure system. This lack of security meant that top-secret
intelligence — some of it classified at the highest levels, some of it involving Clinton's communications with the president
of the United States and other top national-security officials — became accessible to people who were not cleared to see it.
Andrew McCabe is the new Joe McCarthy.
Simple fairness was not the hallmark of the Comey-McCabe era. No disinterested observers think the Bureau's investigation of
Hillary Clinton's email server was treated the same way as the amorphous charges against the Trump campaign. That bias wasn't
the fault of FBI field agents. Comey pulled the investigation away from them and gave it to his inner circle. They were
men on a mission. It was not a mission for blind justice. Their double standards were clear when they passed out immunity
to all Hillary's top aides without demanding full testimony in return, when they destroyed Clinton staffers' computers and cell phones
without preserving the evidence, and when they wrote a memo clearing Mrs Clinton before she had been interviewed. Comey, whose
incompetence is rivaled only by his smug self-righteousness, then held a press conference that both smeared and cleared Hillary.
It smeared her with evidence that should never have been revealed unless she was charged. It cleared her by whitewashing the
crimes she should have been charged with.
Six
Times the Obama Administration Should Have Appointed Special Counsel. [#1] The Hillary Clinton email
scandal: What about this scandal wasn't tainted? Obama's former secretary of state and heir apparent to the Oval
Office is caught violating federal transparency laws by hosting a private email server — which was only discovered as
a result of the Benghazi investigation (which they were also stonewalling). Over 30,000 emails were discovered to have been
deleted. Phones were smashed with hammers... Obama personally communicated with Hillary via this private email, with a
pseudonym of his own... FBI Director James Comey had drafted Hillary's exoneration letter before even interviewing her.
We now know that FBI investigator Peter Strzok, who was investigating both Hillary and Trump, had personally softened the
language on the exoneration statement. Right around the same time, he was telling fellow investigator and lover Lisa
Page that he would stop Trump from getting elected president. What difference at this point does it make, right?
Everything about that investigation was tainted. A special counsel was needed as soon as the private server was
discovered. But, Obama had to protect his heir apparent, and therefore his legacy, and so the investigation was run
by pro-Hillary/anti-Trump partisans who had no business doing so.
The
FBI, Hillary's computers, and the Russians:
[#1] Doesn't anyone find it strange that the FBI indicted 12
Russians for hacking computers that the DNC and Hillary refused to let agents see? James Comey, testifying before the
Senate Intelligence Committee, said, "The bureau requested, but was denied direct access to the Democratic National
Committee's email servers and other hacked devices as part of its probe of Russian hacking." [#2] Hillary Clinton, either
directly or indirectly, ordered her computers to be wiped clean and all her phones to be broken up. Clinton's I.T. team
used the open source cleaning software BleachBit to wipe the computer systems "so even God couldn't read them," according to
South Carolina representative Trey Gowdy. [#3] The Washington Free Beacon reported that CNN confirmed that the Hillary
campaign staff destroyed campaign cell phones with hammers. The Washington Examiner said a contractor for Clinton
deleted subpoenaed emails and refused to answer the critical question from the FBI on what he did and why. [#4] Now the
mystery takes us to the ultimate question: if the FBI never had access to the DNC or Hillary campaign computers or cell
phones, how could the FBI identify the 12 Russians indicted just before the summit? [#5] The Daily Caller reported that
the FBI agreed to destroy Cheryl Mills's laptop as part of an immunity deal. However, the FBI agents charged with the
destruction refused. There is no indication that the FBI or the Mueller investigation has done anything with the
computer. What a fantastic twist that the supposed good guys can't or won't see what is going on in front of
them. There are 33,000 emails destroyed while under subpoena, yet nothing happens.
Did Clinton & Obama's use
of private email open a door to Chinese intelligence? Did Clinton & Obama's use of private email, and her
routing of govt comms illegally through an unsecured server in her home, open a door to Chinese intelligence? I think
the probability is HIGH. If so, we are in uncharted territory. [...] It's bizarre that Obama & Clinton would use private
email accounts to traffic classified information and comms. To me, it suggests that they wanted a SECRET channel to
conceal communications. Sorry, but that's NOT normal. It's also VERY risky.
Could
Hillary Clinton still face charges over her emails? Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information is
getting another look with the release Thursday of a Justice Department inspector general report scrutinizing the FBI's
investigation into whether she committed crimes using a private email server as secretary of state. Although it would
be controversial, the Justice Department is able to reopen the Clinton email case, and experts say President Trump's 2016
adversary arguably could be charged until March 2025 — after Trump would leave office even if he wins a second
term. Sloppy workers, leakers, whistleblowers, and spies face a variety of criminal charges for mishandling classified
records. But there are leading options available to prosecutors, with varying statutes of limitations.
Progressives
on the Brink. If it is true that President Obama ordered Attorney General Lynch and Director Comey to avoid bringing
charges against candidate Clinton and to spy on the Trump campaign with the intention of throwing the election to Clinton, and if
high officials at the FBI knowingly requested a FISA warrant on the basis of evidence known to be false, these actions will represent
the most serious political crimes in the history of the country.
In
Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures. If you or I had set up an unauthorized
private communications system for official business for the patent purpose of defeating federal record-keeping and disclosure
laws; if we had retained and transmitted thousands of classified emails on this non-secure system; if we had destroyed tens
of thousands of government records; if we had carried out that destruction while those records were under subpoena; if we had
lied to the FBI in our interview — well, we'd be writing this column from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Yet, in a feat of dizzying ratiocination, Director Comey explained that to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would be to hold her to a
nitpicking, selective standard of justice not imposed on other Americans.
Does
equal justice under the law exist in America today? According to the Washington Post ("How Clinton's email
scandal took root," March 27, 2016), Hillary Clinton used an unsecured server as her primary server for State Department
emails. Documents released on Dec. 29, 2017, by the U. S. Department of State in response to Judicial Watch's FOIA
request revealed classified material was found on Anthony Weiner's laptop. He was the husband of Huma Abedin, Hillary
Clinton's former deputy chief of staff. Have either of them come before a grand jury to determine if they ought to be
charged? No, but the Washington Times reports that Machinist Mate 1st Class Kristian Saucier, a Navy veteran, took
pictures of a submarine control panel, which is considered classified information, and went to jail. I believe Hillary
Clinton lied continually to the public about how many devices she used to email State Department information, about the
unsecured server, sending classified emails over an unsecured server and destroying 33,000 emails. She was never
interviewed under oath by the FBI. This action protected her from prosecution for lying under oath, but Michael Flynn was
charged for lying to the FBI. In December 2017, Judicial Watch released documents showing the Obama State Department made
a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her call logs and schedules. An average American's life and reputation would be
destroyed if they acted similarly.
Comey
Joins Stormy as Latest Porn Star to Target Trump. First, he made a devastating case for prosecuting Hillary
Clinton for her reckless disregard for national secrets using her illegal bathroom email server. Yet, in the same press
conference, announced he was giving her a pass on all of her crimes. We have since learned that he and the entire cabal
of Clinton cronies at the FBI and Department of Justice rigged not only that investigation but also the separate investigation
into the Clinton Foundation. Remember, the Clinton Foundation investigation centered on compelling evidence that the
Clinton Cartel was using the foundation for a global shakedown and extortion racket. They were raking in hundreds of
millions in "speaking fees" and other donations in exchange for favors that could be performed far into the future —
assuming, of course, that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in for the White House.
The
Real Collusion Story. [Scroll down] It is impossible to paste a classified document into an unclassified
email accidentally, because the three computer systems (Unclassified, Confidential/Secret, and Top Secret) are physically
separate networks, each feeding into an independent hard drive on the user's desk. If a classified document appears in
an unclassified email, then someone downloaded it onto a thumb drive and manually uploaded it to the unclassified
network — an intentional act if ever there was one. One of Clinton's emails suggests that downloading and
uploading material in this fashion was a commonplace activity in her office. [...] The FBI recovered one email, for example,
that contained a "C" in parenthesis in the margin — an obvious sign that the corresponding paragraph was classified
"Confidential." When an agent personally interviewed Clinton, on July 2, he showed her the document and asked
whether she understood what the "C" meant. For anyone who has ever held a security clearance, "C's" in the margins are
more ubiquitous than "C's" on water faucets — and no more baffling. But Clinton played the ditzy grandmother.
She had simply assumed, she said, that the "C" was marking an item in an alphabetized list.
Hillary's
Espionage and the Statute of Limitations. The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars developing, deploying, and protecting its
internet protocol router networks to enable authorized government officials to conduct the business of government, properly exchange information, and
intelligence, up to and including information classified SECRET, with others in the government (and their contractors) who are authorized and
entitled to have it. Mrs. Clinton purposely avoided using the government's networks through the use of a homebrew server. That she
found a way to transmit countless classified documents, up to and including special access program material, to her personal server has been
made public and is not in question. The former Democratic presidential candidate disclosed that she and her aides had deleted more than 30,000
emails she deemed "personal." [...] When the FBI retrieved the spools of microfilm, the Alger Hiss "Pumpkin Papers" printed out to a stack four and a
half feet tall. Hillary Clinton and the FBI have learned much from the Alger Hiss case. The American public will not be able to read a
transcript of Hillary Clinton's interview with the FBI, because the bureau did not transcribe it. Furthermore, Mrs. Clinton was also
not placed under oath during the three-and-a-half-hour interview. When Mrs. Clinton wasn't placed under oath, she could not be charged with
lying to the FBI, as Alger Hiss was eventually charged with and convicted of.
Three
Times Barack Obama Attempted to Obstruct Justice. Obama sent strong signals to police and the judiciary about how he
wanted certain cases resolved. While he was more subtle about it than the bull-in-a-china-shop Trump, his desires were no
less clear. Let's start with the most egregious example, his attempt on April 10, 2016, to influence the decision on
whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information by setting up her own email server.
Here's
what to do with Hillary. All the evidence, thus far, is that Hillary has committed grave offenses with respect
to national security. Her lieutenants appear just as guilty of criminal acts. [...] Hillary, and her associates abused
classified documents. These range from the lowest level of Confidential to the highest level of Top Secret - Special
Access Program. In between are Secret and Top Secret. It is important to recognize that these documents were
removed, without authorization and without secure protection, from secure facilities. Such removal is itself a
crime. An even greater crime is replicating and exposing Special Access information. Replicating, or exposing,
Special Access documents is espionage!
Hillary's
Actions Deserve a Special Prosecutor. Indeed, Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC Tuesday
[11/22/2016] that "he doesn't wish to pursue these charges." If true, this would abandon the pledge that Trump made to the
hundreds of thousands of Americans who chanted "Lock her up!" at his rallies and the 61.9 million voters who sent Trump to
Washington to purify Hillary's ethical Superfund site. Hillary auctioned off public favors as if the Clinton Foundation
were Sotheby's and abused state secrets so flagrantly that her maid reportedly printed out classified documents for
the former secretary of state to read. According to the New York Post's Paul Sperry, this may have included the
Presidential Daily Brief, the most top-secret document in Washington. Letting Hillary off the hook, yet again, will not
only permit her to pay no price for her massive corruption, relentless lies, and shockingly high crimes. If she gets
away with this, it will confirm once and for all that, like slavery, equal justice under law is gone with the wind.
Obama
Says He's Had A Scandal-Free Administration. Here Are 11 of His Scandals. [#7] Hillary's email
scandal. Clinton's use of a private email server that was unapproved and unsecured has been written about extensively,
but it is also Obama's scandal as well, since it has been revealed that not only did Obama know about her private email
server, he also communicated with her under the use of a pseudonym. If their email exchanges involved classified
information, then Obama also would have violated the Espionage Act.
Email
controversy dogs Clinton to convention. The biggest impediment to Hillary Clinton's run for the White House is the controversy that
has dogged her presidential campaign from the start: her use of a private email server as secretary of State. Republicans have hammered
Clinton over the issue, and the persistence has taken a terrible toll on her poll numbers. Only 28 percent of Americans view her as honest,
according to a CBS News/New York Times poll earlier this month. Sixty-seven percent view her as untrustworthy, a 5-point spike since just last
month. That's a big change from the spring of 2015, when only 45 percent of Americans judged her as untrustworthy.
10
Fun Facts: Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal. [#4] The legal description of this behavior is
termed "anticipatory obstruction of justice," and the punishment is up to 20 years in prison.
A conspiracy of silence: The
Worst Part Of The Email Scandal. The most amazing part of this entire scandal is that Mrs. Clinton
maintained the email and personal server for the four years she was Secretary of State and it never became public. It
was not until the State Department turned over eight emails to the House Benghazi Committee in August, 2014, that the world
learned of clintonemail.com. This was more than five years after the domain was established in January, 2009, during
Mrs. Clinton's approval process in the U.S. Senate. Mrs. Clinton worked for four years in the Obama
Administration, and judging by the amount of emails she turned over (not to mentioned the unknown destroyed emails), she
received a substantial number and sent a substantial number of emails (maybe upwards to 100,000). But not one person said
anything publicly about the fact that Mrs. Clinton was not using a government email address to send her government email.
Who
is lying about Benghazi? Hillary Clinton or State Department? Last March, when Hillary
Clinton made her first public comments on the secret email system she maintained while secretary of
state, she took care to say she had turned over everything to the State Department. "I ... provided
all my emails that could possibly be work-related," Clinton told reporters. "I believe I have met
all of my responsibilities and ... the State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the
records that were provided." The message was clear. Clinton had turned over everything, and
the State Department would make it all public. Then State sent Clinton's emails that concerned
Libya to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Chairman Trey Gowdy immediately expressed
skepticism about the claim that everything had been turned over. "There are gaps of months and
months and months," Gowdy said. Gowdy's suspicions appear to have been confirmed.
Hillary
Clinton: the gold standard of flawed candidates? [Scroll down] She had unsubstantiated
intelligence sent to her private email system; from an address her lawyers said did not exist when she was
at State. That was a lie. She claims to be the most transparent (chuckle) person in public life,
yet we find little nuggets every day about her non-profit failing to disclose donations, botching tax forms,
and allegedly being the nexus for foreign governments to cash in on their favors from their donations to the
Foundation. She had a private email system, which she used to conduct all her business while at the
State Department, even though it was pretty much against government regulation to do so — and
served as judge and jury for emails on that server that were work-related and personal. Oh, and she
deleted the personal emails and wiped the server clean.
GOP:
Hillary Clinton must turn over her email server. You see, right now there is no way
for us to know whether we have all of the State Department communications that rightfully belong to
the American people. The only way to truly know is by having access to Secretary Clinton's personal
server. Why is this so important? Because these communications may help us answer vital
questions. We need to know why the security at our embassy was left inadequate. Why were requests
for additional security denied? Why was our response not sufficient? Why were some members of the
administration slow to acknowledge a terrorist attack had actually occurred? It is simply
unacceptable for so many questions to remain unanswered. And it is unjust and simply wrong for
anyone to withhold evidence that may lead to the answers.
Hillary
Clinton's secret mess. Plainly, Clinton didn't want anyone snooping around her virtual
file cabinet. Who does? But this isn't the point. When you are secretary of state and are mulling a
run for president, you steer clear of anything and anyone remotely questionable. No one should know this
better. Questions that merit serious consideration include whether the Clinton server was secure. Clinton
insists that it was because her New York home, where the server lives, is protected by the Secret Service. Given
the optional sobriety of agents these days, this is less than reassuring. Then, too, hacking doesn't require
on-site handling.
Hillary's
email scandal is about privilege. "For any government employee, it is that government
employee's responsibility to determine what's personal and what's work-related," Hillary Clinton
said in her March 10 press conference called to address mounting concerns over her use of a private
email system for official use during her four years as Secretary of State. The phrase "any
government employee" made it sound as if Clinton's actions were perfectly normal — no
different than anybody else. In reality, Clinton's actions reflect her sense of privilege, a
broader problem for her presidential ambitions than the email scandal itself.
Advice
for conservatives about Hillary Clinton email scandal. The Clintons are synonymous
with scandal: Whitewater. Rose Law firm. Trading pork bellies. Travelgate and now the 2016
presidential wannabee is up to her political eyeballs in another scandal. This email scandal is
a big story with lots of legs: Did Mrs. Clinton break the law? Was she hacked? Is President Obama
complicit? Did Hillary Clinton use the State Department connection to fill the coffers of the Clinton Foundation
and will those funds find their way into her presidential campaign?
New
scandals and reasons to wonder if Hillary is hiding something. The Hillary Clinton
e-mail controversy is a reminder of one inescapable fact: She comes with baggage. [...] How could
anyone serve four years as secretary of state with no official e-mail account, instead conducting
business from a private address with its own domain and server? The answer is: Deliberately.
The only reason for Clinton to go through the trouble of setting up this system — rather than
just call the State Department's version of the IT help desk — would be to ensure that
nobody got to rummage freely through her communications, personal or official. She must have wanted
to be able to decide which e-mails would become part of the historical record and which wouldn't.
Benghazi babe at clinton email dot com.
If you've been busy leading a full and rich life and missed this week's excitement here it is in a
nutshell: on the day of her confirmation hearing for the position of secretary of state, Hillary
Clinton set up an internet server in her home (purchased under an apparent pseudonym "Eric
Hoteham"). Perhaps the domain was even run out of two commercial web hosting firms, instead of the
home server: For her entire term at the department she exclusively used this unprotected email
server, utilizing at last count about 9 different email addresses for all her Internet communications.
These entire addresses end in clintonemail [dot] com, which signaled to anyone reading the message that
this was not sent on a government server. This tactic allowed her to avoid disclosure of her
correspondence to Freedom of Information Act and other document production requests, including
Congressional inquiries.
Hillary Milhous Clinton.
Since 2005, the United States State Department has had very clear rules that employees cannot use
personal email for official business. In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent out an
internal directive reminding State Department employees that they could not use personal email
addresses for government business. Likewise, she removed a United States Ambassador for using
personal email for government work. Now we are learning that prior to becoming Secretary of State
in 2009, Hillary Clinton set up a personal email server in her home. She used that email address
for all of her government business and her personal business. She helped plan her daughter's wedding
with that email address. She received important State Department communications with that email
address. For six years she violated State Department policy.
Dems
Spin Furiously for Hillary. Democrats are circling the wagons to shield their likely
2016 presidential nominee after it was revealed that Hillary Clinton transacted sensitive government
business using her personal email during her time as America's top diplomat. The Benghazi
bungler, the nation has learned, set up an email system worthy of a James Bond movie villain when
she became U.S. secretary of state in 2009. Mrs. Clinton used private instead of government email
and even established her own private email server that has been traced back to her Chappaqua, N.Y.,
home address.
How
Many Straws on Hillary's Back? As secretary of state, Clinton used personal e-mail
accounts on her own private, unsecured server in a way that was designed to avoid transparency. But
for a government official, communicating without an electronic trail is both unethical and illegal.
Promising when caught to turn over government correspondence is not quite the same as making such
communications available from the get-go. Note that Clinton's private, non-government server domain
was not for secondary accounts; it was her sole e-mail account during her tenure in the Obama administration.
The only logical implication is that Clinton was trying to shield her communications from later public
scrutiny — and from possible scandal or subpoenas. And it largely has worked.
What is missing from discussion of this scandal is that the secretary of state for four years freelanced
with private e-mail addresses — and that everyone in the administration who received her e-mails
knew it, and no one cared.
Early
Onset Clinton Fatigue. She burned the tapes. Had Richard Nixon burned his tapes,
he would have survived Watergate. Sure, there would have been a major firestorm, but no
smoking gun. Hillary Rodham was a young staffer on the House Judiciary Committee investigating
Nixon. She saw. She learned. Today you don't burn tapes. You delete
e-mails. Hillary Clinton deleted 30,000, dismissing their destruction with the brilliantly
casual: "I didn't see any reason to keep them." After all, they were private and
personal, she assured everyone. How do we know that? She says so.
Hillary
Clinton's Questionable Process for Sorting Work Emails. Hillary Clinton asked the
public to trust her during a recent press conference at the United Nations, when she stated that she
has already complied with transparency laws by turning over all public records she generated as
Secretary of State. She had no business making that claim. A Time magazine report about the
process used to identify public records in her possession shows that she cannot possibly know if she
is in compliance with the law. And juxtaposing her process with the words used in her press
conference shows her core claim to be misleading.
Team
Hillary changes its story on email deletions. "That's my story, and I'm sticking to
it" worked for Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, but Hillary Clinton's undeclared presidential
campaign is taking a different approach to explaining how thirty-some thousand e-mails on her
personal e-mail server (that also handled her official correspondence) ended up deleted.
Following her U.N. press conference last week, her office released a nine-page "fact sheet" that
explained how the deletion process is supposed to have worked.
The
Clintons' Criminal Board of Trustees. [Scroll down] More recently Hillary
revealed that all her government emails from her time at the State Department were routed through
her own personal Internet server and that tens of thousands of the emails that happened to be U.S.
government property were deleted. Emails were deleted while subject to a congressional subpoena from
the Benghazi Select Committee. This suggests Mrs. Clinton is guilty at a minimum of a species of
obstruction of justice known as spoliation of evidence.
Comey
grabbed authority he did not have to clear Hillary Clinton. To begin with, Hillary Clinton has every right to
be furious with Comey for holding his unprincipled news conference back in July 2016 where he announced she would not be
charged over the issues surrounding her home-brewed server. But he then went on to lay out a damning case against her
recklessness and carelessness with classified material, even though it is highly unethical for anyone in law enforcement to
lay out a case against someone who is not going to be charged. What was truly outrageous, though, was Comey grabbing
authority he did not have in announcing Hillary would not be charged. He is the FBI director, not a prosecutor.
His job is to investigate and present his findings to a prosecutor, in this case, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Obama's Guilty Contentment.
At least from the time she became secretary of state, Hillary Clinton used a private email system —
"Clintonmail.com" — for official business. She and her staff routinely sent top-secret information via that
system to each other. That information included "SITK" — Special Intelligence Talent Keyhole —
intelligence information as well as "SAP" — Special Access Program — information. There are no
higher levels of classification our government uses to protect secrets than SITK and SAP. Top-secret information —
under an executive order signed by Obama — is defined as information the disclosure of which can severely damage the
security of the United States. Each of those emails was a violation of 18 US Code Section793(f), a felony
carrying the penalty of ten years in jail. Clinton's email system, according to internet security experts I know,
didn't even have the rudimentary security features found on gmail. Any foreign power or terrorist group could
have — and must have — tapped into her system and learned our most closely-guarded secrets.
The
Democrats' Long History of Making Incriminating Documents Disappear. Then-FBI Director James Comey let Clinton
off the hook because, he said later, she lacked "evil intent." In making that judgment, Comey apparently failed to
consider that spoliation of evidence — "the intentional, reckless, or negligent withholding, hiding, altering,
fabricating, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding" — is a modus operandi of the
Clintons and their associates, and has been for four decades.
Scandal,
Corruption, Lawbreaking — And So What? The FISA-gate, Clinton emails, and Uranium One scandals are
sort of reaching a consensus. Many things quite wrong and illegal were done by both Hillary Clinton and her entourage
and members of the Obama agencies and administration — both the acts themselves and the cover-ups and omissions
that ensued.
Did
Barack Obama 'Obstruct Justice' in Clinton Email Case? [Scroll down] In the draft, Comey mentions that
President Obama had communicated with Clinton while she served as secretary of state and "was on the territory of ... an
adversary": "We also assess that Secretary Clinton's use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of
people and readily apparent," the draft statement reads. "She also used her personal email extensively while outside
the United States, including from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. That use included an email exchange with
the President while Secretary Clinton was on the territory of such an adversary. Given that combination of factors, we
assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account." By the time the
July 5 statement was issued letting Clinton off the hook, any mention of emails made by Obama to Clinton's un-secure email
account had been removed from Comey's statement, which is extremely fortunate for Obama, because if he did knowingly discuss
classified information with Clinton through unsecured emails, he could also be investigated for violating federal laws
forbidding such reckless activity. And there's evidence Obama may have attempted to cover his tracks by having his
e-mails sealed under the guise of executive privilege.
Clinton's River of Corruption.
[Scroll down] Hillary Clinton's use of her private, unsecured email system to confer with her staff on Top Secret
matters was confirmed by FBI Director James Comey in July, destroying her claim that she'd never sent or received classified
information. Long before that, I'd raised the obvious question of President Obama's involvement in that crime. It
had to go like this. Hillary and her staff were using her unsecured email system exclusively. They —
both she and the staff — had to be communicating with our intelligence agencies that way, which would have brought
about a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot question from the intel folks. They would have had to have raised the obvious problem to
their superiors up the line until it reached cabinet level. Why hadn't Obama shut it down? Simple. As we know
now from the WikiLeaks dumps of the Podesta emails, Obama was using her "Clintonemail.com" address to communicate with Clinton.
These are the times for
which the Constitution was written. This election presents us with the head of a criminal organization, a
person who has already used her office of Secretary of State to solicit donations to her family's foundation, theoretically
in exchange for access to the Secretary of State in policy issues. Hillary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for
allowing access by foreign nations to state secrets by utilizing an unsecure email server that she would be able to control
and unavailable to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Hillary Clinton is also under investigation by the FBI for
engaging in a pay-for-play scheme involving the Clinton Foundation as mentioned above. The Clinton Foundation is also under
investigation by the FBI in connection with the actions of Hillary and Bill Clinton. Ties to the Clinton campaign have been
(self-admittedly) engaged in vote rigging and encouraging illegal voting and inciting riots at Clinton's political opponent's
rallies. There has been collusion between the Department of Justice and the Clinton campaign.
Hillary Clinton's
Top 17 Scandals and Controversies. [#1] The E-mail Leaks: Somehow Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin are
so incompetent, Huma's ex-husband Anthony Weiner has 10,000 of them (along with 650,000 others). These aren't just
"weddings and yoga" e-mails as Hillary claims, but national secrets, including at least 60 confidential and 22 top-secret
e-mail threads. The difference between the two is that confidential is information that can hurt the person who
possesses it, and top secret information is information that could cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security".
This is why the FBI case has been reopened, as this information was put on a compromised private server and then deleted to hide
the information from the government and FBI. This doesn't even cover any other content that is actually in the emails.
Why Hillary
Clinton Is Such An Effective, Perpetual Liar. We know that Hillary Clinton's secret e-mail server was highly illegal
because it processed and stored classified government information on an unsecure system. We know that much of this classified
information originated with Clinton herself. We know that she ordered at least one aide to break the law on her behalf by
sending classified information over an unsecure system. We know she has lied repeatedly about transmitting classified
information on her server, at press conferences and once, incredibly, under sworn testimony. We know that, although she
insisted otherwise, Clinton deleted thousands of work-related e-mails. We know that one of her aides-destroyed Clinton's
mobile devices with a hammer, preventing a full forensic analysis of her e-mail usage. We know that Clinton has lied about
the FBI's own assessment of her previous lies. And so forth. Given this staggering level of criminal behavior, one
might ask: how has Clinton been able to defend herself? The answer is: lying. For much more than a year
Clinton has lied repeatedly and ceaselessly about her e-mail woes. She has lied about the classified information on the
server, she has lied about her recordkeeping, she has lied about the very lies she has previously told, she has lied so frequently
that it is entirely possible she has come to believe some of her own lies.
Too Stupid To Rule. We have enough of the details at this stage to have a rough idea
how we got to this point. They wanted to have a secret communication method that would be not be subject to government security and Freedom of
Information Act requests. They also figured that this secret system would be free from Congressional oversight. After all, if no one
knew it existed, then no one could ask any questions about what was on it. [...] Hilariously, it appears they came to the conclusion that
having their own e-mail server meant that all the e-mail was magically hidden in the box in Hillary's bathroom. Their subsequent attempts to
erase the hard drives suggests they did not know that e-mail travels across networks and is also stored on the receiver's servers. Those
servers are usually on a network not controlled by the recipient. They started to realize this at some point, which is why they smashed
their phones and laptops. [...] There are a lot of angles to these Clinton scandals, but the thing that transcends all of it is the rank
stupidity of the people involved.
The
Colossal Clinton Con. This past year highlighted the Hillary I know in action. The private server.
The classified emails on the unprotected server. The destruction of laptops and phones with a hammer. The actual
risk to our national security and the lives of many, all for personal gain. Many involved with this server holding not
a whisper of a security clearance. The bizarre immunity deals granted to just about everyone in her periphery when a
grand jury had not even been impaneled. The manipulation and the destruction of the emails while under a congressional
subpoena. The secret tarmac meeting between the Attorney General and Bill Clinton just before the FBI's curiously
tortured findings were unveiled.
Hillary
Clinton Email Scandal Explained. Hillary Clinton is in the spotlight over the worst scandal for a presidential
candidate since Watergate. The FBI has a search warrant for Clinton aide Huma Abedin's laptop, obtained Sunday night
after new emails surfaced in the law enforcement investigation of Abedin's husband Anthony Weiner for allegedly sexting with
a minor. The Hillary Clinton email scandal can seem complicated. But it's easy to understand. Here is the
full story: [...]
13 Times
Hillary Clinton Was A Truly 'Nasty Woman'. [#13] All The Times She Acts Like She's Above The Law:
Hillary Clinton was instructed to be very, very careful with sensitive information and government secrets while serving as
secretary of State, but instead she was "extremely careless." Apparently her fast-and-loose approach to classified
information rubbed off onto her staff. E-mails reveal her staff repeatedly left sensitive documents in their hotel
rooms and in cars while traveling abroad. She also would repeatedly lose her Blackberry devices — which
probably contained a lot of classified information. After the news about her private server started to reach the ears
of authorities, one of her State Department officials, Patrick Kennedy, tried to bribe the FBI into declassifying e-mails in
order to save her from prosecution.
Clinton's
Pretense That She Didn't Understand 'C' Was for 'Classified'. So now Hillary finally knows what the "(C)"
stands for in government documents: It's Cartwright ... as in four-star Marine General James E. Cartwright, the
retired 67-year-old former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the expendable federal official against whom laws
protecting classified information actually get enforced. (C), see? Oh wait — sorry.
I don't mean to confuse Mrs. Clinton by starting this second paragraph with "(C)". After all, as she
diva-'splained to the FBI, she could only "speculate" that "(C)" must have something to do with organizing paragraphs "in
alphabetical order." Speculation was necessary, she said, apparently with a straight face, because she didn't really
know what "(C)" meant.
The Clinton Record.
Throughout her entire four-year tenure as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton never acquired or used a government email account. Instead,
she transmitted — in violation of government regulations — all of her official correspondences via a private email address that
traced back to a secret, private, unsecured server that was housed at her New York residence. And immediately after those emails
were subpoenaed by Congress, Clinton instructed a team of her advisers to unilaterally delete, with no oversight, almost 32,000 of the
roughly 60,000 emails in question. Clinton claimed that her reason for having used only a personal email account, rather than
both a personal and a government account, was that she found it "easier," "better," "simpler" and more convenient to "carry just one
device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two." It was eventually learned, however, that Mrs. Clinton in fact
had used no fewer than 13 mobile devices to access emails on her private server, but the FBI was unable to obtain any of those devices in
its investigation, in some cases because Clinton aides had been instructed to smash them with a hammer.
Hillary
Clinton, who tells dreadful lies. Today, it is the American people who have been burned, time and again, by
Hillary Clinton's dreadful lies. Let's review just a few examples of her serial dishonesty: She lied repeatedly
about her emails. She lied when she said she had "turned over everything I was obligated to turn over" (FBI Director
James Comey said the FBI "discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not among the group of 30,000 e-mails
returned by Secretary Clinton to state in 2014"). She lied when she said there was "no classified material" in her private
emails ... that there was nothing "classified at the time" ... and that there was nothing "marked classified" in her private
emails — all of which the FBI director said were untrue. And, to top it all off, she lied about her lies —
declaring on national television that "Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what
I have told the American people" — a claim The Post's Fact Checker gave "Four Pinocchios."
The
Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email. The FBI could not review all of the Hillary
Clinton emails under investigation because: • The Clintons' Apple personal server used for Hillary
Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine. • An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb
drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn't examine them. • 2
BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn't have their SIM or SD data cards. • 13 Hillary Clinton
personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn't examine them. •
Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn't examine them. • After State
Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of
her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn't review them.
• After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton's email archive was also permanently deleted from her
then-server "PRN" with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn't review it. • Also after the subpoena, backups
of the PRN server were manually deleted.
Hillary
Coordinated With Democrats To Set Up Benghazi Hearing. Amidst all the controversy over Hillary Clinton's
private email server, one question seems to be ignored more than any other: why? Why would the Secretary of State set
up a private server, in advance, if she knew she wasn't going to do anything wrong? Why would she run all
of her email through it, rather than running her corruption-related emails through a private server, keeping it walled off
from her normal work? The answer: Hillary's paranoid.
If
Hillary Is Corrupt, Congress Should Impeach Her. In keeping with page one of the Clinton-media playbook, any
scandal that emerges on Friday night is "old news" by Monday morning. The press seeks to stretch this hidebound
strategy by regarding as "old," and therefore stale and unworthy of attention, any new revelation tied to the e-mail
debacle. It's the gambit you'd expect, given Mrs. Clinton's failed attempt to destroy well over 30,000 e-mails,
tens of thousands of which are now dribbling out for the first time. Since the newly revealed e-mails put the lie to
Clinton's always risible claim that these communications were unrelated to State Department business, they tend to be
double-whammies. First, their substance is stunningly corrupt, often showing how she and her staff ran the State
Department as an annex of the Clinton Foundation, the enterprise Bill and Hillary used to monetize political influence to the
tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, even the most innocuous of the e-mails that concern State Department
business illustrate that Clinton brazenly lied to Congress and the public for over a year: maintaining that the destroyed
e-mails involved yoga, Chelsea's wedding, and other personal matters, not the operations of government.
Under
Hillary, State and the Clinton Foundation were one seamless entity. The Democratic nominee obviously didn't set up
her server with the express purpose of exposing national secrets — that was incidental. She set up the server to
keep secret the details of the Clintons' private life — a life built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and
self-promoting entity known as the Clinton Foundation. Had Secretary Clinton kept the foundation at arm's length while in
office — as obvious ethical standards would have dictated — there would never have been any need for a
private server, or even private email.
What
Happened This Week in the Clinton Corruption Chronicles. First, we go back to her email problem. She says it's all been
resolved — nothing to see here. But then the FBI finds another 15,000 documents related to her home-brew email server long after she had
claimed that she had turned over all State Department-related emails. So the appearance of a cover-up and further indicators of corruption
grow. This woman who so desperately wants to be president — anyone who craves elected office so strongly is obviously disturbed and therefore
unfit — has clouds of shame from the 1980s she can't escape. And the clouds get bigger and darker still, and they are clouds of her own
making. How can anyone with her history be qualified for any office?
The
bribery standard. The central problem with Hillary Clinton's emails was not the classified material. It
wasn't the headline-making charge by the FBI director of her extreme carelessness in handling it. That's a serious
offense, to be sure, and could very well have been grounds for indictment. And it did damage her politically, exposing
her sense of above-the-law entitlement and — in her dodges and prevarications, her parsing and evasions —
demonstrating her arm's-length relationship with the truth. But it was always something of a sideshow. The real
question wasn't classification but: Why did she have a private server in the first place? She obviously lied about
the purpose. It wasn't convenience. It was concealment. What exactly was she hiding?
The ultimate
Clinton scandal. The scandal of Hillary Clinton's private email server is in a sense the ultimate Clinton
scandal. It shows Hillary Clinton's heedless treatment of national security for corrupt personal reasons. It
shows her willingness to say anything to extricate herself from a fix. Indeed, the scandal shows her pathological
approach to facts. She may believe her own lies. One has the impression that she could pass a lie detector test
on her multitudinous misrepresentations. She lies like a criminal, without a conscience, to cover up her criminal
wrongdoing.
Hillary
Clinton short-circuited? On the state secrets issue, she has told the public countless times that she never
sent or received anything marked classified. She could not have said that to the FBI, because even a novice FBI agent
would have recognized such a statement as a trick answer. Nothing is marked "classified." The markings used by the
federal government are "confidential" or "secret" or "top secret." When Director Comey announced last month that the FBI
was recommending against indictment, he revealed nevertheless that his agents found 110 emails in 52 email threads containing
materials that were confidential, secret or top secret. The agents also found seven email chains on her servers that were
select access privilege, or SAP. SAP emails cannot be received, opened or sent without knowing what they are, as a special
alphanumeric code, one that changes continually, must be requested and employed in order to do so. SAP is so secret that
the FBI agents investigating Clinton lacked access to the code. Could Clinton have legally received, opened, stored or
sent a secret or top secret email without knowing it, as she has claimed? In a word: NO.
From
Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer. [Scroll down] During the course of the Benghazi investigation, New York Times reporter
Michael Schmidt learned Clinton had used a personal email account while secretary of state. It turned out she had also been using a private server,
located at a house in New York. The result was that Clinton and her staff decided which emails to turn over to the State Department as public records
and which to withhold; they say they then destroyed the ones they had designated as personal. [...] A May report from the State Department inspector general
is harshly critical of Clinton's email approach, but Loretta Lynch announced on July 6 that the Justice Department would not pursue criminal charges,
removing the threat of an indictment that could be fatal to her campaign. But the scandal will remain a millstone around her neck forever.
Hillary Clinton: Too
Connected to Jail. [Scroll down] There are, however, people who are not cynical about the Clintons.
These are the people who were reading Mrs. Clinton's electronic correspondence which she made accessible through her
quest for secrecy. It did not occur to her that in keeping her email away from the prying eyes of those pesky oversight
committees she made it available to anyone with the will and the means to hack into her various servers. In one of my
police assignments I was schooled in electronic surveillance methods by former special forces operators who had practiced
those methods overseas. To anyone knowledgeable in this arena, it is inconceivable that Mrs. Clinton's email
wasn't being read in real time for her entire tenure as secretary of state. For all practical purposes, the United
States had no secrets during that time. Mrs. Clinton's defenders will point to Comey's statement that the FBI
found no evidence that her email was successfully hacked, but this is only because her laxity in protecting it made such
evidence impossible to detect. You might discover you've been burglarized if you come home to find your door kicked in
or a window broken, but if you've left your door unlocked, and if the thief has been careful in his selection of the loot,
you might never know you've been victimized.
Yup, She's Crooked.
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to get this close to becoming president of the United States. Aaron
Burr was corrupt, but his treason didn't occur until after his presidential possibilities had dried up. Ulysses Grant
was a great man whose administration was riddled with corruption, but he wasn't personally involved. Warren Harding
wasn't a great man, but he wasn't party to the corruption in his administration either. Hillary Clinton stands
alone. Her corruption has many dimensions. It encompasses her personal, professional, and political life.
There are lots of overlaps. Her use of a private email server engulfs all three aspects.
Hillary
Signed on the Dotted Line — And Then Broke the Law. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is executed
by all who have access to classified and sensitive information. It is beyond doubt that Hillary Clinton executed one of
these while secretary of State. It is also beyond doubt that she violated her NDA, the "special confidence and trust"
that such access confers, and the law. This standard NDA delineates the conditions and prohibitions of disclosing,
storing and maintaining classified and sensitive compartmented information (SCI). These documents repeatedly refer to the
specific statutes under the laws that govern transgressions of these requirements as well as acknowledgement and awareness of
the "special confidence and trust" that this access confers. The signatory also agrees never to divulge classified or
SCI material, to adequately protect classified and SCI material and to return all classified and SCI material in their
possession under penalty of law.
Democrats,
Have You No Shame? Hillary Clinton set up her own email operation separate of the State Dept. and against government
policy. No one she worked with ever questioned her use of a private email address for critical government information, much of
which was top secret. The use of this email address did not come to light until a Congressional committee finally received
long-withheld documents two years after she left office. Clinton dumped emails and has been caught in lies about what was in
the emails, whether she transferred all relevant emails, and the security of those emails. [...] No Democrat stood up and
questioned her abhorrent behavior. No one called her out.
Why
Hillary Clinton Must Go To Jail. In 1994, Hillary Clinton took questions under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Wearing a pink pantsuit, she offered what would become her customary mix of lies and defensiveness, admitting to something and
then trying to shift the blame, denying that she had broken the law and then claiming ignorance. It was an act that we
would see over and over again for the next few decades, but back then it was still new when Hillary Clinton claimed that she
couldn't remember anything, that the whole Whitewater affair was an invasion of her privacy and that she had never meant to do
anything wrong. Some twenty years later, we have spent the past few months witnessing the same performance.
Hillary
Clinton: Sandy Berger in Drag. Gen. David Petraeus was prosecuted and convicted of merely mishandling classified
material, having it in his house to aid a biographer writing a book. The material never made the book and was returned. It was
never exposed to hackers, which Comey confirmed, or was made available to blackmail a future president. Hillary exposed classified
material to foreign hackers and governments on an unsecured server.
The
Insidious Power of the Media Disinformation Campaign for Hillary Clinton. While it is certainly true that the
chief editor of a major newspaper or the producer of a network newscast has the ability to spike or kill a story, which is
essentially their way of "ignoring" the news if you will, what is more subtle, deceitful — and dare I suggest
corrupt — is their penchant to frame a story to fit a specific narrative. They no longer report the news,
but they do shape a message. There is not a finer example of the media ignoring the facts and shaping a message than
what we are witnessing regarding Hillary Clinton's email server, the classified material on that server, as well as the case
of the missing emails. The media have embraced the Clinton campaign's narrative that there is "nothing to see here,"
that there wasn't some "mishandling email controversy," at most, or repeat Secretary Clinton's own bogus statement, "using a
personal e-mail was permissible" as "other Secretaries of State did the same thing." Other excuses have been thrown against
the wall to see if something will stick, such as, she was "trying to protect her privacy" or "she was clueless about how
regular emails work on a conventional computer."
EXCLUSIVE —
Darrell Issa: There Is Enough Evidence to Indict Hillary Clinton. Republican California Rep.
Darrell Issa said that there is enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for mishandling national security information on
her private email server. [...] Issa said that while there is enough evidence to indict, the American people will have to
play judge and jury in November's election. "It's not even a high bar. To be considered to be president of the
United States, you are supposed to be completely free of this kind of treachery against your country," Issa said.
Hillary
Clinton faces serious, even legal, potholes on the road to becoming Democratic candidate for president. First, her mishandling of
emails while secretary of state will not go away. A new report from the State Department's inspector general makes it clear that Clinton broke
the rules. Among five recent secretaries of state, Clinton was the only one who refused to co-operate with the investigation. This
wouldn't be so bad if she hadn't misled everyone a year ago. She claimed none of the thousands of emails on her personal server were
classified. The IG report maintains more than 2,000 were, indeed, classified. Some were even "top secret". Her excuse of
"convenience" was also questioned, given she carried several devices and how she used them took effort and planning. Clinton broke State
Department rules. But did she also break the law? The FBI is investigating, leaving open the possibility Clinton could be indicted
on criminal charges under state secret statutes.
The
Lawyers Who Could Take Down Hillary Clinton's Campaign. In February, a federal judge took the highly unusual
step of ruling that State Department officials and aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about her use of
a private email server, a controversy that has dogged the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for more than a
year. In comments from the bench, a visibly frustrated Judge Emmet Sullivan complained about the fragmentary way that
new revelations about Clinton's email use have come to light — largely through press reports and leaks and her
shifting explanations for why she set up the server in her New York home rather than use an official ".gov" account when she
was secretary of state. "This is a constant drip... That's what we're having here, you know, and it needs to stop,"
Sullivan said.
Hillary
Clinton: The Unpopular, Corrupt, Shameless Habitual Liar Democrats Deserve. [Hillary Clinton] has become
the first presidential candidate of either gender to clinch a major party's nomination while under active FBI
investigation. That criminal probe — not a "security review" as she and her campaign have wrongly
claimed — continues to produce serious new developments. Based on her deliberate, national
security-endangering conduct, as well as a string of clues and actions by federal investigators, it is entirely possible that
a recommendation for criminal prosecution will be handed down in the coming weeks. As America's top diplomat,
Mrs. Clinton ordered the implementation of an improper email scheme that predictably culminated in the compromising of
thousands of classified documents, including top secret and 'beyond top secret' material. She ignored specific,
personal warnings from State Department security officials about her reckless arrangement in 2009 and 2011, using her
shockingly unsecure system throughout her four-year tenure as a means of thwarting public records requests and wielding total
control over her correspondence. When the existence of her private server was revealed, Clinton and her attorneys
unilaterally deleted tens of thousands of messages, falsely stating that none of them were work-related. She has
verifiably and flagrantly lied about virtually every aspect of this scandal from the very beginning.
We
can't reward Hillary Clinton with the White House for breaking all the rules. In its report on how Hillary
Clinton handled her "private" emails while serving as secretary of state, the State Department's inspector general (IG) has
found that Hillary Clinton disregarded cyber security guidelines when she used a private computer server. She continues
to deny she did anything wrong and falsely claims she turned over "all" of her emails to the State Department after she left
office. In fact, she, or members of her team, deleted about 30,000 of them before an investigation of her practices began.
James
Comey: Enforcing the Law Requires Indicting Hillary Clinton. The facts known about Secretary Hillary Clinton's actions surrounding
the use of an unsecure private email server for conducting State Department business, show that she acted with reckless disregard of the security
interests of the United States and violated some ten federal statutes. Several are national security-related felonies, just three of which
include: 1) disclosure of classified information (22 of which documents were Top Secret); 2) unauthorized removal and retention
of classified documents; and 3) destruction of evidence (erasure of the hard drive and deletion of some 30,000 emails by Secretary Clinton),
after a government investigation had commenced (Benghazi hearings began October 10, 2012).
4
things Hillary Clinton got wrong in her latest statement about those emails. [Y]es, previous secretaries of
state have used personal email addresses while in office — Colin Powell most notably and extensively. But,
and this is really important, Clinton is the first secretary of state to ever use a private email address exclusively
to conduct her business. Period. That was and is unprecedented. [...] As for Clinton's assertion that she has turned
over "all" of her emails, remember that Clinton deleted more than 31,000 emails that she deemed personal before ever turning
anything over to the State Department. There was no third party brought in to make judgments on what was entirely private
and what might be closer to the professional line. We have to, quite literally, take Clinton's word for it.
5 Reasons
Hillary Clinton Isn't Fit To Be President. [#4] She belongs in jail. In America, no one is supposed to be
"above the law." Not you, not me, not the president of the United States. Yet, if Hillary Clinton doesn't go to jail over
having classified emails sent to her private server, it will be purely for political reasons. She knew what she was doing
was highly illegal from day one. Not only are there people in jail for doing less than she has, any normal person
with a government security clearance who did what she did would EXPECT to go to jail if he were caught.
From
Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer. The email-server story seems to move in waves:
silence for a while, then an onslaught of news. Late last Thursday [5/12/2016], it emerged that while Clinton hasn't
spoken to the FBI yet, several of her top aides have. (She has repeatedly said that she will cooperate if asked to
speak.) One of the aides to speak is Huma Abedin, one of Clinton's closest and longest-serving confidants. It's
not clear what other staffers have been interviewed. Meanwhile, a judge ruled last week that the conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch might be able to depose Clinton as part of a lawsuit over her use of private email — a matter
that concerns not the national-security implications of a potentially vulnerable server, but whether Clinton actually
complied with federal-records law in turning over her emails.
The Clinton Email Scandal
Timeline. I'm a political liberal, and up until a few months ago, I would have gladly supported Hillary
Clinton. I didn't pay much attention to Clinton's email scandal, and what I heard about it made me suspect that it was
another Republican-led scandal that never amounted to much. However, I eventually heard enough concerning news stories
about it to make me want to take a closer look. The more I learned, the more shocked and convinced I became that this
was a very real and very serious scandal.
More background and overview: Mens
Rea and Hillary Clinton. In connection with her February 1, 2013 departure from the State Department,
Clinton was clearly responsible under the State Department's own records-management manual to prepare an inventory of
personal papers and government materials, along with any proposal for retention of papers in the inventory for requisite
State Department approval. The purpose of the procedure was, by its own terms, to certify that the documentary
materials proposed for removal could be removed without diminishing the official records of the department or violation of
national security or other restrictions on disclosure. The SF 312 requirements specifically encompassed in its
coverage "Presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate." Secretary Clinton did not comply with any of the
SF 312 procedures upon her departure from the State Department, but rather, simply retained her private server. Her
document retention included at least 22 TOP SECRET/SAP documents. She continued to maintain the server in the
basement of her Chappaqua, New York home. In May 2013 she turned over the server to Platte River Networks that
matriculated all of Clinton's emails to another server. The emails were additionally backed up by a cloud-based
backup server for recovery in the event the primary server failed. Platte River Networks was not authorized to be a
custodian of these government records. For 22 months after Clinton's departure from State, the existence of the
server was unknown to the vast majority of the federal government and the public at large. Admittedly, some State
Department personnel were aware of the server. The existence of the server was first discovered by the Benghazi Special
Committee in early 2015, and was brought to public by the New York Times on March 24, 2015.
Hillary's
Sputtering Campaign. Although the FBI has not finished its investigation and sent its results and
recommendations to the Obama Justice Department, most of the media and public have learned enough about the e-mail/server
scandal to conclude that had any mid-level State Department or intelligence-agency employee emulated Hillary Clinton's use of
a private unsecured server — along with serial denials and lying about such use — he would have been
fired and prosecuted. [...] What keeps Hillary out of jail, or at least a plea-bargain, is her political viability, first as
the likely Democratic nominee, and second as a presumable winner over Trump. But take either likelihood away, and she
de facto loses exemption and becomes expendable — a fact that is well known to her and which cannot be an easy
reality to face each morning.
Is
It Time to Water the Tree of Liberty? [Scroll down] Without getting too deep in the technical weeds, let
me try to explain this as simply as possible. Hillary's server, and her computer, had an open 3389 port which allowed
remote use of her tree system, called RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol, and that port is not secure in any way. It also
connects, as I understand it, the server system's various networks meaning that any computer, or email system networked
through that server, as also easily accessed by the hackers. To put it another way, the open 3389 port was easily
accessible and open to the entire internet. [...] So, did Hillary Clinton commit espionage? Because of her intentional
efforts to store classified and above top secret documents away from government controlled secure systems, because she didn't
provide even the most basic security on her unlawful private system, because she shared those documents with others who
didn't have the proper security or any security clearance and because she intentionally disallowed government oversight, an
Inspector General to be inside the State Department throughout her entire reign there... and as a result, her system was
hacked, and those documents, including the SAP documents were then open and available to our friends and enemies alike... and
because she obviously attempted to cover her tracks with regard to purging 30,000 emails, including every single email to or
from her IT specialist, Bryan Pagliano... yes, Hillary committed espionage against the United States.
"Malicious
intent" is not required to break the law in Hillary Clinton's case. There's a new trend in the mainstream
media's ongoing efforts to defend Hillary Clinton over her email scandal and you should be keeping your eyes open for more of
it in the future. When the question first came up, most liberal outlets went through the usual stages of denial and
accommodation. Initially it was all just some story cooked up by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Then, when the
private bathroom server turned out to be a reality which could no longer be denied, the story was that it was simply personal
information or routine business with her staff, along with Chelsea's wedding and baby shower plans which were none of our
business. We all saw how the story morphed from that point on until it was painfully obvious that there had been Top
Secret material left lying around on the server outside the control of the government.
Clinton
Email Server Greatest Intel Disaster in History. Former frontline CIA Officer Scott Uehlinger says Hillary
Clinton clearly broke the law with her private unprotected server. Uehlinger explains, "What the Clintons rely on is
most Americans don't really understand the security procedures. So, they can throw up a lot of smoke and mirrors that
confuses people and makes them think that this was not so much of a problem. But people in the military and people in
the intelligence community understand this better, and certainly it is even worse than it appears. ... The fact that she set up
a private server, in and of itself, means she is guilty of a felony right there. Obviously, by having a private server, she
was conspiring to evade her signed sworn statements that she would uphold secrecy agreements. The fact that she simply
established that (private server) regardless of what was on it, she intended to go around and circumvent the law. Now,
we had more than 100 highly classified emails on the server, and the fact that this server is absolutely vulnerable to any
Chinese, Russian or Iranian hacking, this is the greatest disaster or mishandling of classified information at the upper
levels of the U.S. government in history. There is no question about it."
Will
the Wheels of Justice Grind Hillary? Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus believes Hillary
Clinton will get indicted. So does former attorney general Michael Mukasey, a Republican who served in the George W.
Bush administration, as does the Senate majority whip, John Cornyn of Texas. Many — perhaps even most —
Republicans believe the former secretary of state will face some sort of legal consequence for keeping classified information on
her private email system. Republicans cite the cases of national security adviser Sandy Berger, CIA director John Deutch,
and General David Petraeus to show clear precedent for prominent officials facing consequences for mishandling classified
information. They point to the preponderance of public evidence clearly and indisputably showing a bevy of classified
information was stashed on Clinton's home-brew server.
Hillary's
'classified' smokescreen hides real crime. Since the beginning of the Clinton email scandal, the nation has
been subjected to a political and criminal defense generated smokescreen. The Clinton campaign has attempted to make
the public believe that she is not guilty of anything because the information on her very unprotected server was not "marked
as classified" or "classified at the time." The applicable statute, 18 USC 793, however, does not even once
mention the word "classified." The focus is on "information respecting the national defense" that potentially "could be
used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation." 793 (f) specifically makes it
a crime for anyone "entrusted with ... any document ... or information relating to the national defense ... through gross
negligence (to permit) the same to be removed from its proper place of custody." A jury (not a Democrat or Republican
political administration) is, of course, the best body to determine gross negligence on the facts of this case.
New
documents refute Hillary Clinton's secret email server timeline. Documents confirm Hillary Clinton was using
her secret email server before the March 18 start date she previously claimed, and the State Department had access to some of
the messages all along but didn't notice, a conservative legal watchdog said Thursday [3/24/2016]. Judicial Watch, which
has filed a host of lawsuits to try to pry loose Mrs. Clinton's emails, released a Feb. 13 exchange between Mrs. Clinton, the
new secretary of state, and aide Cheryl Mills concerning Mrs. Clinton's desire for a secure BlackBerry to handle classified email
traffic. Last year, Mrs. Clinton indicated she started using her secret account on the clintonemail.com server she kept at
her home in New York in March, two months after she was sworn in as secretary.
The Email Saga. For alumni of U.S. national-security
departments and agencies, Hillary Clinton's email saga is mind-numbing. The publicly available information makes clear she and her aides violated so many
elementary security prohibitions that alumni are speechless. They wonder, had they done what she did, how quickly they would have lost their clearances and
jobs and how extensive the criminal indictments against them would be. By contrast, many who have never served in government or dealt with classified
information see the affair as opaque, even overblown. Certainly Clinton has worked hard to foster that impression. Leaving political spin aside,
and without delving into arcane legal analysis, which is it? What did Clinton and her entourage actually do day-to-day, and what does it mean?
Is
America Ruled By Law or Ruled by Power? Hillary Clinton is a felon many times over. Assuming the facts are as being reported —
or that they are even a tenth of the severity of what has been reported — Hillary Clinton is guilty of multiple serious felonies stemming
from her conscious choice to unlawfully hide her correspondence as Secretary of State on a "private" server that was kept in some dude's bathroom
somewhere. I use the term "private" only in the sense that it was non-governmental; every foreign intelligence agency, friend or foe, was
reading it. Only we American citizens can't see what was on it, and that's because much of it was highly classified material. So she
is a felon many times over. Understand that this is not open to debate. There is no "her side of the story." There is no excuse
nor harmless explanation.
Hillary's
Email Recklessness Compromised Our National Security. We could go on at length about Clinton's arrogance in setting up a homebrew
communications network, an outrageous violation of the transparency standards that were her responsibility as secretary of state to enforce.
It was a familiar exercise in Clintonian self-dealing: Anticipating running for president in 2016, she realized she was enmeshed in the Clinton
Foundation's global scheme to sell influence for money, so she devised a way to avoid a paper trail. Accountability, after all, is for peons:
The yoke of recordkeeping requirements, Freedom of Information Act productions, congressional inquiries, and the government's disclosure duties in judicial
proceedings was not for her Highness.
Hillary
Clinton's Secrets Contract Should [End] Her Candidacy. Simply receiving at least two emails containing top secret
material on the nonsecure private server she set up for herself, as we know she did, and for which the Justice Department is
investigating her, is an obvious violation of that contract she signed with the federal government (and, considering the national
security implications, with the American people themselves). If it weren't for the steep slant of the dominant media, the
revelation of Clinton's nondisclosure agreement would signal a perfect storm forming to doom her presidential candidacy.
Why
is the Mainstream Press Still Coddling Clinton? [Scroll down] Over at NBC News, Lester Holt sat down with Clinton on Friday [1/29/2016] to
ask her such hardball questions such as "do you get your feelings hurt," after admitting that he "winced" when he heard someone tell her at a town hall that
people think she's dishonest. Clinton got asked two perfunctory questions about the latest email revelations on CNN Monday morning [2/1/2016], one of
them being, "How do you convince voters not to be concerned?" Now, try to imagine a Republican running for office who, while secretary of state, conducted
all his emails on a private, nonsecure server so he could pick and choose which emails to turn over to investigators, then tried to wipe the server before handing
it over to a private third party, who clearly lied about not sending or receiving any classified information over that email system, and who then tried to blame
it on liberals in government and Democrats for being on a witch hunt. Oh, and because of this negligence, America's national security might very well have
been put at risk. Reporters would be in a state of mad fury, with all hands on deck to get to the bottom of it. The story would dominate the news,
day after day.
A Felon By Any Other Name. Were her last
name anything other than Clinton, Hillary would be indicted today. Actually, she would have been indicted long ago and sitting in prison today.
But her last name is Clinton. As such, she's on the verge of becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party for president. [...] The Clintons always
have been about one thing — the Clintons. Although there is a certain degree of narcissism necessary to run for public office, and an
even healthier dose required the higher up the power ladder one climbs, only the Kennedys rival the Clintons in their naked lust for power and thwarting
of the law.
Hillary's Last Hurrah. The FBI is investigating two aspects of
Clinton's conduct while she was secretary of state: first, the handling of classified information — up to and including top secret/special access
program information — on her private email system; second, the possibility that Clinton, as secretary of state, sold American foreign policy to the highest
bidder who wanted to contribute to the Clinton Family Foundation or pay Bill another $500,000 for a twenty-minute speech. To begin we have to recognize the
obvious: that her private email system was set up for a corrupt purpose, namely to ensure that she had control over all the communications she sent or received
as secretary of state.
Hillary Email Scandal: 7 Smoking
Guns Found ... So Far. After each previous batch of emails that has been released, reporters would quickly proclaim that there was
nothing in them definitely proving that Clinton broke the law. At least, that's what one would assume constitutes a "smoking gun," given the
way the scandal has been covered. But what if a "smoking gun" means catching her in a flat lie or putting national security at risk or being
unbelievably, if not criminally, negligent in her handing of classified information? By those perfectly reasonable standards, there are so
many smoking guns now that Hillary is starting to resemble Annie Oakley. The latest revelation is the hardest for even a biased press to
ignore, because it so clearly demonstrates that Clinton repeatedly lied when she said she never knowingly sent or received any classified
material from the private, unsecured homebrew email server stashed in her New York home.
Why
Hillary Clinton's legal woes are grave or even fatal. The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the
law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of
members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information. Before she was entrusted with any
state secrets — indeed, on her first full day as secretary of state — Clinton received instruction from
FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of
these secrets. She was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets — known as espionage — would
most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
None Dare Call It Treason. The disclosure
about Valerie Plame was called "treason" and people have gone to jail for mishandling classified info, what Hillary Clinton is accused of.
6
things we've learned from Hillary Clinton's emails. [#1] Clinton used more than one device[.] After news
broke about her personal email account, Clinton said she'd used one only as a matter of convenience so she would not have to carry
two devices. "I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two,"
she said last March. But her emails show she did have two devices — a BlackBerry and an iPad that she received in
June 2010. On Junev25 of that year, Clinton aide Philippe Reines sent her an email announcing the arrival of what he called
her hPad.
Secrecy
is the root of the Clinton email scandal. The Washington Post has published a lengthy article by Robert O'Harrow, Jr. called
"How Clinton's Email Scandal Took Root." Much of the article covers ground familiar to those who are following this saga. However,
the story is still worth reading. [...] I doubt that, for purposes of determining whether Clinton violated the law, it matters whether her
motive was convenience or a quest for control of her records. However, O'Harrow's piece, without saying so, shows that her motive was
control, not mere convenience. It makes this clear in two ways.
Clinton
Email Scandal: How A Biased Press Tried To Ignore It. The Washington Post led its Monday [3/28/2016] paper with
a story titled "How Clinton's Email Scandal Took Root." What it revealed was that, left to the mainstream press, the story
might never have hit the ground. No one reading the Post's 5,000-word account can come away thinking that the Clinton
email scandal is unimportant. The FBI now has 147 agents chasing down leads. A key person involved in the scandal
has been granted immunity. Hillary Clinton — who has already been caught in several lies — might be
questioned by federal agents. There are fairly obvious violations of the law, even if it's just those governing record-keeping.
And there were, and continue to be, concerns that national security secrets were compromised, or at least casually disregarded.
Caddell:
Hillary's Email Scandal Worse Than Watergate. On Breitbart News Saturday [2/13/2016] on Sirius XM, Pollster Pat Caddell, a former adviser
to President Jimmy Carter, told host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that the Hillary Clinton email scandal is "worse than
Watergate." [...] "This is the greatest scandal in the history of the United States," Caddell said. "They all ought to be indicted. This is worse
than Watergate." Clinton, he explained, would soon be exposed for using her connections in the State Department to enrich her family, her foundation,
and her supporters.
The Server Is the Smoking
Gun, Part 2,088,129. As I've been ranting for quite a while, the never-ending search for the smoking gun in Hillary's e-mails
keeps missing the huge smoking artillery piece lying out in plain sight: the server itself. It was if not an explicitly criminal
act to create it, it was a criminal act to use it the way she did. All of the e-mails that have come to light simply demonstrate that
fact. It also bears repeating that every single thing Hillary Clinton said in that initial press conference at the U.N. has been proven
to be a lie several times over. One lie, however, still had a rice-paper-thin firewall. In that press conference Clinton said
"there is no classified material."
How Hillary's
Insane Paranoia Led Her To Put Highly Classified Material On Her Homebrew Server. Hillary Clinton may be headed to jail —
and if she does, she wants you to know it's going to be all the fault of the vast right wing conspiracy. Yes, even though the executive branch
is controlled by her former boss Barack Obama, the real problem is unspecified conservatives illegally leaking information to the press. On
Tuesday [1/19/2016], Fox News reported that Hillary Clinton's private server contained intelligence "from the US government's most secretive and
highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers."
Where Is The Indictment? If anyone else
had done any of what Hillary has done, they'd already be in the dock and probably already have had their trial. They certainly wouldn't be running
for President.
Hillary
Email Scandal: Server Was Wellspring Of Classified Material. It's been established that at least 1,340 of
Clinton's emails contained classified material. And now the inspector general for the intelligence community is saying that
"several dozen" more with classified material have been found, including some with "a level of classification beyond even
'top secret,'" reports Fox. That classification would be "special access programs," which Wikipedia says "may be a type of
black project." This is highly sensitive material intended to be available only to those who "need to know." But Clinton
couldn't be bothered with using a secure State Department email account and server, so this material was left exposed on her wonky
server, which had a habit of crashing and was certainly not secure.
Why Clinton's email problem won't
go away. For readers who've mostly ignored emailgate — assuming it would disappear — and now feel
the need to catch up, here's a primer on why it matters. It's difficult to avoid the suspicion that Clinton, after the
scandals that rocked her husband's presidency during the 1990s, simply did not want to leave behind a paper trail (or e-trail).
And so, as secretary of State, she tried to skirt federal records law by employing her own IT systems and servers, and by exclusively
using a personal email address. This maneuver, however, created a far bigger problem than the one she intended to avoid, because
a large portion of what any secretary of State does is classified to some degree. High-level diplomacy is inherently a secret matter
and always has been.
Why
I've written 50 posts on Hillary Clinton's e-mails. [Reason #3] The story about the e-mail server has changed.
Repeatedly. When Clinton acknowledged the existence of the server back in March — following a New York Times report
revealing it — she insisted that the private server need not be examined by a third party. She (finally) turned
it over last month. She said that the handing over of the e-mails was a procedure that all former and current secretaries of
state were undergoing at the same time. But, as reporting from The Post this week showed, the State Department specifically
requested Clinton's e-mails after they realized she had used private e-mail exclusively. It wasn't until months later that
requests for documents was made of other former secretaries of state. A story that keeps changing like that bears further
analysis and investigation.
Clinton: Questions About my Email Are 'Beyond the
Pale'. Since the story broke in the spring, Clinton continually dismissed the saga over her use of private email while secretary of state
as a distraction that she didn't have to apologize for, insisting over and over that what she did was allowed by the government. Eventually,
Clinton did say she was "sorry" for what she'd done. Questions ranging from her potential misuse of classified information to why she elected
to use a private server to conduct government business at all have dogged her campaign and caused her trustworthiness numbers to suffer with voters.
The
United States of Injustice. [Scroll down] Where citizens used to be equal, there are now two kinds of
citizens. There are the allies of Obama, and there are the rest of us. There are two sets of laws, two standards of
behavior, two Americas — one for them, and one for us. Look at Hillary Clinton, that poisonous, pant-suited
toad whose shameless, felonious email antics would have her in a federal court docket if she was anyone else except the
Democrat frontrunner. It's not even a close call — those of us who dealt with classified information understand
that had we done a tenth of what she did we would be spending the next decade transforming big rocks into little rocks at
Leavenworth. In fact, General Petraeus did just a tenth of what she did, and he was prosecuted. But though her
guilt is beyond question, she never, ever will be. That is unjust.
Here's the bottom line of the
Hillary e-mail dump. The content of the Hillary Clinton emails released New Year's Eve doesn't matter nearly so much as what the
State Department held back: It found 275 of the messages to contain classified info — in two cases, "Secret" information.
The total so far is 1,274 classified emails, debunking Clinton's claims that she never sent or received such info on the account run from the
private, unsecured server in her home. Her fallback defense is that nothing was marked "classified." Yet all State employees are
warned that some stuff is "born classified."
'This
was all planned': Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying. The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know
until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business —
because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department's former top watchdog says. "This was all
planned in advance" to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency's inspector
general from 2005 to 2008. The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used
a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.
Hillary needs to answer for her
war. Hillary Clinton, running for president, has not held a press conference in the past 88 days. You'd think
she was running from something rather than for something. And maybe she is. During that period, the State Department
has released 16,700 of the emails she illegally concealed for years from the public and from lawful Freedom of Information requests.
In that same 88-day period since Clinton last faced unscreened press questions, 842 of those emails, which she stored on an insecure server
in her own home, were deemed to contain national secrets that merit classified status. About two dozen were deemed Top Secret.
One reportedly contained extremely sensitive information about an Afghan national who could have faced lethal retribution for collaborating
with American intelligence services.
Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term "office" does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
They're
doing what they're accusing us of doing. The same Leftists who pilloried President
Trump for an innocent phone call to President Zelensky gave a pass to then Secretary Of State
Hillary Clinton when she illegally used private electronic devices to send and receive classified
information, and then destroyed both the messages and the devices after they were subpoenaed by
Congress. The reason for the pass? They claimed she didn't intend to do anything wrong
and "Because the government is awash in secrets, they are regularly mishandled unintentionally."
In other words, "She didn't mean any harm and besides, everybody else is doing it!" I wonder
how often Secretary of State Clinton emailed President Obama on one of those illegal devices.
All emails to the POTUS must be cleared through the White House Communications Agency (WHCA).
Ms. Clinton was not using a .gov email address, which means that WHCA and President Obama knew
that she was using unauthorized devices.
Hillary
Clinton Says She's The 'Most Investigated Innocent Person You Have Ever Met'. Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized former President Donald Trump and stressed her
purported innocence in an interview with Margaret Hoover of PBS' "Firing Line" on Friday.
Clinton echoed sentiments that Trump poses a threat to democracy and mocked him for directing his
administration to investigate her only to not file any criminal charges. While the Trump
administration never formally accused Clinton of breaking the law, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director James Comey in July 2016 said that Clinton had stored 110 emails containing
classified information on a private email server, with eight email chains containing top secret
information. "He basically ordered his attorney general to reopen an investigation into me,"
Clinton told Hoover. "He ordered his two secretaries of state to reinvestigate me. They
investigated the Clinton Foundation. You know, I'm the most investigated innocent person you
have ever met." Trump's Department of Justice investigated Clinton and her foundation but
ultimately did not bring charges against her, according to The Hill.
America's
Corrupt Political Class Should Be Prosecuted, Not Trump. Meanwhile, we're still
dealing with the fallout of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton running her own email off of a
server in a closet in her private home, a server with top-secret information on it. In fact,
the FBI has "assess[ed] it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's
personal e-mail account." When this private server became an issue, Hillary Clinton destroyed the
evidence. And yet, James Comey gave a speech about how what she did was all very wrong before
announcing she would not be charged for any of this egregious violation of the law.
Guilty! —
But Not Really Guilty? In 2016, an FBI investigation found that Hillary Clinton, as
Secretary of State, had violated the law by transmitting and receiving classified information over
an unsecured private server. Subsequently, she destroyed thousands of emails and some
devices, some of which were under subpoena. FBI Director James Comey found that "any
reasonable person" should have known it was illegal to transmit classified information in such a
sloppy fashion. Comey, however, found that "Although there is evidence of potential
violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that
no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
Judicial
Watch Settles State Department Lawsuit that Uncovered Hillary Clinton's Unsecure, Nongovernment
Emails. Judicial Watch announced today [2/27/2024] it settled its 2014 Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, which sought the emails of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
regarding the Benghazi attack. This suit led directly to the disclosure of Clinton's use of a
nongovernment email server to conduct government business. The settlement commits the State
Department to a payment to Judicial Watch of $97,000. This FOIA lawsuit, about the Obama
administration's Benghazi scandal, forced the Obama administration to admit to Hillary Clinton's
hidden classified and other government emails in 2015. Judicial Watch uncovered "talking
points" created by the Obama White House and other documents showing that statements about the
attack made on the eve of the 2012 elections by then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice were
false. On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama
administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides, as well as Susan Rice,
to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. Judge Lamberth called the Clinton email
system "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
Docs
Reveal FBI Questioned Obama DOJ in Hillary Email Probe. A presidential candidate
faces an FBI probe surrounding alleged mishandling of classified information, amid questions about
the independence of the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the candidate's supporters allege
political interference and demand that the chief investigator be investigated. Such was the
case in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and other supporters of
Hillary Clinton complained that then-FBI Director James Comey violated the law in notifying
Congress that he had restarted an investigation of Clinton's use of a private, unsecure email
server while she was secretary of state. Meanwhile, FBI officials questioned the independence
of then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and considered asking for a special counsel to investigate
Clinton's private email server, according to a heavily redacted transcript of an interview with a
top FBI career official.
Who could forget Carlos Danger and Pierre Delecto? Obama,
Clinton and Biden ALL used secret, fake-name email accounts to hide their actions. I
am surprised that anyone is surprised that, as vice president in the Obama administration, Joe
Biden used email accounts under fake names to loop his son Hunter into official US government
business. This is how the Obama administration rolled. When high officials were
involved in a dodgy activity they wanted to shield from public disclosure laws, they frequently
used pseudonymous email accounts. That included President Barack Obama himself. As I
argued at the time, one of the main reasons the Obama Justice Department whitewashed Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's criminally negligent mishandling of classified information, through the
lawless homebrew server system she set up for doing official government business, is that Obama was
implicated. He knew that she was using a non-government communications channel because,
numerous times, she used it to correspond with him.
A
Country Descending into Madness. This is what it looks like when a country descends
into madness. Two standards of "justice" preclude any justice at all. Hillary Clinton
kept top-secret information on a home-brew private server that was infiltrated by malicious foreign
actors, and she suffered no legal consequence — even after having destroyed Blackberry
devices and other subpoenaed evidence of criminal culpability. President Trump keeps
personally declassified documents in his home, and the FBI sends a SWAT team into Mar-a-Lago so
that Merrick Garland's goons can throw Trump in prison. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
conspired with the Intelligence Community to frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy and remove him
from office, and not a single perpetrator involved in that incendiary plot has been indicted.
They
are rubbing our noses in their filth. A day after the 240th anniversary of the birth
of America, Jimmy Comey — Obama's FBI director — announced that even though
she sent 33,000 emails to a Chinese email account, Missus Clinton would not be prosecuted.
They had her dead to rights — and Comey let her live. He told the press, "Although
there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified
information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. [...]"
Shorter Comey: She did it and we don't care. The fix was in and they were blatant about
it with Bill Clinton openly meeting with Comey's boss — AG Loretta Lynch — on
the tarmac at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix in 110-degree heat. They wanted the
world to see that the fix was in.
Comey's
Grand Illusion Book Tour. Most Americans will never forget the congressional hearings
regarding the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Members of Congress
wanted answers, questioning whether or not then — secretary of state Hillary Clinton had
failed to provide appropriate security for assassinated ambassador John Christopher Stevens and the
consulate staff. As part of the congressional investigation, it came to light that Secretary
Clinton had illegally been utilizing a private email account and an unsecured server, by which
classified documents were sent. The resulting political and legal firestorm rocked the nation
and resulted in a year-long FBI investigation. In the end, [FBI director James] Comey came
before the American people with apparently cut-and-dried evidence that Clinton — the
Democrat running for president at the time — had committed multiple federal
crimes. In his highly anticipated public statement, Comey claimed that over 100 Clinton
emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent,
including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret." An additional 2,093 emails
were retroactively designated confidential by the State Department.
Can
Trump Clean The Augean Stables on the Potomac? [Scroll down] This is the
moment we return to Hillary Clinton and her "home-brew" email server through which she ran all
manner of classified correspondence. According to disgraced former FBI Director James "Higher
Loyalty" Comey, "no reasonable prosecutor" would go after Hillary, even though she deleted
thousands of emails and destroyed mobile phones and hard drives after being subpoenaed. If
you are hearing the winds murmur "two-tier system of justice" you are not imagining things.
Donald Trump, as president, could declassify anything he wished. Neither Joe Biden nor
Hillary Clinton had that authority.
Trump
[was] indicted, not Hillary, Hunter or Milley. The FBI is best at covering up
crimes. Consider Hillary sending state secrets while secretary of state via email to foreign
governments and others who paid the troll via donations to her fake charity. Remember the
words of Jimmy the Weasel Comey, who said, "From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State
Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain
classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains
contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret
information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of
classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were 'up-classified' to
make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails
were sent." She committed at least 110 felonies by e-mailing classified information.
Comey admitted it. And yet as head of the FBI in 2016, he recommended against prosecuting her.
Hillary
Clinton Brazenly Gloats About Getting Away With Classified Emails on Basement Server.
In the wake of news that former President Donald Trump would be indicted on federal charges next
week related to his handling of classified documents, many rightfully noted the two-tiered system
of justice that's being employed to go after Trump while turning a blind eye to Hillary Clinton and
Joe Biden — Democrats who had classified materials in unapproved locations.
Democrats, of course, are used to this benefit of belonging to the "correct" party, and now Hillary
Clinton is outright gloating about the partisan immunity she enjoys. In a Friday morning
tweet, the former first lady sought to make a buck off her previous actions that, had she stayed a
Republican after her days as a "Goldwater Girl," would have earned her a federal indictment: [Tweet[
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Times Democrats And DOJ Deliberately Politicized Law Enforcement. [#4] While the
DOJ investigated the Trump campaign in 2016, the agency gave cover to Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton over her private email server scandal. The FBI told journalists there
was no evidence that a foreign power reviewed Clinton's emails improperly stored on a private
server. According to a report from the DOJ inspector general in 2018, however, texts show
they almost certainly did, "at least one of them classified," as Federalist Senior Editor David
Harsanyi wrote.
Hillary
Clinton plays the victim — but her history of avoiding criminal charges shows she's anything
but. "I can't believe we're still talking about this, but my emails...": Hillary Clinton's disbelief
this week was shared by many critics left dumbfounded by her claim her private server contained "zero" classified
documents. The expression of utter incredulity was classic Clinton — she's selling hats reading "But
her emails" for $30 a pop. But Hillary's denial of what was found on her server exposes something far more serious
than signature hypocrisy. It reflects establishment figures' sense of license that they can literally rewrite
history with little fear of contradiction by the media. While calling for limits on free speech over
"disinformation," Hillary has no qualms about falsely denying what published government reports detail.
Prayers
for Jonathan Turley After His Definitive Takedown of Hillary's Latest 'but My Emails' Defense.
Twice-failed candidate for president Hillary Clinton craves the spotlight much like Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)
craves the undivided personal attention of Chinese honey traps, and unfortunately for the sanity of those who are all
too familiar with her checkered past, the mainstream media usually gives it to her. Such has been the case over
the last month or so as Hillary and daughter Chelsea Clinton have been on a media tour of sorts to promote their
upcoming Apple TV+ docuseries, "Gutsy." Most recently, Hillary Clinton sat down for an "interview" with CBS Evening News
anchor Norah O'Donnell, where predictably there was much gushing and much revising of history as it related to Clinton's
sordid political track record. As is often the case with Clinton, however, she didn't confine her revisionism to
the TV news airwaves. As we previously reported, she also took to the Twitter machine Tuesday to post a lie-filled
rant in an attempt to debunk comparisons of her email scandal to the FBI's raid of former President Donald Trump's
Mar-a-Lago home.
Hillary
Keeps Shamelessly Lying About Her Emails. Hillary Clinton lies with the recklessness of someone who's
gotten away with countless acts of corruption in her career. Who can really blame her? Here she is today:
[Tweet] None of what Clinton says in her thread is even remotely true. Hillary contends that "Comey admitted he
was wrong after he claimed I had classified emails." Even if the former FBI director had changed his mind, it would
not have mattered very much once he was out of office. But Comey never did any such thing. After
scrupulously detailing Hillary's numerous evasions of laws governing the handling of classified information in July of
2016, Comey let the former Secretary of State skate, maintaining the FBI couldn't prove intent. Clinton, he said,
had merely been "extremely careless" in "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Comey didn't
charge Hillary, probably to save himself the trauma of indicting someone he believed would be the next president.
Is
this the Public Image the FBI Wants? The fact that we have two justice systems, one
for Democrats and another, harsher one for Republicans, is no longer debatable. Anyone who
disagrees needs to explain the difference in the treatment of Hillary's mishandling of classified
documents, and Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents. The classified materials
on Hillary's bathroom server were verified as among our most closely held secrets, and were almost
certainly accessed by foreign actors. The documents in Trump's basement were reportedly
declassified and were secured per FBI instructions, in a building guarded by the Secret
Service. And yet no search warrant has ever been served on the Clinton estate. The FBI
has been a key player in the creation of our two-tiered justice system with its dogged pursuit of
Republicans, and its willful blindness to Democrat infractions. The bureau has become the
Democrat party enforcer, and the public recognizes it now.
Think
the FBI Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt? The FBI repeatedly told journalists there
was no evidence that a foreign power had reviewed Clinton's emails that she improperly handled on a
private server. According to an inspector general report in 2018, however, texts show they almost
certainly did, "at least one of them classified," as Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi wrote.
"It is more accurate to say," read a text from Strzok, "that we know foreign actors obtained access to
some of her emails (including at least one Secret one) via compromises of the private email accounts of
some of her staffers."
IG:
"FBI... Identified '81 Email Chains... That Were Classified... and Sent to or from Clinton's Personal Server'".
The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice released a report in June 2018 that stated that the FBI had
"identified '81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP
SECRET levels... and sent to or from [Hillary] Clinton's personal server." The IG cited the information from a
"letterhead memorandum" (LHM) that the FBI produced about its investigation of the matter. The IG report also noted
that "[n]one of the emails... included a header or footer with classification markings." "According to the LHM," said
the IG report, "the FBI, with the assistance of other USIC [U.S. intelligence community] agencies, identified '81 email
chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels
at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton's personal server.'
Biden's
Supreme Court Pick Shielded Top Clinton Aide Amid Email Scandal. President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee
shielded one of Hillary Clinton's top State Department aides from scrutiny about his use of a personal email account to
conduct official business. Then-U.S. district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2015 denied Gawker's request for details
about press aide Philippe Reines's stewardship of the account in the context of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which
sought emails Reines traded with 34 different media outlets. Jackson blocked Gawker's request, calling it
"extraordinary" and claiming there was no proof that Reines had acted in "bad faith" by using a personal email address.
The
FBI's Broken Relationship with Us. All large organizations suffer from the occasional presence of bad
actors. The FBI is no exception. But it managed to retain a good relationship with the public in spite of its
flaws, because it was still solving rather than creating crimes. But something fundamentally changed in the last five
years. [...] The "Midyear Exam," the bureau's name for the Hillary Clinton email investigation, was a farce. No
subpoenas were issued, central figures were given immunity without cooperation, evidence was destroyed by the FBI, and then
the attorney general had a clandestine meeting with "Slick Willy" Clinton — the husband of the target.
Surprise: No charges were filed. "The Cardinal" Comey held a press conference and announced that even though
Hillary had broken numerous laws, she didn't mean it, so he was giving her a pass. It must have been an accident that
an email server, containing classified documents, appeared in her bathroom — with a support staff.
How
Did the FBI End Up in This Mess? [Scroll down] James Comey was also a product of the prosecutorial side of the
DoJ. Like Mueller before him, he was a U.S. Attorney and Deputy Attorney General. James Comey is a man of unquestionable
integrity — according to James Comey. In fact, peers and subordinates gave him the nickname "The Cardinal" due to his
sanctimonious self-regard. Director Comey decided to run the Clinton email investigation out of FBI headquarters, rather
than a field office so that it could be overseen by such giants of virtue as Peter Strzok and himself. Under Comey's guidance,
it was a unique investigation. No grand jury was used, no subpoenas were served, key witnesses were given immunity, and the
investigators themselves destroyed the evidence. Comey then went on national television and laid out how all of the elements
of a felony had been committed by Madame Secretary "Dirty Tricks." But then surprise, surprise — no indictment would be
sought because Hillary really didn't mean it. It turns out that "The Cardinal" is not only a paragon of virtue, he's
also a mind reader. With that broadcast, Comey unveiled the partisan FBI for all of the world to see. Corruption had
officially arrived at the FBI, and "The Cardinal" wasn't even hiding it. But Comey didn't stop with his election interference
by simply giving Hillary a pass. He also began painting an image of criminal behavior by the Trump campaign.
If the FBI
Knew Danchenko Was Lying From the Start — And They Did — Why Didn't The Mueller SCO Charge
Him? When you are a federal prosecutor and you are not actually interested in pursuing a particular case, but
you want to go through the motions to make it look good, you do things like not seizing computers, allowing defense counsel
to decide what documents investigators should receive, allow lawyers who are witnesses to possible criminal activity to serve
as defense counsel for targets so they can sit in and listen to interviews, hand out immunity to whoever asks without having
a clear view of their culpability .... Wait — that was the Hillary email investigation. Danchenko and
Crossfire Hurricane are different. Aren't they? With the indictment of Igor Danchenko this past week, the answer
to that question is becoming less and less clear. While the two investigations were, technically speaking, separate
from one another, a similar coterie of DOJ and FBI officials seemed to want their "Igor Problem" to slip beneath the waves
and disappear in the same way the "Hillary's Email" problem was made to slip beneath the waves and disappear. The
tactic is to use decision-making implicitly designed to not produce a prosecutable case, ignore or excuse evidence of
criminal culpability, and point to a bright shiny object of supposedly greater significance to be concerned with.
DOJ
inspector general cannot identify FBI leaks regarding Clinton server in lead-up to 2016 election. A years-long
investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general revealed that numerous FBI employees had "substantial"
media contacts prior to the 2016 presidential election, but it could not determine who leaked sensitive information to
reporters. The 10-page report issued Thursday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that while FBI policies
strictly limit the employees who are authorized to speak to the media, those rules "appeared to be widely ignored" in 2016.
The new findings expand upon the investigative work included in a June 2018 report entitled the "Review of Allegations
Regarding Various Actions by the Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Advance of the 2016 Election
(2016 pre-election report)."
Russia
Collusion Wasn't About Donald Trump, It Was Designed to Protect Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama's spy chiefs
never believed that Donald Trump was a Russian spy. The Trump-Russia collusion narrative originated as a diversionary
tactic in the event emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server went public. [...] This week a former senior
intelligence official in the Obama administration confirmed to me that in the lead-up to the 2016 election, elements of the
U.S. intelligence community informed the FBI that the Democratic candidate's emails had been compromised. "They
concluded that there were approximately 30,000 emails in the possession of foreign entities," said the former Obama
official. "The FBI was provided with digital copies of some of the emails and then evaluated them, determining their
veracity and identifying what sensitive issues were being addressed. The FBI had been informed of this prior to James
Comey's press conference exonerating Clinton."
An
Open Letter to Every [...] Politician! On the Election, Corruption, all of it! Night after night, year
after year, we watch you on the evening news pontificate about this issue or that scandal and yet you all do nothing.
We're sick of it! We watched Hillary Clinton break every law in the book by lying to the FBI about her using her own
private server to conduct government business, and then deleting over 33,000 emails once she was caught. She broke the
law multiple times, regardless of intent. In fact, the laws she broke specifically said that intent was not
needed for the law to be broken. And what did you do? Nothing. Sure, you put on a show, but who was
punished? Who went to jail? Who was held accountable? Hillary Clinton? James Comey?
Please. And what about the IRS targeting Tea Party Groups. After the IRS was caught intentionally harassing these
groups, they finally came clean and admitted that they were breaking the law. Who was sent to jail? Who was
fired? Lois Lerner? James Clapper? Obama? CIA Director, Brennan? No one, that's who!
Trouble
for Joe? Hillary's Emails Are Resurfacing. Every election cycle there's some sort of "October surprise."
It's when campaigns release the dirt they have on their opponent, in hopes of flipping some voters. But not every
election surprise has to come from a campaign. In fact, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said the State
Department is getting closer to releasing emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.
You know, the ones that contained classified information that should have been safeguarded? "We've got the emails,
we're getting them out. We'll get all of this information out so the American people can see it," Pompeo told Fox
News' Dana Perino. "We're going to get all this information out so the American people can see it. You'll
remember there was classified information on a private server, should have never been there, Hillary Clinton should never
have done that, that was unacceptable behavior." According to Pompeo, Clinton should have never had classified
information on a private server.
Jim
Comey Ignored Department Whistleblower on Hillary's Crimes With Classified Material. One year before Jim Comey
was immersed in his plot to overthrow Donald Trump, the duly elected President of the United States, a brave Foreign Service
Officer at the U.S. Department of State came forward with firsthand information of Hillary Clinton's rampant abuse of
Classified material. The man, a senior State Department diplomat who had served as the acting Ambassador (Chargé
d'Affaires) in the Asia Pacific region under President Clinton, also was a veteran of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam
War. The letter from this whistleblower is stunning and I am going to present it in total. It is dated
10 January 2016. [...]
Mike
Pompeo Says He Has Hillary Clinton's Deleted Emails and Will Begin Releasing Them Before Election Day.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday dropped a little October surprise said his department has Hillary Clinton's
'deleted' emails and will release them before the election. "We're getting them out," Pompeo told Fox News Dana
Perino. "We'll get all of this information out so the American people can see them," Pompeo said. "There will be
more to see before the election." "You will remember there was classified information on a private server. It
should never have been there. Hillary Clinton should never have done that. It is unacceptable behavior."
Brennan
Personally Briefed Obama on Clinton Campaign's Russia Collusion Operation in 2016. CIA Director John Brennan
personally briefed former President Barack Obama on Russia's knowledge of Hillary Clinton's "plan" to smear then-candidate
Donald Trump as a Russian stooge during the 2016 presidential election, newly declassified documents reveal. Director
of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified Brennan's handwritten notes from the briefing, as well as a
CIA memo revealing that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action. That referral was
sent to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok. Ratcliffe
first revealed in a letter late last month that the FBI were aware of Russian intelligence regarding Hillary Clinton's plan
to link Trump to Russia as "a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server."
Gregg
Jarrett: Declassification of Russia probe documents could prove Hillary Clinton committed [a] felony.
President Trump's announcement on Twitter Tuesday that he had fully authorized the declassification of all documents related
to the Russia investigation is bad news for Hillary Clinton, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett told "Hannity" Tuesday [10/6/2020].
"It demonstrates just how immoral, unscrupulous, devious and corrupt Hillary Clinton was," Jarrett said. Earlier
Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified documents revealing that then-CIA Director John
Brennan briefed President Obama in 2016 on Hillary Clinton's "plan" to stir up a scandal tying then-candidate Donald Trump to
Russia and distracting from the controversy over her private email server. Jarrett said Clinton may have committed a
felony in disseminating false information, depending on "how it [the information] was leaked and to whom."
Trump:
I'm declassifying everything on "the single greatest political CRIME in American History". Donald Trump is
declassifying information on Fanny Foxe and Wilbur Mills? No, of course that's the description Trump uses for the
"Russia hoax" and its targeting of his 2016 campaign. Last night, Trump announced that all material related to the
investigation into Operation Crossfire Hurricane, including all intelligence notes, would be declassified: [...] Why
now? The catalyst appears to be a recently declassified — but still heavily redacted — set of
notes from John Brennan from July 2016. In the notes, the then-CIA director documented his briefing of Barack Obama and other
administration officials about the Russia-collusion allegation. According to the notes that weren't redacted, Brennan
told Obama that the Hillary Clinton campaign planned to use this allegation as a distraction from her e-mail scandal.
President
Trump Authorizes Total Declassification of All Documents Related to Spygate, Hillary Email Scandal — WITH NO
REDACTIONS. President Trump Tuesday night went scorched earth and authorized the total declassification of all
documents related to the Russia hoax, Spygate and Hillary Clinton's email scandal. "No redactions!" Trump said.
"I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME
in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!" Trump tweeted.
[...] Trump's tweet comes after DNI John Ratcliffe declassified and released documents on Tuesday revealing former CIA
Director John Brennan briefed Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton's plot to 'stir up' a scandal to tie Trump to Russia
in order to distract from her email scandal ahead of the 2016 election.
Newly
released documents give a clearer picture about the Russia hoax. We learned last week that (a) Hillary Clinton
approved of faking a Russia-Trump scandal to detract from her unsecured server; (b) that then-CIA director John Brennan
briefed Obama and intelligence officials about the plan; and (c) that intelligence officials sent a memo to Peter Strzok tell
him of Hillary's plan. The actual documents were made available on Tuesday. They revealed that Obama knew almost
from the beginning that "Russian collusion" was a hoax, while the media's current cover-up of the newly released documents
shows that the Russia hoax will live forever in their reporting. Brennan's July 2016 notes of his meeting with Obama
and other national security advisers are almost entirely blacked out. What remains, though, establishes that Obama knew
as of July that Hillary intended to fake collusion between Trump and the Russians.
DNI
Declassifies Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton Campaign's Collusion Operation.
Top U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned heading into the 2016 election that the Russians were aware of and
potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plans to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent
that they personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter, newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
documents show. CIA officials also requested that the FBI investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign's
collusion smear operation. Newly declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan show that the
U.S. intelligence community knew in 2016 that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring, and potentially injecting
disinformation into, Clinton's anti-Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence concerning Russia's knowledge of
Clinton's campaign plans was so concerning to Brennan and other national security officials that they personally informed
Obama of the matter in the Oval Office in the summer of 2016. The handwritten notes from Brennan were declassified by
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe and provided to Congress on Tuesday afternoon.
How
much did the Russia and Hillary Clinton email probes cost taxpayers? President Trump announced Tuesday evening
[10/6/2020] that he has "fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents" related to the Russia
investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server surrounding a 2012 attack that occurred in Benghazi that took the lives of four
Americans. According to biannual reports released by the special counsel's office, Mueller and his team spent
$12.3 million in direct spending between his appointment on May 17, 2017 and Sept. 30, 2018. The
office also said it incurred $12.9 million in "indirect" Justice Department spending, a category it described as
"neither legally required" for disclosure, nor reported in filings by previous special counsels.
DNI declassifies
Brennan notes, CIA memo on Hillary Clinton 'stirring up' scandal between Trump, Russia. Director of National
Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former
President Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported "plan" to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as "a means of distracting
the public from her use of a private email server" ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Fox News has learned.
Ratcliffe declassified Brennan's handwritten notes — which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence
the CIA received — and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential
investigative action. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence transmitted the declassified documents to the
House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Tuesday afternoon [10/6/2020].
Bombshell
Allegation: Hillary Orchestrated Collusion Hoax to Distract From Her Emails, According to Russian Intel.
Hillary Clinton personally signed off on the Russiagate farce to distract attention from her email scandal, according to a
Russian intelligence analysis that was obtained by U.S. intelligence agencies in July 2016. That is the bombshell
allegation that National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe has just dropped on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the
first presidential debate just a few hours away and with former FBI director James Comey scheduled to testify before that
Committee tomorrow morning [9/30/2020].
Sidney
Powell's Speech From March Is Now Making Waves as New Reports Indicate Clinton Foundation Is Under a Criminal
Investigation. A speech by Sidney Powell back in November is now given more attention with word that the
Clinton Foundation is now under a criminal investigation. In her speech in March, Powell shared the following:
["]The Anthony Weiner laptop, which I don't know if you heard this. I wrote an article about that too. 675,000
Clinton emails when they got Anthony Weiner's laptop in a search warrant because of all his sex perversion issues. It
was all the Clinton emails, the Clinton Foundation, her Secretary of State emails, Huma Abedin emails, lots of people emailed
Huma as a proxy for Hillary, and it included what Comey called... the golden emails, because they were the blackberry backup
emails. That they were supposedly just looking for very diligently, well guess what they did when they found them on
the Weiner laptop? They got a search warrant for things that didn't include the blackberry backup emails. So
when they told us, when he stood there and said that day, oh we've reviewed all the emails now, there is nothing there.
That was a bald face lie."["]
FBI
Agent Who Discovered Hillary's Emails On Weiner Laptop Claims He Was Told To Erase Computer. FBI agent John
Robertson, the man who found Hillary Clinton's emails on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, claims he was advised by bosses to
erase his own computer. Former FBI Director James Comey, you may recall, announced days before the 2016 presidential
election that he had "learned of the existence" of the emails on Weiner's laptop. Weiner is the disgraced husband of
Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Robertson alleges that the manner in which his higher-ups in the FBI handled the case was
"not ethically or morally right."
Book:
FBI Agent on Sex Crimes Unit Found Hillary Clinton Emails. An FBI agent investigating child pornography on
former Rep. Anthony Weiner's computer first stumbled on hundreds of thousands of emails, many of which were to and from
Hillary Clinton, ahead of the 2016 election, a new book reveals. The Washington Post's Devlin Barrett wrote "October
Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election," in which he provides an inside look at what
happened in the weeks before the 2016 election — and how the discovery of the Clinton emails threw a wrench into
the electoral process. Special Agent John Robertson was investigating allegations that Weiner sent sexually explicit
material to a 15-year-old girl when he stumbled on 600,000 emails from an account belonging to Weiner's then-wife Huma
Abedin, Clinton's top aide, sitting on Weiner's laptop. Many of the emails were either to or from the private email
address of Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
New
details emerge about FBI delay on Weiner laptop in 2016. New details have emerged about 2016's "October
Surprise," during which the FBI found emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on disgraced New York
Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop, with the FBI official who found the emails speaking out for the first time. FBI
agent John Robertson, who worked in its New York office's child sex crimes unit and was later cited (though not named) in
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's 2018 report on the handling of the investigation of Clinton's
unauthorized private email server, spoke with the Washington Post's Devlin Barrett for his upcoming book, October
Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election. Robertson unearthed tens of thousands of
Clinton emails in late September 2016 on the laptop belonging to Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in a
sex crimes case involving underage girls, but for weeks after being alerted, top FBI leaders [...] took little to no action
to investigate.
FBI
agent who found Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop calls agency's handling of case 'immoral'.
An FBI agent who found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016
election said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'. John Robertson feared he would
be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less than two months before voting day, in the wake of DailyMail.com's
revelation that Anthony Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide, was sexting an underage girl. Robertson
watched nervously as the bureau did nothing for a month until he went outside the chain of command and spoke with the US
Attorney's office overseeing the case.
Elite Democrats can
wipe their phones and their servers with impunity; you can't. [Scroll down] Remember Hillary Clinton's
"tech troubles"? After the Benghazi scandal, when the then-Secretary of State stood beside the flag-draped caskets of
American service-people and lied to Americans about the attack that killed them, her actions were the focus of an
investigation. What followed was a data-disappearing act of comic proportions. The FBI reported that during their
investigation they learned Ms. Clinton used a total of thirteen different mobile devices that would have contained
classified information. None of them could be located. In addition, then-Democratic Presidential Nominee Clinton
somehow miraculously had the server wiped that contained emails the investigator wanted to see. When she was asked
about the allegations of data-wiping, she famously responded in a smug and condescending manner: "What? You mean
like with a cloth or something?" Ms. Clinton's acts would have earned an indictment for any ordinary citizen, and they
especially would have earned an indictment for not-so-ordinary Republicans. Ms. Clinton is not going to jail.
Neither will anyone from the Mueller team who destroyed government records.
Appeals
court rules Hillary Clinton doesn't have to sit for Judicial Watch deposition. A three-judge appeals court
panel ruled that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can dodge a sworn deposition from a conservative watchdog group,
reversing a lower court decision that had ordered the sworn testimony about her private email server during her time at the
State Department. Clinton, who appealed the order from earlier this year requiring she and her former chief of staff,
Cheryl Mills, sit down for depositions, scored the legal victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on
Friday [8/14/2020].
Time
to Tear Hillary Clinton's Name from State Department Pavilion. In the final days of the Obama Administration,
Clinton's name was slapped up on the walls of the just-finished U.S. Diplomacy Center at Foggy Bottom. The Hillary
Rodham Clinton Pavilion was an obvious slap in the face of the incoming administration. A defiant reminder of Secretary
Clinton's shameful legacy. On January 10, 2017, just ten days before Donald Trump was sworn into office (instead of
Clinton), the former Secretary of State returned to the State Department to help open the new pavilion that bore her
name. "I'm thrilled to be here at the new Hillary Clinton Pavilion," Clinton said during her remarks at the
ceremony. "I'm sure you will notice it is the most transparent part of the entire project." An obviously defiant
statement mocking the deceitful nature of her tenure, which included her felonious use of a private, unsecured email server
to transmit state secrets.
Hillary
Clinton lost her appeal, order stands testify on private server and Benghazi emails. Amid the chaos and anarchy
across blue-city America that exclusively possessed public attention for the last couple of weeks, it was not hard to miss
any other bit of news — especially if that news has not appeared or been even briefly mentioned by any major
mainstream media outlet. Take for example the news of Hillary Clinton, who lost her appeal in the United States Court
of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 2, where she tried to avoid testifying under oath about her emails and the Benghazi
case. The hearing in the D.C. Circuit came in the case Judicial Watch v. Clinton, a public records case
involving a request for State Department documents and communication about the 2012 terror attack at the U.S. mission in
Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
The case also involves Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Hillary
Clinton asks appeals court to help her dodge Judicial Watch deposition on emails and Benghazi. A three-judge
appeals court panel heard arguments this week from Hillary Clinton's lawyer and Judicial Watch as the former secretary of
state seeks to avoid a deposition about her private email server and the Benghazi attack talking points. Judicial
Watch, a conservative watchdog group, argued Tuesday [6/2/2020] that the depositions of Clinton and Clinton's former chief of
staff, Cheryl Mills, ordered by a D.C. district court judge was necessary to understand whether Clinton attempted to avoid the
Freedom of Information Act when she improperly used a private server to conduct her State Department business and whether the
agency adequately searched for all her emails.
Google
Subpoenaed for Emails of Mystery Gmail Account Tied to Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch served a
court-authorized subpoena to Google on April 15 requesting emails from a controversial Gmail account tied to Hillary
Clinton. The subpoena is part of a yearslong Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which has led to the discovery of
Clinton's use of an unauthorized private email server to conduct government business during her tenure as the secretary of
state. Judicial Watch, a conservative government transparency group, requested the emails and metadata from the [...]
gmail.com account. Clinton IT aide Paul Combetta claimed to have used the account to transfer all of Clinton's emails
from a laptop to an email server.
Judicial
Watch subpoenas Google in ongoing hunt for Hillary Clinton missing emails. Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch
has served Google with a subpoena for all emails believed to be linked to an account used by 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton during her tenure as President Obama's secretary of state. According to a press release, the
subpoena — which was authorized by a federal court in Washington, D.C. — Platte River Network IT
specialist Paul Combetta reportedly accessed the Google account to move Clinton's emails from a laptop to the firm's servers
before using a program called Bleachbit to destroy the emails and remove all traces of them the computer.
Justice
Department Declines to Support Blocking Hillary Clinton Deposition. The Justice Department has declined to join
former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's effort to block depositions of both herself and a key aide in a case concerning
her use of a private email-server system to conduct Obama administration business. Though the DOJ's decision will
inevitably be reported as political retribution against President Trump's 2016 election rival, there is actually nothing much
here. The Trump State and Justice Departments have defended the former secretary throughout the suit in question.
The government's refusal to support Clinton's latest gambit to avoid answering questions under oath is consistent with
Justice Department policy and will have no bearing on the outcome of the case.
FBI
Using Chinese Virus as Excuse to Keep Protecting Hillary Clinton. Is it just me, or is the FBI just about as
worthless and pathetic today as it was the day before President Trump fired James Comey? Here are two salient facts
that have just come to light that we've never seen reported anywhere before: First, the FBI actually found all 675,000
of Crooked Hillary's emails (oops), and second, they only reviewed 3,000 of them before declaring her innocence just days
before the 2016 election. The FBI received a court order to release Hillary's emails to Judicial Watch at long last,
and it's been slow walking the release of those emails ever since. [...] Convicted child predator Anthony Weiner had
all of Hillary's emails on his laptop for some reason. [...] This means Comey was actually able to recover the 30,000
emails that got Bleach Bitted when Hillary wiped her server. You know, like, with a cloth. It also included the
tens of thousands of emails that Hillary sent on her Blackberry device, which the FBI had never recovered during its
"exhaustive" investigation before Comey cleared Hillary the first time, in July of 2016. Weiner's laptop even had all of
Hillary's emails from her first two months as Obama's Secretary of State, which was another batch of emails that the FBI
never recovered from any source. But wait, there was more! The Weiner laptop also had all of Hillary's Clinton
Foundation emails on it. Nothing to see there!
New
Clinton scandal memos confirm FBI stalled a month to search Weiner's laptop. The FBI waited a month between the
time it discovered Hillary Clinton emails on disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner's laptop and obtaining a search
warrant — as Clinton and Donald Trump were entering the closing weeks of their tight 2016 White House race,
according to newly obtained records by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The documents are communications
between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who exchanged emails during the 2016 race that
suggested they did not support Trump becoming president. Weiner, at the time the emails were discovered, was married to
top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were purportedly from when Clinton was Secretary of State. The Justice
Department was already investigating Clinton using a private server to send official State Department information.
Hillary
Clinton Appeals Ruling To Testify About Emails. A federal judge has ordered criminal Hillary Clinton to sit for
a deposition to address private emails and her illegal email server before Judicial Watch, but not Clinton has filed an
appeal in order to overrule the order to testify about any of it. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton dropped a
bombshell on Friday the 13th: "Hillary Clinton APPEALS Ruling that She Must Testify About Emails."
Lawyers
for Hillary Clinton Ask Appeals Court to Overturn Order for Her. Judicial Watch announced today that lawyers
for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills have asked the Court of Appeals to
overturn a U.S. District court order granting Judicial Watch's request for their depositions about Clinton's emails and
Benghazi attack records. Lawyers for Clinton and Mills filed a "Petition for Writ of Mandamus" earlier today
[3/13/2020]. The Clinton request comes in Judicial Watch's lawsuit that seeks records concerning "talking points or
updates on the Benghazi attack". Judicial Watch famously uncovered in 2014 that the "talking points" that provided the
basis for Susan Rice's false statements were created by the Obama White House. This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.
Hillary
Clinton: The Most Investigated Innocent Person in America? Hillary Rodham Clinton recently claimed that
she is the most investigated innocent person in America. Really? [...] In purposely saying there is no regulation
against her use of a private email server (in the bathroom of her private residence) for highly classified communications,
Mrs. Clinton attempts to excuse her actions or somehow exonerate herself. She purposely overlooks the fact that
her actions, as explained herein, are clear, flagrant, prima facie violations of the gross negligence provisions of the
Espionage Act. [...] The provisions of the Espionage Act, subsection F, 18 USC 793, state that "an intent to
deceive or perform illegal actions regarding the handling of classified government information is not required; gross
negligence alone is grounds for prosecution." Penalties allowed under the Espionage Act for gross negligence in handling
classified materials include a fine, imprisonment of up to ten years, or both.
The Editor says...
No one needs to explain this to Hillary Clinton. She went to law school. She knew the risks. She knows how much
trouble she could be in now, and the best way to fight it is to stay out in front of it with phony claims about being the most
investigated person in the country.
Hillary
Says No Regulation Bars Secretary of State From Using Private Email Server. Pompeo Disagrees. Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo pushed back Friday against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's claim that there was no
regulation against her use of a private email server. "No, having a private email server and keeping your government
records on that is completely unlawful," Pompeo said during an interview on Fox & Friends. "She has been investigated
a lot, I think there might be a reason for that," Pompeo added. "We have an obligation, as senior leaders in the United
States government, that our records are protected and available through [the Freedom of Information Act] and all the other
mechanisms." "It's a bad idea," Pompeo said regarding the destruction of records. "Not a model that I recommend to any
leader anywhere."
The Editor says...
If wasn't illegal, why was Hillary's email server kept secret?
Federal
Court Orders Deposition of Hillary Clinton on Emails and Benghazi. Hillary Clinton has escaped the hoosegow for decades; the string of her
perfidy is a mile long. Here are just a few events for which the hangman has passed her by (so far):
• Cattle futures speculation
• Clinton Foundation money-laundering
• The Haitian squeeze play (Clinton Global Initiative-related)
• Uranium One
• Benghazi gun-running
• Emailgate pay-for-play
But hey! Those last two might be back in play thanks to Judicial Watch. A federal court announced today [3/2/2020] that Hillary Clinton
has been ordered by Judge Royce Lambert to give a deposition on "Benghazi and emails."
Hillary
Clinton is ordered to be DEPOSED over her secret server for the first time by federal judge. A federal judge
has ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to submit to a deposition by lawyers for the conservative group
Judicial Watch over her fateful decision to use of a private email server. Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order in
response to litigation by the group that has dragged on for more than five years and seeks the public release of information
from Clinton's tenure at the State Department. 'Any further discovery should focus on whether she used a private server to
evade FOIA and, as a corollary to that, what she understood about State's records management obligations,' the judge wrote
about the federal open records law.
The Editor says...
Allow me to spoil the surprise: No matter what questions are asked, Hillary Clinton will repeatedly claim she "can't recall"
whatever she is asked. And that will be the end of it.
Federal
judge orders Hillary Clinton deposition to address private emails: 'Still more to learn'. A federal judge
Monday [3/2/2020] granted a request from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to have former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about her use of a private email server to conduct government
business. Clinton has argued that she has already answered questions about this and should not have to do so
again — the matter did not result in any charges for the then-presidential candidate in 2016 after a high-profile
investigation — but D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said in his ruling that her past responses
left much to be desired.
Thank
You, Judicial Watch: Hillary Clinton Must Be Deposed Over Her Private Email Server Fiasco. Hillary
Clinton is a former first lady, secretary of state, U.S. Senator, and a two-time presidential loser. She also will have
to revisit a 2016 ghost this year: her email server. Clinton, while serving as our top diplomat, conducted all official
State Department business on a private email server that was not secure. It wasn't authorized by State Department
officials, contrary to what the former first lady said about the unusual communication arrangement. And if she did ask
for permission, Clinton would have been denied. It was all part of the State Department Inspector General Office's
report on the matter, which only added more fuel to the fire over this story during the 2016 cycle. And it kept the
story in the news, which at the time — was something the Hillary campaign was desperate to neutralize. It
only added more suspicion and rehashed old criticisms of the Clintons, one of which being that they think the rules don't
apply to them.
Hillary
Clinton will feign amnesia if forced to testify about her secret email server. Good luck deposing former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She's as slippery as an eel and twice as devious. She'll figure out a way to
circumvent the truth. It's her greatest skill set. Clinton and her lawyers have spent months inventing one excuse
after another for why she shouldn't have to answer questions in a deposition about her unauthorized and unsecured computer
system. She used a clandestine server to handle all of her electronic communications as secretary of state, including
the transfer and dissemination of thousands of classified and top-secret documents. There is no doubt that Clinton's
unprotected email apparatus jeopardized America's national security. The State Department eventually divulged that
there had been, at minimum, thirty separate security breaches. Chinese intelligence reportedly gained access to her
server housing classified documents. Did the Russians penetrate the same system? You can bet on it.
Hillary's Reckoning
Isn't Over. The increasingly desperate Democratic Party and its allies in the media weep tears of joy at the
thought of Hillary Clinton riding in to save the party, perhaps after a deadlocked Democratic National Convention. No
such luck. After a judge's decision Monday [3/2/2020], Clinton would be wise to lay presidential dreams aside and
lawyer up. [...] On Monday, acting on a request from Judicial Watch, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said he
would allow Judicial Watch to depose the one-time secretary of state, her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and two other
State Department officials. Not only will this bring back questions about Hillary's actions before and after the
Benghazi terrorist attack, in which four Americans were murdered, but it will at minimum serve as a reminder of the failure
of her tenure as the nation's top diplomat. [...] It's clear that as secretary of state Clinton used her private email system
to avoid legal scrutiny of her actions, either by the government agencies or by outside groups such as Judicial Watch.
The Monstrous
Lie Behind CrowdStrike. Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 presidential election was predicated
largely on the claim Russian intelligence had hacked the Democratic National Committee's servers ahead of the November
election. [...] A lot of ordinary folks just can't stop wondering why the DNC wouldn't let any federal investigators
examine their servers. Only CrowdStrike, an independent contractor on the DNC's payroll, was allowed to do so.
CrowdStrike executive Robert Johnson appeared on "60 Minutes" to address concerns that his firm hadn't been completely
forthcoming with its findings. But he only succeeded in raising more questions by claiming that the "FBI got what it
needed and what it wanted."
Strzok
email shows Hillary's apology for private server was excluded from FBI's 302 report. Hillary Clinton had
admitted to using her email server "out of convenience" and had apologized to the FBI according to newly released emails from
former FBI official Peter Strzok. But her apology was "not in" the FBI 302 report summarizing her interview, according
to one message that was part of the 191 pages of emails between Strzok and his lover, former FBI attorney Lisa Page,
obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Obama Admin.
Tried To Meddle In Several Criminal Probes. [Scroll down] Obama also downplayed former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's email scandal in 2015. During an interview, he said he believed Clinton's breach of policy did not pose
a national security problem. He added he "didn't get an impression" from Clinton she was purposefully trying to hide
something. "Hillary Clinton is and has been an outstanding public servant," he said. "She was a great Secretary
of State for me." Obama's decision resulted in James Comey's takeover of the investigation, in which Comey decided there
was no basis for criminal indictments in the case. This came after the former administration prosecuted others for having
classified material on their private computers.
Sean Davis on Twitter:.
Multiple foreign governments hacked Barack Obama's email while he was president, which could explain why James Comey was so
eager to make the investigation of Hillary Clinton's illegal private email scheme go away.
5
Times Barack Obama Protected His Allies from Justice and Democrats Didn't Care. [#1] Hillary Clinton: It
was not all that long ago that Hillary Clinton was the heir-apparent to Barack Obama, and Obama wasn't going to let her
criminal behavior get in the way of her winning the election and keeping his legacy intact. Thanks to Attorney General
Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey, Hillary was never going to be punished for her illegal private server and
mishandling of classified and top-secret information that would have seen anyone else indicted. In fact, FBI Director
James Comey had drafted her exoneration letter before Hillary had even been interviewed by the FBI.
Could
New Hillary E-mails Lead to Criminal Charges? After a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
produced yet more e-mails this week from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — indicating that she had even
more classified information transmitted on her unsecure and non-government server — calls are being raised for
Clinton to face criminal consequences. Clinton previously escaped any criminal sanctions in July 2016 when then-FBI
Director James Comey announced he would not seek any such sanctions. But now that Comey is no longer in a position to
save her from criminal liability, these newly discovered e-mails have led to speculation that she could face a new —
and real — investigation. Judicial Watch released 37 pages of new Clinton emails that had been found by
the FBI after the FOIA request. Also found were text messages used by Clinton to conduct government business, which is
also illegal. The State Department told a federal court in November of last year that the FBI had found these previously
undisclosed e-mails.
Fake
Investigations — Designed To Fool You. [Scroll down] The second type of 'investigation' is
when the Deep State pretends to investigate the Deep State. In these 'investigations' the outcome is known in advance,
but the script calls for pretending, sometimes for years, that it an honest investigation is underway. There was
nothing about the Hillary investigations that had anything to do with finding facts. The purpose from the beginning was
exoneration. Key witnesses were given immunity and many were allowed to attend each other's interviews. There
were no early morning swat team raids to gather evidence. Evidence was destroyed with no consequences. When
Anthony Weiner's laptop was found to contain over 340,000 Hillary emails in a file named "insurance", the FBI did not rejoice
about finally getting the 'lost' email. No, they hid the discovery for weeks until a New York agent threatened to go
public. Then, quite miraculously, Peter Strzok found a way to very quickly examine 340,000 messages and found that
there was nothing at all that was incriminating. No rational person would believe that.
Years
Later, More Illicit Hillary Clinton Emails Emerge. It has been more than three years since President Donald
Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but all of Clinton's emails at the center
of the email scandal that plagued her failed presidential campaign have still not seen the light of day. But on Friday
[1/10/2020], conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced the FBI produced 37 new pages of Clinton emails
demonstrating she mishandled classified information and used text messages for official business as well.
How
Stupid Do They Think We Are? These days it seems like coincidence abounds in the precincts of leftism.
And an unquestioning Deep State Media are only too happy to label anyone who points out the absurdities of the supposed
coincidences as "conspiracy theorists," having long ago abandoned journalistic inquisitiveness for allegiance to a political
ideology. [...] Then we have Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton "bumping into" each other at the culmination of the FBI's
pseudo-investigation into Hillary Clinton's outrageously criminal conduct in running highly classified government records
over a ridiculously unsecure personal server, surely in violation of the Espionage Act and Federal Records Act, if not other
laws. The advance planning that goes into the travel of both a former president and a current Attorney General by their
protective details and logistics personnel is immense. Two such officials do not simply have their respective airplanes
sidle up to each other on the tarmac of an airport like you might bump into an old high school chum at Starbucks. The
impropriety of the Attorney General meeting privately with the spouse of the subject of a high-profile FBI investigation was
off the charts. But, we were told, they just discussed golf outings and grandchildren. Nothing to see here either
folks. And the likes of CNN dutifully reported that it was only congressional Republicans who saw fit to question the
circumstances.
Judge
delays legal challenge by conservative group over Clinton emails. A federal judge has delayed a ruling on
whether former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must submit to cross-examination stemming from a complaint by a
conservative group concerning emails she wrote and received while serving in an official capacity. U.S. District Court
Judge Royce C. Lambeth said Thursday a decision would likely come in January concerning a request by conservative watchdog
Judicial Watch, but added he was concerned by the continuing emergence of new emails in the case.
Watchdog
Asks Court to Subpoena Google for Records of Mystery Clinton-Tied Gmail Account. A watchdog group asked a
federal judge on Dec. 17 to subpoena Google for records on a Gmail account used to transfer the archive of Hillary Clinton's
emails from her tenure as the secretary of state. Judicial Watch, a conservative government transparency group, filed
the request as part of its yearslong litigation against the Department of State. The group also is seeking an interview
with Paul Combetta, the information technology specialist who used the Gmail account to transfer all of Clinton's government
emails to an unauthorized private email server. Combetta created the Gmail account [...] in 2012 and used it to test
email issues for his clients. The name of the Gmail account, CarterHeavyIndustries, has fueled suspicions that China
gained access to all of Clinton's emails.
Secretary
Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal Conspiracy. [Scroll down] The players acted
together — in the usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by fraud including
federal funds, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights, aided
and abetted in the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these crimes. Criminals will lie and can't keep their
lies straight. Their methods and behaviors are the same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate white-collar
financial schemes. The only difference is when more money is involved, the perps are more adept in concealing, covering
up their sins, and hiding where the money went. Many of these scandals are well known to the American Thinker
readers. I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew sever and the Clinton Foundation as an example of how RICO can
be used to prosecute the players.
Our
Russia Collusion Nightmare: All Hillary's Fault? As awful as this orchestrated campaign against President
Trump has been, it is absolutely maddening to realize that none of it would have happened had Hillary Clinton not engaged in
one of the greatest pay-for-play operations in American history while placing our most guarded secrets (as well as the very
lives of our soldiers and civilians) on a silver platter for those governments and adversaries who wish us the most harm in
this world. Three years of Russian hysteria happened only because of the deep corruption of Hillary Clinton.
FBI
finds more irregular emails from Hillary Clinton. The FBI has found more emails than former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton sent from private servers and for which she is being investigated. Public officials in the United
States must use official servers to send information related to their government jobs so that this information is available
to interested citizens through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
FBI Uncovers New Clinton
Emails. Judicial Watch today [11/28/2019] released a court filing that reveals the FBI found more Clinton
emails it recently turned over to the State Department for review. In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State
Department informs the court that the FBI located additional Clinton emails that potentially had not been previously released.
Chuck
Grassley Rips Comey: You Missed Key Evidence In Clinton Investigation. I'm Going To Find It. On
Tuesday, Senator Charles Grassley released a statement slamming former FBI Director James Comey for his failure during the
Hillary Clinton investigation to find out that government officials deliberately transmitted classified information on
unclassified systems. [...] Grassley noted that he had recently released a report from the State Department that noted
Clinton's use of a non-government server for government business caused 588 security violations for mishandling classified
information. He continued, "If the average American did that, they'd lose their clearance, their job, and might even go
to jail."
Russian Asset Number
One: Hillary, Not Tulsi. [Scroll down] Finally, there is the matter of the Classified Information
Nondisclosure Agreement (Form 302) that Hillary signed: [...] Having signed this document, under oath, means Hillary
is charged with all required knowledge therein, a concept fully understood by any graduate of Yale Law School. Thus, any
hacking into her emails by foreign powers are intrusions for which she bears responsibility. In consciously disregarding
known, serious risks, she acted not only grossly negligently but also recklessly. This made her not only a
Russian asset but also a Chinese asset, a North Korean asset, an Iranian asset, etc.
Judicial
Watch: Benghazi Emails Confirm Clinton Email Cover-Up. On Monday [10/21/2019], Judicial Watch released
new emails involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for
years and that would have exposed Clinton's private email account if they had been released to Judicial Watch in a FOIA
request [in] 2014. One long withheld email, which provides talking points for a call with senators and therefore fits the
criteria of records concerning "talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack," should have been disclosed in 2014, but it
was hidden from Judicial Watch for years. "This email is a twofer — it shows Hillary Clinton misled the U.S.
Senate on Benghazi and that the State Department wanted to hide the Benghazi connection to the Clinton email scheme,"
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "Rather than defending her email misconduct, the Justice
Department has more than enough evidence to reopen its investigations into Hillary Clinton."
New
Benghazi Documents Confirm Clinton Email Cover-Up. Judicial Watch today [10/21/2019] released new Clinton
emails on the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for years and would have exposed Hillary Clinton's email account
if they had been released when the State Department first uncovered them in 2014. [...] The Clinton email cover-up led to
court-ordered discovery into three specific areas: whether Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server was intended
to stymie FOIA; whether the State Department's intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith;
and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch's request. The court
also authorized discovery into whether the Benghazi controversy motivated the cover-up of Clinton's email. (The court
ruled that the Clinton email system was "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.")
CNN's
Jeffrey Toobin Regrets Coverage of Clinton Email Scandal: 'I Should Have Been Talking About Other Issues'. CNN
chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin voiced regret on Monday [10/21/2019] for how he covered the Hillary Clinton email scandal
during her failed 2016 presidential run, saying in hindsight that he "should have been talking about other issues."
Toobin made the comments while responding to Friday's news on the Justice Department finally concluding their investigation
into the Clinton email matter and found no "systemic" effort from the former secretary of state to flout laws protecting
classified information.
Clinton
Email Probe: State Department Finds 38 People Committed Violations. The U.S. State Department concluded
its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email usage and determined nearly 40 people
committed violations, the Associated Press reported Friday [10/18/2019]. The department determined that those 38 people
were "culpable" in 91 cases of sending classified information in messages that ended up in Clinton's personal email. The
38 are current and former State Department officials but were not identified in the report that was sent to Congress this week.
Nobody is going to jail. Why? State
Department Concludes Clinton Email Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security Violations. State Department
investigators probing Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state discovered nearly 600 security
incidents that violated agency policy, according to a report the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained. The
investigation, conducted by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, found 38 individuals were culpable for 91
security violations. Another 497 violations were found, but no individuals were found culpable in those incidents.
State
Department report on Clinton emails finds hundreds of violations, dozens of individuals at fault. A State
Department report into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for government business,
obtained by Fox News on Friday [10/18/2019], found dozens of individuals at fault and hundreds of security violations. The
report summarized an administrative review of the handling of classified information relating to Clinton's private email server
used during her tenure as the nation's highest-ranking diplomat between 2009 and 2013. The report, dated Sept. 13.,
was delivered to the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee until last
year. The report reflected only approximately 30,000 emails that the State Department was able to physically review, and
found 38 individuals were responsible for 91 violations.
FBI
Agent Says They Found 'Ten Times' as Many Hillary Emails as James Comey Publicly Claimed. According to a new
book, FBI agents claimed the discovery of thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop was an "oh s***"
moment, with one admitting there were "ten times" as many as former FBI Director James Comey has admitted to publicly.
The book, titled 'Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law,' written by James B. Stewart, paints a picture of an
agency stunned by the findings. Thousands of additional emails were discovered after investigators found them on devices
used by Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin. The agents had been probing the former Democrat congressman's explicit texts
with a 15-year-old girl.
Judicial
Watch Fights in Court to Depose Hillary Clinton. The court previously ordered discovery into three specific
areas: whether Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA; whether the State Department's
intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately
searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch's request. The court specifically ordered Obama administration senior
State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court
ruled that the Clinton email system was "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency." On August 22,
2019, the court then ruled that Clinton and Mills had 30 days to oppose being questioned in person under oath by Judicial
Watch related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Additionally, Judicial Watch
was granted seven new depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests. In granting the additional discovery,
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth commented: "I'll tell you everything they've discovered in this period
raises serious questions about what [...] the State Department's doing here."
The
moment FBI agents found Hillary Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop. FBI agents were stunned to find
thousands of Hillary Clinton's private emails while examining Anthony Weiner's electronic devices for explicit text messages
with a teen girl, a new book alleges. The agents called the discovery an [alarming] moment as they combed through
Weiner's iPhone, iPad and laptop after it was revealed he had been sending inappropriate messages to a minor, journalist
James B. Stewart claims in his new book "Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law," out Tuesday [10/8/2019].
Within hours of the Sept. 26, 2016, search warrant, FBI technicians noticed there were 340,000 emails on the laptop between
Clinton and her top aide, Weiner's wife Huma Abedin — many of them from domain addresses such as "hillaryclinton.com"
and "state.gov."
The Madness
of Progressive Projection. Who made the decision to quash the investigation of Hillary Clinton after she
destroyed over 30,000 emails under subpoena? Who excused Obama officials after they knowingly misled federal FISA court
justices? Who leaked information about a surveilled phone call between Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador?
Who decided that it was acceptable for Samantha Power to request over 260 times the unmasking of names of American citizens
swept up in government surveillance, many of which were illegally leaked to the press and most of which Power denied requesting
and alleged others had used her name to do so? Somewhere, somehow there was a great deal of obstruction and distortion
of justice that so far has prevented the pursuit of these criminal acts.
State
Department Ramps Up Investigation Into Hillary's Emails. The State Department has reportedly ramped up its
investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server, an issue that took center stage during
the 2016 presidential election. According to the Washington Post, the State Department has called in 130 officials who
had access to Clinton's email inbox. The officials ranged from low-level employees to senior officials who reported
directly to Clinton. Former aides were sent letters letting them know that their emails were retroactively deemed
"classified" and sharing that information could be deemed a security violation.
At
least 130 State Dept. officials notified of possible 'culpability' in 'security incidents' related to Hillary's private email
server. The wheels of federal bureaucratic responsibility, like the wheels of justice, grind very slowly, so
only now are we learning that the scandal of Hillary Clinton's private email server used for official business is still being
scrutinized. And while the Big Fish, Hillary Clinton, is out there shooting off her mouth accusing President Trump of
the corrupt practices she undertook, the smaller fish in the State Department are learning of their own culpability in
corresponding with her on a private server. Just the kind of leverage a determined prosecutor could use to obtain plea
deals implicating higher ups.
State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's
former aides. The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former
senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email, reviving a
politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said. As many as 130
officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior
officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to
her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years
ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The
Washington Post. State Department investigators began contacting the former officials about 18 months ago, after
President Trump's election, and then seemed to drop the effort before picking it up in August, officials said.
Hillary
Clinton Seeks to Withhold 6-Page Memo Describing Her Lawyer's Review and Deletion of Her Emails. Judicial Watch
previously sought a deposition from Hillary Clinton, and last month the Court gave the watchdog group additional discovery
and witnesses on the Clinton email case. The judge wanted Judicial Watch to "shake the tree" on a newly uncovered
potential Clinton email trove and gave Hillary 30 days to oppose their request to question her under oath. Hillary
Clinton's lawyers responded to Judicial Watch late Monday evening and sought to withhold a 6-page memo describing her
attorney's deletion of her emails.
Federal
Judge Blasts State Department Lawyers in Hillary Email Case — Warns 'No FOIA Exemption For Political
Expedience'. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday released transcript from their hearing on
August 22 where Judge Royce Lamberth granted new discovery and witnesses on Hillary Clinton's email case. Judge
Lamberth, a Reagan appointee blasted State Department lawyers defending Hillary Clinton who were working to cover up her
email scandal. 'There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence,'
Judge Lamberth said warning the government lawyers.
Judicial
Watch Victory: Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case. Judicial Watch announced
today that a federal judge granted seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private, unauthorized email server. Hillary Clinton and her former
top aide and current lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 days to oppose being deposed by Judicial Watch. The court
rejected Justice and State Department arguments to protect Clinton and the agencies from additional discovery and ordered
agency lawyers to respond to Judicial Watch's questions about their knowledge of the Clinton email issue. The court
granted all of Judicial Watch's requested discovery but gave Clinton and Mills 30 days to file any opposition to the
requests to question them in person under oath.
Mystery
Gmail Account Revives Questions About Clinton Email Probe. FBI Section Chief Peter Strzok looked dismissive and
aloof as he listened to Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General investigator Frank Rucker relay an alarming
lead for the Clinton email investigation on Feb. 18, 2016, at the bureau's headquarters in Washington, according to Rucker
and Jeanette McMillian, an attorney who accompanied him to the meeting. Days earlier, Rucker had discovered an anomaly
in all but four of the 30,490 emails Clinton's lawyers provided to Congress. Each message contained "carterheavyindustries@gmail.com"
in the metadata, suggesting that a copy of each message that passed through Hillary Clinton's private, unauthorized server during
her tenure as secretary of state was forwarded to the Gmail address in real-time. Rucker's concern was amplified when he
searched for "Carter Heavy Industries" on Google and came up with information for a Chinese company with a similar name.
Hillary's
IT Guy Created An Encrypted Gmail Account And Sent All Of Clinton's Emails There. Remember Hillary Clinton's
emails, the 30,000 or so that went missing that were subpoenaed? Well, we might be able to find them. We just
need to ask Google. At The Daily Caller, investigative reporter Luke Rosiak said that the former first lady's IT guy,
who ignored a congressional subpoena, might have created an encrypted Gmail account and forwarded all those communications to
that address.
Clinton's
Deliberate, Felonious Actions Harmed National Security. Earlier today, my good friend and colleague, Bonchie,
penned an excellent article about the latest twist in the Clinton e-mail saga, one that demonstrated just how dangerous her
actions were to National Security. Please go have a look. Because of his timely article, I thought I might once
again review just how corrupt the FBI was, especially former Director Comey, when he "cleared" Secretary Clinton of any
criminal wrongdoing. Comey's excuse? Secretary Clinton had no intent to violate the law. Despite the fact
that the applicable statute regarding the handling of classified information doesn't require intent, the explainer below will
show that there was indeed such intent and a number of people should be doing hard time. Let me be clear at the outset;
somebody committed a felony, likely several.
Clinton
pastor's son is suspected mole during Hillary probe. Senate says hater still works for Trump. A suspected
Clinton-linked mole within the federal investigative office that performed most of the probe into former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's illicit email habits now reportedly works in President Donald Trump's administration in some sort of
intelligence-related capacity. Moreover, this suspected Clinton-linked mole's Facebook page was reportedly littered
with anti-Republican, anti-Trump memes and content as recently as this past Thursday [8/15/2019].
The
Hillary Clinton Email Saga Just Got A Lot Weirder. Due to the declassification and release of a trove of
documents late in the week, the Hillary email story has gone hot again. As I shared a few days ago, we now have
confirmation of what we heard from sources several months ago, namely that every email on her illegal server was being
forwarded to a Chinese email account. [...] This account was setup by Paul Combetta, Hillary's IT specialist who was given
immunity by the FBI for no justifiable reason. Why Combetta chose to add an email account associated with a Chinese
company and whether the emails were actually going to the Chinese required more investigation but the FBI decided to bury the
evidence instead.
Strange
Jeep Followed ICIG Investigators Probing Hillary Email Scandal. Frank Rucker and several of his fellow ICIG
investigators who were probing the Hillary Clinton email scandal were also followed by a strange Jeep for several
weeks. Recall, Frank Rucker and other ICIG investigators discovered Hillary Clinton's emails were hacked by China and
confronted the FBI about the 'anomaly' they found on Hillary's server. Peter Strzok ignored these warnings from the
ICIG investigators and seemed 'indifferent' according to the Senate report. One of the ICIG investigator's was followed
from the State Department to his home where someone broke into his house and stole all of his computers — another
investigator realized someone rummaged through his recycling bin in his home looking for paperwork.
Intel
Lawyer With Clinton Ties Suspected Of Leaking During Email Probe, Now Works For Intel Director. The
Intelligence Community Inspector General — whose office performed some of the most important work on the probe
into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server — suspected someone on his team was leaking information,
Senate testimony shows. His counsel was tied to the Clintons. The suspected mole is now working for the Trump
administration in at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), according to the testimony. After
returning from the State Department, an ICIG investigator noticed a Jeep that began tailing him and his colleagues and even
rummaging through recycling, according to testimony in a Senate report by GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck
Grassley of Iowa released Wednesday.
More
Clinton Email Funny Business. [Scroll down] We may never learn all the details of Hillary's email frolic,
but we probably don't need to. What we know for sure is bad enough: she ignored statutes and State Department rules by
creating a technically incompetent off-the-books email system that was easily vulnerable to penetration by foreign
powers. She did this in order to evade the Freedom of Information Act and to keep secret matters relating to her job
duties that the American people were entitled by law to know (and perhaps other things as well). In the Obama
administration, Clinton was no outlier. Other senior Obama officials did the same or similar things —
Obama's EPA head conducted official business using a private email account in the name of her dog — and President
Obama himself was well aware of Hillary's improper conduct.
Clinton IT
Aide Who Defied Subpoena Says He Created A Cryptic Gmail Account And Sent It Nearly All Of Hillary's Emails. All but
four of Hillary Clinton's 30,000 emails were copied, likely secretly, to a Gmail address called CarterHeavyIndustries@gmail.com,
according to a new Senate report. The FBI says that the account was linked to Paul Combetta, an IT aide Clinton hired who used
BleachBit to destroy emails after they were subpoenaed and misled FBI agents. Combetta said he sent all of her emails to the
Gmail account as part of trying to copy them to a new server.
The Hillary
Clinton Emails Worth Reading. When she was first caught using a private email server, Hillary claimed the
emails she destroyed were ones about Chelsea's wedding and Yoga, and the media tripped over their neckties, tumbling all the
way down the rabbit hole. This is what the influential WaPo wrote about the missing emails in: "There's lots we
don't know about Hillary Clinton's e-mail cache from her days as secretary of state. But one thing we do know:
She was a diligent yogi!" What a scoop!
What
Hillary, Seth, and Paige Have in Common. The insiders come in various stripes. Many are simply
careless. These are people who, either for reasons of convenience or nefariousness (or both), choose to disregard the
most basic security protocols with respect to their computer use. Hillary Clinton, of course, is the most notorious
recent example of this category of insider threat. Her knowing use of an unsecure personal email server to traffic the
nation's mostly highly guarded classified information would have landed any of the rest of us in jail. Hillary engaged
in this unbelievable behavior — as did dozens of government officials who knowingly corresponded with her on this
system — with complete disregard for our nation's security and the safety of people who put their lives on the
line for our country. She did this in order to hide her corrupt pay-for-play operation, trading State Department favors
for money to her Clinton Foundation, from public and congressional scrutiny.
New
Evidence Unveils Disturbing Facts about Hillary's Email Scandal. [T]he American Center for Law and Justice or
ACLJ (Jay Sekulow's organization, not related to his role as the President's attorney), has obtained actual copies of the
immunity agreements pertaining to Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson in the Hillary email scandal. This was a stunning
litigation win, hard-fought after years of litigation by the ACLJ attorneys, who were unable to extract the documents through
the normal FOIA processes, due to a lack of cooperation by the government. In reviewing what the agreements uncovered,
keep in mind that Cheryl Mills was Secretary Clinton's Chief of Staff at the State Department and then bizarrely, she
subsequently served as Clinton's attorney, representing her in the email scandal. Heather Samuelson worked on Hillary
Clinton's 2008 campaign, and then became a Senior Advisor to her at the State Department, as well as the White House
liaison. Somehow, she also became one of Clinton's personal attorneys during the email scandal.
ACLJ
Has Obtained Obama DOJ's Immunity Agreements With Hillary Clinton's Attorneys. On Monday night's [7/29/2019]
edition of Hannity, it was announced that The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has obtained the Obama DOJ's
immunity agreements with Hillary Clinton's lawyers, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson. These records were obtained via
a FOIA request filed by the ACLJ two years ago. Mills served as Clinton's chief of staff and Samuelson served as a
senior advisor and White House liaison during her tenure as Secretary of State. Both women became her personal
attorneys after she left [the Department of] State.
ACLJ
Obtains Obama DOJ's Immunity Agreements with Hillary Clinton Lawyers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson to "Dispose" of
Evidence. The ACLJ has just obtained previously unreleased documents related to the Clinton investigation and
immunity agreements given to top Clinton aids. These agreements reveal that James Comey's Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and Loretta Lynch's Department of Justice (DOJ) granted immunity to Hillary Clinton's aids and lawyers,
Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, from prosecution for anything found on their laptops violating multiple felony
criminal statutes governing the mishandling of classified information and/or the removal or destruction of records, including
Espionage Act provisions. Further, the DOJ and FBI also agreed to evade the statutory requirements of the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) by purporting to deem the contents of the laptops as not under DOJ or FBI "custody or control."
These laptops were critical to any meaningful investigation of Hillary Clinton's handling of classified emails and records.
According to the DOJ Inspector General, who identified these as the "culling laptops," "[a]ll 62,320 emails pulled from the
Clinton servers were stored at one time on these laptops."
The
Fix Was in from the Start for Hillary's 'Exoneration,' Immunity Agreements with Aides Suggest. The American
Center for Law and Justice finally got some satisfaction from its numerous FOIA requests to the Department of Justice.
It took a specific court order from a federal judge to release long-secret documents that might raise a few eyebrows among
those who are still interested in matters pertaining to Hillary Clinton's aides and the former secretary of state's missing emails.
Here's
why Hillary Clinton can still be charged and imprisoned for her misuse of classified emails. [Scroll
down] In a second video released Wednesday [7/10/2019], Judicial Watch reported that John Hackett, a former top
official at the State Department, warned his superiors repeatedly about Clinton's email issues. In particular, he first
warned about Clinton's use of an unsecured Blackberry device, then warned about how she had deleted some 30,000 emails
without following strict National Archives regulations and restrictions. Hackett would go on to warn that the formal
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review process for Clinton's email documents may have been tampered with. "This
disturbing testimony points to an Obama administration conspiracy to hide and destroy Hillary Clinton's emails," Fitton said
in a statement. "Even worse, the testimony suggests Clinton's Benghazi emails were under-classified to protect Hillary
Clinton," he added.
New
Clinton Email Scandal Testimony. Judicial Watch attorneys obtained blockbuster testimony from former State
Department official John Hackett, who was Director for Information Programs and Services (IPS), which handles records
management at the State Department, Mr. Hackett testified under oath that he had raised concerns about former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton's missing emails. Her staff had "culled out 30,000" of the secretary's "personal" emails
without following strict National Archives standards, he said in his deposition. [...] His testimony came as part of a series
of court-ordered depositions and questions under oath of senior Obama-era State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton
aides. Hackett also revealed that he believed there was interference with the formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
review process related to the classification of Clinton's Benghazi-related emails.
Hillary
Clinton Withdraws As Cybersecurity Conference Keynote Citing 'Unforeseen Circumstance'. Former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton withdrew from the cybersecurity conference where she was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, citing
an "unforeseen circumstance," according to an email from the FireEye Cyber Defense Summit. Clinton — who
infamously transmitted classified information over a homemade server once housed in her bathroom — was the
centerpiece of the October 9-10 summit in Washington, where Clinton was to have "engage[d] in a Q&A discussion with
FireEye CEO, Kevin Mandia on the geopolitical landscape and its implications for global cyber security today."
Official
Raised Alarm About Deleted Clinton Emails. A former top official in the U.S. State Department testified that he
raised concerns about deleted emails from Hillary Clinton's personal email system. Clinton set up and used a private
email server for the majority of her time as secretary of state during the Obama administration. John Hackett served as
deputy director and then director of the department's Information Programs and Services from 2013-16, which handles document
management for Freedom of Information Act requests among other things. Hackett said he was concerned over news that the
Clinton team had segregated and then deleted about 30,000 emails out of a larger batch set to be turned back over to the
department, and what criteria the team had applied when deciding which emails to delete.
FBI
gave immunity to Hillary lawyer responsible for 33k email deletion. Heather Samuelson testified under oath in a
Judicial Watch court-ordered deposition that, contrary to what she told the FBI, she was, in fact, aware that Clinton used a
private email account as secretary of state. That's not all. The former Secretary of State's White House Liaison
at the State Department, and later Clinton's personal lawyer, Heather Samuelson, admitted under oath that she was granted
immunity by the U.S. Department of Justice in June 2016. Samuelson also revealed that, contrary to what she told the
FBI in 2016, she was, in fact, aware that Sec. Clinton used a private email account while secretary of state.
China
Hacked Clinton's Email Server, Congressman Confirms. The U.S. intelligence community established that China
hacked Hillary Clinton's unauthorized email server when she served as the secretary of state, according to Rep. Louie
Gohmert (R-Texas). In an interview with The Epoch Times published on June 26, Gohmert said that the Chinese "actually
hacked Hillary Clinton's personal server — as our intel community established without any question —
even though the FBI refused to ever examine the evidence. "There's no question, China was involved," he added.
Gohmert is the first lawmaker to publicly confirm that China was the foreign actor that hacked Clinton's server.
President Donald Trump is the only other official to have made the same claim.
Hillary
Clinton's Lawyer Changes Story on When She Knew About Emails. Heather Samuelson, Hillary Clinton's personal
attorney, told the FBI and Judicial Watch conflicting explanations of when she learned the former secretary of state used a
private email system to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business. "I believe I first became aware when either she
e-mailed me on personal matters, such as wishing me happy birthday, or when I infrequently would receive e-mails forwarded to
me from others at the department that had that e-mail address listed elsewhere in the document," Samuelson told Judicial
Watch lawyers during a June 13, 2019, deposition.
Comey
Hid 'Clinton Emails' Binder In His Office Safe and Had Hillary's Backup Email Device. Former FBI director James
Comey had a white binder marked "Clinton Emails" in his office on May 16, 2017, a few days after he was fired, as the
Department of Justice was trying to get back the items in Comey's office safe. The State Department and FBI also
possessed a "Datto" backup email device for Hillary Clinton's private email server, which a judge ordered released.
Michael Bekesha, who waged the Datto case for Judicial Watch, tells Big League Politics that the State Department is "still
processing the FBI investigative file," even though Datto contents were ordered released by last September.
A Jihad
Basis for the Coup. We are the last defenders of civilization. Period. The evidence now shows that
Obama, Hillary, and John Kerry sold out. We still don't know how many secrets Hillary sold to foreign powers for money,
but thirty thousand emails are still missing. Even conservatives tend to forget how deeply the Democrats hate this
country. We don't really want to know that, being normal, decent people. The Democrats colluded with Stalin in
the 20th century, and they never got over being exposed by Joe McCarthy. They were the party of slavery and secession,
and later, they supported the Klan. Their record is morally abysmal. As for Obama, he never showed any
understanding of American moral values. He is either very blind or on the wrong side. Take your pick.
Hillary's
henchmen investigated. The news out of Washington is 15 people are in trouble for aiding and abetting Hillary's
use of a private computer to conduct official business as secretary of State. The Washington Times reported, "While the
full review is not completed, the department said it's found 23 violations and seven infractions of security protocols
related to Mrs. Clinton's emails. "Some of the 15 people got write-ups placed in their security files at the
department, according to a letter sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican. Those could affect future attempts
to gain security clearances, the department said." No one was named but this could get quite sticky.
Why
Wasn't Everyone Looking for Hillary's Missing Emails? [Scroll down] The accusation suggests that if
Clinton's contraband communications — emails she claimed were non-work related — had been
unearthed before the election, the trove could have influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. But how
could that be if Clinton was telling the truth? This should have raised suspicions that Clinton's deleted emails
involved questions that risked implicating her in deeper scandals just months before Election Day. (Talk about
interference!) Instead, the media immediately criminalized any attempt to locate the emails that Clinton's aides erased
from her server — that is correspondence she sent and received during her tenure as secretary of state.
Never mind that the files were material to pending lawsuits and an ongoing congressional investigation.
State
Dept. Says Hillary Email Server Had at Least 30 Security Breaches. It's not the public's fault that so
much of this was kept hidden for so long and that it's just now starting to trickle out. Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server made news again yesterday after a letter sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley was released. In it, the
State Department outlined that at least 30 security breaches took place during its operation. [...] Laws are for the little
people though, so Hillary and her associates, who clearly knew about and intended to propagate the scheme that took place,
have faced no consequences for their actions. I'm not even sure any of them have lost their security clearances.
Judicial
Watch Releases Testimony of Clinton Email Administrator — Clinton Lawyer Cheryl Mills Communicated with Him a Week
Prior to Testimony. Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Justin Cooper, a former aide to
President Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the unsecure clintonemail.com server
that Hillary Clinton used while serving as Secretary of State. Cooper admits that he spoke with Cheryl Mills, Clinton's
former chief of staff, one week prior to his deposition and let her know that the deposition had been scheduled. Cooper
also said that he worked with Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff, to create the private email system, but can't recall
if Clinton had any input in its creation or if he wiped the original server. The entire transcript is available here.
State
Dept identifies 15 people culpable in 30 instances of Hillary security violations. The State Department has
identified 30 instances of classified-intel mishandling involving 15 individuals connected to former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's unauthorized use of a private, unsecured email server. The mishandling of classified information was
revealed in a letter from Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs at the State
Department, to Senator Chuck Grassley. Grassley, a Republican, is leading Congressional oversight of the security
review. The State Department did not identify the culpable individuals pursuant to longstanding policy, nor did it
reveal if any of the individuals still work at the State Department.
State
Department: 15 [people] broke rules in mishandling Hillary Clinton emails. At least 15 people broke State Department
rules in mishandling former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails, the department said in a review released publicly Monday [6/17/2019].
While the full review is not completed, the department said it's found 23 violations and seven infractions of security protocols related
to Mrs. Clinton's emails. Some of the 15 people got write-ups placed in their security files at the department, according
to a letter sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican. Those could affect future attempts to gain security clearances, the
department said.
State
Department identifies 23 violations, 'multiple security incidents' concerning Clinton emails. The State
Department revealed Monday that it has identified "multiple security incidents" involving current or former employees'
handling of Hillary Clinton's emails, and that 23 "violations" and seven "infractions" have been issued as part of the
department's ongoing investigation. The information came in a letter to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who
is responsible for overseeing the security review. "To this point, the Department has assessed culpability to 15
individuals, some of whom were culpable in multiple security incidents," Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the State Department's
Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, wrote to Grassley. "DS has issued 23 violations and 7
infractions incidents. ... This number will likely change as the review progresses."
FBI
Notes on Clinton Emails Go Missing. Given the FBI's repeated intransigence over the years in responding to our
FOIA requests, I'm not of a mind to assume this story represents simply an innocent mistake. The FBI has released 277
pages of redacted records that show the FBI failed to produce information from an August 2015 meeting with Intelligence
Community Inspector General about Hillary Clinton's email server. The FBI claimed that notes are "missing" and the CD
containing notes from meeting is likely "damaged" irreparably.
Reference material: Spoliation of evidence. The spoliation of evidence is the
intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding. [...] The spoliation inference is a negative evidentiary inference
that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable
civil or criminal proceeding: the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the
spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.
Black's Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1401.
The
FBI Just Dropped New Documents On Hillary Clinton And They Are Really Bad. Late Friday night, we got a document
dump from the FBI dealing with the investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal email server. While we've already
gotten ample evidence that she absolutely should have been charged for her mishandling of classified information, these
latest revelations are still pretty mind-blowing. After you read them, you are left asking yourself how it was possible
that she wasn't indicted. Well, we know why. [...] Starting with Hillary's actions, her criminality isn't even in doubt
anymore. Stripping highly classified materials of their markings and then pushing them out via unapproved means is
illegal. Nowhere in the statute is their a requirement for "intent" nor could any serious person argue she didn't
intend to do what she actively chose to do. While we already knew that, it's pretty amazing to see that even the FBI
was admitting it at the time. Shortly after, the full whitewash would go into effect.
FBI
docs: Study found Clinton email server hacked, info found on dark web. Information from Hillary Clinton's
unauthorized, private email server were found on the dark web, newly released documents from the FBI show. It has long
been suspected that Clinton's server, located in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., might have been breached by hackers, but that
has never been publicly confirmed. But notes from a independent review, obtained by the FBI and released from "The
Vault" on Friday, determined the Romanian hacker known as Guccifer breached a server for Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal, who
was passing information about Libya to the secretary of state, and Clinton's server was "indirectly" hacked likely as a
result of the breach of Blumenthal's server. This information was transferred to a computer or network located south of
Bucharest, Romania.
McCabe:
Comey's Draft Statement Exonerating Clinton Two Months before Her FBI Interview Was Not Normal Protocol. "This
is the only time I am aware of, sir." "I have not seen that before, sir." "I've never seen that." These are just some
of the words utilized by former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe when asked during closed door testimony about an email penned by
disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey circulating a draft statement exonerating Hillary Clinton in the private email server case[,]
a full two months before the FBI interviewed Clinton and other witnesses in the criminal probe.
Hillary
Aide Huma Abedin Lied: People Died. It now appears that Clinton consigliere Huma Abedin bold-face
lied to FBI investigators and — because we live in a two-tier justice system — she wasn't charged.
To set a little context, we now know that a variety of foreign adversaries hacked Hillary Clinton's server, dispatching every
email she sent and received to — among others — the People's Republic of China. Concurrent with
this security debacle was the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that occurred under Obama and Hillary's watch, probably
the most devastating cyberwarfare event that has ever ocurred in American history. The OPM, which maintains the most
sensitive details of every applicant for any security clearance, was hacked from 2014 to 2015. Millions of cleared
individuals, including all covert agents, were revealed during the Obama-Clinton reign.
The Editor says...
As recently as 2015, who used CD-ROM storage for vital information? And why was there only one copy of it?
And why was the only copy of that CD-ROM left unattended in a place where Hillary could reach it?
FBI
emails show rush to cooperate with Clinton after investigation. The FBI rushed in the months ahead of the 2016
presidential election to accommodate Hillary Clinton's request for expedited processing of information from its investigation
into her secret emails, according to documents released Monday [6/3/20119]. Judicial Watch, a conservative public
interest legal group, obtained hundreds of pages of documents after suing the FBI for ignoring a public records
request. Among the documents are emails from then-FBI General Counsel James Baker recounting his conversation with
Clinton attorney Doug Kendall in the weeks after then-FBI Director James B. Comey cleared the Democratic presidential
candidate of criminal wrongdoing.
Deep
State: The collusion between the FBI and Mainstream Media that everyone stopped talking about. The Office
of Inspector General's report on the FBI and Justice Department's handling and mishandling of the investigation of former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized, non-secure email server to conduct secret government business as
Secretary of State revealed real and damning information on the mainstream media and their tight relationship with the
deepest members of the deep state. But for some reason this story has just disappeared into the ether. And with
all this talk of collusion you'd think this would be a hot topic. While the FBI was leaking classified information,
reporters were funneling bribes back to the leakers in the form of tickets to sporting events, golf outings, dinners, drinks,
invites to private exclusive parties and more.
Hillary
Clinton will give keynote speech at cyber defense summit. Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton will serve as a keynote speaker at the Cyber Defense Summit 2019, the cybersecurity company FireEye announced on
Thursday. [...] The event is designed to inform executives on cybersecurity, as well as security practitioners on how to
"mitigate, detect, and respond to cyber attacks." Her comments will follow a slew of appearances in which she
attributed her 2016 loss partly to Russian cyber activities used to interfere in the election. In May, she said the
election was "stolen" from her.
Hillary
Clinton To Give Keynote Speech At Cyber Security Summit. Hillary Clinton, who used a private email server as
secretary of state, will speak at a cyber defense summit later in 2019, it was announced Thursday [5/30/2019]. FireEye,
a cybersecurity company based in California, announced Clinton will give the keynote speech at its annual summit in
Washington, D.C., in October.
Justice
Department Declines to Prosecute Serial FBI Leaker. The Department of Justice declined to prosecute a senior
FBI official linked to the Clinton-email investigation, despite evidence that he or she leaked information from a sealed
federal court filing in violation of federal law, according to an investigative summary released by the DOJ inspector general
on May 29. The inspector general discovered evidence that a deputy assistant director (DAD) at the FBI leaked sealed
federal court information and sensitive law enforcement information to the media. The FBI official also had dozens of
contacts with the media in violation of FBI policy, according to the findings.
Americans Unite
to Demand Justice. The Equal Justice Tour kicked off in Chappaqua, New York, where citizens assembled outside
the home of Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday, May 26, 2019, to call attention to her illegal activities as documented by
FBI Director James Comey during her tenure as Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton used an
unauthorized, unsecured server to store, send and receive classified emails, exposing some of the nation's most sensitive
information to hostile foreign powers. She deleted tens of thousands of emails, used software to irretrievably erase
the server, and physically destroyed computer and telephone hardware while under FBI investigation. Despite the obvious
violations of law, Clinton was "exonerated" by former FBI Director James Comey on July 5, 2016.
Why
Both The Left And The Right Should Defenestrate James Comey From Public Life. Democrats and Republicans will
never agree on the validity of the outcome of the Hillary Clinton investigation. While Clinton backers believe the
former secretary of state committed no crime by transmitting classified information through her personal email account,
critics counter that former FBI director James Comey's conclusion that Clinton acted "extremely careless" euphemistically
described gross negligence subjecting her to criminal liability. [...] Comey is playing his audience and America. He is
no hero. He was a weak, smug, self-important fraud when he dragged the country through his mishandling of the Clinton
investigation.
Judicial
Watch: Obama White House Orchestrated Clinton Email Cover Up. According to newly released emails obtained
by Judicial Watch, the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) records request
concerning Hillary Clinton's unsecured, private email server. These new emails prove that the Obama White House knew
about the scandal earlier than previously admitted, and attempted to cover it up. Months after the Obama White House
got involved, "the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed."
Are
Impeachment Democrats Geniuses or Idiots? What would you have done as president the first time you heard about
the Hillary e-mail system? I'd say any president with half a brain would demand that either the e-mail system or
Hillary is outta here by sundown. But Obama is weak, feeble. And what about the non-concession of the 2016
election? I'd say that on election night, Hillary was drunk, and in no fit state to make a concession speech. And
then on the following day, she was hungover. People don't make very good decisions when they are drunk and/or
hungover. And then the Mueller investigation. I thought that Rule One for a lawyer is: you never ask a
question in court unless you already know the answer. So, you gin up a two-year witch-hunt without knowing whether the
witches did it?
Obama
White House Knew About Clinton Emails Years Earlier Than Previously Admitted. Top officials working in the
White House for President Barack Obama knew Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was using a private email system for official
government business three years before it became public, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch. "WH [White
House] called — have we received a FOIA request from CREW (Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington) on the
topic of personal use of email by senior officials? "Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give
me the details so I can call the WH back? I think they'd like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl," read
a Dec. 20, 2012 email from Sheryl L. Walter, who was then director of the Department of State's Office of
Information Programs and Services (IPS). Her email was addressed to several of her subordinates.
Obama
White House Tracked FOIA Request For Hillary Emails That Was Improperly Denied. The Obama White House kept tabs
on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email accounts
that the State Department improperly denied, according to newly released emails. The emails, which were provided to
Judicial Watch, show for the first time that the Obama White House was aware of the Clinton-related FOIA request, which the
liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted to the State Department in
December 2012. The State Department denied the request in May 2013, claiming that no responsive records existed.
That despite officials at the State Department, the White House and even President Obama himself knowing that Clinton used a
personal email account for government business.
Obama
White House Was Tracking FOIA Requests Regarding Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch has scored an impressive
achievement by digging into the records of the entire Clinton e-mail scandal, showing that not only was the Obama White House
aware of what was going on, but Clinton's State Department may have lied in response to Freedom of Information Act
requests. While you probably thought we'd heard the last of this tale, it turns out that this debacle dates back to
2012. At that time, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had submitted a FOIA request to the
State Department asking for information about how many email accounts the Secretary of State had been using. They were
told no such records existed and the White House continued to maintain that position for some time to come. But now,
new documents show that the White House was indeed aware of the situation and were tracking CREW's FOIA requests, presumably
to keep a handle on the situation.
Judicial
Watch: New Records Reveal Obama White House Paranoid, Tracking FOIA Request For Hillary Clinton Emails.
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday [5/10/2019] announced it obtained 44 pages of State Department records
through a court-ordered discovery that revealed the Obama White House was paranoid and tracking a December 2012 FOIA [Freedom of
Information Act] request seeking documents on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private server system (shortly
after the Benghazi terror attack). A few months after the Obama White House intercepted and got involved, the State
Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and falsely claimed
that no such records existed.
Huma
Abedin's Response When Told That Server Had Been Hacked. At 2:57 am on January 9, 2011, Clinton aide Huma
Abedin received an email from technology pro Justin Cooper, who oversaw Hillary Clinton's private email servers. Cooper:
"I had to shut down the server. Someone was trying to hack us and while they did not get in i didnt want to let them have the
chance to. I will restart in the morning." [...] This document indicates that there were many occasions when Clinton's technology
team "either suspected it had been hacked or seemingly acknowledged that security measures had come up short." This batch
contains 277 pages of email exchanges, text messages and information about the specific equipment used by Clinton and her minions.
Attempt
to hack email server stunned Clinton aide, FBI files show. The revelation was contained in a trove of newly
released, partially redacted FBI documents from the agency's investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified
information — a probe known as the "Midyear Exam." The document release reveals numerous episodes in which the
Clinton team either suspected it had been hacked or seemingly acknowledged that security measures had come up short. In
a tense email exchange, Cooper wrote to Abedin at 2:57 a.m. Sunday [1/9/2011]: "I had to shut down the
server. Someone was trying to hack us and while they did not get in i didnt want to let them have the chance to.
I will restart in the morning."
The Editor says...
I suppose that was the only copy of that information. Does anyone believe it was not intentionally destroyed?
Clinton Projection Syndrome.
Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller's massive report. She
concluded of the report's assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump's words and actions
that "any other person engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted." Psychologists might call her claims
"projection." That is the well-known psychological malady of attributing bad behavior to others as a means of exonerating
one's own similar, if not often even worse, sins.
How
Pseudo Events Are Used by Media to Manufacture Controversy. [Scroll down] Hillary Clinton pulled a
similar move the same day, stating on April 23 that when it came to Trump as described in the Mueller report, "any other
person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted." Keep in mind, this is the same Hillary Clinton
who was let off in the investigations into her use of a private email server to handle classified information. The DOJ
under Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had set an unusually high threshold for prosecuting Clinton, effectively
ensuring from the outset that she would not be charged.
The
walls are closing in on Obama. The truth of violations of law by the Obama White House, long buried, is being
excavated by two private groups. Judicial Watch has obtained testimony from a top FBI official that Hillary Clinton's
home-brew server emails were found in the White House. This means that Barack Obama's illegal handling of classified
information contained in those emails is closer to being exposed. This implicates him in the same felonies committed by
Hillary Clinton that James Comey falsely claimed "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue.
Judicial
Watch: FBI Admits Hillary Clinton Emails Found in Obama White House. Judicial Watch announced today
[4/23/2019] that a senior FBI official admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in
the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President. The FBI also admitted nearly 49,000 Clinton
server emails were reviewed as result of a search warrant for her material on the laptop of Anthony Weiner. E.W. (Bill)
Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, made the disclosure to Judicial Watch as part of court-ordered
discovery into the Clinton email issue. U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State
Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as Priestap, to be deposed or answer writer questions under oath.
The court ruled that the Clinton email system was "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
Former
FBI Official Admits Hillary Clinton Emails Were Found in Obama White House. A former top FBI official has
admitted under oath that a repository of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email records was obtained by the Obama
White House and housed in the Executive Office of the President. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently
coaxed the admission out of the former assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, Bill Priestap, as part of
a court-ordered discovery regarding Clinton's unauthorized email server.
Rush
Limbaugh: Hillary Clinton Needs to Be Investigated, Indicted and in Jail. Tuesday [4/23/2019] on Fox News
Channel's "The Story," conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to comments former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had
made earlier in the day at the TIME 100 event in New York City regarding President Donald Trump and impeachment.
Limbaugh dismissed Clinton's overtures and said that instead, Clinton should be the one investigated. "This is the
irony: Hillary Clinton is who tried to rig a presidential election, Martha," Limbaugh said.
Rush
may be right: Hillary Clinton 'needs to be in jail'. Rush Limbaugh, on "The Story" on Fox News with
Martha MacCallum, said it's not President Donald Trump who has anything to worry about when it comes to the whole Russia
investigation thing — it's Hillary Clinton. She should be in jail, Limbaugh said. And a whole world of
political watchers go — absolutely. And then, just as quickly, a whole world of political watchers go, sigh.
'Cause it'll never happen.
Judicial
Watch: FBI Found Clinton Emails At Obama White House. A top FBI official has confirmed Hillary Clinton's
missing emails were found in the Obama White House. Assistant FBI Director Bill Priestap admitted under oath the bureau
had found 49,000 Clinton emails at the Executive Office of President Obama. The new revelations are according to a
statement made Tuesday [4/23/2019] by government watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Hillary
Clinton: Anyone other than Trump would have been indicted for obstruction. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday
[4/23/2019] she believes Donald Trump would have been indicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe if he weren't
president, though stopped short of calling for his impeachment. Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president in 2016,
argued during a Q&A session in New York that Mueller's report "could not be clearer" in making the case Trump tried to
obstruct the Russia investigation — even though Mueller did not come to an explicit conclusion on that
question.
Hey Hillary, maybe you shouldn't speak too loudly about who should be indicted. Hillary:
Trump would 'have been indicted' by Mueller if he wasn't president. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the reason
President Trump escaped obstruction charges following the Mueller report was because of his presidential title. "Any
other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted, but because of the rule in the Justice
Department that you can't indict a sitting President, the whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to the
Congress," the New York Democrat said while speaking at the Time 100 summit Tuesday [4/23/2019]. Ms. Clinton said
she has little faith in Congress acting, saying Speaker Nancy Pelosi's efforts to investigate deeper into special counsel
Robert Mueller's report will be for naught against "the do-nothing Senate."
White
House: Now probe Hillary email scandal, Clinton Foundation, Page, and Strzok. The White House Thursday
[4/18/2019] ripped the "breathless" media coverage of the Russia collusion "hoax" and said now that it's over, journalists
should turn their attention on Obama-era scandals. [...] The administration cited the email scandal that dogged former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose loss to President Trump in 2016 still shocks Democrats. The
administration noted that former President Barack Obama gave the email scandal a pass when, on "60 Minutes," he said it was a
"mistake" but not "a national security problem." That comment raised concern in national security circles, and one
former official said, "That's a problem, right?" It also cited the destruction of over 30,000 Clinton emails from her
private server in New York after a preservation order had been issued.
FBI
failed to provide details on contact with Clinton campaign lawyer: Judicial Watch. The FBI failed to
respond to an October 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking more information about secretive communications
in late 2016 between a top Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer and the bureau's then-general counsel, according to the
transparency group Judicial Watch. Additionally, the group said, the FBI has ignored September 2018 FOIA requests
concerning bureau communications with, and payments to, British ex-spy Christopher Steele — who authored the
infamous anti-Trump dossier. In response, Judicial Watch announced Tuesday [4/16/2019] it has filed lawsuits seeking
the full release of all relevant documents. The flurry of litigation comes just days before Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's report is set to be publicly released, with some redactions.
Judicial
Watch FOIA Releases 422 Emails Proving Clinton "Cover-Up". 422 pages of FBI documents showing evidence of
"cover-up" related to the Clinton email system were discovered by public watchdogs, according to reports. FBI notes
memorializing the Bureau's interviews with a Platte River Network official include an email dated December 11, 2014, that
reads "Hillary cover up operation work ticket archive cleanup." The bombshell revelation indicates that Hillary's hired
cover-up contractors were also at least somewhat aware enough of the sensitivity of the operation that they had to keep more
detailed communications about the operation offline.
Clinton
Contractor Described 'Cover-up Operation Work Ticket' in Newly Uncovered Email. A newly obtained internal
message from the Denver-based Platte River Networks firm that serviced the personal email system used by former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton for official diplomatic business referenced a "Hillary cover-up operation work ticket archive cleanup,"
the nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch said on April 8. The email with the cover-up reference is contained in
FBI notes on a February 2016 interview of an unidentified Platte River Networks official. Judicial Watch obtained the
notes as part of more than 400 previously unreleased FBI documents a federal district court order turned over to the
nonprofit as a result of its Freedom of Information Act suit.
Documents
Received From Tom Fitton's FOIA Request Show Pretty Solid Evidence Of 'Cover-Up' By Hillary Clinton's Minions.
Thank goodness for Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton whose tireless pursuit of the truth has already exposed so much. His
most recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has provided us with 422 pages of FBI documents related to "Midyear
Exam," the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
The server was managed by a company called Platte River Networks (PRN). The FBI notes of a February 2016 interview with a
PRN official are especially damaging to the former First Lady. The notes reference an email dated December 11, 2014
which reads "Hillary cover up operation work ticket archive cleanup." Asked about the email by an FBI agent, the official
said it was "probably related to change to 60 day [sic] email retention policy/backup," but he did not "recall the prior
policy." The notes show that PRN "gave someone access to live HRC archive mailbox at some point."
Hillary's
email server a 'serious' problem, 74% of Americans say in new poll. Americans have not yet forgotten about
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State almost a decade ago. She served
in the role from 2009-13. A new poll finds that nearly three-fourths of Americans still deem that practice a "serious"
practice according to new research. Six-out-of-10 also say the use of the server was illegal, says a wide-ranging
Economist/You Gov poll released this week.
China Hacked Hillary's Server, Congress Knows,
Comey Lied About It, But Still No Probe. At the end of January, an Epoch Times reported that the Intelligence
Community Inspector General (ICIG) told the "FBI in 2015 that a forensic review of Hillary Clinton's emails unearthed
anomalies in the metadata of the messages. The evidence in the metadata suggested that a copy of every email Hillary
Clinton sent during her tenure as the secretary of state was forwarded to a foreign third party." Evidence proved the third
party was China. [...] Judicial Watch announced earlier this week that it is trying to get to the bottom of the hacking of
Hillary's server. They announced that it is suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for
details of a meeting they had with the FBI regarding national security threats associated with former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's "private" email system.
The
Next Shoes to Drop After the Mueller Report. The slap-dash investigation of Hillary Clinton's email shenanigans
must be thoroughly reviewed. Her aides received unprecedented immunity without giving evidence; their computers and
cellphones were destroyed; and the principal herself was cleared before an interview with her was conducted. Who really
made the decision not to prosecute? James Comey says he did. But FBI lawyer Lisa Page testified under oath that
the order came from the Department of Justice. This discrepancy must be resolved, along with the obvious questions
raised by the original decision. How high up did it go? Did it reach the Obama White House?
How
to end our national nightmare — probe Hillary Clinton again. [Scroll down] But even as we
learn the details of what Mueller found, there remains a giant black hole about the very origins of the FBI investigation
that led to his appointment in the first place. It is astonishing, for example, that at this late date, we still do not
know what evidence the disgraced James Comey and his FBI had to open the original probe in the summer of 2016, and whether
there was anything other than the fatally tainted Russian dossier. Nor do we know of any compelling reason why Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein later decided a special counsel was necessary to get to the bottom of the swirling
accusations of collusion that started during the campaign and mushroomed after Trump's upset victory.
Judicial
Watch Uncovers More Classified Emails in Hillary Clinton's Unsecure Email System. Judicial Watch today
[3/21/2019] announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-"state.gov"
email system. Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in
December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in another Judicial Watch case, she declared
under penalty of perjury in 2015 that she had "directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are
potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done."
With
Trump in Attendance, Crowd at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser Cheers Lindsey Graham Call to Investigate Hillary Clinton Over Dossier.
Hours after the Mueller report was released with no new indictments, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania attended a GOP Lincoln
Day Dinner fundraiser held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Friday night [3/22/2019]. Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) headlined the dinner; former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was the emcee. Press was barred from the event but a few
bits leaked out. [...]
Unfortunately
For Hillary, The FBI Was Able To Recover Some Of The Emails Her Staff Tried To Destroy And Judicial Watch Has Obtained
Them. In 1996, the late William Safire called Hillary Clinton "a congenital liar." His label was to become
even more apropos over time. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in May 2015, Judicial
Watch received 756 pages of Clinton's emails on Thursday which had been sent or received over her private server.
Unfortunately for Hillary, the FBI had been able to recover some of the emails her staff had tried to delete and/or destroy
after she had received a congressional subpoena to turn them over. The subpoena was sent on March 4, 2015 and the
emails were destroyed sometime between March 25-31st.
Clinton,
in newly revealed emails, discussed classified foreign policy matters, secretive 'private' comms channel with Israel.
A newly unearthed batch of heavily redacted, classified emails from Hillary Clinton's personal email server revealed that the former
secretary of state discussed establishing a "private, 100% off-the-record" back channel to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in "danger" of being "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and
among the phalanx of neoconservative media" as a result of political machinations by "Bibi and the Jewish leadership." The
756-page group of new documents, revealed Thursday [3/21/2019] as part of a transparency lawsuit by Judicial Watch, seemingly
contradicted Clinton's insistence under oath in 2015 that she had turned over all of her sensitive work-related emails to the State
Department, and included a slew of classified communications on everything from foreign policy to State Department personnel matters.
DOJ
reached agreement with Clinton lawyers to block FBI access to Clinton Foundation emails, Strzok says. The
Justice Department "negotiated" an agreement with Hillary Clinton's legal team that ensured the FBI did not have access to
emails on her private servers relating to the Clinton Foundation, former FBI special agent Peter Strzok testified during a
closed-door appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last summer, according to a newly released transcript.
Republicans late last year renewed their efforts to probe the Clinton Foundation, after tax documents showed a plunge in its
incoming donations after Clinton's 2016 presidential election. The numbers fueled longstanding allegations of possible
"pay-to-play" transactions at the organization, amid a Justice Department probe covering foundation issues.
Finally,
some things about the FBI and Hillary Clinton start to make sense. The first of several former Obama administration officials
and former aides to Hillary Clinton is set to be deposed Thursday [31/4/2019] after a judge ruled in January that they must answer questions
under oath about the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks and the Clinton email scandal. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the
discovery after a lawsuit was brought by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, which is seeking to uncover "whether the Benghazi scandal was
one reason for keeping Mrs. Clinton's email secret."
Yeah,
There Was Election Meddling From The FBI/DOJ During The 2016 Election. [A]ll of our suspicions have been
confirmed about how the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton email probe, one of two highly sensitive investigations in which
disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok was involved. Strzok was a counterintelligence agent with the bureau before
being demoted to human resources once his extramarital affair with Lisa Page, a former FBI lawyer, was revealed two years
ago. During the 2016 election, the two sent tens of thousands of texts, most were anti-Trump, which displayed gross
unprofessionalism and added to the accusations that deep state antics were targeting Donald Trump and later his
administration post-2016. The two texts that caught the eye of everyone was one where the two had a meeting with
then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on August 15, 2016, where Strzok and Page discussed an "insurance policy" against a
Trump presidency. And another where he said they would stop Trump.
Trump
blasts Obama DOJ as 'corrupt machine,' as Page transcript suggests Clinton case intervention. President Trump
on Wednesday [3/13/2019] seized on new revelations contained in transcripts from former FBI lawyer Lisa Page's congressional
testimony to hammer the Obama Justice Department as a "broken and corrupt machine." Those transcripts, released by House
Judiciary Committee Republicans, appeared to show Page confirming that DOJ officials during the Hillary Clinton email investigation
made clear to the FBI that they should not pursue Clinton for "gross negligence" in the handling of classified information.
Judicial
Watch Announces Depositions of Obama-Era Officials and Former Hillary Clinton Aides. Conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch announced Wednesday a schedule of depositions of senior Obama-era officials, lawyers and former Hillary
Clinton aides. Thanks to the heavy lifting by Judicial Watch, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered these corrupt Obama and
Hillary officials to provide answers, under oath, to the watchdog group about the Benghazi and Hillary Clinton email scandals.
Lisa
Page testimony means DOJ might want to re-open case against Hillary Clinton. Lock her up? More and more,
it appears the Justice Department should have tried to do just that to Hillary Clinton and that only nefarious interference
kept the attempt from occurring. My colleague Becket Adams is correct in writing that newly released testimony by
disgraced FBI attorney Lisa Page makes former U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch look blatantly dishonest and makes her
infamous "tarmac meeting" with former president Bill Clinton look even sleazier than it already had. Specifically,
despite sworn assurances to the contrary from Lynch, Page testified that Department of Justice officials repeatedly dissuaded
the FBI from building a criminal case against Clinton for "gross negligence" in her handling of classified information.
Former
NYPD Commissioner Calls for Obstruction Investigation into Clinton Email Probe. Former NYPD Commissioner Benard
Kerik warned Wednesday [3/13/2019] that Americans will "never have faith" in the U.S. government until the FBI's handling of
the Hillary Clinton email probe is investigated for obstruction of justice. Kerik's remarks came in response to
transcripts showing former FBI legal counsel Lisa Page testified to Congress that the Department of Justice ordered the FBI
not to charge Clinton with "gross negligence" for mishandling classified information.
FBI's
top lawyer believed Hillary Clinton should face charges, but was talked out of it. For most of the past three
years, the FBI has tried to portray its top leadership as united behind ex-Director James Comey's decision not to pursue
criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for transmitting classified information over her insecure, private email
server. Although in the end that may have been the case, we now are learning that Comey's top lawyer, then-FBI General
Counsel James Baker, initially believed Clinton deserved to face criminal charges, but was talked out of it "pretty late in
the process." The revelation is contained in testimony Baker gave to House investigators last year. His testimony
has not been publicly released, but I was permitted to review a transcript. During questioning by Rep. John
Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Baker was unequivocal about his early view that Clinton should face criminal charges.
A
press blackout on news top FBI lawyer James Baker wanted Hillary Clinton prosecuted. The news is out that
then-FBI director James Comey did indeed have some credible prosecutors for Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified
documents during her stint as secretary of state, passing around some of the U.S. government's most secret documents on an
illegal private account attached to a server in some guy's bathroom. "No reasonable prosecutor" would take the case,
Comey intoned, who then let the former secretary of state and then-presidential candidate off the hook. Actually, there
was one, at least one, and he was sitting right next to Comey: none other than FBI general counsel James Baker, who admitted
in congressional testimony that he did think Clinton's dishonest act merited prosecution.
FBI
scrambled to respond to Hillary Clinton lawyer amid Weiner laptop review, newly released emails show. Newly
released internal FBI emails showed the agency's highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clinton's lawyer
in the days prior the 2016 presidential election, on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to
Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails found on former Rep. Anthony
Weiner's laptop. The trove of documents turned over by the FBI, in response to a lawsuit by the transparency group
Judicial Watch, also included discussions by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page concerning a potential quid-pro-quo between the
State Department and the FBI — in which the FBI would agree to downgrade the classification level of a Clinton
email in exchange for more legal attache positions that would benefit the agency abroad. There was no indication such
a quid-pro-quo ever took place.
FBI
General Counsel Talked to Hillary Clinton's Lawyer about Comey's Letter on Weiner Laptop Clinton Emails.
Judicial Watch announced today it received 215 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice revealing former FBI
General Counsel James Baker discussed the investigation of Clinton-related emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop with Clinton's
lawyer, David Kendall. Baker then forwarded the conversation to his FBI colleagues. The documents also further
describe a previously reported quid pro quo from the Obama State Department offering the FBI more legal attaché
positions if it would downgrade a redaction in an email found during the Hillary Clinton email investigation "from classified
to something else."
New
Emails Confirm FBI Tried To Work Deal With State Dept To Minimize Hillary Email Scandal. Over two years after
the fact, newly released FBI emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request confirm that James Comey's FBI
attempted to work out a quid pro quo deal with the Obama State Department to help minimize the Hillary Clinton private email
server scandal just weeks before the 2016 election. Fox News's Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne first reported
on the alleged deal back on October 15, 2016, but full confirmation did not come until this week when the government
transparency watchdog group Judicial Watch released FBI communication related to the deal.
Judicial
Watch Uncovers Email Between Clinton Lawyer David Kendall and FBI Lawyer James Baker Same Day FBI Was Forced to Re-Open
Investigation. A lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch has unearthed an email from Clinton Lawyer David Kendall to
FBI chief legal counsel James Baker on the day the FBI was forced to re-open the Clinton email investigation due to the
Weiner laptop. With the passage of time the inherent issues have become somewhat clouded, and most people have
forgotten many of the inherent issues that showcased how the FBI and DOJ had decided in advance not to prosecute Hillary
Clinton. However, the key takeaway from this latest FOIA finding is that Clinton lawyers directly contacted the FBI
team that was investigating the Weiner laptop.
James
Comey: 'Zero chance' Hillary Clinton gets prosecuted for her emails. Former FBI Director James Comey said
Monday there is "zero chance" Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted for her emails. "There is zero chance, zero chance, on
the facts in the Hillary Clinton case, that she would be prosecuted," Comey said during a town hall lecture in Sarasota,
Fla. "You are out of your mind if you don't think the FBI wanted to make a case if we could. The facts weren't
there. Period. Full stop." As FBI director, Comey oversaw his agency's inquiry into the unauthorized email
server Clinton used while serving as secretary of state. In a stunning public admission in July 2016, Comey announced
his agency would not recommend criminal charges against anyone involved with Clinton's private email network, even after
finding that Clinton's team was "extremely careless" in handling classified emails.
Obama's FBI Ignored Lead That China Had Clinton
Emails. An Epoch Times report confirmed information first revealed by the Daily Caller and Fox News that the
Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) told the "FBI in 2015 that a forensic review of Hillary Clinton's emails
unearthed anomalies in the metadata of the messages. The evidence in the metadata suggested that a copy of every email
Hillary Clinton sent during her tenure as the secretary of state was forwarded to a foreign third party." Evidence proved
the third party was China.
Obama
Officials Ordered To Answer In Benghazi Lies, Email Scandal. On Tuesday [1/15/2019], a federal judge, who is apparently sick
and tired of deep state shenanigans, ordered Obama lackeys Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes, along with former Secretary of State Clinton staffers
Monica Hanley and Lauren Jiloty, and E.W. (Bill) Priestap, an FBI official who supervised the investigation into Clinton's emails, to
answer written questions in what appears to be an attempt to "hoodwink the court." The case involves a Freedom of Information Act
request issued by Judicial Watch concerning the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that these State Department
officials, and others must come clean about both the attack, and Clinton's use of an illegal private server.
DOJ
Seeks to Stall Court-Ordered Discovery on Clinton Email Scandal; Cites Government Shutdown. Susan Rice and Ben
Rhodes will be deposed under oath on the Benghazi scandal. Last week Judicial Watch submitted a court-ordered discovery
plan seeking depositions from top Obama officials involved in Hillary Clinton's email scandal including Susan Rice and Ben
Rhodes. The discovery plan stems from a December, 2018 ruling by Judge Royce Lamberth ordering the State Department and
DOJ to submit discovery in three areas. Judge Lamberth called Clinton's use of the private email server "one of the
gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
Hillary
Clinton Responds to Court Order-Files New Email Answers Under Oath on Private Server. On Friday morning [12/14/2018] Hillary
Clinton responded to a court order forced by Judicial Watch to answer more questions about the setting up of her private server.
Judicial Watch appeared in a DC federal court last month on a motion to compel more testimony from Hillary Clinton as well as to
make public video recordings of depositions of top Clinton aides such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
It
Looks Like the 33,000 Emails Aren't Gone After All! What if Bleach-bit didn't really make Hillary's problems go away?
Recently, Judge Lambeth gave a devastating ruling on the Hillary Clinton Email case, one which will almost certainly obligate the FBI to
reopen the case.
Federal
Judge Rips DOJ and State, Orders Discovery on Clinton Emails. Royce Lamberth is an outspoken and sometimes
controversial federal judge. Appointed by President Reagan, he has shown no partiality in going after litigants he
considers to be malefactors. This time, it is the State Department and the Department of Justice. Judge Lamberth
is presiding over the lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch against the State Department, asking for emails relating to the
Benghazi talking points that were promulgated after that attack. On Thursday [12/6/2018], he issued an order blasting
the federal agencies and authorizing discovery by Judicial Watch, as described below. In his order, Lamberth sets forth
a long effort to deceive Judicial Watch and the court that was orchestrated by State and DOJ. It may be that we have not
yet heard the last of the Clinton email scandal.
Federal
court blasts DoJ, State Dept.; orders discovery plan to see if Hillary sought to HIDE her emails to evade law.
It's become self-evident that were in not for Judicial Watch, much of what is now known about the various political scandals
involving former President Obama's administration would still be unknown. The watchdog scored another victory for
transparency in government on Thursday [12/6/2018] involving Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct
official business. According to a press release, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth "excoriated" the
Department of Justice and the State Department for potentially acting in "bad faith" while colluding to "scuttle public
scrutiny" of Clinton's use of a private server which many believe she did in order to hide her various dealings and
activities from the 'prying eyes' of Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, in violation of federal open records rules.
Court
Rules Hillary Must Answer Additional Questions About Her Email Scandal Under Oath. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan ruled on Thursday [11/15/2018] that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has 30 days to answer additional questions
about her email scandal. The decision comes after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit to obtain additional information from Clinton
and Director of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat John Bentel. The watchdog group also wanted top
Clinton aides and State Department officials, including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills', deposition videos made public. The
lawsuit was part of a broader Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that came about in October 2016 when Clinton refused to
answer several of Judicial Watch's questions, saying she "does not recall."
Hillary
Clinton Ordered To Answer Additional Questions Under Oath About Private Email Server. A federal judge has
ordered Hillary Clinton to respond to further questions, under oath, about her private email server. Following a
lengthy Wednesday [11/14/2018] court hearing, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan (who is also presiding over [former] National
Security adviser Michael Flynn's case), ruled that Clinton has 30 days to answer two additional questions about her
controversial email system in response to a lawsuit from Judicial Watch.
State
Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says.
In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday [10/12/2018] in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department
officials of lying and signing "clearly false" affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth also said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to
former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript
of his remarks.
DOJ
New Benghazi Probe: Five Hillary Clinton Emails That Led to Ambassador Chris Stevens Death. As the
Department of Justice slow-walks it's [sic] new probe into the criminal enterprises of the Clinton Foundation and the
Clintons' collusion with Russia on the Uranium One Deal, according to an observer of the Deep State and Democratic Party
shenanigans. "There may yet be an indictable offense Hillary and others will.face," said former counter-terrorism unit
police detective, James Briggs. Five emails were discovered among the thousands obtained or destroyed concerning an
issue Hillary hoped would just go away: The Battle of Benghazi! In an email previously released regarding
Hillary's Benghazi investigation — and one totally ignored by her propagandists in the national news
media — there was one specific message that detailed the exact location of the late Chris Stevens, the U.S.
Ambassador to Libya.
Judge
could put the squeeze on Hillary Clinton for testimony on emails. A conservative watchdog group seeking to compel
testimony from Hillary Clinton will get a hearing in federal court on the matter Wednesday afternoon [11/14/2018]. Judicial
Watch announced Tuesday that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will hear the case, which stems from a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit regarding the controversial employment status of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who was granted a "special
government employee" designation to accept outside employment while she was working at the State Department. Clinton
submitted written testimony under oath in October 2016, but Judicial Watch took issue with her answering that she "does not
recall" for multiple questions regarding her Clinton.com, non-state.gov email system.
Tom
Fitton: We Have a Specific Request for Hillary Clinton to Come In and Testify Under Oath. Judicial Watch
is relentless and is unwilling to give Hillary Clinton, the State Department, and other conspirators a pass on their lawlessness.
A federal court judge, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, is also upset about the abuses of the Clinton email cover-up.
In his opening remarks during a hearing last Friday (October 12), Judge Lamberth strongly criticized the U.S. Department of
State: "The information that I was provided was clearly false regarding the adequacy of the [Clinton email] search and... what
we now know turned out to be the Secretary's email system."
Hillary
Clinton's security clearance removed 'at her request,' Judiciary Committee reveals. Hillary Clinton had her
security clearance removed over the summer "at her request," the Senate Judiciary Committee, who received confirmation from
the State Department, revealed Friday [10/12/2018]. The news comes as part of an update from the State Department of
"its ongoing review of the mishandling of classified information related to the use of Clinton's non-government email server,"
a news release from the committee said.
Clinton
Spox: Hillary Gave Up Security Clearance as Protest Against Pres. Trump Revoking John Brennan's
Clearance. Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said late Friday night that the former secretary of State
voluntarily gave up her security clearance in August after reports that she lost the privilge amid her email scandal.
Merrill said it was a show of support following the op-ed by former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Admiral
William McRaven offering to surrender his security clearance in protest of President Donald Trump revoking the security
clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
Hillary
Clinton Loses Security Clearance Amid Email Scandal. Hillary Clinton lost her security clearance according to
an announcement from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday [10/12/2018]. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
revealed that Hillary Clinton's aide (who magically became her lawyer) Cheryl Mills along with four others also
no longer have clearance.
Hillary
Clinton's security clearance withdrawn. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton no longer has a security
clearance. Clinton had her security clearance withdrawn in August "at her request," State Department official Charles
Faulkner wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in a letter released Friday [10/12/2018].
Five other individuals whom Clinton had designated as researchers had their clearances withdrawn in September.
The Editor says...
Why wasn't her security clearance withdrawn the day after Trump was sworn in?
GOP
Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails. A veteran Republican operative and
opposition researcher solicited and raised at least $100,000 from donors as part of an effort to obtain what he believed to
be emails stolen from Hillary Clinton, activities that remain of intense interest to federal investigators working for
special counsel Robert Mueller's office and on Capitol Hill.
Hillary Clinton & Google Created [a] Covert Server
to Hide Classified Benghazi Emails from Congress; FBI Never Probed. Following the Benghazi consulate attack in 2012, then Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton secretly worked with Google to reroute email traffic away from her private computer server and use public Google Gmail
servers instead. That clandestine move served to cloak her inner circle's communications from lawmakers, public scrutiny and would-be
criminal investigators, according to intelligence sources who provided documents to True Pundit. These bombshell revelations shatter
Clinton's repeated claims and testimony that she solely used her private server in her Chappaqua NY home to conduct government business
at State. But it also reveals that previously undisclosed computer servers were employed by Clinton and her aides for conducting official
government business.
Intelligence
Officials Refuse To Do Damage Assessment Of Clinton Email Hacks Even After U.S. Agents Captured & Terminated.
Fact: During Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State a dramatic spike in U.S. agent captures/deaths took place
in China. Fact: To date, U.S. intelligence agencies have refused to do a damage assessment of Hillary Clinton's
hacked email server — hacks which many are convinced were carried out by the same Chinese government that then
used that information to identify and eliminate deeply embedded U.S. agents in China. Fact: The above scenario
appears to confirm that Mrs. Clinton, the Obama White House, and the Obama-era Deep State, have a lot of blood on their
hands.
Chinese
company reportedly hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every e-mail in real time. A Chinese state-owned
company reportedly hacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server, then inserted code that forwarded them a
copy of virtually every email she sent or received after that — a revelation President Trump is demanding be
investigated. The Daily Caller reported that the firm operating in the D.C. area wrote code that was then embedded in
the server and generated a "courtesy copy" for almost all her emails — which was then forwarded to the Chinese
company. The code reportedly was discovered in 2015 by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), which then
warned FBI officials of the intrusion.
China
Reportedly Hacked Clinton's State Dept. Emails — Did The FBI Cover That Up, Too? More than
three years after Hillary Clinton admitted that she'd used an unsecured private email server to handle classified emails
while secretary of State, and two years after the FBI exonerated her, we finally learn what we should have known all
along. That China apparently had unfettered access to all her emails, including many that were highly classified.
Sources: China Hacked
Hillary Clinton's Private Email Server. A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked
Hillary Clinton's private server throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails, two sources
briefed on the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The Chinese firm obtained Clinton's emails in real time as
she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the
hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation. The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server,
which was kept in Clinton's residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant "courtesy copy" for nearly all
of her emails and forwarded them to the Chinese company, according to the sources.
FBI
Hero John Robertson Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails on Computer During Child Sex Investigation. It is worth
noting that FBI hero John Robertson discovered the Hillary Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner's computer in a child sex
investigation. FBI agent John Robertson is proud of the work he does exposing and arresting child predators. John
was assigned to the Anthony Weiner case, a top Democrat married to Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. During his
investigation of Weiner's computer John discovered thousands of Hillary Clinton emails and blew the whistle on the
Comey-McCabe and Strzok cover-up of evidence.
Chinese
company reportedly hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every email in real-time. A Chinese state-owned company
reportedly hacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server, then inserted code that forwarded them a copy of
virtually every email she sent or received after that — a revelation President Trump is demanding be investigated.
The Daily Caller reported that the firm operating in the D.C. area wrote code that was then embedded in the server and generated a
"courtesy copy" for almost all her emails — which was then forwarded to the Chinese company. The code reportedly
was discovered in 2015 by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), which then warned FBI officials of the intrusion.
Sperry:
FBI Only Read 3,000 Out of 700,000 Emails Found on Weiner Laptop — Contradicting Comey's Sworn Testimony.
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry dropped another bombshell this week. James Comey sent a letter to the House Oversight Committee
on October 28th 2016 stating the FBI reopened the Hillary email investigation after they found Clinton's State Department emails on
pervert Anthony Weiner's laptop. Hundreds of thousands of emails were found on Weiner's laptop yet the FBI closed the second
investigation after a few days claiming they magically read through all the emails. Former FBI Director James Comey previously
told Congress the FBI examined all 700,000 emails found on Weiner's laptop — it turns out that the FBI only examined
approximately 3,000 out of 700,000 emails.
Report:
FBI checked less than half a percent of emails on Weiner laptop. The FBI examined just 3,077 of the 694,000
emails found on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner which was used by his wife Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, a
report said. Despite then-FBI Director James Comey's insistence that the agency had "reviewed all of the
communications" discovered on the laptop, less than one half of one percent of the emails were directly reviewed for
classified or incriminating information, RealClear Investigations reported on Aug. 23.
Turns
out Comey LIED about the emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop. It turns out that Comey lied in 2016 about a full
review of all the emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop as he finally closed the Hillary email scandal for good. [...] Of course
we know what really happened. Hillary's people put massive pressure on Comey and his Hillary henchmen to kill the
investigation before the election. So they did. And of course, these same FBI agents were very busy with trying
to defeat Trump so that had something to do with it too. This is really amazing when you consider just how relentless
the media attacks are on Trump these days.
Bombshell
Report: FBI Never Examined Vast Majority Of Emails On Weiner's Laptop, Despite Comey's Claims. A damning
report by RealClearInvestigations' Paul Sperry presents compelling evidence indicating that former FBI Director James Comey
prematurely closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton based on political motivations and lied to the American people when
he insisted days before the 2016 election that his agency had "reviewed all of the communications" found on the laptop of
Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner. Sperry notes that many wondered aloud at the time how the FBI
could have possibly reviewed hundreds of thousands of emails in a matter of weeks. It turns out, Sperry explains, that
they simply didn't. In fact, evidence suggests they didn't even come close, despite Comey's assurances that they'd
fully reviewed the communications.
He lied, in other words. Despite
Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined. When then-FBI Director James Comey
announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he
certified to Congress that his agency had "reviewed all of the communications" discovered on a personal laptop used by
Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner. At the time, many wondered how investigators
managed over the course of one week to read the "hundreds of thousands" of emails residing on the machine, which had been a
focus of a sex-crimes investigation of Weiner, a former Congressman. Comey later told Congress that "thanks to the
wizardry of our technology," the FBI was able to eliminate the vast majority of messages as "duplicates" of emails they'd
previously seen. Tireless agents, he claimed, then worked "night after night after night" to scrutinize the remaining
material.
Massive retaliation.
[President Trump should] get a special counsel appointed to investigate whether the use by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state of
unsecured communications did any damage to the national security and national interests of the United States in any way whatsoever and
to prosecute any violations of the law found in the course of that investigation, including any irregularities in past investigations.
Also investigate how, if at all, the joint income of Hillary and Bill Clinton of $85 million during Hillary Clinton's tenure as
secretary of state was related to her official duties and to prosecute any illegalities therefrom.
Despite
Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined. When then-FBI Director James Comey
announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he
certified to Congress that his agency had "reviewed all of the communications" discovered on a personal laptop used by
Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner. At the time, many wondered how investigators
managed over the course of one week to read the "hundreds of thousands" of emails residing on the machine, which had been
a focus of a sex-crimes investigation of Weiner, a former Congressman.
Judicial
Watch Demands Re-Opening Of Hillary Email Probe After More Classified Info Found. On Thursday [8/16/2018], the watchdog
revealed that it had received two batches, 184 pages and 45 pages, of newly uncovered emails belonging to Hillary Clinton
from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecured server. The emails were uncovered by a FOIA lawsuit filed
on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a March 4, 2015 FOIA request seeking all emails sent or
received by Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to
Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address.
Computer
Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit for Tips. An army of Reddit users believes it has
found evidence that former Hillary Clinton computer specialist Paul Combetta solicited free advice regarding Clinton's
private email server from users of the popular web forum. A collaborative investigation showed a reddit user with the
username stonetear requested help in relation to retaining and purging email messages after 60 days, and requested advice
on how to remove a "VERY VIP" individual's email address from archived content. The requests match neatly with publicly
known dates related to Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state.
FBI
Logged Cyber Intrusion Analysis Request to Hillary's Email Investigation ONE DAY After 2016 Election. On
Friday, the FBI released a tranche of documents on Hillary Clinton's email investigation thanks to a FOIA lawsuit filed by
Judicial Watch. The documents reveal the FBI logged a cyber intrusion analysis request to Hillary's email investigation
one day after the 2016 election — the FBI had already closed the investigation.
FBI
Vault Release — FBI Requested Data Forensics on Huma Abedin/Clinton Laptop AFTER the 2016 Election, Not
Before. [Scroll down] The FBI never looked at the Anthony Weiner/Huma Abedin laptop, which contained 100%
of Clinton emails and blackberry text messages, for intrusion or security breaches PRIOR TO the election. Remember
the IG report? Reading Chapter 11 of the IG Report the content of the Inspector General report as it relates to the
laptop device. Consider this from page #388: [...] FBI Agent Peter Strzok, the lead investigative authority in the
Hillary Clinton MYE (Mid-Year-Exam), is explaining to the IG how they were able to process an exhaustive volume of emails
(350,000) and Blackberry communications (344,000) in a few days; [Oct 30 to Nov 5, 2016] Now, how does that
square with the laptop being turned over to FBI forensics on November 9th, 2016?
If
Not Russia, Who Is Hillary's 'Foreign Entity'. I've long said Hillary Clinton is insufficiently stupid to have
believed she could operate an unsecured home server without compromising the security of any data transmitted through it or
stored on it. For just as long, it has been my contention that the server was the faucet through which she pumped
information she was selling (yes, selling) to foreign entities, both public and private. I.T. security protocols
would've easily flagged attempts at intrusion if targeted toward the State Department's secure servers, through which
then-secretary of state Clinton ought to have conducted business. Likewise, the transfer or copying of said information
from a secure server is a detectable act with access being tightly controlled and records kept of who looked at what and when.
The
FBI's Lack Of Curiosity About A Foreign Power Getting 30K Hillary Clinton Emails Is Astounding. [Scroll
down] The thing that has always struck me about the whole Hillary Clinton email fiasco is the studious lack of
curiosity by the US government over how TS/SCI documents were removed from a SCIF and transmitted via garden variety email
and stored on a server that had no cyber or physical security. No curiosity was expressed about a document that
appeared to have been produced via signals intelligence sources being sent by the half-[baked] "intelligence" group headed by
Sid Blumenthal and the fortunately deceased Tyler Drumheller to Clinton. The lack of curiosity extended so far as to
give immunity from prosecution to the guy managing it. McCabe was totally incurious about what was on Huma Abedin's
laptop inasmuch as it included Clinton's emails. And when told by the ICIG that Hillary Clinton's emails had been
auto-forwarded to a foreign power... no interest whatsoever.
Gohmert: Watchdog Found
Clinton Emails Were Sent To 'Foreign Entity'. A member of the House Committee on the Judiciary said during a
hearing Thursday that a government watchdog found that nearly all of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails were
sent to a foreign entity and that the FBI didn't follow-up on that finding. The Intelligence Community Inspector
General (ICIG) found an "anomaly on Hillary Clinton's emails going through their private server, and when they had done the
forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was
not on the distribution list," Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a hearing with FBI official Peter
Strzok. "It was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia," he added.
FBI's
Strzok Was Told a Foreign Power Hacked All of Clinton's Emails and Did Nothing. A member of the House Committee
on the Judiciary said during a hearing Thursday that a government watchdog found that nearly all of former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's emails were sent to a foreign entity and that the FBI didn't follow-up on that finding. The
Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found an "anomaly on Hillary Clinton's emails going through their private
server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000,
were going to an address that was not on the distribution list," Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a
hearing with FBI official Peter Strzok. "It was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to
Russia," he added.
Gohmert: Watchdog Found
Clinton Emails Were Sent To 'Foreign Entity'. A member of the House Committee on the Judiciary said during a
hearing Thursday that a government watchdog found that nearly all of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails were
sent to a foreign entity and that the FBI didn't follow-up on that finding. The Intelligence Community Inspector
General (ICIG) found an "anomaly on Hillary Clinton's emails going through their private server, and when they had done the
forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was
not on the distribution list," Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a hearing with FBI official Peter Strzok.
FBI
Ignored Hacking of Hillary's Emails by 'Foreign Entity'. At the contentious hearing Thursday with FBI agent
Peter Strzok, Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, revealed the FBI didn't follow up on a government watchdog's finding that
nearly all of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails were sent to a foreign entity. Gohmert, a member of
the House Committee on the Judiciary, said the Intelligence Community Inspector General found an "anomaly on Hillary
Clinton's emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her
emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list."
Russian
Hackers Kept DNC Backdoor Longer Than Anyone Knew. Until today [7/13/2018], the story of the DNC hack ended
promptly on June 14, 2016, when the Democrats went public with the intrusion in the pages of the Washington Post, and
Crowdstrike, the security firm hired to respond to the breach, published a detailed technical account. Today's indictment
confirms every aspect of the DNC's and Crowdstrike's account, with one exception. Both the DNC and Crowdstrike have said
repeatedly that they went public only after expelling all the Russian hackers. But buried in the new indictment is
language suggesting that Crowdstrike missed a spot, and one computer infected with the GRU's malware "remained on the DNC
network until in or around October 2016."
Gohmert:
Peter Strzok Knew 'Foreign Entity' Hacked Clinton's Emails and Did Nothing. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said
FBI agent Peter Strzok had been made aware of a "foreign entity" — not the Russian state — intercepting
over 30,000 emails sent to or received by Hillary Clinton's unauthorized personal email server through which she conducted
governmental communications in her former capacity as Secretary of State.
Unsealed
documents detail tactics in Clinton email probe. Court documents approved for release in the lead-up to a
massive Justice Department watchdog report on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email account offer fodder
for both critics and defenders of the bureau's work. The newly unsealed court filings, obtained by POLITICO, may well
serve as a Rorschach test about the Clinton email probe. They demonstrate that the FBI's investigation did not rely
solely on the voluntary cooperation of those involved, since agents and prosecutors used a combination of search warrants and
other court orders to gain evidence relevant to the probe. At the same time, the records do not contradict complaints
by Republicans that the FBI did not use grand jury subpoenas to demand testimony from top Clinton aides, obtain search
warrants to gain access to laptops Clintons' lawyers used to review her emails, or seek the personal phones and similar
devices used by her top aides.
Hillary
Clinton email probe ends on cliffhanger. After more than 450 investigators spent over a year investigating the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, the most startling thing about the new report from
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is how much it uncovered and how little it concluded. "We found
that several FBI employees who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages — some of which
related directly to the Midyear [Clinton email] investigation — that created the appearance of bias and thereby
raised questions about the objectivity and thoroughness of the Midyear investigation," the 568-page report pronounced.
Grassley
Demands Investigation Of Comey's Use Of Private Email Account. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley instructed the FBI on Monday that they must gain access to former FBI Director James Comey's private email account
to see if any laws were broken when he used the account to conduct government business. "It is disturbing that FBI
employees tasked with investigating Secretary Clinton, including the former director, appear to have engaged in strikingly
similar conduct," Grassley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Yes,
Hillary Should Have Been Prosecuted. At the risk of oversimplifying a long and complex discussion, the IG time
and again noted that (among other things) the FBI focused on the apparent lack of intent to violate the law and the lack of a
clear precedent for initiating a prosecution under similar facts. It also describes how the FBI wrestled with the
definition of "gross negligence" — concluding that the term encompassed conduct "so gross as to almost suggest
deliberate intention" or "something that falls just short of being willful." After reading the analysis, I just flat-out
don't buy that Hillary's conduct — and her senior team's conduct — didn't meet that standard. The
key reason for my skepticism is the nature of the classified information sent and received.
The
crazy reason the FBI didn't search the devices of Hillary Clinton's inner circle. While the FBI was investigating
Hillary Clinton's secret server where she kept official emails out of the view of the authorities until her lawyers could scrub
them, for some reason, agents never searched the Blackberries or other email devices belonging to her inner circle at the State
Department. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his team received a crazy response when they asked
FBI agents on the Hillary Clinton email investigation why not. The agents' primary excuse was to point to "the culture of
mishandling classified information at the State Department which made the quantity of potential sources of evidence particularly
vast".
FBI
agent fast-tracked Clinton email case to 'stop' Trump from being elected. FBI agent Peter Strzok put the
Trump-Russia investigation on a fast track during the 2016 election season at the same time he was sending text messages to
his lover condemning the Republican presidential candidate as an "idiot" and vowing to "stop" him. Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in a voluminous report, singled out as troubling Mr. Strzok's decision to move
quickly from working on Hillary Clinton's email case to investigating Mr. Trump.
Bongino
Slams Obama for Denying Early Knowledge of HRC Email Server. Dan Bongino slammed former President Barack Obama
for past comments he made denying early knowledge of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. His criticism
comes shortly after the release of the scathing report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, which found fired FBI
Director James Comey was insubordinate and criticized his handling of the Clinton email probe. Obama said in a 2015
interview with CBS News that he first learned of Clinton's use of the private server "at the same time everybody else learned
it through news reports." "That's nonsense," Bongino said Saturday on "Fox & Friends." "Obama's clearly not telling
the truth here." [Video clip]
Obama's
silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation. [Hillary] Clinton had endangered top secret information by
using an unsecured, home-brew email server when she was U.S. secretary of state. Any other American who dared risk top
government secrets on a basement server would have faced federal prosecution and prison. Obama's lie was told in 2015,
when Obama was asked by CBS' Bill Plante when he learned Mrs. Clinton had used an unsecured email server. "The
same time everybody else learned it, through news reports," Obama said. He was so silky that you couldn't even hear his
tongue rustling along his teeth. He waxed on about how his administration was all about "transparency." But Obama
did not learn about Clinton's home-brew server like "everybody else."
They
must be joking when they claim political bias was not what guided Obama's DoJ and FBI. No political bias?
O.K., then, let's take them at their word. As Hillary used to say: 'What difference does it make' why they did
it? They obviously targeted Trump and let anyone associated with his opponents, top Democrats President Obama and
Hillary Clinton off. That is evidence on its face that the FBI and Justice Department were political arms of Obama,
just as the media was. Everybody protected everybody. Except for the American people.
Court
Sets Hearing on Motion to Compel Email Testimony from Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch announced a federal court
ordered a hearing for Thursday, October 11, 2018, on a motion to compel testimony about the email practices of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The order was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. The
development comes in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about the controversial employment status of
Huma Abedin, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton. The lawsuit, which seeks records regarding the authorization for
Abedin to engage in outside employment while employed by the Department of State, was reopened because of revelations about
the clintonemail.com system.
Pardoned
Sailor Files Lawsuit Against Obama, Comey for Unequal Prosecution of Clinton Email Case. Former Navy seaman
Kristian Saucier, who was sentenced to one year in federal prison for taking pictures aboard a nuclear submarine in 2009, is
suing former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey for unequal protection under the law. Saucier
alleges he was unfairly punished while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was left to walk for her unauthorized use of
a private email server, the Washington Times reports. President Donald Trump pardoned Saucier in March this year.
Saucier's attorney says the lawsuit now plans to highlight the political nature of his client's prosecution compared to
Clinton's. In 2016, when Saucier's case was being litigated, prosecutors rejected any comparison to the Clinton case.
Lawmakers
Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report. The Department of Justice and the FBI are deliberately
attempting to slow roll and redact significant portions of DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz's report on the bureau's
handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, according to numerous congressional officials and investigators. The
400-page report, which was completed several weeks ago and addresses Clinton's use of her private server for government
business, is currently being reviewed by the DOJ and FBI. According to sources, individuals mentioned in the reports are also
allowed to review the document. It is expected to be "long and thorough" and will criticize the handling of the investigation by
former FBI Director James Comey, who has spent the better part of the past several months promoting his book A Higher Loyalty.
Hillary
Clinton [is] not off the hook just yet. As Robert Mueller continues his special counsel investigation to
nowhere, at least one government watchdog group is keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton. "After uncovering the
Clinton email scandal," Judicial Watch's president, Tom Fitton, said in a written release, "[we] now want a full accounting
of the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop."
Andrew
wants immunity for testimony on Clinton email probe — or he'll plead Fifth. The former No. 2 guy at
the FBI wants immunity. The attorney for Andrew McCabe, who was fired as FBI deputy director, told Sen. Charles E.
Grassley, Iowa Republican, that his client "is eager" to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mr. Grassley
leads. The panel wants Mr. McCabe to testify on a Justice Department inspector general's report that recommended
that he be fired for leaking information about an investigation of Hillary Clinton and then lying about it to James B. Comey,
then the FBI director. But either he gets immunity or takes the Fifth, attorney Michael Bromwich wrote in a letter to
Mr. Grassley, according to Fox News Channel.
There's
a huge difference between the Trump and Clinton probes. Clinton's core wrongdoing was publicly established fact from the
start — whereas the Trump investigation has always been an effort to find out if there was any wrongdoing. It was
actually the House Select Committee on Benghazi that started asking questions after a hacker unveiled Clinton's e-mails with Sidney
Blumenthal. Some of those e-mails were related to the 2012 Benghazi attack yet had never been handed over to investigators in
all the many Benghazi probes.
Why
the Mueller probe is really five scandals, not one. [Scandal #2] The extraordinary deep state defense of Hillary
Clinton, combined with the systematic avoidance of exposing and dealing with her illegal behaviors while protecting her staff members when
they support and participate in her illegality, is beyond anything we have seen in American history.
Huma
email horror returns to haunt FBI brass, in IG report on Clinton case. Ever since she lost the 2016 election,
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly blamed her defeat on the FBI's decision to reopen the probe into her email use after messages
were found on the laptop of confidante Huma Abedin's estranged husband. But now that laptop and those emails are back
in the spotlight, this time causing problems for FBI leaders as part of a forthcoming inspector general report. The
probe is expected to fault bureau officials for sitting on those emails in the first place.
House
GOP sets three FBI interviews in Clinton probe. House Republicans are preparing to conduct the first interviews
in more than four months in their investigation into the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe. A joint
investigation run by the Judiciary and the Oversight and Government Reform committees has set three witness interviews for
June, including testimony from Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, and Michael
Steinbach, the former head of the FBI's national security division.
IG
report on Clinton case expected to hit FBI leaders for sitting on emails in 2016. A highly anticipated report
from the Justice Department's internal watchdog reportedly is expected to hit FBI leaders for moving too slowly to review a
batch of Hillary Clinton emails discovered toward the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. Offering a glimpse at the
contents of the closely held inspector general review, The Associated Press cited people familiar with the findings in
reporting Monday that the investigation would criticize the bureau for its handling of that incident.
Report:
Inspector General Will Declare FBI, DOJ Broke Law in Clinton Email Probe. A new report suggests an imminent
Inspector General (IG) report may rule that FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law in their handling of the
Hillary Clinton email investigation. Investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Thursday [5/17/2018] that Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has "found 'reasonable grounds' for believing there has been a violation of
federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ's handling of the Clinton investigation/s," adding that the top watchdog official has
"referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution."
DOJ
inspector general completes long-awaited review of Hillary Clinton probe. The completion of a long-awaited
watchdog report on the FBI and DOJ's Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign has put Washington
on edge, as the clock counts down to its potentially explosive release. "We're all anxiously awaiting this report,"
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News' "Hannity." Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced
the draft report was done in a letter to members of Congress on Wednesday. He did not say when the results of the
review will be officially released to the FBI, DOJ and congressional committees.
The
Clinton reckoning is tiptoeing in. This is a historic moment of bated breath and tight sphincters all over
Clintonworld. After decades of skating on their grifts, abuses, and outright crimes, a reckoning is coming. And
not just for the Hillary Clinton, but for her enablers. The leaks begin about the I.G. report on the Hillary Clinton
email investigation[.] Until Wednesday [5/16/2018], there had been virtually no genuine leaks coming out of the inspector
general's office at the Department of Justice — the sign of a probe with integrity. But that silence ended when
the I.G.'s office circulated relevant portions of its report to people named in it, for their comments, which would be included
when the report is published.
IG
Report on Clinton Investigation "extremely long and thorough". The Department of Justice Inspector General has
sent what is described as an "extremely long and thorough draft" of the much anticipated report on the FBI and DOJ's
investigation and handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, this reporter has learned. The detailed report on the
FBI's decision making process into the Clinton investigation could lead to possible criminal referrals for some of the
officials involved in the case. Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report, which is expected to be released within
the next three to four weeks to the public, has been turned over to current and former officials for review, as first
reported in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The draft, however, does not include any recommendations for
criminal prosecution. If there was any evidence collected by the Inspector General's office of criminality, Horowitz
would then refer the matter to the Department of Justice and submit a criminal referral to prosecutors.
FBI
inspector general's report on the agency's handling of the Hillary email probe is ready. Washington is on edge
as it awaits the release of the highly-anticipated watchdog report on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation, a potentially explosive document that is expected to be highly critical of former FBI director James Comey and
other officials. The Department of Justice Inspector General's report is expected to address multiple questions that
have lingered about the FBI's actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election, in which Clinton found herself exonerated
and then subject to another investigation in the days before voters went to the polls. In addition to Comey, a number
of high-profile names could be featured when the report, written by Michael Horowitz, makes its debut.
Obama
DOJ and FBI Leadership Referred for Criminal Prosecution for Clinton Email Cover-Up. As we reported earlier
Thursday, a long-awaited report by the Department of Justice's internal watchdog into the Hillary Clinton email investigation
has moved into its final phase, as the DOJ notified multiple subjects mentioned in the document that they can privately
review it by week's end, and will have a "few days" to craft any response to criticism contained within the report, according
to the Wall Street Journal.
DOJ
inspector general's testimony postponed, amid new leads in Clinton case review. Inspector General Michael
Horowitz's widely anticipated testimony next week before the House Oversight Committee has been postponed, as the Justice
Department IG has pursued new leads in his review of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to a congressional
letter and sources familiar with the matter. "It is of the utmost importance that your review be as fulsome, complete
and unimpeded as possible," Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairman of the committee, wrote in a recent letter to Horowitz
obtained by Fox News. Horowitz was scheduled to appear before the committee on May 8. But Gowdy told Horowitz
he wants to reschedule his testimony "as close to the day the report is finalized as is practicable."
Did
Obama's Justice Department pressure FBI to end the Clinton Foundation investigation? A key House Republican on
Tuesday asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate whether former President Barack Obama administration officials
pressured the FBI to "stand down" from its probe of the Clinton Foundation that was ongoing during Hillary Clinton's bid for
the presidency. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a letter to Sessions that he wants an
investigation into Sally Yates, who Obama appointed to serve as the deputy attorney general at the time. Goodlatte
wants to know if Yates ordered her principal associate deputy attorney general, or PADAG, to call the FBI and ask for the
probe of the Clinton Foundation to end.
FBI
Never Investigated Abedin/Clinton Laptop Emails In October 2016. As many people are aware, CTH has decided to
go back through two years of documents, releases, reports, testimony, media interviews; including interviews with fired FBI
Director James Comey; question all prior assumptions; re-examine the entire framework within all the known granular DOJ and
FBI activity; and finally contrast it all against the full scope of released messaging between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page. Within this project some breakout discoveries need to be highlighted. One of those discoveries
pertains to the Fox News interview with James Comey and Bret Baier.
FBI
Delays Release of Communications With Firm That Examined DNC Servers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
has pushed back the estimated completion date of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to its
communications with the security firm that examined the Democratic National Committee's hacked servers to October. The
Washington Free Beacon submitted the FOIA request in July 2017 with the FBI seeking all communication between the
bureau and CrowdStrike, Inc., the California-based cyber security firm that examined the DNC's servers following the
infiltration that led to the release of John Podesta's emails. The FBI said in December the documents should be
available by March. The FBI, which was never granted access to the DNC's servers for inspection, instead relied on the
third-party firm that was brought in by the DNC for information regarding the compromised network who concluded that Russia
was behind the hack. The FBI previously awarded an unrelated $150,000 contract to CrowdStrike in July 2015. Details
and communications between the firm and the bureau regarding that past contract were requested as part of the FOIA.
The
Clintons and 'the Jews'. In its never-ending pursuit of revelatory records meant to expose corruption, fraud,
waste — and evil generally — in the Deep State, Judicial Watch published an interesting set of records
today received from the government in its glacial response to demands for Hillary Clinton's emails. [...] Judicial Watch
published an interesting analysis of this most recent batch of records, rightly focusing again on Hillary Clinton's dangerous
abuse of national security information by trafficking it on her unsecure "home-brew" server.
New
Clinton Emails Reveal Classified Docs, Clinton Foundation Connections. Judicial Watch today released 281 pages
of newly uncovered emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received
over her unsecure, non-"state.gov" email system. The emails, dated 2010 through 2013, contain classified information
and detail collusion between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation. Ten emails contain classified
information redacted "in the interest of national defense or foreign policy," including confidential sources, and concern
Israel and the Middle East. Most of the emails include exchanges with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The emails show Hillary Clinton conducted classified and sensitive negotiations about the Israel-Arab conflict on her
unsecure, non-governmental server.
Goodlatte,
Gowdy Strike a Deal to Review Long-Sought Documents on FBI's Clinton Email Probe. Republican lawmakers
examining the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation say they have reached an agreement with Justice Department
officials to review and obtain documents they have been requesting for months. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee said they "look forward to reviewing the information to better understand the decisions made
by the Department of Justice in 2016 and 2017."
We
Need A Special Prosecutor — For Hillary Clinton. Nearly a year has passed since Robert Mueller's
special counsel investigation launched, and "Russian collusion" remains more fantasy than fact. As Democrats and their
media allies fear-monger for political reasons, they face an inconvenient truth: There is still no smoking gun.
While Russian actors appear to have interfered with the 2016 election, the Mueller team — stacked with Clinton and
Obama donors — has presented no evidence that President Donald Trump helped orchestrate any of the interference.
In Tucker Carlson's words: "Almost no information has come out to justify the [Russia] obsession. None has come out
to justify the claim that there was collusion." Desperate for the evidence to justify its existence, the Mueller
investigation has now seemingly transitioned to President Trump's personal life — yet another distraction for
ratings-obsessed media elites.
James and the Giant Preach.
James Comey loves to preach to us lesser mortals about ethics and such. [...] Comey's contribution to Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations, for now, is this classic: "No reasonable prosecutor would bring such charges." The idea that Comey
has a clue of what defines reasonableness is itself impugned each time he opens his mouth.
New
emails bolster GOP claims of FBI, DOJ 'coordination' on Clinton case response. Emails reviewed by Fox News from
February 2016 suggest the FBI and DOJ worked together to craft a response to a key development in the Hillary Clinton email
investigation, amid newly raised Republican concerns about a "concerning level of coordination" between the two agencies
during the probe. The emails concern the period after 22 messages with "Top Secret" information were found on the
former secretary of state's personal email server. Republican Rep. Mark Meadows cited them in a letter earlier
this week claiming former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress — in which he downplayed FBI-DOJ
coordination on the Clinton case — may be at odds with documents suggesting "frequent" coordination.
Meowing
Media Fuel Mass Delusion of Russian Collusion. Some background: In March 2015, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton admitted that, while in office, she diverted some 66,000 emails to a server in the basement of her house.
As the Associated Press would determine, the server was "vulnerable to hackers" and the setup was "the subject of U.S. government
and industry warnings at the time over attacks from even low-skilled intruders." After the diversion was discovered,
Clinton returned roughly half of the stolen emails. The other half, she claimed, related to private matters and were
deleted. Some, it turned out, were destroyed while under subpoena. Despite the deletions, there was a chance
that the stolen emails might be found because Russia and other adversaries probably had their own copies.
New
emails show Hillary-FBI-DOJ coordination. Newly uncovered emails containing 22 messages with "Top Secret" information
found on former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's personal email server indicate that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) "coordinated" efforts to devise a response to a major development in her
email probe. The recent discovery bolsters Republicans' newly raised allegations that there was a "concerning level of
coordination" between the FBI and DOJ during Clinton's private email investigation. "Republican Rep. Mark Meadows
cited [the accusations] in a letter earlier this week claiming former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress —
in which he downplayed FBI-DOJ coordination on the Clinton case — may be at odds with documents suggesting
'frequent' coordination," Fox News announced.
Comey
is a Pink-Hatted Women's-Marcher. It doesn't matter how James Comey voted when he discharged his duties as FBI director
as a partisan campaign operator for Team Clinton. As his book reveals, his actions were all directed toward electing Hillary
Clinton and discrediting her opponent. He wrote a letter exonerating Clinton long before he interviewed her and her campaign
associates. His October surprise, reopening the Clinton email investigation, was not to hurt Clinton, but instead to exonerate
her before the election. He read the polls, knew she would win, and wanted to clear the decks for her presidency by declaring
the email issue dead and buried. I wonder what Mr. and Mrs. Comey discussed in the year before the election?
He was supposed to be nonpartisan in his position, but she certainly didn't have to be.
McCabe
got the order to shut down Hillary investigation from...Obama? Rush Limbaugh on his April 19 show said the important
news in the report of Inspector General Horowitz's report is the August 12, 2016 call to McCabe from the Obama DOJ regarding the
Clinton Foundation investigation. Limbaugh believes that it was Sally Yates, of the Obama DOJ, who called McCabe to tell him they were
"concerned" about the investigation. [...] While Mueller searches in vain for the nonexistent collusion and obstruction of justice by
President Trump, there is clear evidence in the Horowitz report of obstruction of justice to interfere with the 2016 election by the
Obama DOJ.
Oops:
Comey Accidentally Reveals Someone is Concealing Hundreds of Thousands of Clinton Emails. Thanks to the
tireless Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, we now know that there are roughly 200,000 or more previously unknown Hillary Clinton
emails that were hidden by the Obama administration from a federal judge. During his utterly boring interview on 60
Minutes, the egomaniacal former FBI director accidentally blurted out the truth: [...]
Comey's
Hubris Will Be His Demise. [Scroll down] In the aftermath of his bizarre statement to the press
regarding the Hillary Clinton email investigation, more than 100 field agents of the FBI, and roughly half a dozen attorneys
from the DOJ, made public through a source their total disbelief and disagreement with his assessment. In a lengthy
statement read to the cameras, Comey laid out as clear a picture of wrongdoing as could be made, before jettisoning the issue
by claiming "no prosecutor" would've brought a criminal indictment and been successful. At the time — and
before the 106 agents and attorneys who worked the case came forward — I had several notable prosecutors in New
York City tell me face to face that they could've prosecuted it and won a conviction.
Comey:
I Announced the Hillary Investigation Because Polls Showed Her Ahead. In his new book "A Higher Loyalty,"
former FBI Director James Comey says the reason he announced that the FBI had re-opened its investigation into Hillary
Clinton's private email server was polling. Yes. Seriously. In late October of 2016, just days before the
presidential election, polling was skewing in Clinton's favor. Comey says this subconsciously influenced him to send a
signed letter to Congress announcing that the bureau had re-opened its investigation into the former secretary of state.
Here
Are 8 Things You Need To Know About The FBI's Raid on Michael Cohen's Offices. [#7] The FBI Never Treated Hillary Clinton
This Way: This is perfectly obvious. Hillary wasn't merely allowed to delete 33,000 documents from her computer server three
weeks after revelations that she had a private computer server, she was protected by the DOJ and the FBI, which allowed her personal
attorney, Cheryl Mills — who was also under investigation — to invoke attorney-client privilege to stop the FBI from investigating
Hillary's email scheme
FBI
doubles staff in response to subpoena for alleged FISA abuse, Hillary Clinton email probe documents. FBI Director
Christopher Wray said on Tuesday [3/27/2018] that he is doubling the number of FBI staff to handle House Judiciary Chairman
Rep. Bob Goodlatte's records request related to the panel's inquiry into alleged bias at the Justice Department, as well
as the investigation into the handling of the Hillary Clinton private emails probe. "Up until today, we have dedicated
27 FBI staff to review the records that are potentially responsive to Chairman Goodlatte's requests. The actual number
of documents responsive to this request is likely in the thousands," Wray said in statement, revealing he is doubling the
number of staff to 54. "The staff will work two shifts per day from 8 a.m to midnight "to expedite completion of
this project," he said.
The
FBI Gets The Attention Of The AG And Courts Over Ignoring Subpoenas. Morale Possibly Ruined. Late last
week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte hit Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with a subpoena for
documents related to several investigations, such as the Clinton email investigation. What brought this on was
stonewalling of the committee's document requests by the FBI.
House
subpoena rattles Justice Department; Sessions 'angry' at slow response. The FBI is promising swift action on a
House subpoena covering three politically charged investigations after word that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has grown
angry with the bureau's slow-walking of congressional requests for information. Last week the House Judiciary Committee
sent a subpoena to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein demanding documents from the Justice Department and the FBI
"regarding charging decisions in the investigation surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email
server, potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility
recommendation to fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe," according to a committee press release.
Was the FBI's Investigation
of Hillary Clinton a 'Sham'? This should be big news. In fact, this should have led the evening news on
Sunday night, and there should be some kind of media investigation of this planned today, but there wasn't, and there won't
be. The reason this story didn't lead the news yesterday, and that the media won't be investigating it today (or ever)
is because it doesn't fit the liberal narrative. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on the Fox News Channel Sunday
morning to continue his call for a second special counsel to investigate the FBI's behavior during the 2016 elections.
House
Judiciary Committee Subpoenas 1.2M Documents Reviewed by DOJ IG. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee, has run out of patience with the U.S. Justice Department and is now subpoenaing 1.2 million
DOJ documents, including decisions made by former FBI Director James Comey not to prosecute former Secretary of State Clinton
and other matters leading up to and beyond the 2016 election. The DOJ inspector-general also is investigating the FBI's
handling of the Clinton case. "Well, we want to see everything that the inspector general has seen, which is, we understand,
about 1.2 million documents," Goodlatte told Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Monday. He said the documents are critical to
his committee's oversight of the FBI and DOJ.
Judge
Nap on Push for Clinton Email Probe Records: 'The Excuse for Her Exoneration Is Not Credible'. Judge Andrew
Napolitano said it's "very unusual" that the Justice Department has been slow to release documents related to how the FBI
handled its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
on Sunday said he is prepared to subpoena the DOJ to obtain more than one million missing documents related to the
case. "It's very unusual that a Republican Department of Justice is resisting the efforts of a Republican House of
Representatives judiciary committee to find out what happened when the Democrats ran the Department of Justice," Napolitano
said on "Fox & Friends First."
DOJ:
Inspector General Examining Whether McCabe Was Promised Promotion to FBI Director by Hillary Clinton. Andrew McCabe may have
revealed to his inner circle an inside plan to replace his friend James Comey as FBI director if and when Hillary Clinton was elected president
of the United States, according to top officials in the Justice Department. [...] If those discussions about a promotion to FBI director with
co-workers and McCabe's inner circle were anything more than bravado, that certainly is troubling. And given the fact that McCabe's wife
Jill was given more than $1.25 million in Hillary-backed campaign donations to run for state senate in Virginia, it could spell additional
legal woes for her husband. McCabe was in charge of the Hillary Clinton email investigation at the FBI at the same time his wife ran for
office. At the same time he and his wife struck a deal to run for office with Hillary consigliere and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe,
who was allegedly under investigation at the time by the FBI for a public corruption case.
Rod
Rosenstein's Wife Represented Bill Clinton Shortly After Rod Cleared Hillary As A Prosecutor. Deputy attorney
general Rod Rosenstein's wife Lisa Barsoomian represented then-President Bill Clinton in a 1998-99 civil case in federal
court. Rod Rosenstein worked as a Whitewater prosecutor. In this role, he was in charge of the "FBI Travel
Office" case, in which it was found that the Clinton White House illegally seized FBI files from White House travel office
employees, including the Clintons' travel director. Rosenstein interrogated Hillary Clinton on January 14, 1998, and
was seen as responsible for clearing her of potential charges in the case. By that time, Rosenstein had already been
picked to work for the U.S. Attorney's office in Maryland in the Clinton administration. When he applied to the Senate
to become deputy attorney general, he falsely stated the dates he worked for Starr's team, saying he ended his employment
with Starr in 1997 (before his friendly 15-minute interrogation of Hillary Clinton).
Rod
Rosenstein Submitted False Documents To Senate Concerning His Interrogation of Hillary Clinton. Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein gave a resume to the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation to be Deputy Attorney
General. In that resume, provided under oath, he falsely stated the dates at which he worked for Ken Starr's
investigative legal team. Rosenstein testified to the Senate that he worked on Starr's team beginning in 1995 and
ending in 1997. Rosenstein said that he began working at the U.S. Attorney's office in Maryland for the Clinton
administration in the year 1997. However, records show that Rosenstein interviewed Hillary Clinton for Ken Starr in the
Whitewater case on January 14, 1998. Rosenstein's official interview with Hillary Clinton lasted fifteen minutes and
cleared her of charges stemming from the seizing of FBI documents on the former Clinton White House travel director.
Pardoned
Sailor Kristian Saucier Says Obama DOJ Used Him As A Hillary 'Scapegoat'. Kristian Saucier, the U.S. Navy sailor
pardoned by President Trump Friday [3/9/2018], harshly criticized the Obama administration during a Saturday morning interview
with Fox News' Pete Hegseth. Saucier was charged and jailed in October 2016 for taking photos onboard a nuclear submarine
in 2009. He believes his case was an attempt by the Obama administration to "take the heat" off of the investigation into
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server at the State Department.
DiGenova:
Strzok, Clapper Ignored Possible Hack of Hillary's Server 'With Consent of Obama'. Former U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia Joe diGenova said Tuesday that key Obama administration officials ignored reports of a possible breach
of Hillary Clinton's private email server in order to protect the 2016 presidential candidate. DiGenova said that not
only did FBI Agent Peter Strzok and then-Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper ignore the possible hack, but that
they did so "with the consent of the president (Obama)." Tucker Carlson said technicians found discrepancies in metadata
contained in the email server, which may indicate it was hacked or tampered with.
FBI
agent Peter Strzok was told of possible breach into Clinton's server but didn't follow up, sources say. During
the final months of the Clinton email investigation, FBI agent Peter Strzok was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of
Hillary Clinton's server that suggested a possible breach, but there was no significant follow up, according to two sources
with knowledge of the matter. Sources told Fox News that Strzok, who sent anti-Trump text messages that got him removed
from the ongoing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, was told about the metadata anomaly in 2016, but Strzok did
not support a formal damage assessment.
FBI
Interviewed Huma Abedin About Clinton Emails Even After Investigation Was Closed. FBI agents interviewed
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in December 2016, more than a month after the official close of the Clinton email probe and
much more recently than previously believed. The Washington Post reports that agents were interested in how Abedin and
Clinton emails wound up on a laptop used by Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner. The FBI discovered Abedin and Clinton
emails on the laptop while conducting an investigation into Weiner's contact with an underaged girl in September 2016. The
Clinton email probe, which had been closed in July 2016, was reopened on Oct. 28. It was closed again on Nov. 6,
two days before the election, after FBI officials determined that none of the emails on the laptop would warrant criminal charges.
Senator
seeks answers on why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case. A Republican senator is pressing
for answers on why the FBI waited weeks to act after the 2016 discovery of thousands of emails on ex-Rep. Anthony
Weiner's laptop that potentially were relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Senate Homeland Security
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking about
the timeline, citing texts between two key FBI investigators. The messages, first reported by The Wall Street Journal
in late January, indicate that top bureau officials were aware of the discovery of thousands of emails from Weiner well
before the FBI sought a search warrant in late October, and effectively revived the Clinton probe right before the election.
Here's
a Guy Who Might Know How the FBI Clinton Email Probe Was Sabotaged. FBI veteran John Giacalone served as
executive assistant director of the FBI from June 2014 through February 2016, working from the Washington, D.C.,
headquarters. His Linkedin profile indicates that during this period he "manage[d] the strategic risks
associated with the FBI's counterterrorism, counterintelligence and weapons of mass destruction programs in close
coordination with domestic and international partners." Giacalone was also centrally involved in the FBI
investigation into Clinton's mishandling of classified information — a serious felony crime — and he
resigned suddenly, for reasons not yet fully understood. Evidence now tumbling into the public domain suggests
Giacalone may have exhausted his tolerance for a rigged inquiry late in January 2016.
FBI,
Hillary scandals could have a ripple effect on Wall Street. Again, if you are investing in US financial
markets, keep a close eye on developments regarding the FBI and the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. The markets
don't like chaos, and that's what we are headed for. There have been a lot of major developments recently, although
most big media organizations are ignoring them. They will soon regret that.
FBI Missed Clinton
Emails Openly Marked Classified, Wanted To Conclude Probe Before IG Caught Mistake. The FBI didn't notice that
some emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server were marked classified with a "(C)" when they were sent —
something that seemingly would have been one of the first and most obvious checks in an investigation, and one that FBI
agents instantly recognized put the facts at odds with Clinton's public statements. The Intelligence Community
Inspector General spotted it after the FBI missed it, texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa
Page, reveal. "Holy cow," Strzok wrote, "if the FBI missed this, what else was missed?"
IG
poised to reignite war over FBI's Clinton case. Few people have heard of Michael Horowitz, but that's about to
change. Horowitz, the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general, is an increasingly critical player in the
controversy surrounding the FBI, President Trump and the Russia investigation. With little fanfare, he has been
conducting a sprawling probe of the FBI's handling of the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server. His full report, which could set off shockwaves, is expected by the early spring. A political appointee
in both the Bush and Obama administrations, Horowitz's yearlong investigation already reportedly contributed to the early
resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. And his work has been felt in other ways.
Comey Wasn't Snookered,
He Knew Russian Doc Was Fake, But Used It As Excuse Anyway. Earlier this week we reported that because
the FBI received a secret Russian document describing an email indicating that the Justice Dept. would not try to hard to win
the case against Hillary Clinton, then-FBI director Comey was snookered into making his speech that Ms. Clinton was
probably guilty but no prosecutor would press charges against her. The Washington Post had reported the document
was not only unreliable but possibly a Russian ruse "according to people familiar with its contents." Now CNN reports that
Comey wasn't snookered, he knew the document was fake BEFORE he made the speech letting HRC off the hook. He snookered
the FBI, the Justice Dept., and congress by using it as an excuse for making the speech.
Other
Secrets of the FBI. It is a crime to make even an unsworn false statement to the FBI under 18 USC §1001,
the False Statement Act. Oaths are not necessary under this act. Moreover, oaths are not administered by FBI agents.
It is doubtful that they even could be. Thus, Mrs. Clinton remains liable under the False Statement Act for any false
statements made to the FBI — and not only to the FBI, inasmuch as the statute actually covers statements made to other
agencies as well. For instance, Mrs. Clinton stated to the Inspector General of the State Department that she turned
all her government emails over to the Department of State. Yet the FBI found she did not turn over 17,000 of them.
The Center
of the Web. The conduct of Lynch, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, and others did not occur in a vacuum.
There was a purpose and direction to it. The first question is, who benefits? The answer is, Hillary and Obama.
[...] This is the worst political scandal in our history. The president and presidential candidate of the Democratic
Party used the FBI and DOJ to help Hillary and attack Trump. Comey, Strzok, McCabe, Lynch, and others are the
"buffers," assisted by much of the media, protecting Obama and Hillary. The Democrats and their media friends have
circled the wagons.
Clinton-Obama
Emails: The Key to Understanding Why Hillary Wasn't Indicted. From the first, these columns have argued
that the whitewash of the Hillary Clinton-emails caper was President Barack Obama's call — not the FBI's, and not
the Justice Department's. The decision was inevitable. Obama, using a pseudonymous email account, had repeatedly
communicated with Secretary Clinton over her private, non-secure email account. These emails must have involved some
classified information, given the nature of consultations between presidents and secretaries of state, the broad outlines of
Obama's own executive order defining classified intelligence (see EO 13526, section 1.4), and the fact that the
Obama administration adamantly refused to disclose the Clinton-Obama emails. If classified information was mishandled,
it was necessarily mishandled on both ends of these email exchanges.
Texts
surface; FBI officials worried abt being too tough on Hillary during email investigation. After reports
surfaced earlier this week that five months of text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page disappeared and several
difference excuses later as to how it could have occurred, the DOJ's Inspector General reported earlier today that the text
messages are in the process of being recovered. The result, additional text messages from October 2016 revealed that
former FBI Director, James Comey thought that Andrew McCabe should recuse himself from the Clinton investigation... for
starters. Talk about a can of worms. In the meantime, Progressives are becoming more bitter and hateful by the
hour, a true sign of their desperation.
Grassley
Releases Strzok-Page Texts Showing FBI Was 'Pulling Punches' In Clinton Probe. A text message exchange between
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page is evidence that the FBI was "pulling punches" in its investigation into Hillary Clinton, a top
Republican senator is alleging. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, drew attention to a Feb. 25, 2016 text message exchanged between Strzok
and Page. The message was included in seven pages of messages that Grassley released on Thursday. The Justice
Department recently provided six congressional committees with 384 pages of text messages between the pair.
Andrew
McCarthy Discusses Why Clinton Email Scandal Was Protected By President Obama Communication. W.H. "Bill"
Priestap is the FBI Head of Counterintelligence. Priestap was one of the first FBI officials who caught our attention
(spring of 2017) because FBI Director James Comey mysteriously pointed a finger upon him during testimony to congress on
March 20th, 2017 [Although Comey didn't use Bill Priestap's name, only his position]. James Comey said last year
the reason the FBI did not inform congress of the ongoing eight month counterintelligence investigation (required by
congressional intelligence oversight), which began in July 2016 into candidate Donald Trump, was because Bill Priestap
specifically told Director Comey not to inform congress or intelligence oversight.
The
Clinton investigation revisited. Since early on in the phony baloney Clinton email investigation, Andrew
McCarthy has insisted that Madam Hillary was never to be charged. The rationale is overdetermined, but she would never
be charged in part because President Obama was himself implicated in her misconduct. McCarthy noted that Obama, using a
pseudonymous email account, had repeatedly communicated with Clinton over her own non-secure email account. Today
[1/24/2018] McCarthy draws on the latest tranche of Strzok/Page text messages released by Senator Johnson yesterday to
revisit and reiterate this basic point.
New
Documents Reveal More Instances of Classified Information on Hillary Clinton's Unsecure, Non-'State.gov' System.
Judicial Watch today [1/19/2018] released 78 pages of new documents from the U.S. Department of State containing emails of
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent and received over her unsecure, non-"state.gov" email system. Three of the
email exchanges include classified information. The emails also reveal that Clinton had detailed knowledge about the
security issues with in her non-State Department email system.
GOP
House investigators want James Comey to testify on Clinton email investigation. House Republicans are preparing
to ask former FBI Director James Comey to testify as part of the Republican-led probe into the FBI and Justice Department
handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Comey's testimony, if he appeared, would raise the stakes of the
joint Judiciary and Oversight Committee investigation into the decision not to charge the 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee over classified emails on her private server — and the rare step for Comey to publicly announce Clinton would not
be charged — as the probe has become a proxy battle on Capitol Hill between Democrats and Republicans over special counsel
Robert Mueller's investigation. Several Republicans told CNN that Comey is a key witness for the investigation,
although it's not clear how soon he would be asked to testify.
The FBI Takes a Mulligan.
Last week the FBI announced that it was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private unsecured email
system while she was secretary of state and separately reviving the investigation into possibly illegal actions by her and
her staff related to donations to the Clinton Foundation in those same years. It's no wonder that the FBI wants to
"take a Mulligan" on both. The FBI's — meaning then-FBI director James Comey's — bizarre
exoneration of Clinton in the former and the Bureau's burial of the latter investigation have done more damage to the FBI's
reputation than any other incidents in its history. A Justice Department Inspector General investigation into the
Clinton email mess will soon highlight the ugly facts. That is probably the reason for the revivals.
The
FBI's Dubious Probe of Hillary's Emails. The FBI did everything but drive Hillary's getaway car. Former
secretary of state Clinton is a free woman largely thanks to the tender loving care that the FBI provided her and her
conspirators during its probe of her illegal, unsecure email server and related abuse of government secrets. GOP
lawmakers concluded this after grilling FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on December 21, behind closed doors, according to
John Solomon's molar-grinding exposé in Tuesday's [1/2/2018] The Hill. "For the first time, investigators
say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken," Solomon reported.
This proof includes what Solomon calls revelations of "irregularities and contradictions" in the FBI's inquiry.
Congressional
investigators find irregularities in FBI's handling of Clinton email case. That evidence includes passages in
FBI documents stating the "sheer volume" of classified information that flowed through Clinton's insecure emails was proof of
criminality as well as an admission of false statements by one key witness in the case, the investigators said. The
name of the witness is redacted from the FBI documents but lawmakers said he was an employee of a computer firm that helped
maintain her personal server after she left office as America's top diplomat and who belatedly admitted he had permanently
erased an archive of her messages in 2015 after they had been subpoenaed by Congress. The investigators also confirmed
that the FBI began drafting a statement exonerating Clinton of any crimes while evidence responsive to subpoenas was still
outstanding and before agents had interviewed more than a dozen key witnesses.
Now
We Know: FBI Ignored Lawbreaking To Exonerate Hillary Clinton. Each new revelation about how the FBI
handled — or, more appropriately, mishandled — the Clinton email scandal makes it that much clearer
that politics trumped law enforcement, even when it involved matters of national security.
New
Evidence Found That FBI Investigators Believed "Laws Were Broken" by Hillary Clinton. In what could be a major
black eye for the deep state and yet another nail in the Clinton legacy coffin, The Hill's John Solomon reports that
Republicans on key congressional committees say they have uncovered new irregularities and contradictions inside the FBI's
probe of Hillary Clinton's email server.
Now
We Know: FBI Ignored Lawbreaking To Exonerate Hillary Clinton. Each new revelation about how the FBI
handled — or, more appropriately, mishandled — the Clinton email scandal makes it that much clearer
that politics trumped law enforcement, even when it involved matters of national security. The Hill's John Solomon
reported on Wednesday [1/3/2018] that congressional investigators have turned up evidence that the FBI believed laws had been
broken when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides exchanged a multitude of classified information via
email over Clinton's unsecured, home-brew server.
DOJ prepares
new probe of Clinton's email server. The Trump administration is launching another probe into Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, a new report said Thursday. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions hopes to uncover new details on how Clinton and her aides handled classified material, The Daily Beast reported,
citing a source close to the former Alabama senator. The new probe was prompted by President Trump's repeated calls on
Twitter and elsewhere for another FBI investigation into "Crooked Hillary," the source said.
Justice
Department reopens Hillary Clinton email investigation. The Department of Justice has caved to pressure from
the White House and is reportedly reopening the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server. According to the Daily Beast, there is a new effort in the department to get new details on how
Clinton and her aides — including former top aide Huma Abedin — handled classified material. The
effort will look at how much classified information was on her private email server, and how that information got
there. President Trump has continually questioned if and when the Justice Department would reopen its investigation
into Clinton.
Congressional
investigators find irregularities in FBI's handling of Clinton email case. Republicans on key congressional
committees say they have uncovered new irregularities and contradictions inside the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's email
server. For the first time, investigators say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was
evidence that some laws were broken when the former secretary of State and her top aides transmitted classified information
through her insecure private email server, lawmakers and investigators told The Hill. That evidence includes passages
in FBI documents stating the "sheer volume" of classified information that flowed through Clinton's insecure emails was proof
of criminality as well as an admission of false statements by one key witness in the case, the investigators said.
Republicans
claim to have found written evidence that proves the FBI found 'criminality' during the probe of Hillary Clinton's email
server. Republicans have reportedly found written evidence that proves the FBI found 'criminality' during the
agency's 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton's email server. A new report by The Hill claims Republicans on key congressional
committees have secured written documentation that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken when
Clinton and her top aides sent classified information through her private email server. The evidence reportedly
includes FBI documents stating the 'sheer volume' of classified information that was transmitted through Clinton's insecure
server was proof of criminality.
Jail
Hillary and Huma, Not Kristian Saucier. Most Americans are not familiar with the name of Kristian Saucier, but they should
be. He is the U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to prison for taking pictures inside the nuclear submarine he served in. He was not
a spy for a foreign power. He had no intent, to coin a phrase, to do anything with these photos except keep them as personal memories
of his proud and honorable service. [...] No doubt Saucier watched with bitterly ironic interest as the email scandals involving former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin unfolded with tales of private servers, mishandled classified emails, smashed devices,
and scrubbed hard drives. After all that, despite laying out a case for Hillary's indictment and incarceration, FBI director James Comey,
who was writing her exoneration memo before even conducting a sham of an investigation, said no prosecutor worth his salt would bring a case
because Hillary lacked "intent" even though the law regarding mishandling of classified information does not require intent.
FBI
Knew The 'Bleach Bit' Computer Guy Lied In Clinton Email Testimony, Gave Him Immunity. The Hill published a
story today based on leaks from a recent House Judiciary Committee meeting where FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe discussed
elements of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Republicans on the committee say McCabe outlined some
irregularities that suggest the outcome of the investigation was rigged in Clinton's favor. Among the new findings is
that an unnamed tech specialist who used Bleach Bit to wipe Clinton's server after a congressional subpoena was issued
admitted lying to the FBI.
Time
to Give Clinton's Server Technician the Mueller Treatment. New Year's Eve gets people thinking about
resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of
limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta — the Platte River Networks technician
who used the "BleachBit" program to destroy thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails when they were under congressional subpoena
and preservation orders. It is not just the tick-tock of the criminal clock that has me thinking about Combetta —
about how much longer his obstructive destruction of government files in March 2015 could still be subject to investigation and
prosecution. The statute of limitations is five years. Time's a-wastin', but there could still be a live case for
a while. The other reason Combetta leaps to the front of the mind is ... Robert Mueller.
Revenge Of The Email
Server. There is more than a little irony in the criticism special counsel Robert Mueller's office is taking
over how it came into possession of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team. After all, the route to
Mueller's appointment began with Hillary Clinton's misbegotten decisions to house her own emails as secretary of state on a
private server, and then to obliterate some 30,000 that she and her lawyers deemed "personal" before turning over the balance
to their rightful owner, the U.S. government. A series of hacks, blamed by U.S. intelligence on Russian operatives,
targeted various Democratic officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, and at one point Trump himself seemingly
encouraged hackers from Russia (or anywhere else) to retrieve and disclose those 30,000 missing emails if they could.
It never happened, but there were enough other embarrassing disclosures to prompt Democratic accusations of collusion between
the Trump campaign and the Russians, which ultimately led to Mueller's appointment.
The
quiet probe into Clinton email investigation could be a landmine for Robert Mueller. In early January, news
that the Justice Department's inspector general launched an investigation into the government's disputed handling of the
Hillary Clinton email inquiry was quickly overtaken by the chaotic run-up to President Trump's inauguration. Nearly a
year later, Inspector General Michael Horowitz's wide-ranging review of the FBI and Justice's work in the politically-charged
Clinton case now looms as a potential landmine for Russia special counsel Robert Mueller. For months, Horowitz's
investigation — which has amassed interviews with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director James
Comey and other key officials — had been grinding on in near anonymity. That is, until earlier this month
when the inspector general acknowledged that Mueller was alerted to a cache of text messages exchanged between two FBI
officials on his staff that disparaged Trump.
Facing
Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year. Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy
director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes
fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter. McCabe spent hours in Congress this
past week, facing questions behind closed doors from members of three committees. Republicans said they were
dissatisfied with his answers; Democrats called it a partisan hounding. McCabe, 49, holds a unique position in the
political firestorm surrounding the FBI. He was former director James B. Comey's right-hand man, a position that
involved him in most of the FBI's actions that vex President Trump and in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server while secretary of state, a matter that still riles Democrats.
The
Scheme to Exonerate Hillary Clinton Blows Wide Open: Comey, McCabe and Strzok Implicated. The Senate
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has discovered that edits made to former FBI Director James Comey's
statement exonerating Hillary Clinton for transmitting classified info over an unsecured, private email server went far
beyond what was previously known, as detailed in a Thursday letter from committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to
FBI Director Christopher Wray. The letter reveals specific edits made by senior FBI agents when Deputy Director Andr ew
McCabe exchanged drafts of Comey's statement with senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, Strzok's direct supervisor,
E.W. "Bill" Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an unnamed employee from the Office of General Counsel (identified by Newsweek as
DOJ Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson) — in what was a coordinated conspiracy among top FBI brass to decriminalize
Clinton's conduct by changing legal terms and phrases, omitting key information, and minimizing the role of the Intelligence
Community in the email investigation. Doing so virtually guaranteed one thing: That then-Democrat candidate Hillary
Clinton would not be prosecuted for her criminal actions.
Yes,
Investigate the Investigators. Everything that has happened in the Trump probe stands out against a backdrop of
leniency in the Clinton investigation. While Mueller has prosecuted two Trump associates for lying to the FBI, the Obama
Justice Department gave a pass to Mrs. Clinton and her subordinates, who gave the FBI misinformation about such key matters
as whether Clinton understood markings in classified documents and whether her aides knew about her homebrew server system during
their State Department service. Mueller's team conducted a predawn raid at gunpoint in executing a search warrant on Paul
Manafort's home while Manafort was cooperating with congressional committees. When it came to the Clinton case, though, the
Justice Department not only eschewed search warrants, or even mere subpoenas, but they never even took possession of the DNC
server alleged to have been hacked by Russian operatives. The irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are
breathtaking: the failure to use the grand jury to compel the production of key physical evidence; the Justice Department's
collaboration with defense lawyers to restrict the FBI's ability to pursue obvious lines of inquiry and examine digital evidence;
immunity grants to suspects who should have been charged with crimes and pressured to cooperate; allowing subjects of the
investigation to be present for each other's FBI interviews and even to act as lawyers for Clinton, in violation of legal
and ethical rules; Comey's preparation of a statement exonerating Clinton months before the investigation was complete and key
witnesses — including Clinton herself — were interviewed; and the shameful tarmac meeting between Obama
attorney general Loretta Lynch and Mrs. Clinton's husband just days before Mrs. Clinton sat for a perfunctory FBI
interview (after which Comey announced the decision not to charge her).
Mueller's
'Right-Hand Man' on Russia Probe Represented Clinton IT Aide Who Set Up Unsecure Server. Yet another key member
of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe appears to have deep ties to the Democratic Party. Aaron Zebley served
previously as Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI and as a senior counselor in the National Security Division at the Department
of Justice. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the National Security and Terrorism Unit in Alexandria,
Virginia. He is often referred to in the media as Mueller's "right-hand man." Also, in 2015 when he was a lawyer,
he represented Justin Cooper, the IT staffer who personally set up Hillary Clinton's unsecure server in her Chappaqua home,
Fox News' Tucker Carlson revealed on his show Thursday [12/7/2017].
New
documents reveal FBI's Clinton cover-up. In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story. We
know, for example, that former President Clinton engineered a meeting with President Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch,
on the tarmac of the Phoenix Airport on June 27, 2016. That's the official story, replete with the charming and
intentionally disarming detail that all they talked about was their grandchildren. It was just coincidental, don't you
know, that at the time the FBI was looking into Hillary Clinton's use of a "personal" email server to send, receive and store
classified information. And it was also simply coincidental that just a few days later, the director of the FBI —
who served under Attorney General Lynch — announced that he wouldn't recommend a prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
Obama
IG guy flags 'strategic coordination' of State, Clinton on emails. Here's something you don't hear every
day — but an inspector general who was actually appointed by Barack Obama told Tucker Carlson of Fox News that
there was "strategic coordination" taking place among the State Department, Campaign Team Hillary Clinton, certain key legal
minds and politicos on Capitol Hill, regarding the behind-scenes talk of The Emails. Yes, those emails — the
ones that were marked classified and top secret and that were found on Clinton's private and unsecured email system.
Intelligence
Community Chief Inspector General Outlines Politicization of Clinton Email Investigation. Inspector General
Charles McCullough III was the top of the IG office in direct oversight of 17 intelligence agencies including Treasury and
FBI. In his position Mr. McCullough was directly responsible for oversight of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation from the position of reviewing any potential risk to the entire intelligence community. McCullough's
direct boss was the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), James Clapper. McCullough informed Clapper
of the "above top secret' content of Hillary Clinton's emails. However, soon after sharing that information McCullough
received instructions to stop briefing James Clapper. Continued briefing would remove the necessary 'plausible deniability'
Clapper, James Comey (FBI) and John Brennan (CIA) would later use to defend their actions in the investigation.
'Blowback':
Clinton campaign planned to fire me over email probe, Obama intel watchdog says. A government watchdog who
played a central role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation during the Obama administration told Fox News that he, his
family and his staffers faced an intense backlash at the time from Clinton allies — and that the campaign even put
out word that it planned to fire him if the Democratic presidential nominee won the 2016 election.
House
Conservatives Call for Full Review of DOJ Handling of Clinton Email Probe. If House conservatives get their
way, Congress will soon be investigating whether the Justice Department gave 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton special treatment during its investigation into her improper use of an unsecure email server while secretary of
state. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" Friday that he and his colleagues
(presumably from the House Conservative Caucus) are calling for "a full review by the Judiciary Committee of the processes
and procedures that potentially gave Hillary Clinton a different process and a different standard of justice than would be applied
to any other American." Gaetz said that the evidence now shows that the FBI gave the Clinton email probe "special status."
New
Classified Clinton Emails. While there are now belated rumbles in Washington about a Department of Justice
investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices, we continue to steadily discover for you and the American people the
nature of the corruption going on behind the scenes at her State Department. This week we released 109 pages of Hillary
Clinton emails from her tenure as secretary of state. The documents include two email exchanges classified confidential
and a 2011 exchange with Sid Blumenthal about "serious trouble for the Libyan rebels." The newly produced emails were part
of 72,000 pages of documents the FBI recovered last year in its investigation into Clinton's use of an unsecure, non-government
email system. The records include emails Hillary Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. These
emails are also available on the State Department's website.
The
Trump Collusion Case Is Not Getting the Clinton Emails Treatment. [Scroll down] Lest we forget, President Obama had endorsed
Mrs. Clinton, his former secretary of state and his party's nominee, to be president. Moreover, Obama had knowingly
participated in the conduct for which Clinton was under investigation — using a pseudonym in communicating with her about
classified government business over an unsecure private communication system. Obama prejudiced the emails investigation.
Long before it was formally ended, he publicly pronounced Clinton innocent.
Federal
judge tosses suit, says FBI did all it could on Clinton emails. A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday [11/9/2017] that
would have pushed the State Department and FBI to do more to try to track down Hillary Clinton's emails, ruling the government has done
all it reasonably could to locate the former secretary of state's messages. Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action,
had sued in 2015 demanding the government recover all of Mrs. Clinton's emails, saying she violated open-records laws by not preserving
her messages. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, though, said the FBI did what it could, and did manage to recover thousands
of messages Mrs. Clinton didn't return herself. "Those efforts went well beyond the mine-run search for missing federal records
... and were largely successful, save for some emails sent during a two-month stretch. Even then, the FBI pursued every imaginable
avenue to recover the missing emails," wrote Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the court.
House
to investigate Justice Department's handling of Hillary Clinton email scandal. A pair of senior House
Republicans have opened a joint investigation into the Justice Department's handling of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation, the lawmakers announced Tuesday [10/24/2017]. The probe will be conducted by two congressional panels
responsible for overseeing the Justice Department and government operations in general. The investigators will review
then-FBI Director James Comey's various decisions pertaining to the Clinton investigation, such as his unusual announcement
that she should not face indictment.
Judicial
Watch Rips State Department for Not Releasing Clinton Emails. Hillary Clinton might be long gone from Foggy
Bottom, but a conservative watchdog group Monday accused the State Department of running interference for its former
secretary. Judicial Watch, which sued in 2015 for the release of emails related to the FBI's investigation into
Clinton's use of a private server, reacted Monday [10/23/2017] to the State Department's admission that it has yet to
process 40,000 of 72,000 pages of records that investigators reviewed as part of its probe.
State
Dept Admits There are 40,000 Pages of Clinton Emails They Haven't Even Looked At. So far, the State Department
has processed more than 32,000 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from
conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. At a recent court hearing, however, the Department acknowledged that this
isn't even half of the total number of records that they have to release. According to a press release from the
organization, the State Department admitted in federal court that they still have 40,000 pages of emails that they still
have to go through. "Secretary Tillerson should be asked why his State Department is still sitting on a motherlode
of Clinton emails," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "It is disheartening that an administration
elected to 'drain the swamp' is stalling the release of documents to protect Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration."
The State Department, for their part, said that they are dedicating additional resources to reviewing the documents, which
are stored on 7 FBI discs.
Trump
calls James Comey's investigation of Hillary Clinton 'obviously a fix'. Donald Trump suggested in tweets early
on Wednesday that former FBI director James Comey had decided to spare Hillary Clinton from prosecution "long before
investigation was complete" into her government email practices, calling the process "a fix". "FBI confirms report that
James Comey drafted letter exonerating Crooked Hillary Clinton long before investigation was complete," Trump tweeted, continuing,
"Many people not interviewed, including Clinton herself. Comey stated under oath that he didn't do this-obviously
a fix? Where is Justice Dept?" Trump was referring to documents released by the FBI on Monday which show that
Comey had composed a draft entitled: "Drafts of Director Comey's July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server
Investigation Part 01 of 01" about two months before the statement was actually made and before Clinton was interviewed.
Gowdy
wants Comey to testify again following Clinton email draft release. Following the FBI's release of documents
confirming that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a letter on the Hillary Clinton email investigation months
before completing several interviews, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. said Comey needs to testify before Congress again.
Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee, told Fox
News' Bret Baier on "Special Report" Tuesday night [10/17/2017] that "for a number of reasons" Comey should return to Capitol
Hill and the committees needed to further examine the FBI memos before he did.
Court
Will Review Clinton Emails over Objections of Tillerson State Department and Sessions Justice Department.
Judicial Watch announced today [9/28/2017] that a federal judge will personally review, in camera, redacted material from
emails discussing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of iPads and iPhones during her tenure at the State
Department. Judge Kollar-Kotelly also ordered the State Department to file an affidavit addressing why it should not
have to search new Clinton emails recovered. In taking these steps, the court rejected arguments by the Tillerson State
Department and its lawyers at the Sessions Justice Department. The court will review the blacked-out information so as
to better ascertain whether the government misconduct exception would require the release of the full emails.
Here's
more evidence Team Hillary tried to destroy. Something Else Happened the week of Hillary Clinton's book launch:
the release of more "lost" e-mails that further highlight her corrupt ways. The watchdogs at Judicial Watch shared
1,600 fresh e-mails released thanks to their Freedom of Information lawsuits — missives that Clinton & Co. failed
to turn over from her private servers, but which the feds recovered from other sources. The e-mails contain new
examples of the Clinton Foundation requesting and receiving State Department favors, plus more cases of classified
information being sent through unsecure, non-state.gov accounts. This latest dump, notes Judicial Watch President Tom
Fitton, shows foundation honcho Doug Band working with Clinton aide Huma Abedin to get favors for donors, from visas to Cuba
to meetings in Singapore.
The
Deep State Wraps Its Protective Cocoon Around Hillary Clinton. The Department of Justice still has a lot of
Clinton people in there, and they're in there for this exact reason. These people, they go to Ivy League schools or
wherever, and they are trained and this is their purpose. They grow up, they are raised — and then they are
educated — to become part of government, to advance a particular political point of view. And that's what
they do, and they don't think twice about it. And it would be impossible to root all of them out, in this amount of
time, if it were even an objective, and I don't think that it is. But a great example what you're talking about is
somebody went to the FBI — it might have been Judicial Watch or some special interest group — and made
a Freedom of Information Act request for more Hillary Clinton emails. And the FBI said, "Nah, we don't think anybody
cares. "There's not a valid public interest, so we're not gonna make them available." Not a valid public
interest? She had an illegal server. She almost could have been charged with felonious criminal behavior
in this, and they're saying there's not a big public interest?
'Pay-to-play'
at Clinton State Department exposed in new emails, watchdog says. Newly disclosed emails expose fresh examples
of "pay to play" at the Clinton State Department, a conservative watchdog group said Thursday [9/14/2017]. The emails,
from Clinton aide Huma Abedin's account, were among 1,600 documents turned over by the State Department in connection with
Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Judicial Watch said the documents reveal Clinton Foundation
friends requesting and receiving favors from the State Department. "The emails show 'what happened' was that Hillary
Clinton and Huma Abedin obviously violated laws about the handling of classified information and turned the State Department
into a pay for play tool for the corrupt Clinton Foundation," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, in a swipe at
Clinton's newly released campaign memoir "What Happened."
New
Hillary Emails Warrant Special Prosecutor. New emails unearthed by Judicial Watch confirm that the Clinton
Foundation was in fact a pay-to-play influence peddling operation far more worthy of a special prosecutor than imaginary
Russians colluding under Trump Administration beds. It is time for President Trump to keep the promise he made in the
presidential debate to indict Hillary Clinton for her crimes. [...] Clinton played a pivotal role in the Uranium One deal
which ended up giving Russian interests control of 20 percent of our uranium supply in exchange for donations of
$145 million to the Clinton Foundation. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a federal crime.
Hillary
Clinton Admits She Emailed Over 100 Government Employees from Private Server. Hillary Clinton admitted in her
latest memoir released Tuesday that she emailed more than one hundred government employees from her private email server,
including correspondence with White House officials. Clinton further wrote that she received assistance from the
Information Technology (IT) department of the State Department when it came to using her infamous Blackberry device.
Clinton was offering the information in defense of her illicit email setup, arguing that she made no attempt to keep her
private email server a secret.
New
Clinton Emails Uncovered, Reveal Additional Mishandling of Classified Information. Judicial Watch today
[9/14/2017] released 1,617 new pages of documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing numerous additional examples of
classified information being transmitted through the unsecure, non-state.gov account of Huma Abedin, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff, as well as many instances of Hillary Clinton donors receiving special favors
from the State Department. The documents included 97 email exchanges with Clinton not previously turned over to the
State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 627 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of
emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, "as far as she knew,"
all of her government emails had been turned over to department.
Trump
prods State Department to stop delaying release of Clinton emails. The White House has been privately urging
the State Department to speed up its protracted process for releasing Hillary Clinton's still-undisclosed emails. [...] The
pressure from the White House may be working. On Thursday, the State Department released a batch of Clinton-related
emails that show how she honored requests from Clinton Foundation and campaign donors to pull some strings. The
department turned over to Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, 1,617 pages of documents, including
97 email exchanges not previously disclosed.
Investigation
into Clinton lawyers accused of deleting emails is ordered. A Maryland county judge has ordered the state bar to investigate
three lawyers accused of deleting thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails. Circuit Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. ruled Monday [9/11/2017]
that the Attorney Grievance Commission and Office of Bar Counsel Maryland Office of Bar Counsel must look into complaints against Cheryl Mills,
Heather Samuelson and David E. Kendall, citing "allegations of destroying evidence," according to the Washington Times. The ruling
came after Ty Clevenger, an attorney in New York City, filed the complaint. He recently was denied files from the FBI related to Clinton's
email investigation, due to what the bureau called a lack of public interest.
FINALLY:
Judge Orders Probe Into Hillary Clinton Lawyers Over Destroyed Emails. A Circuit Court judge in Maryland has
ordered the state bar to open investigations into three lawyers who allegedly deleted thousands of Hillary Clinton's
emails. Overruling lawyers representing the state, Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr.
said the complaints lodged against top Clinton lawyers David E. Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson could not
be dismissed as frivolous. "There are allegations of destroying evidence," Judge Harris said at a hearing on Monday
[9/11/2017]. He said that investigations must be conducted if the allegations have merit.
Lawyer
Says FBI Covering 'Rear End' By Not Releasing Clinton Emails. Lawyer Ty Clevenger says the FBI is desperately
trying to cover its tracks by not releasing former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails. Clevenger spoke
with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Thursday night [9/7/2017] about his efforts to gain access through a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request. That request was denied and the lawyer said he originally wondered if former president Barack Obama
was still running the FBI. The FBI told him that his request "wasn't in the public interest." "They're saying the
public doesn't care," Clevenger added.
Time
For A Full-Scale Investigation — Maybe Even A Special Counsel — On Hillary, Obama, and
Comey. Last week, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released news that they'd found
evidence that in April and May 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey prepared a statement letting former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton off the hook for her alleged mistreatment of classified information. As the senators noted, "As of
early May 2016, the FBI had not yet interviewed Secretary Clinton. Moreover, it had yet to finish interviewing sixteen
other key witnesses, including Cheryl Mills, Bryan Pagliano, Heather Samuelson, Justin Cooper and John Bentel. These
individuals had intimate and personal knowledge relating to Secretary Clinton's non-government server, including helping her
build and administer the device." This is patently insane. It's particularly insane given the fact that Comey
posed for years as a by-the-book, no-nonsense advocate for the law. But the fact is that Comey knew that no matter what
happened, Attorney General Loretta Lynch would exonerate Hillary Clinton, and so he decided to take the heat off of Lynch and
President Obama by putting his reputation on the line on their behalf.
Comey
and Clinton: Rigged from the beginning. Newly disclosed evidence that then-FBI Director James Comey began
working on a statement to reject criminal charges against former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton months
before she and other key witnesses were interviewed by the FBI shows that President Trump was right to fire Comey. The
evidence proves that Trump and his supporters were correct to say throughout the presidential campaign that Washington
operates on a "rigged" crony system that serves the interests of the powerful and rewards corporate globalists to the
detriment of the American people. As evidence of the rigged system, voters sided with Trump during the campaign in
often citing Clinton's apparent immunity from consequences regarding her unsavory acts as secretary of state, especially her
hidden emails on a private server, as well as corrupt Clinton Foundation dealings.
Was
Obama Involved in Comey's Fix on Hillary's Emails? With the new revelation that fired FBI Director James Comey
began writing the draft of the Hillary Clinton investigation and the forthcoming exoneration before concluding the
investigation, it begs the question, "What did Obama know and when did he know it?" Follow me on this. In April,
Comey began drafting his statement finding Hillary committed no crimes. Seventeen witnesses had not even been
interviewed yet. That includes Hillary herself.
Release
Clinton email probe details, judge orders FBI. A federal judge has ordered the FBI to disclose more details on
how the agency handled Hillary Clinton's secret email account. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said court papers
that describe the grand jury subpoenas the FBI obtained to press for information from Clinton's internet service providers
can be made available to the public, the Washington Times reported. "After reviewing the document in camera, the court
concludes that it largely rehashes information already made public, thus obviating any need for secrecy," the judge said.
Two groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action Institute, have been pressing the government for more information about the
Clinton emails, and they say the ruling is a victory for transparency.
Federal
judge to FBI: Yeah, no, you have to release the Hillary e-mail documents. [Scroll down] I suspect that's
exactly how President Trump feels about it. We've seen since the day the president took office that the deep state
bureaucracies within the executive branch have an agenda to undermine and sabotage his leadership, and it's clear that the
FBI's established leadership has been looking to protect Hillary from the beginning of this matter. That includes James
Comey, by the way, who we now learn had made the decision to let Hillary skate months before the investigation was even concluded.
Judge
orders feds to release details of FBI's Clinton email probe. A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday [8/31/2017] to
disclose more details about how it handled its investigation into Hillary Clinton's secret email account. U.S. District Judge
James E. Boasberg said court papers describing the grand jury subpoenas the FBI obtained to compel information from Mrs. Clinton's
Internet service providers can be made public. In doing so, he overruled objections by the Trump administration that had insisted
making the information public would violate grand jury secrecy rules.
James
Comey started drafting statement exonerating Hillary Clinton before FBI interviewed her, aides. Former FBI
Director James Comey started to draft a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton in the bureau's investigation into her use of a
private email server before the FBI interviewed her or her key witnesses, the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday
[8/31/2017]. "Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that's no way to run an investigation. The FBI
should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy," Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a
letter to the FBI. The Judiciary Committee reviewed transcripts, which were heavily redacted, indicating Comey began
drafting the exoneration statement in April or May 2016, before the FBI interviewed up to 17 key witnesses, including
Clinton and some of her close aides.
Will
Justice Come For IRS Lawbreakers At Last? As reported by the Washington Examiner, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the
Washington, D.C., District Court last week revived legal attention to the scandal, telling the IRS it has to reveal the names
of IRS employees who targeted conservative, libertarian and Tea Party groups. But Walton didn't stop there. He
also gave the IRS until Oct. 16 to find all the records in IRS databases from May 2009 to March 2015 that are relevant to the
case and to explain just why these groups were targeted. All of this is the result of a suit against the IRS brought in
2013 by True the Vote and 38 other groups.
FBI
says lack of public interest in Hillary emails justifies withholding documents. Hillary Clinton's case isn't
interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI's files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an
open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury. Ty Clevenger has
been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal attorneys disbarred for their handling of her official emails during
her time as secretary of state. He's met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the
FBI's files has been shot down.
Comey
botched the Hillary Clinton email investigation. [Scroll down] Never, I repeat never, in my 25-year
career have I or any FBI agent known to me investigated a criminal case without the use of a federal grand jury, federal
grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, etc. Search warrants and/or subpoenas should have been executed at Clinton's
residences in Chappaqua and Washington and at Platte River Networks. In fact, Comey frequently cites his vast
experience. Well, I am certain that in every case with which he was involved (except this one, conveniently) he
employed the use of a federal grand jury and all of the authority that encompasses. Comey's parsing of words to
justify his cowardly decision was awkward and juvenile.
Clinton
email case far from closure as FBI hands over more classified documents to State. The Hillary Clinton email
fiasco isn't ending anytime soon, with State Department officials saying they have no idea when they will finish sorting
though and releasing the previously hidden messages. More classified documents that the former secretary of state
improperly handled keep coming to light. The Trump administration doesn't even know if it has hunted down every trace
of the emails that Mrs. Clinton — a former first lady, U.S. senator, top diplomat and Democratic presidential
nominee — sent from a secret email server stashed in her home. "At this time, we do not have an estimate for
completion of processing all of these documents," a State Department official told The Washington Times.
Federal
Judge Orders State Dept To Search Hillary Aides' Accounts For Benghazi Records. The search for State Department
emails regarding the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks received a boost this week when a federal judge ordered the agency to
search the government email accounts of several Hillary Clinton aides. Washington D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta,
an Obama appointee, ordered State to search the accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan, Clinton's top aides
at the State Department, in response to a lawsuit filed by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. Mehta said
that the State Department did not do enough to search for all emails it has on its computer systems regarding the Benghazi
attacks, which left four Americans dead.
A Plea Bargain for Hillary?
The Justice Department has reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material on her private
email system while she was secretary of state, and is considering offering her a plea bargain if she will agree to plead
guilty to charges of breaking the law, according to a Clinton attorney. The discussion of a plea bargain took place
late last month and was offered by a high-ranking Justice Department official to the Clinton lawyer.
Federal
Judge Orders State Department to Search for Clinton's Benghazi Emails. Nine months after Hillary Clinton was
defeated by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to make another
attempt in locating Clinton's missing emails about the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. [...] Judicial Watch, a conservative
watchdog group, said the State Department's initial search was not good enough because it didn't search the email accounts of
Clinton's top aides for relevant messages pertaining to Benghazi. Mehta, an appointee of former President Barack Obama,
agreed with Judicial Watch in a 10-page ruling.
Hillary's
deleted emails are still floating around somewhere. Hillary's e-mails pose several problems. The biggest
one is the fact that they are not "missing," even though everyone assumes they are. As I've written before, a very good
source says they are in the possession of American intelligence agencies. How? Spies spy on each other. So
the Russians stole Hillary's BlackBerry password a long time ago and were reading and copying her mail. But the US
National Security Agency was hacking the Russians while Hillary's e-mails were being taken. In fact, as I've written
before, those e-mails were offered to the FBI but then-Director James Comey turned them down. If Congress persists on
an investigation Hillary's e-mails are bound to show up.
Judge
reinvigorates bar grievance against Clinton lawyers. A Maryland judge has allowed a grievance to move forward
against Hillary Clinton's lawyers, saying the bar's refusal to investigate the lawyers seems to violate the state's policy.
Ty Clevenger, the lawyer who filed the grievance, called the decision last week by Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Ronald A.
Silkworth a surprise victory. It's the latest twist in the fallout from Mrs. Clinton's secret email server, which
she used during her time in the State Department.
Proliferating
Scandals Make Mueller Investigation Ludicrous. [Scandal #5] The Lynch Non-Mob: Our previous attorney
general has so much more to answer for than our current one — the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, insisting the
case of the massive Hillary email erasures was a "matter" and not an "investigation" when the alleged crimes would almost
certainly send a civilian to jail for life. This undoubtedly contributed to the bizarre behavior of James Comey and to
the fact that so much about this "matter" was never truly investigated, tarnishing the FBI's reputation perhaps forever.
A lot of Republicans think this was a big-time coverup and there's more evidence for that than there is for Trump-Russia
collusion, miles more. (Comic relief: Lanny Davis still insisting on Fox the other night that the 30,000
plus erased emails were about yoga lessons.)
The
State Department said there's less urgency to release Clinton's emails due to low interest. The State
Department argued at a federal hearing Thursday that its ability to process the 100,000 Hillary Clinton emails ordered
released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been hindered by a lack of manpower due to a "hiring freeze" and that
the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the
watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release. But Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that
sued the State Department in May 2015 for the thousands of emails and documents, isn't buying it.
What
campaign wouldn't seek motherlode of Clinton emails? The public learned on March 10, 2015 that Hillary Clinton
had more than 60,000 emails on her private email system, and that she had turned over "about half" of them to the State
Department and destroyed the rest, which she said were "personal" and "not in any way related" to her work as Secretary of
State. The public learned later the lengths to which Clinton went to make sure the "personal" emails were completely
and permanently deleted. Her team used a commercial-strength program called BleachBit to erase all traces of the
emails, and they used hammers to physically destroy mobile devices that might have had the emails on them. The person
who did the actual deleting later cited legal privileges and the Fifth Amendment to avoid talking to the FBI and Congress.
New
Information In A Bizarre Story About A Quest To Hunt Down Hillary Clinton's Deleted Emails. Earlier this month,
The Wall Street Journal broke the story that a longtime political operative named Peter Smith formed a team of researchers,
investigators, computer experts and attorneys to obtain 33,000 emails that Clinton deleted from the email server she used as
secretary of state. Smith hoped to show that Clinton's server had been hacked, an allegation she repeatedly denied
during the campaign. The Journal report was particularly intriguing because Smith, who died in May at the age of 81,
suggested to associates that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn may have been involved in the Clinton email hunt.
Hillary's
Emails, The Gift That Keeps On Giving. [Scroll down] Adding to the cloud of suspicion that surrounds
Lynch is the now infamous half-hour meeting she had with Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac, just days before Hillary was
scheduled to testify before the FBI. Lynch alleged that she merely discussed innocuous things like "grandchildren" and
"golf." Sure she did! [...] Lynch's disquieting evasiveness on such a simple matter likely means that she had no interest or
desire to review the evidence. All that mattered was that Clinton was exonerated and she had secured a cushy spot for
herself in the next administration. But Lynch's days of obfuscation are numbered. The Senate is now actively
investigating her actions pertaining to the email probe. On June 23, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to
Lynch directing her to disclose any communications she had with the Clinton campaign or DNC staffers in connection with the
email investigation. Letters were also sent to other Democratic Party insiders named by Comey[,] including Clinton
staffer Amanda Renteria as well as Leonard Benardo and Gail Scovell of George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
Did
Loretta Lynch Try to Stifle the Clinton Email Probe? Senators Send Her Questions. The Senate Judiciary
Committee is probing alleged political interference by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Hillary Clinton email
investigation. Last Thursday [6/22/2017], two Republicans and two Democrats on the committee sent letters to four
people, including Lynch. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.), Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
signed the letters, all pointing to an April 22, 2017 New York Times report that said the FBI obtained an email or memo
"written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from
going too far."
The Rise and Fall of James
Comey. [Scroll down] During this period Hillary maintained a commanding lead in the polls in any head-to-head match-up with the
Republican front runner, Donald Trump. Virtually all the cognoscenti in Washington were convinced she would win the presidency. Apparently
so did James Comey. For someone whose career was made on the dogged pursuit of convictions at any cost using, if necessary, the bludgeon of
obstruction of justice, he was extraordinarily passive. Particularly considering there were innumerable examples of pre-meditated destruction
of evidence. He also severely limited the FBI data searches on Clinton staff members computers then ordered them destroyed. A technician
who erased evidence and lied to the FBI even after receiving immunity was given a pass by Comey.
Judicial
Watch's Fitton: Reopen Hillary Email Investigation. A new investigation should be launched into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state now that a set of new emails have been uncovered, Tom Fitton,
president of the government watchdog, told Newsmax TV. "These are emails that we didn't know about before," Fitton told
host Bill Tucker on Monday's "America Talks Live." "Mrs. Clinton said she turned them all over. Obviously she
didn't, so we should be questioning whether she was telling the truth under oath to Congress.
Judicial
Watch Forced to Sue Tillerson State Department to Release All Hillary Emails. Judicial Watch announced today
that it filed a motion in opposition to the Tillerson State Department's motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its failure
to take any action to recover emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other employees unlawfully removed from
the agency. The lawsuit seeks to force State Department compliance with the Federal Records Act (FRA). The Trump
administration continues to object to taking this strong action to recover Clinton's emails. On April 30, 2015,
Judicial Watch sued former Secretary John Kerry after the State Department failed to take action on a letter sent to Kerry
"notifying him of the unlawful removal of the Clinton emails and requesting that he initiate enforcement action pursuant to
the [Federal Records Act]," including working through the Attorney General to recover the emails.
Trump
Has Dirt on Comey: Strategic Firing of Swamp Rat James Comey. As head of the FBI, Comey (and his lackeys in key
positions) deliberately screwed up the investigation into Hillary's use of a private server and her plain violation of national security
law on classified information. The investigation was deliberately mishandled in every aspect. Comey gave immunity to all of
Hillary's lackeys, did not use subpoenas or warrants, lost evidence, allowed the destruction of evidence, failed to do any searches or
seizures of evidence, did not use a grand jury, did not swear witnesses, did not record testimony, allowed attorneys to represent multiple
suspects (corrupting the testimony). Everything that could be done to ruin the FBI investigation and to cover for Hillary was done.
A "slam-dunk" case became a mess. Immunity was given every witness even though they provided no help. Maybe more importantly, by
focusing the FBI on the email scandal, attention was drawn away from the much bigger scandal of the Clinton Foundation that could bring down
a huge number of corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and even governments.
Judicial
Watch obtains new classified Clinton emails. A nonprofit legal watchdog claimed Thursday [6/1/2017] that newly unearthed
documents show Hillary Clinton sent and received more classified information on her private server than previously known, and that the
papers also show top aide Huma Abedin did favors for Clinton Foundation insiders. Judicial Watch released more than 2,000 pages
of documents it obtained pursuant to a May 5, 2015 court order, after filing a lawsuit against the State Department for failing to
comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The new documents included 115 Clinton email exchanges that were not
previously turned over by the State Department.
Donald
Trump firing Comey has Republicans calling for official investigation — into Clinton's emails.
Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey has left many conservatives hoping the investigation into Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server can be reopened. Lots of Republicans, and others on the right, were furious when Mr Comey
announced last summer, that after probing her actions, he had decided against bringing criminal charges. The decision
infuriated Donald Trump and his supporters, who started to to chant "lock her up" at his election rallies. During one
of the three presidential debates, Mr Trump even vowed to investigate her behaviour if he was elected. "If I win, I am
going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so
many lies, so much deception," he said.
Inept
or crooked, Comey deserved to be fired. While President Donald J. Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey
on May 9, Barack Obama should have sacked him July 5. Comey's behavior in the E-mailgate investigation suggests either
staggering incompetence or a clumsy effort to whitewash Hillary Clinton's crimes. During Clinton's July 2 interrogation
at FBI headquarters, she was not under oath. How could the FBI possibly reach in its probe "the last step of a
year-long investigation" — as Comey described it at a July 7 House Government Oversight Committee hearing —
without a potential perjury conviction hanging over her head? Given Clinton's peanut-allergy-like aversion to the truth, not
swearing her in confirmed either the FBI's grotesque ineptness or a deliberate loophole to allow her to slither free.
Obama
White House counsel part of early talks on Clinton email release, notes show. The Obama administration's White
House counsel was directly involved in deliberations over the release of Hillary Clinton emails as early as spring 2015,
according to handwritten FBI agent notes released by the bureau late Friday [5/5/2017]. The notes read: "Pat
Kennedy (early May '15) calls interagency MTG (meeting) re: scheduled release by JAN '16, asking quick turnarounds -
WH Counsel, CIA, etc...OSD, DNI, NSC and (redacted)" The notes offer a raw account of the case from the perspective of FBI
agents. Much of the content already had been documented in previously released FBI interview summaries, called 302s.
The reference to "Counsel," however, appears to be the earliest confirmation of White House involvement.
New
Huma Abedin Emails Reveal 29 Previously Undisclosed Clinton Emails With Classified Information. The conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch released State Department documents on Tuesday [5/2/2017] revealing 29 email correspondences between
Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin containing classified information. Judicial Watch revealed new documents from the
email accounts of Abedin that were obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from March 18, 2015. The
emails ranged from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-"state.gov" email address. As a result of
the FOIA request, 29 previously undisclosed email exchanges including classified information were released, part of a total of
317 emails that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to turn over to the State Department. Clinton used an
unsecured private email server and private email address during her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton turned over 55,000
pages of emails, claiming to have relinquished all relevant work emails. But those documents did not include the emails that
Judicial Watch received, which included [...]
Review this.
Hillary Clinton insisted on calling the FBI investigation into the private email system she established to conduct official
business as Secretary of State a "security review." She elaborated: "[T]here are lots of those that are conducted in our
government all the time and you don't hear about most of them." Well, of course, as with all things Clintonian, the words are
terms of art. It depends on the meaning of "security review." For "security review" read "criminal investigation."
The FBI doesn't do security reviews. But "criminal investigation" also needs to be understood in a Clintonian sense.
House
Committee Seeks Charges For Hillary Clinton's IT Firm. A House committee is referring the head of a company
that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server to the Justice Department for obstruction of justice and making false
statements. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the
referral for Treve Suazo, the CEO of Platte River Networks.
FBI
Court Filing Reveals Grand Jury Targeted Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch today [4/27/2017] released new State Department documents
including a declaration from FBI Special Agent E.W. Priestap, the supervisor of the agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email activities,
stating that the former secretary of state was the subject of a grand jury investigation related to her BlackBerry email accounts. The
declaration was produced in response to Judicial Watch's lawsuit seeking to force Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to take steps to "recover emails
of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton" and other U.S. Department of State employees. The lawsuit was originally filed against then-Secretary
of State John Kerry. The Trump State Department filing includes details of the agency's continuing refusal to refer the Clinton email issue to
the Justice Department, as the law requires.
A
Case for Congress and the Trump Justice Department, Not the Courts. [Scroll down] And, of course, the
Clinton e-mails investigation, featuring: Justice Department collusion with Clinton-camp lawyers; inexplicable immunity
deals; suspects who received immunity permitted to appear as lawyers for other suspects; no prosecutions despite significant
evidence, several immunity grants, and patently misleading statements during FBI interviews; a furtive tarmac
tête-à-tête between the attorney general and the main suspect's husband (the former U.S. president who just
happened to have launched the attorney general into public prominence, and who was positioned to influence whether the
attorney general got to keep her job in an anticipated Hillary Clinton administration) just days before it was
announced — surprise! — that there would be no indictment of Hillary Clinton; and startling public
commentary by the FBI regarding an uncharged case that bore heavily on a presidential election.
Clinton email probe reportedly
caused rift between Comey, Lynch. FBI Director James Comey reportedly did not trust former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other senior officials
at the Justice Department, speculating they might provide Hillary Clinton some political cover over her email scandal during the presidential election. Comey's
so-called "go-it-alone strategy" in the Clinton investigation emerged from suspicions that Lynch and other Justice Department officials might look to down play the
email probe, The New York Times reported Saturday [4/22/2017].
Book:
Hillary's Sneaky Email Server Practices Began Earlier Than Initially Thought. Hillary Clinton's sneaky email
server practices began earlier than previously believed, according to a [...] new book out Tuesday about the two-time
presidential candidate. In "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," authors Jonathan Allen and Amie
Parnes write that in 2008, after losing the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, then-New York Sen. Clinton
"instructed a trusted aide to access the campaign's server and download the [email] messages sent and received by top
staffers." The purpose of the project was to expose staffers who Clinton believed were disloyal to her during the
campaign, The Wall Street Journal writes in a review of "Shattered," which relies on more than 100 sources.
Obama
Couldn't Understand Clinton's Handling Of Her Email Fiasco. If you thought Hillary Clinton's handling of her
email fiasco was puzzling, you're not alone. Even President Obama was befuddled by the way his former adversary handled
the situation, noting that it reminded him of how he beat her in the 2008 primaries. In the new book by The Hill's
Amie Parnes and Sidewire's Jonathan Allen, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," released today [4/19/2017] details
what should have been a winnable election for the career politician that turned into an abject nightmare over largely avoidable mistakes.
New
Huma Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Sending Classified Information through Unsecured Emails, Special
Favors for Clinton Donors. Judicial Watch today [3/29/2017] released 1,184 pages of State Department records,
including previously unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges, revealing additional instances of Abedin and Hillary Clinton
sending classified information through unsecured email accounts and contributors being given special access to the former
secretary of state. The emails, were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department after it failed to respond to a March 18 FOIA request.
Report:
FBI Finds Hillary Emails on Weiner's Laptop — and They're Not Duplicates. The FBI has reportedly
found emails from Hillary Clinton's private server on the laptop computer seized from Anthony Weiner — and they
are not duplicates of those already found in the server probe, according to CBS News. It was not clear, however, if the
emails were related in any way to the Clinton server scandal or how many new messages were found.
Trump's
huge election night changes US politics forever. Of course, we're seeing desperate and pathetic efforts to
declare the results illegitimate. For example, Paul Krugman of The New York Times said last night that Hillary
Clinton's loss was due to conscious efforts to suppress the African-American vote. That idea is beyond preposterous and
intellectually deranged. What we saw was a national wave that turned blue states red, not a case in which voter ID laws
and efforts to restrict early voting changed the balance of a state or two. [...] The other facile explanation is that James
Comey is at fault for making public his examination of the new e-mails two weeks ago. If true, the fault goes back to
March 2015, when Hillary Clinton's illicit homebrew server became a matter of public knowledge and she began a Nixonian
effort to lie and cover up and hide the evidence of her reckless behavior.
A Changing
Investigative Landscape. Seemingly every important player in Clinton World appeared in the emails. They
are the thread connecting many controversies — the Clinton Foundation and it satellites, Teneo Holdings,
cybersecurity and penetration of servers, relations with foreign governments, payments to various Clintons and Clinton
entities, suspicions of quid pro quos, big money players, Wikileaks mischief, the Russians. The Republican Congress is
likely not finished with email investigations, though the media will soon lose interest, dazzled by all the bright shiny
objects of the new Trump Administration. The courts will continue to play an important role in the fight for
transparency in the emails case. Lawsuits from Judicial Watch and others will continue to produce documents.
Good
riddance, Madam Secretary. With Hillary Clinton's electoral defeat, millions of Americans are extremely
disappointed. After all, this isn't how things were supposed to work out for Clinton. Genuine democracy wasn't
supposed to interfere with the Clintons' dynastic ambitions. Others are breathing sighs of relief, not least because
the former first lady obviously lacks the character and the judgement needed to lead the nation. In the run-up to
Tuesday's vote, Clinton's emails were back in the spotlight again. Notwithstanding FBI Director James Comey's
last-minute missive on Sunday, it's hard to imagine the email saga is truly over. After all, when it comes to the
Clintons one always wonders if more scandalous details and inconvenient facts are about to emerge.
What
can we do to indict Hillary Clinton, one of the most corrupt politicians in history? There is little doubt in
the minds of the American public that Hillary Clinton probably broke a law. After all, she seems to have little reason
to abide by it. In fact, she may be the first presidential candidate to be interviewed by the FBI as often as she is by
the media. More recently, the FBI has reopened the investigation into wrongdoing by Hillary and her aides after the FBI
stumbled upon thousands of additional State Department emails that may have been improperly shared after investigating a
separate incident involving disgraced former congressman (and estranged husband of Hillary's closest aide, Huma Abedin)
Anthony Weiner and his involvement with underage women. Although the FBI has determined (perhaps politically) no
wrongdoing by Clinton there either, it's unlikely the illegal activity surrounding Hillary's emails — and the
fraudulent nature of the Clinton Foundation — will keep her off the radar of law enforcement.
"Weiner's Laptop":
Is It Hillary's "Missing Laptop"? Was Huma Abedin hiding Hillary's supposedly "missing laptop "in her apartment
in order to keep it away from the FBI — not to protect Weiner, but to protect Hillary? Is the laptop that
was seized in the FBI sweep of the Abedin/ Weiner apartment as part of the Weiner criminal probe the one that belonged to
Hillary? A laptop that's been missing for 2 years. It sure seems like it. Has the case of the missing
laptop been solved? That's Hillary's worst nightmare. The laptop has been "missing" for two years and Clinton and
her aides claim that they have no idea where it is. But a week ago, the FBI announced that there were 650,000 emails on
the device seized from Weiner including thousands to and from Huma and Hillary regarding State Department matters. Why
would they be on a laptop that belonged to Weiner?
Why Clinton's
email mess will never go away. So Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides had her housekeeper printing
out classified emails and venturing into her home Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility to grab classified faxes,
too. How many more shoes can drop, before or after Election Day? The Clinton camp is already trumpeting FBI chief
Jim Comey's report Sunday that nothing off the Anthony Weiner laptop changes his "no charges" finding from July. But
other ugly facts keep surfacing. In Sunday's [11/6/2016] [New York] Post, Paul Sperry fingered at least five classified
emails handled by Clinton's maid. Material in the SCIF likely included Clinton's copies of the top-secret Presidential
Daily Brief, prepared by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
State
Department tells court it needs 5 years to review deleted Clinton emails. State Department officials asked a
federal court Monday to consider allowing them up to five years for their review of 31,000 pages of emails recovered by the
FBI during its year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton. During the same hearing, the State Department admitted that
the FBI provided 2,100 emails from Clinton's server that her legal team either deleted or withheld.
EMAILS:
Clinton Sent Classified Info To Chelsea After UN Climate Talks. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent
her daughter an email after the conclusion of a United Nations climate summit that had information later deemed classified by
the Department of State. Clinton sent an email to her daughter, Chelsea, two days after she and President Barack Obama
tried to negotiate an international global warming agreement at Copenhagen in 2009. The email was sent to Chelsea's alias
email account under the name, "Diane Reynolds." Clinton forwarded Chelsea a Dec. 19, 2009 email from top State Department
officials and Obama's global warming "czar" Carol Browner — a long-time Clinton ally — according to emails
released by the State Department Friday [11/4/2016].
Clinton
instructed her housekeeper to print out emails — including classified materials — at Washington residence.
Hillary Clinton regularly instructed her housekeeper to print government emails and documents when she was secretary of
state — including classified materials, according to FBI memos. FBI memos show Marina Santos often handled
sensitive information, but didn't have the security clearance to do so, the New York Post reports. The housekeeper was
paid to look after Clinton's home in Washington, known as Whitehaven.
The
Destruction of Huma Abedin's Emails on the Clinton Server and their Surprise Recovery. Despite extraordinarily
intense coverage of all aspects of Hillary Clinton's emails, all commentary to date (to my knowledge), even the underlying
FBI Report, has paid little to no attention to the destruction of Huma Abedin's emails, also stored on the Clinton server.
Further, even with the greatly increased interest in Huma's emails arising from the discoveries on Anthony Weiner's laptop,
speculation has mostly focused on the potential connection to deleted Hillary emails, rather than the potentially much larger
tranche of deleted Huma emails from the Clinton server (many of which would, in all probability, be connected to Hillary in
any event.) Both Hillary and Huma had clintonemail accounts. Huma was unique in that respect among Hillary's coterie.
(Chelsea Clinton, under the pseudonym of Diane Reynolds, was the only other person with a clintonemail address.)
Assange: Clinton resisted
FBI, and now they're out for payback. FBI director James B. Comey threw a spanner into the presidential race
that threatened to become a Clinton procession last week, when he claimed that the agency had potentially obtained new
information pertaining to Clinton's use of a personal email server, set up shortly after she became Secretary of State
in 2009, when they obtained the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the ex-husband of close Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Weiner was
being investigated for an unrelated sexting offense. Clinton has categorically denied mishandling classified
information by using a vulnerable personal email address for State Department business. Fox News has alleged that the
FBI has obtained new evidence from Weiner's computer that shows that Clinton was "very likely hacked."
Hillary
Drags Chelsea Down With Her — Classified Email Sent To Her Has Been Discovered. Another damning bit
of evidence has come to light on Hillary Clinton's email scandal. This email was released from the State Department
yesterday. Evidently, Hillary forwarded an email with classified information in it to her daughter Chelsea.
Chelsea was emailing under the pseudonym "Diane Reynolds." What's with all the clandestine and fake names for these
people? It indicates intent to cover-up what they were doing... and that points towards them knowing it was wrong in
the first place. This would further implicate Chelsea in this whole mess and I sincerely doubt that she realized what
was transpiring was illegal. Mother of the Year, Hillary is not by any means. She gave no thought to the
consequences to her daughter over all this. The email was labeled by the State Department as a "near duplicate."
Clinton
directed her maid to print out classified materials. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her
maid to print out sensitive government emails and documents — including ones containing classified information —
from her house in Washington, D.C., e-mails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such
material. In fact, Marina Santos was called on so frequently to receive e-mails that she may hold the secrets to
E-mailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would subpoena her and the equipment she used.
Hillary
Deleted Email Showing She Forwarded Classified Information To Her Daughter. Hillary Clinton deleted a 2009
email in which she forwarded classified information to her daughter, Chelsea. The email was released on Friday by the
State Department. It is one of thousands of documents recovered by the FBI from Clinton's private email server.
The Dec. 20, 2009 email chain, entitled "Update," started with a message from Michael Froman, who served as a deputy
assistant to President Obama and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs.
Hillary
sent classified information to Chelsea. Politico reports that Hillary Clinton sent her daughter Chelsea an
email message that contains information the State Department deems classified. The email, part of a new batch released
today, originated with White House Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman and was forwarded to the former secretary
of state by her policy aide Jake Sullivan. Hillary Clinton sent it along to her daughter's email account with the
notation: "See below."
Clinton
Cash Revisited, National Security Edition. Thanks to WikiLeaks and some recent FBI revelations, it is now clear
that Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material was no casual act of inadvertence. It was not, as she at first
claimed with false naiveté, done simply as a matter of convenience by someone who was technically ill-informed and maladroit.
No, the whole process was a thoroughly calculated tactic. Given what we know now, there is something slightly nauseating
about watching clips of Clinton lie when asked about her emails.
An
"avalanche of evidence" may now bury Hillary. Americans who lived through the nightmares of both the Watergate
and Lewinsky scandals recall vividly how every day seemed to produce new evidence of wrongdoing. The drip, drip of
deceptions and lies finally overflowed into a cascading pool of criminality and disgust. The first scandal culminated
in Articles of Impeachment. The other an impeachment trial. Is America now hurtling toward the same political
abyss? It looks like it. So, fasten your seat belts and brace for impact. Sources tell Fox News's Bret
Baier that the FBI has uncovered an "avalanche of evidence" in the Clinton Foundation investigation. Agents are
"actively and aggressively pursuing this case," calling it a "very high priority."
FBI
probe reveals Weiner's laptop DOES contain new Clinton emails — but the public won't know what's in them until
long after Election Day. The FBI has recovered emails from Anthony Weiner's laptop that are directly related to
its ongoing probe into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized, homebrew email server. The development came after federal
investigators searched the disgraced former congressman's computer as part of a probe into a DailyMail.com report that he
carried on a lurid sexting relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Some of the estimated 650,000 messages on the computer
are linked to Clinton's time as secretary of state, and they are not duplicates of emails the FBI has already seen, CBS News
reported Thursday [11/3/2016].
Is
Anthony Weiner Behind The Email Crisis? The Wall Street Journal has up to date reporting on the mysteries
surrounding Huma Abedin's newly-discovered emails. The Journal's account answers some questions, while raising
others. First, the "device" in question reportedly is a laptop that Huma Abedin considered to be Anthony
Weiner's. This makes sense: people like Abedin and Weiner don't share laptops, any more than they share cell
phones. They each have their own. Thus, when Huma testified under oath that she had turned over to her lawyers,
for production, all of her devices that she thought could contain relevant information, it is likely that she was telling the
truth. Reportedly, Abedin claims to be at a loss as to how her emails got onto Anthony's laptop. That surprise
could well be genuine.
Two
more Clinton classified emails discovered in FBI documents. The State Department this week deemed two more of
former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails to contain classified information, releasing redacted versions Friday, just days
before Election Day. The messages appear to contain U.S. government policy memos toward Afghanistan and the United Arab
Emirates, preparing Mrs. Clinton for phone calls with leaders of those two nations. Information gleaned from
foreign governments, as well as U.S. information about other governments, is supposed to be considered classified from the
start. In these instances, like nearly every other of the more than 2,500 messages now deemed classified, there were no
markings at the time — a factor Mrs. Clinton's defenders say excuse her from liability for having sent them
over her secret, but unprotected account.
NYPD
Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails. New York Police Department detectives and prosecutors working an alleged
underage sexting case against former Congressman Anthony Weiner have turned over a newly-found laptop he shared with wife
Huma Abedin to the FBI with enough evidence "to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away for life," NYPD sources told True
Pundit. NYPD sources said Clinton's "crew" also included several unnamed yet implicated members of Congress in addition
to her aides and insiders. The NYPD seized the computer from Weiner during a search warrant and detectives discovered a
trove of over 500,000 emails to and from Hillary Clinton, Abedin and other insiders during her tenure as secretary of state.
The content of those emails sparked the FBI to reopen its defunct email investigation into Clinton on Friday.
Did
Obama violate the Espionage Act by communicating classified information on Hillary's server? On his radio
program Thursday, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin delivered tomorrow's news today as he explained how
President Obama is now implicated in Hillary Clinton's email scandal. We now know, Levin said, that Obama "corresponded
with Hillary Clinton on his specially secured Blackberry phone." This means that the president of the United States
communicated classified discussions via Hillary Clinton's private email server — the same unsecured email server
that mishandled classified information and was assuredly hacked by foreign governments.
Hillary Clinton's reopened
investigation. The FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation because it is a criminal enterprise. Only
six percent (6%) of donations to the Clintons' charity goes to charity, the remaining goes to fund the lifestyles of Bill,
Hillary, Chelsea and their various aides — Huma Abedin, Sid Blumenthal, etc. For four years, those donations also
bought prime access to the U.S. Secretary of State. That is why Hillary and her acolytes, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills,
and the other supposed "government employees," used a private email server contrary to extant law. The pay-for-play was
so glaring it could not be on State Department emails destined for the National Archives. Hillary undermined U.S. law
as Secretary of State by hiding her communications in a private email server, thereby endangering national security, and
granting access and giving favorable treatment to donors to her family's foundation. Moreover, she disguised those
facts by lying, obfuscation, and stonewalling.
Another
Clinton server crisis! Now Hillary goes to war on plane's wifi provider for leaving her in the dark about FBI's
dramatic new move on her emails. Hillary Clinton has joined the ranks of Americans who have been brought to
their wit's end by their wireless provider — after her campaign's pricey communications gear was on the fritz
during one of the pivotal moments of the presidential campaign — leaving the candidate completely in the dark that
the was FBI reopening its investigation of her emails. Now, Clinton's fed-up campaign team has gone public with its
frustrations. Clinton was flying from New York to Iowa Friday when the stunning bombshell rocked the political world
and shook up the 2016 presidential campaign. But one of the last people to learn the news was was the woman who at the
moment could see a clear path to the presidency. She was seated at the front of her plane, near longtime aide Huma
Abedin — who as it turned out was at the center of the stunning developments which could yet see her prosecuted
and jailed.
Herridge:
Abedin Told FBI She Notified WH Every Time Clinton Changed Emails. New developments in the FBI probes of former
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's computer and Hillary Clinton's alleged mishandling of classified information may land
Clinton aide Huma Abedin in legal jeopardy, Catherine Herridge reported. Herridge told Brit Hume that the bureau is
"going through Weiner's computer to see if there are classified records on [it]." If agents find classified information on
it, Abedin may face legal trouble because she signed a "separation agreement" to return all such data to the State Department
when she left it in 2013. President Obama may also have a "vested interest in the outcome" of the race, she said.
Secret
recordings fueled FBI's desire to probe Clinton Foundation as case moves toward 'likely' indictment. An FBI
investigation into the Clinton Foundation is likely to lead to an indictment unless the Justice Department interferes, two
sources familiar with the probe told Fox News. The Clintons are accused of running a pay-for-play operation out of the
State Department that favored donors to their charity — a charge they have denied. But the feds are 'actively and
aggressively pursuing this case,' Fox's Brit Hume said Wednesday [11/2/2016], and they have an 'avalanche' of evidence.
Julian
Assange reveals truth over Clinton emails and Russia accusations. Julian Assange has categorically denied
WikiLeaks files implicating Hillary Clinton came from Russia — but said she will still win the US election. In a
bombshell interview with Russia Today, Assange who famously does not reveal his sources, dismissed claims from the Clinton
camp Putin's country was behind leaked emails. The WikiLeaks founder who is currently living in the Ecuadorian Embassy
in London assured the public troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year were not
linked to the Russian Government.
Some of Bret Baier's assertions were "walked back" the next day. Bret
Baier: FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards "Likely an Indictment". Fox News
Channel's Bret Baier reports the latest news about the Clinton Foundation investigation from two sources inside the FBI. He
reveals five important new pieces of information in these two short clips: [#1] The Clinton Foundation investigation is far
more expansive than anybody has reported so far and has been going on for more than a year. [#2] The laptops of Clinton
aides Cherryl Mills and Heather Samuelson have not been destroyed, and agents are currently combing through them. The
investigation has interviewed several people twice, and plans to interview some for a third time. [#3] Agents have found
emails believed to have originated on Hillary Clinton's secret server on Anthony Weiner's laptop. They say the emails
are not duplicates and could potentially be classified in nature. [#4] Sources within the FBI have told Baier that an
indictment is "likely" in the case of pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, "barring some obstruction in some way" from the
Justice Department. [#5] FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least
five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information have been taken from it.
Bret
Baier: Barring 'Obstruction,' Indictment Almost Certain In FBI Investigation. Citing sources at the FBI,
Fox News anchor Bret Baier said the FBI's renewed investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server will almost certainly end
in an indictment, unless some sort of "obstruction" arises. Baier made the claim Wednesday night [11/2/2016] during a broadcast of
"On the Record" with Brit Hume. He said that a "lot of evidence" had been recovered from Anthony Wiener's laptop, and made an
eventual indictment appear very likely, even if it came months after the election.
Update: Fox's
Bret Baier Apologizes for 'Mistake' in Reporting Clinton-FBI Story. Fox's Bret Baier apologized Friday for his
damning reports about the FBI's investigations into Hillary Clinton, namely his reporting that an indictment in the Clinton
Foundation probe was in the works and that her server had been breached by foreign intelligence multiple times. Baier
had reported on Wednesday about the FBI's probes into the Clinton Foundation and her use of a private email server. The
Fox anchor cited "sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations." "Barring some obstruction in some way, they
believe they [the investigations] will continue to likely an indictment," he told Brit Hume. On Thursday morning [11/3/2016]
he clarified that asserting an imminent "indictment" was "inartfully" phrased. "That just wasn't 'inartful.' It was a
mistake, and for that I'm sorry," Baier told Fox's Jon Scott on Friday. "I should have said, 'They will continue to build
their case.' Indictment obviously is a very loaded word, Jon, especially in this atmosphere." He clarified that
prosecutors, not FBI investigators, make the decision whether or not to pursue an indictment based on the evidence.
Emails
show Clinton campaign coordinated with State Dept. official before email revelation. Newly released emails
appear to show a State Department official coordinating with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign before her use of a
private email to conduct government business was revealed. Emails from campaign chairman John Podesta show that the
state official provided Clinton aides with the agency's official response to a New York Times reporter in advance of the
paper's March 2015 report that Clinton had used a private email account to conduct business while serving as secretary of
state. WikiLeaks released the hacked emails Wednesday [11/2/2016] in part of a massive trove of emails disclosed by the
whistleblowing website. The site has released new Podesta emails on a daily basis since October. WikiLeaks has
indicated it intends to leak emails stolen from Podesta's account every day through the election.
Secret
Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe. Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton
Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed
the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said.
Recordings
Led to FBI, DOJ Battle Over Whether to Investigate Clinton Foundation. A new report out tonight says that there
were some pretty fierce internal tensions between FBI investigators and Justice Department officials over whether they had
enough to pursue an "aggressive" investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The Wall Street Journal put out this
new report tonight days after the paper reported that the FBI investigation may have been shut down completely by the DOJ.
Michael
McCaul on Hillary Clinton server, hacks: 'It's treason'. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee,
on Thursday [11/3/2016] said Hillary Clinton's exposing sensitive information to potentially multiple hacks from foreign actors amounts to treason.
"This is why you have security protocols — to protect classified information," Mr. McCaul said on "Fox and Friends." "She exposed it to our enemies,
and now ... our adversaries have this very sensitive information that not only jeopardizes her and national security at home, but the men and women
serving overseas." "In my opinion, quite frankly, it's treason," said Mr. McCaul, Texas Republican.
Grassley
Asks Justice Department IG to Investigate the Investigators in Clinton Email Probe. Sen. Chuck Grassley,
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking the Justice Department's inspector general to examine whether
"high-ranking" DOJ and FBI officials "compromised the public trust in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized
use of a private email server as Secretary of State and potential mishandling of classified material." Several of those
high-ranking officials had previous ties to the Clintons, he said.
Task
force working in shifts to handle new email cache in Clinton probe. A special team of analysts has been
activated to sort and sift through the cache of newly discovered emails that kick-started the dormant Hillary Clinton email
probe, two intelligence sources confirmed to Fox News. The sources say the multi-agency task force was re-engaged over
the weekend, with analysts working overlapping shifts covering 16 hours a day to identify new classified material.
Clinton
aide left classified info behind on 2010 China trip. An unnamed "senior aide" to then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton left classified information unsecured and unattended in a hotel room during a 2010 trip to China, one of
several overseas lapses by Clinton's inner circle, Fox News has learned. Confirmation of the alarming violation comes
as Clinton herself is under a renewed FBI probe for mishandling sensitive information on a private server and her longtime
senior aide, Huma Abedin, also faces scrutiny as part of the investigation. It was not known which of Clinton's aides
left the information exposed.
Pagliano
Emails Detail Attempts to Hack Clinton Unsecure Email Server 10 Times in Two Days in November 2010. Judicial
Watch today [11/1/2016] released new State Department documents detailing repeated efforts to hack into the unsecure
non-state.gov email system used by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in November 2010. The hacks are detailed in
email exchanges between State Department IT official Brian Pagliano and Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper. The emails show
the system was hacked 10 times in two days from November 27 to 29. The documents also reveal that Pagliano
warned Cooper that because of an outside service vendor relied upon by the Clinton system, "we'd be susceptible to such an attack."
Cooper subsequently informed the U.S. Secret Service of the attempted hacks, providing agents with each of the ten reports and
summaries Pagliano had provided him.
Did
Comey know Obama could be Hillary's star witness? The WikiLeaks emails prove that Obama knew that Hillary was
using a private email system. As an experienced prosecutor, FBI director Comey knew that Hillary would argue in her
defense that Obama knew about her using the private unsecured email system. Obama did not stop her, did not object, and
corresponded with Hillary on her system. Given these facts, Hillary would argue she did not have the intent to violate
the statutes because her superior, the command in chief, the president, conversed with her on her private email system.
Hillary would argue, How can I have the intent to violate the law when the president knows I use the private email system
he uses to contact me? Leaving aside that it is Hillary making the argument, it is a reasonable and powerful defense
against the charges.
Don't
Be Fooled: Hillarygate Probe Is Now a Formal Federal Criminal Investigation. The NY Times and the
Wall Street Journal both reported on Monday morning [10/31/2016] that an FBI warrant application to a federal judge
over the weekend for permission to search Huma Abedin's emails and laptop had been granted. The application was made on
the basis of the Clinton email investigation. Necessarily, that application (as required by the Constitution's Fourth
Amendment) would have been supported by FBI affidavits. This new fact is a development of immense potential
significance — both for Mrs. Clinton personally and for us as American citizens. It is also
unprecedented in American history. At a minimum, it enables us to pierce the thick cloud of black ink and disinformation
released over the weekend by Team Hillary and which is being widely misreported in the current news cycle.
If
Hillary wins, we'll have a potential blackmail target in the White House. Last September, an FBI report noted
the bureau couldn't find proof her private email server was hacked into by adversaries. But it noted that the private
server had to be shut down repeatedly because of hacker attacks and a successful attack wasn't likely to have left
fingerprints. Also, some "hostile foreign actors" were able to break into the personal email accounts of Clinton's
close aides, obtaining a treasure trove of emails exchanged with her personal account. Note that so far none of the
WikiLeaks revelations have come from Hillary's personal account. That could mean it wasn't hacked, or it could mean
that "hostile" actors are waiting to make use of them.
Why
The Vast Clinton Email Corruption Case Matters. The Clinton strategy has been one of avoidance and
deflection. All with the aid and comfort provided by Democrat cronies and quite a few members of the media. Why
do and why must the email revelations matter? From the very first Wikileaks email revelation the silence from the
Clinton camp has been noticeable. If the emails were indeed photoshopped or falsified by other technology means, why
hasn't the campaign produced evidence to back up those claims? Answer: Because the emails are real.
Clinton
Chief Wanted 'Decoy' Leak After Email Scandal Broke. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign manager wanted
to leak an announcement — presumably officially announcing her presidential candidacy — as a "decoy" after the New York Times
first reported her email scandal in March 2015. "I think we should get a credible leak out that we're announcing on the 20th. As a
decoy," campaign manager Robby Mook told Clinton adviser John Podesta in a March 12, 2015, email 10 days after the New York Times
story broke. The email was made public Monday [10/31/2016] by Wikileaks.
"Furious"
FBI Agents to Leak Messages About Hillary Investigation Cover-Up. Judge Andrew Napolitano dropped a bombshell
today [10/27/2016]. According to Fox & Friends, Judge Napolitano said "leaked messages about Clinton's emails are coming
from FBI agents who investigated" Hillary. [Video clip]
Sources:
Clinton emails would have been 'whitelisted' for Obama BlackBerry. President Obama's high-security BlackBerry
used a special process known as "whitelisting" that only allowed it to take calls and messages from pre-approved contacts,
two former senior intelligence officials with knowledge of the set-up told Fox News — pointing to the detail as
further proof the White House knew Hillary Clinton's private account was used for government business. As the
administration now acknowledges, Obama and Clinton emailed each other while she was helming the State Department. If
received on his BlackBerry, the "whitelisting" safeguard means Clinton and other contacts would have had to be approved as
secure for data transmission — covering everything from emails to texts to phone calls. The Obama BlackBerry
would have also been configured to accept the communications.
Clinton
Transmitted Classified Information to Her Lawyers. As I outlined in last weekend's column, we know that
Clinton's e-mails were replete with classified information. According to the FBI, the classified e-mails included
intelligence graded at the most closely guarded level: eight top-secret e-mails, and seven designated as "special access
program" (SAP) information. (While FBI director James Comey's presentation understandably left this vague, the likelihood is
that seven of the eight top-secret e-mails are SAP.) Under President Bill Clinton's 1995 executive order, top-secret
intelligence is information the mishandling of which "could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the
national security." The SAP designation is added when the unauthorized disclosure of intelligence could compromise
critical intelligence-gathering methods or imperil the lives of intelligence sources.
Emails Show Obama
Was Complicit in Cover-Up. New revelations from Wikileaks seem to prove that the White House knew about
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server. President Obama previously denied that he had any prior
knowledge of Clinton's "homebrew" server, but Wikileaks documents suggest that the president used a pseudonym to correspond
directly with Clinton's private email address and then lied about it.
Irrefutable
Proof Obama Lied to Protect Hillary Clinton's Run for the White House. Thanks to Wikileaks, we now have the
smoking gun email irrefutably proving not only did President Barack Obama know about Hillary Clinton's non-government-issued
email account, he used it in correspondence with her. [...] [I]t appears the lie was a purposeful attempt to protect
Clinton's upcoming bid for the presidency. Shortly after the New York Times broke the story on March 2, 2015, of
Clinton's use of a personal server to supplant the government system — and, as has been revealed, to thwart
transparency — Obama announced publicly his lack of prior knowledge.
Podesta
Leaks: The Obama-Clinton E-mails. As readers may recall, I have long maintained that the principal reason
why Mrs. Clinton was not prosecuted, despite a mountain of evidence that she committed felony mishandling of classified
information, is the fact that Obama engaged in the same kind of misconduct. The president's use of a private,
non-secure channel to discuss sensitive matters with high level officials may not have been systematic, as Mrs. Clinton's
was. (Obama's disturbing use of an alias, however, suggests that Clinton was not the only one he was privately e-mailing.)
Nevertheless, the fact that the president was e-mailing Clinton means he not only participated in her misconduct but also that
the Obama-Clinton e-mails would have been admissible evidence in any criminal trial of Clinton.
Clinton
State Department IT Official John Bentel Takes Fifth Amendment During Judicial Watch Deposition. Judicial Watch
announced today [10/24/2016] that another witness in the Clinton email matter asserted his Fifth Amendment rights during a
Judicial Watch deposition today. The deposition of John Bentel, the State Department's former Director of Information
Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat ("S/ES-IRM"), was ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan. S/ES-IRM is the office that handles information technology for the Office of the Secretary.
Mr. Bentel answered over 90 questions with "On advice from my legal counsel, I decline to answer the question and I
invoke my Fifth Amendment rights." Mr. Bentel, on advice of Obama Justice Department and personal counsel, refused
to answer any questions about whether Hillary Clinton was paying his legal fees, offered him employment, or other financial
incentives. There were three government attorneys and two personal attorneys present for the deposition.
Now
Trump says Obama 'knew all about' Clinton's email scandal and MUST be investigated. Trump's remarks come after
WikiLeaks released more of Hillary Clinton's leaked emails, which were sent from the private account of Clinton's campaign
manager John Podesta. One of the email exchanges details how Obama knew of the private email server — and
how Democrat aides tried to cover up the mess. Cheryl Mills, a Clinton aide, wrote to Podesta after Obama revealed he
knew of the private server during a television interview in March 2015.
As long as you're lying, why not lie about lying? White
House: Obama never lied about Hillary Clinton's emails. President Obama's accounting of his email
correspondence with Hillary Clinton when she was his secretary of state is "entirely factual," White House spokesman Josh
Earnest said Tuesday [10/25/2016]. "I can't verify the integrity of these emails," Earnest told reporters traveling with
Obama as he fundraised in California, speaking of illegally obtained messages from Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta,
that were published by WikiLeaks and apparently show the Clinton camp challenging Obama's assertion that he didn't know
Clinton was using a private email account. Podesta's emails were "stolen," and, therefore, their authenticity cannot be
verified. Furthermore, they were released "to undermine our democracy," Earnest said.
The Editor says...
If somebody steals your car, that doesn't mean the authenticity of its ownership can't be confirmed. If the postman reads a letter you wrote,
that doesn't mean you didn't write it. Either the Podesta emails are authentic, or someone at Wikileaks is the most prolific and most believable
fiction writer in history!
What
Did Obama Know and When? When did Barack Obama learn of Hillary Clinton's "homebrew" email server, through
which she funneled even the most sensitive electronic correspondence as Secretary of State? "At the same time everybody
else learned it through news reports," the president said in March 2015. According to newly released private emails among
Clinton advisors, that was not true. "Looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he
saw it in the news," wrote Hillary Clinton for America spokesman Josh Schwerin upon learning of Obama's contention. "We
need to clean this up," replied Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff at the State Department. "He has emails
from her — they do not say state.gov."
Team
Hillary: "Clean up" on Aisle 1600 after POTUS denial on Hillary e-mail server. When reporters asked
Barack Obama about Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server for official business, he immediately declared that he
knew nothing of it: [...] That clip came from an interview Obama did with CBS News reporter Steve Plante in the immediate
aftermath of the exposure of Hillary's private e-mail server. Clearly he wanted to maintain his distance from the
scandal, but his unequivocal statement sent Hillary's team into a panic.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Anatomy of a Cover-Up. This morning, Politico released a story titled: "Aides mulled
Clinton expressing regret for private email's effect on FOIA, State records." That's a timely and revealing headline.
But the real news is the story behind the headline — which is what prompted the revelation that Clinton had skirted
FOIA by using a non-government email server and address.
Hillary's
33,000 emails might not be 'missing' after all. In a May interview with FBI agents, an executive with the
Denver contractor that maintained Clinton's private server revealed that an underling didn't bleach-clean all her subpoenaed
emails, just ones he stored in a data file he used to transfer the emails from the server to Clinton's aides, who in turn
sorted them for delivery to Congress. The Platte River Networks executive, whose name was redacted from the interview
report, said PRN tech Paul Combetta "created a 'vehicle' to transfer email files from the live mailboxes of [Clinton
Executive Services Corp.] email accounts [and] then later used BleachBit software to shred the 'vehicle,' but the email
content still existed in the live email accounts."
Hacked
Email Shows Obama Knew About Clinton's Private Email While Claiming He Didn't. The same day that President
Barack Obama publicly insisted that he learned about Hillary Clinton's use of private email for government business from news
reports, internal campaign emails show that Clinton staffers knew he wasn't telling the truth. Obama was asked by CBS
in March 2015 when he learned about Clinton's use of "an email system outside the U.S. government for official business" as
Secretary of State. "The same time everybody else learned it, through news reports," he responded.
Clinton
campaign chair's confidante said Hillary and her lawyers never disclosed secret email server because 'they wanted to get away
with it'. A close confidante of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman was convinced she 'wanted to get away with'
keeping all her official emails on a private homebrew server, according to a stolen email released Tuesday [10/25/2016] by
WikiLeaks. In the message chain, Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden told Clinton chairman John
Podesta — who was also the far-left group's board chairman — that Clinton should 'immediately' move
to hand her entire email archive over to the National Archives.
Clinton
camp sounded alarm over emails to Obama: 'We need to clean this up'. Hillary Clinton's campaign sounded the
alarm over President Obama's statement to the press in March 2015 that he learned about Clinton's private email use from news
reports, emails published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday [10/25/2016] show. Josh Schwerin, a campaign spokesman, sent an email
to high-level staffers informing them of Obama's comments just a few days after the New York Times exposed Clinton's private
email use for the first time. "POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the
news," Schwerin wrote, using Clinton's initials.
Wikileaks:
Clinton aides scrambled to fix Obama false claim didn't know about personal email or server. This was in March
2015. He repeated the same thing to 60 minutes in October 2015. Bill Plante: Mr. President, when
did you first learn Hillary Clinton used an email system outside of the US government for official business while she was
secretary of state? Obama: The same time when everyone else learned about it through news reports.
In
emails, aide stressed need to 'clean up' Obama's comments on Clinton's email. A top aide to Hillary Clinton
appeared to worry in March 2015 that President Obama might be accused of lying about his knowledge of Clinton's private email
server. In a brief email chain released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday [10/25/2016], Clinton allies seemed to scurry to respond to Obama's
claim that he was unaware of Clinton's use of a personal email account while she was secretary of State until after it became public.
State
Department aide pleads the Fifth more than 90 times. A former State Department IT aide invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused
to answer more than 90 questions Monday [10/24/2016] during the final deposition in a lawsuit over Hillary Clinton's private emails. John Bentel,
former Director of Information Resource Management of the executive secretariat, would not answer questions about whether the Clintons had paid his
legal fees or offered him financial incentives, according to Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning group that brought the suit.
1,000
Clinton-Petraeus emails missing from records sent to State, FBI files show. Roughly 1,000 emails between Hillary Clinton and Gen. David
Petraeus were thought to be missing from the 30,000 emails provided by Clinton's team to the State Department in December 2014, according to the newly
released FBI investigative files. Additional documents obtained through a federal lawsuit by Judicial Watch show Clinton had directed Petraeus to
send her emails at her personal address, which was used for all government work during her tenure as secretary of state. In a heavily redacted FBI
interview summary from Aug. 17, 2015, a State Department employee from the Office of Information and Programs and Services (IPS), which handles Freedom
of Information Act requests, discussed how Petraeus' records apparently were not among the work-related emails provided by the former secretary's team.
General
Cartwright is paying the price for Hillary Clinton's sins. The Obama administration Justice Department has investigated three
senior officials for mishandling classified information over the past two years but only one faces a felony conviction, possible jail time
and a humiliation that will ruin his career: former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman General James E. Cartwright. The
FBI's handling of the case stands in stark contrast to its treatment of Hillary Clinton and retired General David Petraeus — and
it reeks of political considerations.
New
Emails Show Hillary Clinton Contacts with Bryan Pagliano — Raise New Questions About Her Sworn Testimony.
Judicial Watch today [10/19/2016] released new State Department documents, which were uncovered by the FBI in its investigation of
Clinton and her use of the clintonemail.com system. The emails reveal direct communications between former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and her top IT specialist, Bryan Pagliano, about clintonemail.com management problems. Last week, Clinton
claimed under oath to Judicial Watch that she "does not recall having communications" with Pagliano relating to the email system.
Clinton's emails to Pagliano, who installed and maintained the clintonemail.com computer system in the Clinton's New York home, relate
to email management problems with Clinton's BlackBerry. The FBI recovered these new emails from those not turned over by Hillary
Clinton. These new emails are government documents and not personal emails as Hillary Clinton claims in defending her decision
to not turn over 30,000 emails sent or received by her as Secretary of State.
Clinton
server email at heart of 'quid pro quo' controversy contained Benghazi intel. The email at the heart of a "quid
pro quo" controversy involving a senior State Department executive and the FBI contained intelligence about suspects in the
2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, two government sources told Fox News. Heavily redacted FBI interview summaries, known
as 302s, state that Patrick Kennedy, a top lieutenant to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, wanted to deep-six
the email — which was one of two on her personal server that kick-started the FBI investigation into the
mishandling of classified information on her unsecured system. The Nov. 18, 2012 email sent to then-Secretary Clinton
by aide Jake Sullivan contains the subject line "Fw:FYI - Report of arrests — possible Benghazi connection."
The Editor says...
That doesn't sound like yoga classes to me. Hillary's excuse for deleting her embarrassing emails en masse
was that many of the messages pertained to personal matters, like her interest in yoga. Now that the deleted emails are
resurfacing, have there been any leaked emails that contained any discussion of yoga?
Hillary
Clinton Deleted Emails With Her Email Server Technician. Hillary Clinton deleted several emails she exchanged
with Bryan Pagliano, the former Clinton campaign official who managed her private email system while at the State
Department. Judicial Watch, which released the emails on Wednesday, say that they undermine Clinton's recent claims,
made under oath, that she did not recall communicating with Pagliano about her emails. The emails are part of a trove
of 30,000-plus emails that Clinton and her team failed to turn over to the State Department in Dec. 2014. They claimed
that the records were personal in nature and not work-related.
The
"Fact" That 17 Intelligence Agencies Confirmed Russia is Behind the Email Hacks Isn't Actually a "Fact".
[Scroll down] As I also covered yesterday, Glenn Greenwald exhaustively back-traced where the 'Russia-hacked-the-election'
meme came from and that it was pure spin. The original author who set the entire farce in motion later admitted it was
all a mistake, and in his own 'Mea Culpa' revealed that according to the subtext of extensive emails from a Newsweek reporter
pressuring him to allow the lie to live, it was US intelligence agencies pushing to spread this narrative. The
"17 agencies that actually confirmed" it was the Russians? Well it turns out that was one guy, namely DCI James
Clapper: the head of US intelligence. The same man who committed perjury before congress after his NSA
surveillance program was leaked.
Clinton
Caught Obstructing Congressional Investigation Into Private Server. The congressional leader of a key House committee governing the
use of technology announced on Thursday [10/20/2016] that Congress is taking unprecedented action to hold in contempt a computer company that supplied
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with her private email server, which was since found to contain classified information in violation of
federal protocol. Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas), chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, informed reporters that
he is moving forward with procedures to hold in contempt Platte River Networks, a security firm that helped maintain Clinton's private servers.
Smith announced that he is in possession of emails that show Clinton's lawyer instructed companies involved with the server to thwart an official
investigation by Congress.
Clinton
server email at heart of 'quid pro quo' controversy contained Benghazi intel. The email at the heart of a "quid
pro quo" controversy involving a senior State Department executive and the FBI contained intelligence about suspects in the
2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, two government sources told Fox News. Heavily redacted FBI interview summaries, known
as 302s, state that Patrick Kennedy, a top lieutenant to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, wanted to deep-six
the email — which was one of two on her personal server that kick-started the FBI investigation into the
mishandling of classified information on her unsecured system.
More
Clinton classified email emerges in State Department document dump. The State Department released another batch
of emails from former Secretary Hillary Clinton's secret email server Friday [10/21/2016] and at least one of them is a new message
not released before, but which contains sensitive classified information. The Jan. 26, 2010, message was sent by top
personal aide Huma Abedin to Mrs. Clinton relaying a conversation someone named "Jeff" had with the foreign minister of
the United Arab Emirates. All of the information is redacted in the message, and is classified as "confidential" —
the lowest level of secrecy. It was flagged because it containts information gleaned from foreign sources and about U.S.
foreign policy operations.
Missing
From Hacked Emails: Hillary Clinton Herself. 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.
WikiLeaks:
White House Knew 'POTUS And HRC Emailed'. The White House knew President Barack Obama had emailed former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account that was run out of an unsecured server in her New York home,
according to emails released by WikiLeaks. Obama told CBS News in March 2015 he learned of Clinton's private server the
way basically all Americans did, "through news reports." But emails hacked from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's Gmail
account suggest the White House already knew about Clinton's private email server.
WikiLeaks:
Obama Knew About Hillary Clinton's Private Email. President Barack Obama did know that Hillary Clinton was
using a private email address, despite his assertion that he learned about it "through news reports." The president's
answer was a problem for Clinton aide Philippe Reines, who flagged the issue for top Clinton aides as well as White House
communications director Jennifer Palmieri in an email. "It's not unreasonable to assume that Josh [Earnest] is going to
get asked how this was possible, and he should have the factset," Reines wrote on March 8, 2015.
Clinton
Emails with Petraeus Reveal Her 'BlackBerry Blues;' Clinton Tells Then-CENTCOM Commander to Use Her 'Personal Email Address'.
Judicial Watch today [10/20/2016] released new State Department documents containing email correspondence between former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus, in which she had what she termed "blackberry blues" over her inability to use her BlackBerry
inside her secure office. The FBI recovered these new emails from those not turned over by Hillary Clinton. These emails are
government documents and not personal emails, as Clinton claims in defending her decision to not turn over 30,000 emails sent or received
by her as secretary of state. The emails also show she knew about the security issues of her BlackBerry use (and yet denied recalling
anything about it or refused to answer questions).
Clinton
Campaign And Harry Reid Worked With NYT To Smear State Dept Watchdog. The Clinton campaign coordinated with
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid to use The New York Times to smear the State Department's deputy inspector general as State's
internal watchdog was investigating Clinton aide Huma Abedin, The Daily Caller can report. The scheme is revealed in a
series of emails hacked from the Gmail account of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. The most damning message is a
Nov. 13, 2015 email that Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon sent to Phil Schiliro, a former White House official
and longtime Democratic operative who has helped the Clinton campaign in various capacities.
FBI: 6 Ways the Corrupt Obama
State Department Tried to Cover Up Hillary's Illegal Email Activities. [#3] Like the Rose Law Firm files, some critical emails
"disappeared": Clinton's legal team at first informed the State Department that it had prepared 14 banker boxes of printed emails for
production to the government. However, when officials arrived at her lawyer's office to retrieve the emails, they found only
12 boxes... [those] 12 boxes that did end up in State Department custody contained 52,455 pages of emails, packed into
the boxes "with no folders or known method of organization."
Hillary
Clinton's email problems just came roaring back. For the past few months, Hillary Clinton's decision to
exclusively use a private email server while at the State Department has receded as a campaign issue as Donald Trump's
comments about women have come to dominate the daily chatter about the 2016 race. On Monday [10/17/2016], however, the
various issues associated with Clinton's email setup came roaring back. According to emails released by the FBI,
Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy asked the FBI to ease up on classification decisions in exchange for allowing more
FBI agents in countries where they were not permitted to go. The words "quid pro quo" were used to describe the
proposed exchange by the FBI official.
FBI
agents let Hillary's aide offer to bribe them to tamper with evidence in probe. Fox News' senior judicial
analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano had a hard-hitting question for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response to the
release on Monday [10/17/2016] of over 100 new documents related to the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server. One of documents appears to prove the undersecretary of state purportedly offered a deal to the FBI in exchange
for the bureau agreeing to reclassify documents in order to protect Hillary Clinton, a "quid pro quo" as described by an FBI
agent. Appearing on "America's Newsroom," Napolitano said the document points to several potential offenses.
"I've never seen this in my career, where an effort is made to change a document after it is evidence in a criminal
prosecution," he said.
Ecuador
ordered Assange's internet cut off to tilt election toward Clinton, experts say. While both WikiLeaks and
Ecuadorean officials have only made sparse comments on the cutting of Assange's internet access, there is speculation that
President Rafael Correa is looking to repair the icy relationship between his country and the U.S. and he is hedging his bets
that Clinton will win the race for the White House. "It may in part have to do with Correa thinking that to assist the
campaign of Donald Trump would be unconscionable," Eric Hershberg, the director of American University's Center for Latin
American and Latino Studies, told Fox News Latino in reference to the idea that the WikiLeaks' releases are helping the GOP
nominee's run for the White House.
Does night follow day? Did Ecuador
Take Away Assange's Internet to Protect Hillary? Holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in Great Britain four four
years, the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange had is internet access was shut down by the government of Ecuador after leak
two weeks Assange leaking the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign head John Podesta. [...] The removal of Assange's internet
access did not stop the podesta emails from going out. Monday's was delayed, but Tuesday's batch went out in the
morning as usual.
Trump's
servers show glaring security flaws. Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton's use of a private
email system while serving as secretary of State, but the Republican presidential nominee's corporate enterprise appears to
be equally vulnerable to cyberattacks. A digital security architect on Monday evening [10/17/2016] discovered several
weaknesses in the Trump Organization's email servers, which appeared to be outdated and not patched for security flaws.
The Editor says...
Nice try, but this entire story is a non sequitur and a red herring, most likely intended to benefit Hillary Clinton on the basis
of "See? He does it, too!" If Trump's servers have security holes, that's not really our problem, and has no
comparison to Hillary's clandestine email server, because [#1] Trump's server doesn't contain national security secrets,
and [#2] Trump's servers were not set up for the purpose of information from the government and the public by dodging
the Freedom of Information Act.
State
Department tried to bribe FBI to unclassify Clinton emails. A top State Department official offered a "quid pro
quo" to an FBI investigator to declassify an e-mail from Hillary Clinton's private server in exchange for allowing the bureau
to operate in countries where it was banned, stunning new documents revealed Monday [10/17/2016]. The FBI documents show
that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy pitched the deal to the unnamed agent, allegedly as part of an effort to back up
Clinton's claim that she did not send or receive classified documents on the server in her Westchester home.
The
great Clinton cover-up: FBI's Hillary email files are covered in redactions which leave some pages
unreadable. The FBI released a trove of information on its investigation of Hillary Clinton on
Monday — but it would take a forensic investigation to try to make sense of many of the heavily-redacted
documents. Some pages that were technically released have their contents entirely redacted. Others are redacted
piecemeal so as to make them almost completely unreadable. The documents consist of summaries and notes from the
agency's long investigation into Clinton's private email server and whether she mishandled classified information.
Intelligence
Chair Calls for 'Abuse of Power' Investigation in State Dept. Handling of Clinton Email Classification.
House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R.-Calif.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman
Jason Chaffetz (R.-Utah) wrote to the inspector general of the State Department today calling for him to "initiate an inquiry
into apparent abuse of power by senior State Department personnel trying to influence classification determinations for
emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton."
Whatever it takes to keep the dirt under the carpet until after Election Day... Ecuador
cut off Assange's internet at U.S. request, WikiLeaks says. Wikileaks said Tuesday [10/18/2016] that Secretary
of State John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, from publishing leaked emails that could disrupt
peace negotiations with a guerrilla group in Colombia. Assange, who has been in refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London
for more than four years, saw his access to the internet cut over the weekend.
New
WikiLeaks Release Contains Clinton Campaign Emails on Benghazi, Israel. Ed Henry reported on "America's
Newsroom" today about the latest WikiLeaks release of Hillary Clinton campaign emails. Henry said that the 11th dump of
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's emails, which came out Tuesday morning, contains interesting details on the campaign's
narrative on the Benghazi terror attack and strategy for showing support for Israel.
Obama
Says 'Not True' FBI And State Made Deal on Clinton E-Mails. President Barack Obama said claims that officials
at the State Department and FBI discussed a quid pro quo agreement over the classification of an e-mail on Hillary Clinton's
private server were "just not true." "Some of the more sensational implications or appearances aren't based on actual
events," Obama said Tuesday [10/18/2016] during a news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House.
The Editor engages in mocking derision:
If Barack H. Obama says so, it must be true!
Is this for real?
The emails below were forwarded to me just before the holiday started. I cannot vouch for their authenticity, but if
they are true, wow....
The
FBI's Own Investigation Summary Proves Hillary Clinton Broke The Law. According to documents released today [10/17/2016],
Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy pressured a senior FBI official into unclassifying emails sent from Hillary Clinton's illegal
private server. The FBI official notes that Kennedy contacted the organization to ask for the change in classification in "exchange
for a 'quid pro quo.'" More specifically, "State would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more agents in
countries where they are presently forbidden," according to a conversation relayed by The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, who
broke the story this weekend. The FBI did not take Kennedy up on his offer.
Hillary's
Henchmen Pressured FBI on Classification of Documents. Today [10/17/2016] the FBI released another 100 pages
relating to its investigation of Hillary Clinton's conduct as Secretary of State. Why it has taken so long for the agency
to review, redact and publish a very small quantity of documents is inexplicable. Be that as it may, the documents released
today are explosive. You may have seen headlines to the effect that Hillary's State Department tried to pressure the FBI
to say that various documents located on Hillary's insecure home server were not classified. This was critical, obviously,
because one of Hillary's lines of defense was to claim, falsely, that she never sent or received classified documents on her
off-the-books email system.
It's
'felony corruption!' Trump demands resignation of State Dept. undersecretary at the center of FBI firestorm.
Donald Trump told a screaming crowd of supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Monday night [10/17/2016] that electing him is
the best way to end the 'corruption' exhibited in the Hillary Clinton investigative documents released by the FBI earlier in
the day. And he called for the ouster of Patrick Kennedy, the State Department undersecretary at the center of Monday's
firestorm. Calling Clinton-related corruption 'magnitudes worse than Watergate,' Trump castigated Kennedy for trying to
persuade the bureau to declassify one of Hillary Clinton's emails related to the 2012 Benghazi, Libya terror attack.
FBI
confirms: Officials discussed deal to cover up Clinton emails. Newly released documents from the FBI's
year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's server indicate a State Department official proposed a "quid pro quo" aimed at
getting the FBI to cover up classified emails discovered on Clinton's server. In return, an unnamed FBI official said
it might be open to a deal if the State Department could agree to boosting the FBI's presence in Iraq. The FBI notes
released Monday [10/17/2016] show that Patrick Kennedy, State's undersecretary for management, pressured the FBI to change
the classified markings on an email that had been upgraded to "secret."
Pressure
Cited Against Marking Clinton E-Mails Classified. A State Department team responsible for determining which
records should be kept secret felt "immense pressure" not to label any of about 300 e-mails found on Hillary Clinton's
private e-mail server as classified, according to interview summaries released by the FBI. Officials from the State
Department's Information Programs and Services office began a review in March 2015 of 296 e-mails that were set to be turned
over to a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. "IPS felt immense pressure to complete the
review quickly and not label anything as classified," according to interview notes from a State Department official whose
name wasn't disclosed in the FBI summary.
Top
Clinton aide offered FBI a funding 'quid pro quo' if agents helped him bury a Benghazi email — 'never to be seen
again'. A senior State Department official pressured the FBI to declassify one of Hillary Clinton's emails
related to the Benghazi terror attack so he could use a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act to make sure it would
never see the light of day, according to notes from an FBI interview released Monday [10/17/2016]. State Department
Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, the FBI file shows, discussed the possibility of approving the FBI's request
for funding 'to place more agents in countries where they are presently forbidden.' The FBI agent who interviewed him
during the investigation into classified documents housed on Clinton's now-infamous secrt email server called the proposal a
'quid pro quo.'
The Editor says...
Apparently there was something in that email message that Hillary Clinton wanted to permanently suppress, and it had something to do
with Benghazi.
Hillary
Answers Judicial Watch Under Oath — "Does Not Recall" Most Of Her Tenure As Secretary Of State. Back in
August, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted Judicial Watch the right to ask 25 questions of Hillary Clinton
about the creation of her private email server which she was required to answer under oath. This morning Hillary filed her
response to those 25 questions which can be best summarized by the following stats: Occurrences of the phrase "Does Not
Recall": 20 Occurrences of the word "Object" or "Objection": 84 To summarize the 23-page response, Hillary
"does not recall" the majority of her tenure as Secretary of State and "objects" to everything that she does recall.
Wikileaks:
Clinton Sent Intelligence Info To Podesta's Hacked Email Account. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton sent a lengthy Middle East intelligence breakdown in an email to longtime ally and lobbyist John Podesta while he was
working in the White House. "With all of its tragic aspects, the advance of ISIL through Iraq gives the U.S. Government
an opportunity to change the way it deals with the chaotic security situation in North Africa and the Middle East," Clinton
wrote to Podesta in an August 2014 email obtained by WikiLeaks.
The
Most Explosive WikiLeaks Clinton Revelations (So Far). [#7] Collusion with State Department on managing Clinton's email scandal:
It's pretty clear from these emails that Clinton's team knew she broke the law, but they were (justifiably) confident they could trump the rule of
law with politics... and plenty of help from their good friends in the Obama Administration. Other emails illustrate the Clinton team's
conviction that all Democrat scandals can be overcome with distractions and delaying tactics, counting on that 90% Democrat media to be easily
distracted, and to stay quiet while stonewalls are constructed.
Hillary
Clinton's new health woe: email Alzheimer's. Call it "email Alzheimers": Hillary Clinton's remarkable failure
to recall much of anything touching on how she managed to grossly violate security protocols in her years heading the State
Department. Clinton this week had to supply written, sworn answers to 25 questions from the good-government group
Judicial Watch about her home-brewed email setup. On 21 of the 25, she came up with one version or another of, "I
forget." Which, as any lawyer will tell you, is the best way to avoid both self-incrimination and perjury.
Judicial
Watch Releases New Hillary Clinton Email Answers Given under Oath. Judicial Watch today [10/13/2016] released
received responses under oath from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning her email practices. Judicial
Watch submitted twenty-five questions on August 30 to Clinton as ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan. The new Clinton responses in the Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit before Judge
Sullivan was first filed in September 2013 seeking records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former
deputy chief of staff to Clinton. The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about the clintonemail.com system.
Fox:
Clinton Camp Was Worried About Emails Between Hillary and Obama After Server Scandal Broke. Fox News' Ed Henry reported
Friday [10/14/2016] on newly released emails from WikiLeaks that showed President Obama may have known more about Hillary
Clinton's private email server than was initially known by the public. This is part of the weeklong release of emails
that belonged to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta after they were hacked.
'Does
not recall': Clinton dodges email questions in court submission. Hillary Clinton filed written responses this
week to a conservative watchdog group's inquiries into the private and unauthorized email server she maintained when she was
secretary of state, but nearly every one of her answers included the phrase "Secretary Clinton objects to Interrogatory" or
"Secretary Clinton does not recall." Judicial Watch submitted 25 specific questions to the Democratic nominee on Aug. 30,
2016. Clinton and her legal team answered their inquiries point-by-point. The watchdog group's interrogatories mostly
involved either Clinton's public comments on her server or what the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it found in its review of
her email habits.
Clinton
answers written questions under penalty of perjury in email lawsuit. Hillary Clinton submitted formal answers
under penalty of perjury on Thursday [10/13/2016] about her use of a private email server, saying 20 times that she did not
recall the requested information or related discussions, while also asserting that no one ever warned her that the practice
could run afoul of laws on preserving federal records. "Secretary Clinton states that she does not recall being advised,
cautioned, or warned, she does not recall that it was ever suggested to her, and she does not recall participating in any
communication, conversation, or meeting in which it was discussed that her use of a clintonemail.com e-mail account to conduct
official State Department business conflicted with or violated federal recordkeeping laws," lawyers for Clinton wrote.
Clinton
changes story, admits she didn't have permission for secret email server. Hillary Clinton admitted under oath
this week that she doesn't recall asking anyone for permission to use a secret server and email account during her time in
the State Department, contradicting previous public pronouncements that she had received approval. Mrs. Clinton
said she didn't recall seeing a 2011 warning about increased hacking attempts on senior department officials' private
accounts and that she didn't actually write another warning that was sent under her name. "Secretary Clinton states
that she does not recall being advised, cautioned, or warned during her tenure as Secretary of State about hacking or
attempted hacking of her clintonemail.com e-mail account or the server that hosted her clintonemail.com account," she
said in sworn testimony dated Monday and filed in federal court Thursday [10/13/2016].
Emails
reveal Clinton camp's scramble to craft, defend server story. Hillary Clinton's top aides privately debated
whether to joke about her emerging email scandal, if they should shift some blame to former secretaries of state and how to
frame, explain and defend her use of a homebrewed server in a series of purported March 2015 emails revealed by WikiLeaks
this week. The emails, which originated on the Gmail account of Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta, paint a
portrait of a political team alternately worried and defiant in the face of their boss' mushrooming email disclosure.
Through the early days of the email revelations, and even throughout the summer as further discoveries turned up the heat,
Clinton's group sweated the minutiae of her carefully crafted responses in an attempt to keep the campaign's preferred
narrative on track.
Wikileaks
Dump Provides More Evidence of Clinton Camp and State Dept. Cozy Coordination Over Emails. The fourth round of
emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were released on Wednesday morning [10/12/2016] by Wikileaks. The
new emails shed more light on the apparent cozy relationship between the Clinton campaign and the State Department and provide the
strongest evidence to date of direct coordination in the release of Hillary Clinton's emails. On Tuesday LawNewz.com wrote
about a March 2015 email that showed that a Clinton top aide and lawyer named Heather Samuelson received a heads up about a
pending release of emails in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. Samuelson left the State
Department in 2013 along with Clinton and her other top aides, so some questioned how she managed to get ahold of the information
about the release before Judicial Watch, or the general public.
This
Man Did What Hillary Did With Classified Information, And He's In Jail. Last week, a person was arrested for
allegedly having classified documents at home without authorization. No, it wasn't Hillary Clinton — but it
makes you wonder, why not? Police executed a warrant to search Harold Thomas Martin III's home and found classified
documents. Did police execute a warrant to search Clinton's home? No, of course not. What is the evidence
against Martin? First, they found documents that "contained highly classified information of the United States, including
Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI)." Hillary Clinton's server also contained eight email chains
of Top Secret information and had emails classified as Special Access Programs an even more restricted subcategory of Sensitive
Compartmented Information.
Emails
show Clinton aides discussing home server. Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton's campaign team was eager to move
past the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server last year as it debated how to respond to the issue.
The
New FBI Investigation Clinton Faces. On July 5th, 2016, FBI Director James Comey announced to the world that
Hillary Clinton would not face criminal repercussions for her private email server. Many thought Clinton was home-free,
ready to race for the White House and declare herself president. Yes, the FBI investigation into her email server was
over, but as Ed Klein's new book, Guilty as Sin, reveals, there is another FBI investigation of Clinton brewing, and
it is going to be a lot harder for her to shake this one. The Associated Press, not exactly a bastion of conservative
propaganda, reported in late August that "more than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton when
she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the
Clinton Foundation."
Leaked
emails reveal Clinton campaign's attempts to distract from email scandal. In one conversation from March of
last year, for example, Podesta suggested distracting from the email saga by focusing on the congressional Benghazi
inquiry. "My perspective is that we want the fight to be about Benghazi, not about servers in her basement," Podesta
wrote to Cheryl Mills, a board member at the Clinton Foundation. The House Select Committee on Benghazi had uncovered
the existence of Clinton's private server weeks earlier, and was at that time pursuing her testimony in a closed-door
meeting. That never happened, and it was not until October of last year that members of the committee were able to
question Clinton in a highly-anticipated public hearing.
Contradicting
FBI view, Clinton's leaked speeches portray her as computer savvy. Contrary to views collected by the FBI that
Hillary Clinton was a technophobe unsophisticated in the use of computers, her paid speeches indicate that she was well aware
of the dangers of computer hacking and penetration and that diplomats would be "totally vulnerable" without extreme
precautions. Excerpts from Clinton's speeches, which she refused to release during her hard fought primary campaign
against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, were among some 2,050 private emails published Friday [10/7/2016] by the anti-secrecy
website Wikileaks, after what the Obama administration says was a Russian intrusion that obtained the data.
New
Emails Show From Day #1 Obama Administration Involved In Managing Clinton Email Scandal. Now newly released
emails reported on by The Wall Street Journal show that from day one senior White House officials, including one
headed for the campaign, and one of Clinton's own attorneys who received immunity from prosecution, were coordinating
responses with senior State Department officials about how to "manage" the growing Clinton email scandal These emails further
raise questions about the integrity of officials at the highest levels of government in handling this matter.
White
House Coordinated on Clinton Email Issues, New Documents Show. Newly disclosed emails show top Obama administration officials
were in close contact with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations that
the former secretary of state used a private email server.
WSJ:
Docs Reveal White House Coordination on Clinton Emails. Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal writes that the Obama administration
was aware of Hillary Clinton's private email server problems in early 2015 and coordinated with her staff on the matter.
Sen.
Jeff Sessions: Senate Must Investigate FBI's 'Breathtaking' Destruction of Evidence, Immunity to Cheryl
Mills. Sen. Jeff Sessions tells radio talk show Howie Carr he's lost confidence in FBI Director James B.
Comey Jr. The Alabama Republican adds that he thinks the Senate should investigate how the FBI granted immunity to
Clinton Foundation director Cheryl Mills and destroyed evidence under congressional subpoena. "I was a U.S. attorney
and an assistant U.S. attorney before that and I have been through a lot of these issues," Sessions says.
A Banana Republic, If We Choose to Keep It. ##
That Hillary remains in the running at all is the most concrete affirmation of our descent into lawlessness. Not only did the FBI
grant immunity to key witnesses in the Clinton email scandal, many of whom promptly returned the favor by asserting their Fifth Amendment
right not to testify before Congress — when they weren't completely ignoring a congressional subpoena — but the Bureau agreed to
destroy the laptops of former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson. Just as revealing,
the FBI agents limited their search to documents authored before January 2015, relinquishing "any opportunity to find evidence related
to the destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice related to Secretary Clinton's unauthorized use of a private email server during
her tenure as Secretary of State," stated a letter sent to the Attorney General Loretta Lynch by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob
Goodlatte (R-VA). It gets worse. This side deal was made despite the reality the laptops could have been obtained via a
subpoena with no conditions attached. And when classified government documents are found on a computer, that computer legally
becomes government property. Furthermore, Mills — despite being the subject of a criminal investigation — was allowed to
participate as one of Clinton's lawyers, with the concomitant assertion of attorney-client privilege, during Clinton's holiday
weekend "interview" with the FBI.
Republicans
blast FBI for 'astonishing' agreement to destroy Clinton aides' laptops. Top-ranking Republicans on Wednesday [10/5/2016]
escalated their inquiry into a controversial FBI agreement to destroy the laptops of two Hillary Clinton aides questioned in the email
scandal investigation, pressing Attorney General Loretta Lynch for answers and suggesting the deal obstructed congressional investigators.
The agreement to destroy the computers, the lawmakers wrote Wednesday in a letter to Lynch, "is simply astonishing given the likelihood that
evidence on the laptops would be of interest to congressional investigators." The letter, signed by four Republican committee chairmen,
follows allegations Monday that immunity deals for former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson included
a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices.
How the FBI wound
up destroying evidence. Welcome to the Twilight Zone: Under immunity deals given to two key Hillary
Clinton aides in the e-mail probe, the FBI wound up destroying evidence. Once they were done searching two laptops used
to store Clinton's e-mails, the agents had to destroy them. They also had to limit their search to include nothing
after January 2015 — that is, before news broke of the whole home-brewed-server business. Meaning the FBI
investigation had that much less chance of stumbling across fresh proof of obstruction of justice.
Please
Tell Me These FBI/DOJ 'Side Deals' with Clinton E-Mail Suspects Didn't Happen. According to House Judiciary
Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), the immunity agreements struck by the Justice Department with Cheryl Mills and
Heather Samuelson, two top subjects of the FBI's Clinton e-mail investigation, included "side agreements." Pursuant to
these side agreements, it was stipulated that (a) the FBI would not scrutinize any documents dated after January 31, 2015
(i.e., about five weeks before the most disturbing actions suggestive of obstruction of justice occurred); and (b) the
FBI — in an investigation critically involving destruction of documents — would destroy the computers
after conducting its search.
How
did Cheryl Mills get immunity if she was also acting as Clinton's lawyer? GOP lodges formal complaint with D.C.
bar. The Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the D.C. bar seeking disciplinary measures against
longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills for allegedly having a 'conflict of interest' when representing Clinton during her
FBI interview in connection with her emails scandal. Mills has represented Clinton as she fielded questions from FBI
investigators as well while also fielding questions from congressional staff and lawmakers about whether she mishandled
classified information and broke record keeping laws with her private email server.
FBI
Colluded with Democrats, Team Clinton on Email 'Prosecution'. The clueless Republicans — like most Americans —
simply cannot bring themselves to realize what sort of government we are now living under. [...] The Obama administration has corrupted and
weaponized the major enforcement agencies of the federal government, including the IRS and the FBI, and now is reaching down to the local level
in order to bring municipal police forces under Washington's control.
Corrupt:
FBI Agreed to Destroy Laptops of Clinton's Top Aides in Immunity Deal. The FBI agreed to destroy the laptops of two of Hillary
Clinton's top aides as part of their immunity deals, House Judiciary Committee sources revealed on Monday [10/3/2016]. The side agreements
were made with former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson and also limited the FBI's search to
no later than Jan. 31, 2015. In other words, investigators could not review documents after the server became public,
"preventing the bureau from discovering if there was any evidence of obstruction of justice," according to the sources.
Russian server co. head on DNC
hack: 'No idea' why FBI still has not contacted us. Blaming Russia because servers are from here is "absurd,"
Vladimir Fomenko, owner of the Russian server company implicated in the DNC hack, told RT adding that they are ready to help
any special service in investigating the attack. Fomenko's web hosting service, King Servers, was identified by
American cybersecurity company ThreatConnect as the platform for the attack on emails of the Democratic National Committee.
Six out of the eight IP addresses used by the hackers were hosted on King Servers, ThreatConnect claimed in September.
FBI
agreed to destroy immunized Clinton aides' laptops, sources say. Sources said the arrangement with former Clinton chief of staff
Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson also limited the search to no later than Jan. 31, 2015. This meant investigators
could not review documents for the period after the email server became public — in turn preventing the bureau from discovering if there
was any evidence of obstruction of justice, sources said. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter Monday [10/3/2016]
to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking why the DOJ and FBI agreed to the restrictive terms, including that the FBI would destroy the laptops after
finishing the search.
DOJ
Reached 'Side Agreements' To Limit Search Of Clinton Lawyers' Laptops. As part of its immunity deals with
Hillary Clinton's lawyers, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, the Justice Department agreed to destroy laptops the attorneys
turned over to federal investigators and to limit searches of the devices to documents created before Jan. 31, 2015.
The perplexing "side agreements" are revealed in a letter that Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte sent to Attorney General Loretta
Lynch on Monday [10/3/2016]. Investigators with the House Judiciary Committee, which Goodlatte chairs, were able to review
the DOJ's agreements with Mills and Samuelson, who worked as aides to Clinton at the State Department before taking jobs as
her lawyers.
The
FBI director can't defend immunity for Hillary Clinton's aides — which says volumes. Two revealing,
if largely unnoticed, moments came in the middle of FBI Director Jim Comey's Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary
Committee. When combined, these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass. Congress hauled
Mr. Comey in to account for the explosive revelation that the government granted immunity to Clinton staffers Cheryl
Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified
information. Rep. Tom Marino (R., Pa.), who was once a Justice Department prosecutor and knows how these
investigations roll, provided the first moment. He asked Mr. Comey why Ms. Mills was so courteously offered
immunity in return for her laptop — a laptop that Mr. Comey admitted investigators were very keen to
obtain. Why not simply impanel a grand jury, get a subpoena, and seize the evidence?
FBI
Docs: Hillary Deleted Nearly 1,000 Emails With David Petraeus. A potentially explosive nugget from the
FBI's Friday document dump of investigatory notes from the Clinton email probe has been all but ignored by the media.
And that is the revelation that Hillary Clinton deleted 1,000 work-related emails between herself and General David Petaeus
from his time as the director of the United States Central Command.
It's
Alive: FBI files reveal how Clinton server was created in K Street lab. If Hillary Clinton's 'homebrew'
server ever got the Mary Shelley treatment, IT specialist Bryan Pagliano would make a fine Dr. Frankenstein —
FBI documents reveal new details about how he painstakingly created the machine over a series of months while working in a room
along Washington's storied K Street. According to files released last Friday evening, Pagliano worked to design and build
the now-infamous server inside a room once used as part of Clinton's campaign headquarters.
Reps:
Clinton aides who got immunity deals directed email scrubbing. The tech specialist who scrubbed Hillary
Clinton's email archive and was recently found to have sought help on Reddit for how to hide a certain "VIP's" email address
was acting at the behest of Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a top House Republican charged
Wednesday [9/28/2016]. "The clincher: just last week, he's going online and trying to delete these Reddit posts,"
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said of Colorado-based tech specialist Paul Combetta, who reached a limited immunity deal with
the Justice Department. "He's trying to cover up his tracks, he's trying to cover up the cover up."
Issa:
FBI Can Now Choose To Look 'Less Effective' Or 'Corrupt'. House Judiciary Committee member and Republican
California Rep. Darrell Issa says the Federal Bureau of Investigation got nothing out of punting the Hillary Clinton
classified e-mail probe but a "bad reputation." "The FBI can now choose between looking like a less effective
investigative organization or they can look corrupt," Issa told The Daily Caller Wednesday night. "Because either they
gave too much or too little along with the Justice Department."
FBI
Director Comey Took Millions From Clinton Foundation Defense Contractor. Is anyone surprised by this
corruption? When FBI Director James Comey said that the organization would not be seeking to bring charges against
Hillary Clinton over her illegal email server, anyone paying attention knew there was a deep level of corruption. Now,
it's been made clear. James Comey received millions of dollars from the corrupt Clinton Foundation, and his brother's
law firm also does the Clinton's taxes.
Congressman:
Cheryl Mills 'Lied To Everybody' About Hillary's Server. FBI Director James Comey made excuses for Hillary
Clinton's former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills on Wednesday when asked about conflicting statements she made
to federal investigators about when she learned of the former secretary of state's private email server. "Having done
many investigations myself, there's always conflicting recollections of facts, some of which are central [to the investigation],
some of which are peripheral," Comey told Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
The
FBI's Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup. It's bad enough that FBI Director James Comey
agreed to pass out immunity deals like candy to material witnesses and potential targets of his investigation into former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's illegal private email server. But now we learn that some of them were immunized
despite lying to Comey's investigators. In the latest bombshell from Congress' probe into what's looking more and more
like an FBI whitewash (or coverup) of criminal behavior by the Democratic nominee and her aides, the Denver-based tech who
destroyed subpoenaed emails from Clinton's server allegedly lied to FBI agents after he got an immunity deal.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Hillary's Security Clearance Should Have Been Revoked Long Ago. When debate moderators get
tired of asking Donald Trump about Barack Obama's birth certificate or the Miss Universe pageant, they might want to pose a
question to Hillary Clinton that is actually worth asking. Namely: "Why did you fail to take any of the mandatory
training courses on how to handle classified material — required to keep your security clearance —
while you were Secretary of State?" The fact that Clinton didn't get this training has now been firmly established,
thanks to the dogged work of the Daily Caller, which has been suing the State Department for documents what would indicate
if Clinton had.
Congressman
Drops Bombshell Says FBI Gave Broader Immunity to Clinton Aides Than First Disclosed. FBI Director James Comey
appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday [9/28/2016] where he testified before the House Judiciary Committee and further
discussed the Bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. During one exchange with Congressman Darrell
Issa, Issa let out a pretty big revelation about the scope of immunity granted to Clinton aides. Issa claims it was
much broader than first disclosed. He claims that Clinton top aide Cheryl Mills also received immunity for destroying documents.
FBI
Director James Comey Admits "Stonetear" is Paul Combetta During Hearing. It has been 10 days since we
originally presented the Stonetear Revelations on September 19th. Yesterday [9/28/2016], Ohio Representative Jim Jordan
questioned FBI Director James Comey about the "Stonetear" Reddit posting. Director Comey admits that Stonetear
is in fact Paul Combetta, and the "VERY VIP" was, indeed, Hillary Clinton.
FBI
Director: An FBI Agent Would 'Be In Big Trouble' If They Did What Hillary Did. FBI director James Comey on
Wednesday [9/28/2016] said that an FBI agent who operated a private email system similar to Hillary Clinton's would be "in big
trouble" at the bureau. Comey was responding in a House Judiciary Committee hearing to an allegation from Ohio Rep. Steve
Chabot that the decision to not charge Clinton with mishandling classified information showed a "double standard." Comey
said that he disagreed with that characterization. But he added that she would not get off scot-free.
Dem
lawmaker wears Hillary pin during House hearing on Clinton email probe. Wearing a candidate's campaign pin is
hardly out of the ordinary this election season. But doing it while conducting congressional oversight at a hearing
where that candidate's conduct is front-and-center — that's another matter. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee,
D-Texas, raised eyebrows Wednesday when she showed up wearing a gold Hillary Clinton campaign pin to a House Judiciary
Committee hearing dealing with the FBI probe regarding Clinton's private email server. The committee heard testimony
from FBI Director James Comey on the agency's decision not to pursue charges and a newly revealed set of controversial
immunity deals given to Clinton's staff.
Behind
the Clinton Immunity Deals. Immunity deals are granted precisely to prosecute a case and, in the absence of
utter corruption, would never be issued unless prosecutors had other more valuable targets they intended to put away in
return for letting some of the smaller fry go. That this did not happen in the Clinton email case is another factor
that makes the decision so utterly fraught. Just as unusually, the five immunized witnesses apparently were not
required to cooperate with federal authorities or with Congress in return for their deals, other than providing a limited
amount of immunized information.
Obama's
Conflict Tanked the Clinton E-mail Investigation — As Predicted. [Huma] Abedin knew an insurance
policy when she saw one. If Obama himself had been e-mailing over a non-government, non-secure system, then
everyone else who had been doing it had a get-out-of-jail-free card. Thanks to Friday's FBI document dump —
189 more pages of reports from the Bureau's year-long foray ("investigation" would not be the right word) into the Clinton
e-mail scandal — we now know for certain what I predicted some eight months ago here at NRO: Any possibility of
prosecuting Hillary Clinton was tanked by President Obama's conflict of interest. [...] It would not have been possible for
the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton for her offense without its becoming painfully apparent that 1) Obama, too, had
done everything necessary to commit a violation of federal law, and 2) the communications between Obama and Clinton were
highly relevant evidence.
Surprise,
It Looks Like Obama Lied; He Knew Hillary Was Using an Illegal Email Server. President Barack Obama used a
pseudonym when communicating with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by email, and at least one of those emails ended up
on Clinton's private email server, new FBI documents reveal. The FBI dumped a large batch of documents Friday [9/23/2016]
concerning its investigation into Clinton's private email server. The heavily-redacted documents include numerous notes
the Bureau made of interviews with Clinton aides and Department of State officials concerning her private email server.
The
Immunized Five: Meet the People Covering For Hillary. The Justice Department has granted immunity to a grand
total of five individuals involved in the Hillary Clinton email scandal. On Friday [9/23/2016], the FBI, in response to a
subpoena, gave the House Oversight Committee information about immunity agreements reached as part of the Clinton email investigation.
The list included a total of five names, including two Clinton attorneys. Here are their histories and their roles in the
never-ending Clinton email fracas.
How's
the Coverup Going, Hillary? Yesterday the FBI did another Friday afternoon document dump, consisting of more
documents relating to its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email security breaches. The Washington Examiner spotted
this hilarious item from an interview of a Platte River Networks employee who referred in 2014 to "the Hilary coverup operation."
FBI
Clinton Email Report Review — Six Concerning Revelations. [#1] One IT Worker Joked That A 60-Day retention Policy
For Clinton Would Be A "Coverup Operation." "But one IT worker took a somewhat cavalier attitude, joking in one interview that a new
60-day retention policy was a 'Hillary coverup operation' — which sparked the Trump campaign's anger."
Obama
used pseudonym in emails with Clinton. President Obama used a pseudonym in emails to Hillary Clinton, documents
from the FBI released Friday show. The FBI released a large batch documents related to its investigation into Clinton's
private email server Friday afternoon. The files include notes from interviews with several top Clinton aides,
including longtime adviser Huma Abedin. The FBI said in its notes from an Abedin interview that the address on a
Clinton email chain "is believed to be a pseudonym used by the President." Abedin said she didn't recognize the name
and "expressed her amazement" that Obama used a pseudonym.
Obama
reportedly used pseudonym to email with Clinton on her private server. President Obama used a pseudonym when
sending or receiving emails through the private server system Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state, according to nearly
200 pages of documents released Friday [9/23/2016] by the FBI. Included in the documents are notes from an April 2016
interview with long-time Clinton aide Huma Abedin, conducted in connection with the FBI's two-year investigation into Clinton's
use of the private server for official correspondence.
FBI
DOCS: Surprise, It Looks Like Obama Lied; He Knew Hillary Was Using an Illegal Email Server. President Barack
Obama used a pseudonym when communicating with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by email, and at least one of those
emails ended up on Clinton's private email server, new FBI documents reveal. The FBI dumped a large batch of documents
Friday concerning its investigation into Clinton's private email server. The heavily-redacted documents include
numerous notes the Bureau made of interviews with Clinton aides and Department of State officials concerning her private
email server. One of those interviews is with Clinton aide Huma Abedin. During the interview, the FBI presented
Abedin with an email exchange between Clinton and a person she did not recognize. Eventually, the FBI revealed the
unknown person's name was believed to be a pseudonym used by Obama. The revelation provoked consternation from
Abedin. "How is this not classified?" she said, before asking for a copy of the email herself. The FBI
documents do not reveal what Obama's pseudonym was, or what was in the text of the email.
FBI
Release 189 Pages of Investigative Notes Into Clinton Email — Platte River Network and "Stonetear".
All of the current headlines pushed by the MSM are shiny thing distractions from this after hours drop of FBI reports on a
Friday before the presidential debate. The timing of the release this evening by the FBI is yet again evidence the
operational leadership within the DOJ are attempting to diffuse the content to the benefit of Hillary Clinton. Against
the "stonetear" revelations the heavily redacted investigative reports released today carry an increased dynamic. Here
is just one excerpt of importance. [...]
FBI
gave top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills immunity in email probe, rep says. Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff
Cheryl Mills and two other staffers were granted immunity as part of the now-closed FBI probe into the former secretary of
state's email practices, according to a top House Republican who questioned whether the numerous deals hindered the bureau's
ability to build a case. "This is beyond explanation," House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said
in a statement Friday. "The FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy. I've lost confidence in this
investigation and I question the genuine effort in which it was carried out." The arrangements detailed by Chaffetz
bring the total number of publicly known immunity deals in the Clinton case to five.
Clinton
Email Scandal: New Revelations Of Cover-Up Spell Trouble For Hillary. No doubt, Hillary Clinton and her
avid supporters had hoped the email scandal that has plagued her all year was finally beginning to die down. No such
luck. Polls show Americans still care about it — and it remains a major issue in her campaign. The
most recent revelation to show the duplicity and outright lying of Clinton about the email scandal was the discovery that her
outside tech specialist, Paul Combetta of Platte River Networks, sought in July 2014 help on the Reddit forum to delete email
addresses from the files of a "very VIP" client before shipping them to others. Combetta used the screen name
"stonetear," a name he had foolishly used elsewhere on the web, so it was directly traceable to him.
State
Department reveals FBI uncovered 2,800 emails Clinton never turned over. The State Department said Friday it
likely has more than 2,800 new emails former Secretary Hillary Clinton never turned over but were recovered by the FBI, and
will begin releasing them in batches beginning next month. But only a small percentage will be processed before the
election, the department said in court, arguing its resources are stretched too thin to get them done. All told, the
FBI turned over 15,171 emails it recovered that involved Mrs. Clinton, and of those about 60 percent have been deemed
purely personal. That leaves some 5,600 that are work-related, but based on a sample of data, nearly half of those are
duplicates, leaving the 2,800 or so that are new.
Five
Clinton aides received immunity deals in FBI probe. Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff,
received an immunity deal from the Justice Department during the year-long FBI investigation of Clinton's server. Two
other State Department staffers, John Bentel and Heather Samuelson, were also given immunity agreements, bringing the total
number of witnesses who were protected by deals to five. Bryan Pagliano, Clinton's former IT aide, and Paul Combetta,
an employee at the firm hired to manage her server after she left the State Department, received such protection through
deals that were reported previously.
FBI
Gave Hillary Aide Cheryl Mills Immunity During Investigation. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz
(R-UT) revealed that the FBI gave Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills immunity as they investigated her private email
server. This kind of news explains why the FBI recommended the DOJ not prosecute Hillary despite overwhelming evidence.
What
Happens When You Can't Trust the FBI and the Department of Justice? In a stunning Friday (isn't it always?) revelation, we found out that yet
another key figure from Hillary Clinton's "rat pack" — her former chief-of-staff Cheryl Mills — was given immunity in the email server investigation.
As Ed Morrissey points out, that makes "at least five" — who knows how many there really are — who have received this treatment. So far that's
techies Bryan Pagliano and Paul Combetta (more of him in a moment), John Bentel of the Office of Information Resources Management, and Heather Samuelson,
an aide to Mrs. Clinton. How much the public knows of their immunized testimony is clear — nothing.
State
Department convinces udge to delay release of 14,900 new Hillary Clinton emails until after Election Day. The
president of a government transparency group lashed out at the U.S. State Department on Friday after a federal judge ruled
that a trove of Hillary Clinton's emails can be released to the public after Election Day. That means the majority of
messages recovered during an FBI investigation into Clinton's classified email scandal won't see the light of day until well
after Americans pick a new president, raising the possibility that an 'October surprise' might pop up in December or January.
'This is an absolutely corrupt process the State Department has come up with,' Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told The
Wall Street Journal on Friday [9/123/2016], blaming the Obama administration for slow-walking the release.
Day
#4 — The "stonetear" Investigation — Chairman Jason Chaffetz Sends Preservation Notice To Reddit. On Sunday
September 18th, researcher Katica discovered Hillary Clinton's email custodian, Paul Combetta, had an alias "stonetear" used
on a 2014 Reddit forum asking for assistance in altering archived server records for Hillary Clinton. We published the
archive and discovery at 4:30 am Monday Sept 19th. Within hours Combetta scrubs his prior posting and attempts
to delete his web-footprint. However, the information is viral as the internet shares the story.
'Hillary's
Coverup Operation': Bombshell emails from her IT geeks. In an important scoop in Sunday's [New York] Post,
Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein revealed a host of bombshells from internal emails at Platte River Networks, the company
that managed Hillary Clinton's private email servers after she left the State Department.
House
panel holds Clinton IT aide in contempt. Members of the House Oversight Committee voted Thursday [9/22/2016] to hold
Hillary Clinton's former IT aide in contempt of Congress over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony.
Bryan Pagliano, the aide who set up Clinton's private email server, failed to appear before the committee on Sept. 13 and declined
to provide a copy of the immunity agreement given to him by the Justice Department during the year-long FBI investigation of Clinton's
email network. "Subpoenas are not optional," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the Oversight Committee, at a hearing
Thursday to consider Pagliano's fate.
House
panel recommends holding former Clinton IT aide in contempt. The House oversight committee voted Thursday
[9/22/2016] to recommend holding the former State Department IT specialist who set up Hillary Clinton's private server in
contempt of Congress, after he again ignored a subpoena to appear before the panel. The resolution to hold Bryan
Pagliano in contempt goes next to the full House, which would ultimately decide whether to hold the controversial figure in
the Clinton email case in contempt. "Subpoenas are not optional," committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah,
said. "This committee cannot operate, it cannot perform its duty ... if subpoenas are ignored."
DOJ
reportedly granted immunity to computer expert who deleted Clinton emails. The Department of Justice reportedly
gave immunity to a computer expert who deleted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails during its
investigation into her private email server despite being ordered by Congress to keep them. The New York Times reported
Thursday [9/22/2016] that the Justice Department's immunity deal with Paul Combetta likely means that Republican lawmakers'
calls for federal authorities to investigate his deletions will go unheard. The top Republican on the House Oversight
Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, had asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Clinton, her lawyers or
Combetta obstructed justice when the emails were deleted in March 2015.
GOP
subpoenas FBI to turn over Clinton email docs. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar
Smith, R-Texas, subpoenaed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday [9/20/2016] for documents and information related to the
security of the private email account and server Hillary Clinton used when she led the State Department. Smith asked
Comey for the documents in a Sept. 9 letter, but then issued the subpoena after Comey failed to comply with the request.
Rep.
Lamar Smith Demands Interview With "Stonetear" aka Paul Combetta. Hillary Clinton's IT technician Paul Combetta
has been confirmed by all reasonable inquiry to be online user "stonetear" as originally discovered by Katica. The
Clinton camp is scrambling and took the day off today [9/20/2016] in a transparent attempt to come up with a coordinated
strategy. Today, the House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith is demanding answers.
Hillary's
I.T. Guy Paul Combetta, aka: "stonetear" — The Reddit and The Timeline. When Paul Combetta aka
"stonetear" woke up yesterday morning, it's doubtful he would have suspected a two year old archive written under his Reddit
pseudonym would have been on his mind. [...] However, someone must have alerted him asap because within hours of our story
hitting the web (04:45am EDT) Combetta began furiously deleting his Reddit postings, user information, and various media
forum histories.
House
Committee Threatens To Subpoena Clinton Email Tech Who Sought Reddit Advice. A congressional committee is
threatening to subpoena the tech firm that managed Hillary Clinton's server after it was revealed on Monday [9/19/2016] that
one of that company's technicians sought advice on the website Reddit on how to strip the former secretary of state's email
address from her emails. "Yesterday, new information emerged regarding the role of a key Platte River Networks employee
in managing Secretary Clinton's private email server," Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Science, Space
and Technology Committee, wrote to Platte River Networks (PRN) attorney Kenneth Eichner.
Rep.
Chaffetz follows the Clinton 'Email Trail'. This past week, for the first time, we heard public testimony from
technicians who helped set up Hillary Clinton's email systems when she was Secretary of State then helped permanently delete
emails after they were subpoenaed. Which meant that the FBI couldn't review them. This week, The Republican-led house
oversight committee held hearings. Sharyl Attkisson sat down with Chairman Jason Chaffetz to talk about the investigation.
Inside
the scramble to cover up Clinton's private email server. The FBI report noted there were many hacking attempts
into the system, both while Clinton was secretary of state and afterward when Platte River Networks took over the
administration of the home server. The agency said none had been successful, and it never named the hackers or their
points of origin. But multiple internal Platte River emails reviewed by The Post show that computers in China tried on
three occasions in 2014 to log into Clinton's server and a computer in Russia tried once in 2013.
FBI
Botched Clinton Investigation: Never Disclosed Hillary, Aides Used Covert Google Server to Hide Benghazi Emails. It's
like a bad spy movie involving a third-world government. Or perhaps a slap stick comedy. The Secretary of State of the United
States reading, sending, receiving sensitive emails with national security secrets, threats and classified or top secret intelligence over
Google's public Gmail. We expect this from chatting soccer moms but not from the top diplomat of the United States and her aides.
But it gets even worse. The FBI either never discovered this blatant and clandestine violation of federal laws or did and simply covered
it up.
Government
Corruption and Incompetence: The Continuing Saga. It is a stunning, disturbing and persistent pattern of
incompetence, corruption, and possible obstruction of justice. After reading and reviewing the FBI's publicly released
11-page 302 report on its interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the FBI's 47-page summary of its
investigation into the State Department email scandal, it's difficult to come to any other conclusion. These reports
indicate that the Obama Administration has engaged in an alarming pattern of misbehavior despite the President's statement
that "A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency." Abundant evidence of incompetence
and a lack of accountability by the FBI, the Department of Justice, and State Department issues forth from the handling of
the investigation into private email servers and top-secret, classified information.
Oversight
threatens to subpoena IT firm for Clinton server records. The House Oversight Committee is threatening the IT
firm that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server with a subpoena if it fails to turn over related documents.
Earlier this month, the panel asked that the Denver-based Platte River Networks turn over all documents and communications
relating to Clinton's server, as well as specific information on the 2015 deletion of an email archive. The firm did
not respond by the Tuesday deadline set by Oversight. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Wednesday extended the
deadline to Friday, "otherwise, the Committee will be required to issue a subpoena to obtain those materials."
DNI
Declines Required Damage Assessment of Clinton's Leaked Email Secrets. The U.S. intelligence community declined
to conduct a required assessment of the damage to national security caused by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
sending and receiving secrets on a private email server. "ODNI is not leading an [intelligence community]-wide damage
assessment and is not aware of any individual IC element conducting such formal assessments," Joel D. Melstad, a spokesman
for the of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said. The most sensitive classified information leaked
and possibly obtained by foreign intelligence services included ultra-secret information on U.S. drone strikes, according to
American intelligence officials.
Facing Clinton stonewall, Congress
ponders next move. The House Government Oversight Committee subpoenaed three key figures in the Hillary Clinton
email scandal to testify at a hearing Tuesday. Two declined to testify, citing their Fifth Amendment rights. A
third refused to show up at all. One of those who took the Fifth was Paul Combetta, a technician at Platte River
Networks, the company that handled Clinton's email system. Combetta is the man who actually deleted Clinton's email
archives in March 2015, using the now-notorious BleachBit program. The Justice Department reportedly gave Combetta
immunity in its investigation, yet he still refused to talk to Congress.
Powell
warned Clinton not to make him fall guy over email scandal, leaked messages reveal. Colin Powell attempted to
persuade Hillary Clinton and her aides to not use him as a scapegoat for the controversy surrounding Clinton's private email
server, according to leaked emails hacked from Powell's Gmail account. In the emails, which were leaked by the website
D.C. Leaks, Powell wrote to at least one confidant about his repeated warning to Clinton not to blame him for the scandal.
"I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton's party to get their
attention. She keeps tripping into these 'character' minefields," he wrote, according to The Intercept. He
reportedly had tried to settle the matter in a meeting with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills.
Clinton
Email Tech Assistant Had No Security Clearance. The aide who set up former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private servers and email apparently had no security clearance, according to the findings of a congressional committee
Tuesday [9/13/2016]. Clinton aide Justin Cooper turned heads concerning the Department of State records preservation
practices during a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cooper is the same aide who
also sometimes destroyed Clinton's BlackBerry phones, "breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer," the FBI
investigative summary report said.
Hillary's
IT guru says GOP is trying to harass and humiliate him. The State Department official who set up Hillary
Clinton's private email server will not comply with a congressional subpoena seeking his testimony at a House hearing on
Tuesday [9/13/2016], claiming that he is being targeted for public harassment and humiliation. Bryan Pagliano's lawyers
informed the House Oversight Committee on Monday of his plans not to attend the session, according to The Washington
Post. "Any effort to require Mr. Pagliano to publicly appear this week and again assert his Fifth Amendment
rights before a committee of the same Congress, inquiring about the same matter as the Benghazi Committee, furthers no
legislative purpose and is a transparent effort to publicly harass and humiliate our client for unvarnished political
purposes," Pagliano's lawyers at the Beltway firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld wrote in a letter to the Oversight
Committee, which is chaired by Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz.
Lawmaker
Subpoenas FBI Official For ALL Hillary Case Records During House Hearing. In a dramatic moment during a House
hearing on Monday, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz slapped an FBI official with a subpoena for all documents related to the
Hillary Clinton email investigation. "Will the FBI provide to Congress the full file with no redactions of personal
identifiable information?" Chaffetz asked Jason Herring, the FBI's acting assistant director of legislative affairs, during a
House Oversight and Government Reform hearing. "I cannot make that commitment sitting here today," Herring said.
Chaffetz has sought all of the records related to the FBI's Clinton email investigation, including all interview notes, which
are referred to as 302s. Earlier this month, the FBI released a heavily-redacted report of its conclusions from the
investigation.
Clinton's Email
Eraser Takes the Fifth. Paul Combetta, the guy from Platte River Networks who used BleachBit to forever delete
thousands of Clinton emails after they had been subpoenaed, took the Fifth today [9/13/2016] before Congress. Uhh,
people who were involved with a presidential candidate taking the Fifth. It's Watergate redux, and yet Hillary Clinton
remains a viable candidate. Meantime, the dude who maintained Clinton's private server, Brain Pagliano, ignored the
call to testify before Congress altogether.
Platte
River Networks Employee Expressed Concern About Clinton Emails. Yesterday, two witnesses who worked for Platte
River Networks, the Colorado-based firm that managed the Clinton server after Hillary left the State Department, pleaded the
Fifth before the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing titled "Examining Preservation of State Department Records."
In March of 2015, Paul Combetta and Bill Thornton deleted Clinton's archives even though they were aware of a court order and a
congressional subpoena to preserve the records. The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday [9/13/2016] released
an email dated August 19, 2015, that was sent between Platte River Networks employees. The email expressed deep
concern over the destruction of the records.
FBI
Director Comey refused to testify on Clinton emails. FBI Director James Comey refused to attend a classified
briefing with the House Oversight Committee despite receiving an invitation to testify about the bureau's reluctance to
disclose thousands of pages of evidence compiled in its year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email use.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee's top Democrat, said Monday that Comey had declined to appear at the meeting
because he had "already bent over backwards" to explain the FBI's decision-making in the Clinton email case.
Ex-Hillary
Clinton aide refuses to appear at email hearing. Two outside information technology consultants involved in
handling Hillary Clinton's private email setup repeatedly invoked their 5th Amendment rights at a House hearing Tuesday,
while a former State Department information technology official defied a subpoena and failed to show up for the
session. However, a former close aide to Bill Clinton who played a key role in setting up Hillary Clinton's email
system — Justin Cooper — testified publicly on the arrangement for the first time at the House
Oversight Committee hearing.
Clinton
Email Tech Assistant Had No Security Clearance. The aide who set up former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private servers and email apparently had no security clearance, according to the findings of a congressional committee Tuesday
[9/13/2016]. Clinton aide Justin Cooper turned heads concerning the Department of State records preservation practices during
a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cooper is the same aide who also sometimes destroyed
Clinton's BlackBerry phones, "breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer," the FBI investigative summary report said.
Clinton
Aide Subpoenaed Over Server Won't Appear Before Congress. An aide who helped Hillary Clinton maintain her private e-mail
server didn't show up for a congressional hearing Tuesday [9/13/2016] despite a subpoena, while two other witnesses who worked for
a company hired by the Clintons invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions. Bryan Pagliano, a former staffer on
Clinton's 2008 presidential bid who was granted immunity by the Justice Department during a probe of the server, has twice before invoked
his Fifth Amendment rights on the matter and didn't attend the session. The latest call for Pagliano to testify furthered "no
legislative purpose and is a transparent effort to publicly harass and humiliate" him "for unvarnished political purposes," Pagliano's
lawyers wrote in a letter to the committee's chairman, Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah.
Trump
calls Hillary's email crisis 'a far bigger scandal than Watergate' as IT expert who set up her notorious homebrew server
pleads the Fifth Amendment. Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's broadening classified email
scandal is 'a far bigger scandal than Watergate,' as a trio of witnesses in the case cited their Fifth Amendment rights and
refused to talk to Congress about it. 'Hillary Clinton made 13 phones disappear, including with a hammer, so the FBI
couldn't see them,' Trump told an audience of supporters in Clive, Iowa. 'She "bleached" her emails after a Congressional
subpoena — that's after the subpoena — came!' 'Now the people who destroyed the emails are all
pleading the Fifth Amendment in front of Congress today,' Trump fumed.
Judge
Nap: 'Inexplicable' That Clinton Staffers Were Granted Immunity by DOJ. Congress is ramping up its
investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and they're focusing on a Clinton staffer who set up the server
and a computer technician who used a software program to delete backups of her emails. The Justice Department has
apparently granted immunity to those two men, Bryan Pagliano and Paul Combetta. Now, the House Oversight Committee,
led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), wants to know what they told the FBI in exchange for their immunity.
House
probe targets Clinton contractor who deleted subpoenaed email; refused to answer key question from FBI. The
chairman of the House Oversight Committee has sent a letter to the company that handled the technical side of Hillary
Clinton's private email server. Rep. Jason Chaffetz wants to know why an employee of Platte River Networks (PRN),
which was under contract with Clinton to handle the server, deleted large amounts of email after the Clinton team received a
congressional subpoena for the material, and why a PRN technical employee, apparently the one who performed the actual
deletions, asserted a legal privilege and refused to tell the FBI what was said on a conference call he took part in with
Clinton's attorneys on March 25, 2015, around the time the deletions were performed.
Clinton's
experience with classified data contradicts 'unsophisticated' excuse. "She doesn't come into this as your
average person. She comes in as someone who served on the Armed Services Committee, who has been privy to classified
information in the past before she became secretary of state, and, by the way, she was a former first lady," said Sen.
Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who sits on the same committee, and who said she found Mrs. Clinton's
explanation to be incredible. The latest evidence confounding those trying to understand Mrs. Clinton's handling
of emails comes from the FBI, which released notes of its criminal investigation last week showing the former secretary
remarkably unaware of her own classification powers as secretary.
Clinton
Faces Probe for Obstruction of Justice. The chairman of the House oversight panel on Tuesday [9/6/2016] formally requested
the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia investigate Hillary Clinton for obstruction of justice. Rep. Jason
Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Channing
Phillips citing the investigative files the FBI turned over last week. [...] In asking for the obstruction probe, Chaffetz cited
evidence that a contractor working for Clinton deleted email archives in March 2015, despite knowing they were the subject of a
congressional subpoena.
House
GOP Leader Asks US Attorney to Investigate Clinton for Destruction of Evidence. The chairman of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Republican Jason Chaffetz of Utah, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney for Washington,
D.C. Channing Phillips, requesting that he investigate Hillary Clinton for potential destruction of evidence. This was
based on information disclosed by the FBI that a tech firm that Clinton hired to manage her private server deleted thousands
of emails. In the letter, Chaffetz said that "the Committee has identified a sequence of events that may amount to
obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence by Secretary Clinton and her employees and contractors."
Federal
Prosecutor Called On to Investigate Hillary Clinton for 'Obstruction of Justice'. Hillary Clinton was let off
the hook earlier this summer when The Department of Justice hastily dropped the mysterious case of the missing emails.
The flurry of activity coinciding around that curious decision was punctuated by an odd press conference delivered by FBI
Director James Comey, followed by a pronouncement by Attorney General Loretta Lynch that 'of course, she'd be taking the
advice of the FBI and would cease investigation of Mrs. Clinton posthaste.' As is always the case with the
Clintons, there is more to the story. Signaling that a Hillary Clinton presidency would truly be a historically
fractious one, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has now issued a call for the federal
prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton for "obstruction of justice."
Based on her FBI interview, Hillary
is either a total liar or the dumbest person alive. Sometimes I feel like I'm flogging a skeleton, telling you
day after day what a gigantic liar Hillary is. Even when the things we learn make it clear the reality is worse than
anyone previously realized, it's almost as if people have become desensitized to it. Sure, she's a total liar, but
we've known that for years. So what? But it's more than just that. It's also the extent to which
others who should have been holding her accountable bent over backwards to avoid doing so. Specifically I'm thinking
about the director of the FBI and the news media, both of whom have access to extensive evidence of Hillary's dishonesty, and
both of which have declined to take the actions they should have taken with the information they had.
Clinton
email had 'multiple' classified markings, challenging her claim to FBI. New details about the emails on Hillary
Clinton's personal server that contained classified markings call into question her claim to the FBI that she didn't know
what the markings meant — and even believed they represented an alphabetical listing of paragraphs. A
government source told Fox News that virtually every paragraph in one mail contained so-called portion markings used
exclusively for classification purposes. These classified codes are found on the left-hand side and reflect the
classification of the intelligence contained in each paragraph. The Clinton email has one paragraph marked "C" for
"confidential," which is the lowest level of classification. And the source said "multiple paragraphs (on the same
email) are marked, SBU," which means "sensitive but unclassified." Both codes are there so the reader knows what is
classified intelligence.
Justice
Dept. Granted Immunity to Specialist Who Deleted Hillary Clinton's Emails. A computer specialist who
deleted Hillary Clinton's emails despite orders from Congress to preserve them was given immunity by the Justice Department
during its investigation into her personal email account, according to a law enforcement official and others briefed on the
investigation. Republicans have called for the department to investigate the deletions, but the immunity deal with the
specialist, Paul Combetta, makes it unlikely that the request will go far. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, the
top Republican on the House oversight committee, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate whether Mrs. Clinton,
her lawyers or the specialist obstructed justice when the emails were deleted in March 2015.
Clinton
Email Scandal: What Hillary Tells Voters Isn't What She Told The FBI. Since her first news conference on the topic in March 2015,
Clinton has claimed there was no classified material on her server. When classified information started turning up in abundance in her email
chains, she modified her claim to say that none of the emails was marked classified. It's a claim she has made ever since. But
just because Clinton keeps saying something doesn't make it true. And in this case, what she's saying is intentionally misleading. FBI
Director James Comey made it clear that more than 100 emails that Clinton sent or received contained classified information "at the time
they were sent or received." Eight contained Top Secret information. Whether these emails were marked or not is entirely irrelevant,
a point Comey reiterated in his statement on the case."
Hillary
Clinton refuses to explain what she told the FBI about how a concussion impaired her memory. Hillary Clinton
dodged a question on Thursday [9/8/2016] about FBI interview notes that suggested she attributed memory lapses to a 2012
concussion. The FBI released agents' summaries on Friday from a sit-down with Clinton that came just days before the
agency recommended against any criminal prosecution related to her lengthy classified email scandal. 'Can you clarify what
you told the FBI about your concussion?' DailyMail.com asked as Clinton walked away from her podium on the tarmac in White
Plains, N.Y. 'Read the reports,' she responded, offering no explanation.
Colin
Powell DID teach Hillary Clinton how to use private servers and personal email to 'do business with foreign leaders'. Colin Powell told
Hillary Clinton how to use private servers to 'do business' without 'going through State Department servers,' newly released emails have revealed.
Last month Powell claimed that Clinton had been Secretary of State for a year before he told her how he used his personal email accounts while in the same
position. But emails released Wednesday [9/7/2016] by Congressional Democrats show her inquiring about restrictions on her BlackBerry on January 23,
2009, two days after beginning as Secretary of State — and Powell replying.
Rebuttal: Colin
Powell's Outrageous Behavior Is Not a Clinton Defense. Liberals are gleefully parading around what purports
to be an e-mail from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [...] The main
thing to remember is that Powell was not Clinton's boss, professor, mentor, or instruction-giver, and that his intentional
misbehavior does not give sanction to hers. It simply cannot be used (credibly) to defend Mrs. Clinton.
Trump
Tears Into Clinton Over Emails: 'People Who Have Nothing to Hide Don't Smash Phones'. Donald Trump went off on
Hillary Clinton over her emails during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina tonight [9/6/2016]. "People who
have nothing to hide don't smash hammers with phones, they don't," he said. "People who have nothing to hide don't
bleach... their emails or destroy evidence to keep i from being publicly archived, as required under public law." She
said Clinton gets treated better than basically everyone else and said there's no parallel to this kind of thing in history.
Chaffetz:
Clinton bought used Blackberrys on eBay. Reckless users and antiquated technology represent the federal
government's most critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on
Wednesday, a problem he said was exemplified by Hillary Clinton's practice of buying Blackberry devices from eBay. "We
have a huge problem with personnel," Chaffetz said at a forum in Washington, D.C. "I don't want to get into this too much,
but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by
Blackberry. You couldn't buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their
old machine. That's what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it's unnecessary."
Hillary Clinton's People Knowingly Destroyed Emails
They Knew Were Under Congressional and Legal Subpoena. The story is thus: Hillary's emails were broadly
under subpoena by Congress. The State Department agreed to provide them. Hillary had — and this is
problematic in itself — a policy of automatically deleting all emails older than 60 days. This was obviously
a way to avoid the Official Records Act, which requires the permanent retention of all work related records. But after the
New York Times story about Hillary's illegal email system broke, an employee at Platte River realized he had not been deleting
emails older than 60 days. In other words — gasp! — a lot of emails, much older than 60 days,
had built up in Hillary's account, without being deleted.
EmailGate
and the Mystery of the Missing GAMMA. Last week's Federal Bureau of Investigation release of materials relating
to their investigation of Hillary Clinton has reignited the political firestorm surrounding EmailGate. How the
Democratic nominee mishandled her emails while she was secretary of state is again front-page news, which is bad news for
Hillary. Particularly because the FBI's data dump demonstrates clearly that Clinton is either dumb or
dishonest — and perhaps both. Although Team Clinton has responded in their customary fashion, with lawyerly
lies and evasions — nothing was "marked" classified, this is really about over-classification, classification is
too complex for anybody to understand anyway — the FBI's assessment has thoroughly debunked all of them.
Hillary's professed inability to even recognize classified information, thinking the "C" (for Confidential) meant
alphabetical order, will now enter the pantheon of laughable Clinton infamy, alongside her husband's debating the meaning
of "is" while under oath.
FBI
'Unable to Acquire' Any of Clinton's 13 Mobile Devices; Aide Says He Smashed 2 With Hammer. The FBI says its
investigation identified "13 total mobile devices" associated with Hillary Clinton's "two known" phone numbers, both in the
D.C. area code 212. All 13 of those devices "potentially were used to send emails" through Clinton's personal email server,
but the FBI was unable to acquire or examine any of those devices, at least two of which apparently were smashed by a hammer.
Hillary
Clinton Originated State Department Cables With Classified Designation. [Scroll down] Hillary Clinton authored the
content of the cables (as described); and she herself has originating autonomy to designate material as "classified" or "confidential".
Assange is essentially reminding everyone that Secretary Clinton assigned that designation personally. It is ridiculous for Secretary
Clinton to state she doesn't know what the "(c)" designation is, she used it herself.
Hillary:
The Joe Isuzu of American Politics. The past as they say, is prologue. The lies Hillary told in the past
were merely precursors to the present lies. Hillary lied about having one device and a private server for "convenience".
She had 13 devices and multiple servers, some physically destroyed. Perhaps her campaign song should be "If I Had A
Hammer". The setting up of the server, the switching of devices, some destroyed, some lost, implies intent to circumvent
laws and regulations, no matter what FBI Director Comey says. She lied about Colin Powell okaying her perfidy in
advance. She lied about knowing what the "C" on classified documents meant, even though it's the contents and not the
markings that make them classified. She lied about sending and receiving and sending classified documents. She
lied about turning over all work-related documents in her possession. She lied to the American people, she lied to the
American people, and she lied to the FBI.
FBI:
Gen. Petraeus Crossed Out 'Classified' Mark On Hillary Clinton Meeting Document. Newly released documents
from the FBI reveal that former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus admitted to "crossing out" a classification marking in
a document concerning a meeting that he had with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. These new files were actually
released on August 26th, exactly one week before the FBI released the Clinton email investigation summary and interview
notes, but, so far, have not received much media attention at all.
DOJ
Official Who Led 'Independent' Clinton Email Probe Is An Obama Donor. One of the Justice Department officials
who interviewed Hillary Clinton in July as part of the government's investigation into her email practices has contributed to
President Obama's presidential campaigns, The Daily Caller can reveal. David H. Laufman is named in the notes taken
during Clinton's July 2 interview. Since December 2014 he has served as chief of the counterespionage section of the
Justice Department's National Security Division. [...] But Federal Election Commission records show that Laufman has at least
some political leanings.
Giuliani
on Clinton: 'You're either stupid or you're lying'. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is not pleased
with Hillary Clinton, claiming she lied to the FBI during its investigation into her private email server. The former
secretary of state did actually know the "C" on an email meant "confidential," the Donald Trump surrogate said in an
appearance on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning [9/6/2016]. "She said she thought it had to do with alphabetical
order. But the FBI didn't go and ask her, 'was there an A, a B, a D, an E, an F?'
How come she just saw a C? So now if you can't figure out that 'C' doesn't mean confidential and you're the
secretary of state, you're either stupid or you're lying. I don't think she's the first. I don't think she's
stupid," Giuliani said.
Here's
What Probably Led to Blow Up During Cheryl Mills' FBI Interview. With the release of the Clinton's FBI 302
interview form last Friday, we finally learned that Mills was listed as one of Clinton's four attorneys present at the July 2
interview. According to the FBI 302 interview form, "Present, for the interview were CLINTON attorney's David F.
Kendall, Catherine M. Turner, Chervl D. Mills, Heather Samuelson and [name redacted]." Thus, it appears as though
the Department of Justice agreed to treat Mills as both Clinton's lawyer and fact witness.
Meet
the mastermind behind Clinton's massive email coverup. Newly released FBI documents detailing the bureau's
investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails reveal the aide who would likely follow her into the
White House as chief counsel was central to a cover-up of evidence sought by investigators. Yet despite signs Clinton's
former chief of staff Cheryl Mills obstructed efforts by investigators to obtain Clinton's emails, the FBI invited Mills to
attend Hillary's interview at FBI headquarters as one of her lawyers. "It's absolutely outrageous," Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton said.
The Curious
Case of Cheryl Mills. The FBI's Labor Day weekend document dump regarding its investigation of Hillary Clinton
gives those who thought the result was predetermined much to complain about. The FBI's notes confirm that her former
chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, was among the several lawyers representing Clinton in her FBI interview. Mills was
hip-deep in the events at the heart of the FBI's criminal investigation and was herself a material witness who had previously
sat for her own interview. Yet not only was she allowed by the Department of Justice to participate as counsel in
Clinton's interview, her communications with Clinton and other material witnesses also were actively protected by the
Department of Justice throughout the criminal and civil investigations. Typically, the DOJ would look askance where a
material witness sought to act as a lawyer for the subject of a federal criminal investigation. In Mills's case,
Justice lawyers went out of their way to accommodate this highly unusual dual-hat role. For those who wonder whether
Clinton's FBI interview was all for show, Mills's participation as a lawyer should be Exhibit A.
Pelosi:
Clinton emails [are just] a technicality. Nancy Pelosi dismissed Hillary Clinton's growing email scandal as a series of
"technicalities" Monday [9/5/2016], brushing aside FBI and congressional investigations. The House minority leader said
voters shouldn't get "bogged down in some technicalities" and added, "it's really much ado about nothing, but too much ado."
Pelosi, on CBS' "This Morning," had been asked about an FBI report released last week, in which Clinton repeatedly said she
couldn't recall key details and events related to classified information procedures.
CNN
Fact Check Confirms Clinton Aide Destroyed Mobile Devices With Hammers. CNN confirmed live on air Friday [9/2/2016] that a
Hillary Clinton aide destroyed some of the former secretary of state's used mobile devices with hammers, affirming information contained
in the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private email server. The discussion of mobile devices being destroyed by State Department
personnel came after the FBI released on Friday [9/2/2016] files from its investigation, including notes from a lengthy interview with Clinton.
FBI:
Clinton withheld 17,500 emails. FBI agents said they recovered 17,448 "unique work-related and personal" emails
from Hillary Clinton's private server that were not provided by her legal team. The revelation came in notes released
Friday by the FBI related to the investigation of Clinton's email system. Agents said 81 email chains discovered in the
course of their year-long probe should have been considered classified at the time they were written, contrary to Clinton's
claims that everything sensitive was retroactively classified.
Hillary Deleted Subpoenaed Emails Related to Benghazi
Terror Attack. The Benghazi emails were subpoenaed by Congress on March 4, 2015. It appears she had deleted
them the previous December. However, the State Department had asked her to turn over her work-related correspondence on October 28,
2014. At the very least this strongly suggests that she willfully mishandled classified information, and that she perjured herself to
cover it. Even a half-serious attempt at justice would likely place her behind bars.
Guess
Who Paid for Hillary's 'Private' Server. Not many people object to the federal General Services Administration
cover the costs of a former president's pensions, correspondence, support staff and travel — because most of the
time these are fairly minor expenses. For example, each president gets $96,600 per year for staffing that they can
divide as they see fit; they could have one staffer making the full amount or three making about $32,000 per year, et cetera.
Politico's report notes George H. W. Bush has four people on his taxpayer-funded staff, while Bill Clinton has 10. In
other words, the GSA funding was used to boost salaries of Clinton staffers making money from other sources — i.e., the
Foundation. I know this will stun you, but foreign governments and individuals will still be able to give to the Clinton
Foundation in a Hillary Clinton presidency — even with the "reforms" the Clintons promised.
Latest
email disclosure is just more proof that Clinton lied. On Tuesday [8/30/2016], The [New York] Post's Daniel
Halper broke the news that Hillary Clinton continued recklessly mishandling classified information even after stepping down
as secretary of state. The revelation is bracing — but hardly surprising. We already knew Clinton's
email practices remained a national security vulnerability after she left the State Department at the end of President
Obama's first term. For nearly two years, she maintained the servers through which her unauthorized, non-secure
homebrew communication system had operated. As we now know, about 62,000 emails were stored on those servers, over
2,000 of which contained classified information, including some of the most sensitive national defense secrets —
and the highly classified sources and methods for acquiring those secrets — maintained by our government.
John
Kerry's Chief Of Staff Thought People Were 'Obsessed' With Clinton Email Story. "Obsessed." "Truly stupid." "Embarrassing."
Those are a few of the comments that Secretary of State John Kerry's chief of staff Jonathan Finer made in email exchanges in the days and weeks after the
Hillary Clinton email scandal blew up on the national stage last year. The emails, which the State Department gave The Daily Caller in response
to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show the candid remarks of a high-ranking State Department official regarding the Clinton email fiasco as it was
unfolding.
Taxpayers
forked out $ to set up Clinton's secret server. Taxpayer funds intended to allow ex-presidents maintain an
office after they leave the White House helped pay a Bill Clinton aide who set up the family's infamous email account, a new
analysis reveals. The funds, about $97,000 per year per president, are part of an allocation that helps former
presidents maintain an office after they leave public service. In Clinton's case, the president apparently elected to
split the funds among numerous staff aides — and then supplement their incomes with additional work on behalf of
the Clinton Foundation and a private firm closely linked to Clinton and some of his top hands.
Clintons
dispute report on Bill Clinton's use of ex-presidents program money. A new report detailing how Bill Clinton
spent federal dollars to set up his personal office after leaving the White House is fueling ongoing speculation about the
links between the former president, the Democratic nominee and the Clinton Foundation. The report, an investigation
published Thursday [9/1/2016] by Politico, lays out how Clinton used money available to him through the Former Presidents Act
to pay and provide benefits to members of his personal staff, many that also worked for his foundation, and to purchase
supplies, including a server, for his office.
Bill
Clinton used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email server. Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old
federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family's
foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife's private email server, a POLITICO investigation has
found. Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton
Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access
scandals dogging Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
FBI
found extensive evidence Hillary emails violated federal records laws. Though it was not their primary mission,
FBI agents who investigated Hillary Clinton's email collected significant evidence suggesting she and her team violated
federal record-keeping laws, including persisting to use a private Blackberry and server to conduct State Department business
after being warned they posed legal and security risks, government sources tell Circa.
FBI releases
documents related to its Clinton email investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a summary
[9/2/2016] of the July 2 interview it conducted with the Democratic presidential candidate, as well as other details
of its investigation into her use of a private email server while heading the State Department.
FBI
releases Clinton investigation documents. Several dozen pages of documents released Friday from the FBI's
Hillary Clinton email probe show the former secretary of state repeatedly claimed to have little training or understanding
about the classification process — despite leading the department that handled such information on a regular basis
and having a security clearance. The document dump also revealed the gaps that remain in the record. Not only
were numerous sections — and entire pages — redacted, but the files showed the FBI could not obtain 13
Clinton mobile devices that may have been used to send emails from her personal email address, in addition to two
iPads. And they showed Clinton claiming she could not recall numerous details.
Report:
Clinton Emailed More Classified Info Than Previously Known. Hillary Clinton may have sent more classified
information than was previously known while she was secretary of state. At least one of the seven DVDs of Clinton's
emails from her private server that the FBI sent to the State Department contained classified material, Vice News
reported Wednesday [8/31/2016]. What the classified information discussed is unknown.
Hillary
Clinton may have sent even more classified info through email. A Justice Department attorney made the
disclosure during a hearing Wednesday [8/31/2016] in US District Court in Washington, DC, part of a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit VICE News filed against the FBI for a wide range of records the bureau recovered from Clinton's
server. During the 45-minute hearing, DOJ attorney Jennie Kneedler said the FBI sent the State Department two DVDs on
July 21: one containing 14,900 documents, and the other containing an unknown number of classified records. It's
unclear whether any of those classified documents are the same communications that have already been identified and reviewed
by the State Department, or if they're an entirely new batch of records.
Why
did the 30 Benghazi emails FBI discovered escape destruction? Everyone is wondering what's in the 30 previously
unknown emails related to Benghazi the FBI managed to discover on Hillary's server and turned over to the State Department
for potential redaction. But the manner by which they escaped destruction may tell us a lot, no matter how much redaction
takes place. The very fact that the emails were recoverable has got Hillary and her team of lawyers in a lot of trouble.
Classified:
Email Hillary Clinton sent after leaving State Department partially redacted. An email that Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent almost four months after she left the State Department was partially redacted
before being publicly released, raising questions about whether she conveyed classified information as a private
citizen. The May 2013 email, which the Republican National Committee obtained under a Freedom of Information Act and
provided Wednesday, joins more than 2,000 messages that the former secretary of state sent or received through her private
server during her tenure that have been labeled "confidential," a low level of classification.
Clinton
emailed classified information after leaving State Dept.. Hillary Clinton continued sending classified
information even after leaving the State Department, The [New York] Post has exclusively learned. On May 28, 2013,
months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton sent an email to a group of diplomats and top aides about the
"123 Deal" with the United Arab Emirates. But the email, which was obtained by the Republican National Committee
through a Freedom of Information Act request, was heavily redacted upon its release by the State Department because it
contains classified information.
Mark
Cuban: It's Not Hillary's Fault Her Email Server Wasn't Set Up Right. Monday night [8/29/2016] on "CNN
Tonight," supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, said
Clinton did nothing wrong because the person who set up her email should have set up "filters and alerts that said any email
that came with a classified header."
The Editor says...
Of course Mark Cuban knows what he's talking about, from the technical side. But his argument doesn't explain or
excuse the underlying purpose of setting up a private email server in the first place — which apparently
was deception, obscuranticity, and the evasion of FOIA.
Hillary
Clinton to explain to court who 'recommended' secret email account. Among the questions are who "recommended"
that she use a secret email account in the first place, whether she ever told the officials responsible for archiving records
that she had the secret account, and what steps she took after attempts to hack her account. Mrs. Clinton could
also have to answer whether she destroyed work-related emails.
A
fresh reminder that the Clintons never play by the rules. How about that: Among the 14,900 "new" Hillary
Clinton e-mails uncovered by the FBI are 30 or so that concern the Benghazi attack — the most controversial single
episode in Clinton's four years running the State Department. So much for Clinton's claim that she'd handed over all
her work-related e-mails. [Indeed]: So much for any remaining illusion that she even tried to provide a complete
record. But, as someone once asked: What difference, at this point, does it make? Can Hillary's "trust
deficit" get any deeper? In part, that depends on what's actually in the e-mails, which may not be released until the
end of September.
Judicial
Watch Submits Email Questions Hillary Clinton — Written Answers, Under Oath, Due September 29. Judicial
Watch today [8/30/2016] announced it submitted questions to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning her email
practices. Clinton's answers, under oath, are due on September 29. On August 19, U.S. District Court
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted Judicial Watch further discovery on the Clinton email matter and ordered Clinton to answer
the questions "by no later than thirty days thereafter...." Under federal court rules, Judicial Watch is limited to
twenty-five questions.
FBI
to release notes of agents interviewing Hillary Clinton about her secret email account. The FBI plans to hand
over some of its notes from its interview with U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton regarding her use of
private email while secretary of state to news outlets that requested them, CNN reported on Tuesday [8/30/2016]. However,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation will not yet release other notes from the law enforcement agency's interviews with Clinton
aides or turn over other investigative material, CNN said, citing unnamed sources.
A
Clinton scandal even the media can't ignore. Judicial Watch says the court has mandated that the State
Department review the emails and turn over responsive records by September 13th. In a court statement last week, the
State Department admitted that it found documents related to the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack among the
14,900 Clinton emails and attachments uncovered by the FBI that Mrs. Clinton had deleted and withheld from the State
Department. "She thought she'd destroyed them," reports Chris Farrell, director of investigations at Judicial Watch.
"She thought that she hid them from the public, but nearly 15,000 more emails have been recovered." He asserts that
these are records the presidential candidate certainly does not want made public.
Hillary's
Hacked Emails and Blackmail. When an undercover agent's identity and mission is divulged to his/her
adversaries, it can be properly said that the agent has been "compromised." When a nation's secrets are provided to its
enemies it may be said that the nation's security has been compromised. Finally, people may also be compromised also
when they act in a nefarious way and others become aware of their conduct. This sort of compromise creates a
vulnerability for that person and can leave such an individual open to blackmail or other covert coercion. This is the
world in which Hillary Clinton now resides as a direct result of her conduct — or rather, misconduct.
'Hillary
Show' episodes entertaining. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks promised on Fox this week that the next releases of
embarrassing emails that Hillary Clinton futilely tried to deep six will be "quite interesting, some even entertaining."
Entertaining? For my money, the ones already released have been more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The Hillary
Show comes across as a sort of cross between Leona Helmsley and "I Love Lucy." I mean, this is a woman who calls Harriet
Tubman a "homegirl." She has a pseudonym for her own daughter. (Diane Reynolds.) She orders aides to find out
the times of TV shows, as well as the frequency of radio stations.
1/3 of Abedin Emails [were]
100% Redacted. Judicial Watch's release this week of 725 pages of State Department emails involving Hillary
Clinton aide Huma Abedin demonstrates the Obama administration considers a large percentage of the emails sent through
Clinton's private server too sensitive for Congress or the American public to read. Of the 725 pages, more than
250 pages were 100 percent redacted, many with "PAGE DENIED" stamped in bold. Judicial Watch said the new
cache includes previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Abedin "provided influential Clinton Foundation donors
special, expedited access to the secretary of state."
Judicial
Watch: Hillary Clinton Withheld Or Deleted Benghazi Related Documents. Among the 14,900 federal documents
Hillary Clinton is said to have failed to turn over to the State Department in 2014 are some related to the Benghazi attacks,
according to Judicial Watch. The conservative watchdog group says that government lawyers admitted in court papers
filed on Tuesday that the nearly 15,000 pages of Clinton records recovered by the FBI included some which "satisfied the
[Benghazi-related] search terms." That suggests that Clinton withheld or deleted records which referred to the
Sept. 11, 2012 attacks which left four Americans dead.
Gowdy
Lays Out What Answers Clinton Hasn't Given on Private Email, Deletion Practices. Fox News host Martha MacCallum
asked Gowdy, a career prosecutor, what questions he would have asked during the FBI interview of Clinton. "The direct
evidence would be, Madam Secretary, why did you set up this email server this way? Why did you not take a state-dot-gov
email address?" Gowdy asked. "And her response was, and it always has been, convenience. And then that's when you
press and say, well, what could be more convenient than just doing a state-dot-gov email address?" The "labyrinthine"
efforts she used to have a home-brewed server were actually inconvenient, Gowdy said. "I would then ask, why did you
delete emails that you kept for a year and a half? Keep in mind these personal emails, she didn't bother to delete them
for a year and a half," Gowdy said. "It was the fall of 2014, a year and a half after she left the State Department,
that she decided to start deleting emails. Why didn't you delete them the month you left? Why didn't you delete
them six months after you left? And the other question they should have asked her is, Madam Secretary, why didn't you
turn your emails over the day you left service? Why did you hold onto them for almost two years?"
Court
Orders New Clinton Email Production by September 13. Judicial Watch today [8/25/2016] announced that a federal
court has ordered the State Department to review newly found Clinton emails and turn over responsive records by September 13.
And, in two other Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the State Department is scheduled to release additional emails from former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's non-state.gov email system beginning September 30. In a court filing this week, the State
Department admitted it had found Benghazi-related documents among the 14,900 Clinton emails and attachments uncovered by the FBI that
Mrs. Clinton deleted and withheld from the State Department.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Hillary's 'Apology' Doesn't Cut It. After 18 months of repeatedly making false claims and
phony excuses about her email setup while secretary of state, Hillary Clinton offered what looked like a straight-on apology.
But it's only an apology in the Clinton sense of the word — one made out of desperation, not as an act of contrition.
Clinton's
inescapable cloud of corruption. As the drip, drip, drip of information highlighting the intersection between
the Clinton Foundation and the State Department surfaces, the political fallout for Hillary Clinton is unavoidable. The
newly exposed emails demonstrate another lie told by the Clinton campaign. Despite her lawyers stating that only 30,000
emails on her server were related to work, the 15,000 puts that number closer to 45,000. But more importantly, it paints a
clearer picture of what Hillary Clinton was attempting to hide by setting up private servers in the first place and attempting
to wipe them clean.
Chaffetz
claims FBI gave Congress conflicting documents on Clinton email probe. House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz
(R-Utah) says he has a "couple problems" with the documents provided by the FBI from its investigation into Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server, including several differences between sets of documents in two separate binders. One
issue, Chaffetz explained on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is the "high level of redactions."
Tom
Fitton: State Department Stonewalling Release of 15K Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails. The FBI
announced on Monday [8/22/2016] that it has discovered fifteen thousand previously undisclosed Clinton emails — a
stash nearly half the size of the work-related emails Clinton actually turned over to the State Department. If Clinton was
trying to keep this material hidden until after the election, it appears she might have succeeded.
One
Lie Too Many for Hillary? [Scroll down] This is no defense; it's an indictment. Secretary Clinton
had, according to [Joe] Conason's reporting, already determined that it was in her best interest to use a private server for
her electronic communications. That server was used for all Clinton's correspondence, including sensitive and
classified emails related to American national and diplomatic security — despite Powell's explicit warning
against doing just that.
Clinton's
pathetic 'Colin Powell made me do it' defense. The influence that Colin Powell has over Hillary Clinton is
something to behold. His word is her command. When he tells her to break the law and endanger the nation's
secrets, she doesn't hesitate. She salutes smartly and does as she is told. Clinton has been desperate for the
moral cover of Colin Powell for her email arrangement since the scandal first broke last year. Now we've learned that
Clinton told the FBI that Powell advised her to use private email as secretary of state at a dinner in 2009. This escalates
Clinton's email defense from, "Hey, Colin Powell did it, too," all the way to, "Colin Powell made me do it." The Powell
defense has given Clinton shills something to say on TV, but doesn't make much sense.
Rice has
'no recollection' of Clinton-Powell email conversation. Another former Secretary of State —
Condoleezza Rice — has been drawn into the fray over who advised Hillary Clinton to use a private email server
while she was America's top diplomat. An aide to Rice told CNN that Rice has "no recollection" of a conversation
between Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell that reportedly took place at a 2009 dinner party of former Secretaries of State,
during which Powell allegedly recommended that Clinton use a private email account. The Daily Caller was first to
report that Rice had commented on the issue.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Is Hillary's Cover-Up Unraveling? Now that the FBI has found nearly 15,000 more emails and
documents missing from Hillary Clinton's server, the strategy is clear: Clinton will admit to nothing even as more
emails dribble out, then when the pattern of criminality becomes clear in October or early November, her campaign will sing
that it's "old news" or blame others. And Big Media will ignore it.
Judge
orders expedited release of 15,000 Hillary Clinton documents found by FBI. At a heated hearing Monday
[8/22/2016], a federal judge pressed the State Department on when it would release the 15,000 documents uncovered by the FBI
during its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server. Initially, the State Department attorney would not
answer Judge James Boasberg's repeated questions about the number of emails recovered by the FBI. The judge urged the State
Department to expedite its review of what is called "Disc 1," which is one of two discs handed over from FBI to the State
Department in late July.
FBI
found 14,000 new Clinton emails. The FBI found nearly 15,000 emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
never turned over to the government after she left office — despite her insistence she'd handed in all her
work-related messages. The Obama administration revealed the messages in a court hearing Monday [8/22/2016]. The
14,900 emails are just part of thousands the FBI has turned over, after it took control of Mrs. Clinton's secret email server.
Tim
Kaine Just Realized He's in Over His Head with Hillary. It seems as though Democratic vice presidential nominee
Tim Kaine has finally realized what he's gotten himself into by having to come to the defense of his running mate Hillary
Clinton. Kaine crumbled, as Newsbusters pointed out, on the TODAY show this week when Savannah Guthrie "actually
grilled him" on Clinton's lies that were perpetrated for years about her personal e-mail usage while secretary of state.
Judge
orders Clinton to provide written answers to questions on private email use. A federal judge Friday [8/19/2016]
ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from a conservative watchdog group about her use of a private email server when
she served as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a lawsuit
filed by Judicial Watch. The group had sought to question Clinton under oath and in person, but the judge ruled she
would only have to answer questions in writing.
Federal
judge gives Hillary Clinton 30 days to come up with lies in response to lawsuit questions. Hillary Clinton has
taken a couple days off recently, but that's understandable because Friday [8/19/2016] was Bill's birthday, so she probably
had to stay home to turn away all the strippergrams. But it's also possible her campaign team needed time to reinforce
their lies about the emails and server in light of a federal judge's ruling.
Hillary's
Done... And She Knows It. [Scroll down] She knows any day between now and November 8th... Julian Assange
and Wikileaks will drop a bombshell that will destroy her presidential run, political career and legacy all in one. She
knows what's coming, because she knows what's in those emails. If Wikileaks has what Hillary thinks they have, her
future involves the "Big House," not the White House.
Colin
Powell has had enough of Hillary 'pinning' email scandal on him. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has had
enough. Since the Hillary Clinton email scandal first surfaced, she and her team of apologists have been bringing up
Gen. Colin Powell, the Republican-ish former Secretary of State who, according to Clinton, was the Neil Armstrong of
personal email use. "Clinton did nothing different than what Colin Powell did," was the constant refrain from Hillary's
defenders. Of course, that argument has been completely destroyed by the facts.
Colin
Powell claims Hillary Clinton is falsely trying to blame him for email scandal. Colin Powell says Hillary
Clinton's camp is trying to falsely blame him for her email scandal. In a three-and-a-half-hour interview with the FBI
provided to Congress this week, Clinton claimed Powell, Secretary of State under George W Bush, told her to use a personal
email account for official business. But speaking to Page Six Saturday, Powell said that she had been using her
personal email for a year before he told her he used to do the same thing.
Colin
Powell Goes under the Clinton Bus. To the list of victims, common folks, and politicians left in the wake of
that runaway bus of crime and corruption known as Clinton, add one more — former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
[...] Of course, even assuming Powell made such a comment, he certainly did not have in mind that Hillary would establish a
private server in her home, and Powell in his documented comments on the use of private email was clear to specify it was
only for unclassified material. Hillary, of course, used it for both. And Powell didn't operate a phony private
charitable foundation to line the pockets of his family and a host of cronies during his tenure, manipulating American
foreign policy to that end. If he had, he might have needed such a private server to keep his corruption secret and
avoid jail, like Hillary.
Facebook
Falsely Claims Colin Powell Cleared Hillary In Email Case. Facebook's "Trending Topics" section is at it
again. Saturday morning [8/20/2016] the site ran a headline in the section declaring, "Colin Powell: Former Secretary of
State Confirms He Recommended Using Personal Email to Hillary Clinton." The only problem is Powell made no such declaration
and he denied Clinton's claim.
Powell:
'No recollection' of dinner party email advice to Clinton. Colin Powell rejected Hillary Clinton's assertion to
the FBI that he had advised her during a 2009 dinner party to use a personal email account. "General Powell has no
recollection of the dinner conversation," the former secretary of state's office said in a statement Friday [8/19/2016].
Hillary
Told FBI That Colin Powell Recommended She Use Personal Email. Hillary Clinton told FBI investigators last
month that Gen. Colin Powell, her predecessor as secretary of state, suggested that she use a personal email account
for State Department business. The New York Times also reported that Clinton asked Powell about his email practices in
a 2009 email exchange. A person with knowledge of the contents of notes taken during Clinton's three-and-a-half [hour]
interview with the FBI shared the information with The Times. The FBI gave those notes, which are known as 302s, to Congress
earlier this week. They have not been made public, though Clinton's campaign has expressed concern that they will be.
Hillary
To FBI: My Email Abuse was Colin Powell's Fault. This is ridiculously stupid for two basic reasons... [#1] Colin Powell's private
email was hacked [and] [#2] It doesn't remotely matter what Powell did or said. There were basic laws in place. Hillary and her people
violated them.
Republicans blast FBI for format
of Clinton email documents. Republican lawmakers are expressing annoyance that, although the FBI has passed
Congress the documents detailing the investigation into the Clinton email scandal, the documents are not actually readable
due to the format in which they were handed over. According to Fox News, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman,
Republican Chuck Grassley claimed that documents handed over by the FBI are largely unreadable because they published
classified material together with unclassified material, so only a select few have the clearance to read the evidence.
House
to hold Clinton perjury hearing. Members of the House Judiciary Committee are set to question FBI officials
next month about allegations of perjury involving Hillary Clinton's conflicting statements to Congress last year.
Witnesses at the hearing could include FBI Director James Comey, according to USA Today, which first reported the panel's
plans. A Judiciary Committee spokeswoman confirmed the hearing to the Washington Examiner and said lawmakers
plan to approach the issue at an FBI oversight hearing the panel holds each year.
House
panel to probe claims of Clinton perjury. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are planning to press
officials from the FBI in a hearing scheduled for next month on allegations that Hillary Clinton committed perjury. A
GOP committee aide confirmed to The Hill that lawmakers intend to question the FBI about the lawmakers' charges during an
oversight hearing planned at some point in September.
Kaine
Crumbles When NBC Actually Presses Him on Hillary E-Mail Scandal. During an exclusive interview aired on
Wednesday's NBC Today, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine struggled to respond to Hillary Clinton's ongoing
e-mail scandal as co-host Savannah Guthrie actually grilled him on the topic. She pressed: "This is something
that dogs Hillary Clinton, whether or not people trust her. If you look at what she said over the past year or so about
her e-mail, I can count at least four statements that just turned out not to be true. Has she earned that mistrust?"
Three Pinocchios: Bill
Clinton's misleading claim about 'marked classified' information in Hillary Clinton's emails. Bill Clinton is
correct that Comey "amended" his statement in the hearing, to provide more details about what the FBI had found. But
Comey did not say Hillary Clinton "had never received any emails marked classified." Two of three emails that had portion
markings were call sheets that were improperly marked, and State Department considers the markings no longer necessary or
appropriate at the time they were sent. Comey acknowledged that Clinton may not have known what the little-C marking
meant. The whole dispute over the little "c" versus big "C," portion markings versus header, and so on, is the
political equivalent of three-card monte. Democrats, like Bill Clinton, have cherry-picked Comey's comments from the
five-hour hearing to declare Hillary Clinton vindicated. But what they conveniently sweep under the rug are the 110
emails — which were not a part of the 2,000 that were retroactively classified — that were found to
"contain classified information at the time they were sent or received."
Congressional
Dems furious GOP may 'leak' (i.e. tell the public) what's in FBI's Hillary files. You've heard by now that the
FBI is turning over its notes from the Hillary e-mail interrogation to the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform. Republicans on the committee want to see if Hillary's answers in the interviews were consistent with what she
said under oath when she testified before them earlier this year, and whether there is any basis for a perjury case against
her. FBI Director James Comey was very careful in telling the committee that Hillary did not lie "to the FBI." That
doesn't mean she didn't lie to anyone. A comparison of the FBI interview with her congressional testimony should be
very interesting. Now remember: The Clintons' entire world revolves around keeping things secret if they possibly
can. This is why Hillary ran the schlock, homebrew e-mail server in the first place — to keep the contents of her
e-mails out of public view in the event of subpoenas or Freedom of Information Act requests. And because protecting
Hillary means keeping information about her away from your prying eyes, Democrats on the committee are hopping mad at the FBI
for turning over their notes to the committee. Why? Because they fear the worst, the worst being that the public
will actually be shown the information.
GOP
Lawmakers Lay Out Perjury Case Against Clinton. The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight and House
Judiciary Committees laid out the case for perjury charges against Hillary Clinton in a letter sent to the U.S. Attorney in
Washington, D.C. on Monday [8/15/2016]. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairs
of Oversight and Judiciary, respectively, say that Clinton may have violated 18 U.S.C. § 1621 and § 1001,
federal laws which govern perjury and false statements, respectively, during her Oct. 22, 2015 testimony in front of the
House Select Committee on Benghazi. In a letter to U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips, the lawmakers point to four
inconsistent statements Clinton made regarding her private email system during that hearing.
House
Panels Lay Out Case That Clinton Perjured Herself. Two House committees sent a letter to the Department of
Justice Monday laying out their case for why they believe Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton committed perjury
during a hearing in Congress last year. The letter to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Channing Phillips from
the Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary committees provides four specific examples of times they believe Clinton
lied under oath about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State. The letter said
Clinton made several false statements during her testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on October 22, 2015.
FBI
sends documents on Clinton probe to Congress. The FBI has provided documents to a House committee on its
investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server for government business, in an unusual step taken in response to
requests from lawmakers seeking insight into why Director James Comey did not recommend criminal charges. A brief
letter sent Wednesday [8/10/2016] from the bureau to House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said the FBI
was providing for review "a number of documents related to this investigation." The FBI, in its letter, said the materials
cannot be shared without the bureau's permission. The files include material that is "non-public," containing "classified
and other sensitive" information.
GOP
lays out case for charging Clinton with perjury. A pair of leading House Republicans on Monday [8/15/2016] laid out
detailed instructions for the Justice Department to file perjury charges against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton. More than a month after first requesting the department open a criminal probe into Clinton for alleged
misstatements she made under oath, the GOP heads of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees told a federal prosecutor
specifically where they believed Clinton had lied to Congress about her email setup at the Department of State.
All
Clinton Emails The FBI Recovered Will Be Made Public. All the emails then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
sent or received that the FBI uncovered will be released by the Department of State, a conservative non-profit government
watchdog group announced Tuesday [8/16/2016]. "The American people will now see more of the emails Hillary Clinton tried
to hide from them," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "Simply put, our lawsuits have unraveled
Hillary Clinton's email cover-up."
House
Republicans detail perjury allegations against Clinton. House Republicans have detailed perjury allegations
against Hillary Clinton, citing the apparent conflict between her 2015 congressional testimony about her email practices and
the FBI's conclusions announced in July, according to a letter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. "The
four pieces of sworn testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are incompatible with the FBI's findings," House
Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote to U.S.
Attorney Channing D. Phillips. "We hope this information is helpful to your office's consideration of our referral."
FBI
will hand over notes on Clinton email investigation to Congress: report. The FBI plans to hand over to Congress
notes taken during the agency's interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her exclusive use of a private
email server to handle classified documents, according to a Sunday [8/14/2016] report. CNN anchor Jake Tapper cited
sources who said that notes taken by an FBI agent during the interview would be turned over to Congress, adding: "This
email story, it's just not going away." Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who heads the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, has asked for all documents related to Mrs. Clinton's FBI interview, including
transcripts, notes and analysis.
Congress
WILL get to see notes from Hillary Clinton's three-hour interview with the FBI. Members of Congress will
receive notes from Hillary Clinton's interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, CNN is reporting. Clinton
spoke to the FBI on July 2, just three days before the bureau's director James Comey announced that he would recommend the
former secretary of state not be charged with a crime in the private email server case. Comey did, however, label
Clinton's homebrew email setup 'extremely careless.'
FBI
defends Clinton handling of classified material, says markings weren't conclusive. The FBI went to bat for
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday [8/16/2016], saying that handling emails with classified information — even when it's
marked — isn't enough to prove she had "knowledge or intent" to break the law. In a letter to congressional
investigators, the FBI's chief liaison to Capitol Hill said Mrs. Clinton did handle three messages with a "(C)" mark
next to paragraphs, "ostensibly indicating" the following information as classified. But Jason V. Herring said that's
not enough to show she was negligent.
Clinton
Scandal: 44 More Lies Turn Up In Hillary's Emails. Judicial Watch, which has been doing all the heavy lifting
to expose the extent of Hillary Clinton's scandalous use of a private email account while secretary of state, released dozens
of emails on Tuesday that shouldn't exist. For more than a year, Clinton insisted that she didn't use her private email
account until after March 18, 2009, since those were the earliest emails she turned over to the State Department.
According to Clinton, before that date, she was using an old Blackberry email account, to which she no longer had access.
'They
Hanged Him? What Difference at this Point Does it Make?'. [Scroll down] The difference it makes, by
the way, is not only that Hillary Clinton's reckless mishandling of sensitive information might have gotten a friendly agent
killed, but it will also make it difficult if not impossible to recruit other foreign nationals to spy for the United
States. Who will risk his life for us when Hillary Clinton, if she is elected or appointed to any position that has
access to intelligence information, might blow his cover with a careless word?
Feds
debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview. The Obama administration is urgently debating how to respond to
congressional demands for the official report on Hillary Clinton's three-and-a-half-hour interview at FBI headquarters, as
some inside and outside government raise concerns about giving lawmakers access to politically sensitive records of the FBI's
investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email system. During congressional testimony last month, FBI Director
James Comey promised to respond promptly to lawmakers' requests for the interview summaries known as "302s" for Clinton and
other witnesses, as well as other information gathered in the course of the year-long FBI probe.
As
Hillary Clinton goes after Donald Trump, her own email troubles undermine her attacks. Once again, Hillary
Clinton's carefully laid campaign plans have been disrupted by old emails. On a day in which Clinton was hoping to
inflict considerable damage on Donald Trump — this time, by ripping into his economic agenda — her
campaign was on the defensive, scurrying to clean up the latest damaging revelations in years-old messages that were sent by
Clinton and her staff and released as the result of a lawsuit. The ongoing email dispute undermined the potency of a
speech for which Clinton's campaign had been laying groundwork all week, one in which she presented her economic agenda in
full and tried to brand her self-styled populist rival a fraud.
Hillary's
State Dept. Aides Ignored Requests For Her Emails In 2012. The American public may have learned much
earlier than it eventually did that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email account. But two of her State
Department aides intervened in late 2012 and early 2013 to block a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records for
Clinton's email accounts. On Wednesday, Judicial Watch released two emails which show that Clinton insiders Cheryl
Mills and Heather Samuelson were made aware of a "significant" FOIA request seeking those records. The liberal watchdog
group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had filed the request on Dec. 6, 2012.
Testimony:
Clinton aides worried about her email system after Guccifer hack. Aides to Hillary Clinton worried about the
potential impact on her private email system after a hacker gained access to the email account of one of her longtime
advisers in early 2013, according to testimony made public Wednesday [8/10/2016] in connection with a pending lawsuit. Former
Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills acknowledged in written answers to questions from the conservative group Judicial Watch that
when emails from Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal began appearing online via a Romanian hacker called Guccifer, Mills discussed the
issue with Bryan Pagliano, a tech specialist who worked both at the State Department and for the Clintons.
The
first casualty of Hillary Clinton's server. Exactly how damaging the classified information is that was
discovered on Hillary Clinton's server became clear this weekend when the Iranian government executed an alleged spy.
He had been mentioned in at least one email from an aide to Hillary, which called him "our friend." The deceased Iranian
was the nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was executed for allegedly passing on information to the United States.
Amiri had been in and out of the news since 2009 when he first defected, eventually turning up on our shores.
Rudy
Giuliani clobbers Clinton for naming executed Iranian in private-server emails. Rudy Giuliani suggested on
Tuesday that Hillary Clinton caused the death of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian national who was hanged on Sunday in the Islamic
republic for 'revealing secrets to the enemy.' Hillary Clinton used her private email server to discuss details of the
Iranian nuclear scientist who was put to death for giving information to the CIA.
Death and Hillary Clinton. Despite
FBI and Leftmedia attempts to keep Americans as uninformed as possible about Hillary Clinton's history of corruption and
lies, there is new information about the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist named Shahram Amiri. Normally, the death
of a foreigner wouldn't catch the attention of many Americans. But in this case, Amiri was in contact with Clinton via
email, and the circumstances and timing of his death are more than suspicious. Who was this man that was just publicly
hanged shortly after returning to Iran?
GOP
Congressman: Clinton Should Be "In Jail Right Now," Not Running. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California,
an early Congressional backer of Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton should be in prison, not running for president. "The
fact is that her information was compromised," Hunter said on Kilmeade and Friends on Monday [8/8/2016]. "That's
why you don't use a personal server to send our sources names through email. That is why you don't do that. That
is the exact reason why she should not have done what she did and why she should be in jail right now as supposed to running
for president."
'Hanged
scientist's blood is on Hillary Clinton's hands'. The Iranian hanging of scientist Shahram Amiri —
referenced in Hillary Clinton's e-mail exchanges — could be just the beginning of the "human cost" of Clinton's
private e-mail server, a Donald Trump surrogate said Monday [8/8/2016]. "Hillary Clinton's extreme carelessness in the
use of private devices and a private server has placed US national security at high risk," retired Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn told Fox News. "It's just sad and it's just tragic and we are going to see more of these kinds of things
come up in the coming weeks and months just because of Hillary Clinton's extreme carelessness in what she did."
Rudy
Giuliani Would Have Prosecuted Clinton Over Emails as Secretary of State. FBI Director James Comey did not
recommend charges against Clinton for her handling of classified information and use of a private email server during her
tenure at the state department, saying, "Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of
classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case." Giuliani strongly
disagreed, saying he would have brought a case against Clinton. "Many reasonable prosecutors have come to the
conclusion that they would have brought such a case, I would have brought such a case. I would have won such a case,"
Giuliani, who is also a former New York City mayor, said on ABC's "This Week."
Clinton
stands by her email claims despite the evidence. Mrs. Clinton again defended her email server during a
press conference Friday [8/5/2016], directly contradicting FBI Director James B. Comey in saying no messages bearing
"classified" markings passed through her account during her four years as secretary of state. The former first lady,
who has apologized for her email habits but simultaneously has maintained she did nothing wrong, also admitted that she may
have "short-circuited" when she claimed last week that Mr. Comey agreed that she'd fully told the truth to the American
people. Mr. Comey, however, did no such thing, and in congressional testimony earlier this year, he explicitly
said Mrs. Clinton was wrong when she said she'd never sent or received any classified material in her private account.
Cotton:
Clinton discussed executed Iranian scientist on email. Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted
on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said
Sunday [8/7/2016]. "I'm not going to comment on what he may or may not have done for the United States government, but
in the emails that were on Hillary Clinton's private server, there were conversations among her senior advisors about this
gentleman," he said on "Face the Nation." Cotton was speaking about Shahram Amiri, who gave information to the U.S.
about Iran's nuclear program. The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe.
Clinton's
private server held emails about Iranian nuclear 'spy' who was executed today. Hillary Clinton used her private
email server to discuss details of the Iranian nuclear scientist who has executed for giving information to the CIA.
Shahram Amiri, who was hanged on Sunday [8/7/2016] for 'revealing secrets to the enemy', was in the US and allegedly informing on
Tehran's extensive nuclear program during the Democrat's controversial reign as Secretary of State. At the time she
stressed researcher had been there of his 'own free will' and was described as 'our friend' in correspondences. But he
maintained he had been kidnapped by intelligence agents.
Did Clinton Emails
Get Iranian Scientist Killed? Senator Tom Cotton fielded an explosive charge this weekend: that then-Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton exposed one of America's spies and got him killed. Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri was hanged
by the Iranian regime after a secret trial. His original sentence was reported to be ten years, although it was not
officially proclaimed as the Iranian regime often issues secret sentences. Secretary Clinton's emails discussed, in an
unclassified and unsecure format, the fact that he had provided "useful information" to the United States.
State
Department dodges questions on Clinton emails about executed Iranian scientist. A State Department spokeswoman
dodged questions Monday about whether the discussion of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist who was executed by the Iranian
government for working with the U.S., in a pair of Hillary Clinton's private emails may have played a role in his recent
fate. "We're not going to comment on what may have led to this event," said Elizabeth Trudeau, a State Department
spokeswoman. "I couldn't speak to Iranian judicial procedures related to this specific case," Trudeau said.
"We've made our concerns known writ large around Iranian due process."
Republican
senator: Clinton's emails about Iranian nuclear scientist show she's reckless. Republican Senator Tom
Cotton questioned Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's qualifications to hold the United States' top office,
saying Sunday that emails on her private server about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying for the US
show she's "reckless." A spokesman for Iran's judiciary said on Sunday that the country had executed Shahram Amiri, who
was detained in 2010 when he returned home from the United States, after a court convicted him of spying for Washington.
Tapper
Shuts Down Clinton Surrogate on Clinton's Email Talking Points. Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm was
shut down by CNN's Jake Tapper when she used Hillary Clinton's talking points on Clinton's private email server.
Granholm called the Democratic presidential nominee honest and blamed the media for continuing to talking talk about
Clinton's emails while misconstruing the story against her, Tapper called her out. "Governor, with all due respect, I
didn't misread anything or misrepresent anything," Tapper said. "Every fact checker agrees with me, what she has been
saying is not true and I do think a candidate's honesty is important."
Clinton
contradicts FBI again, says no emails were 'marked classified'. For the second time in a week, Hillary Clinton
on Friday again directly contradicted FBI Director James Comey, defending her use of a private email server while secretary
of state and telling an audience of journalists that "I never sent or received anything that was marked classified."
Speaking at a joint conference of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists, the Democratic presidential nominee refused to admit that she'd mishandled classified information in her private email
account. While she again apologized for using a private server, she doubled down on her central defense — that she
never sent or received any emails that were marked classified at the time, even though the FBI chief has told a different story.
CNN's
Tapper Calls Out Clinton For Emails Lies: You're Not Entitled 'To Your Own Facts'. In a video made by CNN
and FactCheck.org, Tapper destroyed Clinton's recent claim on "Fox News Sunday" that FBI Director James Comey's testified
that her statements about her private email server were true. Tapper said, "No. That is not true. According
to her campaign aides, what Hillary Clinton was referring to was Director Comey testifying, 'We have no basis to conclude she
lied to the FBI.' But Clinton's comments to the FBI are different from what Chris Wallace was asking about, which were
Clinton's comments to the American people."
Why
Hillary Clinton continues to be the queen of deception. [Scroll down] Last week, William Binney, a
30-year career official at the National Security Agency turned whistleblower, revealed the unthinkable. Binney, who
devised the software that the NSA has used to capture the contents of emails and cellphone conversations of all in America
but resigned from the NSA because of the unlawful and unconstitutional manner in which the software was used, told a
Philadelphia radio audience that the DNC hacking was most likely done by NSA agents. Why would the NSA hack into DNC
computers, and why would the NSA leak what its agents saw? Here is where the deep state meets the political world.
Dems
Want to Investigate Trump, but Clinton has the Real Unseemly Russia Connections. Sens. Chris Coons of
Delaware (D-DE) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have asked former Trump rival Ted Cruz (R-TX), to investigate Trump's comment
to determine if laws were broken. Cruz chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight subpanel, the body tasked with
investigating such claims. Trump's comment came against the backdrop of Hillary Clinton's gross mishandling of
classified data while secretary of state through the use of an unsecured, home-brewed bathroom server. Despite her
efforts to delete the emails, some of which constituted government property, the FBI was able to retrieve all but 30,000 of
them. Given the reckless manner in which she mishandled classified data, it is very possible, indeed probable, that the
irretrievable emails are currently in possession of an unknown third party.
Report:
FBI Sat on Russia Suspicions in DNC Hack for Months. When the FBI began investigating the infiltration of the
Democratic National Committee's computers last fall, they neglected to tell the DNC that they suspected Russian
hackers. In fact, they kept that information to themselves for months, sources told Reuters. The FBI first
contacted the DNC last fall, giving them a heads up to look for any suspicious network activity. The Committee's staff
didn't notice anything unusual, and when they asked for more information, a source says the FBI wouldn't give it to
them. Reportedly, it wasn't until March of this year that the DNC understood the nature of the cyber-attack.
During the months in between, the DNC and FBI had multiple discussions, but the feds never disclosed their suspicion of
Russian actors.
Hillary Clinton
is delusional. Hillary Clinton sent and received classified information on her home-brewed email server.
"From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the
owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received," FBI Director James B. Comey said
last month, in conclusion of the agency's investigation into her server. [...] But not according to Mrs. Clinton.
When asked about her home-brewed server in an interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton maintained she did
nothing wrong and her previous statements were consistent with what Mr. Comey said.
Exclusive:
Hillary Completed No Security Briefings Or Courses At State Dept. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
completed no security briefings or courses on the proper handling of classified materials and how to conduct secure
communications while at the Department of State, according to new Obama administration legal filings before the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia. The surprise admission was released late Friday and could reignite the controversy
over Clinton's "careless" handling of classified materials as asserted by FBI Director James Comey, which has already been a
central part of the presidential race.
Fournier:
Senior Clinton Officials Say 'Trust Doesn't Matter,' She's 'Knowingly Misleading' About Email. On Tuesday's
[8/2/2016] broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," National Journal Senior Political Columnist Ron Fournier said that
senior officials for Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have told him "trust doesn't
matter," and that she's "knowingly" deceiving the public about her email. Fournier said he "pulled out the last of my
hair" watching Clinton's interview on "Fox News Sunday" because "she was parsing, she was talking about the fact that he said
she didn't lie to the FBI. And I'm like, you know, this is not the day and age to be parsing, and a parse is another word
for a lie, because she's knowingly misleading. She did violate policy. We know that. She did expose US secrets
on a rogue server. We know that."
NSA
whistleblower says spy agency has all of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails in government database. An NSA
whistleblower is claiming that the agency likely has all of Hillary Clinton's emails from her private server — and
the FBI could have gotten access to them had investigators wanted. William Binney, one of the 'NSA four' whose
revelations and warnings about government mass surveillance predates those of Edward Snowden, sat down with Breitbart's Aaron
Klein on his eponymous radio show 'Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.' Binney, a 30-plus year veteran of the NSA and a
'legendary crypto-scientist' according to the Nation magazine, had helped design one of the NSA's systems to collect date
that had built-in privacy protections.
Hillary
Clinton slapped with dreaded 'Four Pinocchios' rating for false claim that the FBI director said she told the truth about her
classified emails. FBI director James Comey testified in a July 7 congressional hearing that multiple
statements the Democratic presidential nominee made to the public were untrue. But in a rare Fox News Channel interview
on Sunday [7/31/2016], Clinton claimed that Comey 'said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told
the American people.' The [Washington] Post's fact-checker pored over the record and found 'Clinton is cherry-picking statements
by Comey to preserve her narrative' about why she sent and received classified documents on a private email server in her house.
Clinton
Takes Lying To A Whole New Level. Maybe it's because she has gotten away with it for so long, but Hillary
Clinton seems to get more brazen in her mendacity as she gets closer to the White House. Case in point is her interview
with Chris Wallace on Fox News over the weekend. At one point, Wallace asks Clinton about claims she made about her use
of a private, unsecured email server while secretary of state, which the FBI investigation determined were completely false.
Bizarre:
Clinton Mocks Trump For Wanting More Secure Military Communications. Just weeks after the FBI issued an
indictmentless indictment of Hillary Clinton over her "extremely careless" behavior using a private email server to both send
and receive classified information, the Democratic nominee has decided it would be funny to mock Donald Trump for wanting
more secure military communications. [...] What a bizarre issue to attack Trump on given Clinton's own problems with secure
communications as secretary of state, not to mention the recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee as well as her own campaign.
Clinton
camp refutes FBI: 'Not true' she sent classified info. Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Monday rejected
the FBI's findings that Clinton sent and received information that was classified at the time on her private email server
while she was secretary of state. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook defended his boss before an MSNBC panel that said
Clinton essentially forced State Department employees to send her classified information on her private server because there
was no other way to communicate with her.
Exclusive —
NSA Whistleblower: Agency Has All of Clinton's Deleted Emails. The National Security Agency (NSA) has
"all" of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and the FBI could gain access to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former
highly placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on Sunday [7/31/2016]. Speaking as an analyst, Binney
raised the possibility that the hack of the Democratic National Committee's server was done not by Russia but by a disgruntled
U.S. intelligence worker concerned about Clinton's compromise of national security secrets via her personal email use.
Binney was an architect of the NSA's surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on
October 31, 2001, after spending more than 30 years with the agency.
Mook
Juke: Hillary's Deleted Emails Are 'Not A Relevant Discussion'. Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign
manager, argued on Sunday that the emails she deleted are "not a relevant discussion" anymore. Appearing on NBC's "Meet
the Press," host Chuck Todd asked Mook if the Clinton campaign would "encourage" the release the 33,000 emails that Hillary
Clinton deleted from her time that she was secretary of state. "This is settled over now," Mook replied.
"Secretary Clinton went in and testified for 11 hours in front of a Congressional committee. They asked her a lot of
questions about this. They came up with nothing. The FBI has concluded their look at this issue and so we're
moving on. [...]"
The Editor says...
The assertion that the FBI "came up with nothing" is obviously untrue. The FBI didn't take any
action, but it's not because they "came up with nothing."
It's
time to disbar Hillary. FBI Director James Comey's statements before Congress proved beyond a reasonable doubt
that Hillary not only lied, but jeopardized national security, and mishandled classified material. At a minimum, that
means Hillary has committed acts of professional misconduct that should be taken up by the state of Arkansas. According
to the code of ethics for the American Bar Association, which happens to coincide with the dictates of Arkansas' rules for
professional conduct, Hillary is guilty of failing to 'maintain the integrity of her profession' as outlined in rule 8.4.
Clinton
fact-checked on 'truthful' claim in email scandal. Hillary Clinton is getting hammered for saying on "Fox News
Sunday" that FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were "truthful" — with one
prominent fact-checker giving the claim four "Pinocchios." The former secretary of state cited Comey when asked to
account for her repeated claims that she never sent or received material marked classified on her personal email
account. When host Chris Wallace noted that Comey said those things were not true, Clinton disagreed.
The Coming
Election Fraud. There is much talk about the very real probability that the Russians or other foreign entities
have possession of the 33,000 missing Clinton emails from her tenure as Secretary of State. The talk centers around
whether these emails will be released before the election to damage her or if she is elected President to be used as
blackmail. Although Putin and the Russians are extremely adept at manipulating information for their benefit I believe
they have totally underestimated the Clintons. In either case Hillary Clinton will not be influenced by the threat of
any type of exposure or blackmail because she has demonstrated that she does not care what information comes out.
State
Dept. Opposes Media's Attempt to Get Taped Depositions in Clinton Email Case. The United States
Department of State is opposing the media's attempt to gain access to taped depositions taken of Hillary Clinton's
aides. The depositions were taken as part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch.
The group is trying to figure out if FOIA laws were circumvented by Clinton's use of a private email server. Judicial
Watch has recently deposed Cheryl Mills, who served as Clinton's chief of staff, Bryan Pagliano, who is believed to have set
up Clinton's private server, and Huma Abedin, as well as others.
Hillary
Clinton Battles Chris Wallace Over Emailgate: That's 'Not What I Heard' Comey Say. Former Secretary of
State and current Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took to Fox News Sunday for her first post-convention
interview, and after host Chris Wallace made Secretary Clinton feel right at home by grilling her about Benghazi, he segued
into a chunk of questions about the now-completed investigation into Clinton's emails, which revealed no criminal
wrongdoing. Wallace confronted Hillary with bits of FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress, and suggested
that he contradicted many of her claims. Hillary saw it somewhat differently: [Video clip]
FBI
warned Clinton campaign of cyberattack by foreign government. The FBI warned the Hillary Clinton presidential
campaign in March that its computers had been the object of a foreign-government cyberattack, Yahoo News reported Thursday
evening. However, according to Yahoo News, when the FBI requested that the Clinton team turn over email logs and staff
addresses, the campaign's lawyers refused. At the time, Mrs. Clinton was being investigated by the FBI for
possible criminal offenses in her setting up and using a private email server to conduct government business and handle
classified information.
Private
Servers Were 'Recommended,' Clinton Says For First Time. The revelation — highlighted in a Judicial
Watch lawsuit against the State Department — raises new unanswered questions about who may have suggested or
influenced Clinton's decision to relay sensitive and classified State Department information on private channels.
Clinton used a private email address and server located in her New York home throughout her tenure as the nation's chief
diplomat. An FBI investigation confirmed that contrary to her previous claims Clinton sent and received highly
sensitive classified information on the server and that she did not turn over to the State Department thousands of emails
concerning official business.
The Democrats' Email Scandal: Hillary Clinton
Corrupts Everything She Touches. The news that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, manipulated the levers of power at the DNC to ensure that Hillary Clinton would win the Party's nomination for
President should not really come as a surprise to anyone. What is surprising is that she actually resigned when she was
outed through the release of thousands of emails stolen from the Democrats' email system, allegedly by Russian hackers.
Among the more than 19,000 messages released by the WikiLeaks website, reports The Wall Street Journal's Harriet
Torry, are signs of bias in favor of Hillary Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's campaign, undermining the DNC's
stated objective of broad-based support for Democrats seeking office.
Chaos
at the Democratic National Convention. Perhaps the Russians are behind the DNC hacking. It would be worth
considering the fact that it's the Obama/Clinton/Kerry disaster of the past seven-and-a-half years that ushered in a new Cold
War between the United States and Russia, including cyber-intrusions into every part of our government, ranging from the
Office of Personnel Management to the White House itself. Mrs. Clinton pointing a crooked finger at Mr. Trump
for this disaster is the equivalent of blaming a YouTube video for the Benghazi massacre, a gay hate crime for the Orlando
terrorist atrocity, and workplace violence for the Fort Hood terrorist attack.
Rudy
Giuliani: Hackers could release Hillary Clinton emails before election or extort, threaten her. Former
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday predicted that hackers could release incriminating emails from Hillary
Clinton before the November election, or extort or threaten Mrs. Clinton if they decide to hang onto them. "I
would be surprised ... if the Russians haven't hacked all of Hillary's emails way back when they were sitting in [a] garage,"
Mr. Giuliani said. "That server of hers was less secure than the DNC server that was hacked —
considerably less secure."
Another
Clinton Email Scandal. [Scroll down] Did a foreign country hack Clinton's homebrewed server? Did
her deleted emails, the thousands unrecovered by the FBI, include any embarrassing information now in the hands of another
country? If the answer is yes to either one of those questions, October might come with a surprise.
Clinton
practically handed her email password to the Russians. Clinton was so careless when using her BlackBerry that
the Russians stole her password. All Russian President Vladimir Putin's gang had to do was log into Clinton's account
and read whatever they wanted. They had to be laughing [a lot]. So you can add the Russians to the list of
people who know bad and personal things about Clinton that the Democrats will wish remain hidden. FBI Director James
Comey said a few weeks ago that Clinton had been "extremely careless" with her e-mails, but he added that he didn't think
the server she'd been using had been hacked by "hostile actors."
Julian
Assange Says Hillary Clinton Should Be Worried About Next Wikileaks Release. The DNC seems to believe what
Wikileaks published was simply a curated selection of years worth of communication. They don't know, officially,
whether the hackers — and Wikileaks — have any more private emails at their disposal. Julian
Assange, Wikileaks's founder, insists that they — and their candidate Hillary Clinton — have something
very serious to worry about. In an exclusive interview with ITV, Assange insisted that he had more to drop on
the Democratic nominee, including, possibly, information related to her private email server. The dump, Assange claims,
will contain "enough evidence" to indict the former Secretary of State.
The
Missing Man at the Center of Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal. Of all the characters in the political drama of
Hillary Clinton's private email server, none has been more mysterious — and potentially more important —
than a 40-year-old technology specialist named Bryan Pagliano. Pagliano didn't just set up the now infamous "homebrew"
server in the basement of Clinton's New York home, which she used for official business while serving as secretary of state.
Pagliano has been the former secretary's go-to IT guy for the past several years. He's also the only person in the entire
investigation of Clinton's email who got an immunity deal, protecting him from possible criminal prosecution. That was
Pagliano's demand for telling FBI investigators about Clinton's unorthodox system — a system that he apparently
knows more about than anyone else.
Lawyer:
Clinton already answered every question on email use. Hillary Clinton's lawyer told a federal judge Monday [7/18/2016] that
the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has already answered enough questions about her use of a private email server while serving
as secretary of state.
Hillary's sophisticated
staff. [Scroll down] Here is the continuing mystery: how did the confidential, secret, and top secret information (contained in then
classified 52 email chains) jump the gap from the realm of secure classified computer networks onto Hillary's unclassified servers?
There are several ways this could happen. If we take Mr. Comey's assertions at face value, these methods were all well beyond Hillary's
grasp, but in fact they can easily be accomplished by anyone who can manage to make his own color copies at Staples. The original
classified information could be captured by printing a hard copy, then scanning it into the unclassified system. Or by retyping the
text. Or by downloading the source document onto removable media like a thumb drive. Each of these actions is a felony
violation of federal law regarding the proper handling of classified information.
Judicial
Watch chief: Slowly but surely, the Clinton email cover up is unraveling. [Scroll down] What is
notable is that the State Department finally admits that Clinton's practice of supposedly emailing other State officials
using her non-state.gov account was not an "appropriate method of preserving federal records or making them available for
searches under FOIA." Second, it is both significant and disturbing that Hillary Clinton now asserts a private "claim
of right" over her non-state.gov email account, including any of the 55,000 pages of federal records she returned to the
State Department. She further claims that these and other emails, including emails that may have contained classified
information, have "never been the property of or in the possession or control of the State Department."
State
Dept. to release deleted Clinton emails uncovered by FBI. State Department officials plan to publish all
work-related emails discovered on Hillary Clinton's private servers by the FBI once agents turn over the records Clinton
withheld from the government. "Just as we processed the material turned over to the department by former Secretary
Clinton, we will appropriately and with due diligence process any additional material that we receive from the FBI to
identify work-related records and make them available to the public," agency spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday
[7/13/2016]. Clinton had previously stated her legal team provided everything that could possibly considered
related to her State Department work to the agency in late 2014.
Clinton
legal team moves to block deposition in email lawsuit. Lawyers for Hillary Clinton are going to federal court
for the first time to block efforts to force her to testify in a civil lawsuit related to her private email set-up.
Clinton's attorneys submitted a legal filing Tuesday morning in a bid to shut down a conservative group's request for an
order forcing her to submit to a deposition in the midst of her presidential campaign. Clinton's legal team said her
testimony was unnecessary and superfluous in light of her questioning before the House Benghazi Committee last October and
several State Department inquiries into the issue.
Clinton
blames aides for email problems, says server now in hands of FBI. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
blamed her aides for bungling her emails, telling a federal court Tuesday that department employees knew she was using a
secret account and they should have been the ones to police her. Mrs. Clinton, through her lawyers, begged the
court not to order her to have to testify under oath about her emails, saying she no longer has any of them and she didn't
set the system up to try to thwart open-records laws, so she has little to add to the ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Romanian
hacker with access to Clinton emails found dead in jail cell. Christian Times Newspaper has learned that Guccifer, the Romanian hacker
currently being held on charges for hacking Hillary Clinton's personal email server, has been found in his Virginia jail cell, dead of an apparent
suicide. Guccifer, also known as Marcel Lazar Lehel, was extradited to the United States to face charges after openly admitting to repeatedly
hacking Hillary Clinton's email server. This claim occurred in the midst of an FBI probe that was concluded this morning [7/5/2016] by Director
Comey. [...] Comey, in his statement Tuesday morning, alluded to the fact that American enemies and individual actors most likely accessed Hillary
Clinton's emails, but Guccifer was the only person to come forward with knowledge of their contents.
Former
CIA Interrogation Expert Finds Clinton 'Willfully Engaging in Deception' About Emails. There was an almost
surreal element to the Capitol Hill hearing, in which Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Director Comey about the
truthfulness of several statements Secretary Clinton had made about the matter. "Secretary Clinton said there was
nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received," Gowdy said. "Was that true?" "That's not true,"
Comey responded. "There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents." "Secretary
Clinton said, 'I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material,'" Gowdy
continued. "Was that true?" "There was classified material emailed," Comey replied. Gowdy was on a
roll. "Secretary Clinton said she used just one device. Was that true?" "She used multiple devices during
her four-year term as Secretary of State," Comey responded. "Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were
returned to the State Department," Gowdy said. "Was that true?" "No," Comey said. "We found work-related
emails, thousands, that were not returned."
Naturally: DNI
Clapper Denies Paul Ryan Request to Block Clinton From Classified Intel Briefings. Republican House Speaker
Paul Ryan's request to block Hillary Clinton from receiving classified intelligence briefings was denied by Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday [7/11/2016]. In a letter to Ryan, Clapper wrote that he did "not intend
to withhold briefings from any officially nominated, eligible candidate." A spokeswoman for Ryan, AshLee Strong, said
in a statement that "We obviously disagree with the decision and want to know what precautions will be taken and what assurances
the director can give that Secretary Clinton won't mishandle classified information. She has proven herself untrustworthy."
Hillary
Clinton will have to testify under oath if federal judge agrees to petition. Prosecutors decided last week not to charge former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her secret email server, but a federal court could still force her to testify under oath after a
conservative law firm petitioned the judge to force her to talk. Judicial Watch, which has been pursuing Mrs. Clinton's emails
for years through more than a dozen open-records lawsuits and has already subjected her top aides to depositions, petitioned Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan on Friday to order Mrs. Clinton to talk. The group said there are questions only she can answer about how she handled her
messages. "It was her system. She was the primary driving force behind it and was its principal user," Judicial Watch said in its
court filing. "Without Secretary Clinton's testimony, there can be no fair, rightful and conclusive answer to the court's questions."
Clinton
email scandal made into a movie, Huma, Mills depositions top billing. Phelim McAleer's "Clinton Email On Film" is based on depositions given by top
Clinton aides to the watchdog group Judicial Watch, the latest from adviser Huma Abedin. "It's compelling viewing — as she is in turn petulant,
defiant and then apologetic," he said. McAleer's films show actors re-enacting the real depositions, which were filmed but sealed from public view.
"We only made these re-enactments because Hillary's lawyers managed to persuade the judge to seal the tapes until after the election. That's just not good
enough, and by spreading these films you are helping to end censorship," he said of his productions.
Here
Are 35 Email Lies Hillary Is Still Telling On Her Campaign Website. A 4,000-word "fact sheet" on Hillary Clinton's campaign website
contains 35 lies, half-truths, obfuscations, evasive statements and falsehoods about her private email setup, a Daily Caller analysis shows.
Clinton and her campaign have long referred to the "fact sheet" in response to questions about her use of a personal email account and private
server. Her team of elite attorneys even hid behind the document earlier this year when the State Department's inspector general sought to
interview Clinton about her email practices. IG Steve Linick said during a House hearing last week that Clinton's team declined an interview
request and referred him to her "fact sheet."
Hillary
Has A New Defense For Sending Classified Information. In the wake of the FBI investigation which found 110 classified emails that
were classified at the time of sending, Hillary Clinton said on Friday [7/8/2016] that at the time, she did not "believe" they were put under
that category. In an interview with on CNN's "The Lead," Wolf Blitzer asked Clinton if she would "acknowledge you were extremely careless"
with her private server email setup while secretary of state.
Embarrassing:
Hillary Spox Still Insists She Didn't Tell A Single Email Lie. With the Summer Olympics just around the corner,
Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon just brought home a gold medal in abject hackery. Prodded by CNN's Wolf Blitzer
about the many indisputable lies his boss has told for more than a year about what the FBI and State Department Inspector
General has characterized as an "extremely careless" improper email scheme that constituted the very "definition of
negligence," Fallon flatly denies the established truth.
Congress
To Ask FBI To Investigate Hillary For Lying Under Oath. Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Thursday [7/7/2016]
that he would ask the FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton's sworn testimony before Congress in which she falsely said that she
did not send or received classified information via email.
Texas
Rep. Hurd: Americans Risked Their Lives for Intel on Clinton's Server. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX)
directly challenged FBI Director James Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, questioning if the Bureau
understood the lengths human intelligence assets went to in order to collect information that was simply left unsecured on a
server in Clinton's basement. Hurd also challenged Democratic representatives' assertions that the hearing was political
theater and pointed out that Americans risked their lives to gather the information.
Clinton
Spokesman Called Out for Incomplete Investigation of His Boss. Brian Fallon, the press secretary for Hillary
Clinton's presidential campaign, was called out by Bloomberg's Mark Halperin on Thursday [7/7/2016] for defending the FBI investigation
of Clinton. Halperin asked Fallon about how thorough of an investigation the FBI and FBI Director James Comey had completed.
Halperin pointed out that FBI did not read every email sent to them by Clinton and he asked Fallon if the Clinton campaign misrepresented
the thoroughness of the investigation. [...] In addition to looking at headers and doing keyword searches for a wide range of terms that
would capture any work related correspondence, they did read a large number of them," Fallon said.
Chaffetz's
FBI referral on Hillary perjury a time bomb? It was an astonishing moment when FBI Director James Comey told
the House Oversight Committee that his "comprehensive" investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices had not bothered to
consider her sworn testimony before Congress. Testimony that was odds with the conclusions reported by Comey.
Rep. Chaffetz spoke derisively: "Do you need a referral from Congress to investigate her statements under oath?"
Chaffetz asked, to which Comey responded, "Sure do." With a chuckle, Chaffetz said, "You'll have one. You'll
have one in the next few hours." And so another FBI investigation of Hillary Cinton criminality is underway.
Senate
Judiciary Chair: 'FBI Tried to Gag Its Agents With Non-Disclosure Agreement' on Clinton Probe. In a strongly
worded letter to FBI Director James Comey about his handling of the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server for government business, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
said he was troubled that "the FBI tried to gag its agents with a non-disclosure agreement on this matter, in violation of
whistleblower protection statutes." Noting the many "inconsistencies" in Comey's announcement on Tuesday that he would
not recommend criminal charges against Clinton, Grassley's July 6 letter stated that "in light of these inconsistencies,
it is even more troubling that the FBI tried to gag its agents with a non-disclosure agreement on this matter, in violation
of whistleblower protection statutes.
Email
Scandal: Was The Fix In For FBI's Investigation Of Hillary? It's now evident that the FBI fumbled its
investigation into Hillary's Clinton's misuse of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. It found
evidence of crimes but refused to prosecute. Whether it was dereliction, incompetence or something far more sinister
are the only real questions that remain to be answered. Comments by FBI Director James Comey to Congress Thursday
underscore just how badly our justice system performed in the Clinton investigation. Not only did the FBI fail to put
Clinton under oath during her 3½ hours of questioning last week, he said, but the FBI has no recording or
transcript of it. Apparently, apart from personal recollections of those who questioned her, there is no
record of what she said — or whether, in the end, it was truthful. This extraordinary bungling by the
Justice Department and FBI can be no accident.
Judicial
Watch Asks Federal Court for Additional Discovery: Seeks Testimony of Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch
announced today [7/8/2016] that it submitted a request for permission to depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton;
the Director of Office of Correspondence and Records of the Executive Secretariat Clarence Finney; and the former Director
of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat John Bentel. Today's request arises in a Judicial Watch
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit before U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan that seeks records about
the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton. The lawsuit was reopened
because of revelations about the clintonemail.com system.
While
Clinton tries to change the subject, Republicans pounce on email criticism. Hillary Clinton came here Wednesday
in an attempt to turn the spotlight away from her handling of classified emails and back on rival Donald Trump's
controversial business practices. But Republicans back in Washington began assembling the political machinery to keep
the email issue at center stage through the presidential election. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
focused intently on everything but the email issue, with a speech bashing Trump and a major policy shift toward the
free-college pledge promised by her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Now
The State Dept. Is Blaming 'Human Error' For Marked Classified Emails Found On Hillary's Server. State
Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that "human error" was responsible for emails that were marked classified
ending up on Hillary Clinton's email server. Kirby was addressing questions about FBI director James Comey's
announcement on Wednesday that investigators recovered emails that had classified markings on them when they were sent to
Clinton. "Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the
presence of classified information," Comey said during a press conference.
ABC8
Virginia Poll: 82% Say Hillary Clinton Should Be Criminally Prosecuted. Over July 4th weekend, ABC8 in Richmond
Virginia conducted a poll surrounding the ongoing FBI investigation and recent interview with Hillary Clinton. Out of 1,645
respondents: 82% said Ms. Clinton should be criminally prosecuted, 16% said she should not.
Clinton
Still Insists She Sent No Classified Material on Private Server, Won't Say Who Advised Her to Use It. Hillary
Clinton continued to insist she never sent nor received classified information on her private email server at the State
Department after her long-awaited FBI interview on Saturday [7/2/2016]. Clinton met with the FBI for three-and-a-half
hours at the agency's headquarters to face questioning over her private email server as secretary of state. The scandal
has hung over her campaign for more than a year, furthering public notions Clinton is not trustworthy and plays by her own
set of rules. She told MSNBC's Chuck Todd she was eager to take the meeting and bring the "review" to a conclusion,
although this is a criminal investigation.
Biden:
'I Find It Hard to Believe' Hillary Would Do Anything 'Intentionally Wrong'. In an interview with NPR's
"Weekend Edition," Vice President Joe Biden discussed the upcoming presidential, in particular the "cloud" over presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Biden
told NPR's Rachel Martin that while he couldn't comment on the situation specifically, he said he found it hard to believe
she "would do anything intentionally wrong."
Senator
Admits The FBI Is "About To Ask Putin For His Copies Of Hillary's Emails". It is well known that the FBI still
does not have roughly 30,000 emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server due to Clinton categorizing them as
personal and not work related. We have also reported that Russia may be in possession of those emails, and according to
Judge Andrew Napolitano, there is a debate going on in the Kremlin about whether or not to release them. Given that the
FBI still doesn't have the emails, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who is a Trump supporter and also serves on the
Senate Intelligence Committee, has become so frustrated that Cotton suggests the FBI is about to ask Putin for his copies.
WikiLeaks
Releases Over 1,000 Clinton Iraq War Emails. WikiLeaks has released 1,258 of Hillary Clinton's emails in
relation to the Iraq war, preceding the British Chilcot report on the conflict set to be released later this week.
WikiLeaks tweeted a link to their email archive from their official Twitter page today. Wikileaks appears to have a
substantial amount of information on Clinton, having already released a large archive of Clinton's emails earlier in the
year. Breitbart has previously reported on Julian Assange's claims that Google is complicit in the managing of Clintons
online media campaign.
Republican
National Committee: Hillary Clinton Becomes First Major Party Candidate to Sit for FBI Criminal Interview. The Republican
National Committee (RNC) said that Hillary Clinton's meeting Saturday [7/2/2016] with the Federal Bureau of Investigation makes her the first major
party presidential candidate to sit for an interview with an FBI criminal investigation about her own conduct. RNC chairman Reince Priebus
remarked upon the historical significance of such an interview. Breitbart News has extensively reported on the potential Espionage Act
violations committed by Clinton and her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
Hillary's Strange
Security Adviser. Hillary Clinton's campaign has been forced to acknowledge over the past week that the former
secretary of state did not, as she had claimed, turn over all her work-related email to the State Department. The new
story is that her deletion of these emails was an oversight. Team Clinton is hoping therefore that you won't hear the
story of Rajiv K. Fernando, which would suggest the oversight tale to be yet another untruth.
Clinton
email scandal grows ahead of convention. Hillary Clinton's email woes are reaching new heights just a few weeks
before the Democratic national convention. From the release of a scathing report on Benghazi, to a dust-up over her
husband's private meeting with the attorney general, to Saturday's news that she was interviewed for several hours by FBI
investigators, Clinton stumbled through a difficult week by remaining largely silent. But her highest hurdles may still
lie ahead as the Justice Department prepares to issue a decision on whether the presumptive Democratic nominee will face
criminal charges for her mishandling of sensitive material in an unclassified environment.
Indicted
or not indicted, Clinton could lose politically. No matter how the FBI investigation into the handling of
sensitive information on Hillary Clinton's personal computer server ends, it likely will hurt her presidential bid. If
she is indicted, she will face further questions about her honesty and perhaps even calls for her to step aside. If she
isn't indicted, as many legal experts predict, critics will accuse the Obama administration of letting her escape charges
merely because they want her to win the White House. Clinton was interviewed by the FBI Saturday for three-and-half
hours at its headquarters in Washington, according to her campaign, suggesting the inquiry is nearing its end.
"Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was secretary," Clinton
campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement. "She is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the
Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion."
Maybe
It's Time to Stop 'Thinking about Tomorrow'. With the investigation into his wife's wrongdoings while Secretary
of State drawing to a close [...] Bill Clinton hopped aboard a government plane on the tarmac in Phoenix. Aboard that
plane was Attorney General Loretta Lynch, tasked to decide on whether to indict Hillary. The meeting stirred up a raft
of speculation about the odorous half-hour discussion they held in private and her continuing role in the matter. For
example: How is it that Lynch and Bill Clinton were both in Phoenix on the tarmac at the same time? The most
credible accounts I can find indicate they both flew there separately. She was in Phoenix to give a speech on the
administration's (unprecedented) intrusion into local police operations aka "community policing". His presence there was
never credibly explained. Yes, there were reports he was there to play golf but it was over 100 degrees and he is in
poor health so that seems unlikely.
More about the Phoenix incident can be found
on this page.
Exclusive:
Hillary Clinton's emails packed with America's secrets were stored by company 'wide open to hackers' and run by 'morons'
whistleblowers reveal. Hillary Clinton is facing damaging new revelations about the lax security surrounding
her emails. A Daily Mail Online investigation has found that a second firm — hired to store a back-up of Clinton's
secret server — was so lax in its security employees failed to change passwords frequently and left computers logged in,
unattended for extended periods and its own clients stumbled upon other clients data. Datto Inc, the company in
question, was hired to store Hilary's emails by Platte River, the mom-and-pop company contracted to maintain her 'homebrew'
email system.
Russia
to release Clinton emails? U.S. intelligence agencies are said to be closely watching Russian online blogs and
other postings for any signs that Moscow hackers have covertly obtained the bulk of Hillary Clinton's email messages stolen
from her private email server and are preparing to make them public. A U.S. intelligence official told Inside the Ring
that the indications of the email release are being closely watched, although the veracity of at least two postings on the
matter could not be confirmed as authoritative.
State
Department Won't Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months. Department of Justice officials filed a
motion in federal court late Wednesday [6/29/2016] seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that
Bill Clinton helped launch. If the court permits the delay, the public won't be able to read the communications until October 2018,
about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
State
Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails. The State Department has sought to
delay the court-ordered release of emails between four of Hillary Clinton's top aides and officials at the Clinton Foundation
and a closely associated public relations firm. The motion, filed in federal court by the Justice Department late
Wednesday, seeks to put off the release of the emails by 27 months. It was first reported on by The Daily Caller.
In the filing, the State Department says it originally estimated that approximately 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged
between the aides — identified as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, former Ambassador-At-Large
Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — and the Clinton Foundation and
Teneo Holdings, a communications shop that former President Bill Clinton helped launch.
FBI
director takes center stage in Clinton email case. FBI Director James Comey is now firmly in the driver's seat
of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, after Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged she would accept whatever course of
action his bureau and career prosecutors recommend. Lynch's influence will continue to be felt throughout the
department, and her refusal to fully remove herself from the case ensures that she will continue to be briefed about its
developments. Prosecutors within her department — not the FBI — will ultimately decide whether or
not to press ahead with charges.
Hillary Clinton questioned by FBI
on emails. US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been questioned by the FBI over her use of emails
while she was secretary of state, her campaign says. A spokesperson said it was a voluntary interview. The FBI is
investigating Mrs Clinton and her aides over whether they mishandled classified information on a private email server she
used while serving as secretary of state. Mrs Clinton denies handling classified information in her private emails.
Hillary
Clinton Interviewed by FBI About Private Emails While Secretary of State. Presumptive Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton was questioned by the FBI in a long-awaited interview Saturday over the use of her private email server, she
said. The purpose of the interview, which was voluntary, was to delve into whether Clinton mishandled classified
information submitted on her private email system while she served as secretary of state. Her top staffers have already
given testimony. The interview happened at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on the Saturday morning of the long
holiday weekend, and lasted approximately three and a half hours, sources said.
Ex-DOJ
Official: Don't Get Your Hopes Up For a Hillary Indictment, Peons. Appearing on The Rush Limbaugh Show
yesterday, former Department of Justice official J. Christian Adams did his best to quash hopes for a well-deserved
indictment as it pertains to Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Aside from all sorts of impropriety on the part of the
administration — from Barack Obama pooh-poohing Clinton's mishandling of classified emails to Loretta Lynch meeting
with the target of an FBI investigation — Adams outlines the reality for those working inside the bureaucracy.
Exclusive:
Hillary Clinton Scheduled To Meet With FBI On Saturday. Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet Saturday [7/2/2016]
with the FBI, a source close to the investigation into her private email server tells The Daily Caller. The source went on to suggest the
interview may take place at her Washington, D.C. home. The bureau's interview with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is believed
to be the final step in its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information on Clinton's private email server. Hundreds
of now-classified documents — some of them "Top Secret" — were sent and received through Clinton's private server, which she
housed at her New York residence during her tenure at the State Department.
Record
keeper pleads ignorance in Clinton private server case. A senior State Department official in charge of
record-keeping during Hillary Clinton's time in office said he did not know whether Clinton was authorized to use a personal
email account. Patrick Kennedy, the agency's undersecretary for management, said he did not realize the significance of
Clinton's private email use during her tenure. He admitted to exchanging more than two dozen emails with Clinton on her
personal account. Kennedy was deposed by attorneys for conservative watchdog Judicial Watch Wednesday in a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit over personnel files from Clinton's time in office.
Hillary
Clinton to Meet With FBI Investigators Tomorrow. Possibly triggered by the highly controversial, clandestine
meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, the FBI has announced that it has finally scheduled an
interview with Hillary Clinton regarding her ever-expanding email scandal.
New
analysis shows 160 emails missing from Clinton's disclosure to State. [Scroll down] But disclosures over
the past several weeks have revealed dozens of emails related to Clinton's official duties that crossed her private server
and were not included in the 55,000 pages of correspondence she turned over to the State Department when the agency sought
her emails in 2014. At least 160 such emails have come to light so far, many of them through public-records lawsuits
brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch. In one email released by Judicial Watch on Monday, Clinton queried
aide Huma Abedin and another staffer about how her official records were being maintained.
Hillary
Clinton's email story continues to get harder and harder to believe. On Monday night [6/27/2016], the
Associated Press published a piece noting the release of an additional 165 pages of emails Hillary Clinton sent from her
private email address while serving as secretary of state. These were emails that had never been previously released
and only were made public because of a court order in response to a request from a conservative group. And yet again,
the emails poke holes in Clinton's initial explanation for why she decided to exclusively use a private email server for her
electronic correspondence while serving as the nation's top diplomat.
Why Hillary Is Stalling
Her FBI Interview. James Comey, the straight-arrow director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is eager to
wind up his investigation of Hillary's use of an unsecure email system, but he can't do that until he and Justice Department
prosecutors sit down with Hillary and interview her. Hillary says that neither she nor her campaign have been contacted
by the FBI. But that is not true. Negotiations have been going on for quite some time between the FBI and Hillary's
attorney, David Kendall, who went to law school with Hillary and defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial.
Former
U.S. Attorney says Hillary Clinton Could Face Criminal Charges in 60 Days. If former U.S. Attorney Joe
DiGenova's prediction is true, Hillary Clinton will most likely no longer be a contender for the 2016 presidential
race. He told Fox News' Gretchen Carlson that he thinks Hillary Clinton and some of her staff may be indicted within
the next 60 to 90 days. "They (the FBI) are going to make a recommendation that there is going to be charges
against a series of people," DiGenova said on the program. "What I know is that the FBI has been building a
compelling — an unassailable case against Hillary and her surrounding group inside the State department," he said.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Is The Cover-up Worse Than The Crime? Bad news about Hillary Clinton's use of a private
email server while Secretary of State keeps dribbling out. The latest is that she failed to turn over dozens of
work-related emails, many of which just happen to completely undercut key claims she's made over the past year.
Judge Napolitano Warns
of Massive FBI Rebellion on Eve of DNC: "Saturday Night Massacre". Fox News senior legal analyst Judge Andrew
Napolitano speculated there could be a serious storm brewing in Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's future, and
the timing couldn't be worse. He referred to a possibly incriminating email Clinton failed to release to the State
Department that was of "critical importance." The judge appeared on Fox Business Network's "Mornings With Maria,"
[6/28/2016] where he explained that the email in question was from Clinton aide Huma Abedin to the then-secretary of state
and her inner circle. It said that they had been hacked and that technology staffers were temporarily disabling State
Department security features to accommodate Clinton's private server.
Here's
even more of the emails Hillary Clinton deleted because they were 'private' but which a judge says are government related. An
additional 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department surfaced Monday [6/27/2016], including nearly three
dozen that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee failed to hand over last year that were sent through her private server. The
latest emails were released under court order by the State Department to the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. The
batch includes 34 new emails Clinton exchanged through her private account with her deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin. The aide,
who also had a private email account on Clinton's home server, later gave her copies to the government.
New
Clinton Emails Produced by State Department; Clinton Email Shows She Was Concerned About Records. Judicial
Watch today [6/27/2016] released 165 pages of new State Department records that include a previously unreleased March 22,
2009, email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealing that she was concerned about how her records were being handled
and had "no idea how my papers are treated at State. Who manages both my personal and official files?" Clinton top aide
Huma Abedin responds: "We've discussed this" and promises to explain it again.
Huma
Abedin, Patrick Kennedy to Testify in Hillary Clinton Email Case. Judicial Watch today [6/27/2016] announced
the scheduled depositions of Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy Chief of Staff, and Patrick
Kennedy, undersecretary for management at the State Department, regarding their involvement with the clintonemail.com record
system. The deposition of Abedin is scheduled for June 28, and Kennedy is to give his deposition on June 29.
Only
thing transparent about Hillary is her dishonesty. [Scroll down] It was November 2010, and [Huma] Abedin
had urged the secretary to get onto the state.gov e-mail system or look at "releasing your email address to the department"
because State's spam filter was blocking messages from clintonemail.com. No, came Clinton's reply: "Let's get
separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible" — almost certainly meaning,
accessible to Freedom of Information Act requests. And it directly contradicts her repeated claims that she relied on
the private account purely to avoid having to use more than one device.
With Clinton
at helm, State Dept. got 'prestigious' award for record-keeping. At the same time then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was storing
emails on a personal server in violation of the rules, her department twice received a "prestigious" award for its record-keeping practices — an
honor that, in retrospect, has watchdogs scratching their heads. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave the so-called
Archivist Award to the State Department in 2010 and again in September 2012, toward the end of Clinton's tenure. During the 2012 ceremony,
NARA Chief Records Officer Paul Wester described the honor, also bestowed upon the Treasury Department, as "prestigious."
Clinton
Campaign Admits Hillary Didn't Turn Over Mysterious Email Exchange With Top Aide. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is
acknowledging that the former secretary of state failed to turn over a cryptic work-related email that she sent to her aide Huma Abedin
while she was in office. [...] One such email is from a Nov. 13, 2010 exchange in which Abedin asked Clinton if she wanted to
begin using a State.gov email account. Clinton, who used only a personal account, indicated she was open to the idea, but said
"I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible."
Smoking Gun:
Hillary Did Not Turn Over Email Showing She Hid Information. Hillary Clinton did not turn over an important
email about the problems caused by her use of a private email server for classified information. Clinton sent an email
to her deputy chief of staff stating that she did not want some of her emails to be "accessible," presumably to Congress or
to the State Department itself. That email helped form the basis of a scathing inspector general report that found
Clinton violated rules. Now, we know that Clinton did not hand over that email to State Department investigators,
proving that Clinton violated her sworn statement that she handed over all of her emails. Her inability to hand over
this email could also provide more evidence that she violated the Espionage Act by allowing national defense information to
be "lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed" through gross negligence.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Latest Batch Exposes Two Big New Problems For Hillary. First, it turns out that Clinton
managed to avoid turning over one key email, despite her repeated promises that she gave the State Department every single
work-related email from her private email server. As the Associated Press reported, in the missing email, Clinton
admits that her private setup was a problem. [...] Another email released this week reveals that State had set up an
official government email account for Clinton to use, and then gives a clue as to why Clinton never used it.
Hillary's
secret server aide invokes Fifth Amendment One Hundred and Twenty Five times as he is questioned. The State
Department aide who set up Hillary Clinton's private server inside her home invoked his Fifth Amendment right 'more than
125 times' in a case involving the email system. [...] Pagliano worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and set up
her basement server as she transitioned to the State Department in 2009. He simultaneously took on an official role at
State. In his disclosure forms, he did not disclose that he was being paid by Clinton to keep tabs on the server.
Clinton
staff disabled security of private email server: report. Tech staffers at the State Department temporarily
disabled crucial security features on Hillary Clinton's private email server in 2010 — leaving a trove of
sensitive information vulnerable to hackers. Anti-virus software was turned off after Clinton and aide Huma Adebin
experienced problems sending emails, it was revealed Wednesday in documents released under court order to Judicial Watch, the
conservative advocacy group suing the State Department for access to public records from Clinton's tenure as secretary.
State staffers were desperate to resolve the problem, according to their own emails to each other.
Emails:
Key security features disabled on Clinton's server. State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December
2010 over a serious technical problem that affected emails from then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing
them to temporarily disable security features on the government's own systems, according to emails released Wednesday [6/22/2016].
Documents
show State Dept. tried to give Clinton official email. A collection of records made public Wednesday indicates
State Department officials attempted to give Hillary Clinton a government email account to use while she was secretary of
state, contradicting previous claims from agency officials that no such account was ever set up. But the email account,
SSHRC@state.gov, went unused after a State Department official warned one of Clinton's aides in Aug. 2011 that messages sent
to and from the address would be "subject to [Freedom of Information Act] searches." The records, which were referenced
but not published in an inspector general report released last month, were obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.
Clinton
IT specialist invokes 5th more than 125 times in deposition. Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano
invoked the Fifth more than 125 times during a 90-minute, closed-door deposition Wednesday [6/22/2016] with the conservative
watchdog Judicial Watch, a source with the group told Fox News. The official said Pagliano was working off an index
card and read the same crafted statement each time. "It was a sad day for government transparency," the Judicial Watch
official said, adding they asked all their questions and Pagliano invoked the Fifth Amendment right not to answer them.
Pagliano was a central figure in the set-up and management of Clinton's personal server she used exclusively for government
business while secretary of state. The State Department inspector general found Clinton violated government rules with
that arrangement.
Clinton
IT Witness' Testimony Scheduled for Wednesday, June 22. Judicial Watch today [6/20/2016] announced that the
deposition of Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton State Department IT official who reportedly provided support for the Clinton email
system, is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22. U.S District Court Judge Sullivan recently ruled that Pagliano's deposition
can be videotaped. The video will be kept under court seal for now, but the transcript will be publicly available.
The
Coming Constitutional Crisis Over Hillary Clinton's EmailGate. Suddenly things were aligning perfectly for
Hillary Clinton in her quest for the presidency. After months of embarrassing inability to vanquish Senator Bernie
Sanders, a 74-year-old socialist who represents a state with just two-tenths of a percent of the American population, she
wrapped up her party's nomination for the White House. The Democratic convention in Philadelphia next month will be a
formality, no matter how loudly Bernie Bros stomp their feet. To cap that triumph last week, President Obama endorsed
Hillary Clinton as their party's nominee for 2016. While this, too, was a formality, since Mr. Obama was
eventually going to endorse her — no matter how much bad blood lingers between them from the 2008
race — it was satisfying to her supporters, if perhaps overdue.
When
Will Wikileaks Release Clinton's Deleted Emails? Is Putin Involved? [Scroll down] For years it has
been widely reported that Putin despises President Obama. Thus, the pending release of Clinton's "deleted" emails
(likely through a third party such as Wikileaks) provides Putin with a golden opportunity to humiliate Obama in two
ways. First, Putin proves that while Clinton served as Secretary of State, her communication system was an open door to
U.S. secrets allowing access to the emails of everyone with whom she communicated, including Obama. Second,
Putin could damage Obama's chosen successor. If Putin is complicit in allowing Clinton's "deleted" emails to be
released and the emails prove that Clinton violated numerous U.S. laws, there is a good chance that she will be forced to
withdraw from the presidential race.
Has
FBI Director Comey Waited Too Long on Clinton Scandals? We have regularly cited the various scandals still
hanging over Mrs. Clinton's head. They include the mishandling of classified materials, obstruction of justice,
the public corruption scandal in which she used the State Department as leverage for benefitting the Clinton Foundation as
well as her family, and Benghazi. Contrary to President Obama's assertion that he is allowing a non-partisan and full
investigation, by endorsing Mrs. Clinton he has placed his hand on the scale of justice and made his wishes more than
clear to federal investigators. The question is, will Director Comey and the FBI follow the President's direction?
Federal
Judge Orders Videotaping of Clinton IT Witness' Testimony. Judicial Watch today [6/14/2016] announced that a
court order was issued by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan requiring the testimony of Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton State
Department IT official who reportedly provided support for the Clinton email system, be videotaped during his upcoming
deposition and that the transcript be made public. The court also confirmed that a Justice Department criminal
investigation is underway related to the Clinton email issue.
Sources:
Russian Government Intercepted and Will Release Hillary's Emails. Sources are reporting that the Russian
government is prepared to release private emails that it obtained from Hillary Clinton's email server, proving Clinton
allowed classified information to end up in the hands of foreign adversaries. Intelligence sources are bracing for the
Russian release of Clinton's intercepted emails, according to a report in the trade publication Oilprice.com.
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FBI's
Probe Of Clinton Email Server Is A 'Criminal Investigation,' Judge Says. The FBI's investigation into Hillary
Clinton's private email server is "criminal" in nature, U.S. District Court judge Emmet Sullivan said in a court filing on
Tuesday [6/14/2016]. Sullivan was responding to a plea from attorneys for former State Department information
technology specialist Bryan Pagliano who asked that details of an immunity deal he made with the FBI to discuss Clinton's
server be kept secret.
Team Hillary's
final e-mail defense: mass amnesia. It was another week of news poking fresh holes in Hillary Clinton's
tattered e-mail defense. At this point, the only cover she has left are all the ongoing stonewalls. One landmark
event came Wednesday, when presidential spokesman Josh Earnest for the first time referred to the FBI's probe of the e-mails
as a "criminal investigation." Then came a Wall Street Journal scoop: One thing making it criminal is that top
State Department aides sent her e-mails on "born classified" discussions of drone strikes in Pakistan. The record
already shows that Secretary Clinton's inner circle knew full well that her private account was run off a home-brewed
server — their e-discussions are full of notices that she's "off e-mail" while the server gets restarted, and even
that it's been taken down because of possible hacker attacks.
Republicans
fear 'bias' in Clinton email probe after Obama endorsement. President Obama's decision to endorse Hillary
Clinton Thursday reignited concerns that the administration could shield the presumptive Democratic standard-bearer from any
legal consequences that emerge from an FBI investigation into her private email use. Republicans were quick to point
out the conflicts of interest at play after Obama pledged his support to Clinton in a video message to her supporters.
"President Obama's official endorsement of an individual whose actions are the subject of an FBI criminal investigation is as
disturbing as it is inappropriate," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told the Washington Examiner.
Trump: Obama
is 'protecting' Clinton from 'going to jail'. Hillary Clinton uses the term "radical jihadism" rather than
"radical Islamic terrorism" because she is "probably afraid" of President Barack Obama, Donald Trump said Monday [6/13/2016].
[...] Alluding to the ongoing FBI investigation into the private server Clinton used for official business at the State
Department, Trump remarked that Clinton's decision to call it by that name as a calculated move. "He's protecting her
from going to jail, so she's not going to use it," Trump said. "But I bet you that ... she would love to use to those
words, because almost everybody agrees that those words should be used."
White
House confirms 'criminal' probe over Clinton emails, 'shreds' campaign claim. Perhaps it was an unguarded moment, but the White House
has seemingly confirmed that the Justice Department is conducting a "criminal investigation" regarding Hillary Clinton's personal email use —
despite persistent claims from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee that investigators are pursuing a mere "security inquiry." Press
Secretary Josh Earnest used the term at Thursday's [6/9/2016] briefing, after being asked by Fox News about whether President Obama's newly unveiled
endorsement of Clinton might apply pressure to investigators assigned to the Clinton case. Earnest rejected the premise, saying the job of
career prosecutors is to follow the evidence to its logical conclusion.
Major
Updates on Email and Clinton Foundation Scandals. As Donald Trump readies his anti-Clinton barrage on Monday [6/13/2016],
he has plenty of fresh material to work with. Hillary famously claimed that her bootleg, unsecure email server contained "no
classified material." This was comprehensively false. Thousands of classified emails passed through her improper
server — including more than 100 she personally sent herself, and dozens that contained information at secret, top secret,
and 'beyond top secret' levels. Intelligence experts this week told the Associated Press that some of these messages could have
compromised the identities of CIA assets, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that at least some of her emails pertained
to planned US drone strikes in Pakistan.
A
'Special Prosecutor' Is Still a Bad Idea in a Criminal Investigation of Clinton. Special prosecutors are
unconstitutional if truly independent, and counterproductive if not so. They are a poor excuse for avoiding the
Constitution's remedy for corrupt public officials: impeachment and disqualification. Moreover, it is simply not true
that Obama's endorsement of Clinton meaningfully ratchets up his conflict of interest; that conflict was already profound
because we have known for months that Obama is implicated in Clinton's lawlessness.
6
in 10 Americans Believe Hillary Clinton is Lying About Emails. A majority of Americans believe that Hillary
Clinton is lying about the handling of her emails on a private server during her tenure as secretary of state, a new poll
shows. A survey released by Fox News on Thursday [6/9/2016] found that 60 percent of registered voters believe
that Clinton "is lying about how her emails were handled while she was secretary of state," while 27 percent think she
is addressing the situation truthfully. Thirteen percent of those polled said they remain uncertain. The poll
result is essentially consistent with an identical survey released last September, which found that 58 percent of
Americans believed Clinton to be lying about her emails.
Despite Clinton claims,
2012 email had classified marking. Hillary Clinton, from the moment her exclusive use of personal email for government business was
exposed, has claimed nothing she sent or received was marked classified at the time. But a 2012 email released by the State Department appears
to challenge that claim because it carries a classified code known as a "portion marking" — and that marking was on the email when it was
sent directly to Clinton's account. The "C" — which means it was marked classified at the confidential level — is in the
left-hand-margin and relates to an April 2012 phone call with Malawi's first female president, Joyce Banda, who took power after the death of President
Mutharika in 2012.
Viral
picture of Clinton on her Blackberry started her secret server scandal — because started State Dept officials didn't know
she had email until they saw it. The photo of Hillary Clinton on her Blackberry that birthed the 'Texts from
Hillary' meme and softened her image is turning out to be less of a blessing and more of a curse for the former secretary of
state. A State Department official testified this week she didn't know Clinton even had an email address until she came
across that photo, as the address was not provided through the federal government. State Director of Executive Secretariat
Staff Karin Lang said she was told when Clinton started that she would not use an 'official account.' And she didn't.
Bombs away! Drone emails
could sink Clinton. After huge victories in the California and New Jersey primaries, Hillary Clinton has all
but locked up the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election. There's just one thing that remains that
could stop her — a federal indictment over her misuse of government secrets while secretary of state. Just
one day after the White House publicly admitted that Clinton was under criminal investigation, new reports reveal the FBI is
focusing on a series of emails sent between 2010 and 2011.
Emails
in Clinton probe dealt with planned drone strikes — WSJ. Emails between U.S. diplomats in Islamabad and State
Department officials in Washington about whether to challenge specific U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are at the center of a
criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday
[6/9/2016]. The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the "low side" — government slang for a computer system for
unclassified matters — as part of a secret arrangement that gave the State Department more of a voice in whether a CIA drone
strike went ahead, according to congressional and law enforcement officials briefed on the FBI probe, the Journal said.
White
House refers to Clinton email probe as 'criminal'. White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday [6/9/2016]
referred to the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email system as a possible "criminal investigation," which Republicans
quickly seized on as a critical slip just moments after President Obama endorsed Clinton for president. Earnest was
asked whether the FBI might be pressured to go easy on Clinton in the investigation in light of Obama's endorsement, and used
the term "criminal investigation" in his answer.
Emails
at center of Clinton FBI probe focused on drone strikes, report says. A series of emails between American
diplomats in Pakistan and Washington over drone strikes are the focus of the criminal probe involving presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, according to a report Thursday [6/9/2016] by The Wall Street
Journal. The emails in 2011 and 2012 were sent through a "computer system for unclassified matters" that gave the State Department
input into whether a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike went forward, congressional and law enforcement officials briefed on the
FBI probe told the Journal. Some of those emails were then sent by then-Secretary of State Clinton's aides to her personal email
account and private server, officials told the Journal. The vaguely worded messages, however, didn't mention the "CIA," "drones"
or details about the targets, the Journal reported.
Hillary
Clinton's Truth Problem. Unless she has been given a back-channel briefing on the investigation, which would be highly
unusual and unethical, Clinton does not know for certain what the FBI has uncovered or what the Department of Justice might do. [...] She
cannot know what the inspector general wants to talk about because she has refused to meet with him, despite promising to do so.
Was
this photo the beginning of the end for Hillary? State Department officials in charge of public records were
not aware Hillary Clinton was using e-mail during her tenure there until they saw a viral image of the then-secretary of
state looking at her BlackBerry on a satirical blog called "Texts from Hillary." Speaking under oath in a lawsuit
brought against the department by a conservative legal watchdog, a State Department official said the office in charge of
processing open-records requests at the agency had no idea Clinton was using e-mail. So when "Texts from Hillary" made
the Clinton image ubiquitous in 2012, the department decided to check whether she still had no official account.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Experts Say She Likely Exposed CIA Agents. Since becoming the Democratic Party's de facto nominee, Hillary
Clinton has been adamant that the email scandal that has dogged her since last March will amount to nothing. But news this week suggests that,
if anything, an indictment has become more likely.
State
Dept: FOIA officers didn't know, didn't ask about Clinton use of private email. A State Department
official produced to answer questions in a civil lawsuit probing Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server said no
officials responsible for handling public records requests knew of her private email account while she was secretary, but she
was instructed not to answer whether the department's top legal office knew, according to a transcript released Thursday
[6/9/2016]. In a deposition Wednesday, answers provided by Karin M. Lang seemed to corroborate several defenses raised
by Clinton and her aides in the handling of the controversy while challenging other explanations given in a lawsuit by the
conservative group Judicial Watch that examines whether Clinton's email setup thwarted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
WH Denies Endorsement Will Intimidate
FBI Investigators; Obama Meets Privately with AG Lynch. White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted that
President Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton will not "sway" the ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton. The
statement came after Obama released a video endorsing Clinton for president of the United States. Later this afternoon
[6/9/2016], according to the White House, Obama is meeting with the attorney general. The meeting is "closed press."
State
Dept. Official Undermines Key Clinton Email Claim In Judicial Watch Deposition. In a deposition given to
the watchdog group Judicial Watch on Wednesday [6/8/2016], Karin Lang, the State Department's director of Executive
Secretariat staff, said that it would not have been "reasonably possible" to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails through the
Freedom of Information Act before she turned the records over in Dec. 2014 — nearly two years after she left
office. That conflicts with Clinton's longstanding claim that her email practices were above board — and not
an attempt to skirt FOIA requirements — because the "vast majority" of her emails were available to the State
Department through other officials' government email accounts.
The
Facts Keep Undermining Hillary's E-mail Tales. Before we go on, let's revisit Clinton's words from August 26,
2015. Back then, she declared that, "I did not send classified material and I did not receive any material that was marked or
designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is." This was a classic Clintonian defense, resting as it did on
a largely irrelevant straw man — if she did not receive information "marked" or "designated" classified, and such
designations are "the way you know" something is classified, then she never knowingly mishandled classified information.
Yet as I (and many others) have pointed out before, Clinton's actual legal obligation was to safeguard marked and unmarked
classified information, and to fulfill that obligation she would necessarily have to know the classification of everything she
handled, whether it was marked or not.
'When
Clinton Ordered The Deletion Of 30,000 Emails, That Was A Federal Crime'. This is a true must watch clip.
I never post long clips but this is a unique case. The first 15 minutes are nothing but bombshells, one after
another. At a panel hosted by Judicial Watch last month, former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova discusses the criminal
aspect of Hillary's email scandal. Hillary's hitman at the State Department Patrick Kennedy is singled out for
destruction multiple times. DiGenova is convinced there is a grand jury in this case which would explain Bryan
Pagliano's immunity, and he predicts the FBI will recommend charges against everyone in Clinton's inner circle including
Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Patrick Kennedy and Hillary Clinton herself. [Video clip]
Found:
At Least One Pagliano Email Sent Directly to Clinton. The State Department announced Monday [6/6/2016] that the
agency found no emails to or from Bryan Pagliano, Hillary Clinton's IT specialist, while Clinton was secretary of state.
However, an email already released by the State Department does show an email from Pagliano to Clinton at Clinton's clintonemail.com
address, the email that Pagliano himself set up.
State
Department will release these Clinton emails after everyone who sent them is dead. It will take about 75 years
to fully compile and release the emails sent by Hillary Clinton and three of her top aides during her tenure in the Obama
administration, the State Department said this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing requesting the
records. "Given the Department's current FOIA workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about
500 pages a month," the agency calculated, bringing the final deadline to somewhere around 2091. Following the predictable
uproar over such a lengthy timeline, which would be completed years after the death of everyone involved, State spokesman Mark Toner
defended the estimate Tuesday [6/7/2016] by arguing that it is not "outlandish" because of the "enormous amount of FOIA requests" that
are "very complex."
Hillary
Clinton's TPP Emails Could Reveal Damning Information About Her. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump demanded
that the State Department immediately release the emails of Hillary Clinton regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnerships, which
he claims threatens the U.S. economy. In a statement, Stephen Miller, senior policy advisory of Trump, said that
Hillary Clinton's support to the TPP will "permanently undermine U.S. workers and sovereignty." "Hillary is 100 percent
controlled by corporate interests, including foreign corporate interests, and it is essential these emails see the light of day,"
the statement added. Apparently, the State Department is dilly-dallying on the request to release Hillary Clinton's emails
in connection to the TPP, at least after the presidential elections.
Clinton
Aide Will Plead Fifth in Court, Attorneys Cite 'Sufficient' Risk of Self-Incrimination. Attorneys for a tech
aide to Hillary Clinton defended his right to plead the Fifth Amendment in an upcoming deposition, arguing that an immunity
deal he struck with the Department of Justice would not protect him from self-incriminating comments about the email server
that he might make in the civil case. Bryan Pagliano, the IT aide who set up Clinton's email server, has been summoned
to a deposition in a public records lawsuit brought by the watchdog group Judicial Watch against the State Department.
Pagliano's attorneys have said the former Clinton aide will not answer questions due to concerns about potential
self-incrimination. They defended the legal basis for this position in a court filing on Tuesday evening [6/7/2016].
'People
Really Go To Jail For Breaking This Law': Clinton Email Scandal May Have Finally Crossed The Line. Emails
stored on Hillary Clinton's unsecured personal server may have put Central Intelligence Agency personnel at risk, according
to security experts. At least 47 of the 55,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department contained the words
"B3 CIA PERS/ORG," the Associated Press reported Wednesday [6/8/2016], indicating that the email contained information
on CIA personnel or the agency itself.
FBI:
Records from Clinton's email server being held as 'evidence'. FBI agents have confirmed that they recovered
records from Hillary Clinton's private server and other electronic devices, but won't reveal any details about those records
because that information is being treated as "evidence" in a "pending investigation." "[A]ll of the materials retrieved
from any electronic equipment obtained from former Secretary Clinton for the investigation are evidence, potential evidence,
or information that has not yet been assessed for evidentiary value," the FBI said in documents filed with a federal court
Monday [6/6/2016].
Hillary
Clinton and the 'FBI Primary'. [Bradley] Blakeman says the FBI has deliberately waited to interview Hillary
Clinton until after the primaries because the bureau did not want to interfere with the nominating process. He thinks
the FBI is "likely" to recommend to the Department of Justice whether or not she should be indicted for violating what she
says are agency rules and what others call the law between now and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, which
begins July 25. If she is indicted before the convention, Blakeman says, it will give the party an opportunity to
make changes in the rules that could result in an alternate nominee. Here is the intriguing part about Blakeman's
scenario: "If a grand jury is empaneled, or if she were to be indicted before the convention, the Democrats would have
to let her go." If an indictment were to come after the convention, he says, it presents a different problem because each
state needs to certify their ballots before November. If an indictment occurs after the states have certified their
ballots, it would be nearly impossible to replace Hillary Clinton with another candidate.
State
Dept. Claims It Would Take 75 Years to Compile Clinton Emails. The State Department claims it would take
75 years to compile the 450,000 pages of emails between Hillary Clinton and her top aides, meaning it will be able to satisfy
two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits from the Republican National Committee no later than 2091. [...] This should
conclusively refute the State Department Inspector General's accusation that the department constantly provides slow,
inaccurate, and incomplete responses to FOIA requests — delays that always seem to have the magical result of
producing vital information after the November elections.
Bryan
Pagliano's Lawyers Provide New Details About Immunity Agreement With Justice Department. Lawyers for Bryan
Pagliano, the former State Department information technology specialist who managed Hillary Clinton's email system, provided
new details in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday about an immunity agreement he has with the Justice Department. They also
argued that Pagliano should be allowed to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in a pending deposition with the watchdog group
Judicial Watch because he has information that could "furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute" in the
Clinton email investigation.
Clinton
tech aide asks court to keep immunity deal secret. A former technology adviser to Hillary Clinton is seeking to
keep under wraps an immunity deal the aide reached with the Justice Department in its investigation into Clinton's use of a
private email server as secretary of state. A lawyer for Bryan Pagliano submitted a sealed motion and exhibits to U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Tuesday afternoon, less than two hours before the 5 p.m. deadline Sullivan set for
the filing of Pagliano's immunity agreement.
FBI
offers second secret filing in Clinton email suit. The FBI is offering a federal judge a second secret glimpse
into the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. The Justice Department asked a federal judge Monday
to accept "additional details" under seal about how the FBI conducted its search for records a Vice News journalist requested
under the Freedom of Information Act from the law enforcement agency about the probe it is conducting into Clinton's email
set-up and how classified information came to reside in the Democratic presidential candidate's account.
Judicial
Watch Releases Clinton Email Deposition Testimony of Amb. Stephen Mull, Former Executive Secretary for State
Department. Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Stephen D. Mull, executive
secretary of the State Department from June 2010 to October 2012, who suggested that former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton be issued a State Department BlackBerry, which would protect her identity and would also be subject to FOIA requests.
[...] Amb. Mull now serves as the State Department's lead coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation. Amb.
Mull's testimony and other discovery arises in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records
about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to Clinton. The lawsuit was
reopened because of revelations about the clintonemail.com system.
Exclusive:
Emails Show State Dept. Officials Were Warned Of Hillary Clinton Email Spin. Newly released State
Department emails show that in the days after Hillary Clinton's exclusive personal email use made international news,
officials with the agency's legal department were urged by the former head of that division to make it clear that the bureau
did not sign off on the former secretary of state's arrangement. But that advice, which came from John Bellinger, the
State Department's Legal Adviser during the George W. Bush administration, appears to have gone unheeded, at least
publicly. The State Department never publicly clarified that Clinton self-approved her personal email system.
Former
US attorney: Clinton aides' legal strategy is 'red flag'. Four central figures in the FBI's criminal
investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices are all using the same lawyer, a move described as a "red flag" by a
former U.S. attorney who now runs a government watchdog group. Lawyer Beth Wilkinson is representing: Clinton
former chief of staff Cheryl Mills; policy adviser Jake Sullivan; media gatekeeper Philippe Reines; and former aide Heather
Samuelson, who helped decide which Clinton emails were destroyed before turning over the remaining 30,000 records to the
State Department. "I think it would be a real red flag," Matthew Whitaker, executive director of the Foundation for
Accountability and Civic Trust, or FACT, told Fox News, in reference to the legal defense. He suggested having a single
lawyer would help the four Clinton aides align their stories for FBI interviews.
Secretary
without honor. Apologists for Hillary Clinton's alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents say that
it doesn't matter, that she really did nothing wrong, or nothing significant. But the real question is not so much what
she did as how she has responded to being found out.
It's the Server,
Stupid. The State Department inspector general's conclusion that Hillary Clinton violated federal records law
should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the controversy. The IG report, released in late May, is devastating
to Clinton's constantly shifting defenses of her misconduct. And while the inspector general does not opine on the legality
of her home-brewed email server under federal criminal law, the report outlines the factual predicate for criminal prosecution.
Did
the FBI contact Clinton? Hillary dodges question and answers that the agency hasn't requested an interview
yet. Hillary Clinton side-stepped a question this morning [6/5/2016] when asked if she had been contacted by
the FBI regarding the agency's ongoing investigation into her emails. 'I have not been asked to come in for an
interview,' Clinton told ABC 'This Week' host George Stephanopoulos, eschewing answering the original query of whether
contact had been made.
Exclusive:
General Jerry Boykin on Hillary Exposing Intelligence Sources: 'Lives Have Been Endangered... Punishable By Jail
Time'. Bush administration Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence General Jerry Boykin said that Hillary
Clinton posting the names of CIA-protected intelligence agents on her private email server means that she must be
indicted. "What Hillary Clinton has done, I can tell you, it is... punishable by jail time. I think ultimately
she's going be indicted. She has to be. This cannot stand," Boykin said on Breitbart News Saturday [6/4/2016] [...]
Former
defense official: Clinton is the real 'danger'. Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director retired
Lt. Gen Michael Flynn faulted Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experiences, classifying all of them as failures during
a Thursday night [6/2/2016] interview on Fox News. Flynn told host Greta Van Susteren he would describe presumptive GOP nominee
Donald Trump as a "more secure" commander in chief because Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, has a record of lying to
the public. "She talked about people who are dangerous. I mean, a secretary of state who lies to the American
public, a secretary of state who uses an unsecure email server to send and receive highly classified national security
information, knowing that she is not doing the right thing," Flynn said.
Top Hillary
aide suffers memory loss in deposition. Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff during her four years as secretary
of state, demonstrated a repeated inability to recall key information about her former boss's private, unsecured email server in a deposition
with Judicial Watch, according to a 270-page transcript released Tuesday. In testimony Friday [6/3/2016] that lasted seven hours, three
attorneys representing Mills and four from the Justice Department interrupted Judicial Watch attorneys approximately 250 times, shouting
"objection" to argue why Mills should not answer the question posed. When Mills finally did answer, she responded "I don't recall"
40 times and "I don't know" to another 182 questions.
Judge
Orders The Release Of More Emails From Hillary's Private Server. Things are not looking up for Hillary
Clinton. After receiving a damning report from the Inspector General that she violated state policies by using an
unsecured home-based email server while she was the Secretary of State, a federal judge has now ordered the Obama
administration to release new emails before the Democratic Convention. Judge Kitanji Brown released an order on
Wednesday telling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to hand over to the Republican National Committee
(RNC) whatever they can by July 11. This is in response to the RNC's public records lawsuit, which aims to find out whether
the Clintons had an influence on USAID. After handing over the documents, USAID is expected to cooperate with the State
Department to examine hundreds of pages of other documents. The information could be made public in the future.
Pathetic
excuses and endless stonewalls: The Clintons' version of the truth. In her sworn testimony made public
this week, longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills proved that Team Hillary won't give up an ounce of truth without a fight. [...]
In fact, the record's clear that [Hillary] "went home-brew" precisely to frustrate Freedom of Information Act requests.
Worse, Clinton and her inner circle all signed agreements promising to safeguard classified info — then winked as
the private server put those secrets at risk. The rest of Mills' testimony was just as tendentious, including 40 answers
of "I don't recall" and 182 of "I don't know."
Federal
Judge Orders Clinton IT Witness To Produce Reported Immunity Agreement, Legal Basis for Fifth Amendment Claims.
Judicial Watch today [6/3/2016] announced that a court order was issued by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan requiring Bryan Pagliano,
the Clinton State Department IT official who reportedly provided support for the Clinton email system, to produce to the
court his reported immunity agreement and the legal basis for the Fifth Amendment claims he planned to assert in Judicial
Watch's discovery into the Clinton email system. The order delays Mr. Pagliano's deposition, which had been
scheduled for Monday, June 6.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Hillary Could Face A 10-Year Prison Stint If Her Server Was Hacked. [Scroll down] In
her early March press briefing, she had the following exchange: Question: "Were you ever ... specifically briefed
on the security implications of using ... your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?"
Clinton: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I'm
certainly well aware of the classification requirement and did not send classified material." This is plainly a lie, since the
initial investigation by Charles McCullough, the intelligence agencies' inspector general, found at least 1,000 classified documents
on Clinton's server, with some two dozen of those classified as either Top Secret or SAP. For those who don't know, SAP is
even higher than Top Secret, and involves the most sensitive secrets the nation has.
Federal
Judge Orders Clinton IT Witness To Produce Reported Immunity Agreement, Legal Basis for Fifth Amendment Claims.
Judicial Watch today [6/3/2016] announced that a court order was issued by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan requiring Bryan Pagliano,
the Clinton State Department IT official who reportedly provided support for the Clinton email system, to produce to the
court his reported immunity agreement and the legal basis for the Fifth Amendment claims he planned to assert in Judicial
Watch's discovery into the Clinton email system. The order delays Mr. Pagliano's deposition, which had been
scheduled for Monday, June 6.
Cheryl
Mills would prefer not to. Kim Strassel has read the transcript of the deposition of Cheryl Mills in the case
brought by Judicial Watch against the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act. Although the transcript
runs to 270 pages, it can't have taken long to review. It also can't have been a pleasant experience.
Bad
sign: Republicans release signed documents from Clinton aides. Senior Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan
and former tech support staffer Brian Pagliano each signed agreements with the government pledging not to disclose classified
information, according to government documents released Thursday [6/2/2016] by Republicans. Both men signed the
nondisclosure statements swearing to protect 'marked or unmarked classified information, including email communications,'
according to documents released by the Republican National Committee.
Does
Bryan Pagliano Pleading The Fifth Mean Hillary Is More Likely To Be Deposed in Judicial Watch Case? Bryan
Pagliano's decision — revealed on Wednesday [6/1/2016] — to plead the fifth in a Judicial Watch
deposition scheduled for next week leaves a huge void in the watchdog's efforts to get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton's
private email arrangement. But could it open up the door to the federal judge handling the lawsuit to allow the
deposition of the former secretary of state? U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan approved limited discovery of
several Clinton aides and State Department officials earlier this year in the Judicial Watch suit.
Exclusive:
Hillary Clinton Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email. Hillary Clinton posted and shared
the names of concealed U.S. intelligence officials on her unprotected email system. Federal records reveal that Clinton
swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached repeatedly by
Russia-linked hacker attempts. These new revelations — reminiscent of the Valerie Plame scandal during
George W. Bush's tenure — could give FBI investigators the evidence they need to make a case that Clinton violated
the Espionage Act by mishandling national defense information through "gross negligence."
Dark
Clouds Gather Over Hillary Clinton. Dan Metcalfe teaches secrecy law at American University's Washington College of
Law. He served as Director of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy for more than 25 years,
during which time he handled information-disclosure policy issues on dozens of Clinton Administration scandals. He's a
registered Democrat who says he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November "if she escapes indictment and manages to become the
Democratic presidential nominee." Metcalfe believes, however, that Clinton will be indicted, and should be, over the
email scandal.
Hillary
Clinton's chief email defense is false. Hillary Clinton's chief defense of her email behavior is that she tried
to forward her messages so they were captured by the State Department — but a Washington Times analysis found she
clearly did that only a quarter of the time when she was corresponding with someone outside the department. More often
than not, when Mrs. Clinton was exchanging thoughts or policy memos with outsiders, their correspondence ended up
in the digital black hole of her secret email system and were never forwarded to anyone else in the State Department.
Clinton
aides promised to protect 'marked and unmarked' classified info. The Republican National Committee (RNC) on
Thursday released classified nondisclosure agreements signed by a pair of Hillary Clinton's State Department aides in which
they promised to protect classified information. The release of the documents from Jacob Sullivan and Bryan Pagliano
comes hours before Clinton is set to deliver a major national security address attacking presumptive GOP presidential nominee
Donald Trump, and appear to be designed to undercut her claims to be the most responsible steward of American power.
Mastermind
behind Hillary's email server won't answer questions. Former State Department employee Bryan Pagliano, who set
up Hillary Clinton's infamous home email server, will refuse to answer questions in an ongoing civil lawsuit and doesn't want
to be videotaped invoking his Fifth Amendment rights, according to court documents obtained by The [New York] Post.
Clinton
IT aide Pagliano to plead Fifth in email case. The man who set up Hillary Clinton's private email server will assert his
Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer questions over an open records lawsuit, according to court documents
obtained Wednesday [6/1/2016] by Fox News. Bryan Pagliano declined to answer questions from watchdog group Judicial Watch during his
deposition scheduled for Monday, according to his lawyers. His lawyers also asked a federal judge to block Judicial Watch from recording
his deposition, stating that a written transcription should be enough.
Judge
orders Obama administration to release new Clinton emails. A federal judge has ordered the Obama administration
to release new emails connected to Hillary Clinton before Democratic National Convention in July. In an order late on
Wednesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to hand over to the
Republican National Committee (RNC) whatever records it could as part of an RNC's open-records lawsuit on July 11.
After that, USAID will need to consult with the State Department about hundreds of other pages of documents, which could be
released at some point in the future.
Hillary's
Potential Email Felonies. While Hillary Clinton likes to appear unconcerned about her email scandal, her
actions have the potential to invite serious Federal issues. [...] The contents of the Clinton private server have yet to be
fully investigated. However, if Hillary made any contact with any foreign agent or officer, such as booking speeches by
Bill Clinton, she committed a Federal felony. The FBI seem to be looking into the connections between her Charitable
Foundation and her actions as Secretary of State. And when she "allowed" Russia to control 20% of Canadian uranium in
return for donations to the entity of her foundation, even indirectly, she violated §201. The penalty for each
offense is to be fined or imprisoned for two years or both.
Clinton
IT aide to plead Fifth in email case. The man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clinton's private
email server will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer questions as part of an open
records lawsuit against the State Department. Bryan Pagliano will decline to answer questions from Judicial Watch, the
conservative legal watchdog group, during a deposition scheduled for Monday, his lawyers wrote in a court filing on Wednesday
afternoon [6/1/2016]. The move forecloses the possibility that Pagliano would break his months of silence about the server
issue, even as scrutiny has intensified on his role.
Cheryl
Mills Deposition — Clinton Email Was Not Subject to FOIA Inquiry. Cheryl Mills testimony covered
Clinton's use of emails; whether FOIA searches were done of Clinton emails, information about the set-up of the Clinton email
server; Mills' communication with Clinton email witness Bryan Pagliano; Mills' involvement in prior Clinton email controversies;
and the handling of politically sensitive FOIA responses. Mills' attorneys directed her not to answer many questions.
Lawyers
for Clinton aide block questioning on IT specialist who set up server. Lawyers for senior Hillary Clinton aide
Cheryl Mills, during a nearly five-hour deposition last week in Washington, repeatedly objected to questions about IT specialist
Bryan Pagliano's role in setting up the former secretary of state's private server. According to a transcript of the
deposition with watchdog group Judicial Watch released on Tuesday, Mills attorney Beth Wilkinson — as well as Obama
administration lawyers — objected to the line of questioning about Pagliano, who has emerged as a central figure in
the FBI's ongoing criminal probe of Clinton's email practices. "I'm going to instruct her not to answer. It's a legal
question," Wilkinson responded, when asked by Judicial Watch whether Pagliano was an "agent of the Clintons" when the server was
set up.
Clinton's
chief of staff is quizzed about her secret email server — but can't answer questions because she is now Hillary's
lawyer. Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff discussed the Democratic hopeful's secret email server with the
IT aide who set the system up, but can't talk about it because she's now Clinton's lawyer. Aide-turned-attorney Cheryl
Mills testified for five hours on Friday [5/27/2016] as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit launched by the conservative
group Judicial Watch, which has been trying to get access to Clinton's emails during her tenure as secretary of state.
Former
Top Clinton Aide Refuses to Answer Deposition Questions In FOIA Lawsuit. The deposition transcript of Hillary
Clinton's former chief of staff at the State Department was released on Tuesday [5/31/2016] by the legal watchdog group Judicial
Watch. Cheryl Mills sat for her deposition last Friday to answer questions as part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch
that seeks to determine whether the State Department acted in good faith in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Judicial
Watch Releases Former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills Deposition Testimony. Judicial Watch today
[5/31/2016] released the deposition transcript of Cheryl D. Mills, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff throughout her four years
as secretary of state. [...] Mills testimony covered Clinton's use of emails; whether FOIA searches were done of Clinton emails,
information about the set-up of the Clinton email server; Mills' communication with Clinton email witness Bryan Pagliano; Mills'
involvement in prior Clinton email controversies; and the handling of politically sensitive FOIA responses. Mills' attorneys
directed her not to answer many questions.
Report:
Intel Community Concerned About Double Standard in Clinton E-Mail Investigation. A new report on Monday
[5/30/2016] that longtime Hillary Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, kept her top secret security clearance despite sending
classified information to the Clinton Foundation and to Clinton's private e-mail server has some current and former
Intelligence Community and State Department personnel deeply concerned that a double standard is at play as it relates to the
investigation into Clinton's e-mail. According a Fox News report, in her position as Clinton's State Department chief
of staff, Mills often forwarded e-mails to Clinton's personal account, including a Jan. 23, 2011 e-mail that contained
classified information, as well as foreign government information that is considered "born classified." Under normal
circumstances, intelligence officials say it is standard practice to suspend a clearance pending the outcome of an
investigation, yet Mills was allowed to maintain her top secret security clearance, according to congressional letters
obtained by the network.
Hillary's
Latest Excuse Is Her Worst Yet. Clinton had long suggested that she wasn't the first government official to use
a private e-mail address to conduct official business. But in a memo sent over the weekend to big donors, Clinton's
campaign chairman, John Podesta, claimed that Clinton thought she was just following State Department tradition when setting up
her home-brew server in the basement of her New York home. "She believed she was following the practices of other Secretaries
and senior officials," Podesta wrote in the memo, which BuzzFeed News obtained. Podesta doesn't offer any evidence as to how
Clinton arrived at this belief, presumably because there is none.
Lawyers
for Clinton aide block questioning on IT specialist who set up server. Lawyers for senior Hillary Clinton aide
Cheryl Mills, during a nearly five-hour deposition last week in Washington, repeatedly objected to questions about IT
specialist Bryan Pagliano's role in setting up the former secretary of state's private server. According to a
transcript of the deposition with watchdog group Judicial Watch released on Tuesday [5/31/2016], Mills attorney Beth
Wilkinson — as well as Obama administration lawyers — objected to the line of questioning about
Pagliano, who has emerged as a central figure in the FBI's ongoing criminal probe of Clinton's email practices.
'I'd
Expect More From You': Wallace Battles Guest on Hillary's Email Defense. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) joined Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" today, and things got heated while discussing the
scathing IG report on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. The State Department audit found Hillary Clinton
and previous secretaries of state at fault for their use of private email. Lankford said that Clinton neither asked nor
received permission to use a private server, adding that her violations were exacerbated by the fact that she conducted
100 percent of her electronic communication on the unapproved device.
Former
State Dept. watchdog debunks central Clinton email claim. The State Department's former top watchdog, in an
interview with Fox News, rejected Hillary Clinton's repeated claims that her personal email use was in line with her
predecessors' — while saying he would have immediately opened an investigation if he caught wind of a secretary of
state using such an account. Howard Krongard, a George W. Bush administration appointee who served as the State
Department inspector general from April 2005 to January 2008, cited his own experience in challenging Clinton's insistence
that her practices were nothing out of the ordinary.
Hillary
and Staff May Have Blown Counterterrorism Ops With 'Sloppy' Communications. A retired senior State Department
military adviser claims that Hillary Clinton's "sloppy communications with her senior staff" when she was secretary of state
may have compromised at least two counterterrorism operations. Bill Johnson, who was the State Department's political
adviser to the special operations section of the U.S. Pacific Command, or PACOM, in 2010 and 2011, says secret plans to
eliminate the leader of a Filipino Islamist separatist group and intercept Chinese-made weapons components being smuggled
into Iraq were repeatedly foiled.
Feds
fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case. The Obama administration is trying to prevent former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email
server. Late Thursday evening [5/26/2016], the Justice Department filed a court motion opposing the Clinton deposition
request from conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch, claiming that the organization was trying to dramatically expand the
scope of the lawsuit. Judicial Watch is "seeking instead to transform these proceedings into a wide-ranging inquiry
into matters beyond the scope of the court's order and unrelated to the FOIA request at issue in this case," government
lawyers wrote in their filing, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
State
Dept. Tries to Block Deposition of Hillary Clinton. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of State are
trying to block the deposition of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in a FOIA case that is making its way through
federal court. State Department attorneys believe the request to depose Clinton is "wholly inappropriate" given a
ruling in another case. This case involves a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization.
The group had filed FOIA requests seeking information and talking points about the attacks of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi,
Libya. In their response to a proposed order for discovery, the State Department contends that many of the depositions that
the group is seeking would overlap with depositions scheduled to take place in another lawsuit filed by the same group.
Hillary
Clinton should quit presidential race as email scandal engulfs her campaign. On Thursday [5/26/2016], Joe
Scarborough, the former Republican Congressman, was absent on his MSNBC morning show "Morning Joe." His co-host, Mika
Brzezinski, instead led a panel of guests including herself, Chuck Todd, and Andrea Mitchell — all of whom are far
from excessively adversarial to the Clinton campaign. In fact, I've criticized those very panelists often for being
outrageously biased in their support of Clinton. [...] From the very beginning of the segment, it was clear that the report
issued by inspector general of the State Department on the scandal, and the subsequent excuses issued by the Clinton
campaign, had completely taken the wind out of Mika and the team. They were equal parts miffed, exasperated, and
disgusted — and sustained these emotions throughout the entire segment.
State
Department official thought Clinton used personal email for 'family and friends'. In a two-hour deposition with
the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch last week, Lewis Lukens also said he offered to set up a "stand-alone"
computer for Clinton to check her personal email account, only to be told that she "does not know how to use a computer to do
email." Lukens' testimony was released Thursday [5/26/2016], the day after the State Department inspector general released a
report criticizing Clinton's email setup, saying that it violated federal records rules and cybersecurity guidelines. The FBI
is investigating possible mishandling of classified information that passed through the server, which was set up in the
basement of Clinton's Chappaqua, N.Y. home.
Shocking
Deposition: Hillary Clueless On Using Computer Emails. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton never used
a password to protect her computer emails, and she was clueless about how regular emails work on a conventional computer,
according to a deposition of a foreign service officer at the State Department. She also continued to push for the use
of her personal Blackberry phone in the Secretary's highly-secured government suite even though National Security Agency
(NSA) regulations barred its use in that office.
Guccifer
may have Hillary emails stashed online. The Romanian hacker known as Guccifer has agreed to plead guilty to
cybercrime, likely as part of deal with federal prosecutors. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar, revealed in
early 2014 to a reporter for The Smoking Gun that he had stored large numbers of documents on Google Drive. The TSG
reporter subsequently reviewed these files, which contained email messages, photos, videos and other documents which he had
stolen from several high profile people. Lazar also hacked into Hillary confidante Sidney Blumenthal's email account
and revealed the existence of Hillary's private email server. Lazar also claimed to have hacked into Hillary's email
server, but thus far has not offered any proof of doing so. It may be that Lazar has additional files on Google Drive
or other web servers where he stored Hillary's emails that he can now share with the FBI as part of the plea deal.
Hacker
who claims he breached Clinton server pleads guilty, strikes deal with feds. The Romanian hacker who claimed he
easily breached Hillary Clinton's email server pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to two counts of computer hacking
charges, as part of a deal with the Justice Department. In exchange for a reduced sentence, Marcel Lehel Lazar —
also known as Guccifer — has agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in the future. Lazar pleaded guilty
to the unauthorized access of a protected computer and aggravated identity theft, counts tied to his illegal intrusion into
systems belonging to former U.S. government officials, including former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary
of State Colin Powell. Under the deal, Lazar faces seven years in prison and up to $500,000 in fines.
Does
this DOJ memo hint that criminal action against Hillary is forthcoming? A new filing by the Justice Department
contains a key phrase that some might construe as a hint that criminal prosecution is being planned for Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Last week, Vice News reporter Jason Leopold formally protested the
classification of an FBI declaration that provided details about the investigation into how sensitive information ended up on
Clinton's private email server. The Justice Department submitted the declaration as part of "a secret filing," but a
U.S. District Court judge ordered them to publicly submit a redacted copy of the document or at least "show cause why" that
isn't possible.
Romanian
hacker who says he breached Clinton server finalizing plea deal. It is not publicly known whether the deal
being worked out has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities — and whether that has anything to do
with the investigation into Clinton's exclusive use of a private email server for government business while secretary of
state. But an intelligence source familiar with the FBI probe said if Guccifer pleads guilty to compromising Clinton
aide Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account — which is one of the nine charges — it will show that Clinton's
use of a personal server put sensitive information outside secure government channels and made it accessible to foreign hackers.
Hillary
Clinton Should Testify Under Oath. Our investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email
system entered a significant new phase this week. We announced a schedule of depositions of her top aides, Cheryl Mills
and Huma Abedin, as well as top State Department official Patrick Kennedy, and former State IT employee Bryan Pagliano.
Their testimony is about the creation and operation of Clinton's non-government email system. The first witness, Lewis A.
Lukens, a deputy assistant secretary, was deposed on May 18. I can't say much about the testimony at this point, other than to
tell you that it was not helpful to either Mrs. Clinton or the Obama State Department. U.S. District Court Judge
Emmet G. Sullivan set this historic evidence gathering in motion. Judge Sullivan granted us "discovery" into Clinton's
email system, noting that "based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary."
Will Obama Indict Clinton to Save his
Party? [Scroll down] I don't believe for a moment that Obama has any personal investment in Hillary Clinton becoming President — he'd
personally be just as happy with Bernie if not more so. Moreover, his own Justice Department is allegedly threatening open mutiny if action is not
taken against Clinton after the probe into her private email server is completed. If Clinton were in a strong position for the general election,
no doubt Obama would order Lynch to softpedal any action that lands on Clinton herself, no matter what the facts say. However, Obama can read
the polls as well as anyone, and he knows that Sanders would walk all over Donald Trump, whereas Clinton might well find herself in a dogfight. At
this point, an indictment of Clinton might well seem like an escape hatch for President Obama.
Judicial
Watch President: State Dept. Official's Deposition Was 'Embarrassing' For Hillary. The president of
the watchdog group Judicial Watch says that information that a former State Department official provided about Hillary
Clinton and her private email system in a lawsuit deposition conducted on Wednesday [5/18/2016] will be embarrassing for the former
secretary of state. Tom Fitton, whose group is suing the State Department, says he is restricted in what he can legally
say about an interview conducted with Lewis Lukens, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state and the executive
directory of the secretariat during Clinton's tenure. But the Judicial Watch president did tell The Daily Caller that
Clinton will not be pleased with the information he provided. "The testimony was not helpful for Clinton or the State
Department," Fitton told The [Daily Caller] in a phone interview.
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Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration. The former secretary of State not only stored classified email on
an insecure server (thus making it much more likely that foreigners would be able to hack sensitive intel), but she also lied and
continues to lie about it. As more and more details came out in the past year or so, the scandal has appeared gravely criminal,
but media outlets continue to misrepresent the situation.
Ex-Clinton
aides to give depositions in email server lawsuit. Cheryl Mills, the former chief of staff, and Huma Abedin,
her deputy chief of staff, are among depositions set up by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act case. U.S.
District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled May 4 that the conservative group could depose six current and former senior Clinton
and department aides in the group's lawsuit in a 2013 public records request for information about Abedin's employment.
Judicial
Watch Announces the Schedule for Deposition Testimony in Clinton Email Lawsuit. Judicial Watch announced today
[5/17/2016] that it has scheduled the depositions of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aides Cheryl Mills and
Huma Abedin, as well as top State Department official Patrick Kennedy, and former State IT employee Bryan Pagliano regarding
the creation and operation of Clinton's non-government email system. The first witness, Lewis A. Lukens, will be
deposed on Wednesday, May 18.
"Crooked
Hillary" Hides Email Deletions Behind Attorney-Client Privilege. Hillary is apparently now claiming
attorney-client privilege about her covert decision to delete certain emails from her server and retain others. She
doesn't want us to know what criteria she used to determine which emails disappeared and which ones she decided to make
public. She clearly doesn't want us to see those emails that she deemed to be personal — if they are
personal. How do we know that? Because Cheryl Mills walked out of her FBI interview last week after an FBI agent
had the nerve to ask about how the decision was made about deleting the emails. Mills claimed that there was an
agreement not to ask her about it because of the attorney-client privilege. She came back, but was not required to
testify about the deletions. It's important to remember that only the client can invoke attorney-client
privilege — and that's clearly what Hillary has done.
Hillary
Clinton's Long History of Hiding Documents. It doesn't matter. That's what some in the media have
insisted about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to use her own private server and email address to avoid
public scrutiny for her entire tenure. David Brock, wild-haired henchman for Hillary Clinton at the Clinton-backed
Media Matters for America, appeared on MSNBC today [3/4/2015] to play defense. He demanded that The New York Times
retract their story on Hillary's hidden emails. "There is no violation of law here, Joe, that I can see whatsoever,"
Brock insisted.
Depositions
Start This Week In Hillary Email Lawsuit. The first interview will be conducted on Wednesday [5/18/2016] with
Lewis Lukens, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the Executive Secretariat. Next
week, on May 27, Judicial Watch's lawyers will depose Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Bryan
Pagliano, the information technology specialist who managed Clinton's email system, will be deposed on June 6 and Huma
Abedin, Clinton's "body woman," will be interviewed on June 28. The watchdog will interview two other State
Department officials — former executive secretary of state Stephen Mull and under secretary for management Patrick
Kennedy — next month.
Is
Obama's Stonewall Strategy Blowing Up In Hillary's Face? As we have observed many times, the Obama
administration's response to scandals, investigations and inquiries has been invariable: it stonewalls them. And the
Obama Stonewall Strategy has been highly successful. [...] But in the dying days of the Obama administration, one of its chief
obstructionists, Hillary Clinton, may finally pay a price for the administration's chronic lack of transparency.
On May 4, Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan signed an order permitting Judicial Watch to take depositions of Hillary's
key aides in Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Department of State.
CNN:
Email Investigation Worries Clinton Campaign Most Because They Can't Control It. CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny said
Sunday that the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server has her campaign worried the most because it
has no control over the outcome. CNN anchor John Berman asked Zeleny whether the new movie version of Peter Schweizer's
book Clinton Cash debuting at the Cannes Film Festival would concern the Clintons. The movie brings Schweizer's
book and its allegations against the Clinton Foundation as an unscrupulous slush fund to the big screen.
You Know Those Missing Hillary Emails?
Russia Might Leak 20,000 of Them. Hillary Clinton sits at the center of a raging firestorm concerning her
arrangement of a private email account and server set up in her home — from which top secret information may have
been deleted. But despite Bernie Sanders' apparent annoyance with the "d*** emails," the scandal just exponentially
intensified, when Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on Monday that Russia has possession of around 20,000 of Clinton's
emails — leaving open the possibility her deletions might not have been permanent after all.
Group
seeks to force Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about emails. A conservative legal group asked a judge
Monday to order Hillary Clinton to face deposition under oath about her role in creating the secret email account she used as
secretary of state at the State Department. Judicial Watch had previously won the right to question her top aides, but
the group says it now wants to question Mrs. Clinton herself about her decision to use a non-State.gov account to
conduct all of her official business.
Hillary
Clinton, the Conveniently Negligent Queen. As a bewildered, polarized nation awaits, may Attorney General
Loretta Lynch lay down the law — sort of; "We do all our reviews, investigations of any matter carefully,
thoroughly, and efficiently. And when the matter is ready for resolution, a recommendation will be made and we'll come
to a decision at that time and I'm not able to give you a prediction. Sorry." Sorry indeed. Spare a thought
for the army immersed in the Hillary Clinton subterranean server FBI saga, dissecting a web of tens of thousands of cyberspace
"transactions". Yet the True Detective-style plot boils down to two investigative highways: mishandling of classified
information; and those eyebrow-raising sums — tens of millions of dollars — feeding the Clinton Foundation's
piggy bank while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, a phenomenon Clintonistas would arguably define as a "grey area".
Clinton
E-mail Trove Likely in Russian Hands. Thousands of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's private, unsecured server,
created while she served as Secretary of State, are reportedly in the possession of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
(SVR). The SVR is said to have gained access to the e-mails, of which it made copies, through its monitoring of a Romanian
computer hacker named Marcel Lazăr Lehel (aka Guccifer). Guccifer had learned about the existence of Hillary
Clinton's private e-mail account after accessing the e-mails of her close confidante and informal adviser, Sidney Blumenthal,
with whom Hillary had extensive correspondence during her term as Secretary of State.
Clinton
E-mails: Is the Fix In? There was an extraordinary report in Tuesday's [5/10/2016] Washington Post
about the Clinton e-mail investigation. It involved the government's interview of longtime Clinton consigliere Cheryl
Mills. It details how Justice Department attorneys made an agreement with Mills's attorney to cut off questioning about
a key aspect of the case.
Former
Top DOJ Official: Clinton Likely Committed 'Biggest Violation of Federal Records Act in History'. When
most people hear the phrase, "violates the law," or "is contrary to law," or perhaps even the word "unlawful," they tend to
think that the conduct involved is a violation of some criminal law for which there are criminal penalties. But some
laws and legal obligations are only civil in nature, for which there exist only monetary or administrative sanctions at
best. Such is the case with federal records laws such as the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act,
which govern the conduct of federal employees and officials, even that of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
What's more, the civil sanctions provided in these laws can be applied only to people who still remain federal employees at
the time at which their violation is discovered and acted upon. In other words, if you violate these laws and then
leave government service quickly enough, you are beyond the reach of their penalties.
Interpreting
the Latest Clinton Email Scandal Tea Leaves. The most recent revelatory tea leaves available to interpret in
the Clinton email scandal give us a bit more to go on. Those recent events are the Cheryl Mills FBI interview and FBI
Director James Comey's recent comments on Clinton's characterization of the investigation as a "security inquiry." In order
of probability we can assume the following from these events: [...]
Video:
Jake Tapper fact checks Hillary Clinton on her email server claims — brutally. [Scroll down]
The rules allowed for some communications in other channels, but as Jake [Tapper] points out, they also required that all
such communications be stored inside government control. That never happened until 21 months after Clinton left office
when the server became public knowledge. And even if such a thing wasn't flatly prohibited it was still unusual in the extreme
and "frowned upon." Of course, that only applies to the original decision to use a private server as her sole channel
of communications. Failing to store all the communications inside the government system takes it to another level.
DNC
Chairwoman Schultz claims Clinton 'not the target' of FBI probe. Even in the face of the FBI boss scoffing at
Hillary Clinton's description of the "investigation" into her email practices as a "security inquiry," the head of the
Democratic Party is now insisting the front-running Democratic presidential candidate isn't even a focus of the probe.
"Secretary Clinton isn't even a target of this inquiry, investigation, whatever 'I' word you want to use," Democratic
National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told Fox News on Friday [5/13/2016]. Asked to back up her
statement, Schultz said she's "repeatedly been told that" — though she did not say who might have told her.
DOJ
that donated tens of thousands to Hillary certain to treat her crimes with the utmost of objectivity. In what
appears to be a super-sized potential conflict of interest, Clinton, a pathological, self-serving liar who doesn't mind if
Americans die to further her political ambitions, has accepted almost $75,000 in campaign contributions in the current
election cycle from employees at the Justice Department, the cabinet bureau that will eventually decide whether to prosecute
the Benghazi bungler for her use of a hacker-friendly home-brew email server while top U.S. diplomat. The server is at
the heart of the scandal over Clinton's mishandling of an Islamic terrorist attack in militant-infested Benghazi, Libya on
the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that left four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, dead. Even now, almost
four years after the assault, the Obama administration has failed to provide an autopsy report about Stevens who was
initially reported to have been ritualistically sodomized before being murdered by Muslim terrorists.
Stephanopoulos
Claims Hillary 'Turned Over All the E-Mails in Her Possession'. While grilling Donald Trump during Friday's
[5/13/2016] Good Morning America on whether he would release his tax returns, co-host George Stephanopoulos laughably
held up his former boss Hillary Clinton as a model of transparency: "...you said you would release your tax returns
when Secretary Clinton released her e-mails. She has turned over all the e-mails in her possession." Trump
countered: "She didn't turn over all, there's plenty missing. I read yesterday where there are a lot of e-mails
missing. Don't — I know she's a good friends of yours and I know you worked for them and you didn't reveal
it. But you know, she did not turn over her e-mails. There are a lot of e-mails missing."
Ex-DoJ
Official: FBI has more than one way to bag Clinton associates. The FBI is probably going to be successful
in seeking charges against at least some of Hillary Clinton's associates, according to a former Justice Department official,
if not Clinton herself. If it isn't because of classified information, he suggested, it will be because they talk too
much and are ill-equipped to defend against charges of public corruption. "My sense is that the bureau will refer a
criminal case over," Matthew Whitaker, who served as a U.S. attorney under President George W. Bush, told the Washington
Examiner. "I don't know if it's going to be against Hillary Clinton or others in the inner circle who were actually
doing the work of taking classified documents and stripping off information, but my sense is that there will be people
charged in this case."
Is Hillary's E-mail
Nightmare About to Explode? Negative headlines about Clinton's e-mails have seemed to be reaching critical mass
in recent days. On Monday [5/9/2016], the State Department revealed that it couldn't find any e-mails from Bryan
Pagliano, Clinton's senior I.T. staffer when she was secretary of state. Pagliano had been responsible for setting up
Clinton's private server in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, making his testimony and communications central to the F.B.I.
probe into any potential wrongdoing, yet four years' worth of his e-mails had mysteriously disappeared.
FBI's
Comey: Not a 'security review' of Clinton server, it's an investigation. FBI Director James Comey said
Wednesday he feels "pressure" to complete the federal investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's
private e-mail server competently and quickly. However, Comey said the pressure is similar to other high-profile cases
the bureau handles such as terrorism investigations. "We want to do it well and we want to do it promptly. I feel
pressure to do both of those things," Comey told reporters during a roundtable at FBI headquarters. "As between the two
things, we will always choose 'well.'"
Watchdog:
New Emails Show Clinton Knew About Security Risks of Private BlackBerry. Emails obtained by the watchdog group
Judicial Watch indicate that Hillary Clinton was aware of the security risks of communicating over a private BlackBerry, the
organization said on Thursday [5/12/2016]. Judicial Watch released nearly 300 pages of State Department records on
Thursday, including an email that showed Clinton acknowledging security restrictions on her BlackBerry use and another in
which Clinton declined to use a secure line to talk to an aide. In a Feb. 27, 2009, email from Clinton to Dr.
Mark Hyman, a health care advocate, the secretary of state told him that she had not replied to a prior email because she was
not allowed to use her BlackBerry in her State Department office.
New
Clinton Emails Reveal Clinton Knew about Security Risk of Private Blackberry, Avoided Use of Secure Phone.
Judicial Watch today [5/12/2016] released 296 pages of new State Department documents, including a February 27, 2009, email
in which the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized to health care activist/physician Mark Hyman for failing to
respond to a message because, "no blackberry contact permitted in my office." The new documents also contain a February 22,
2009, email exchange between Clinton and her then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, trying to communicate over a secure line after Clinton
returned from a trip (evidently to Asia). Unable to set up a secure communication, Clinton told Mills, "I called ops and they gave me
your 'secure' cells... but only got a high-pitched whining sound." When Mills suggested that Clinton try the secure line again,
the former secretary wrote back, "I give up. Call me on my home #."
Former
DOJ Official: Email Case Against Hillary Clinton 'Stinks To High Heaven'. Hillary Clinton is coming under
pressure, as federal investigators question her top aides about the private email scandal that is haunting the former
Secretary of State's campaign for the presidency. Clinton is still reeling from news that her former staffer Bryan
Pagliano's emails are not in the possession of the State Department. Pagliano, who installed Clinton's private server,
pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination in the growing criminal investigation.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Now A Key Witness' Emails Have Mysteriously Vanished. The latest twist is news that four
years' worth of State Department emails from Clinton's top IT staffer, Bryan Pagliano, can't be found. "The Department
has searched for Mr. Pagliano's email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary
Clinton's tenure," said State's Elizabeth Trudeau. State was, however, able to find Pagliano emails for his "recent
work at the Department as a contractor, but the files are from after Secretary Clinton left the Department."
Guess
who's covering up the tracks of Hillary's email scandal? The emails that the State Department yesterday
[5/9/2016] told the Republican National Committee cannot be found are the ones sent and received by Clinton former aide,
Bryan Pagliano — the person who set up Clinton's private server and email apparatus who was granted immunity to
testify in March, 2016. Having been granted the immunity he sought, his emails go missing? How convenient!
Cheryl
Mills walks out on interview with FBI and Justice Department over Hillary's emails. There are tantalizing signs
that the FBI struck a nerve during an interview with close Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, conducted jointly by the FBI
and Department of Justice. And that the Department of Justice is acting on Hillary's behalf to quell the flames.
The account of the incident by Matt Zapotosky of the Washington Post, which broke the story, was frustratingly vague.
Cheryl
Mills walked out on FBI interview after question about email sorting procedure. [Scroll down] The fact
that the procedures used to sort Clinton's email is such a big secret is certainly not without irony. Clinton may not
have devoted much thought or care to keeping her correspondence secure from hackers, at least one of whom has claimed he
gained access to the site, but she certainly put a lot of thought into making sure no one could gainsay her decisions about
those deleted emails.
Comey
rebuffs Clinton claim FBI only conducting 'security inquiry' on emails. Hillary Clinton for months has downplayed the FBI
investigation into her private email server and practices as a mere "security inquiry." But when asked Wednesday [5/11/2016] by
Fox News about Clinton's characterization of the bureau's probe, FBI Director James Comey said he doesn't know what "security inquiry"
means — adding, "We're conducting an investigation. ... That's what we do." The FBI director reiterated that he's "not
familiar with the term security inquiry" when told that is the phrase Clinton has used. As for the timeline for the investigation, Comey,
during a briefing with reporters, said he prefers doing the investigation "well" over promptly and said he's not "tethered" to a schedule.
State
Department says it can't find emails from Clinton IT specialist. The State Department told the Republican
National Committee that it could not find any emails to or from Hillary Clinton's former IT specialist, who managed her
private email server during her tenure as secretary of state before going on to work for the agency, according to a court
filing made public Monday [5/9/2016]. The government's revelation in U.S. District Court in Washington came in answer
to a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee. The RNC had sued over its public records request for all
work-related emails sent to or received by Clinton's former aide, Bryan Pagliano, between 2009 and 2013, the years of
Clinton's tenure as America's top diplomat. The lawsuit also pressed for other State Department records from the
Clinton era.
AG
Lynch says she cannot make 'prediction' about timing of Clinton probe. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said
Monday she could not make any "prediction" about the timing of a final resolution to the Hillary Clinton email
investigation. Asked at a news conference if the clock had run out against taking action against Clinton in light of
the advanced election schedule, Lynch replied, "We do all our reviews, investigations of any matter carefully, thoroughly,
and efficiently. And when the matter is ready for resolution, a recommendation will be made and we'll come to a
decision at that time and I'm not able to give you a prediction. Sorry."
Source:
Clinton IT specialist revealing server details to FBI, 'devastating witness'. Former Hillary Clinton IT
specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told
the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the
case who called him a "devastating witness." The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary
of state's system — as well as when — and what devices were used, amounting to a roadmap for investigators.
The Editor says...
I'll be deeply disillusioned about the FBI if it turns out that the FBI actually learned something from
Mr. Pagliano that they didn't already know.
Sid
Blumenthal Continues To Assist Clinton: Won't Say If FBI Has Interviewed Him. Hillary Clinton's longtime
friend and off-the-books intel provider Sidney Blumenthal claimed in an interview on Monday [5/9/2016] that he is all in favor of
transparency, but refused to say if he has been interviewed by the FBI as part of its ongoing investigation into the former
secretary of state's private email server. "Have you been interviewed by the FBI yet on this matter?" MSNBC "Hardball"
host Chris Matthews asked Blumenthal, who sent and received hundreds of the emails contained in the State Department's
release of Clinton emails. "Well, I'm — you know, I really don't want to talk about an ongoing inquiry right
now," stammered Blumenthal, who worked at the Clinton Foundation and several other Clinton-linked organizations while Hillary
Clinton was in office.
From
Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer. Back in early March, The New York Times reported
that the FBI would be interviewing Hillary Clinton and her top aides about her private email server within the coming
weeks. A source told the paper the investigation would probably conclude by early May, at which point the Justice
Department would be left to decide whether to file charges against Clinton or anyone else, and what charges to file.
The final decision rests with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Then things went quiet for a while. On Monday
[5/2/2016] — fully two months after the Times report — Clinton even told Andrea Mitchell that
the FBI hadn't contacted her for an interview about the server. What gives?
Emails
From Hillary Clinton's IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing. The State Department said today [5/9/2016]
it can't find any of Bryan Pagliano's emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's senior information
technology staffer during her tenure there. Pagliano would have been required to turn over any official communications
from his work account before he left the government. State Department officials say he had an official email account,
but that they can't find any of those records and continue to search for them.
Hillary's
latest email lie didn't even last a week. On Tuesday [5/3/2016], MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked her
outright: "Have you been contacted — or your representatives contacted — by the FBI to set up an
interview" over her e-mail mess? Clinton gave a flat "no." Two days later, news broke that the FBI has already
interviewed Clinton's closest confidant, Huma Abedin, and other top aides. And officials close to the probe say
Hillary's to be interviewed in the next few weeks — which means she's surely been contacted.
Hillary to
Face FBI Interrogators Within Weeks. As CBS reports, a source has confirmed that Hillary Clinton will be
interviewed by the FBI within the coming weeks, in connection with the investigation into her private email server. As
reported last night, Hillary's top aide, Huma Abedin was interviewed by the FBI at its Washington field office in April.
The FBI and Justice Department have been investigating whether sensitive information that flowed through Clinton's email server
was mishandled.
Clinton's
Mother's Day present? FBI close to end of investigation. At one point in the investigation into Hillary
Clinton's private bathroom email server, reporters were able to coax an unnamed "FBI official" into saying that Hillary
Clinton was "not the target" of the investigation. It's a line which all of her defenders, including the White House,
have stuck to like glue. But now the end days of this long process appear to be upon us and that line of defense is
crumbling quickly.
Romanian
hacker who claims he breached Clinton server says he spoke with FBI at length. The Romanian hacker who says he
easily breached Hillary Clinton's personal email server also claimed, in a series of interviews with Fox News, that he spoke
with the FBI at length on the plane when extradited from Romania to Virginia last month. "They came after me, a guy
from the FBI, from the State Department," 44-year-old Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," told Fox News
during a jailhouse phone interview. [...] A government source confirmed that the hacker had a lot to say on the plane but
provided no other details. Lazar was flown to the U.S. to face separate cyber-crime charges.
The
real reason the FBI interviewed Hillary's closet aide. Fox News has confirmed that the FBI has interviewed Huma
Abedin, top aide to Hillary Clinton, as part of its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email and whether
classified information was willfully transmitted on her unsecured network. [...] Abedin is a valued source of information
because she apparently used an email on Clinton's private system. She may have voiced concerns about whether the server
was violating the law or, equally important, discussed how the law could be circumvented. She and other staffers were
surely questioned about the 2,200 classified communications contained on the server, including the 22 documents that
were "top secret". How did they end up on the unauthorized system? Did the aides have clearance to read
them? Didn't they know they were classified? Were classified markings erased? Who decided to delete
thousands of emails which were government property? Who ordered the server to be "wiped clean"?
Get
ready for a report about 'Hillary Clinton: Inadvertent Lawbreaker'. According to reports on the progress
of the Clinton investigation, by the time it's all over she might get a new kickass campaign slogan out of it: "Hillary
2016: She'll only break laws accidentally!" [...] Obviously the final determination has yet to be made, but I won't be
surprised if it goes along the "she didn't willfully break the law" path. That's been the Clintons wheelhouse
for decades.
Officials:
Scant evidence that Clinton had malicious intent in handling of emails. Prosecutors and FBI agents
investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic
presidential candidate intended to break classification rules, though they are still probing the case aggressively with an
eye on interviewing Clinton herself, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. FBI agents on the case have
been joined by federal prosecutors from the same office that successfully prosecuted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias
Moussaoui — and who would handle any Edward Snowden case, should he ever return to the country, according to the
U.S. officials familiar with the matter. And in recent weeks, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the
Eastern District of Virginia and their FBI counterparts have been interviewing top Clinton aides as they seek to bring the
case to a close.
Federal
judge says Hillary might have to answer server-gate questions under oath: 'The deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be
necessary'. Hillary Clinton could be called on to testify about her secret server and email set-up just as she
enters the home stretch of her fight for the Democratic nomination. A federal judge ordered senior State Department
aides to deliver statements under oath about the unusual arrangement and whether they acted in 'good faith' during a Freedom
of Information Act Request by potentially omitting emails from the clintonemail.com system. Judge Emmet Sullivan also
said 'based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary.'
Clinton
aide interviewed in email investigation. The FBI has interviewed Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton,
as part of a federal investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, a person familiar with
the probe said Thursday [5/5/2016].
Judicial
Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department. Judicial Watch today [5/5/2016] released new State
Department emails (one batch of 103 pages, the second of 138 pages) that again appear to contradict statements by former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton that, "as far as she knew," all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com
system until March 18, 2009. Judicial Watch recently released Clinton State Department emails dating from February 2009 that also call into
question her statements about her emails.
Did
NBC Sit on Guccifer Claims on Hacking Hillary Server? Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar AKA "Guccifer" told FNC's
Catherine Herridge that accessing Hillary Clinton's server was "easy. For me, for everybody." But Herridge, who
appeared on Wednesday's [5/4/2016] Kelly File to discuss the bombshell accusation, wasn't the only reporter with the
story. A May 5 NBC News online story reported the Romanian hacker revealed "in an exclusive interview" with
correspondent Cynthia McFadden that Clinton's server was "like an open orchid on the Internet." However, as PowerLine's Scott
Johnson pointed out, "NBC interviewed Guccifer during his pre-extradition detention in Romania. That means the reported
interview took place at least a month ago."
Hillary
Clinton Is A Danger To The United States. On Wednesday [5/4/2016], the Romanian hacker "Guccifer" (aka Marcel
Lehel Lazar) said that he had breached Hillary Clinton's private email server. "As far as I remember, yes, there
were... up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world," said Lazar. He said that Hillary's server was "completely
unsecured... like an open orchid on the internet." Hillary, a criminal who should be making claims from her prison cell,
quickly fought back, with her team stating, "There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from
his prison cell." They added, "It is unfathomable that he would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way
he did to his other victims." In other words, the Clinton camp won't even maintain that the emails were secure. They
simply say that the fact that the emails aren't public shows that they were never hacked — an insanely stupid
defense that must have lawyers everywhere cringing.
Huma
and Hillary: sign of conflict in newly released email? Judicial Watch released more Hillary emails that were
withheld from State Department after she claimed to have turned over all of them. This contradicts earlier sworn
statements and raises potential legal issues.
Why
was news just leaked that Huma Abedin was questioned by FBI a month ago? The Clinton spin machine went into
high gear yesterday [5/5/2016]. A series of leaks to the media cascaded out a day after Catherine Herridge of Fox News
broke the story that Romanian hacker Guccifer told her that he had easily been able to hack into her private email server,
and browse through the emails that we now know contained material of the highest classification. Notably, NBC News had
access to this information earlier, but sat on it for weeks, leaving the scoop to Fox News, which is bizarre behavior for a
purported news organization. But then again, other mainstream media largely have ignored the Fox scoop.
Romanian
hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, 'it was easy'. The infamous Romanian hacker known as
"Guccifer," speaking exclusively with Fox News, claimed he easily — and repeatedly — breached former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal email server in early 2013. "For me, it was easy ... easy for me, for
everybody," Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," told Fox News from a Virginia jail where he is being held.
Deadlines
loom for answers in Clinton email probe as U.S. judge sets discovery. A federal judge on Wednesday [5/4/2016]
directed State Department officials and top aides to Hillary Clinton to answer questions under oath by June 29 about whether
they intentionally thwarted federal open-records laws by allowing Clinton's use of a private email server throughout her
tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Judge
orders top Hillary Clinton aides to answer questions about secret emails. A federal judge on Wednesday [5/4/2016] ordered
Hillary Clinton's top aides to answer questions about her secret email server, including detailing who made the decision to set it up and
whether it was intended to thwart open records laws. Top Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl D. Mills will be deposed, as will
Bryan Pagliano, who reportedly maintained the clintonemail.com server and Mrs. Clinton's email account tied to the secret system.
Mrs. Clinton herself could also have to answer questions in the open records case brought by Judicial Watch, according to Judge
Emmet G. Sullivan's order — though he said a decision on that would be made later.
Bernstein:
There Will Be 'Very Damaging' Leaks From Hillary Email Investigation, Her Actions Reckless and Entitled. On
Wednesday's [5/4/2016] "CNN Tonight," Journalist and author Carl Bernstein stated that there would be "very damaging" leaks
from the investigation into Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email, and
described her conduct as "what she did was an act of recklessness, and entitlement, that there's no excuse for." Bernstein
began by stating that in the general election "all bets are off," including the usual GOP-Dem breakdown as an important
factor, celebrity might be more important than ideology, and "TMZ, Drudge, new media, [are] going to have a huge role in
this, much more than the usual, fact-based media."
Clinton
Campaign Made Payments to Hard Drive and Document Destruction Company. The Hillary Clinton campaign made
multiple payments to a company that specializes in hard drive and document destruction, campaign finance records show.
The payments, which were recorded in February and March of 2016, went to the Nevada-based American Document Destruction,
Inc., which claims expertise in destroying hard drives or "anything else that a hard drive can come from." "Our hard
drive destruction procedures take place either at your site or at our secure facility in Sparks, NV," the company's website
states. "This decision is yours to decide based on cost and convenience to you. In either situation, the hard
drive will be destroyed by a shredding."
Clinton
emails 'far more egregious' than data breach that has Marine officer facing dismissal. A Marine officer
fighting dismissal for mishandling classified material on his computer has filed a complaint in federal court. He
charges that Marine generals unfairly singled him out, citing statistics that show Marines often wrongly stored classified
information and went unpunished. Marine Reserve Maj. Jason Brezler's lawsuit does not mention Mrs. Clinton,
whose handling of secrets on her private server as secretary of state is under FBI investigation. But legal observers
say that if the military can impose harsh punishment on a war veteran for keeping secrets in the wrong computer, then the
FBI, in fairness, should cast a critical eye on Mrs. Clinton and her stash of information that the intelligence
community says contained top-secret data.
Hillary Clinton's
Damning Emails. [Scroll down] During an interview last September, [Edward] Snowden was asked to respond
to the revelations about highly classified material showing up on Clinton's personal server: "When the unclassified
systems of the United States government, which has a full-time information security staff, regularly gets hacked, the idea
that someone keeping a private server in the renovated bathroom of a server farm in Colorado is more secure is completely
ridiculous." Asked if Clinton "intentionally endangered US international security by being so careless with her email,"
Snowden said it was not his place to say. Nor, it would seem, is it President Barack Obama's place to say, especially
considering that the FBI is actively investigating Clinton's security breach. But Obama has said it anyway.
Lynch:
No deadline for Clinton email probe. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said there's no deadline for concluding the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, and said setting a deadline would only make the probe less thorough.
"People have to have confidence that we treat every case the same, no matter who's last name is involved, no matter how much
publicity it gets," Lynch said in an interview on PBS' "Charlie Rose."
Hillary
Clinton's Unencrypted Personal Email Server May Have Led to Benghazi Attack. There's an important article over
at Consortium News by longtime CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who prepared Presidential Daily Briefings for presidents
Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and which highlights an interesting point I hadn't come across before. Namely, that Hillary's
use of an insecure personal email server — that was almost certainly hacked by America's enemies —
could very well have exposed Ambassador Steven's lack of security in his Benghazi compound, thereby leading directly to the
terror attack that killed four Americans.
Report:
Clintons Are Paying Legal Bills For Aide Who Registered Private Email Address. The Clintons have paid "hundreds
of thousands of dollars" to cover the legal bills for a Bill Clinton aide who sits at the center of the FBI's investigation
into Hillary Clinton's private email server. That's according to Washington Times opinion editor Monica Crowley who
reports in a new column that a knowledgeable source tells her that the Clintons are covering legal expenses for Justin
Cooper, a longtime aide to the former president. Such an arrangement would raise questions over whether the Clintons
are paying Cooper's bills in order to ensure that they have some oversight of his interactions with federal investigators.
It would also raise questions about whether the Clintons are paying other aides' legal costs. Cooper registered
clintonemail.com in his own name on Jan. 13, 2009.
DOJ
Claims Revealing FBI Declaration Will Jeopardize Clinton Email Investigation. Attorneys with the U.S.
Department of Justice say they cannot make public a classified FBI declaration because it would "adversely affect the ongoing
investigation" into Hillary Clinton's private email server. The recent filing by DOJ attorneys, obtained by
LawNewz.com, is significant because it not only acknowledges the ongoing federal probe, but also asserts that if the
declaration is made public, it could "reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings." The DOJ's
memorandum is part of a FOIA lawsuit that was originally filed in federal court by Vice News reporter Jason
Leopold. Leopold is seeking Clinton's emails that the DOJ obtained from her private server. He is also seeking
correspondence between the FBI and Clinton referencing the Clinton email server.
Are
Bill Clinton and his team the key to the FBI's Hillary investigation? Was Hillary Clinton's unsecure, private
email server set up by her husband's top political operative in order to turbocharge their own political and financial
interests? Justin Cooper may hold the answer. Mr. Cooper is a central player in the shadowy worlds of Bill
and Hillary Clinton — serving as Mr. Clinton's top aide since 2015, when his predecessor, former right-hand
man and "surrogate son" Doug Band, resigned from the Clinton Foundation — yet he has largely escaped notice.
The obscure Mr. Cooper may, in fact, be the linchpin of the case swirling around the Clintons.
State:
'Administrative error' caused Clinton email confusion. The State Department said a clerical error on its end is
to blame for the confusion that arose Tuesday [4/26/2016] over when officials first withheld an email that revealed Hillary
Clinton was using a private email address. Tuesday morning, the watchdog group Judicial Watch said it got a letter from
State that said it withheld that email in November, 2014. That prompted Judicial Watch to claim that State appears to have
withheld the email to keep it from seeing Clinton's private email address. The group noted that State's failure to release
the email in late 2014 meant everyone had to wait until early March, 2015, when Clinton's private email was first reported.
State
Dept. Delayed Releasing Email That Could Have Blown Lid Off Hillary Email Scandal. The State Department
withheld an email that would have shown — months before it was eventually reported — that Hillary
Clinton used a personal email account to conduct State Department business, a conservative watchdog group claims.
Judicial Watch says that it received a letter from the State Department last week in which agency officials said that a
September 2012 email had been completely withheld from a production of documents that the watchdog demanded as part of a
Freedom of Information Act seeking records containing Benghazi talking points.
State
Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email from Judicial Watch. The Obama State Department last week admitted it
withheld a key Benghazi email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Judicial Watch since at least September 2014.
If the State Department disclosed the email when first supposedly found, Clinton's email server and her hidden emails would
have been disclosed nearly two years ago, before Clinton authorized the alleged deletion of tens of thousands of emails.
State
Dept. Withheld Key Email From Clinton's Private Server in FOIA Lawsuit. The State Department has now
acknowledged that it withheld a key Benghazi e-mail in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in July
2014. The State Department acknowledged finding the e-mail in 2014, but it was withheld in its entirety until last
week. This latest admission comes in a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group,
that seeks records related to the drafting and use of the Benghazi talking points.
Most
Transparent Administration Ever Withheld Incriminating Hillary Emails From Federal Courts. It would seem that
the only group interested in performing oversight of the Obama administration is an independent watchdog group, not the
Republican-controlled Oversight committees in Congress. Those committees appear to be either complicit, incompetent or
(more likely) both. Instead, we are left to groups like Judicial Watch (an organization that I have financially
supported in the past thanks to my generous readers) to perform oversight on the most lawless administration in modern
American history.
Busted! Obama hiding Benghazi
emails. The Obama administration defied a federal court order and refused to release a key Hillary Clinton
email concerning the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. By holding back the information, the
administration wasn't just protecting Clinton from Benghazi fallout — they may have been trying to hide the fact
that Clinton maintained a private email account while secretary of state.
What
Did Hillary Crony Admit That Everyone Already Knows? While being interviewed on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C.,
Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton fixer — has any political family ever need more fixing? — told the
hosts that he wouldn't be surprised if Clinton's private email server had been hacked. It was such a startling
admission that host Larry O'Connor had to ask Davis again to make sure that he had not misunderstood him. [...] Indeed, a
high-ranking former KGB officer told John R. Schindler, a former national security affairs professor at the Naval War
College, that "of course" the Russian foreign intelligence "service got it all" from Clinton's email, and it didn't even have
to work hard for it. "I don't know if we're as good as we were in my time," Schindler's source told him, "but even
half-drunk the SVR" — today's version of the KGB — "could get those emails, they probably couldn't
believe how easy Hillary made it for them."
The
Clinton E-mail Case Transcends Hillary's Presidential Campaign. When friends ask me about the 2016 presidential
campaign, my answer is always the same: It is a matter of "if," not "when," exploding bombshells from the Clinton
e-mail investigation quickly transform the current political landscape. One could argue that the future integrity of
our nation rests on how the Justice Department resolves the case. The political bombs will begin to explode when the
outcome of the FBI investigations are announced or leaked. Finally, there will be concrete answers to questions that
have dogged Clinton's presidential campaign for over a year.
FBI
Director Says Hillary Email Investigation Could Stretch Past DNC Convention. FBI director James Comey said
Thursday [4/21/2016] that he has no set timetable for wrapping up the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and that
the probe could even extend beyond the Democratic National Committee's convention in July. Comey was asked about the
status of the investigation during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum in London. "There's no timetable on any
investigation," Comey said, adding that he has been asked if the Democratic National Convention is "a key date" for wrapping
up the investigation, which centers on whether classified information was mishandled on Clinton's server.
Judge
rejects DOJ's classified court filing on Clinton emails. A federal judge ruled Wednesday [4/20/2016] that the Justice
Department needs to make public at least a partial copy of a classified filing that seeks to keep details about Hillary Clinton's
private server out of the public eye. The ruling comes after the department submitted a classified filing to U.S. District
Court Judge Randy Moss last month asking that he prevent certain information about the server from being released. In a
motion filed on Tuesday [4/19/2016], Vice News reporter Jason Leopold asked the court to deny that request.
Clinton
IT staffer refuses to testify after immunity deal. The former State Department staffer who set up a private
server in Hillary Clinton's basement is refusing to testify before Congress in spite of his immunity deal. An attorney
for Bryan Pagliano said that he would "respectfully decline" a request to testify before two Senate committees, according to
a letter provided to the Associated Press on Friday [4/22/2016]. Pagliano received an immunity deal from the Justice
Department in early March in exchange for cooperating with the FBI's investigation into the issue.
Why
Hillary Clinton Will Be Indicted for Mishandling Classified Information. Hillary Clinton's email scandal is one
of the most important, yet largely undiscussed issues of the 2016 election. Even though this scandal has been going on
for over a year, a vast majority of Americans are still unsure of what exactly she did wrong. Many in the Democratic
Party believe this whole controversy has simply been a partisan, Republican attack to damage her Presidential campaign.
That view has been reinforced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) who has refused to raise the issue in the primary
elections thus far — something both potential Republican nominees have promised to do in the general election.
Attorneys
Take on DOJ For Filing Secret Document About Clinton Email Investigation. Attorneys for Vice News
reporter Jason Leopold are taking the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice to task after the feds filed a classified
declaration supposedly providing more information to the court about the FBI's investigation into Clinton's private email
server. The filing was part of a FOIA lawsuit filed in federal court by Leopold seeking Clinton's emails from her
private server as well as correspondence between the FBI and Clinton referencing the Clinton email server. In March,
the government filed a motion for summary judgement in the case, and incorporated as one of the supporting documents this
classified declaration. That's significant because as former federal prosecutor Bill Thomas told LawNewz.com not only
is the "information being submitted to the court classified, but its really more than that, it is information that if
revealed there exists 'reasonable danger that compulsion of the evidence will expose military matters which, in the interest
of national security, should not be divulged.'"
State
Department Consents to Depositions Over Clinton Email Server. The U.S. State Department reached an agreement
with the watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday [4/15/2016] that would allow the organization's attorneys to depose Hillary Clinton's
top aides about the "creation and operation" of her private email server. The agreement is the latest legal victory for
Judicial Watch, which has been suing the State Department for public records related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary
of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan approved Judicial Watch's request for discovery last month, a rare
move in a Freedom of Information Act case. Judicial Watch is seeking information on whether Clinton's email server
allowed her and top aides to evade public records laws and whether State Department officials intentionally obstructed
efforts to obtain public information.
Feds
Agree To Allow Probe Of 'Creation And Operation' Of Hillary's Email System. The State Department and Judicial
Watch reached a tentative agreement late Friday [4/15/2016] that will allow the conservative watchdog group to conduct
discovery regarding the "creation and operation" of Hillary Clinton's private email system. The proposed joint order
must now be approved by Emmet Sullivan, the U.S. District Court judge handling the Judicial Watch lawsuit, which seeks
records related to the "special government employee" status of Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the State
Department. Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff, will likely provide sworn depositions in the case.
Time for Hillary
to Pay. [Scroll down] It would appear, however, that Obama and Hillary are protecting each other.
If Hillary is indicted, Obama surely would be ensnared in the scandal, and would face the wrath of the Clintons for
destroying her chance to become president. As we move toward the two presidential nominating conventions this summer,
the FBI's dual probes into the transmission of classified material on Mrs. Clinton's private server, and allegations
of corruption, may have reached a vital stage.
ABSCAM
agents to FBI chief: Bureau's 'reputation' on the line in Clinton probe. Former FBI agents who worked the
notorious 1970s sting operation known as ABSCAM have written FBI Director James Comey to warn that nothing less than the
bureau's "reputation" is on the line as the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices enters a critical
phase. The agents, in a March 16 letter obtained by Fox News, offered their support for Comey and the agents
working the email case. But the letter cautioned the outcome would have long-lasting implications. "Decisions
must be made on facts alone. Much is at stake here — people's trust in the Bureau for years to come, as well
as the Bureau's reputation among our allies, partners, and friends as the greatest law enforcement agency in the world,"
wrote John F. Good, president of the Long Island Chapter of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.
How
Hillary Clinton's Misuse Of Classified Documents Alters U.S. Law. In the short run, President Obama's suggestion that mishandling
classified documents is not necessarily a criminal offense merely signals his intention to keep a prominent Democrat out of jail. But
him pointing to the complexity of U.S. law regarding secrets, after his administration has brought more prosecutions for disclosures of
classified information under the Espionage Act of 1917 than all presidencies combined, points to how well that complexity lends itself to
political game-playing.
Top
10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2015. [#8] Vetting Hillary Clinton: No matter how shameful her
falsehoods or accompanying excuses, the mainstream media continue to give Hillary Clinton a free pass on virtually anything
she alleges. [...] Hillary Clinton's email scandal has also turned into a campaign season debacle of drip, drip, drip.
She deleted half of her emails as Secretary of State — which were stored on a private email server —
and then sent the remaining half to the State Department, claiming that those messages she deleted were personal. It
turns out that she deleted portions of the emails she sent on to the State Department, and also failed to provide a number of
emails that were sent between her and confidante Sydney Blumenthal. And, Mrs. Clinton falsely maintained that she
never emailed classified information using her email server. The intelligence community Inspector General has since
declared at least two of her emails Top Secret.
The
Real Clinton Email Scandal? It Might Be What She Did Legally. I have a saying: "The scandal isn't what's
illegal, the scandal is what's legal," liberal editor and commentator Michael Kinsley once said. He was referring to
the legal forms of corruption that go on day after day in Washington. By that standard, the real scandal involving
Hillary Clinton's e-mails might not be that she compromised national security out of convenience by using a private e-mail
server while secretary of state. The real scandal could lie elsewhere — namely, in what some of her e-mails
reveal about her willingness use her position of power to help her corporate friends and campaign contributors.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Hillary's Documents Flowed Openly Across Web. While secretary of state, Clinton conducted State
Department business through a personal email account handled by a private server that did not meet the government's security
standards. The homebrew system was probably the most susceptible to hackers during its first two months of existence
when emails passed through it without encryption.
State
Department: Don't Ask Hillary Aides About Classified Info in Lawsuit. Lawyers for the State Department want to
limit the types of questions that a watchdog group can ask former aides to Hillary Clinton, and potentially the former
secretary of state herself, about her creation and use of a private email system while she was in office. The
department asked a federal judge Tuesday night to grant "limited discovery" to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog
group that wants to depose some of Clinton's closest associates and staffers.
Why
is the FBI so slow on Clinton e-mail probe? IF FBI Director James Comey feels no deadline pressure to wrap up
the investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, he should. "The urgency is to do it well and promptly. And
'well' comes first," Comey told local law enforcement agents in Buffalo on Monday [4/4/2016], according to the Niagara Gazette.
Hillary
just boxed in AG Loretta Lynch. Hillary Clinton yesterday [4/6/2016] made it very difficult for Attorney
General Loretta Lynch to decline to prosecute a possible criminal referral from the FBI. Using her trademark sandpaper tone
of voice when she is being emphatic, speaking to a rally in Pennsylvania, Hillary flat-out declared: "Everyone who violates
the law anywhere should be held accountable."
No
'Coincidence': Romanian hacker extradited amid Clinton email probe. The extradition of Romanian hacker "Guccifer" to the
U.S. at a critical point in the FBI's criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's email use is "not a coincidence," according to an
intelligence source close to the case. One of the notches on Guccifer's cyber-crime belt was allegedly accessing the email account
of Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, one of Clinton's most prolific advice-givers when she was secretary of state. It was
through that hack that Clinton's use of a personal account — clintonemail.com — first came to light.
Hillary
laughs off email scandal as GOP 'fantasy'. Hillary Clinton on Friday laughed off as a "fantasy" the Republicans'
hopes that the federal probe into her use of a private email server will lead to her being led off in handcuffs. "Oh my
goodness!" the Democratic front-runner told Matt Lauer in an interview that aired Friday morning on NBC's "Today" show.
"I know that they live in that world of fantasy and hope because they've got a mess on their hands on the Republican side.
That is not gonna happen. There is not even the remotest chance that it's going to happen," she told Lauer on Thursday
[4/7/2016] in a Bronx diner.
Will Guccifer
Upend Hillary? After several years of incarceration in his native Romania, Marcel Lazar Lehel, aka Guccifer,
has finally arrived this week in Alexandria, Virginia, to face nine charges of computer hacking. Guccifer, it will be
recalled, is the one who revealed the presence of Hillary Clinton's private server through his hacking of Sidney Blumenthal's
email account.
Indicting Mrs.
Boss Hogg. The FBI is on a winning streak. They haven't looked this good since the heyday of Efrem
Zimabalist, Jr. [...] The agents doing the investigation are not talking, and, one suspects, just given the size of the
investigation — 147 agents — they have found something good. And don't forget, James Comey is the
hard case who insisted on not just prosecuting Martha Stewart, but sending her to prison. If some of the people around
the Clintons really are talking, no telling where it might lead.
This
is how the FBI destroys Hillary: The 10 questions that could end her White House dreams. The FBI's upcoming
interview of Hillary Clinton will be a turning point in the race for Democratic nominee, especially since Clinton won't be
able to speak to James Comey and his FBI agents in the same manner her campaign has communicated with the public. [...] They
mean business, and lying to an FBI agent is a felony, so Hillary Clinton and her aides will be forced to tell the truth.
The doublespeak involving convenience and retroactive classification won't matter to seasoned FBI agents whose reputations
are on the line; the entire country feels there's a double-standard regarding this email controversy. Imagine if you
had 22 Top Secret emails on your computer? Would you be able to claim negligence?
Any
One Of These Four Laws Could Put Hillary, Aides In Jail. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and
key aides are vulnerable to three felony charges and one misdemeanor count under the Espionage Act because of the unauthorized
transfer of classified documents to her private email server, former national security and law enforcement officials tell The
Daily Caller News Foundation. As many as 150 FBI agents are deployed on the case and FBI Director James Comey and Attorney
General Loretta Lynch are reportedly meeting twice weekly to discuss the progress of the investigation.
Feds May Have Known Hillary's Unsecure Blackberry
Was Been Hacked in 2009. [A] Washington Post article from last week is a very good and very exhaustive piece of
reporting on Hillary's email scandal. Let me quote the article as regards The Battle of the Blackberry. Hillary
was absolutely determined to keep using her Blackberry, and her Palace Guard was determined to see the Queen's will made
manifest, but apparently the government doesn't use Blackberries as secure phones. (The article doesn't say what
type of phone they use.)
Clinton
Email Scandal: DOJ Veteran Says Hillary Should Be Indicted. Should Hillary Clinton be charged with a crime
because of her use of an unsecured, private email server to conduct all of her State Department business? The question
is usually asked in the context of the multitude of emails Clinton had on her server that have been classified or even
top-secret. Clinton has maintained all along that, even if there were classified emails on her server, she didn't know
it because none of them was marked as such at the time. But Ronald Sievert, who was with the Justice Department for
25 years and now teaches national security and international law, says the focus on classified material is a smokescreen.
Former
DHS Official: 'Very Real Probability' Asian Intelligence Services Read Unsecured Clinton E-Mails. Stewart
Baker, writing for The Volokh Conspiracy Blog at the Washington Post on Monday [4/4/2016], raises some largely
overlooked, yet potentially very troubling issues related to Hillary Clinton's use of private server while serving as
Secretary of State. Baker would know about this issue too, he previously served as the first assistant secretary of
policy for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. When analyzing newly available information about when
Clinton started using the clintonemail.com home-brew server, Baker, a former Department of Homeland Security official,
learned that for most of the first three months of Clinton's term as Secretary of State, her private e-mail server apparently
was not encrypted or authenticated with a digital certificate needed to encrypt communications.
Clinton server may have been breached
in 2009. Information pieced together from Hillary Clinton's trove of released email suggests that her request
for a secure Blackberry may have followed an intrusion into her system during a trip to Asia, according to an analysis by a
former Homeland Security official. "There now seems to be a very real probability that Hillary Clinton rushed to install
an encryption certificate in March 2009 because the U.S. intelligence community caught another country reading Clinton's
unencrypted messages during her February 16-21, 2009, trip to China, Indonesia, Japan, and S. Korea," wrote Stewart
Baker, a former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, in a column for the Washington Post.
On
the Left, Deep Unease About the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua. Pass the popcorn: while conservatives are engrossed in the battle
between Trump and non-Trump, over on the Left, they're having an ideological conniption fit over the fixed-fight they call the Democrat
primaries. Nobody, it seems, much likes Hillary: [...] In fact, no one less than the FBI director himself, James Comey, will
interview the new chief of the Clinton Crime Family. With nearly 150 agents on the case, it's clear that where there's (obvious)
smoke there's also a four-alarm fire; the only question is whether the corrupt Obama "Justice" Department will dare or deign to indict the
career criminal, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Four
Hillary Aides Hire Joint Defense Counsel. Politico yesterday revealed that four of Hillary Clinton's aides —
not including Huma Abedin and Bryan Pagliano — are using the same high-powered, well-connected D.C. lawyer for their
counsel as they face likely FBI questioning over their role in the private server/classified email and possible criminal referral.
The group includes chief of staff Cheryl Mills; her deputy chief Jake Sullivan; Heather Samuelson, also on Mills's staff; and Philippe
Reines, who served as Clinton's spokesman at State.
Clinton
aides unite on FBI legal strategy. Four of Hillary Clinton's closest aides appear to have adopted an unusual
legal strategy, hiring the same ex-Justice Department attorney to represent them in the FBI's investigation of Clinton's
private email server. Beth Wilkinson, a well-connected former assistant U.S. attorney best known for prosecuting
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, is listed as representing three of Clinton's top State Department staffers, according
to a congressional letter obtained by POLITICO and dated Feb. 10. A fourth Clinton aide, Philippe Reines, is also
represented by Wilkinson, according to sources familiar with their representation.
Former
Dem senator: Clinton email claim 'false on its face'. A former Democratic senator on Friday dismissed Hillary
Clinton's claim that she used a private server for convenience as "false on its face." "She's a government official.
The law says the public has a right to know what's going on," former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey said in an interview with
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. Kerrey, who has endorsed Clinton's presidential candidacy, nonetheless accused her
of trying to circumvent the law.
Klein:
Comey And 'A Lot Of Other FBI Agents' Will Resign If Hillary Is Not Indicted. Clinton author Ed Klein says that
if Hillary Clinton is not indicted, FBI Director James Comey and "a lot of other FBI agents" would resign as well in
protest. In an interview with Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co" on Friday, Klein said, "I think Comey realizes that
he's got to wrap this [investigation] up well before the conventions otherwise he's going to disenfranchise millions and
millions of people. So I think this is going to be wrapped up in around six more weeks."
State Dept
suspends review into 'top secret' Clinton emails. The State Department has suspended its internal review into whether
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or her top aides mishandled emails containing information now deemed "top secret."
Spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Friday [4/1/2016] the department had paused the review to avoid interfering with an ongoing FBI
investigation into Clinton's use of a private server while she was America's top diplomat. She said the decision was made after
the department sought the FBI's advice on how to proceed with the review and received word that it should follow its standard
practice. Trudeau said the department's standard practice is to place internal reviews "on hold while there is an
ongoing law enforcement investigation underway."
10
Questions That Hillary And The State Dept. Still Need To Answer About The Email Scandal. There are the
big, general questions such as why, exactly, Clinton chose to use a private email system to conduct her State Department
business. And why the State Department didn't do more to prevent the former secretary of state from using the system
once officials found out about it. But there are also questions about specific pieces of the email scandal puzzle that
have largely gone unasked, such as whether and when Clinton deleted any of her work-related emails or who was involved in
hiring the IT technician who managed her email system.
FBI
orders State Dept. to halt review of Clinton emails. The State Department said Friday that the FBI has
asked the department to halt its internal investigation into emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton while she led the
department, emails that are now deemed to contain "top secret" information. State had been reviewing whether the
information was deemed top secret at the time it was sent, or whether the information only became top secret later. But
State Department spokesman Elizabeth Trudeau said the FBI asked the department to stop so as not to interfere with the FBI's
own investigation.
Speculation
mounts that Hillary's FBI interview on her secret email server is imminent as investigation reaches 'critical stage'. Democratic frontrunner
Hillary Clinton could be questioned by the FBI in days with the email investigation being wrapped up in weeks, according to new reporting from Al Jazeera
America. The network's David Shuster reported that the investigation has now reached a 'critical stage,' in that the bureau has finished examining her
emails and homebrew server and will now be interviewing top aides, along with Clinton herself. Among those to be interviewed: Clinton's State Department
chief of staff Cheryl Mills and senior advisor Philippe Reines, Al Jazeera America said.
The
Clinton investigation enters a dangerous phase. Federal law enforcement sources have let it be known that
federal prosecutors and the FBI have completed their examination of raw data in the case. After the FBI acquires raw
data — for example, the nature and number of the state secrets in the emails Clinton failed to protect or the
regular, consistent, systematic nature of that failure — prosecutors and agents proceed to draw rational
inferences from that data. Then they proceed to corroborate those inferences, looking for other sources to support or
even to contradict them. With one exception, all of this work has been done with neutral sources of evidence —
documents, email metadata, government records and technical experts.
Second
Judge Grants Discovery in Hillary's Ever-Expanding Email Scandal. There have been some interesting developments
in the Hillary Clinton e-mail saga over the past two weeks. In response to an FOIA request, conservative legal advocacy
group Judicial Watch obtained documents which seem to show that Clinton was well aware her BlackBerry wasn't secure from the
very beginning of her tenure as the nation's top diplomat. Correspondence between Senior Coordinator for Security
Infrastructure Donald Reid, long-time Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and the NSA suggests the former First Lady had become "addicted"
to her BlackBerry and essentially refused to use the secure desktop computer provided to her by security officials.
Hillary
Clinton's top 10 most ethically challenged emails. Hillary Clinton's closest aides are finding themselves between the
proverbial rock and a hard place as the investigation of her emails enters a new phase, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday [3/28/2016].
As the FBI begins scheduling interviews about her use of the private email and server throughout her tenure as secretary of state, Huma Abedin,
Cheryl Mills, and others are now "in a position of choosing between being honest about those emails, or lying to the FBI, which is a crime,"
said Matthew G. Whitaker, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) in Washington, D.C. and
former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.
Second
judge grants discovery in Clinton email lawsuit. Citing indications of wrongdoing and bad faith, a federal
judge has overruled government objections by declaring that a conservative group is entitled to more details about how
Hillary Clinton's private email account was integrated into the State Department recordkeeping system and why it was not
searched in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth entered an order
Tuesday [3/29/2016] agreeing that Judicial Watch can pursue legal discovery — which often includes depositions of
relevant individuals — as the group pursues legal claims that State did not respond completely to a FOIA request
filed in May 2014 seeking records about talking points then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice used for TV
appearances discussing the deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi in September 2012.
State
Department Loses Another Round in the Clinton Email Fiasco. In a second loss in less than two weeks, a federal
court has once again ruled against the Obama administration, this time in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) tussle with
Judicial Watch over the Clinton email fiasco. Previously, on March 22, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the
Justice Department and the IRS to stop their "continuous resistance" and "meritless" objections to producing information and
documentation sought in a lawsuit filed by a Tea Party organization in the IRS targeting scandal.
Hillary
Clinton's not-so-smartphone a troubling cyber sign. With cyberterrorism one of America's greatest national
security threats, voters need to think long and hard if they want to elect a president who chose personal convenience over
national security concerns while secretary of state. Is this who we want protecting us from Iranian hackers, the North
Koreans, ISIS and a growing list of highly sophisticated cyber-thugs? In addition to operating an off-the-grid private
server, we've now learned from a Washington Post story that the Democratic front-runner insisted on using her BlackBerry
while secretary of state despite being warned by top security officials about the risks it posed.
Federal
judge allows further digging in Clinton email lawsuit. A second federal judge has ruled that a conservative
group should be allowed to dig deeper in its quest for emails sent by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a decision
Tuesday [3/29/2016] that could allow the group to seek more documents and depositions from current and former State Department
officials. U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order grants limited discovery to Judicial Watch, which sued
in 2014 in order to gain access to records relating to the drafting of the talking points given to then-Ambassador Susan Rice in
the wake of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
FBI
readies crucial interviews of Hillary and her aides. Sources have told the Los Angeles Times that the FBI has
alerted attorneys for Hillary Clinton's aides, telling them that the Bureau will be interviewing them about Clinton's private
email server and the potential misshandling of classified information. The sources say the interviews will be conducted in
the next few weeks. [...] Reading between the lines of this particular story, it looks as though federal prosecutors are
inclined to interpret the law about handling classified information far more generously toward Clinton than the FBI.
This doesn't mean that Clinton is off the hook.
Investor's
Business Daily, HuffPo Columnist Agree: Hillary Should Withdraw. The free-market, liberty-loving editorial
board at Investor's Business Daily and a Bernie Sanders-supporting columnist at the Huffingon Post [sic]
agree on one thing: Hillary Clinton should withdraw from the presidential race. Okay, IBD wants her to "suspend,"
while HuffPo's H.A. Goodman says she should "concede." Both missives declare that Mrs. Clinton's withdrawal should
be based on the FBI's criminal investigation into her "homebrew" server and her alleged reckless treatment of classified emails
and the information contained therein.
The
Loretta Lynch Stonewall: Will It Elect Hillary? When it comes to Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal, the most
important thing to bear in mind — even more than classified information — is this: It was all about
avoiding accountability. It still is. Mrs. Clinton did not set out to damage national security and compromise defense
secrets, although she obviously had no compunction about doing so as necessary to serve her higher personal interests. For a
generation, she has been a public person whose most intimate companion has been scandal. She knew her State Department
stewardship would be no different. Her motive in designing a communication system that circumvented government recordkeeping
and disclosure laws was to avoid a day of reckoning as she campaigned in 2016 for the power of the presidency she craves. And
that is where Loretta Lynch comes in.
FBI
to Interview Hillary Clinton's Top Aides in Email Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is
kicking its Hillary Clinton email investigation into high gear. The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday [3/27/2016]
that the FBI and federal prosecutors are setting up interviews with Clinton's top aides, a group that presumably includes
Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
A
year after 'wiped clean' Hillary's email still a mess. [Scroll down] But just remember that in the year since we
learned about "wiped clean," Democratic primary voters have been the main victims of Clinton's shifting stories. The subtext of
her claim to her party was that she had done nothing wrong... and that she had taken every step necessary to thwart investigators even
if she had. She was, she assured her party, a safe bet. As it turns out she had neither done right in her electronic hygiene
nor been thorough in preventing the discovery of her bad practices. She proved neither forthright nor expert at the kind of tactical
blocking for which she and her husband were famed.
Los
Angeles Times previews Hillary's strategy to dispute a criminal referral on email scandal. Hillary Clinton's
allies are carefully implementing a strategy to deal with a possible criminal referral to the Justice Department by the FBI.
[...] I see the Los Angeles Times as laying the groundwork for Hillary and her supporters to claim that a criminal referral
from the FBI would be unjustified, and the result of "overzealous" agents seeking to justify their expensive inquiry. When
Bill Clinton's scandals were being investigated, the Democrats suddenly became obsessed with the cost of a government program,
detailing the spending of Kenneth Starr. You can expect the Hillary camp to do the same with a criminal referral should
it occur.
How
Clinton's email scandal took root. Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of
state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn't allowed to take the
device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row. For Clinton, this was frustrating.
As a political heavyweight and chief of the nation's diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to
colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area.
Clinton
email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom. Federal prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling
of classified materials on Hillary Clinton's private email server have begun the process of setting up formal interviews with
some of her longtime and closest aides, according to two people familiar with the probe, an indication that the inquiry is
moving into its final phases. Those interviews and the final review of the case, however, could still take many weeks,
all but guaranteeing that the investigation will continue to dog Clinton's presidential campaign through most, if not all, of
the remaining presidential primaries.
New
FBI Filings Reveal 'Pending Investigation' Into Clinton's E-Mails is Far From Over. A pair of declarations submitted to a federal judge by
the FBI late Friday [3/25/2016] in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by Vice News reveal new details about the Bureau's
"pending investigation" into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server ("Clinton Server") that tend to indicate the matter is far from over.
Role of tech who
set up Clinton's server unknown to bosses at State. The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was running the off-grid
email server that Clinton had him set up in her New York home for her work as secretary of state. But even as years passed,
Pagliano's supervisors never learned of his most sensitive task, according to the department and one of his former colleagues.
More
lost Clinton emails unearthed. Judicial Watch on Thursday [3/24/2016] announced that it had unearthed emails
from Hillary Clinton's personal email account dated February 2009. Until now, the former secretary of state had maintained
she was not using the account at that time. The findings include a Feb. 13, 2009, exchange between Clinton and her
chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, in which Mills conveys to Clinton that the National Security Agency is not pleased with her request
for a more secure, personalized BlackBerry. Clinton sought the device to circumvent normal security protocols for accessing
classified information.
Watchdog
Discovers Another Email Hillary Failed To Turn Over To The State Department. A conservative watchdog group has
discovered yet another email from the early days of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state that she failed to turn
over to the State Department. On Thursday [3/24/2016], Judicial Watch published a Feb. 13, 2009 email that Clinton sent
her State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills in response to news about obtaining a special BlackBerry that Clinton wanted to
use at the State Department's executive offices, which are designated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Mills was slated to meet that day with the National Security Agency's (NSA) State Department representative to discuss the issue, she
said. She also forwarded an email from another official suggesting that NSA was likely to approve the request.
Benghazi bombshell found in Clinton emails. The
final batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server was released by the State Department
yesterday — and they included a long-rumored email proving that Clinton was well aware of the deteriorating
security situation in Benghazi, Libya. And it appears that she did almost nothing to prevent the tragedy.
Ed Klein: Hillary
Closer to Indictment. Ed Klein, one of the best investigative journalist on Hillary's trail, says that his
sources tell him that the "Justice Department is close to empaneling a grand jury and deciding whether to grant statutory
immunity to Huma Abedin, Hillary's closest adviser." Klein, who rarely gets it wrong, notes that such a development would
force Abedin to testify under oath, facing perjury charges if she lies. He also adds that he is "also told that Hillary
herself will most likely be forced to testify." Klein has previously reported that the FBI has notified Hillary's three
closest aides, Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan, that they will be required to testify.
Here's
Everything We Know So Far About Hillary's Shady BlackBerry Use. Much of the focus on Hillary Clinton's email
use as secretary of state has focused on the mystery that is the private email server that was set up in the basement
of her New York home. But Clinton's BlackBerry — which was not issued by the State Department —
is also a crucial piece of the puzzle. State Department emails published last week add to records that have been released
over the past few months to paint a better picture of just how Clinton came to solely use that personal BlackBerry.
The Editor says...
Was the infamous email server set up in the basement of Hillary's residence, or in the bathroom, or in a closet?
I've heard all three.
Judicial
Watch Lawsuit Uncovers New Hillary Clinton Email Withheld from State Department. Judicial Watch announced today [3/24/2016]
that it has obtained State Department documents from February 2009 containing emails that appear to contradict statements by former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that, "as far as she knew," all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department
and that she did not use her clintonemail.com email system until March 2009. The emails also contain more evidence of the battle between
security officials in the State Department, National Security Administration, Clinton and her staff over attempts to obtain secure Blackberrys.
Obama busted in Clinton email cover-up. Did President
Barack Obama's administration intentionally help hide some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides emails from
public record? Some critics are claiming that the Obama administration couldn't have just misplaced nearly 100,000 emails
and documents from a Clinton aide they claimed they couldn't find — until a lawsuit seemed to jog their memory.
And it looks like hiding emails and documents that should be public record has become a pattern for the Obama administration.
State
Dept. still lacks staffers to process Hillary Clinton's emails. The State Department is still struggling to
hire enough staffers to review all of the open-records requests being filed for emails and other documents from former
Secretary Hillary Clinton and her top aides, the department acknowledged in a court filing Monday night [3/21/2016].
Department officials had promised Judge Rudolph Contreras that they would try to hire 50 screeners by February but had just
35 on board as of the end of last week. It hired 39 in total, but four screeners have left the job, Benjamin C.
Mizer, the principal deputy attorney general, said in court papers. Of those 35, only 20 are reviewers with top-secret
clearance eligible to screen the documents.
The
perfect as the enemy of the good in the FBI's investigation of Hillary. Here is my take on the state of play
regarding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State and the FBI's investigation of the
matter: [#1] There's a good chance that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, has committed a
felony. And not just any felony, but a violation of the Espionage Act. [#2] Given the consequences associated with a
felon being nominated, or worse yet elected president, there is a strong national interest in a prompt determination by the government
as to whether Clinton committed one or more felonies. [#3] The inquiry under the Espionage Act is fairly straightforward.
For example, under 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f), the questions as I see them are (1) whether Clinton had possession or control of documents
relating to the national defense; (2) whether she removed such information from its proper place of custody and/or delivered it to
someone in violation of her trust; and (3) whether she acted with gross negligence.
Hillary Has an NSA Problem.
[Scroll down] Now, over two months later, I can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal's June 8, 2011, email to Hillary
Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency
investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal's highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including
the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence. Specifically, this
information was illegally lifted from four different NSA reports, all of them classified "Top Secret / Special Intelligence."
Worse, at least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to
extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was).
Clinton
E-mail Scandal Update — Is Sidney Blumenthal in Trouble? [Scroll down] If true, this report highlights
the extent to which close Clinton friends and confidantes may soon find themselves in serious legal jeopardy. Clinton's
extraordinarily selfish act — her insistence on setting up a private server and a special, for-herself-only communications
protocol — meant that her inner circle was inevitably ensnared. If she insisted on communicating with her own
devices — and simultaneously demanded timely intelligence information — then aides would constantly
encounter a choice between following the law and obeying Hillary.
Will Hillary get charged,
or what? FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain that presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private email server, career agents say.
Some expect him to push for charges, but he faces a formidable obstacle: the political types in the Obama White House who
view a Clinton presidency as a third Obama term. With that, agents have been spreading the word, largely through associates
in the private sector, that their boss is getting stonewalled, despite uncovering compelling evidence that Clinton broke the law.
Bolton:
FBI Will 'Explode' If Hillary Not Indicted Over Email Scandal Due to Politics. Speaking in a radio interview on
Sunday, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stated he believes the FBI will "explode" if Hillary
Clinton ultimately is not indicted for her email infractions due to what he described as politics triumphing over the legal system.
Clinton
Email Scandal: It's Time Hillary Suspended Her Campaign. Though she tries to ignore it, Hillary Clinton can't
escape her email problem. Almost every day brings more trouble for her. It's time she did what a decent person would
do — temporarily shelve her presidential campaign.
FBI
chief James Comey 'increasingly convinced' Hillary's secret email server broke the law. Federal Bureau of
Investigations Director James Comey is 'increasingly convinced' that Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton broke the law
with her private email setup, says the New York Post, citing unnamed 'career agents.' The paper charges that Comey is
contemplating pushing for charges but doesn't have the backing of the Obama White House, who would like to see Clinton elected
over Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Without such political will, agents have begun whispering to their friends in
the private sector, telling them Comey is getting stonewalled, writes reporter Charles Gasparino.
State
Department Documents Show that NSA Rebuffed Hillary Clinton's Attempts to Obtain a Secure Blackberry. Judicial
Watch announced today [3/16/2016] that it obtained State Department documents revealing that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton repeatedly sought to obtain "Blackberry-like communications," but was rebuffed by the National Security
Agency due to security and cost concerns. The National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate response
was "shut up and color." The emails show that Clinton demanded Blackberry devices that could be used by her
and her staff in her office's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Clinton
tried to change rules to use BlackBerry in secure facility for classified information. Less than a month after
becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for government business,
Hillary Clinton's team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her
BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information
Act. "Anyone who has any appreciation at all of security, you don't ask a question like that," cybersecurity analyst
Morgan Wright told Fox News. "It is contempt for the system, contempt for the rules that are designed to protect the
exact kind of information that was exposed through this email set up."
Clinton
Email Scandal: She Knew The Security Risk But Took It Anyway. Soon after Clinton took office as secretary of
state in 2009, the National Security Agency rejected her request to use a smartphone to conduct government business. She
wanted a "BlackBerry-like" device, the Associated Press reported, similar to the one provided to President Obama. According
to emails obtained by Judicial Watch, which has filed a number of lawsuits to uncover what Clinton tried to cover up as
secretary, she had become "hooked" on using a BlackBerry like the one she used during the 2008 presidential race to keep up
with her emails. She did not want to use a secure laptop or desktop computer to access email while secretary.
NSA:
How did GAMMA compartment info end up in Hillary's unclassified e-mail? Hillary and her team did not want to
use computer terminals to access their e-mails and lose access to their Blackberries for outside e-mails, but such devices
are not allowed in Secure Compartment Information Facilities (SCIFs). This conflict at the start of Hillary's tenure
set the table for much of what followed in the e-mail scandal.
Judicial
Watch Names Clinton Aides To Be Deposed. Eight present and past Department of State officials linked to Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email scandal will be deposed by Judicial Watch in the non-profit government
watchdog's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit if the federal judge hearing the case agrees. Judicial Watch attorneys
told U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet G. Sullivan Tuesday [3/15/2016] it wants to depose the
following individuals and could complete the depositions within two months of beginning: [...]
Watchdog
Seeks To Interview 8 State Dept. Officials, May Need To Depose Hillary. Judicial Watch filed a plan for a
"narrowly tailored discovery" as part of its lawsuit against the State Department for failing to turn over records it
requested in 2013. The group is asking U.S. District Court judge Emmet Sullivan for permission to depose key State
Department official who likely have detailed knowledge about Clinton's off-the-books email system, which involved the use of
a home-brew server. And "based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary,"
Judicial Watch wrote in its court filing.
Judicial
Watch Submits Proposed Witness List, Discovery Plan to Federal Court in Clinton Email Matter. Judicial Watch's
discovery plan seeks the testimony of eight current and former State Department officials, including top State Department
official Patrick Kennedy, former State IT employee Bryan Pagliano, and Clinton's two top aides at the State Department:
Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. Judicial Watch's plan says that "based on information learned during discovery, the deposition
of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary" but would only occur with permission by the Court.
'Filegate'
Attorney Represents State Dept. Tech Official Who Is Silent On Hillary Server. A high-priced Washington, D.C.
attorney who represented a key figure in the "FileGate" controversy — one of the many scandals that marred the
Bill Clinton White House — is back in the thick of another Clinton imbroglio, this time as the lawyer for John
Bentel, a former State Department information technology official who is refusing to talk to Congress about Hillary Clinton's
private email server. Bentel's hiring of the Clinton-era lawyer — Randy Turk, of the firm Baker Botts —
raises questions about whether the Clintons are working behind the scenes to ensure that people with potentially damaging
information remain under their control, one longtime Clinton watcher says.
Will
Hillary's IT Guru Be A Superstar Witness Against Her? Bryan Pagliano is not a household name, but he could
become an unlikely superstar in the federal investigation of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server while she served as secretary of state. Fox News reported Friday that only a week after the Department of Justice
granted Pagliano immunity from prosecution, he was described as a "devastating witness." "Bryan Pagliano is a devastating
witness and, as the webmaster, knows exactly who had access to [Clinton's] computer and devices at specific times. His
importance to this case cannot be over-emphasized," the intelligence source told Fox News.
Could Hillary Clinton face the same
fate as David Petraeus? [David] Petraeus pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanour offence, mishandling
classified information, after being accused of handing notebooks with classified information to his biographer-turned
mistress, Paula Broadwell. He was fined and placed on probation — a resolution that some have called
a slap on the wrist. In other cases people who have revealed classified information were sent to prison. In 2009
Stephen Kim, a former government contractor, was sentenced to 13 months for giving classified material to a reporter.
Another
Ex-State Dept. Official Refuses To Talk To Congress About Hillary's Server. Politico reports that John Bentel,
who retired from the State Department in Dec. 2012, has told the House Select Committee on Benghazi and the Senate Judiciary
and Homeland Security Committees that he will not meet to discuss the server and what, if anything, he knows about it. In
response to a Dec. 5 letter from Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security chairman Sen. Ron
Johnson, Bentel said he had "no memory of knowledge" about the server. But the Senators believe Bentel may know something.
As director of information resources management at the office of executive secretariat, Bentel oversaw information technology for
top level officials at the State Department, including Clinton.
Former
State Dept. IT Official Threatened With Subpoena Over Clinton Emails. Hillary Clinton's legal woes appear to be
getting only worse as another former State Department IT official has refused to talk to Congressional investigators looking
at Clinton's private email server. However, Senate Republicans are now threatening to subpoena John Bentel, unless he
voluntarily cooperates with the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee according to The Hill.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), chairmen of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees
respectively, wrote to Bentel's lawyer in a letter that was made public Monday [3/14/2016].
Lynch
indicates DOJ not required to charge Clinton. Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicated Wednesday [3/9/2016] that the law
doesn't require the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system, even if
the FBI recommends criminal charges. Lynch was asked in a hearing by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, what her department would do if the
FBI were to recommend that step. "If the FBI were to make a referral to the Department of Justice to pursue a case by way of
indictment and to convene a grand jury for that purpose, the Department of Justice is not required by law to do so, are they — are
you?" Cornyn asked.
The
Entire Criminal Enterprise Known as the Clinton Foundation Laid Bare. It's a well-established fact that by
setting up her private email server in the basement of her New York home, Secretary Clinton was able to avoid accountability
through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel penned an important
op-ed last night that takes a closer look at the other reason Clinton set up a non-governmental email: the Clinton
Foundation. By using one private email account, Clinton was free to conduct both State Department and Clinton Foundation
business — often overlapping — on the same email account. The same is likely true for close aide Huma
Abedin, who in fact worked simultaneously for the State Department and the Clinton Foundation (oh, and for Clinton in a private
capacity and the Clinton-tied Teneo Consulting).
Clinton
Email Server Technician Described As A 'Devastating Witness'. Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department computer network technician
who managed Hillary Clinton's email system, is being described as a "devastating witness" for the FBI in its investigation into whether classified
information was mishandled on the Democratic presidential candidate's email server. According to Fox News, Pagliano has provided information
that will allow investigators to piece together who had access to Clinton's server and when.
Odds
of a Hillary email grand jury underway just went much higher. I have speculated that, given the immunity
offered to Bryan Pagliano, it is possible that a grand jury has been convened. But I am not a lawyer, much less a former
U.S. attorney. Joseph E. diGenova, on the other hand, is one of a small group of attorneys generally considered a
super-lawyer, and not only a veteran U.S. attorney, but the former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., at the very top of
federal prosecutors. So when Joe diGenova offers an opinion on the likelihood of a grand jury being empaneled, we [all]
should pay attention.
Another
debate, another pack of lies from Hillary Clinton. Looks like Hillary Clinton means to squirm out of tough questions
all the way to Election Day. Start with her use of a home-brewed server for all her work emails. "It was not prohibited,"
she said at the last Democratic debate. "My predecessors did the same thing." "Not prohibited"? Univision's Jorge
Ramos had just finished noting that she'd personally sent a department-wide memo warning against any use of a non-secured, unofficial
system — the kind she always used. And, no, no other secretary of state has relied on a home system for all his or
her work — especially not the classified stuff.
Source:
Clinton IT specialist revealing server details to FBI, 'devastating witness'. Former Hillary Clinton IT
specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told
the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the
case who called him a "devastating witness." The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary
of state's system — as well as when — and what devices were used, amounting to a roadmap for investigators.
"Bryan Pagliano is a devastating witness and, as the webmaster, knows exactly who had access to [Clinton's] computer and devices at
specific times. His importance to this case cannot be over-emphasized," the intelligence source said.
Loretta
Lynch Says White House Should 'Stay Silent' About Hillary Email Investigation. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday [3/9/2016] that
neither she nor anyone else at the Justice Department has briefed President Obama about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and that the White House
should "stay silent" about the probe. The question of whether she had was brought up during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing by North Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who referred to comments that White House press secretary Josh Earnest made back in January downplaying the investigation into how
classified information was handled on Clinton's private email server.
Hillary's
'No Classified Markings' Canard Actually Makes Things Worse. Let's also keep in mind a fact that's easy to forget since what's
before our eyes is so outrageous: For now, we are only talking about the Clinton emails that she deigned to turn over to the government.
As Guy reminds us, there are another 32,000 emails that she attempted to delete. There have been reports indicating that the FBI has been
able to recover at least some of these from the server. It is a shoe that has yet to drop.
Hillary
to Lose the FBI Primary. [Scroll down] Hillary forgets that emails are marked because they are classified
and not classified because they are marked. It is the content that makes all the difference, not the markings. She put the
classified information in these emails and her claim that there were no classified markings is specious because at least one of her
emails instructed her staff to remove markings and send classified data via unsecure means.
Email
Scandal: Hillary Clinton's Last Defense Just Blew Up. The Washington Post, of all places, found that not only
did Hillary Clinton send and receive classified material on her unsecured email server as Secretary of State, she wrote
dozens of classified emails herself.
Ratting Out Hillary.
Clinton's defenders have searched the dictionaries and encyclopedias to find a way to spin the FBI's investigation of her
conduct as secretary of state. They've said it was an investigation into her private email system, but not of her. They've
said it's not a criminal investigation and that it's nothing more than a "security review." What nonsense. The FBI doesn't
investigate email systems, it investigates what people communicated while using them. The FBI only investigates people's
conduct to determine if they have violated federal criminal law.
What
Bryan Pagliano will sing about. [Scroll down] My guess is that Huma, who has dedicated her life to
ingratiating herself with Hillary and who comes from a family dedicated to the Long Jihad of the Muslim Brotherhood, will go
to jail rather than testify. Cheryl Mills has very long history with Clinton and may also clam up.
Hillary
Clinton tries putting her email scandal to bed by clearing up 'misinformation going on around here' during Fox News
forum. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton was again was forced to answer questions about her ongoing email
scandal during a town hall tonight on Fox News hosted by Bret Baier. Clinton said neither she nor her lawyers, nor any
former or current aides, have been notified by the FBI that they're the focus of an ongoing investigation. 'No, but let me
clarify this, because there's much misinformation going on around here and let me just start with the basic facts,' she said,
subtly dinging the conservative cable network.
Hillary's
Emails Can Wait Until After the Election. The State Department announced it may put off its review of the
sensitive classified information former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent on her illegal, insecure email server until
after Election Day. The server is at the heart of the scandal over Clinton's mishandling of an Islamic terrorist attack
in militant-infested Benghazi, Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that left four Americans, including U.S. ambassador
Chris Stevens, dead. Even now, three years after the assault, the Obama administration has failed to provide an autopsy
report about Stevens who was initially reported to have been ritualistically sodomized before being murdered by Muslim
terrorists. But this possible delay is a transparent ploy intended to benefit Clinton's presidential campaign.
Judge
Napolitano: Indictment Certain in Clinton Email Scandal Before November. Expect the indictment of former United
States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or one or more of her high-level aides from the State Department in the next few
months. Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano explained in a Fox Business panel discussion last week that the
granting of immunity against self-incrimination to Bryan Pagliano, who helped set up the private email server for Clinton
that is central to an ongoing investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), means the Department of Justice
intends to secure indictment of a person or people up the "totem pole" from Pagliano in the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Concludes Napolitano, "I think there will surely be indictments prior to November."
Clinton's
Laughable Claim: Petraeus Offense Was Worse. For months it has been obvious that a serious criminal investigation of the former secretary of
State's reckless mishandling of classified information has been underway. Yet Camp Clinton has maintained that the government is merely engaged in a
"security inquiry" that is focused on the physical server itself — not a probe of criminal suspects. This has never made sense. The
FBI, which has assigned many agents to the case, is in the criminal investigation business. Plus, when the now-immunized former staffer, Bryan
Pagliano, invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege in refusing to testify before the House Benghazi committee, it signaled that he feared truthful answers
would incriminate him. Now with Pagliano apparently poised to cooperate with the FBI, the claim that Mrs. Clinton is not a criminal suspect
is untenable. So Clinton and her supporters are changing tack: instead of implausibly insisting there is no crime to investigate, they argue
that there is no crime worth prosecuting.
Here
Are The 23 Classified Memos Sidney Blumenthal Sent To Hillary Clinton. Of the dozens of intelligence memos that Sidney Blumenthal
sent to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state, 23 contained information classified as "Confidential" or "Secret," a Daily Caller
analysis shows. Sending nearly two dozen sensitive emails makes Blumenthal, a former journalist and aide in the Bill Clinton White House,
one of Clinton's most prolific sharers of classified information. The Democratic presidential candidate herself sent 104 emails
containing classified information, The Washington Post found.
13
Times Hillary And Surrogates Scoffed At The FBI's Investigation Of Her Server. Now that Hillary Clinton's email server technician is
cooperating with the FBI in its investigation into the mishandling of classified information, it's worth taking a look back at all the times that
the candidate and her surrogates have downplayed the probe or outright laughed at it. The FBI seized control of Clinton's server in August,
just after the intelligence community's inspector general flagged "Top Secret" emails that traversed the device. Clinton housed the server
at her New York residence during her State Department tenure. She hired Bryan Pagliano, a staffer on her 2008 presidential campaign, to
manage the system. She even got him at a job at the State Department as an information technology specialist.
Release
of Clinton Documents Delayed After State Department Discovers 'Thousands' of Unsearched Records. The State
Department's recent discovery of thousands of unsearched records from Hillary Clinton's tenure has delayed several public
records lawsuits and could keep many of the documents out of the public sphere until next fall. The watchdog groups
Citizens United and Judicial Watch, which are suing the State Department for Clinton-related records, are two plaintiffs that
have been affected by the discovery. The State Department said the new documents could take months to process, a time
period that extends well beyond its court-ordered deadlines.
Email
Scandal: A Desperate Clinton Lashes Out At Independent Investigators. If Hillary Clinton's increasingly reckless attempts to spin conspiracy theories
are any indication, she's far more worried about her email scandal than she lets on. Witness her recent attempts to smear independent investigators.
The
FBI's Hillary probe closes in on a political crisis. The FBI probe of Hillary Clinton took a major step forward
this week with news that the guy who ran her illicit home-brew email has been granted immunity. Clinton aide Bryan
Pagliano had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in refusing to testify or cooperate with investigators. A tech with the
2008 Clinton campaign, he got hired for related duties when she took over at State — then won the nearly
$140,000-a-year side job of setting up and maintaining her private email system.
Report:
FBI Investigating Whether Clinton Aides Retyped Classified Info Into Emails. In its investigation into whether
classified information was sent using Hillary Clinton's private email server, the FBI is reportedly looking at whether aides
to the former secretary of state retyped information from classified sources into emails then sent to Clinton's unsecured system.
Former Attorney General Lists All Laws Hillary Possibly
Broke. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey listed four laws Hillary Clinton possibly broke with her email server:
"There are a couple of them. There's one that says you can't put classified information in an unclassified setting. That's
the one that General Petraeus was convicted of on his own plea. There's one that says that you can't expose national secrets through
gross negligence. Then there's one that says you can't destroy government information. And then there's one that says you can't
obstruct justice. So there's four of them," Mukasey told MSNBC's Morning Joe. [Video clip]
Hillary
and the Espionage Act of 1917. Attorneys fresh out of law school are familiar with the legal issue known as
"spoliation of evidence." When parties fail to produce relevant evidence within their span of control, evidence which they
are otherwise naturally expected to possess, the U.S. legal system allows and even mandates that unfavorable presumptions be
drawn against them. So when some item of relevant evidence — whether documents, physical objects or data relevant
to an ongoing legal matter — is destroyed, discarded or modified in some way, the U.S. legal system allows us to
presume that the missing evidence was unfavorable to that party and allows us to draw conclusions accordingly.
Hillary
aide Huma's email on North Korea revealed in last of Clinton's secret server messages. The State Department has
released the 14th and final batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server, bringing the
total to more than 52,000 including 2,100 that were censored or withheld completely for containing information now deemed
classified. Among the emails: a message from President Barack Obama that is being withheld until after he leaves office
and one from aide Huma Abedin on North Korea that the intelligence community wanted to mark 'top secret' but State
successfully walked back to 'secret.'
Huge
New Developments in Clinton Email Scandal. Two extremely significant stories broke today [3/2/2016] in The
Washington Post and The New York Times regarding the FBI's investigation into the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
The deep-fat fryer is just heating up.
State
Dept: Review of Clinton secret emails may wait until after November election. The State Department may wait until after
the November election to finish its review of classified information former Secretary Hillary Clinton sent on her secret email account,
a spokesman said Tuesday [3/1/2016], vowing they will not be held to the political calendar. "We're not going to rush judgment of
any of these things," spokesman John Kirby told reporters. Mrs. Clinton, who rejected use of an account tied to the official
state.gov secure email system and instead relied on an account tied to a server she kept at her New York home, returned more than
30,000 messages to the department in December 2014, or nearly two years after she left office.
The Editor says...
Others have already said this in many ways, but if the defendant in this case were anyone but Hillary Clinton, that defendant
would have been in prison months ago. The State Department isn't going to rush to judgement, they say.
And after the election, what will they say? Oh, that's ancient history.
FBI
investigating if Clinton aides shared passwords to access classified info. The FBI is investigating whether
computer passwords were shared among Hillary Clinton's close aides to determine how sensitive intelligence "jumped the gap"
between the classified systems and Clinton's unsecured personal server, according to an intelligence source familiar with the
probe. The source emphasized to Fox News that "if [Clinton] was allowing other people to use her passwords, that is a big
problem." The Foreign Service Officers Manual prohibits the sharing of passwords.
What
Pagliano's Immunity Deal in the Clinton Email Scandal Reveals. The revelation that former Clinton aide Bryan
Pagliano was given immunity by the Justice Department in the former Secretary of State's email scandal has led to a kaleidoscopic
array of interpretations, a true Rashomon moment. Democrats see the granting of immunity of the last step in a process of
clearing the Clinton of wrongdoing. Some conservative commentators see the immunity grant as proof that a federal grand jury
has been convened with dire consequences for the putative Democrat presidential nominee. It is impossible to say for sure
which interpretation is true, but an objective legal view suggests that this development is more likely to bode ill for Clinton
than be the first step of her exoneration.
Ex-Clinton
staffer who set up email server accepts immunity offer from FBI to provide interview, official says. First he
said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights but now the IT specialist, who set up Hillary Clinton's controversial private
email server, is ready to cooperate with the FBI. In doing so, Bryan Pagliano, 39, has been granted immunity by the Justice
Department as it continues its criminal investigation into whether or not the current Democratic Presidential candidate mishandled
classified information. Pagliano, a former State Department employee and Clinton presidential campaign staffer, set up
the server in 2009 at her New York home during her time as Secretary of State.
The
secret life of Bryan Pagliano revisited. Bryan Pagliano is the former State Department staffer who has now
reportedly been granted immunity in the Clinton email investigation. This past September Pagliano asserted his Fifth
Amendment right against self-incrimination before a congressional committee seeking his testimony.
DOJ
grants immunity to federal worker in Clinton email case: report. The Justice Department has granted immunity to
a State Department employee that worked on former secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server, according to the
Washington Post. A law enforcement official told the Post that Bryan Pagliano has agreed to work with the FBI in exchange
for not facing any possible criminal charges. The new development is not a good sign for the Democratic presidential
front-runner, though there is still no indication that any criminal charges will be brought against Clinton.
In
Clinton email investigation, Justice Department grants immunity to former State Department staffer. The Justice
Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email
server as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law
enforcement official. The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano who worked on Clinton's
2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009. As the FBI looks to wrap up
its investigation in the coming months, agents will likely want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to
use a private server, how it was set up, and whether any of the participants knew they were sending classified information in
emails, current and former officials said.
Comey speaks,
tersely. On the rare occasions when she is asked about the FBI investigation arising from her use of an
insecure email server to conduct official business as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton refers to it as "a security
review."v It is, moreover, "a security review" that "was requested," as though the FBI is doing someone a favor. The woman
lies with the ease and abandon of a pathological liar. Clinton makes it sound routine. The FBI, however, does not perform
"security reviews." It conducts criminal investigations. Its handling of the Clinton email matter clearly constitutes a
criminal investigation.
As
Presidential Campaign Unfolds, So Do Inquiries Into Clinton's Emails. As Hillary Clinton moves toward the
Democratic presidential nomination, she faces legal hurdles from her use of a private computer server as secretary of state
that could jar her campaign's momentum in the months ahead. Foremost among a half-dozen inquiries and legal proceedings
into whether classified information was sent through Mrs. Clinton's server is an investigation by the F.B.I., whose agents,
according to one law enforcement official, could seek to question Mrs. Clinton's closest aides and possibly the candidate
herself within weeks.
Hume
on Hillary Emails: 'Not a Huge Case,' 'You Don't Have Any Criminal Intent'. Monday [2/29/2016] on Fox News Channel's
"Outnumbered," while discussing the possibility of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton being indicted as a result
of the current FBI investigation into her handling of classified material on an unsecured email server during her tenure as secretary
of state, Fox News senior political contributor Brit Hume said there were enough questions about the circumstances of Clinton's case
that an indictment isn't a slam dunk.
The Editor says...
Deceptive cover-up appears to have been the whole purpose of establishing a secret email server. The circumvention of the Freedom of Information
Act is the least of it, but even that shows criminal intent. If the secret email system was set up to hide graft, bribery or espionage, the
email server is just a subsidiary issue.
Hillary
Emails Betrayed Whereabouts of Murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens. An email containing the whereabouts and plans
of murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens passed through Hillary Clinton's private server, dispatches released Monday [2/29/2016] in the
final group of messages from Clinton's emails reveal. The email was actually first released last May but was contained in Monday's
batch as well, serving as a reminder that numerous emails sent to Clinton's private address betrayed Stevens' location while he was
stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for an American diplomat.
Hillary Clinton 'secret' email
count doubles as latest batch is released. The State Department on Monday deemed 23 more of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's
emails "secret," more than doubling the number of messages she sent or received on her special account that have now been given that high level of
classification. Those messages were part of the last batch of 1,700 or so Clinton emails released by the State Department on Monday [2/29/2016],
closing out a 14-month process in which the department, under a judge's order, processed and released 30,322 messages from Mrs. Clinton's secret server.
State Dept. declares 261 new Clinton emails
classified. State Department officials declared 261 of Hillary Clinton's private emails classified Monday [2/29/2016] when the agency released the final
batch of the former secretary of state's records. The batch included 1,723 emails, totaling more than 3,800 pages. Its release marked the end of
a months-long process of reviewing and redacting Clinton's private emails for release at the end of each month, a process that began last summer with a judge's ruling
in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Jason Leopold of Vice News. The State Department has now classified more than 2,000 emails, including 22
that were deemed "top secret" in January.
Top 11 Emails From The Final Batch Of Clinton's Private Server
Emails. Today the last batch of Clinton emails from her illicit, private server were released by the State Department. Of the 1,723 released
today [2/29/2016], 261 were found to contain classified information. Those 261 new classified emails brings the final tally to an astounding 2,079 emails
held on Clinton's unsecure server that now are said to contain classified information. In the 261 classified emails, 19 contained "secret" information.
That also means that this batch includes the largest number of secret emails in any tranche.
Senior
Clinton aide maintained top secret clearance amid email probe, letters show. A senior Hillary Clinton aide has
maintained her top secret security clearance despite sending information now deemed classified to the Clinton Foundation and
to then-Secretary of State Clinton's private unsecured email account, according to congressional letters obtained by Fox News.
Current and former intelligence officials say it is standard practice to suspend a clearance pending the outcome of an investigation.
Yet in the case of Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff at the State Department, two letters indicate this practice is not being
followed — even as the Clinton email system remains the subject of an FBI investigation.
Final
Clinton emails coming today. The State Department will release the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails on
Monday, some 10 months after the process began. The release comes just ahead of 11 Super Tuesday contests, which Clinton
hopes will propel her to a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race. Clinton's campaign
has tried to shake off the email controversy, but the monthly releases have fueled fresh headlines about her exclusive use of
a private email account while serving as secretary of State. With the releases now nearing an end, Republicans have
seized on the fact that more than 1,800 emails from her machine were eventually classified.
Hillary's
email account an open secret in Washington long before scandal broke. Hundreds of people — from White House
officials and titans of the mainstream media to senators, Supreme Court justices and many of her top colleagues at the State
Department — could have known about Hillary Clinton's secret email account, if only they'd cared to look closely
enough. Listed on some of the more than 28,000 messages Mrs. Clinton released so far are several White House chiefs of
staff and a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, much of the rest of official Washington, and a number of
people who had oversight of the State Department's key operations and open-records obligations. President Obama was
also on a series of messages, though the government is withholding those.
State
Dept. to withhold two new Clinton emails. State Department officials will withhold two emails from the batch of
Hillary Clinton's private records set for release Monday but none because they contain "top secret" material, spokesman John
Kirby said. The agency will withhold one email between Clinton and President Obama, bringing the total number of undisclosed
emails sent back and forth between the two to 19. It will withhold another email at the request of an unspecified law
enforcement agency, Kirby said, although he noted the email was not classified.
With
the Clintons, the political scandals never stop. After two presidents who've served beyond personal reproach,
many Americans have forgotten the eight-year stream of Clinton scandals — right up to the pardons for fat-cat
donors in Bill's final days in the White House. If Hillary wins come November, it'll all start up again.
Indeed, Judge Sullivan just ensured that she'd take office with at least one investigation still open. He ruled that
top State Department officials and Clinton aides can be questioned under oath about whether her private email server was
set up specifically to evade the freedom-of-information laws. Oh, and the FBI's still doing its criminal probe
into Clinton and her cohorts' mishandling of top-secret information. Mind you, Judge Sullivan was named to the bench
by Bill Clinton — and he made it clear he's fed up with this stalling.
Lynch
confirms career Justice Department attorneys involved in Clinton email probe. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
confirmed to Congress Wednesday [2/24/2016] that career Justice Department attorneys are working with FBI agents on the criminal
investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices and the handling of classified material. Legal experts say the assignment
of career Justice Department attorneys to the case shows the FBI probe has progressed beyond the initial referral, or "matured,"
giving agents access to the U.S. government's full investigative tool box, including subpoena power for individuals, business or
phone records, as well as witnesses. The Associated Press reported earlier this month that career lawyers were involved, but
Lynch's comments are the most expansive to Congress.
FBI
professionals 'will be angry' if no indictment recommendation is made. In a story published Thursday [2/25/2016], Catherine Herridge of
Fox News added incrementally to what we know about the ongoing investigation, but the buried lede may be word of the current mood at the FBI.
Herridge quotes an unnamed source with knowledge of the investigation who tells her career professionals at the FBI, "will be angry and walk off if
no indictment recommendation is followed through." That certainly makes it sound as if some portion of the FBI — presumably those
with knowledge of the case — think there is enough evidence to recommend prosecution (of someone). They wouldn't be ready to
"walk off" unless they were pretty certain the evidence supported their conclusion. And, reading a bit more between the lines, it seems
there is some impatience in the ranks to go ahead and conclude the matter in the way these professionals have already concluded is warranted.
John
Kerry Says He Had 'No Knowledge What Kind Of Email' Hillary Used At State Dept. When He Was Emailing Her. The
nation's top diplomat, who testified on the State Department's budget in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also
asserted that the American people "are really getting bored with" questions about the Clinton email scandal. "You're
fixated on this," Kerry told California Rep. Darrell Issa after a tough line of questioning about Clinton's email arrangement
and his knowledge of it. Issa, a Republican, pressed Kerry over emails revealed last month that show he sent emails from
his personal address to Clinton's personal address discussing government business. Information in one of those emails has
been retroactively classified as "Secret," the second-highest classification level.
At
least 1,818 Clinton emails contain classified material. At least 1,818 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or
received contained classified material, according to the State Department's latest update from its ongoing review of more
than 30,000 emails. The State Department released a new batch of 1,589 pages of Clinton's emails Friday evening [2/26/2016] in
response to a court order. Of those, 88 contain classified information. All are at the confidential level, which is the
lowest level of classification. None of Clinton's emails was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials
say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time. Her aides also sent and received
classified information.
Is it Espionage?
[Scroll down] One official involved in the investigation said that the special access program information found on Hillary Clinton's email was so
sensitive that Intelligence Community's Inspector General, Charles McCullough and some of his aides, had to receive clearance to be
"read on" the SAP before they could view the sworn declaration about the Clinton emails. The Special Access Program material
does not appear to be the same two Top Secret emails identified earlier among the hundreds of classified emails found on Clinton's server.
FBI may refer Hillary Clinton and her staff — Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan — for indictment for the simple charge of mishandling
classified information. But don't bet the rent money. Over the last 70 years, left-leaning Justice Departments have a history
of watering down or drowning any indictment of top-level Democrats caught in the act or suspected of conducting classic espionage.
Clinton
antagonist: We'll get all the emails. All of the roughly 30,000 personal emails Hillary Clinton claimed to have deleted from her
private email server will eventually be reviewed by the government — and many will be made public, according to a top legal adversary of
Clinton. "They're all going to get reviewed eventually, despite Mrs. Clinton's resistance," Tom Fitton, the head of the conservative legal
watchdog organization Judicial Watch, said in an interview with The Hill. Clinton has said she "chose not to keep" roughly half of her server's
email cache because the 30,000 personal emails contained information about "yoga routines," "family vacations" and "condolence notes."
The Five Must-Read Emails of the Latest
Clinton Email Dump. Today [2/26/2016] the State Department released the penultimate batch of emails gleaned from Hillary Clinton's illicit,
private email server. The release featured another 88 emails that the government has determined contained classified information. Those
88 emails bring the total number of Clinton's email that contain classified information to at least 1,818. While the State Department's release
of Clinton's emails is winding down, the amount of damaging information found in Clinton's emails certainly isn't. The latest tranche of Clinton
emails spotlight many of questionable aspects of her State Department tenure. The biggest bombshell of the batch is an email from Neera Tanden that
exposes Clinton's faulty approach to email security. Others, such as one from Wendy Sherman, highlight the failed policies Clinton pursued at the
State Department. There is also a damaging exchange about trade that reminds people of the many flip-flops Clinton has made this campaign.
State
Department Turns Over 1,600 Newly-Discovered Clinton Documents to Benghazi Committee. The State Department turned over 1,600 pages of
previously undisclosed documents related to Hillary Clinton and Libya to the House Benghazi committee on Friday [2/26/2016], a month after it revealed the
existence of the documents in an unrelated court case. The House Select Committee on Benghazi announced it received the records on Friday, adding that
the State Department has yet to fully comply with document requests the committee made nearly a year ago. "Today the State Department turned over more
than 1,600 pages of new documents related to former Secretary Clinton and Libya," the committee said. "The State [Department] claimed in a
January 8th court filing that it only recently discovered these new documents from the Office of the Secretary."
House
chairman: Military files, emails deleted amid probe. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday [2/25/2016]
that personnel at U.S. Central Command have deleted files and emails amid allegations that intelligence assessments were altered to exaggerate
progress against Islamic State militants.
Emails
on Hillary Clinton's secret server matched top secret documents virtually word for word. U.S. spy agencies have told Congress that Hillary
Clinton's home computer server contained some emails that should have been treated as 'top secret' because their wording matched sections of some of the
government's most highly classified documents, four sources familiar with the agency reports said. The two reports are the first formal declarations
by U.S. spy agencies detailing how they believe Clinton violated government rules when highly classified information in at least 22 email messages
passed through her unsecured home server.
Hillary
conspiracy to evade FOIA through server? Judicial Watch gets to find out. In a ruling sure to keep the Hillary Clinton email scandal alive
through the summer, if not longer, a federal just has granted Judicial Watch the right to take discovery as to whether Hillary's home server was part of
an effort to evade the Freedom of Information (FOIA) law by shifting federal records off-site and into the sole control of Hillary, her attorney's and
consultants. We have been following Judicial Watch's federal lawsuit seeking State Department records regarding Huma Abedin's outside employment.
The FOIA request giving rise to the suit also has given rise to much obfuscation by State, which even resulted in the Court ordering Hillary Clinton to
provide a declaration under oath as to records.
Aides'
email-server testimony could throw Clinton campaign a curveball. A federal judge ruled Tuesday [2/23/2016] that top aides to
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about her use of a private email server as secretary of
state, raising new political and legal complications for Clinton as she tries to maintain momentum for her campaign. The ruling granted
a request from the conservative group Judicial Watch, which sought testimony from State Department officials and members of Clinton's inner
circle to determine whether Clinton's email arrangement thwarted federal open-records laws.
Is
Hillary Clinton Getting A Free Pass On Her Email Scandal? CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was found guilty last
year of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter about Iran's nuclear program. Today, he's at the front
end of a 3½ year stint in prison. So what does Sterling think about the treatment Hillary Clinton is getting
after it came to light that her unsecured, private email server contained more than 1,700 classified emails, 22 of them at
the highest "Top Secret" level? Sterling thinks Clinton is getting special treatment.
Jailed
CIA leaker Says Hillary's Been 'Given a Pass' for Emails. Hillary Clinton has not only been given a pass for her multitude of email
indiscretions, she's been given an "almost apologetic pass," according to Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who is now serving jail time for
leaking documents to the New York Times. In an interview with the Washington Post yesterday, Sterling accused federal officials of
"setting a double standard" by refusing to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
He
was fired from the CIA and jailed for a leak. Locked away in federal prison, Jeffrey Sterling is struggling to
keep his demons at bay. The former CIA officer whose case came to signify the Obama administration's crackdown on leakers
spends his days reading, tutoring fellow inmates and finishing a memoir, which he says he has to write by hand and mail home
so his wife can type it. "There is no sugarcoating it for me," Sterling said. "I'm in prison."
Judge
threatens subpoena against Clinton over emails. A federal judge warned Tuesday that he may have to subpoena former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton's entire secret email account, saying he has real questions about whether the Obama administration gave her special
treatment. In the interim, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he was granting discovery to Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm
who's sued to get a look at the emails, meaning the group will be able to demand the State Department explain who approved Mrs. Clinton's
server, how many officials knew about it, and what accommodations they made to her after her emails become a public issue.
State
releases hundreds of Clinton emails just before Nevada caucus. State Department officials published 550 of Hillary Clinton's private
emails Friday [2/19/2016] in accordance with a judge's order in a contentious Freedom of Information Act case. The roughly 1,000 pages
of emails came just hours before the start of the Nevada caucus Saturday. Clinton has faced increased scrutiny of her private email use
since the end of last month, when the State Department withheld at least 22 emails deemed "top secret," the highest level of classification
in government. Since then, Clinton has attempted to argue the controversial decision was the result of "over classification."
More than 500 new Clinton
emails released by State Dept. The 562 new documents posted online totaled 1,116 pages of emails. The latest public release
brought the total number of pages released to 46,946, or about 85 percent of the 55,000 pages originally surrendered by Clinton. Friday's
[2/19/2016] release brought the total number of public Clinton emails containing classified information to 1,731.
Clinton
email chain discussed Afghan national's CIA ties, official says. One of the classified email chains discovered on Hillary Clinton's personal
unsecured server discussed an Afghan national's ties to the CIA and a report that he was on the agency's payroll, a U.S. government official with knowledge
of the document told Fox News. The discussion of a foreign national working with the U.S. government raises security implications — an
executive order signed by President Obama said unauthorized disclosures are "presumed to cause damage to the national security."
Watchdog
Wants Investigation Into Ex-State Dept. Employees' Using Clinton Campaign Email Accounts. A government watchdog
group is asking two lawmakers to investigate whether State Department employees violated federal law by using email accounts
from Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign to conduct official government business. The request, which the Cause
of Action Institute sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz,
was prompted by the discovery that Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who managed Clinton's private email server,
communicated with Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, from his campaign email address [...]
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton
And Cheryl Mills Did Not Sign Mandatory Agreement to Return Classified Materials. Breitbart News has obtained
confirmation on State Department letterhead that Hillary Clinton did NOT sign a mandatory OF-109 "Separation Statement" when
she left the State Department. That statement would have required her to affirm that she had returned all classified
materials in her possession. Clinton's top aide Cheryl Mills also avoided signing a separation statement. Additionally,
Clinton never certified that she went through a mandatory security debriefing to learn how to handle classified information.
Republicans
stand down for FBI investigation of Clinton server. Republicans are refusing to use the Benghazi playbook to go after Hillary Clinton's private
email server. Instead of launching formal investigations or propping up a new special committee to investigate the emails — as they did with
the 2012 Libya terror attack — House Republicans have gone out of their way to avoid formal inquiries into allegations that classified information
was mishandled on Clinton's personal machine.
If Putin
Is Reading Her Email.... It is highly likely that Vladimir Putin's minions obtained Hillary Clinton's emails
while they were hanging out there on her insecure private server. Even former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Robert
Gates has said so. (I'm sure the same applies to the intelligence services of other hostile states as well.)
Well, so what? Paul Roderick Gregory addresses the question in an intensely interesting Forbes column.
What
If Vladimir Putin Has Hillary Clinton's Emails? [Scroll down] A Kremlin penetration of Clinton's private
e-mail account would give it the world's most complete record of her secretary of state correspondence including the almost
32,000 emails that the Clinton team deemed private and made unavailable. Consider Vladimir Putin with a full inventory of
Clinton e-mails. Putin's KGB training was in running agents, most recruited by kompromat (compromising information)
that he had gathered, meaning that he would immediately have understood the possibilities. Putin's FSB and military security
experts would be told to scour the load of e-mails for operational information, names, addresses and dates. As kompromat
specialists, they would look for personal Clinton material ranging from embarrassing to compromising.
More
Clinton Emails Designated 'Classified' and 'Secret' in Latest Doc Dump. The State Department performed one of their weekend document
dumps, releasing another 550 Hillary Clinton emails — more than 1000 pages. They also reclassified another 84 emails,
bringing the total number of sensitive communications that had no business being on a private server to more than 1700.
Hillary's
latest batch of emails dropped yesterday with more Top Secret goodness. To describe yesterday [2/13/2016] as a "busy" day would be a bit of an
understatement, but there was still news being made on the national front. One big story which got shoved toward the back of the shelf was the fact that
yet another set of Hillary Clinton's emails was released. This batch numbered more than 500, with a full fifteen percent of them being classified at
one level or another and three ringing the Top Secret bell.
Number of Classified Emails Found on Clinton's
Bathroom Server Climbs to 1,700. That steady drip, drip, drip sound you hear is not just the leaky faucet in Hillary's bathroom. It's also
the repeated revelations that she compromised national security by maintaining a email private server to evade public and governmental scrutiny. Today's
[2/13/2016] release of 1,000 pages of emails revealed 84 new classified documents, bringing the total number of felony violations to nearly 1,700.
More
Hillary Clinton emails released by State Department. Among the 551 emails released Saturday by the State Department
from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, parts of 84 of the documents were upgraded in classification level, but none
of them to the "top secret" classification. Most of the emails, according to the State Department, were upgraded to
"confidential," the lowest classification level, and none were marked classified at the time they were sent. The government upgraded
three of Clinton's emails to the "secret" level of classification. The latest batch of emails span a range of topics —
including several amusing illustrations of Clinton's well-documented struggles with technology and her "berry phone."
15
percent of latest Clinton emails marked classified; 551 released Saturday. More than 15 percent of the latest batch of
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails released Saturday contain classified information, with three of the messages being labeled
"secret" — continuing to add to the questions surrounding her email use. One of the messages is an extensive missive from
David Satterfield, a top U.S. diplomat to Egypt, who told top officials in both the White House and State Department about negotiations in
the Sinai. The entire contents of the messages are now deemed "secret," though there is no indication they were marked as such at the
time. The message was forwarded to Mrs. Clinton by top aide Jacob Sullivan.
Former
intel chief: Clinton should drop out, save FBI the manpower. A former top military intelligence official to President Obama said Hillary Clinton
should step out of the 2016 presidential race due to the amount of resources and manpower required to conduct the private email investigation that could be
put to better use. "It's been stated that there are 100 FBI agents that are on this case. And yet we have the FBI director that has told us that
all 50 states, we have Islamic State cases ongoing," said retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Friday
[2/12/2016] to CNN's Jake Tapper.
Former
Obama intel official: Hillary Clinton should drop out. President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said
Hillary Clinton should pull out of the presidential race while the FBI investigate her use of a private email server for official government
communication while secretary of state. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the retired chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, made the call in
an interview with Jake Tapper on "The Lead." "If it were me, I would have been out the door and probably in jail," said Flynn, who
decried what he said was a "lack of accountability, frankly, in a person who should have been much more responsible in her actions as the
secretary of state of the United States of America."
The
Democrats' Likely Nominee Appears to Be a Felon — This Is Not Business as Usual. For all the surreal projection of
normalcy, the race is enveloped by an extremely serious criminal investigation. If press reporting is to be believed — in
particular, the yeoman's work of Fox News's Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne — Hillary Clinton, the likely nominee of
one of the two major parties, appears to have committed serious felony violations of federal law. That she has the audacity to run despite
the circumstances is no surprise — Clinton scandals, the background music of our politics for a quarter-century, are interrupted only
by new Clinton scandals. What is shocking is that the Democrats are allowing her to run.
At least 1,666 Clinton emails
contain classified material. The State Department released a new batch of 1,012 pages of Clinton's emails Saturday afternoon
[2/13/2016] in response to a court order. Of those, 84 contain classified information. Most are at the confidential level, which is
the lowest level of classification, though three are at the secret level. None of Clinton's emails was marked as classified during her tenure,
State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time. Her aides also sent and
received classified information.
Judge
orders four more Hillary Clinton email releases. U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras issued an order Thursday [2/11/2016]
requiring State to release batches of the still-undisclosed portion of Clinton's emails on Feb. 13, 19 and 26 with "all remaining documents"
released by "the close of business" on Feb. 29. Contreras had publicly discussed the possibility of releasing some of the messages
directly to the Freedom of Information Act litigant whose case the judge is overseeing, Jason Leopold of Vice News. However, the judge's
order Thursday [2/11/2016] directs State to release the records on its website, as the agency has done at least once each month since last May.
The Clintons' Mind-Boggling Damage to
National Security. [Scroll down] If it is true that Hillary Clinton had SAP information on her unsecure server, whether it was marked
or not, you can be sure that the FBI will strongly recommend that charges be brought against Hillary Clinton and continue in an exhaustive investigation
to trace back to every single person that had even the tiniest role in this unbelievable security compromise. If the Attorney General, through
"prosecutorial discretion," elected not to prosecute this crime, I believe Congress would have no alternative but to impeach her, and the FBI would
then have no choice but to conduct a criminal investigation of her for a deliberate cover up — so grave is this security violation.
If President Obama were to pardon Hillary Clinton for a compromise of this magnitude he would render himself in the historical record as an "enemy of
the state," and could himself face criminal prosecution — so grave is such a security compromise.
Could It Get Worse For
Hillary? Yes, And Here's Why. Throughout her email problem, Clinton has said that she neither sent nor received classified material on her
personal email that was handled by a private server in her home. When it turned out that more than 1,300 of her emails held classified information,
she changed her defense. The material was designated as classified only after she sent or received it, her camp said. But new information from
Judicial Watch shows that Clinton's personal email wasn't the only one that had classified and top secret material. There was a wide breach in the
Clinton State Department. According to the government watchdog organization, "Clinton and her top aides, deputy chiefs of staff Huma Abedin and Jake
Sullivan, received and sent classified information on their non-state.gov email accounts."
Hillary
Clinton Is Now Tied To At Least Four Investigations By Federal Agencies. The State Department's inspector general last year subpoenaed the
Clinton Foundation for documents related to work that required approval from the Hillary Clinton State Department, making it now at least four investigations
involving the Democratic presidential candidate being conducted by federal agencies. According to The Washington Post, the State Department inspector
general's subpoena, which was filed in the fall, also sought records related to longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin's concurrent employment in 2012 with the
State Department, the Clinton Foundation, and Teneo Holdings, a Clinton-connected consulting firm.
State
Dept to release 550 Clinton emails over weekend, under court pressure. The State Department will release 550 emails from
Hillary Clinton's private server this weekend after pressure from a federal judge who earlier this week appeared visibly annoyed at its delayed
efforts. In a court filing late Wednesday night [2/10/2016], State Department official Eric Stein told the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia that department staffers have made "significant progress" on preparing the emails for release. As a result, the
department will now be able to release the roughly 550 emails — roughly 14 percent of the 3,700 remaining Clinton
emails — on Saturday [2/13/2016], in the middle of the Presidents Day holiday weekend. The department had previously said
it could not release the emails until late next week.
Spillage:
Up to 30 accounts on Hillary server interacted with top-secret data. According to an exclusive report from Fox
News reporters Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne, the 29 e-mails considered too damaging to release even in redacted form
went through at least a dozen different e-mail accounts on Hillary's secret server and at the State Department.
State Department
offers to release some Hillary Clinton emails on Saturday. A federal judge has ordered the State Department to
release Hillary Clinton's remaining work-related emails in four installments over the next three weeks. The order by
Judge Rudolph Contreras comes just hours after the State Department proposed releasing the emails in two batches —
one on February 13th and another on February 29th.
So
many coincidences help Hillary Clinton in her email scandal. The FBI has acknowledged she [Hillary Clinton] and some aides are
targets of an investigation surrounding their use of an unsecured private server as her primary email device for national security information
when Secretary of State. President Obama, however, has said he's sure there are no national security problems there. How he knows
what the FBI doesn't is unclear. But in Obama's Washington, where the IRS, Justice Department and EPA have been profoundly politicized,
it's raised dark suspicions of inappropriate political influence in a criminal probe.
Exclusive:
Former Obama Defense Intel Chief Says Hillary Should 'Step Down'. President Barack Obama's former director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) believes Hillary Clinton should drop out of the presidential race to clear the way for the probe of her private email server by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) said he thought
the former Secretary of State should leave the Democratic presidential race: "I think Hillary Clinton, for the good of the country, should step
down and let this FBI investigation play out."
How
Much Trouble Is Hillary Clinton In? She survived a squeaker in Iowa, but suffered a shellacking in New Hampshire.
Every Democrat under 30 is feeling the Bern. Her dishonesty over her email server has turned into a legal problem that
keeps bubbling and bubbling and bubbling. She's a Wall Street candidate running in an anti-establishment election cycle,
delivering a muddled message to an electorate looking for clarity of vision.
The
Democrats' dilemma: Clinton may not be salvageable. Clinton's problems are threefold. First and foremost,
she has a serious legal problem, one that cannot be wished away by those indifferent to the facts. The FBI does not
investigate and devote considerable resources for nothing. It does not lightly send a letter stating it is investigating a former
high government official's use of an unsecured email [system]. And someone (whether in the FBI, the Justice Department or some
other corner of the administration) does not without good reason leak a story as damaging as this latest Fox News report: [...]
Is
Bill Clinton in the FBI crosshairs too? [Scroll down] First, did Mr. Clinton, in fact, own, pay for and house on his
property the server used by Mrs. Clinton while she was secretary of state? And second, did he touch, read, see and/or use any of
the classified documents that appeared on that server, and if so, did he have the appropriate clearances and approval? Let's take
a step back. In March 2015, when the story first broke that as secretary, Mrs. Clinton had kept a private server through which all
of her official government business passed, the Associated Press reported that the server was traced back to an Internet service registered
to the Clinton home in Chappaqua, N.Y. At her initial press conference on the matter that month, Mrs. Clinton said the server that
housed her emails while she was secretary was set up for Mr. Clinton.
Official:
Top Clinton aides also handled 'top secret' intel on server. At least a dozen email accounts handled the "top
secret" intelligence that was found on Hillary Clinton's server and recently deemed too damaging for national security to
release, a U.S. government official close to the review told Fox News. The official said the accounts include not only
Clinton's but those of top aides — including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines —
as well as State Department Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy and others. A second source not authorized to
speak on the record said the number of accounts involved could be as high as 30 and reflects how the intelligence was broadly
shared, replied to, and copied to individuals using the unsecured server.
State
Department Asked Hillary Clinton Lawyer to Delete Specific Classified Records, Return Paper Copies. [Scroll
down] "This letter highlights how the State Department took a casual approach to Hillary Clinton's violations of law
concerning classified information," stated Tom Fitton. "The Obama State Department should have sent the FBI to retrieve and
secure this classified information. Does Hillary Clinton still have other classified material she is hiding from the State Department?"
New
Emails Show Hillary Clinton and Aides Had Classified Information on Non-Government Email Accounts. Judicial
Watch today [2/9/2016] released nearly 70 pages of State Department records that show that former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and her top aides, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, received and sent classified information on their
non-state.gov email accounts. [...] The new documents show that Hillary Clinton used the clintonemail.com system to ask Huma Abedin
(also on a non-state.gov email account) to print two March 2011 emails, which were sent from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
(using the moniker "aclb") to Jake Sullivan on Sullivan's non-state.gov email account. The Obama State Department redacted the
Blair emails under Exemption (b)(1) which allows the withholding of classified material. The material is marked as being
classified as "Foreign government information" and "foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources."
Judge
orders State Dept. to speed up Clinton emails: 'Unreasonably long'. A federal judge told the State Department
to speed up the final release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, saying the voting public has an interest
in seeing them as the primaries are underway. Judge Rudolph Contreras said the government is taking an "unreasonably
long" time processing the messages and is already more than a week overdue on making them all public — and said he
didn't like being told speeding up could hurt national security. "Government has me between a rock and a hard place,"
he said.
Judicial
Watch: Hillary e-mail requested printout "without any identifiers". A new release from the State Department of
e-mails involving Hillary Clinton aides and the secret, unauthorized private server once more calls into question denials by
Hillary of sending or receiving classified data. Judicial Watch received dozens of pages in response to a FIOA lawsuit
filed last May that specifically sought e-mails from Huma Abedin in the scandal.
Obama may be Ensnared in the Clinton
Email Scandal. Perhaps President Obama's involvement is the reason that the FBI has not yet referred charges to the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email
case. It may be metastasizing so quickly and so dangerously that not only are agents and lawyers within the agency having trouble keeping up with new evidence of wrongdoing,
but that the scandal itself now threatens a constitutional crisis. The Department of State's refusal to release 18 emails exchanged between President Obama and Clinton
through her unsecured home server at best creates a conflict of interest for Obama while at worst it raises the likelihood that the President has run afoul of national security
laws and ought to be impeached.
Pressure
mounting on Lynch for special counsel on Hillary e-mails? Will she or won't she? That's the question Loretta Lynch faces on the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized homebrew e-mail server, on two levels. If the FBI brings her a recommendation for indictments,
will she pursue the case? Or, will Lynch opt for a special counsel if that decision comes with too much political freight?
Pressure
on Lynch to step aside in Clinton email probe. Loretta Lynch is on the edge of the spotlight, about to be dragged to the center.
If the FBI finds sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton or one of her top aides for mishandling classified information,
Lynch's Justice Department will have to decide whether to press ahead. Even if no evidence of wrongdoing is found, Clinton's many critics are unlikely
to take the word of an appointee of President Obama's and will doubt that justice has been served. Already, top Republicans are calling for a special
prosecutor to be brought in and evaluate the situation.
FBI formally confirms its investigation
of Hillary Clinton's email server. In a letter disclosed Monday [2/8/2016] in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world's worst-kept
secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true? Because in
August in response to a judge's direction, the State Department asked the FBI for information about what it was up to. Sorry, the FBI said at the time, we can
neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation. Now, in a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI's general counsel, James Baker,
notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI "has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton's use
of a private email server."
Clinton
Emails: Appoint A Special Counsel, Guarantee A Speedy Trial. The investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email account is taking on the
look of a political stonewall. It's time for an independent counsel to ensure that justice isn't delayed past the next election. The Hill
reported Monday [2/8/2016] that pressure on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint an outside solicitor in the Clinton email scandal is starting to build
as "top Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to be brought in and evaluate the situation." As one GOP congressman pointed out, the unique
circumstances of this case require an exceptional response.
Issa:
FBI Has No Choice But To Recommend Clinton Indictment. Former Secretary of State and current Democrat presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton has been under criminal investigation by the FBI for nearly a year. At this point, it's been reported Clinton hosted thousands of emails
containing classified information on her private email server. Worse, at least 22-emails contain the most sensitive of all top secret information
about human sources, putting lives at risk in addition to compromising U.S. national security. Yesterday [2/3/2016] on The Intelligence Report,
former House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa explained why FBI Direct James Comey has no choice but to refer Clinton for indictment.
Judge
Wants Explanation from State Department on 'Newly' Discovered Clinton Records. Judicial Watch announced today
[2/4/2016] that a federal judge ordered the State Department to explain how and when new records from the office of Hillary
Clinton were located and why they were not identified previously. The court order comes in a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit seeking records about the State Department vetting of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's potential
conflicts of interest. The explanation was initially due on Monday, but Judge Rudolph Contreras granted the State Department
an extension to Friday, February 5, 2015, due to the federal government shutdown because of the recent blizzard.
Clinton
hit for invoking 'everybody did it' defense on email scandal. Critics are blasting Hillary Clinton for claiming at Thursday night's [2/4/2016]
Democratic debate nothing will come of the FBI probe into her email practices and seizing on reports that other former officials received classified
information on personal accounts — saying she's glossing over glaring differences between her case and theirs. "The attempt to paint
her predecessors in the State Department as equal offenders in mishandling classified material is an insult to what we now know to be the truth," Rep.
Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement Thursday, calling the argument an "everybody did it" defense.
The Democrats' New Game: State Goes Back and Retroactively Classifies Emails Sent to Powell's and Rice's Personal
Accounts, So They Can Say "Everybody Does It". The interesting thing here is that State can classify, or declassify, information originating with
State. But they cannot classify, nor declassify, information originating with another service, like the CIA or NSA. Hillary is claiming that State
"disputes" the CIA's and NSA's determination that the information she was passing around was top-top-secret. Shockingly secret. State is disputing
this on her behalf — but they have no such power to classify or declassify CIA or NSA information.
Email
Scandal Spin: No, Hillary, Powell and Rice Didn't 'Do It Too'. [Scroll down] In summary, Hillary Clinton's server is the scandal.
It's possible that Rice's aides and Sec. Powell may have acted improperly (though the email rules were set forth after Powell left office). They may have
been sloppy with a small number of low-level classified information on an ad hoc basis. The rules and laws pertaining to the US government's
data security must be followed. By everyone. But Clinton mishandled hundreds upon hundreds of classified emails, which held state secrets at the
highest classification levels.
The e-mail
scandal stretches far beyond Hillary. The State Department has confirmed that Clinton's successor as secretary
of state, John Kerry, sent her a message, now deemed secret, from his personal email account. At the time (May 2011),
Kerry chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with access to top-level secrets. But since Kerry sent the message,
he presumably knew Hillary also wasn't using a government email address. Same for President Obama: He claims he
first learned about Clinton's private email address from news accounts — but it turns out he and Hillary exchanged
at least 18 emails, which State refuses to make public.
Speaking as an expert on the subject... Clinton
Calls Cybersecurity 'One of the Most Important Challenges' for the Next President. At the end of a get out the vote campaign
event in New Hampshire on Wednesday [2/3/2016], Hillary Clinton was asked about her plans for protecting cyber security. "It is one
of the most important challenges the next president is going to face," Clinton said. Clinton said that the technology offenses conducted
by hostile states have become more advanced. She named Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea as countries that are just going to
accelerate their attacks on the cyber infrastructure of the United States.
Powell
says his email use was 'a lot different' than Clinton's. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell pushed back on attempts Thursday [2/4/2016]
to liken his infrequent use of a personal email address more than a decade ago to Hillary Clinton's exclusive reliance on a private server when she held
the State Department's top position. "It's a lot different from what the rest of us were doing and what Mrs. Clinton is doing," Powell, a Republican
appointee, told NBC. Powell spoke after a top House Democrat revealed in a public letter the discovery that Powell had received two classified emails
in his private inbox while serving as secretary of state.
Clinton's
Security Clearance Is Under Scrutiny. Now that several e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private server have been classified, there
is a more immediate question than the outcome of the investigation: Should the former secretary of state retain her security clearance
during the inquiry? Congressional Republicans and Democrats offer predictably different answers. The State Department announced
Friday [1/29/2016] that it would not release 22 e-mails from Clinton's private server after a review found they contained information designated
as top secret. U.S. officials who reviewed the e-mails tell us they contain the names of U.S. intelligence officers overseas, but not
the identities of undercover spies; summaries of sensitive meetings with foreign officials; and information on classified programs like drone
strikes and intelligence-collection efforts in North Korea.
What
voters know about Hillary Clinton: She's a crook. On the Friday before Monday's caucuses, the State Department, which Clinton
headed in President Obama's first term, revealed that it discovered 22 top-secret emails on the private computer server to which Clinton
diverted all her governmental email traffic. This acknowledgement marks a radical departure from previous State Department pronouncements
and is a direct repudiation of Clinton's repeated assertions. She has repeatedly asserted that she neither sent nor received anything "marked
classified" using her private email server. The State Department, until last Friday, has backed that up by claiming that while the substance
of at least 1,300 of her emails was confidential, secret or top secret, they were not "marked" as such when she dealt with them.
How
the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton. Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, knows the laws regarding
classified information firsthand. In his private practice, Cuccinelli defended a Marine lieutenant colonel court martialed on charges of possessing
such information outside a secure facility. He says Clinton's actions in the e-mail scandal clearly satisfy all five requirements necessary to sustain
charges of mishandling classified material, and constitute a breach perhaps even more glaring than the one for which General David Petraeus was convicted.
Seven
additional Clinton emails to be marked 'top secret'. A Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday [2/3/2016] that
the State Department has classified seven more of Hillary Clinton's private emails as "top secret." "There are more than 22, and it's not just one
or two more," Rep. Chris Stewart told the Washington Examiner, referring to the 22 emails deemed top secret by the State Department last week. "It's
a more meaningful number than that." Stewart said the State Department has classified seven additional emails as "top secret." The agency
will now withhold 29 emails from the public due to their sensitive content.
Lawmaker
Says He's 'Never Read Anything That's More Sensitive' Than Information In Hillary's 'Top Secret' Emails. A
member of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that he has "never read anything that's more sensitive" than the
contents of the "Top Secret" Hillary Clinton emails identified by the State Department last week. Utah Rep. Chris Stewart
also said during an interview with Fox New's "America's Newsroom" that there are "actually more" than 22 "Top Secret emails,"
which is the number reported by the State Department. In a separate interview with the Washington Examiner, Stewart said
that another seven emails are being withheld in full because of their sensitive nature.
Obama's
Growing Conflict of Interest in the Clinton E-Mail Scandal. [Scroll down] So egregious have the scandal's
latest developments been that a critical State Department admission from last week has received almost no coverage: Eighteen
e-mails between Mrs. Clinton and President Obama have been identified, and the government is refusing to disclose them. [...]
Think about what this means. Not only is it obvious that President Obama knew Mrs. Clinton was conducting government
business over her private e-mail account, the exchanges the president engaged in with his secretary of state over this
unsecured system clearly involved sensitive issues of policy. Clinton was being asked for "advice and counsel" —
not about her recommendations for the best country clubs in Martha's Vineyard, but about matters that the White House judges
too sensitive to reveal.
Hillary's
ridiculousness is approaching critical mass. Clinton's stories continue to evolve. In 2007 having a secret
email account was "shredding the Constitution." Back on March 10 of last year, there was no classified information
on her server: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email; there is no classified material."
Until there was. More than 1300 of them.
The
'Secret' Email John Kerry Sent To Hillary From His iPad Was Also From A Non-Official Account. As a Senator in
2011, Sec. of State John Kerry sent an email containing information that the State Department now says is classified as
"Secret" from a non-government account to Hillary Clinton, agency spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday [2/2/2016]. The
tranche of Hillary Clinton records released on Friday contains the sensitive May 11, 2011 email, which is heavily redacted
because it contains foreign government information. In the email, which Kerry sent from his iPad and was first reported on
Friday, the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussed negotiations between India and Pakistan.
Former
FBI Official Red-Flags Troubling Lack of Activity at DOJ Regarding Hillary's Emails. A former assistant director of
the FBI is voicing concern about the Justice Department's lack of movement on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's
email arrangement which, according to sources, will be wrapping up soon. If Bureau leaks are to be believed, the results
will show that Mrs. Clinton and her underlings flagrantly violated some of our most important laws — laws that are designed
to protect national security. Anyone else would have been arrested by now.
Three
Big Unanswered Questions About Hillary Clinton's Emails. Question 1: What sort of role is the White House playing in the
investigation and is it exerting any pressure to exonerate Clinton? White House spokesman Josh Earnest said last week that that Hillary
Clinton would not be indicted "based on what we know." Are the Justice Department and FBI briefing the White House on the ongoing
investigation? What does the White House know that we don't? Given the political consequences of an indictment and the fact
that the White House may have lots of reasons to influence the investigation that have nothing to do with seeing the law fairly applied,
doesn't the White House's statement about Clinton not being indicted come off as unseemly?
Plans
for Hidden IT Network to Help Clinton Skirt Rules Uncovered by Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch announced today
[2/1/2016] that it recently received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials
to set up a "stand-alone PC" so that Clinton could check her emails in an office "across the hall" through a separate,
non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton computer system, Under Secretary for
Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, "The stand-alone separate network PC is a
great idea." The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.
The new emails were obtained by Judicial Watch in response a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for State
Department records about Hillary Clinton's separate email system.
Hillary Clinton Put
Spies' Lives at Risk. I've elaborated how Hillary Clinton, the apparent Democratic frontrunner for President this year,
put large amounts of classified information at grave risk through slipshod security practices by herself and her staff. Now that
scandal has taken a significant turn for the more ominous. Last Friday afternoon [1/29/2016] the State Department's latest
court-mandated release of Hillary Clinton's emails from when she was Secretary of State caused a new political firestorm.
While many more emails were released by Foggy Bottom, some with redactions due to classified materials they contained, twenty-two
emails totaling thirty-seven pages of text were withheld entirely at the request of the Intelligence Community. Those
twenty-two emails, deemed "unclassified" by Ms. Clinton and her staff, were judged to be Top Secret in reality.
Behind
Closed Doors, Media and Government Buzzing about Hillary's Emails. [Scroll down] Wait — is he referring
to Hillary Clinton's email scandal? But we've been assured by Democratic flacks that Hillary has little to worry about.
That's when host Joe Scarborough let in the audience on the conversation among elites. "A couple people held their breath when
we talked about it the other day," he said. "Everybody in the government, everybody in the media, everybody that runs anything
is talking about how advanced this investigation is. And nobody's telling the American people about it. So I had an
executive at another network ask 'is it safe to talk about it now?'" Barnicle agreed, saying, "There's just too much buzz
around it from all different levels of government, media, and everything to ignore it, and Bernie is no longer ignoring it."
That
ever changing Clinton email defense may be running out of excuses. Unless you're a complete idiot, you know what does or
doesn't fall within the realm of classified ... especially if you're the Secretary of State. And its not like this was all new
to her. She'd served as a US Senator and been privy to classified material before and was certainly briefed on how to handle
it. One can't imagine, given the stringent rules surrounding the handling of classified material, that she didn't receive
additional briefings when she took State. She chose to ignore them all.
Grassley
probes Clinton aide's refusal to cooperate with investigators. A top aide to Hillary Clinton "refused" to cooperate with
investigators looking into whether the Clinton team suppressed a 2012 records request that could have exposed their private email use
years before a separate congressional inquiry did so, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday [2/1/2016]. The Senate Judiciary Committee
chairman raised concerns about the role Cheryl Mills, then-chief of staff to Clinton, played in blocking a Freedom of Information Act
request for Clinton's email use in a pair of letters to the State Department and the agency's inspector general Monday [2/1/2016].
Judge
Sets Hearing Date in Hillary Clinton E-mail Case. The federal judge overseeing the main Hillary Clinton e-mail lawsuit has
scheduled a status conference for next week to see where the headline-generating case goes from here. Judge Rudolph Contreras will
ask the lawyers at the hearing on February 9 where the lawsuit stands, now that the State Department has said it will finish disclosing
the relevant documents by the end of the month. February 9 also happens to be the day of the New Hampshire primary.
Hillary's
emails included CIA officers' names, report says. Hillary Clinton's e-mails included the names of CIA officers
serving overseas and foreigners who are on the spy agency's payroll — potentially endangering their lives, it was
reported Monday [2/1/2016]. "It's a death sentence," a senior intelligence-community official told the Observer. "If
we're lucky, only [foreign] agents, not our officers, will get killed because of this." The paper said the intelligence
community is in panic mode trying to determine which agents may have been compromised.
Clinton
Scandal: Hillary Used A Team To Help Her Hide Emails. Hillary Clinton's effort to conceal her State Department communications from the
disinfecting glare of sunlight was planned from the beginning. It's time to know what she wanted to hide. Emails received Monday [2/1/2016]
from the State Department by a government watchdog organization show that department officials were busy early in Clinton's tenure setting up a
stand-alone personal computer in a "counselor office" so the secretary could "go across hall regularly to check her email."
How
long can Hillary Clinton hide in a parallel universe? Hillary Clinton's defense of her seemingly criminal
mishandling of the nation's secrets now looks to be pretty much, I live in a parallel universe. The latest: She insists
the e-mail story is still in the news only because some "people are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in
anything I'm aware of." That's what she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Monday [2/1/2016] — just three days after
the State Department announced it can't release 22 of her e-mails because they're too dense with highly classified information.
Emails
show aides wanted 'super encrypted' Blackberry for Clinton. An internal email chain from Hillary Clinton's early days at the State
Department suggests Clinton's staff initially sought a "super encrypted" Blackberry for the secretary of state before apparently abandoning those
plans in favor of a personal device. The records indicate Cheryl Mills, then Clinton's chief of staff, had pushed for a secure cellphone
because Clinton did "not know how to use a computer to do email," according to an exchange obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by
conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.
Republican
warns of White House influence on Clinton investigation. The second-ranking Republican in the Senate is amplifying his call for the Justice Department
to name a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton's email server, suggesting the White House is trying to influence the FBI's probe. "I believe that
Secretary Clinton has likely violated multiple criminal statues," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday [2/1/2016]. Cornyn said Attorney General Loretta
Lynch should name a special counsel to counter the "apparent inability of the White House to resist the temptation to try to influence or at worst obstruct the
current investigation."
If
you can't prosecute Hillary Clinton, then you can't prosecute Edward Snowden. In the latest Friday night document dump 2,000 Hillary Clinton
emails were made public. Twenty two of them were not released, as they were considered "too damaging" to even release in redacted form. The
State Department has been dragging its feet in releasing the Clinton emails and won't meet a Court ordered deadline to release the remaining emails due
to an "internal oversight." Now the Clinton campaign wants the Top Secret emails made public.
Cheryl
Mills Refused To Speak To State Dept. Investigators About Hillary's Email Account. Hillary Clinton's former
chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, refused to speak to investigators with the State Department's Office of the Inspector General
about her handling of a 2012 public records request for information about Clinton's private email addresses that the agency
falsely denied. That's according Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who sent letters last week to Secretary of State John Kerry
and the State Department's inspector general Steve Linick, in response to a report Linick's office released last month about
the State Department's mishandling of Freedom of Information Act requests for records pertaining to Clinton's email account
and private email system.
NYT
Reporter: Clinton's Problem Is the FBI, Not Republicans. New York Times reporter Peter Baker rebuked
Hillary Clinton's rhetoric over the weekend about Republicans politicizing her private email scandal, suggesting on CNN
Sunday [1/31/2016] that it was the FBI that should be really on Clinton's mind. The Obama administration announced Friday
[1/29/2016] it could not release 22 of Clinton's emails from her private server because they were top-secret, while Clinton maintained
her line that those emails were not marked classified when they were sent or received, a statement columnist Ron Fournier remarked
was "irrelevant." The Washington Free Beacon reported Clinton signed a non-disclosure agreement laying out criminal
penalties for any mishandling of classified information as secretary of state.
Hillary's
Email Scandal Envelops the Intelligence Agencies. The latest revelations about Hillary Clinton's misuse of an unsecured private
email system to communicate top secret information appear to lead possible criminal complicity in some intelligence agencies that had to know of
her conduct. This past week we found out that at least twenty-two of those emails are so highly classified that they cannot be released even
in a heavily redacted form. Clinton, predictably, is trying to score political points by saying they should all be released, thus putting
the blame on the State Department for withholding them even though she knows perfectly well that the emails in question can't possibly be disclosed
because of the intensely guarded secrets they contain.
Who Received Hillary's Secret
Emails? Congressman Darrell Issa has predicted that Hillary and Huma will never be indicted for leaking top-secret information through their
illegal email scam. [...] If H&H are not indicted soon, FBI and DOJ career lawyers may retaliate by leaking additional evidence about Hillary's criminal,
irresponsible, and dangerous malfeasance in high office. Hillary is therefore deeply implicated in the worst hostile penetration of the U.S. government
since Stalin. Huma's lifelong collaboration with the Nazi-era Muslim Brotherhood has been thoroughly documented.
Plans
For Hidden IT Network To Help Clinton Skirt Rules Uncovered by Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch announced today [2/1/2016] that it recently
received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a "stand-alone PC" so that Clinton could
check her emails in an office "across the hall" through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton
computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, "The stand-alone separate network PC
is a great idea." The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.
Official:
Withheld Clinton emails contain 'operational' intel, put lives at risk. Highly classified Hillary Clinton emails that the intelligence community and State
Department recently deemed too damaging to national security to release contain "operational intelligence" — and their presence on the unsecure, personal
email system jeopardized "sources, methods and lives," a U.S. government official who has reviewed the documents told Fox News. The official, who was not
authorized to speak on the record and was limited in discussing the contents because of their highly classified nature, was referring to the 22 "TOP SECRET" emails
that the State Department announced Friday [1/29/2016] it could not release in any form, even with entire sections redacted.
Hillary
Clinton Put Spies' Lives at Risk. Last Friday afternoon [1/29/2016] the State Department's latest court-mandated
release of Hillary Clinton's emails from when she was Secretary of State caused a new political firestorm. While many more
emails were released by Foggy Bottom, some with redactions due to classified materials they contained, twenty-two emails totaling
thirty-seven pages of text were withheld entirely at the request of the Intelligence Community. Those twenty-two emails,
deemed "unclassified" by Ms. Clinton and her staff, were judged to be Top Secret in reality.
State
Dept. Records Show John Kerry Sent Hillary A 'SECRET' Email From His iPad. Emails released by the State Department on Friday [1/29/2016]
show that in 2011, then-Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry sent then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton an email from his iPad that has been deemed to contain
information classified as "Secret." While previous releases of Clinton's emails have shown that she and her staff communicated directly with
Kerry when he was a senator, the new email is the first from Kerry that the State Department has determined contains sensitive information.
Hillary
Compares FBI Investigation of Email to Benghazi: 'Pretty Clear They're Grasping at Straws'. Sunday [1/31/2016]
on ABC's "This Week," Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compared the FBI investigation into her handling of
classified material on her private email server during her tenure as secretary of state to the investigations into the 2012
Benghazi terror attacks saying, "I think it's pretty clear they're grasping at straws and this will turn out the same."
Hillary
Emails "Too Damaging" To National Security To Release. Bad news for Hillary Clinton as new revelations further
undercut the former Secretary of State's claims that she never received or sent classified emails stored on her home-brew
email server. Fox News's Catherine Herridge is reporting that intelligence officials will not be releasing some of
Hillary Clinton's emails because doing so would be "too damaging" to national security.
State
Department Won't Acknowledge That Clinton Emails Have Already Been Classified Top Secret. State Department
spokesman John Kirby would not acknowledge on Friday [1/29/2016] a letter from the intelligence community's inspector general stating
that information on Hillary Clinton's private server was classified at the time it was sent and received. Fox News reporter
Catherine Herridge asked whether the State Department disagreed with the intelligence community's determination that Clinton's email
contained information that was highly-classified when it hit the server. The Clinton campaign has argued that the information
was only classified retroactively.
Hillary
Email Scandal Takes Yet Another Troubling Turn. Fox News, which seems to be the only news outlet doing any
reporting on the story these days, reports that some of the emails found on Hillary Clinton's private, unsecured email server
are "too damaging" to ever be released. That's according to a Fox News source "close to the ongoing review." The
State Department itself confirmed the gravity of the situation, however, when it announced Friday that even email chains are
being withheld from the public "in full" because of the sensitivity of the information they contain.
Hillary
Clinton Campaign Meltdown: Top-Secret Emails 'Innocuous,' Should Be Released. This week's Friday afternoon news
drop was a blockbuster for Hillary Clinton, with revelations that some of her emails contained information so sensitive they
cannot be released to the public at all, others will be delayed beyond the first few primaries by the State Department, and
the number of Top Secret documents in her homebrew private email server has risen to 22.
Last
Night's State Department Email Dump: The Most Damning for Hillary Yet. With a classification rate of nearly 27 percent,
this was the most highly classified batch of emails yet, despite the fact the State Department only produced 10 percent of the emails
it was required to under court order. And given the State Department's claim that many of the emails they withheld were still being
reviewed by other agencies as well as the steep increase in the number of emails classified as 'SECRET,' it appears Hillary Clinton's email
woes are only going to get worse. Indeed, many redactions in last night's production had to do with information from several intelligence
agencies including the CIA. No wonder Clinton's friends in the State Department are trying to delay further releases until she's
cleared the early nominating contests. Here are some of the most eye-popping emails from last night's release [...]
About Those 22 E-Mails.
If you or I had one top secret e-mail, never mind 22 of them there would be an armed swat team descending on our homes faster
than you could say wilful suspension of disbelief.
Hillary Clinton emails declared 'top
secret'. Twenty-two emails sent through Hillary Clinton's unsecured home server while she was secretary of
state contained government secrets, US officials say. The State Department said the messages were "top secret" and could
not be released. Spokesman John Kirby said the emails were not marked classified at the time they were sent.
Mrs Clinton's use of a personal email as secretary of state has dogged her bid for the US presidency.
Josh
Earnest may have gotten himself in a whole heap of trouble with comments on Hillary email scandal. There are
two very big dangers here. It would be entirely improper for the White House to be in communication with the Justice
Department over an ongoing criminal investigation. This would constitute political interference. A congressional
committee could well issue a subpoena for Earnest, which would raise the Watergate flag when executive privilege likely would
be claimed. Second, this claim is likely to infuriate the FBI and those DoJ prosecutors with integrity.
Four
Sid Blumenthal Emails In Latest Clinton Release Are COMPLETELY Classified. Previous State Department releases
of Hillary Clinton emails have contained messages from her longtime friend and intelligence-provider, Sidney Blumenthal, that
have been deemed to contain some classified information. But none of the records were completely classified, as is the case
with four emails Blumenthal emails released by the State Department on Friday [1/29/2016]. Blumenthal, a former Bill Clinton
White House aide, was infamously blocked from taking a job at the State Department under Clinton because of his anti-Obama
campaigning in the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Hillary's
lame excuses for her e-mail misconduct are crumbling. The State Department just knocked a gaping hole in Hillary Clinton's
happy e-mail fable. State, the Associated Press reports, won't release 22 of Clinton's messages to the public because they contain
too much most-secret information. OK: Clinton's only promised that none of her e-mails were labeled "classified" —
so she's technically not a blatant liar. But US intelligence agencies have determined these message contain enough sensitive
information that even blacking out whole passages isn't enough to make them safe for public view.
Scarborough/Halperin
on FBI Investigation of Hillary: Sources Say Something Happening. What it is ain't exactly clear, but it
doesn't seem to bode well for Hillary Clinton. Today's [1/29/2016] Morning Joe featured an ominous exchange between Joe Scarborough and
Mark Halperin. The notion was that a variety of sources — from a senior network exec, to top Obama admin officials, to FBI
agents — are saying the same thing: the FBI investigation of Hillary is much further along than most people realize.
Oh
my: Some Hillary e-mails "too damaging" to release? What happens when redactions become insufficient to cover
the damage to national security from Hillary Clinton's unauthorized and unsecured home-brew e-mail system? Get ready to find
out. Fox News' Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne exclusively report that the intelligence community will prevent the State
Department from releasing at least 22 e-mails in the current tranche, because not even redactions can prevent damage to national
security from their release.
Official:
Some Clinton emails 'too damaging' to release. The intelligence community has deemed some of Hillary Clinton's
emails "too damaging" to national security to release under any circumstances, according to a U.S. government official close
to the ongoing review. A second source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, backed up the finding.
The determination was first reported by Fox News, hours before the State Department formally announced Friday that seven email
chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld "in full" because they, in fact, contain "Top Secret" information.
Ex-FBI
Official: Hillary Indictment Will Come During the Heat of the General Election. Six months after the FBI began
their investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, sources believe that an indictment might fall during the
"the heat of the general election campaign." Former FBI assistant director Ron Hosko told The Hill that he doesn't "know
that there's any magical cutoff date," and that the protracted length of the probe is not unusual for such investigations.
Why Hillary's EmailGate
Matters. Every few days, another bombshell appears in the media illustrating just how poorly Hillary Clinton,
during her tenure as our nation's foreign policy boss, handled communications security. By now, we have a complex portrait
of someone whose mishandling of our nation's secrets, by herself and her staff, beggars belief for anyone versed in such matters.
EmailGate isn't going away, no matter how much Ms. Clinton's supporters want it to. The number of "unclassified" emails that
turn out to be classified, some of which transited Ms. Clinton's unencrypted server of bathroom fame, now surpasses 1,300 and may go
higher still. A couple weeks ago I explained how Ms. Clinton's emails included highly classified information from the National
Security Agency, based on signals intelligence about Sudan at the Top Secret Codeword level. How they got there has yet to be explained.
State
Dept. set to release some Clinton emails amid legal battle. State Department officials are set to release a
batch of Hillary Clinton's private emails Friday [1/29/2016] amid a contentious court battle over whether the remainder of
her records will see the light of day before the Democratic primary begins. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed by Jason Leopold, a reporter for Vice News, the State Department was required to complete the publication of
roughly 30,000 Clinton emails by the end of January.
That bad, eh? State
Department Delays Full Hillary Clinton Email Dump Until After Early Primaries. The State Department will
release 2,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails Friday [1/29/2016], but that's a fraction of the remaining Clinton emails still
in its possession. The Department has 7,000 more pages of Clinton's emails that it chooses not to release yet. The
State Department's Friday dump represents less than 23 percent of the remaining emails. Vice reporter Jason Leopold
is suing the State Department in District Court in Washington, D.C. for the full release.
Did
Obama just send Hillary Clinton the all-clear on the FBI investigation? Each day brings new details about the
classified information Hillary Clinton had on her homebrew server. The disclosures are inevitably followed by demands that
she be indicted. Color me skeptical that she will face criminal charges, especially after President Obama's kind words
for her. His praise of Clinton's experience in an interview, twinned with his comparison of Bernie Sanders as a "bright,
shiny object," were widely interpreted as a Clinton endorsement.
Hillary
Clinton's worst nightmare: Hint — it's not Bernie Sanders. It seems that every week, more information comes to
light about Clinton's grave legal woes. Her worries are in two broad categories: One is her well-documented failure to safeguard
state secrets and the other is her probable use of her position as secretary of state to advance financially her husband's charitable
foundation. The FBI is currently and aggressively investigating both. What I will describe below is in the state secrets
category. It is apparently not new to the FBI, but it is new to the public. Among the data that the FBI either found on the
Clinton server or acquired from the State Department via its responses to Freedom of Information Act requests is a top-secret email that
has been denominated Special Access Program.
Hillary
Can't Pin E-mailgate on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. As Hillary Clinton sinks ever deeper into E-mailgate, her excuses for
grossly mishandling state secrets grow ever weaker. In defense of her gross negligence, Clinton and her comrades have dusted off a
vintage 1990s cliché: "It's the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!" Clinton has been hobbled by Inspector General of the Intelligence
Community I. Charles McCullough III's discovery that her private, unsecure computer server contained "several dozen" e-mails classified
TOP SECRET/SAP. "Special Access Programs" is America's highest clandestine designation. Such secrets must remain concealed
because, under federal law, their "unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national
security." As former Africom strategist Dan Maguire told Fox News, "There are people's lives at stake."
FBI's Clinton
investigation not letting up. Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email
server shows no signs of slowing down. Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision
on whether to file charges against Clinton or her top aides could come later this year, during the heat of the general election campaign.
We
are witnessing the end of the House of Clinton. There is the stench of political death around Hillary, Bill, Chelsea and the
entire House of Clinton. You could feel it when Republican front-runner Donald Trump hit back — hard — over the
"penchant for sexism" charge by basically calling Hillary Clinton an enabler in the former president's sexual shenanigans. When have
we ever seen the Clintons back off? But they did. Then came further reports about an expanded FBI probe of her handling of
secure information; the nexus of State Department favors for donors to the Clinton Foundation; and the story that Hillary Clinton or her
staff might have lied to FBI agents in this probe.
Hillary's
email scandal now potentially a matter of high treason. Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is
going directly to the intelligence agencies that generated the assessments to determine the original classification level.
The investigators "will go directly to depose specific individuals in agencies who generated the highly classified materials."
This is the prudent and smart thing to do in order to get specifics on the classification authority and to compare original documents
with those that were stripped of classification markings. But there is potentially something deeper and more sinister going
on. [...] The FBI appears to have moved from a criminal investigation into an espionage investigation.
Hillary
Decides What's Top Secret, What's Not. Hillary Clinton and her campaign minions are trying mightily to dismiss the
conclusions of the intelligence community inspector general that highly classified Special Access Protocol (SAP) documents were
transferred to Clinton's unsecured private server. The first line of Clinton's defense is (as usual) that the allegations are
1) nothing new and 2) politically motivated. But beyond this usual rote Clintonian response is the additional claim
that the documents were also 1) not so classified when Clinton received them and 2) even if they were classified
documents the information they contained was public knowledge anyway, so no harm, no foul. As to Clinton's first line of
defense, what can one say? You support Hillary and accept her mendacious paranoia as part of the package, or you don't.
How
the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton. Could the Hillary Clinton e-mail saga end with FBI Director James Comey resigning
in protest? Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, knows the laws regarding classified information firsthand. In his
private practice, Cuccinelli defended a Marine lieutenant colonel court martialed on charges of possessing such information outside a secure facility.
He says Clinton's actions in the e-mail scandal clearly satisfy all five requirements necessary to sustain charges of mishandling classified material, and
constitute a breach perhaps even more glaring than the one for which General David Petraeus was convicted.
Clinton
Chief Of Staff Lost Her Personal Blackberry, Which Contained Classified Emails. While working as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff at the State
Department, Cheryl Mills lost her personal Blackberry, on which she sent emails that the State Department has determined contain classified information.
Records obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show Mills revealed that she lost her Blackberry in a March 20, 2010
email she sent to Bryan Pagliano, the State Department IT staffer who managed Clinton's private email server.
FBI
going 'right to the source' in Clinton email probe, interviewing intel agencies. The FBI is going straight to the source in its investigation of
classified emails that crossed Hillary Clinton's personal server, speaking with the intelligence agencies — and in some cases, the individuals —
that generated the information, two intelligence sources familiar with the probe told Fox News. Investigators are meeting with the agencies and individuals
to determine the classification level in the emails. The step speaks to the diligence with which the bureau is handling the investigation, despite the former
secretary of state's claims that the matter boils down to a mere interagency dispute.
The Clinton E-Mail Scandal And How It Will
End. The media are doing their best to keep it very much under the wire, but the Clinton e-mail scandal has been heating up to the point it
can't be ignored much longer. Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III just made an absolutely damning report to the
intelligence committees in the House and Senate to the effect that in addition to 1,340 emails designated "classified" stored on her private home brew server,
Mrs. Clinton actually had emails on her server that contained intelligence from "special access programs," which is "a level of classification beyond even
'top secret'."
DeLay:
FBI sources say they're 'ready to indict' Hillary. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Monday [1/25/2016] his FBI
sources had informed him they are ready to bring charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information. "I have
friends in the FBI, and they tell me they're ready to indict," DeLay said during an appearance on Newsmax's "Steve Malzberg Show."
"They also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they're going public," the Texas Republican added.
How
Hillary Got Classified Information Onto Her Private Email. Hillary Clinton's acolytes are racing to dismiss the latest
allegations that classified material was cut and pasted into her emails, but this isn't some mere oversight that can be hand-waved away
with a shrug and a sad trombone honk. One doesn't spill classified material into an unclassified system accidentally or through
mere negligence. What these new revelations show — if they are true — is conduct that was conscious,
intentional, and felonious as all get-out.
Hillary
and the Law of the Jungle. Hillary Clinton claims the email scandal that hovers over her presidential campaign
is all about politics. She's right, but not in the sense that she would like people to believe, i.e., that a "vast right-wing
conspiracy" is persecuting her — again. In fact, she has undoubtedly violated the laws of the United States with
her reckless and dangerous use of a private email account that exposed the most highly classified documents the country possesses
to foreign intelligence services. That she has not already been charged and locked up (as would have happened to almost
anyone else who did the same) is because of politics. Under the "law" of the political jungle her status and power have
protected her. But the law of the jungle only protects the strong. And as Hillary grows weaker politically, her
vulnerability to the laws of the United States grows considerably.
Motion
filed to block State from delaying release of Clinton emails. The journalist who forced the State Department to
release thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails is opposing the government's efforts to delay the final release by one month,
warning the extension would cause "irrevocable harm." On Monday [1/25/2016], lawyers for Vice News reporter Jason
Leopold filed a motion seeking to block the department from extending the amount of time that it has to release emails from
the former secretary of State's personal server.
Reporter
fights Hillary Clinton email delay. Lawyers for a journalist seeking release of Hillary Clinton's email trove are objecting
to the State Department's request for a month-long delay to complete disclosure of the final set of the former secretary of state's messages,
warning that allowing the process to drag out until the end of February could deprive voters in early caucus and primary states of
information on the Democratic presidential candidate.
State
Department accused of political tampering in delay of Clinton emails. The reporter whose case has forced the release of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails accused the Obama administration on Monday [1/25/2016] of political tampering by asking to delay
making the final set of messages public until after the first four states have already voted in the Democratic presidential primary.
Another 11 states are slated to vote March 1, just hours after the State Department has said it wants to release the final 4,000
or so emails — which are likely to include some of the most controversial messages. That means nearly 45 million voters
won't have enough time to digest the emails before having to vote, Jason Leopold, a reporter at Vice, said in a court filing opposing the
State Department's new schedule.
Hillary
Clinton's Email Scandal Appears Gravely Criminal. [Scroll down] The Clintons have made careers of defying
our assumptions about how low they can go. I should have reminded myself that anything was possible. Now, Paul Sperry
reports that the FBI is probing indications that Mrs. Clinton did precisely what I assumed, because of the time and purposeful
effort involved, she wouldn't have done. [...] As I noted in my National Review weekend column, we now know that highly
classified information from the secure systems ended up on Clinton's private, unsecured (and relatively easy to hack) system.
That, however, is not the half of it. Sperry reports that the actual documents themselves appear to have ended up
in Clinton's unsecured system — but carefully shorn of their classified markings.
Hillary's team copied intel off top-secret server to email. The FBI
is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle "cut and pasted" material from the government's classified network so that it could be sent to her private email
address, former State Department security officials say. Clinton and her top aides had access to a Pentagon-run classified network that goes up to the Secret level, as
well as a separate system used for Top Secret communications.
Hillary Clinton's E-Mail Scandal: Far Graver than First
Thought. If a bumbling Clinton had let a smattering of classified e-mails land on her unsecured server, one might overlook an occasional slip-up or two.
However, the State Department so far reports that Clinton's private server held at least 1,340 e-mails that contain classified data. The final tranche of Clinton's
e-mails should arrive January 29, most likely featuring even more e-mails brimming with state secrets.
Hillary's
emails contained Top Secret HUMINT as State Dept. Stalls. As the State Department asked for an extension to publish the last of Hillary Clinton's emails, it's been
revealed that at least one of them found on her private server contained extremely sensitive information. According to Fox News, an intelligence agency has identified the
email as 'HCS-O', which is the code used to report on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations. A January 14 letter sent to Congress by the intelligence
community's inspector general advises the Oversight committees that Special Access Program (SAP), which is intelligence beyond top secret, was identified in Clinton's emails,
Fox News reported.
Clinton's
email excuses are falling apart. Hillary Clinton went into damage-control mode when news broke that the inspector general of the intelligence agencies
had identified additional classified emails on her private server, including ones containing intelligence on covert "Special Access Programs." Her campaign even
accused the inspector general — an Obama appointee confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate — of engaging in a "coordinated leak" with
Republicans "for the purposes of hurting her campaign." Lash out as she might, Clinton's constantly changing email story is rapidly falling apart.
First, Clinton claimed there was "no classified material" on her private server — which turned out to be untrue. Then she claimed none of the
intelligence on her server was "classified at the time" — which also turned out to be untrue.
The shoes are raining down in Hillary's e-mail
mess. Fox News, which last week disclosed that messages on Clinton's private server went beyond even Top Secret classification, now reports they even
included material on clandestine human-intelligence sources. That is, secret agents and local assets in the field — people whose very lives are in
danger if they're exposed. And this comes as President Obama's own former defense secretary, Robert Gates, admitted, "the odds are pretty high" that her home
server was accessed by one or more hostile foreign governments.
Why the Justice Department Won't Work
with the FBI on Clinton's E-mail Case. Another day, another double-take reading the New York Times. The latest shoe in the investigation of Hillary
Clinton's scandalous mishandling of classified information dropped heavily this week. It had already been reported that, contrary to her denials, hundreds of
secret intelligence communications were transmitted over the private, unsecured e-mail system on which the former secretary of state recklessly conducted government
business. It is now clear that some of these contained "top secret/SAP" information. (SAP is "special access programs.") This indicates defense
secrets of the highest order, the compromise of which can destroy vital intelligence programs, get covert agents killed, and imperil national security.
Page and McLaughlin: The FBI
Will Recommend Prosecution For Hillary. Chicago Tribune Editorial Board member Clarence Page and "McLaughlin Group" host John McLaughlin
predicted the FBI will recommend Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton face prosecution for mishandling classified
information on Friday [1/22/2016]. [Video clip]
CNN's
Baldwin Presses Karen Finney on Hillary Campaign's E-Mail Conspiracy Theory. Brooke Baldwin pursued Hillary Clinton flack Karen
Finney on Thursday's [1/21/2016] CNN Newsroom over her campaign's conspiracy theory that the intelligence community's inspector general
purposely leaked the latest revelation about the highly-classified information on Mrs. Clinton's server. When Finney cited unnamed
officials who alleged that the I.G. "unfairly targeted Hillary Clinton," Baldwin interjected, "What would the motivation be for this inspector
general to do this?" When the Democratic operative asserted that "they want to take down Hillary Clinton," the anchor twice asked,
"What is your proof for that?" [Video clip]
The smoking gun? Special Access Programs
(SAP) is a game changer. It is now undeniably clear that the results of the FBI investigation will be the end of one of two things:
Hillary's bid for the White House or the legitimacy of the FBI — at least when it comes to prosecuting cases on the mishandling of
classified material.
Email
scandal puts Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations in peril. Hillary Clinton is vehemently disputing new
charges that she sent top-secret information from a nonsecure email account while at the State Department, but analysts say
the scandal has already damaged her so deeply that her presidential ambitions are at risk. Mrs. Clinton's messages
contained some information classified above "top secret," the intelligence community's inspector general said in a letter to
Congress this week. Fox News reported Thursday [1/21/2016] that the information is so sensitive that even senators,
who already have clearance, must go through additional hoops if they want to see some of what she was sending.
Exclusive:
Clinton email exposed intel from human spying. At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton's private server
contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as "HCS-O," which is the code used for
reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations, according to two sources not authorized to speak on the
record. Both sources are familiar with the intelligence community inspector general's January 14 letter to Congress,
advising the Oversight committees that intelligence beyond Top Secret — known as Special Access Program (SAP) —
was identified in the Clinton emails, as well the supporting documents from the affected agencies that owned the information and
have final say on classification.
State
Department Asks For More Time To Release Last Batch Of Hillary Emails. The State Department is citing a snowstorm expected
to hit Washington D.C. this weekend and a need for additional "interagency review" in its request to a federal judge on Friday [1/22/2016]
to grant it an additional month to complete its final release of all of Hillary Clinton's work-related emails.
Former Attorney General: Hillary Clinton Knew
Enough to Support Conviction for Mishandling Classified Information. Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey says there
is enough evidence to justify criminal charges against Hillary Clinton and to bring a conviction for mishandling classified information.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal Thursday [1/21/2016], Mukasey, who served as Attorney General under President George W. Bush
from 2007-2009 and now serves as an adviser to Republican candidate Jeb Bush, suggests there are several different charges that could be
brought against Clinton.
Fallon's fallacies. [Scroll down] The
"Justice Department inquiry" is in part a euphemism for the FBI investigation. It also refers to the outcome of the inquiry including prosecutorial decisions.
Whether or not anyone is prosecuted for the wrongs Hilary Clinton has committed is ultimately in part a political decision. We are capable of making up our
own minds based on relevant information. The lameness of [Brian] Fallon's comment is itself indicative of the vacuity in Clinton's position at this point.
As the Clinton scandal management playbook dictates, Hillary Clinton is playing for time and counting on political considerations to save the day.
Clinton
emails so secret some lawmakers can't read them. Some of Hillary Clinton's emails on her private server contained information
so secret that senior lawmakers who oversee the State Department cannot read them without fulfilling additional security requirements, Fox News
has learned. The emails in question, as Fox News first reported earlier this week, contained intelligence classified at a level beyond
"top secret." Because of this designation, not all the lawmakers on key committees reviewing the case have high enough clearances.
A source with knowledge of the intelligence review told Fox News that senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, despite having
high-level clearances, are among those not authorized to read the intelligence from so-called "special access programs" without taking additional
security steps — like signing new non-disclosure agreements.
Hillary
Clinton's Email Scandal Turns Deadly. At the moment, about 1,340 emails that went to or from Secretary Clinton
contained material the State Department deems to be "classified." Clinton says they were not classified when she got or sent
them and that their classification is only retroactive. Her critics say she should have recognized them as classified and
labeled them so herself, which she is authorized to do. But the fact that she also sent or received SAP material is an
even more significant breech of intelligence protocol.
Why
Team Hillary's Conspiracy-Mongering Doesn't Pass the Laugh Test. PJ Media's Stephen Kruiser reported earlier
today that the embattled Clinton campaign is now resorting to conspiracy-mongering to stave off damaging reports about
Hillary's metastasizing email scandal. On MSNBC's Morning Joe, the panel cringed at Team Hillary's absurd argument
that the Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III is somehow a member of the "vast right-wing
conspiracy." [...] It turns out that McCullough is an Obama appointee who was confirmed by a Democrat-controlled Senate by
unanimous consent.
Hillary
campaign's response to latest email revelations reveals desperation. It is hard to overstate the significance
of the latest revelations about the national security catastrophe caused by Hillary Clinton's private email server. The
nation's highest-level secrets were kept on an unsecure server that is believed to be have been hacked by multiple overseas
parties. These revelations come from the nation's Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough
III, not some partisan. He is a nonpolitical official who was confirmed by the Senate and entrusted with keeping our
intelligence agencies honest. For those readers who have not yet familiarized themselves with the revelations, Catherine
Herridge's exclusive report at Fox News must be read.
Hillary
Clinton Email Said to Include Material Exceeding 'Top Secret'. Intelligence officials reviewing emails on former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's private computer server have found information they consider to be of a higher level of classification than "top
secret," according to a letter sent to lawmakers last week by the intelligence agencies' inspector general.
State
Department Releases Clinton IT Guru Emails. The State Department has released for the first time a batch of
emails specifically regarding Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department tech worker who helped manage Hillary Clinton's
private email system. The records, which were provided to The Daily Caller in response to a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed on its behalf by the watchdog group Cause of Action, suggest that Pagliano is a central figure in a State
Department inspector general investigation. They also show Pagliano, who started working at State in May 2009, discussing
personnel and IT-related matters with Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, Clinton's top two State Department aides.
Krauthammer's
Take: Hillary E-mail Scandal Now 'Worse than What Snowden Did'. A new report that Hillary Clinton's personal
server contained information about "special access programs" makes her handling of sensitive material "worse than what
Snowden did," Charles Krauthammer said tonight [1/19/2016]. "What people have to understand is that there is nothing
higher, more secret than an SAP," Krauthammer said on Tuesday's Special Report. "From some people I have talked to, this
is worse than what Snowden did because he didn't have access to SAP." "The reason it's [so sensitive] is if it's compromised,
people die," he said. "It also means that operations that have been embedded for years and years get destroyed and cannot be
reconstituted. This is very serious."
Is Hillary Clinton 'Too Big To Go To
Jail'? During the Democratic debate two nights ago, team Hillary tweeted out the message that there should be "no individual too big to
jail." Privately, Mrs. Clinton is almost certainly hoping — and perhaps even on her knees praying — she's wrong about that.
Her email headache got substantially worse today [1/19/2016] with the Fox News bombshell regarding the top-secret nature of some of the emails found on her
unsecured, homebrew server. According to I. Charles McCullough III, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, "several dozen"
additional classified emails have been identified on Clinton's server. These include specific intelligence known as "special access programs"
(SAP), a classification level that goes "beyond top secret."
Hillary's
Email Saga: Time to Move On? [Scroll down] If Hillary's email troubles grow into a criminal investigation it may
be impossible for the administration's lawyers to firewall the scandal from other officials. President Obama himself corresponded
with Secretary of State Clinton over the controversial server. [...] The president is on record as saying "I don't think it posed a
national security problem," on CBS's 60 Minutes. "This is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered."
The New York Times reported that the president's remarks "rankle[d] some in the FBI". The FBI may be irritated but it is ultimately a
part of the executive branch. With Hillary running, in David Brock's words, "to cement this president's legacy" it is hard to see how
a criminal investigation would not similarly indict this same legacy. It is clearly in the president's political interest to hope
Clinton survives this latest blow-up.
What Happens if Hillary Isn't
Indicted? Just when we were thinking it couldn't get much worse with Hillary's email scandal, an inspector general's unclassified letter to
lawmakers tells us the former secretary of state was keeping the most classified of all intelligence material — beyond "top secret" —
on her homebrew server. [...] Note there were several dozen of these SAP emails, not just the two we previously heard about that didn't even reach this
classification. Those included satellite photos of North Korea. What do you suppose this is? Gross negligence is the important criminal
standard here and it sounds as if it's been passed by the proverbial country mile.
Inspector
General: Clinton emails had intel from most secretive, classified programs. Hillary Clinton's emails on her unsecured, homebrew server
contained intelligence from the U.S. government's most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top
inspector general to senior lawmakers. Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community
Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that
identified "several dozen" additional classified emails — including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP).
Hillary's
Campaign Accuses Intel IG Of Coordinating With GOP On Damning Email Reports. Hillary Clinton's top campaign spokesman believes a vast right-wing
conspiracy of sorts is behind Tuesday's [1/19/2016] explosive report about the discovery of emails on the former secretary of state's server that are classified
at levels higher than previously known. According to NBC's Andrea Mitchell, Brian Fallon, Clinton's communications director, believes that the Intelligence
Community's inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, is "selectively" leaking information in coordination with Republicans.
Clinton's
'no individual too big to jail' tweet backfires. Hillary Clinton's campaign encountered heavy backlash Sunday night [1/17/2016]
shortly after tweeting a statement made by Clinton during the fourth Democratic primary debate. "There should be no bank too big to fail
and no individual too big to jail," Clinton told the moderators during the first hour of the debate Sunday [1/17/2016]. Within seconds,
the remark was tweeted out to the former secretary of state's five-plus million Twitter followers.
Hillary's
subconscious acts up in Dem debate, provides 6 words that will haunt her. There may still be a reasonable debate on whether or not
Hillary Clinton has a conscience, but Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate proves that she does have a subconscious. That part of her
mind put words into her mouth that her conscious mind would rather not admit. The critical six words: "No individual too big to jail."
The
Comey Plan: What An Indictment of Hillary Clinton Would Mean For The Obama Legacy. In June of 2013, President
Barack Obama reached outside the spectrum of political logic to select a former Bush appointed Republican as Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. At 6'8", FBI Director James Comey stands tall amongst his fellow members of the Obama
administration not only due to his height, but also his consistent financial support of Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney
in their bids for President. Why would Obama select a Republican, with nearly four decades of successfully prosecuting
high-profile individuals for obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI, to a ten-year appointment as its Director? To
preserve his legacy through the pursuit of justice against Hillary Clinton.
Clinton
Aides Resisted State Department Suggestion That Clinton Use State.gov Account. Bombshell emails from the State
Department show that a top official at the agency suggested to Hillary Clinton's aide, Huma Abedin, in August 2011 that the
then-secretary of state begin using a government email account to protect against unexpected outages of her private email
server. But as the emails show, Abedin pushed back on the suggestion, telling the official, Stephen D. Mull, then
the executive secretary of the State Department, that a State-issued Blackberry equipped with a state.gov email address "doesn't
make a lot of sense." Besides showing that Clinton's top aides were against the idea of her using a state.gov email
account, the emails show for the first time that top State Department officials were aware of Clinton's private email server
arrangement.
State
Department Suddenly Discovers Thousands More Clinton Documents. Watchdog group Judicial Watch has been trying
to squeeze Hillary Clinton's documents out of the State Department with Freedom of Information Act requests for years. FOIA
requests have a way of turning into FOIA lawsuits before any wing of the Obama Administration responds to them. Last
Friday [1/8/2016], three years after one such suit was filed, the State Department suddenly discovered thousands of
previously undisclosed Clinton documents.
Released
emails reveal just how deeply Clinton and her advisers despise Israel. If you hate Israel and wish to see
nothing but misfortune for the Jewish State, stop reading because Hillary is your candidate. If you care about Israel and its
relationship with the United States, read on. Hillary's email scandal has unleashed a treasure trove of information
pertaining to the former secretary of state's views on Israel as well as those of her closest advisors, Sidney Blumenthal,
Anne Marie Slaughter and Thomas Pickering. The latest email exposé involves Thomas Pickering. Pickering has never
been known to be friendly toward Israel but what he suggested to Hillary in a 2011 email is frankly shocking, even by anti-Israel
standards. He hatched a scheme to foment unrest in Israel through mass Arab demonstrations to pressure the Israeli
government and arm-twist it into making damaging concessions.
Citizens
United sues over Chelsea Clinton emails. Citizens United filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday in hopes of having a
federal court grant the conservative group access to emails exchanged between Chelsea Clinton and five top aides to her mother, White House
contender Hillary Clinton, while the presidential hopeful served as secretary of state. The Freedom of Information Act suit, first
reported by Politico, was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington in an effort to uncover any correspondence that could further detail
the former first daughter's role with respect to her mother's tenure in the State Department from 2009 to 2013.
State
Department Discovers 'Thousands' of Previously Undisclosed Clinton Documents. The Department of State recently discovered "thousands" of
previously unreviewed documents that relate to Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi attack, according to a watchdog group that has been suing the department
to release public records from Clinton's tenure. The State Department disclosed the existence of the additional records in a court filing on
Friday [1/8/2016] and asked the judge for further time to search and review the documents. The watchdog group Judicial Watch has been suing the
State Department for years to turn over public records related to Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation, the employment
arrangements of Clinton's top aides, and her response to the Benghazi attack.
Clinton
denies FBI investigation into family foundation. Hillary Clinton disputed a report Monday that the FBI is
investigating whether there were illegal connections between her family's foundation and her service as secretary of state.
Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for president, was asked about the Fox News story during a meeting Monday afternoon [1/11/2016]
with the Des Moines Register's editorial board. "It's an unsourced, irresponsible claim that has no basis," she responded.
"It is something that is really without merit and should not have any influence whatsoever in this nominating process." Clinton
said there is no such FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. "There is nothing like that happening," she said.
'150
agents' working Clinton Foundation probe: Ex-U.S. atty. Joseph DiGenova, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, said the FBI's
foundation probe "has reached such a proportion of inquiry that it's starting to sneak out," but that it was sparked months ago by information
pulled from Hillary Clinton's private server and from the tax filings of corporations that have donated to the charity. "There are now,
I am told, 150 agents working on this case," DiGenova told the Washington Examiner Monday [1/11/2016], noting that was "a very unusually
high number" of investigators to be working on one case.
FBI
expands Hillary e-mail probe to investigate corruption. The FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's secret e-mail server has expanded,
Fox News' Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne exclusively report, into a new and more personal direction. While continuing to press on
the question of whether Hillary violated the Espionage Act on more than 1300 occasions, they also now have reason to look into whether the former
Secretary of State used her office to enrich the family through the Clinton Foundation.
Key
to Hillary conspiracy to subvert classification system revealed? One of the mysteries of the Hillary email
scandal has been how over 1000 emails containing various levels of classified material were sent to Hillary without being
"marked" as classified. It is that lack of emails being "marked" classified "at the time" that is Hillary's central defense.
On September 25, 2015, Kemberlee wrote that there must have been some signal to State Department employees to send the
classified material without markings; there's just no way it could be coincidence and Hillary must have known
Clinton
Email Scandal Widens. Judicial Watch is asking for discovery concerning Hillary Clinton's emails in three separate
FOIA lawsuits against the State Department: [#1] Lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry to force action on
Clinton emails[,] [#2] Lawsuit for records of talking points given to Ambassador Rice regarding the attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi, Libya[,] [#3] Lawsuit for records on State Department's "Special Government Employment" status
for Clinton aide Huma Abedin[.] Notably, the OIG specifically cites our Benghazi and Abedin FOIA requests listed above as
being thwarted by the Clinton State Department's FOIA fraud. The OIG report also points the finger at Hillary Clinton's
then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills for supervising an "incorrect" no-records response to the left-wing watchdog CREW's request
asking about Hillary Clinton email accounts!
2016
Starts Bad For Hillary — Will It End Worse? The latest batch of Clinton's State Department emails
included one in which she told an aide to take a "secure fax," turn it "into nonpaper" and "send nonsecure." Some are saying
this is the smoking gun showing that Clinton broke the law by mishandling classified information. But of course, it's not
an isolated instance of poor decision-making on her part. So far, we know she's sent at least 1,340 emails that held classified
material via her personal, non-secure email. And her use of her personal email while at State might be leading to even deeper
trouble. Fox News is reporting that the FBI probe into her email "has expanded to look at whether the possible 'intersection' of
Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws." Emails aren't her only problem, though.
Hillary
Tries to Put Out the Fire. In recent days, attention has focused on an email exchange that Hillary Clinton had
with one of her principal aides, Jake Sullivan, in June 2011. As Paul noted here and here, some have characterized the
exchange as a smoking gun, demonstrating that Hillary improperly instructed Sullivan to send classified information by unsecure
email when an attempt to send by secure fax failed. If true, this would refute Hillary's last line of defense with regard to
her bizarre homebrew email setup, i.e., the claim that her home server was never used to send or receive classified information.
Clinton:
I didn't request classified information via email. A new batch of correspondence released Friday by the State Department includes a
2011 email in which Clinton, then secretary of state, asked an aide to send information by email after attempts to send the document through a secure
fax line failed.
The Editor says...
Whenever Bill or Hillary make a statement, parse it carefully to see where the loopholes are. If you have asked someone else to
send classified information via email to a third party, you can still claim you didn't request classified information via email.
Report:
FBI Email Probe Now Investigating Potential Clinton Foundation Corruption. According to reporting from Fox News, the FBI probe
of Hillary Clinton's email use has expanded and is now investigating whether the "intersection" of Clinton Foundation donations and State Department
decisions during Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State violated corruption laws. Three sources from the intelligence community confirmed the
probe's expansion to Fox's Catherine Herridge. "The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the
dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed," one source told Fox.
Hillary:
Look, My Latest Classified Email Problem is Just Another Fake Controversy. [Scroll down] One problem with
this explanation is that in light of Hillary's, shall we say, less than assiduous approach to handling classified
data, the notion that she'd be a stickler about sending sensitive, but unclassified, information through non-secure means
strains credulity. Plus, the talking points she was seeking at the time have since been redacted, as has the subject matter
of those talking points — albeit under the 'internal deliberations' FOIA exemption. Are we to believe that their
contents were not secret? Also, why else would she ask for identifying markings be stripped away before being 'sent nonsecure'?
FBI's
Clinton probe expands to public corruption track. The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private
email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible "intersection" of Clinton Foundation work and State
Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the
record told Fox News. This new investigative track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton's
personal server.
Hillary's EmailGate Goes Nuclear.
The latest court-ordered dump of her email, just placed online by the State Department, brings more troubles for Team Hillary. This release
of over 3,000 pages includes 66 "Unclassified" messages that the State Department subsequently determined actually were classified; however, all
but one of those 66 were deemed Confidential, the lowest classification level, while one was found to be Secret, bringing the total of Secret
messages discovered so far to seven. In all, 1,340 Hillary emails at State have been reassessed as classified.
Hillary's Email: It's a
Felony! Secretary Clinton continues to stand on her statement that none of the e-mail she sent or received had classified
markings. Other folks in the conversation comment that many of the e-mails Secretary Clinton wrote and received were "born classified,"
at the time she wrote or received them. We need to cut to the chase. Somebody committed a felony, likely several. If, as
some reports have indicated, there was certain overhead imagery, marked or unmarked on Secretary Clinton's e-mail server, someone committed
a serious crime. The way government information/automation systems are set up, someone had to take a deliberate series of felonious
actions in order for that imagery to get there.
Do
Hillary Clinton's Emails Expose A Scheme To Trade US Secrets For Political Influence? Back in August, I wrote a post titled The
real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets? As much as I loathe Hillary, this was a very serious question based on the facts
that we know. The IG representing the 17 US intelligence agencies identified two emails residing on Hillary Clinton's private, unsecure email
server as being properly classified as TS\TK, that is, the were classified Top Secret and compartmentalized under the code words Talent Keyhole which
indicates that it is imagery deriving from a KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.
The
real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets? While the media is focusing your attention on the shiny object
that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary Clinton, or members
of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it, traded it, or used it for
personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole.
Hillary's EmailGate Goes Nuclear. The
latest court-ordered dump of her email, just placed online by the State Department, brings more troubles for Team Hillary. This release of
over 3,000 pages includes 66 "Unclassified" messages that the State Department subsequently determined actually were classified; however, all
but one of those 66 were deemed Confidential, the lowest classification level, while one was found to be Secret, bringing the total of Secret
messages discovered so far to seven. In all, 1,340 Hillary emails at State have been reassessed as classified.
GOP
Benghazi committee member hopeful Hillary Clinton will be charged over classified emails. A Republican member
of the House Benghazi committee said he's "hopeful" the Justice Department will bring charges against Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton for having classified information on her private email server. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) said
there is increasing evidence "an enormous amount of information" on Clinton's private server is classified. "It was
classified when it was on her server and it was classified when it was sent," he said.
Hillary
ordered one of her flunkies to break the law. In its latest dump of 3,000-plus Hillary Clinton e-mails, the
State Department found another 66 to be classified, pushing the total over 1,300. But two of the non-classified messages
were eye-openers. One tacitly admits her own wrongdoing. The other orders a flunky to break the law on handling
classified info. [...] No word yet on whether [Jake] Sullivan obeyed the order, and so broke federal law — but it's
still smoking-gun evidence of a secretary of state ordering up a crime. Mind you, Hillary Clinton is a lawyer —
her degree is from Yale, no less.
The 8 must-read Hillary
Clinton emails. The State Department's releases of Hillary Clinton's emails are winding down but are still offering up
colorful glimpses into the former secretary of state's four years at Foggy Bottom. The latest batch of roughly 3,000 pages of
emails — which State posted in the wee hours of Friday morning after missing a court-ordered deadline to keep up its
schedule — showed the lavish praise heaped on Clinton, her aides' gallows humor, and struggles with technology that had
Clinton turning to unsecure forms of communication. It also showed how Sidney Blumenthal flooded the secretary's inbox with
intelligence and advice, some of which made its way to the White House.
At
least 1,340 Clinton emails now known to contain classified material. At least 1,340 emails that Hillary Clinton
sent or received contained classified material, according to the State Department's latest update from its ongoing review of
more than 30,000 emails. The State Department released a new batch of 3,007 pages of Clinton's emails after 1:30 a.m.
Friday [1/8/2016] in response to a court order. Of those, 66 contain classified information. None of Clinton's emails
was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly
classified at the time. Her aides also sent and received classified information.
The Bells Toll for Hillary. The Federal Bureau of
Investigation will recommend that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton and various of her aides, and soon. The
evidence consists of materials that the Bureau has gathered in the course of its months-long investigation of Mrs. Clinton's personal server. The
recommendations will come very soon. The charges will consist of some of the following: 1. Improper disclosure or retention of classified
information. 2. Destruction of government records. 3. Lying to federal agents. 4. Lying under oath.
5. Obstruction of justice. All the counts are familiar to those of us who have followed the Clintons for a quarter of a century, but, as one source
familiar with the FBI's investigation told me, the evidence has now reached a "critical mass."
Senator: Newly released Clinton
email 'disturbing'. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a scathing statement Friday [1/8/2016],
calling on Hillary Clinton to "come clean" after the State Department released an email in which she asked an aide to send information
on a non-secure system after attempts to send the document securely failed. Sen. Chuck Grassley said the email, released at
about 1:30 am Friday morning along with about 3,000 other emails from Clinton's State Department tenure, is "disturbing," and
"appears to show the former Secretary of State instructing a subordinate to remove the headings from a classified document and send
it to her in an unsecure manner."
Bombshell:
In Email, Hillary Ordered Aide to Strip Classified Marking and Send Sensitive Material. The State Department waited until the middle of the
night to execute its belated, court-ordered release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails — the ones she and her attorneys didn't
unilaterally delete with no oversight, that is. Fox News notices a significant exchange that may point to criminal conduct: [...]
Watchdog:
Clinton email responses 'inaccurate and incomplete'. The State Department has been providing "inaccurate and incomplete" responses to
requests for emails and other documents involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a watchdog says in a new report released Thursday
[1/7/2016]. The 29-page IG report says the leadership of the State Department "has not played a meaningful role in overseeing or reviewing
the quality" of the responses to requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Scathing
IG Report On Hillary Email Account Puts David Brock In A Bind. [A] report from the State Department's Office of
the Inspector General about the agency's improper handling of public records requests for information on Hillary Clinton's
email account has put David Brock, one of the former secretary of state's most dogged supporters, in an awkward position.
Brock, a former foe of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has been the public face of the campaign to downplay the Clinton email scandal.
He's made numerous media appearances defending the Democratic presidential candidate, spinning her numerous inconsistent statements
and portraying the whole affair as a throwback to the anti-Clinton attacks of the 1990s.
State dumps
thousands of Clinton emails at 1 a.m.. State Department officials released roughly 2,900 pages of Hillary Clinton's private emails
early Friday morning [1/82016], several hours past their target of late Thursday evening. State first set a broad target of somewhere between
6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday. But as the night wore on, that shifted to a 2 a.m. estimate. They were finally released right
around 1 a.m. The late release was on top of State's failure to release all the emails by New Year's Eve. Instead of releasing
everything on Dec. 31, State said it needed another few days to finish the group of Clinton messages.
State
Department gave 'inaccurate' answer on Clinton email use, review says. Two years before the public learned of
Hillary Clinton's private server, the State Department gave an "inaccurate and incomplete" response about her email use when
it told an outside group that it had no documents about Clinton's email accounts beyond her government address, according to
a report from the State Department's inspector general to be released Thursday [1/7/2016]. The State Department made its
statement in response to a 2012 records request from the independent watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW). The response came even though Clinton's chief of staff, who knew about the secretary's private account,
was aware of the inquiry, the report says. In addition, the IG review found that agency staffers had not searched Clinton's
office for emails.
A vast left-wing conspiracy: State
Department covered up Hillary's private email server for years even though 'dozens of senior officials' knew about it, says scathing inspector general
report. The U.S. State Department told a watchdog group in 2013 that it didn't have any information about former secretary Hillary Clinton's
emails, even though 'dozens of senior officials' knew she was using a private server for all her electronic communications. A report released Thursday
[1/7/2016] by the agency's inspector general — a powerful and impartial internal investigator — described a cavalier culture about
transparency inside Clinton's agency, saying that 177 requests for documents about Clinton are still 'pending' nearly three years after she left office.
The Freedom of Information Act requires federal agencies to respond to requests for information within 20 business days.
Hillary
Clinton's State Department bungled many public records requests, watchdog report says. The State Department produced "inaccurate and
incomplete" responses to public records requests while Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton led the department, including its inability to
find documents showing she used a private email account for official business, the agency's watchdog reported Thursday [1/7/2016].
Clinton's
private email account exploits FOIA loophole, report says. Hillary Clinton's unorthodox use of a private email
account and personal server for government business exploited a loophole in the State Department's FOIA, or Freedom of
Information Act, process, according to the findings of the first Inspector General report to stem from her email scandal.
Congress asked the Office of Inspector General, the State Department's independent watchdog, to investigate the issue following
the revelation that Mrs. Clinton did not use a government email account while secretary of state.
Former
federal prosecutor says Hillary could be indicted in the next 60 days as the FBI compiles 'overwhelming' evidence against her.
Joe DiGenova, a one-time federal prosecutor originally appointed by President Reagan, told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday [1/5/2016]
that the FBI's still-pending investigation of Clinton's email server seems to have reached 'a critical mass.' Congressional Republicans
last spring discovered that Clinton used a private, home-based email server in her New York home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to
2013. The scandal has dogged her presidential campaign for almost the entire past year.
Could
Obama be planning a huge surprise for the 2016 election? The U.K. Daily Mail reports that Joe DiGenova, a one-time federal prosecutor,
told radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday [1/5/2016] "that the FBI's still-pending investigation of Clinton's email server seems to have reached 'a
critical mass.'" Further, "[a] recommendation for prosecution would not only roil the presidential race, but would put President Barack Obama
in an unbelievably difficult position." All well and good, but [...] there are two things we know about Barack: one, he has an infinite
capacity for self-delusion, and two, he hates both Clintons. So here's a prediction: if Clinton gets indicted, Michelle Obama gets the
Obama team's nod for the nomination. Can Barack and Michelle pull such a thing off? No, but the point is that they will think they can.
Hillary Will Be Indicted Says Former
U.S. Attorney. A former U.S. Attorney predicts a Watergate-style showdown in the Department of Justice if Attorney General Loretta Lynch
overrules a potential FBI recommendation to indict Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. "The [FBI] has so much information about
criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk away from this," Joseph diGenova, formerly the District of Columbia's U.S.
Attorney, told Laura Ingraham in a Tuesday [1/5/2016] radio interview. "They are going to make a recommendation that people be charged and then
Loretta Lynch is going to have the decision of a lifetime. "I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that,
unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general.
It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable."
Former
U.S. Attorney: Hillary Could Face Indictment Within 60 Days. A former U.S. attorney predicted this week that Hillary Clinton "will not
make it to the finish line" in 2016 because she will soon be facing a criminal indictment from the FBI. During an appearance on Laura Ingraham's
radio show Tuesday [1/5/2016], famed attorney Joseph DiGenova said that the FBI has "reached a critical mass in their investigation of the secretary and
all of her senior staff" and predicted that it would come to a head "in the next 60 days." DiGenova, who rose to national prominence during the
Clinton scandals of the '90s, told Ingraham that if Attorney General Loretta Lynch refuses to indict Clinton, there will be a "massive revolt inside the
FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an Attorney General."
Will Hillary be indicted? Joseph
diGenova, a well-respected former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, predicted today that Hillary Clinton will be indicted for crimes connected
with her use of a private email server for State Department business. He made this prediction on Laura Ingraham's radio program. For Hillary
to be indicted, the FBI would have to call for an indictment and the Attorney General would have to approve the recommendation. FBI director James
Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are both Obama appointees. Comey has a reputation as a straight shooter. In part, that reputation
derives from the independence he displayed as a high-ranking Justice Department official during the administration of President George W. Bush.
Rumor
Mill: Hillary Facing Criminal Indictment, Obama 2016 Surprise in the Works. Opinions on Hillary Clinton's chances in 2016 come in two forms
with not much in between: "It ain't happening" and "Hillary's got it locked in." We may soon find out which one of those prognostications is
right. Washington insiders are saying that the evidence in the FBI's investigation into Clinton's "unique email arrangement" has reached "critical
mass." The American Spectator's R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. joins former prosecutor Joe DiGenova in predicting that a decision to indict is
coming soon.
Clinton's
Staff Vetted Public Records Requests, Emails Show. Hillary Clinton's top aide was closely involved in vetting a
politically sensitive document requested under public information laws, according to emails from the Department of State released
on Thursday [12/31/2015]. Public records officials at the State Department sought clearance from Clinton's chief of staff,
Cheryl Mills, in 2012 before releasing a memo related to the Bush administration's enhanced interrogation program. The email
corroborates a Wall Street Journal article last May that reported that Mills had been involved in vetting documents requested
under the Freedom of Information Act, a process that is typically expected to be independent of political influence.
Emails
Show Hillary Met At State Department With Sidney Blumenthal. During the fallout from her use of a personal email account, Hillary
Clinton has attempted to downplay her working relationship with Sidney Blumenthal, but emails released last week show that the two met at her
State Department office in 2012. Blumenthal has proved a thorn in the Democratic presidential candidate's side. The former
journalist, who worked as an aide in the Bill Clinton White House, frequently emailed Clinton intelligence that he had gleaned from
undisclosed sources. [...] In distancing herself from Blumenthal, Clinton has claimed that his emails were "unsolicited."
New
'secret' message among Clinton's emails as classification rate spikes again. The State Department has decided
that yet another of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails contains "secret" information, and has classified hundreds more
at a lower level of secrecy — part of Thursday afternoon's release of more than 3,000 messages from her unique
email arrangement. The secret message was deemed "unclassified" at the time it was sent, but has been elevated as
officials process and release more than 30,000 of Mrs. Clinton's emails, which she belatedly returned to the government
nearly two years after she left office.
State
Department releases over 3,000 Clinton emails on New Year's Eve. The State Department on Thursday released over
3,000 of Hillary Clinton's personal emails from her time as Secretary of State, marking the last of the major document dumps
of the year. Still, the agency said Thursday [12/31/2015] that it will fall short of the mandate to release 82 percent
of Clinton's total emails by the end of 2015, blaming the holiday schedule and the sheer number of documents involved.
State
Dept. breaks judge's deadline on Clinton emails. The State Department broke a judge's order on the number of former Secretary
Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails it was supposed to release Thursday [12/31/2015], blaming the holiday season for throwing it off track.
The department promised another release of emails next week to make up for its breach, and said even the emails it was releasing Thursday
will not be fully processed and won't be able to be sorted by senders or recipients in the department's computer system.
State
Department to Fall Short on Today's Hillary Clinton Email Release. The U.S. State Department just released
5,552 pages of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's private email, the second to last installment of the court-mandated
roll-out. But in a statement sent to the press this afternoon, the State Department said it had fallen short of the
court's order to release 82 percent of the documents by today. Only about 76 percent are available online.
NOW
more than 1,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails have been deemed classified. The State Department released another
5,500 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails just hours before the New Year's Eve ball is set to drop. The dump was originally
supposed to be much bigger, instead of the just 3,100 messages the public can now browse. The total number of Clinton's
emails now deemed classified has climbed to 1,274, according to Politico, with 275 messages in this most recent cache being
retroactively given the classified distinction. Two emails released in the latest batch have been designated as 'secret,'
the second-highest level of classification.
State Department still doesn't have
all of Clinton's emails. Despite the high-profile release of Hillary Clinton's emails each month, voters are unlikely to get a
chance to read all of her correspondence. That's because Clinton failed to hand over all her work emails, despite being asked to do so
repeatedly, and the State Department is not searching for them elsewhere. The Democratic front-runner for president said she is unable to
access emails she sent or received in her first two months as secretary of state in 2009 because her emails were not yet being captured on her
private computer server.
State
Department releases more Hillary Clinton emails marked "classified". The State Department on Thursday released around 5,500 pages
of Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary of state, in its continued effort to comply with a court order and Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests. Since earlier this year, Clinton has been under fire for using a private email account and private server to conduct business,
rather than an official State Department address. Questions about her email account have died down since Clinton addressed the issue at length
during an 11-hour hearing of the House Benghazi Committee.
Hillary's
Server, Monica's Blue Dress, and History. What the server's e-mails indicate is that on the night that four
Americans were murdered in Benghazi, Hillary e-mailed the truth of how they died to her daughter. She told Chelsea that
the Americans were the victims of an organized terrorist attack. She later admitted that to the Egyptian prime minister
also. Nonetheless she signed a public statement from the State Department proclaiming that the Americans were the victims
of a riot provoked by a YouTube video. After lying to the American people the evening of the attack, she repeated the lie
to the victims' relatives when their bodies were flown in to Joint Base Andrews. Moreover, she stood by her false account
when she testified to the House Select Committee. There are other untruths that have been passed on from Hillary's server.
She has lied about arranging lecture fees from her State Department office for the gifted Bill Clinton. There are lies about
arranging donations for her family foundation, her forthcoming political campaign, and her own speaking fees. There are lies
on the topic of influence pedaling and on whom she kept in contact with.
FBI
Probe Focuses on Hillary's 'Materially False' Statements. The FBI has expanded its probe into the private email
arrangement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to determine if there's any evidence she violated a federal false
statements law, Fox News reports. According to Fox News, unnamed intelligence sources say the agency is now focusing on
U.S. Code 18, Section 1001 — a provision that pertains to "materially false" statements given either in writing,
orally or through a third party — a felony punishable by five years in prison.
State
Dept. plans New Year's Eve release of Clinton emails. Thousands of Hillary Clinton's private emails will hit
the Internet on New Year's Eve thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that permits the State Department to wait until
the end of each month to release the documents. The holiday email release will mark the eighth time the agency has
published a batch of Clinton's records according to the monthly schedule.
Sources:
Review affirms Clinton server emails were 'top secret,' despite department challenge. An intelligence community
review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed "top secret" when they hit Hillary Clinton's unsecured personal
server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review.
The sources described the dispute over whether the two emails were classified at the highest level as a "settled matter."
The agencies that owned and originated that intelligence — the CIA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or
NGA — reviewed the emails to determine how they should be properly stored, as the State Department took issue with
their highly classified nature. The subject matter of the messages is widely reported to be the movement of North Korean
missiles and a drone strike.
Clinton
aide key focus in FBI server investigation. More than 100 days after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying
before the House committee investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack, a key Hillary Clinton aide is at the center of the separate and ongoing
investigation by the FBI into Clinton's use of a private unsecured server while she was secretary of state. That former staffer, Bryan
Pagliano, set up the controversial private email server in Clinton's home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Pagliano is believed to be the only witness
publicly identified during the politically charged hearings on Benghazi to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
State
Department belatedly finds 1300 emails on Anwar Al-Awlaki. The State Department has belatedly discovered about
1,300 emails relating to deceased Islamic cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki in official accounts belonging to top aides to former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, more than four years after a conservative group requested all such records, a new court
filing reports. At a federal court hearing in Washington last month, Justice Department attorneys assigned to the case
brought by Judicial Watch told a federal judge that State's "executive secretariat" — the repository of records
for the secretary's office — was searched in response to the initial Freedom of Information Act request from
Judicial Watch.
State
Dept. cannot find emails of Clinton IT staffer. The State Department cannot find emails sent by former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's IT staffer Bryan Pagliano who helped setup Clinton's private email server, a State
Department official told Fox News on Friday [12/11/2015]. Alec Gerlach, a State Department spokesman, told Fox News
investigators working on recovering Pagliano's emails from the server "have not yet located a .pst that covers the time
period of Secretary's Clinton tenure."
State
Department Can't Find Emails For Hillary's IT Guy. The State Department says it cannot find copies or backups
of emails from the account of Bryan Pagliano, the State Department IT staffer who was paid by Hillary Clinton to maintain her
private email server while she served as secretary of state. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed the
finding in a letter sent Friday [12/11/2015] to Sec. of State John Kerry which was obtained by Politico. Grassley has considered
granting immunity to Pagliano, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during testimony in front of
the House Select Committee on Benghazi in September.
The Editor says...
This fellow really is an IT guru, if he can make himself disappear from the internet.
Here's
Why the Media Stopped Reporting on Clinton's New Emails. Hillary Clinton told the media not just once but several times that her
secret e-mail server did not transmit or store sensitive or classified information. The Clinton e-mail story broke in March when The
New York Times provided the first public notice that the former Secretary of State had exclusively used a personal server for her electronic
communications rather than an official and secured government e-mail system — a fact that only came to light through a congressional
investigation into the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi. For four years, the State Department had told Congress and federal courts
reviewing FOIA petitions that Secretary Clinton had sent no e-mails responsive to their demands, thanks to the subterfuge of Clinton's system
and the obstruction of legitimate oversight that it produced.
Senators
probe possible leaks in Clinton email review. Two top Republican senators have written directly to Secretary of
State John Kerry and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about possible leaks from their departments on the
review of Hillary Clinton's emails that left the wrong impression that two "Top Secret" messages were not that sensitive.
Fox News has confirmed the letter was sent by Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen.
Richard Burr, R-N.C., who heads the powerful Intelligence Committee, on November 13. Copies were sent to the intelligence
community and State Department watchdogs, known as the Inspectors General. The IGs were asked to conduct an independent review
of the process.
As
Hillary Runs, Marine Will Be Ousted for Emailing Classified Documents. A Marine and U.S. Naval Academy graduate
who self-reported that he improperly stored classified documents will be separated from the Marine Corps Reserve following a
decision by Assistant Navy Secretary Juan Garcia, the Washington Post reported Monday [11/30/2015]. Maj. Jason Brezler's
emails warned officials about the corruption, including homosexual pedophilia, of an Afghan police chief named Anwar Jan, whose
servant later killed three Marines and wounded a fourth.
Shock
Email: Hillary Claimed She 'Lost A Bunch Of Emails' When She Switched Blackberries. Hillary Clinton told an
email correspondent in February 2012 that she lost his email along with a bunch of others when she switched Blackberry
devices. "Dear Hank," Clinton wrote to Massachusetts state representative Harold Naughton on Feb. 5, 2012.
"When I switched blackberries last week, I lost a bunch of emails, including yours."
Clinton
records reveal discrepancies in her official calendar. The documents, obtained by the Associated Press through
a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, indicated Clinton met with nearly 100 corporate executives who have also donated
extensively to her campaign and to her family's foundation. Meeting lists showed Clinton welcomed executives who had
commercial interests on her desk, raising further questions about whether the then-former and future presidential candidate
took any steps to shield herself from the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Emails
show Clinton staff asked NFL for help spinning her concussion, the State Department blacked out its list of Hillary's
'achievements' and Madame Secretary couldn't find 'Homeland' on her TV. Hillary Clinton needed help finding the
Showtime network on her cable box so she could watch 'Homeland' — according to an email the State Department
released Monday [11/30/2015]. Her chief communications guru asked National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell for
help spinning the press on the dangers of her December 2012 concussion, according to another message. The State Department
completely censored a third, which appeared to consist of a bullet-pointed list of four Clinton 'accomplishments' as secretary
of state, determining it wasn't fit for disclosure under the Freedom Of Information Act's guidelines.
Henry:
Indication Of More Classified Information Contained In Hillary Clinton's Emails. The State Department released
another batch of the emails on Hillary Clinton's private server, and with that more indications Clinton possessed classified
information on her unsecured private account according to Ed Henry. "The bigger picture, the broader point here is
Hillary Clinton back in March said no classified information on this server and as we continue to see the drip-drip there are
indications, of course, that there are dozens of those emails already come out that did have classified information," Henry said.
Nearly 1,000
Clinton emails had classified info. The State Department's latest release of Hillary Clinton documents brings
the total number of Clinton emails known to contain classified material to nearly 1,000. The department on Monday [11/30/2015]
released its largest batch of emails yet, posting 7,800 pages of the former secretary of state's communications. The
latest batch contains 328 emails deemed to have classified information. According to the State Department, that brings
the total number with classified information to 999.
Do
Hillary's Emails Confirm Clinton-Obama Enmity? The State Department released several thousand emails today
[11/30/2015]. Out of curiosity, I searched for "Sid" and was rewarded with nine pages of documents — including,
as always, duplicates. Sid Blumenthal ranked high on the list of those who emailed directly to Hillary at her off-the-books,
unsecured address; most such communications were forwarded to her by Huma Abedin or Cheryl Mills. Reading Blumenthal's
emails, one is reminded of the fact that he is an "old friend" of Hillary's, as she told a Congressional committee, and has
no such relationship with Barack Obama.
State
Dept. set to release 7,800 new Clinton emails. State Department officials are set to release roughly 7,800
pages of Hillary Clinton's private emails Monday amid new speculation about the former secretary of state's official meeting
schedule. The email production Monday afternoon will kick off a countdown to the final two Clinton email releases, which
will take place at the end of December and January respectively.
Hillary
and the mystery of the vanishing woman who decided which of her emails were to be erased:. Heather Samuelson
was the Clinton aide who was tasked to go through the former secretary of state's emails and then, later on, was to take a
job with the 2016 campaign. But, according to Politico, Samuelson made the move — from Washington, D.C.
to New York, as Clinton's campaign is headquartered in Brooklyn — but never started her campaign job.
Hillary's
Private Email Server Used by Aide to Converse with Known Islamic Activist. As the investigation continues into
Hillary Clinton's alleged illegal use of her own private server for official State Department business, investigators have
also been looking into the emails of some of her top aides that also used her private server. One of those aides is Huma
Abedin who for most of Clinton's time as Secretary of State was her closet aide and confidant.
Beyond
Emails: Embassy Classified Info Unprotected Under Hillary Clinton. There is a largely unknown security scandal
emerging, which centers not on the doomed U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, but on the American Embassy in Tripoli about
400 miles away. This scandal, combined with classified information on Clinton's private server and sensitive material
looted from the dangerously unprotected Benghazi compound, may spell trouble in Hillary Clinton-land, especially in regard to the
presidential candidate's national security credentials.
Comey
Can Nail Hillary — But Will He? FBI Director James Comey probably holds the fate of the presumptive Democrat
nominee, Hillary Clinton, in his hands, as his agency investigates her use of a private server for official government emails.
Whether Comey will handle the matter as a principled and honest policeman or as a conniving politician is the great unknown.
Report:
FBI Investigating Whether 'Materially False' Statements [were] Given In Hillary Email Probe. Sources familiar
with the investigation told Fox News that agents are focusing on U.S. Code 18, Section 1001 which governs "materially false"
statements made in writing, orally or through a third party. The section could apply to Clinton, her aides or her attorneys
if they made any misleading or false statements about her emails which caused federal agents to expend more resources and time on
the investigation. Violations of the code are punishable by up to five years in prison.
Why
Hillary has a Martha Stewart problem — and why she's likely safe. Looks like Hillary Clinton has a
Martha Stewart problem. Stewart went to prison for lying to federal investigators. She wasn't under oath when she
did — but it was still a crime. Other violators include Bernie Madoff, Bush-era White House aide Scooter Libby and
Illinois then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Politico and Fox News report the FBI has expanded its probe of Clinton's use of that
"home-brewed" e-mail server. As Fox puts it, "agents [are] exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal
false-statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case." The statute targets "materially
false" comments "either in writing, orally or through a third party."
What lies are the FBI going to unearth
in the Hillary Clinton server scandal? The ongoing dumpster fire for Democrats that was Hillary Clinton's insanely risky
email security strategy — to put it in the simplest terms, she didn't have one — has sparked a lot of concern,
speculation, and cynicism. The concern is: What did Hillary Clinton's incompetence reveal to our rivals and enemies?
The speculation is: What will the FBI find? And the cynicism is: At what point will Barack Obama swoop in
and derail the investigation? Well, this latest report from Fox News suggests that the answer to the third question is The
FBI is still being allowed to do its job.
The
Scandal We Were Told Was Over Just Won't Go Away. Clinton might still be the Democrats' candidate, but she's not outrunning
her email scandal, no matter how happy her media supporters are. First, multiple news sources have reported that the investigation
into the personal email account managed by a private server that she used while secretary of state has been ramped up. Fox News
disclosed Thursday [11/12/2015] "the FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple
statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case."
Judge
Rules Against Judicial Watch's Attempt To Speed Up Email Release. A judge ruled against a conservative group trying to
speed up the release of some of Hillary Clinton's emails related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, according to the Hill. Federal
Judge Amit Mehta said it would be potentially risky to release the 242 emails, which are already on track to be released by next February
because of a separate lawsuit. The group conservative group Judicial Watch asked for the 242 emails to be taken from the larger
spread of emails set to be released by next February. The emails were either sent or received by Clinton, and were requested under
a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch. The larger spread includes about 55,000 pages of emails Clinton
flagged as related to her work.
Top
Hillary Aide Signed, Failed To Comply With State Dept 'Separation Agreement'. That aide, Huma Abedin, maintained control of emails
she sent and received through a personal email account hosted on Clinton's private email server for nearly two-and-a-half years after she left
the agency in Feb. 2013. In signing the form — called the OF-109 — but failing to turn over State Department records,
Abedin may have opened herself up to criminal charges.
Court
blow for Clinton: Judge orders release of 700 new docs. A federal judge ordered the State Department Tuesday [11/10/2015] to
provide 700 new pages of records from Hillary Clinton's former office by Dec. 1, paving the way for a spate of document releases
that could continue well into next year. The order by Judge Rudolph Contreras pushed agency officials to finish searching documents
from Clinton's time as secretary of State, including emails, memos and notes, by the end of the year, according to court documents
obtained by the Washington Examiner.
FBI
expands probe of Clinton emails, launches independent classification review. The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary
Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence
sources familiar with the ongoing case. Fox News is told agents are looking at U.S. Code 18, Section 1001, which
pertains to "materially false" statements given either in writing, orally or through a third party. Violations also include
pressuring a third party to conspire in a cover-up. Each felony violation is subject to five years in prison.
FBI steps up
interviews in Clinton email probe. Even as Hillary Clinton tries to put questions about her private email
server behind her, the FBI has stepped up inquiries into the security of the former secretary of state's home-made email
system and how aides communicated over email, POLITICO has learned. The FBI's recent moves suggest that its inquiry
could have evolved from the preliminary fact-finding stage that the agency launches when it receives a credible referral,
according to former FBI and Justice Department officials interviewed by POLITICO.
Signs
emerge FBI investigation of Hillary emails has moved to a new, more serious stage. Momentum is a concept that
applies to criminal investigations almost as much as it does to sports teams. And from the signs available, it looks as if
the probe into potential criminality in the Hillary email scandal has got the Big Mo. Despite the FBI's efforts to remain
tight-lipped over the ongoing investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, it looks as though substantial resources
are being devoted, so that a political kill of the query would be difficult to justify if push comes to shove. Politico has
been interviewing as many people as it can, both on and off the record, to get a sense of where the investigation is leading,
and the indications are that Hillary should be worried.
17
of Hillary Clinton's Worst Email Lies. Word came late yesterday that the FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary
Clinton's mishandling of classified files. A former assistant director of the FBI, Tom Fuentes, notes that "it's [likely]
more than a preliminary inquiry; it sounds like a full-blown investigation ...When you have this amount of resources going
into it ... I think it's at the investigative level."
The
FBI's Clinton Email Probe Just Took A New Turn. The FBI has expanded its probe into Hillary Clinton's personal
email system to what one analyst is calling a "full-blown investigation," Politico is reporting. The FBI has interviewed a
former State Department official about how Clinton aides communicated over email. And last month, the agency requested
records from a data broker Clinton hired to find companies to manage her private email system after she left office in early 2013.
Is
the FBI Closing in on Hillary? According to Dr. Monica Crowley, quoted below, [FBI Director James] Comey is
closely overseeing his crack cyber-forensic team, which has masterfully managed to do what many claimed couldn't be done:
they accessed the files on Hillary Clinton's "wiped" email server. If they find ample evidence to indict her, as Crowley
intimates below, and the Justice Department decides not to pursue charges, many political pundits foresee Comey resigning, or
looking the other way when whatever illegal activity they found starts to leak.
Whitewashing
Hillary — step one in shutting down the FBI's probe. Hmm. [James] Clapper answers to the president —
who issued clear marching orders months ago, announcing that Clinton's server scam was "not a situation in which America's national security
was endangered." Oddly, news of Clapper's finding got leaked to Politico soon after the Washington Free Beacon reported Clinton did
indeed, right after taking over at State, acknowledge her responsibility to properly guard classified info — and that "negligent
handling" of it could bring criminal penalties. Until the Beacon broke that news, even the State Department was unclear on whether
Clinton ever signed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement. By so doing, she promised not to put classified
info at risk — by, say, storing it on a home-brewed email server.
Three Pinocchios: Hillary
Clinton's claim that 90 percent of her emails were 'in the system'. Clinton clearly erred in saying that the
"90 to 95 percent" figure was from the State Department. This is her own staff's calculation, and she should
correct the record. While not all of the e-mails she submitted to the State Department have been released, what has been
made available so far suggests that a substantial majority are to and from at least one "state.gov" e-mail address. It
is not an unreasonable assumption that these e-mails are contained somewhere within the bowels of the State Department.
But Clinton cannot make a definitive statement and certainly cannot attribute that to the State Department.
Hillary
Clinton's Secrets Contract Should [End] Her Candidacy. Massive government is usually viewed as functioning
top-down: The elected politician tries to guide the bureaucracies, directives routinely get distorted, and the end result
includes horrors such as little old ladies being manhandled as potential terrorists at airports. In the case of Clinton
becoming secretary of state in 2009, however, it worked bottom-up, and accomplished something quite sensible. Thanks to an
open records request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a key non-disclosure agreement the beleaguered front-runner for
the Democrats' presidential nomination signed is now public.
Clinton
Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info. A day after assuming office as
secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal
penalties for "any unauthorized disclosure" of classified information. Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an
agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records
request and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, reveals for the first time the exact language of the NDA.
Clinton
Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info. As the nation's chief diplomat,
Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that
"negligent handling" of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed
upon taking the job. A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented
Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for "any unauthorized disclosure" of classified information.
Hillary
signed State Department contract saying it was HER job to know if documents were classified top secret. Hillary
Clinton's claim that she was unaware top secret documents on her private email server were highly classified took a hit on
Friday [11/6/2015], with the revelation of a State Department contract she signed in 2009. The 'Sensitive Compartmented Information
Nondisclosure Agreement,' which Clinton inked during her second day as Secretary of State, declared that she was personally responsible
for determining if sensitive documents in her possession were classified at the government's highest level.
FBI
found TOP SECRET info in Hillary emails, evidence enough to charge Clinton. Fox News' Monica Crowley revealed
that several anonymous sources indicated to her that the FBI has found confidential "top secret" information on Hillary's
private email account, and that this is enough to press charges against her for obstruction. [Video clip]
The Benghazi Hearings.
The presence of a server in her home, the attempts to hide it, to prevent anyone seeing any email at all, speak volumes. In the absence of
recorded or filmed conversations, emails are the most solid evidence we can have. Why was she not conducting business on State Department
security approved computers and devices? Federal law requires official communications to be preserved. The object is a clean and
transparent government responsive to the citizens they serve. At one point Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration in
history — but that was then and this is now.
Hillary's
emails show paranoia about GOP. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's paranoia about Republicans
permeates her emails, where even a common error message on an undelivered email prompted her to speculated —
presumably jokingly — that the "neocons" must be reading her mail. The jabs at the Republicans were just part
of the more than 4,000 new messages released Friday [10/30/2015] in the latest dump from Mrs. Clinton's four years at the State
Department, when her unique email arrangement shielded some of her communications from public view.
The Truth About Hillary.
In office, Clinton's use of an unsecured private email server ought to have been an impeachable offense for the "high crime"
of being too inept at her job to keep it. Clintonemail.com was the high-tech equivalent of sending old-fashioned radio
communications unencrypted over public airwaves all across the globe. In the old days, a King would have summarily executed
his foreign minister for such treachery. These days, the King gives her his tacit blessing to become his successor.
Looking
at the latest round of Hillary's emails. In case you haven't been following the Hillary Clinton email scandal
lately, the most recent round of emails from Hillary's private server were dropped yesterday, and the news just keeps getting
worse for the presidential aspirant. As you might expect, there's plenty of important information we can mine from this.
The exchange over the former Secretary's struggles with emojis seems to have gotten the most press, but we should not let that be
the shiny object that distracts us from far more important things contained within the latest release.
'Unsolicited?':
Emails Show Blumenthal Drafted Speech Hillary Gave In 2009. Far from providing just "unsolicited" advice to
Hillary Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal appears to have authored a draft of at least one of the Democratic presidential
frontrunner's speeches during her time as secretary of state at her behest. Blumenthal has drawn controversy for the
stream of emails he sent to Clinton during her time as secretary of state, especially those providing supposed intelligence
on Libya. After serving as an adviser during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, Blumenthal was barred by the Obama
administration from working with Clinton when she was confirmed as secretary of state.
Did
Hillary Emails Put State Department In Compromised Position? Government officials routinely make Friday afternoon document dumps
knowing that the news coverage and public interest will be weak. It's their way of hiding what should be out in the open. Friday's [10/30/2015]
deposit of emails might turn up the evidence many are looking for. But it will take time before the entire tranche can be scrutinized.
If there's gun in there that's still smoking, it's unlikely to be uncovered right away.
Sid
Blumenthal Emailed Hillary About 'Setting Up Secret Channels Between Insurgents And Governments'. Emails released by the State Department
on Friday [10/30/2015] show that Hillary Clinton's longtime friend Sidney Blumenthal reached out to her on behalf of a former United Kingdom diplomat
who was interested in "setting up secret channels between insurgents and governments." Clinton was receptive to the idea which came via
Blumenthal from Jonathan Powell, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff.
Classification
rate continues to rise in Clinton emails. The rate of classified information in former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton's emails continues to spike, with another 266 in the latest release Friday [10/30/2015]. That means one out of every 16
emails Mrs. Clinton sent or received in this latest batch now have information classified as "confidential," meaning it requires at
least some degree of secrecy — posing still more questions about Mrs. Clinton's decision to reject use of an official,
secure email account.
'ServerGate
For Dummies': 10 Hillary Email Answers. Some might ask: Why would anyone want or need such a setup in their
home? How would it be used? And for that matter, what exactly is a server? IBD got the answers to this,
and more, from a quartet of cybersecurity professionals. The answers weren't always clear, as even the experts often
couldn't reach a consensus on some questions. But all agreed on one critical issue: If Clinton thought the setup
would give her extra security, then she was delusional. No computer network is impenetrable, the experts say, and
there is evidence that she didn't use the most secure options available.
Clinton
paying a price now for her 2012 Benghazi lies. In 1973 and 1974, many in the media wanted to see Richard Nixon
disgraced and removed from office. In 2015, many in the media don't want to see the only plausible candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination disgraced and rendered unelectable. [...] And in both cases, despite claims of partisan
witch hunts, the committees unearthed legitimately revealing material which the target sought to keep secret. The Watergate
committee discovered the Nixon tapes. The Benghazi Committee discovered Hillary Clinton's home-brew email system.
Hillary's Attorney Concedes Criminal
Behavior — Months of Official Emails Are "Missing". Federal law states that agencies that allow federal employees
to use non-government email systems must ensure that federal records are preserved in the appropriate recordkeeping system. "Agencies
that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal
records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system." [36 C.F.R. 1236.24(b)]
Effort
to recover missing Clinton emails fails. An attorney for Hillary Clinton says it's not possible to recover
emails missing from the former secretary of State's personal server, according to The Wall Street Journal. Emails from
Clinton's first two months on the job were missing from the batch of 30,000 emails turned over last year. David Kendall,
an attorney for Clinton, said in a letter to the State Department this month that the lost emails proved irretrievable due to
technical errors in the server when it was first created.
The Editor says...
Mr. Kendall might want to patent those "errors" and sell them to anyone else who wants to build an email server that doesn't
leave any residual evidence when messages are deleted.
State
Can't Verify Clinton Email Claim Made At Benghazi Hearing. One of the sticking points in Mrs. Clinton's testimony
in front of the Benghazi panel was her claim that 90% to 95% of her work emails were automatically preserved in the State Department's
system. [...] But State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Friday [10/23/2015] said the figure is something her campaign is using and
referred questions to them for "the rationale or the background behind it." "I'm not aware that we have given that figure," he
said at a press briefing. "I'm not in a position right now to confirm that."
State
Dept. Cannot Confirm Clinton's Email Claim At Benghazi Hearing. The State Department said that it could not
confirm a figure Hillary Clinton cited during testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday, suggesting
that it was fashioned by her presidential campaign. The Wall Street Journal reported that a State Department
spokesman said Friday that the agency could not "confirm" Clinton's claim that between 90 and 95 percent of her work emails
were already preserved in the State Department's computer system because she emailed other government officials on their
work accounts.
DOJ
Officials Fear Foreign Telecoms Hacked Clinton Emails, Server. Officials close to the matter at the Department of Justice are
concerned the emails Hillary Clinton sent from her personal devices while overseas on business as U.S. Secretary of State were breached by
foreign telecoms in the countries she visited — a list which includes China. "Her emails could have easily been hacked into
by telecoms in these countries. They got the emails first, and then routed them back to her home server. They could have hacked
into both," one Justice Department official close to the matter says.
DOJ believes China telecoms hacked
Hillary's insecure bathroom email server. Over at Fox Business News, Elizabeth MacDonald reveals that the Obama
administration is doing everything in its power to destroy Hillary Clinton's campaign. In this case, insiders at the Department
of Justice have leaked stunning new information regarding Hillary Clinton's illegal bathroom email server.
Hillary
as first prisoner-in-chief. There's very little stigma now for celebrities serving time. Even a Clinton is not guilty until
a judge and jury says she isn't, and there may be a judge and jury lurking in Hillary's future. Cities and states routinely send aldermen,
judges, mayors and governors to prison. Illinois, from whence Hillary sprang, needs an entire gubernatorial wing at state prison.
Prison could strengthen the character of any president as he (or she) reflects on life from the inside of a cell block.
Why
did Hillary copy classified historical State Dept. files to her private server? Why was Hillary Clinton transferring/extracting
data from secure, and monitored, classified State Department data bases, into her non-secure private email server? What else was data-mined
and extracted from government accounts, that could/would be discovered with a thorough forensics investigation into the private server?
She wasn't just reading them, she was extracting them. Why would she be doing this, if not to build a shadow file for use at a later date?
'Smoking
gun' emails just released by UK Daily Mail prove Hillary a bigger liar than Tony Blair. [Scroll down] But
much more important to me than this UK-centric story is what we learn about Hillary Clinton's emails. Take a look at the memo
itself, the top line in the left had column. [Illustration] This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as my friend Mike
Nadler says, "she lied in her numerous statements that there were no classified documents on her server, even with her later
qualification that none were marked classified at the time." At the time she was doing this research, the memo was still
classified, only to be unclassified in 2014. Pantsuit on fire!
Hillary's
Least Favorite Game Show — To Tell the Truth. An FBI agent who spoke with The Daily Mail and has had
a 20-year career in federal law enforcement and serves in a supervisory capacity in a domestic FBI field office. He said that
Hillary not telling Obama about her personal server would be enough to put her in jail for ten years based on The Federal Espionage
Act under which she is being investigated. Barack Obama was clear on 60 Minutes Sunday [10/11/2015]. When asked if
he knew about the server, he said, "no". A New York Times article suggests that Barack Obama's comments claiming her handling
of emails did not violate national security has infuriated FBI agents. Obama is steering the FBI.
Report
Suggests Hillary Clinton Violated The Espionage Act. Evidence may be mounting that Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton violated a provision in the federal Espionage Act. The penalty for such a violation under
the Espionage Act of 1913: a fine, a prison term of up to ten years, or "both."
Clinton
cracks up over question about FBI probe into email server. A question about the FBI investigation into her private
email server caused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to laugh out loud during a Friday [10/16/2015] interview with CNN's
Jake Tapper[.] "Bernie Sanders said that 'the American people are tired of hearing about your d--- emails,' but there are
a lot of people who are not, including FBI officials looking into whether national security was compromised because of this
server," Tapper said in the interview, prompting Clinton to produce several hearty guffaws. Clinton reiterated that she
never transmitted classified information over the private server that she held during her tenure at State.
Hillary's
Bizarre Reaction When Asked About FBI Investigation into Emails. Hillary Clinton burst into uncontrollable laughter Friday [10/16/2015]
when asked by CNN host Jake Tapper about the ongoing controversy surrounding her use of a private email server as secretary of state. [Video clip]
The
FBI, not Bernie Sanders, has the last word on Hillary's emails. Hillary Clinton was surely ecstatic when President Obama
told a national TV audience that her private e-mail server was "not a situation in which America's national security was endangered."
Oops: The flip side of Clinton's glee is the anger reportedly felt inside the FBI — where agents fear the president was
trying to compromise their ongoing investigation.
Why You Actually Should
Care About Hillary Clinton's Emails. [Scroll down] The emails are insightful because she really didn't know what
to do. She looked to all these outside advisors. She wanted to know how [then-Senator] Carl Levin voted on the Iraq
surge. What the email shows is that this is a person who was very concerned at the time about how her decision — her
important, important policy decision — would reflect upon her personally, and how it would impact her standing with the
public. That's important.
Obama's
Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry. "I don't think it posed a national security problem," Mr. Obama
said Sunday [10/11/2015] on CBS's "60 Minutes." He said it was a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when
she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: "This is not a situation in which America's national security was
endangered." Those statements angered F.B.I. agents who have been working for months to determine whether Ms. Clinton's email
setup had in fact put any of the nation's secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Clinton
Server's Technical Problems Boosted Use of Personal Accounts. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private email server appears to have routinely suffered technical problems while she was at the State Department, at times
prompting correspondents to forward messages to top aides' personal email accounts, newly released emails show.
Hillary Should Be Going to JAIL
Based on a Big Story Out Thursday. There was a big story Thursday [10/15/2015]. Several whistleblowers came out
to talk about the way they were aggressively prosecuted while they were working with journalists to expose government misconduct and
they compared their treatment to politically connected and powerful people accused of the same or worst who received a slap on the
wrist. Based on the whistleblowers' stories, Hillary has to go to jail!
Email
Scandal: Hillary Could Face Real Jail Time As FBI Probe Intensifies. Fox News reported this week that the FBI is looking into
whether there's been any violation of the Espionage Act as a result of her use of a private, unsecured email system while secretary of state.
When classified material started showing up in Clinton's emails, she argued that she'd done nothing wrong because none of the emails she sent or
received was marked "classified" at the time. But violating the Espionage Act doesn't require that the information come emblazoned with such
markings. "Gross negligence" in handling "information relating to national defense" is all that's needed to be found guilty. And the
maximum penalty is 10 years in prison.
Investigation
into Hillary's email server focuses on Espionage Act and could get her 10 years in jail. Hillary Clinton could
be prosecuted in federal court for failing to tell President Barack Obama about her private email server at the time she was
running it, according to a veteran FBI agent. [...] The FBI agent who spoke with DailyMail.com has had a 20-year career in
federal law enforcement and serves in a supervisory capacity in a domestic FBI field office. He said on Friday [10/16/2015]
that failing to put Obama in the loop could be enough to send her to prison for ten years.
Source:
FBI probe of Clinton email focused on 'gross negligence' provision. Three months after Hillary Clinton's use of
a private email address and server while secretary of state was referred to the FBI, an intelligence source familiar with the
investigation tells Fox News that the team is now focused on whether there were violations of an Espionage Act subsection
pertaining to "gross negligence" in the safekeeping of national defense information. Under 18 USC 793
subsection F, the information does not have to be classified to count as a violation.
Report:
FBI probe of Hillary is focused on Section 793(f) of Espionage Act. [Scroll down] Now, Fox News reports
that "an intelligence source familiar with the [FBI] investigation of Clinton" says the Bureau is focused on whether there
were violations of this very provision of the Espionage Act. The intelligence source points out that Section 793(f) says
nothing about classified information, but instead is triggered by lawful possession of national defense information when a
security clearance holder "through gross negligence," such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material
to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location. That sounds a lot like what Hillary Clinton did.
Email
Scandal: 3 Questions That Demand Answers Before Hillary Can 'Put It Behind Her'. 'The American people," Sanders
said after Hillary tried to explain away her email problems, "are sick and tired of hearing about your d*** emails." Not only
did the partisan audience erupt in cheers; so did reporters covering it. "The entire press room just exploded when Bernie
said that about Hillary's emails," one tweeted. And, like other outlets, U.S. News concluded that "Hillary Clinton put
the summer of emails behind her, with help from Bernie Sanders."
The Clinton vocabulary. The
definition of "is" episode has been the gold standard of semantic distortion in American politics for nearly two decades, but no more.
The language surrounding Hillary Clinton's email controversy is far more complicated than your basic verbs. When it comes to examining
the Clintons and their scandals, one is advised to have a dictionary at hand. When it was revealed in March that Mrs. Clinton relied
exclusively on a non-government email system set up in her basement while secretary of state, words like "home-brew" and "server"
entered the popular lexicon. Now we're talking about "nodes" and a "SIRIUS box" — other pieces of hardware that the
FBI has requested from Platte River Networks or Datto, which provided back-end support to Mrs. Clinton's email concoction.
Is
Obama working the refs on the FBI's investigation into Hillary's server? Did you happen to catch the President
on Sixty Minutes on Sunday night? You get a free pass if you didn't because I know I was watching football. His appearance
dealt quite a bit with Vladimir Putin and Russia's involvement in the deteriorating situation in Syria... certainly an important and
worthy topic. But when the host got around to mentioning Hillary Clinton's email woes, the President took a decidedly more
cavalier tone, discussing the ongoing investigation as if it were not that big of a deal.
Hillary
Clinton: The Mae West of the internet. In 2012, the State Department banned the use of remote-access software
even on unclassified servers, without a waiver. That same year, the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Computer Emergency
Readiness Team warned that "an attacker with a low skill level would be able to exploit this vulnerability." And someone
did. AP reports that a hacker using a computer in Serbia "scanned Clinton's basement server in Chappaqua at least twice, in
August and December 2012" (after the ban and the warning on her technology cited above)[.] The server identified itself as
providing email services for clintonemail.com.
Hillary's
Email: Low-Skilled Hackers Could Get In. Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but the White House would be a
risky place to put her. She should be nowhere near government secrets, given her unserious attitude about keeping them under
cover. When Clinton was secretary of state, she had the option of using a secure government email account. Instead, she
opted for a personal account handled by a private server — one, the AP says, that was vulnerable to "low-skilled
intruders." This much-discussed email setup, the AP reported Tuesday [10/13/2015], "appeared to allow users to connect
openly over the Internet to control it remotely."
Security
farce at 'data fortress' run by company that held Hillary Clinton's emails. The facility owned by Datto Inc was
part of the network that stored classified messages from the private email server the Democratic presidential candidate used
as Secretary of State. But unlike most government buildings, it is possible to walk to the front door without being
challenged. Daily Mail Online also saw employees from inside the building emptying trash into a dumpster that was kept
open and unattended.
Hillary
server had remote-control gateways wide open. The only item missing from the secret e-mail server run by
Hillary Clinton appears to be the welcome mat for hackers. According to the Associated Press, the Clintons set up
remote-control operations of its server without ever bothering to build in the normal security that would accompany those
functions in a professional setting — if one could even find a professional setting that would allow those
functions to operate at all.
White
House says Obama not trying to influence FBI probe of Hillary Clinton's email server. The White House said
Tuesday that President Obama wasn't trying to influence an FBI investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email
server when he declared that Mrs. Clinton hadn't harmed national security. "Of course not," White House press secretary
Josh Earnest said when asked if the president was intruding into a federal investigation. He said Mr. Obama "certainly
respects the integrity of" an independent probe.
Michael
Isikoff: Blumenthal E-mail to Hillary Is 'Evidence of a Commission of a Federal Crime'. Investigative
journalist Michael Isikoff reports that an e-mail Sidney Blumenthal sent Hillary Clinton while secretary of State revealed
the name of a CIA operator, putting the spy's life at risk. Appearing Monday [10/12/2015] on Morning Joe, Isikoff said
the e-mail, which Clinton forwarded to one of her State Department colleagues, is "evidence of a commission of a federal crime by
somebody," though not necessarily Clinton. "This is maybe the single most problematic e-mail exchange we've seen with Hillary
Clinton yet of all the e-mails that have been raised," Isikoff said.
AP
Exclusive: Clinton server's software had hacking risk. The private email server running in Hillary Rodham
Clinton's home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable
to hackers, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Meanwhile,
the Hillary Clinton Scandal Just Got Even Worse. While everyone has been focusing on House Republicans and their
inability to elect a speaker, the Hillary Clinton email scandal has been growing more troubling by the day. A letter released
by the House Benghazi Committee last week revealed that Clinton acted to promote the business interests of her "old friend" Sidney
Blumenthal, the longtime Clinton loyalist who sent her numerous "unsolicited" memos while running a rogue intelligence operation
and earning a hefty paycheck from the Clinton Foundation.
Former
CIA Lawyer: Hillary Emails Could Have Been 'Literally Lethal'. In an interview with MSNBC's Morning Joe
[10/12/2015], a former top CIA lawyer said Hillary Clinton's decision to move forward and store emails with the names of CIA
operatives on them was extremely dangerous. "As a former CIA counsel, what's most troubling about this email to
you — specifically this email — and then if you're troubled by it, the Secretary's use of private
email," host Willie Geist asked John Rizzo. "The most troubling thing Willie is, if the [Trey Gowdy] version is
accurate, the true name of a human CIA source being bandied about, really," Rizzo said.
Incompetent
or indifferent: Clinton burns CIA Libya contact. Clinton has come under fire this year for choosing to withhold
her work emails from the State Department, and the public, for as many as five years after she began her employment as
secretary of state. Clinton's decision to conduct all work on a private server, and to keep the contents of that server to
herself for more than a year after leaving office, was undertaken out of a false sense of entitlement to privacy. It not
only kept the public in the dark as to her communications in office but it also placed sensitive and classified information
within reach of hackers, because the server was not properly secured.
President
Obama's lukewarm defense of Hillary Clinton on the e-mail controversy. If Hillary Clinton happened to be watching President
Obama's interview with Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes" Sunday night [10/11/2015], her former boss's answers on her decision to use a
private e-mail server as secretary of state had to bring a grimace to her face. Kroft first asked Obama if he knew that Clinton
was exclusively using a private e-mail server for her communication. "No," the president replied. Kroft then followed up
by asking Obama whether Clinton's server posed a "national security problem." Here's what the president said in response: [...]
Clinton
Email Could Prompt New Intelligence Investigation. An email forwarded by Hillary Clinton to a colleague that
identified a top CIA informant in Libya could trigger an intelligence investigation and add to concerns that she mishandled
classified information, according to intelligence sources. Clinton received an email in March 2011 from her longtime
adviser Sidney Blumenthal that identified a covert Libyan source who was reportedly working with the CIA. Blumenthal said
his business partner, the late former CIA agent Tyler Drumheller, had given the information to him. Clinton forwarded the email
over her personal server to a colleague, according to emails published on Thursday [10/8/2015] by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.),
chairman of the House select committee on Benghazi.
5
Obama Scandals The Mainstream Press Is Ignoring. Obama administration officials claimed not to know about Hillary's reckless
use of a private email server as secretary of state. Hillary says everybody knew about it. Who's lying? Was there any
discussion about it among top White House officials? Did anyone in Obama's circle express concern about this dangerous practice?
There's not even a hint that any of these questions are being pursued.
Clinton
Emailed Identity Of Top CIA Asset Over Unsecure Server. Last night, Yahoo News broke another big
development in Hillary Clinton's growing email scandal. According the below report, Hillary Clinton used her secret email
server to "pass along the identity of one of the CIA's top Libyan intelligence sources," material the government considers
"some of the most protected information in our intelligence community." This latest shoe to drop underscores the
recklessness of Hillary Clinton's decision to skirt transparency laws with her secret email server.
The
Odds That Hillary's Emails Were Hacked Just Got A Lot Higher. What sort of attacks happened before SECNAP
started its cybersecurity efforts is, at this point, anyone's guess. But given what we now know, it's a virtual certainty
that Clinton's sensitive, classified, even top-secret information has fallen into the hands of foreign governments.
Over the four-plus years Clinton's server was in use — when she sent and received hundreds of emails containing
classified information — it was either unencrypted, unsecured or insufficiently protected against determined,
sophisticated hackers.
Clinton
woes far from over. [Scroll down] But now we have learned that two technology companies are worried Clinton
may have ensnared them in a cover-up, and the FBI has seized four more servers from the State Department in order to determine
how top-secret information flowed from Clinton aides at the agency to her private server during her tenure as secretary
there. Maybe a backlash against the Benghazi investigation won't be enough to change the subject after all.
Benghazi
committee, under fire, releases more Clinton emails. Hillary Clinton used her private email account to pass along the
identity of one of the CIA's top Libyan intelligence sources, raising new questions about her handling of classified information,
according to excerpts from previously undisclosed emails released Thursday [10/8/2015] by Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of
the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Who
cops a plea deal first, Huma or Cheryl Mills? It now appears certain that someone in Hillary Clinton's inner
circle copied Top Secret information from a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) to an unclassified email system,
thereby committing multiple felonies. Each such instance is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The FBI
is so certain that this occurred that it has seized four (count 'em: four) State Department servers in order to forensically
determine who perpetrated these crimes.
FBI
Seizes Four State Department Servers in Clinton Email Probe. The FBI has seized four State Department computer
servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation. The four servers, which were located at the
State Department's headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical
forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton's private email by State Department
aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on
condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation.
Amazing: Cheryl Mills Emailed Classified Info to
The Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation is, legally, a private organization with absolutely no status
allowing it to legally receive classified US information. It is not, as a legal matter, what as Hillary Clinton
imagines it to be, which is Hillary's Shadow Government In Waiting. But she treats it like it was just that.
Clinton
e-mails were vulnerable to hackers, tech firm warned. A technology subcontractor that has worked on Hillary
Rodham Clinton's e-mail setup expressed concerns over the summer that the system was inadequately protected and vulnerable to
hackers, a company official said Wednesday [10/7/2015]. But the concerns were rebuffed by the company managing the Clinton
account, Platte River Networks, which said it had been instructed by the FBI not to make changes. The FBI has been reviewing
the security of the e-mail system.
Judge
says Hillary Clinton's server is private. A federal judge ordered the State Department Wednesday to request
former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton not delete any government business emails she may still have, but said he doubts he
can force her to do anything. Judge Reggie B. Walton said since Mrs. Clinton used her own BlackBerry and computer
devices, and kept her email server at her home, he doesn't have authority over the records she created on those.
Clinton
email server reportedly target of cyberattacks from China, South Korea, Germany. Hillary Clinton's private
email server, which stored some 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, was the subject of attempted
cyberattacks originating in China, South Korea and Germany after she left office in early 2013, according to a congressional
document obtained by The Associated Press.
Clinton tech company: Cloud backup
was 'enormous surprise'. A Denver-based technology firm that has managed Hillary Clinton's private email
network since 2013 said the discovery that Clinton's emails were backed up on an off-site "cloud" network came as "an
enormous surprise." Platte River Networks was "explicitly asked by our client to keep all data onsite," Andy
Boian, a spokesman for the company, told the Washington Examiner.
Second
company turns over Hillary email data to FBI. The FBI's investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton's server has
extended to a second computer data company to recover her deleted emails. Datto Inc., of Norwalk, Conn., was hired in
2013 to provide a private "cloud" backup of Clinton's personal server and now is cooperating with the FBI to turn over any
remaining data.
Benghazi
Committee: New Emails Show Clinton Promoted Blumenthal Interests in Libya. The House Select Committee on
Benghazi will be making public next week new documents that demonstrate Sidney Blumenthal was seeking business in Libya as he
was advising then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on U.S. policy in the country. According to a letter from Chairman Trey
Gowdy to Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee, at least once Clinton sought to aid Blumenthal's business
interests in Libya.
Can
Clinton's Email Scandal Get Worse? It Already Is. The news cycle turned Tuesday night on reports that a second
server handling Clinton's State Department emails has been found, raising questions about just how many people had access to
the classified material on her emails. How much did her negligence increase the country's vulnerability to espionage?
How widely did she expose herself to blackmail? For months we've known that Clinton used Platte River Networks in Colorado
to manage her email server — which had been in her house while she was secretary of state — after she left
the State Department. Now we know that Datto Inc. in Connecticut has been used as a second data storage site for her emails.
Hillary Email's Company Worried
About a "Cover Up", Had Extra Backups Made. Big developments today in Hillary Clinton's email scandal. According to emails uncovered
by congressional investigators, the IT firm contracted to maintain Hillary Clinton's secret email server became concerned about being roped into a
"cover up" when they were asked to reduce email data after the State Department requested Clinton's correspondence. Additionally, her
deleted emails may still be recoverable as a SECOND company was involved in backing up the server.
Hillary's
emails were backed up, Homeland Security committee reveals. Some of Hillary Clinton's emails may still exist on
the 'cloud' thanks to a technical hiccup. A letter by Ron Johnson, head of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, sent
to the head of a company tasked with the storage, Datto Inc. of Norwalk, Connecticut, revealed that information from Clinton's
private server was accidentally transferred to an off-site server and it may still be there.
FBI
probe of Clinton e-mail expands to second data company. The FBI's probe into the security of Hillary Rodham
Clinton's e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law
enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton's account. The additional data, provided by Connecticut-based Datto
Inc., could open a new avenue for investigators interested in recovering e-mails deleted by the former secretary of state —
now the Democratic presidential front-runner — that have caught the interest of GOP lawmakers.
Second IT firm agrees to give Clinton's
server data to FBI. Hillary Clinton hired a Connecticut company to back up her emails on a "cloud" storage system,
and her lawyers have agreed to turn whatever it contains over to the FBI, a personal familiar with the situation said Tuesday
[10/6/2015]. The disclosure came as a Republican Senate committee chairman, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, also asked the firm
to turn over to the committee copies of any Clinton emails still in its possession.
Who approved Clinton's homebrew server? A
new focus emerged Tuesday in the sprawling litigation over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server: the State Department official who
may have authorized the private setup Clinton used for most of her four years as secretary of state. A conservative watchdog group pressed a
federal judge to order Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to appear in court to explain who greenlighted Clinton's private server and
who kept it running.
Hillary
server employee: The whole thing is 'covering up some shady [stuff]'. An employee of the computer company that
maintained Hillary Rodham Clinton's email server questioned if he was part of a coverup, according to documents released
Tuesday [10/6/2015]. [...] The concerns by the Colorado-based Platte River Networks employee were aired after the Clinton
camp ordered a reduction in the data stored during each server backup.
Hillary
Email Scandal: Has Another Private Account Been Found? In March, Hillary Clinton said she had turned over "all my emails that could
possibly be work-related." Two months ago, she signed a statement "under penalty of perjury" swearing that she had provided all emails that
were, or potentially were, federal records. Did she perjure herself? It appears she did. If she had turned them all in, why are
officials asking for more? Last week, Patrick F. Kennedy, the State Department's under secretary of state for management, told Clinton's
lawyer in a letter that she had better get busy providing more emails.
Can
Clinton delete her past? Few doubted until this summer that Clinton, with vast institutional and popular
support and little competition, would cruise to her coronation as the Democratic nominee for the presidency. But many of
her statements from those first defensive days have been proven false by a steady stream revelations from three congressional
committees and four federal agencies investigating her use of a private email server. Just as damaging have been dozens of
lawsuits pursued under the Freedom of Information Act, which have shown gaps in the batches of emails Clinton gave the State
Department last year.
No, not Obama — the other one. Why Are Democrats Still
Supporting a Compulsive Liar? From the start, Hillary claimed that she set up the clintonemail.com server
so she could use just one device for everything. If that's the case, then why did she continue to carry several devices?
When asked to turn over all of her emails, she delayed and then said that most of them had been lost or deleted. Yet it
didn't take investigators long to find them. When Hillary finally did hand over her emails, she claimed that it was
everything. Judicial Watch found gaps in the 'everything,' some of which covered several months. When asked if
she had ever used her personal email server to send or receive classified emails, she emphatically said no over and over
again. Yet the more investigators looked into her personal server and email accounts, they found classified information.
FBI
Director Acknowledges Agency Looking into Clinton Emails. FBI director James Comey told reporters on Thursday
[10/1/2015] that he is "personally following closely" an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
private email server. In his first public comments on the email scandal which has roiled the campaign of Clinton, a 2016
Democratic presidential candidate, Comey declined to say how long the investigation would take or whether the FBI would
comment when the investigation concludes. The FBI had previously declined to give the State Department any kind of progress
report on its efforts to recover documents from Clinton's private email server — including the public information
that the agency was investigating the matter.
FBI
director confirming inquiry into Clinton email setup. FBI Director James Comey confirmed Thursday the FBI is
looking into the security of the setup of Hillary Rodham Clinton's email and that the agency has the appropriate "resources
and personnel assigned to the matter."
Emails:
Russia-Linked Hackers Tried to Access Clinton Server. The phishing attempts highlight the risk of Clinton's
unsecure email being pried open by foreign intelligence agencies, even if others also received the virus concealed as a
speeding ticket from Chatham, New York.
Hey, Hillary —
it's Cyber Security Awareness Month! When he declared October National Cyber Security Awareness month, did
President Obama know Hillary Clinton's birthday is on the 26th? Hey: The month even began with news that at least
400 emails to or from her address included classified information. In declaring the awareness month, Obama noted "our
need to remain aware, alert, and attentive on this new frontier" and urged Americans to work "together to prevent and disrupt
threats to our digital infrastructure." At State, Clinton did exactly the opposite.
A Clinton Email
Scandal Checklist. Hillary Clinton hopes you are busy. Hillary Clinton hopes you are confused. Hillary Clinton hopes
the endless stories about her private email server — and her endless, fabulist explanations — will make your head
hurt, make your eyes cross, make you give up trying to figure it out. All you really need to know at this point is this:
Pretty much every claim Mrs. Clinton made at her initial March news conference, and since then, is false. In the spirit of keeping
it simple, here's the Complete Busy Person's Guide to the Clinton Email Scandal. Stick it on the fridge.
New
batch of Hillary Clinton emails includes 215 classified messages — more than 1 in every 18. The
State Department released a new batch of emails originally held on former secretary Hillary Clinton's now-infamous private
server on Wednesday [9/30/2015], putting 215 more retroactively classified messages into the public domain. More than
1 in every 18 of the more than 3,800 emails published in the latest court-ordered installment required intervention —
and sanitizing — by intelligence officials, bringing the total of headaches for the Democratic presidential front-runner
to more than 400. Three of the messages were marked 'SECRET' — one of the higher categories of classification that
the government uses.
Hillary
Aides Knew of Private Email Risks. The threat of being hacked was never far from the minds of Clinton's top
aides — they even talked about the wisdom of using private email accounts in emails released Wednesday [9/30/2015].
Attack Scenario: How Hillary
Clinton's Lust for Money and Power Led to America's "Digital Pearl Harbor". It's hard to overstate the impact on
national security of what is commonly known as "The OPM Hack". [...] What was the 'OPM Hack'? Every person who applies for
a security clearance fills out an electronic application called an EQIP or EPSQ, which are questionnaires of applicants.
Those applying for a Top Secret clearance must answer an extremely detailed questionnaire delving into every aspect of their
personal life: marital affairs, drug use, criminal activity, and any other bit of information that foreign intelligence services
might use to blackmail or compromise a cleared individual. All of those files were stolen by Red China.
Despite FBI inquiry, Clinton retains
security clearance. Hillary Clinton retains a security clearance allowing her access to classified information
despite an FBI inquiry into her handling of sensitive government information on the private email account she used during her
tenure as secretary of state. [...] While Clinton has kept her clearance, it's common practice to suspend them while an
investigation or internal inquiry is ongoing, according to some national security experts on Capitol Hill and in private
practice. Others say a clearance could be suspended at any time after allegations are made if officials are concerned
about the government's secrets.
Clinton
emails increasingly classified; 1 in 20 messages contained secrets. More than 5 percent of the latest batch of
emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, released Wednesday, contain classified information — or
twice the rate of the previous releases, raising tricky questions about whether the department is finding more secrets or being
more thorough in screening the messages. All told, there are at least 400 messages that contain information the
government now deems classified, out of nearly 12,000 emails released so far.
Hillary
Clinton Says Two Different Things About Her Emails, Both of Which Can't Be True. More than 60 percent of voters
don't think Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy. Even Donald Trump has a better reputation on that front, which is just
embarrassing. No wonder so many Democrats are biding for Biden. Hillary and her campaign seem to think this is simply the
result of biased media coverage, unfair partisan attacks and right-wing "conspiracy theories." They insist it's "time to
move on." They should at least consider the possibility that voters have good reason not to trust Hillary. Because
is she really has nothing to hide with respect to her private email server, why do explanations keep changing so often?
Three Pinocchios: Hillary
Clinton's incomplete timeline on her personal e-mail account. [Scroll down] Clinton appears to be
sticking to her timeline because it obscures the fact that she exclusively used a private e-mail for company business. If she
had used a State Department e-mail, just as many other cabinet officials in the Obama administration used ".gov" addresses, it's
likely the State Department would not have had trouble responding to congressional requests. That's why there are "gaps in
the record keeping."
The
Fact Checker Confirms It — She Is Lying. Clinton is sticking to her story that the emails she has turned over
to the State Department were part of a review that asked former secretaries to do the same. Washington Post fact checker
Glenn Kessler gave her story three Pinocchios Sunday, meaning that it has a "significant factual error and/or obvious
contradictions." The Clintons are likely to brush that off as more of the vast right-wing conspiracy that's been
dogging them since the 1990s, even though the Post is not exactly a collection of right-wing activists.
Yes, Hillary Clinton
broke the law. Clinton originally denied that any of her emails contained classified information, but soon
abandoned that claim. So far, 150 emails containing classified information have been identified on her server, including two
that included information determined to be Top Secret. She then fell back on the claim that none of the emails in
question was "marked classified" at the time she was dealing with them. The marking is not what makes the material
classified; it's the nature of the information itself. As secretary of state, Clinton knew this, and in fact she would have
been re-briefed annually on this point as a condition of maintaining her clearance to access classified information. Then
there's location. Clinton knowingly set up her email system to route 100 percent of her emails to and through
her unsecured server (including keeping copies stored on the server).
Hillary
Clinton Explains Discrepancy in When She Began Using Private Email Server. Hillary Clinton said today that
newly released emails dated before she had said her private server was operational were from a "transition period." There
"was about a month" when all of her emails weren't on the server that was later turned over to the State Department because
her account needed to be added, she said in an interview [9/27/2015] on NBC "Meet the Press." "There was about a month
where I didn't have everything already on the server, and we went back, tried to recover whatever we could recover," she
said. "I think it's also fair to say that there are some things about this that I just can't control. I can't
control the technical aspects of it.["}
Another day; another lie by Hillary
Clinton. [Scroll down] Right now Clinton has committed federal offenses far exceeding anything undertaking by Sandy
Berger or Scooter Libby or David Petraeus. If she survives this it will only be due to the interference of the Obama administration.
Hillary Now Blames Her
Lawyers. With polls showing that a majority of Americans believe that she is lying, Hillary Clinton has been
more aggressive in addressing questions about her private e-mail server. But with each new appearance, more questions
are raised than answered.
Why the
Clinton Email Scandal Is So Sticky. In an interview broadcast by CNN on Sunday [9/27/2015], [Bill] Clinton
likened the email scandal dogging his wifes presidential campaign to the Whitewater land deal and others scandals that
shadowed his political career. It always happens. Yes, sir. Thats sort of the point. Many voters
are tired of Clinton controversies and their side effects: deflection, deception, derision, and division. He
also blamed the email flap on Republicans who want to undercut Hillary Clintons campaign and on political reporters who
aren[']t interested in substance.
Clinton
Aide Shared Classified Information With Foundation, Email Shows. A member of Hillary Clinton's staff at the
Department of State emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in
2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Cheryl Mills, Clinton's
chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation's foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on
July 12, 2012. The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records
request, is partially redacted because it includes "foreign government information" that has been classified as "Confidential"
by the State Department.
Latest
Email Drop Reveals Hillary Committed Perjury. The consistently excellent John Hayward relays word that new
emails between SECSTATE Hillary Clinton and CENTCOM's David Petraeus have been discovered. This revelation completely
contradicts her statement under oath that she had revealed all of her official correspondence and deleted only her yoga
workouts and Chelsea's plastic surgery wedding plans.
Could
Hillary please start getting her lies straight? At some point, it becomes tiresome to ask the same question
over and over again. But Clinton leaves us no choice. How many times must she be caught lying before the current
presidential campaign has come to an end? Clinton had maintained, and in fact swore, that she had turned over all work-related
emails from the private server she chose to use, in contravention of government secrecy and transparency laws. As it
turns out, even this claim was untrue.
With the latest FOIA revelations,
I am now officially calling on Hillary Clinton to suspend her campaign. Writing at The Wall Street Journal,
Kimberley Strassel observes that if Hillary Clinton fails to achieve the presidency, it will not be because of her opponents.
It will be due to a 1966 law called the Freedom of Information Act, which has already revealed her illegal and reckless mishandling
of State Department emails in which classified documents were co-mingled with side deals concerning her family's so-called charity.
And the worst disclosures are, in all likelihood, yet to come. FOIA requires a complete inventory of all documents withheld by
the targeted agency along with descriptions of each; this file is called a Vaughn Index and on Monday [9/21/2015] the State Department
reluctantly handed over its version to a federal court. The email descriptions are stunning: [...]
Hillary
Clinton vs. FOIA. The Clintons are street fighters, and over their scandal-plagued years they have mastered
outwitting the press, Congress, the Justice Department, even special prosecutors. But the reason Mrs. Clinton isn't winning
her latest scandal is because she faces a new opponent — one she can't beat: the Freedom of Information Act.
String
of Emails Raises Question About When Hillary Clinton Began Using Personal Account. Mrs. Clinton has said that
she retained no emails from her first two months in office because she used an account that she no longer has access to. She
has said that on March 19, 2009, she began using the personal account [...] that she relied on for the rest of her time in
office. But on Friday [9/25/2015], State Department officials said they had been given copies of an email chain between Mrs.
Clinton and David H. Petraeus, the commander of United States Central Command at the time, that shows that Mrs. Clinton was
using the [private email] account by Jan. 28, 2009.
Hillary
failed to turn over emails with Petraeus, officials say. The messages were exchanged with retired Gen. David
Petraeus when he headed the military's U.S. Central Command, responsible for running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They
began before Clinton entered office and continued into her first days at the State Department. They largely pertained to
personnel matters and don't appear to deal with highly classified material, officials said, but their existence challenges
Clinton's claim that she has handed over the entirety of her work emails from the account.
State
Dept. receives Clinton email chain apparently not included in pages turned over. The State Department has
received an email chain between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus that apparently was not
included in the collection she said was a full record of her work-related correspondence. In addition, the State
Department said it provided more than 900 Libya-related emails to the House Select Committee on Benghazi Friday. The
Department has had those emails since December. The Clinton-Petraeus messages, according to the Department, were
exchanged in January and February of 2009 and included a discussion about personnel.
State
discovers hundreds more Clinton e-mails for release to Benghazi panel. The State Department will provide
Congress with 925 additional e-mails from former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton to assist the investigation of the
2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, a senior agency official said Friday [9/25/2015]. The new submission
comes after the State Department had previously said it turned over all records that the House Select Committee on Benghazi
had requested and as the agency reviews Clinton's e-mails for public release.
Hillary Clinton: Come Clean or Get
Out. If the Democratic Party cares to salvage a sliver of moral authority, its leaders and early state voters
need to send Hillary Rodham Clinton an urgent message: Come clean or get out. Stop lying and deflecting about how
and why you stashed State Department email on a secret server — or stop running.
Nothing
'confusing,' Hill; just downright criminal. Hillary Clinton deigned to go on moonbat TV Friday before a long
holiday weekend to offer up an insincere non-apology apology for her latest scandal, involving multiple federal criminal and
congressional probes of her email server. "At the end of the day," she told Mrs. Alan Greenspan, the wife of one of her
husband's hacks, "I am sorry that this has been confusing to people...." Confusing? No one's confused, Hillary.
It's very simple. You set up your own email system to ensure that the sordid records of the Clinton Crime Family's
billion-dollar pay-to-play shakedowns would never survive to be used as exhibits against you and Bill in a criminal trial.
Hillary wanted her own system for the same reason that old-time bookies used flash paper for betting slips — it was
easier to destroy the evidence that way. There's no confusion whatsoever.
Hillary Is Now Blaming Bush
For Her Email Scandal. Ever since it came to light that Hillary Clinton used a home-brew server and a private email account for all
her State Department emails, she has tried various excuses to explain it away. It was, she said in March, done only for convenience's sake,
because she didn't want to carry "multiple devices." She also claimed:
• Other government officials have done the same thing.
• She didn't handle classified material on her account.
• She turned over all her work-related emails.
• It was all allowed and perfectly legal.
• This is just a partisan witch hunt.
• She's sorry, sort of.
As subsequent revelations undermined each of those excuses, Clinton simply dropped or modified them. After classified emails showed up,
for example, Clinton starting saying that she never "knowingly" handled such sensitive information on her unsecured server. After the FBI
started investigating, she pretty much dropped the whole "witch hunt" claim. But her latest excuse for why she chose this highly unorthodox
and risky way to handle her written communications is by far her most desperate — and ridiculous.
Hillary Clinton's
e-mail cauldron on the boil. Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan, who's overseeing one of the Freedom of Information
suits on the Clinton emails, ordered the State Department to ask the FBI what relevant info might be gleaned from the private
server she used to store her correspondence, which the bureau recently took into possession. Sorry: "We can neither
confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing investigation, nor are we in a position to provide additional information at
this time," FBI General Counsel James Baker wrote back. That peeved Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley,
whose panel oversees the FBI. "The FBI is behaving like it's above the law. Simply refusing to cooperate with a
court-ordered request is not an appropriate course of action," he said.
Emails
Between Hillary Clinton and Petraeus Discovered, Contradicting Her Sworn Statement. Hillary Clinton didn't just
"claim" she turned over all of her work-related emails. She signed a sworn statement to that effect in August, under penalty
of perjury, and submitted it to a federal court. It's the same statement her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills refused
to sign. Many observers thought the proverbial Other Shoe would drop on Clinton when the FBI started recovering deleted emails
from the server she thought was wiped clean, but it doesn't sound like we've even gotten to that closet full of Other Shoes yet.
State
Department Hands Over 'New' Hillary Clinton E-Mails To Benghazi Panel. The State Department has said over and
over again that it turned over all of Hillary Clinton's Benghazi-related emails to the committee investigating the 2012
attack. Turns out, that wasn't quite the case. Foggy Bottom mistakenly failed to produce a "small number" of
those emails, a senior State Department official told The Daily Beast.
Clinton
Email Presents Spying Opportunity For Foreign Country. Hillary Clinton continues to say that she did nothing
wrong in using a personal email account from a private server to conduct State Department business. That might be true if she
believes that it's OK to leave the front door open for spies. During a hearing Thursday, National Security Agency Director
Mike Rogers told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that a foreign official who used a private email server to conduct
government business would give the U.S. a grand opening for espionage. "From a foreign intelligence perspective, that
represents opportunity," he said. But from a Clinton perspective, it's another point to ignore.
Hillary
Clinton Server Not Wiped — Report: FBI Has Recovered Deleted Emails. The FBI has recovered personal
and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state,
according to a person familiar with the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's success at salvaging personal
e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate's correspondence
eventually could become public. The disclosure of such e-mails would likely fan the controversy over Clinton's use of a
private e-mail system for official business.
Clinton
Email Scandal: 5 New Stories Tell Us It's Getting Serious. Hillary Clinton keeps plowing ahead toward the party
and presidential coronations to which she feels entitled. But the going gets tougher with every email story that breaks.
On Wednesday [9/23/2015], there were at least five. The trouble started Tuesday night when the Washington Post reported that
Clinton's story about the manner in which she turned over her emails was being contradicted by the State Department. She has
claimed that she handed them over — all of them — as part of a routine request that included emails from
previous secretaries of state. The State Department said it didn't happen that way.
Clinton
started editing emails 8 months earlier than thought. Hillary Clinton and her aides began collecting Clinton's
private emails in February of last year, eight months before the State Department formally requested copies of her work-related
records. The process of separating Clinton's official communications from her personal ones therefore lasted nearly ten
months, as her aides did not provide 55,000 printed pages of emails to the State Department until Dec. 2014. On Feb. 15,
2014, Clinton paid Platte River Networks, the technology company hired in June 2013 to move her emails onto a new server, to
set up a "separate archive email box" for her records.
Exclusive:
Hillary Aides Talked Benghazi with Clinton Foundation Staff, Witheld Emails. Hillary Clinton's top State
Department aides turned to Clinton Foundation employees for political help in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi
terrorist attack, and Clinton withheld those emails from the House Benghazi Committee investigating her conduct.
Clinton currently faces federal investigation for allegedly allowing people without a security clearance to access classified
information, in violation of the Espionage Act. Newly-discovered emails, considered classified by the State Department, were
going to Clinton Foundation staffers who did not have a security clearance to view classified information.
State
Department's account of e-mail request differs from Clinton's. "When we were asked to help the State Department
make sure they had everything from other secretaries of state, not just me, I'm the one who said, 'Okay, great, I will go
through them again,'" Clinton said Sunday [9/20/2015] on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And we provided all of them."
But State Department officials provided new information Tuesday [9/22/2015] that undercuts Clinton's characterization.
They said the request was not simply about general record-keeping but was prompted entirely by the discovery that Clinton had
exclusively used a private e-mail system. They also said they first contacted her in the summer of 2014, at least three
months before the agency asked Clinton and three of her predecessors to provide their e-mails.
Report:
FBI Finds Hillary Clinton's Deleted Emails on Her Server. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has
successfully recovered personal and work emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, according to a new report.
Sources told Bloomberg News that some of Clinton's emails have been extracted from the server, thus disproving the claim that
Clinton managed to wipe her server clean after she deleted all of her emails earlier this year.
FBI
Has Supposedly Recovered Lost Clinton Emails. The FBI has managed to recover deleted emails from Hillary
Clinton's supposedly wiped email server, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday night [9/22/2015]. The discovery, if true,
raises the possibility that Hillary's private correspondence, which number about 30,000 emails and were supposedly deleted,
will become public. Just how many emails the FBI has managed to recover from the server isn't clear, Bloomberg says.
In any case, they're unlikely to be seen until the FBI's investigation is concluded, which likely won't be for several months.
On
Hillary's Emails It May Be Time To Investigate The FBI. The conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch filed a
Freedom of Information Act request for copies of emails between the former secretary of state and her top aides. The FBI's
counsel responded to State's attempts to follow through on D.C. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's order with a
statement asserting that "we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing investigation." But it is known
from Clinton's lawyers that investigators were given thumb drives with the emails and a private Clinton server. One thing
Judicial Watch wants to get to the bottom of is how top Hillary aide Huma Abedin juggled jobs at State, the Clinton
Foundation and the Teneo Strategies consulting firm simultaneously.
FBI
Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server. The FBI has recovered personal and work-related
e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person
familiar with the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's success at salvaging personal e-mails that Clinton
said had been deleted raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate's correspondence eventually could
become public. The disclosure of such e-mails would likely fan the controversy over Clinton's use of a private e-mail
system for official business.
FBI
refuses to cooperate in Hillary Clinton email server probe. The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a
court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email server, telling the State Department that
they won't even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government
what's going on. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered the State Department to talk with the FBI and see what
sort of information could be recovered from Mrs. Clinton's email server, which her lawyer has said she turned over to the
Justice Department over the summer.
America's
descent into lawlessness. Almost everything former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has stated about
her improper use of a private email account and server has been proven false. A State Department staffer who worked on Mrs.
Clinton's private server plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before a congressional committee about his
role in privatizing her email. But like [Lois] Lerner, Mrs. Clinton has escaped an indictment or jailing.
Judge
tells State Dept. to find more staffers to process Clinton emails. A federal judge urged the State Department
to get more people on the case reviewing and releasing the emails of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top
aides, saying Tuesday that all sides should be eager to get the matter behind them. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also
rejected the State Department's timeline for searching the aides' emails and insisted the government have them all put in
an electronic system by the end of this week, and do an initial search to see which ones are related to the 2012 Benghazi
terrorist attacks next week.
Group
unloads over delays releasing Clinton aides' email. A conservative group is blasting the State Department for
delays in the release of email messages sent or received by top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a court filing Friday [9/18/2015], Citizens United accused the agency of defying a court order to produce emails belonging
to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and former Deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin earlier this week. At the time U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan entered the order in May, he warned Justice Department lawyers representing state that he would
not grant any extension of the Sept. 13 deadline he set to produce emails responsive to the group's request about contacts with
the Clinton Foundation and the consulting firm Teneo.
Hillary Clinton's lawyer refused to destroy
emails. In our chronicles of the many and mutating faces of Hillary Clinton's email story, we noted that her 'wartime consigliere',
David Kendall, seemed to have placed himself in legal jeopardy. Kendall clearly held onto Top Secret material retrieved from Hillary
Clinton's server. He stored it improperly. And he and at least two of his associates viewed it even though they had no 'need to
know.' The emerging story seems much more murky and Kendall may have actually played the role of the honest man.
Hillary
Clinton's aides relinquish more than 100,000 pages of emails. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton's top aides have belatedly turned over more than 100,000 pages of emails they had kept on personal email accounts, or
accounts tied to Mrs. Clinton's server, the government told a federal judge late Friday [9/18/2015]. Huma Abedin turned
over an estimated 23,000 pages of emails, Philippe Reines gave back 70,000 pages of messages and Cheryl Mills returned somewhere
in the neighborhood of 11,870 pages, the Obama administration told Judge Rudolph Contreras in a court filing.
Hillary Laughs Off
Suggestion That She Be Prosecuted Over Email Handling. Nobody thinks Hillary Clinton's email controversy is funny, which is why her
past attempts to make jokes about the issue have fallen flat. But the Democrat presidential hopeful doesn't seem to have learned from her
past stumbles. She laughed derisively when asked on CNN to respond to recent comments made by Governor Chris Christie regarding her problematic
email arrangement.
Sen.
Cornyn wants special counsel to investigate Clinton email. The Senate's No. 2 Republican wants Attorney General
Loretta Lynch to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Clinton email controversy, as GOP lawmakers become increasingly
skeptical that Obama administration appointees running the Justice Department will pursue the matter fairly. Senate
Majority Whip John Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and Texas supreme court justice, asked Lynch in a Tuesday morning
[9/15/2015] letter to appoint a special counsel. It could be a conflict of interest, Cornyn's reasoning goes, for
Clinton's former administration colleagues to escalate any investigation into her private email server.
Clinton's
Nixonian Email Gap Grows: What's She Hiding? Last month, Hillary Clinton's email gap was a mere two-month void.
Now there are several more months missing. She protests her innocence and claims to be fully cooperating with the release of
her emails, but both of those are looking like lies of convenience.
Hillary
Knew Emails Hacked, Yet Continued Using Unsecured Server. A new poll finds that despite her email breaches,
voters still think Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to protect the country from cyberattacks. They clearly miss the
gravity of the scandal. Of course, it's not their fault. The Washington media have reported the story in fits and
starts, while failing to provide context and relevance.
State
Dept. concedes 'gaps' in Clinton emails; contradiction could result in perjury charge. The emails former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turned back over to the government last year contained "gaps," according to
internal department messages evaluating her production. Mrs. Clinton took office on Jan. 21, 2009, but the first
message she turned back over to the department was dated March 18, and the earliest-dated message she herself sent was
on April 13, or nearly three months into her time in office, according to a message obtained through an open records
request by Judicial Watch, which released it Monday [9/14/2015].
Now-classified
Clinton emails sitting on Google servers. Classified emails passed through commercial email services like
Google and AOL on their path to or from a private server maintained by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, but
so far, the government appears to have done little to retrieve or secure the messages. A Politico review of Clinton
emails made public by the State Department shows that at least 55 messages now deemed to include classified information
appear to have been sent to or from private accounts other than Clinton's. That number is certain to grow substantially
as State processes all Clinton emails and sorts through emails turned over to the department by several of her top aides.
Clinton's
Emails from Private Server 'Might Not Be Erased After All'. Hillary Clinton's 31,000 emails from her infamous
personal server "might not be erased after all," a CNN anchor said Sunday [9/13/2015] after a Washington Post report that
the company that managed it says it has no knowledge if it was truly wiped clean. "The story is never going to go away for
the Clinton campaign if there are more inconsistencies, and this would be another inconsistency if this server company says the
server was not wiped at all, that means those emails would be able to be reviewed," CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny said. "So
some of them certainly are personal in nature, but we don't know if all of them are."
Justice
Department on emails: No reason not to believe Hillary. Hillary Clinton's defense in the email scandal received
a boost this week when the Justice Department — the same Justice Department that is investigating the email
affair — told a court it has no reason to suspect Clinton either deleted or failed to produce any emails under
request by congressional or public-interest investigators. "The evidence, if anything, demonstrates that the former
secretary's production was over-inclusive, not under-inclusive," top Justice Department lawyers Benjamin Mizer and Elizabeth
Shapiro wrote in papers filed in federal court last Wednesday [9/9/2015]. Taken as a whole, Mizer and Shapiro's brief
was so pro-Clinton, so without even a hint of suspicion that she has been anything less than totally forthcoming, that it might
as well have come from the Clinton campaign media team.
Hillary Clinton Emails Have A
Five-Month Gap. Five months worth of messages are missing from the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
returned to the government, according to documents newly obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch. "A five month email
gap," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the non-profit group's inaugural Leadership Summit Monday [9/14/2015].
"I want an explanation about that." Some of the gaps were as long as a month or more, Fitton said. Clinton submitted
a statement to a federal court Aug. 10 under the penalty of perjury that she submitted all of the required emails.
New
State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap. Judicial Watch today [9/14/2015] released newly
obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year. The documents also show that one key State Department
official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about
the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the Obama administration and
Clinton.
Huma
Abedin, top Clinton aide, delivers 6,714 emails, 2,533 pages of documents. Huma Abedin, former Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton's close personal aide, has turned over 6,714 emails, and 2,533 pages of documents in printed and
electronic form, the Obama administration said in a court filing late Friday [9/11/2015]. Most of those materials were
finally turned over Sept. 1, and though the majority came in electronic form already, they will still need to be converted
to a searchable format, the State Department said. The department said it will take 60 days to convert the messages,
process them and begin releasing responsive documents.
Tech
company: No indication that Clinton's e-mail server was 'wiped'. [Hillary] Clinton and her advisers have said
for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that
31,000 e-mails were gone forever. There is a distinction between e-mails' being deleted and a server being wiped.
If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending
on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device, and the e-mails can often be restored.
Server
company: Deleted Clinton emails may be recoverable. Platte River Networks, the company that managed Hillary
Clinton's private email server, says it has no evidence of the server being wiped, meaning tens of thousands of deleted
emails could be recovered, according to the Washington Post. "Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped,"
company spokesman Andy Boian said. "All the information we have is that the server wasn't wiped."
Exclusive:
State Department 'Email Czar' Received Classified Hillary Clinton Emails. The "email czar" hired by the State
Department to handle the agency's response to the Hillary Clinton email scandal has a second hidden conflict of interest: she
received some of the same classified emails that were also sent to Hillary Clinton via her private email system, Breitbart
News has learned. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Janice L. Jacobs this week to serve as a non-partisan,
non-political "transparency coordinator." The recently retired bureaucrat will lead the State Department's political response
to the various Clinton email investigations in Congress and the various civil lawsuits filed by transparency groups.
Justice
Department lawyers argue Hillary Clinton had the right to delete any emails she chose. Using laugh-out-loud
justification, Justice Department lawyers have asserted to a federal judge that Hillary Clinton should be trusted to decide
what records she chooses to delete, with no outside review. Ruby Kramer of Buzzfeed is correct: a brief filed by
Justice Department attorneys on Wednesday [9/9/2015], was "little-noticed." Yet it contains a shocking position for
federal lawyers to assert to a court.
Will he or won't he? The Bryan Pagliano
Story. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton had an IT specialist, for whom she arranged special and highly unusual payment arrangements,
and who is now on the hot seat legally since Clintons aren't ever on the hot seat themselves. Bryan Pagliano has pled the 5th for the
moment, but Republican senators would like to grant him immunity in exchange for spilling the beans on his old boss. As Ed Morrissey
noted this morning, Pagliano and his lawyers, represented by the Clinton-close firm of Akin Gump, could do a proffer session with senators,
which would gauge what Pagliano knows without forcing him to incriminate himself. Pagliano has now refused that.
Hillary
Clinton Emailed Aide on Hotmail Account. As pressure continues to mount on Hillary Clinton to answer more
questions about her personal email, the former secretary of state, while acknowledging some mistakes, is doubling down on
some of the claims she has made since the story broke in March. One of these claims is that it was the secretary's "practice
to email government officials on their official .gov accounts so that her messages were preserved within email archives."
This claim was made as recently as Tuesday on a new page on her website which was linked by an email sent to supporters Tuesday
evening [9/8/2015]. However, a review of Mrs. Clinton's emails demonstrates that this was certainly not always the case.
Hillary
Clinton Email — Deleted or Not? First, and this is important, emails (by definition) cannot be
deleted. Either you receive an email or you send one. Which means complete copies are sitting in the sender's sent folder and
in your inbox, or complete copies are sitting in your sent folder and in the recipient's inbox. In other words, there is a
copy of every email you've ever sent or received somewhere that is not in your control, so deleting your copies will (again
by definition) only solve half of your problem. No matter which type of email system you use (POP3 or IMAP), there is also
a copy sitting on the server. So, in practice, emails don't really come in pairs; they always live in at least three places.
What
conflict? State Dept. defends Clinton donor as Clinton email watchdog. Secretary of State John Kerry, who
helped create the mess that is the Iran deal, is charged with addressing the email mess left by his predecessor, Hillary
Clinton. This week Kerry appointed Janice Jacobs, a retired career foreign service officer, as "transparency
coordinator" to oversee that clean-up, among other things, including regular, court-ordered releases of the select emails
that Clinton chose to turn in from her unapproved private email server. This is a sensitive process. Each email must be
read and many redacted because they contain classified information that Clinton says is not there. Additionally, Clinton
deleted thousands of other emails she states were not work-related. The FBI is overseeing that mess. Clinton is
seeking to become chief executive of the federal government.
Conservative
group calls for removal of 'transparency czar'. A conservative group has called on Ambassador Janice Jacobs,
the State Department's newly-appointed "transparency czar," to resign amid revelations that she donated the maximum amount
permitted by law to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. America Rising, a Republican political action committee,
highlighted the "conflict of interest" created by allowing a Clinton supporter to decide which of Clinton's emails will be
disclosed to the public and Congress — a reported part of Jacobs' new position.
Judge
denies Obama admin. request to halt Clinton email cases. The Obama administration told a federal court
Wednesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was within her legal rights to use her own email account, to
take the messages with her when she left office and to be the one deciding which of those messages are government records
that should be returned. In the most complete legal defense of Mrs. Clinton, Justice Department lawyers insisted they not
only have no obligation, but no power, to go back and demand the former top diplomat turn over any documents she hasn't
already given — and neither, they said, can the court order that.
Hillary's
IT Staffer Pleads The Fifth For Fear Of 'Anti-Clinton Frenzy'. Hillary Clinton's personal IT worker invoked his
Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a closed-door interview with the House Select Committee on Benghazi
on Thursday because he's concerned about getting ensnared in an "anti-Clinton frenzy." Bryan Pagliano's decision to plead
the fifth came as no surprise. His attorney informed the Benghazi Committee last week that his client would not testify
about his work on Clinton's private email server.
State
Dept. withholds dozens of Clinton-related records. State Department officials withheld dozens of documents
related to the unusual employment status of Huma Abedin, a former aide to Hillary Clinton who held two separate jobs in
addition to her government position during Clinton's tenure. Despite a court order requiring the agency to hand over
68 pages of records to the Associated Press by Tuesday [9/8/2015], the State Department delivered just seven pages to
the news outlet in its response to its pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The batch contained just five
emails, two of which had been partially redacted, the Associated Press said.
Justice
Department rules Hillary Clinton followed law in deleting emails. The Obama administration told a federal court
Wednesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was within her legal rights to use of her own email account,
to take messages with her when she left office and to be the one deciding which of those messages are government records that
should be returned. In the most complete legal defense of Mrs. Clinton, Justice Department lawyers insisted they not only
have no obligation, but no power, to go back and demand the former top diplomat turn over any documents she hasn't already
given — and neither, they said, can the court order that.
Clinton
Only Apologized for Emails After Bad Focus Group Reactions. Hillary Clinton's sudden reversal on whether or not
she would apologize for using a private email server while Secretary of State seemed inexplicable; on Friday [9/4/2015] she
refused to apologize in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, but by Tuesday was apologizing to ABC's David Muir.
But The New York Times reported Wednesday [9/9/2015] on the impetus for the change; Clinton watched a video of a
focus group that reacted negatively to her email rhetoric.
Hillary
Clinton Staffer Pushed to Accept Immunity to Testify on Private Server. Two Senate committee chairmen authored a letter
to a former Hillary Clinton aide pushing him to accept limited immunity in order to testify before Congress on the set-up of the
former secretary of state's private server. [...] In response to a subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, [Brian]
Pagliano's attorney Mark MacDougall told the committee early last week that Pagliano plans to assert his Fifth Amendment right to
avoid testifying on Clinton's email system. Pagliano, who also worked on Clinton's failed 2008 presidential campaign, set up
Clinton's personal server in 2009. MacDougall likewise told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Pagliano would plead the Fifth.
Servergate Really Could Be Hillary's
Downfall. When you think about Watergate, you think about President Richard Nixon's downfall, underscored by a series
of events that few could fathom to be accurate at the time. The same holds true for the situation, currently, unfolding around
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I've termed this debacle "Server-gate" due to the similarity between these two black marks
in U.S. history. No doubt, the players, timing, and technology may have changed but the reckless use of power, the secrecy, and
the fact that both infractions took place immediately preceding presidential elections (by the candidates or potential candidates,
themselves) remain, very much, the same.
Senators
propose immunity for Hillary Clinton staffer to testify on email server. Two top Senate investigators floated
the idea of immunity Tuesday to Bryan Pagliano, the staffer who set up the email server in former Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton's home, in exchange for testimony about her activities. Mr. Pagliano last week said he would assert his
Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions about the matter, but Sens. Chuck Grassley
and Ron Johnson, the chairmen of two key committees investigating the situation, said they have authority to extend immunity
if Mr. Pagliano is willing to talk.
Hillary
will do anything to change the conversation — except be honest. Before apologizing for the e-mail
scandal yesterday, she had gone from iron defiance to painful jokes and then a claim that she was too busy as secretary of
state. "We had so many problems around the world," Clinton said in a TV interview. "I didn't really stop and think
what kind of e-mail system will there be." Whopper alert! Of course she thought about it, and plenty. How else
did the server get in her home? Did it walk in, plug itself into the wall and start humming with classified information?
And she certainly thought about the server when she used private money to pay a State Department employee to maintain it.
She made the decision to operate outside the secure government system every time she received and sent an e-mail at her private
address. By her count, that happened about 33,000 times over four years.
Second
Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton's Email. A special intelligence review of two emails
that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North
Korea's nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies
that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.
Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general's finding last month and questioned
whether the emails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review — by the Central
Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — concluded that the emails were "Top Secret,"
the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Mrs. Clinton in 2009 and 2011.
CIA Confirms Clinton's 'Top
Secret' E-mails Were Classified from Day One. In the latest blow to the Hillary Clinton campaign's claim that sensitive
government information stored on her private e-mail server was only classified after the fact, a special review by two top spy agencies
confirmed that two e-mails with "Top Secret" material were classified from the moment they were received.
Lawsuit
asks how Clinton lawyer got OK to store classified emails. A new lawsuit is demanding that the State Department
explain how Hillary Clinton's private attorney, David Kendall, got permission from the State Department to retain copies of
Clinton's emails after the agency determined some of them were classified. The suit was filed Monday [9/7/2015] in U.S.
District Court in Washington by freelance journalist David Brown, who sent State a Freedom of Information Act request last
month asking for all records about the decision to allow Kendall to retain a thumb drive containing copies of about 30,000
emails Clinton turned over to State in December.
What
Hillary Clinton Would Say About Her Email Scandal If She Were Being Brutally Honest. Hillary Clinton is struggling to manage
the scandal that has erupted over her unprecedented use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. She
"regrets" not following the rules, and is "sorry that this has been confusing to people." As Clinton has previously said, her
biggest weakness is that the American people are too stupid to realize why she deserves to be president. If Hillary's response
to the scandal has come across as incoherent and dishonest, it's because those are the two words that most accurately characterize
her response to the scandal.
Wordclouding Hillary.
Americans have short attention spans — how else could Barack Obama been elected and reelected despite a history of
lies and broken promises (some broken almost immediately upon making them)? Americans do not have time or inclination to
pour over position papers or linger over the history of candidates. Politics has been taken over by social media, Facebook
postings, political cartoons, You Tube videos and Tweets. [...] The email controversy is the latest outbreak of self-created
problems. But there are no reasons to rely on this cloud hovering over her going into November next year; clouds move and
Americans do suffer from attention-deficit disorder. The Clintons have always relied on getting over the next news cycle
and people forgetting and moving on. The Clintons routinely dismiss criticism as "partisan attacks" and "old news."
Republicans should not allow this past practice to work again.
Another week of embarrassing shoes
dropping for Hillary. First came news that Hillary Clinton's private e-mails included highly classified information on North
Korea's nuclear-weapons stockpile. That comes from multiple intelligence sources speaking on the condition of anonymity to The Washington
Times. The nuke info apparently came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a highly classified satellite and mapping system.
Such info is automatically classified at the very highest level, even when not so labeled — and knowing that rule is part of the
secretary of state's job. So much for Clinton's repeated claims that she didn't know she was putting secrets at risk via her own
personal e-mail server.
Hillary
Clinton's new explanation makes matters worse. Right now we know that, at a minimum 188 emails existed on
Hillary Clinton's private (remember this term, it is important) email server. We know at least two of those emails
contained information that originated with a Keyhole satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office and was
classified at the Top Secret level. Things became more interesting on Thursday [9/3/2015] when it was revealed that a
Hillary Clinton acolyte and a member of the criminal clique she brought into State with her, a guy named Bryan Pagliano, had
pleaded the Fifth to a request to testify before Rep. Trey Gowdy's Benghazi committee. Now taking the Fifth doesn't mean
he is guilty of anything, it just means he doesn't want to incriminate himself. The interesting thing about Pagliano is
that he was brought into State as a high grade, GS-15, political appointee and embedded in the State Department's IT operation.
Pagliano
didn't disclose off-the-books pay for secret work on Hillary's server. Well, well, well, we now know at least one reason
why Bryan Pagliano took the Fifth. Buried in the 13th paragraph of the Washington Post story on him two days ago is this tidbit,
spotted by Scott Johnson of Powerline: ["]Pagliano did not list the outside income in the required personal financial disclosures
he filed each year.["] This could lead to criminal charges: [...]
The secret life of Bryan
Pagliano. Bryan Pagliano is the former State Department staffer who just advised congressional committees seeking
his testimony of his intention to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The Washington Post's
Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig enlist the assistance of three of their colleagues to report on Madam
Hillary's private arrangement with Pagliano. The Post reports that Madam Hillary personally paid Pagliano for his
services maintaining the private e-mail server she used for her official correspondence as Secretary of State. The
Post reporters confirmed the story directly with an unnamed Clinton campaign official. The Post adds this intriguing
detail: "Pagliano did not list the outside income in the required personal financial disclosures he filed each year."
Pagliano's attorney declined to comment to the Post.
Clinton
Emails: What Did Obama Know And When Did He Know It? The FBI is probing Hillary Clinton's server to see if
spies accessed her emails. It's the right move. There could be probative value there. But the FBI
should also be looking for emails to or from the president.
Former
Obama Intel Chief Says Suspend Hillary's Security Clearance. Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen.
Michael T. Flynn says President Obama should "immediately suspend" Hillary Clinton's security clearance because she ran a
private, unprotected email server from her New York home. Flynn also told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive
interview Saturday that Clinton's use of a private server for official national security business was "unprecedented," and he
believed Clinton caused "untold damage" to national security. Clinton should also be denied "any access to any classified
or sensitive information," said Flynn, who was appointed by Obama to the DIA job in 2012.
Clinton
Admits She Destroyed Government Property. Bryan Pagliano was Clinton's director of information technology
during her failed 2008 presidential run. After she became secretary of state in 2009, he followed her there. He's now
known as the tech specialist who set up and maintained the Clinton server. Naturally, he has vital information Congress
needs as it continues its probe. And just as naturally, he said he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right when called on to
testify. While that's his constitutional right, we'd bet his testimony would be likelier to incriminate his former boss
than him.
Investigators
wanted to ask Clinton IT specialist about destruction of evidence. Investigators on the Benghazi Select
Committee had hoped to question former Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano over the possible destruction of evidence, known
in legal circles as "spoliation," a congressional source told Fox News. However, in an August 31 letter to Congress,
Pagliano's attorney said the former 2008 campaign staffer who installed and managed Clinton's personal server and left his IT
job at the State Department in February 2013, the same month Clinton stepped down as secretary, would "respectfully assert
his Fifth Amendment right" before the Benghazi Select Committee. "The matters for which Mr. Pagliano's testimony and
documents are being sought by the Select Committee are also the subject of investigative activity by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Department of Justice," the letter said.
Hillary
Clinton is Sorry You're Too Stupid to Understand Her Lies. Did Hillary do anything wrong? No. "It wasn't the
best choice". Why? Because it's "confusing to people." Is Hillary sorry? Yes, she's "'sorry that this has been
confusing to people." Hillary Clinton is sorry that you're too stupid to believe her excuses. And she would have made a
different choice if she knew how stupid you were. She disagrees with the choice she made, only because she had not previously
imagined just how stupid everyone was. Now she's sorry... that you're too stupid to understand why a top government official
would want to run her own email server with classified information and poor security that she then wiped. She's sorry that you
can't understand why her associate is refusing to cooperate with the FBI.
Benghazi
investigators hoped to question Clinton IT specialist about possible destruction of evidence. Investigators on
the Benghazi Select Committee had hoped to question former Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano over the possible destruction
of evidence, known in legal circles as "spoliation," a congressional source told Fox News. However, in an August 31
letter to Congress, Pagliano's attorney said the former 2008 campaign staffer who installed and managed Clinton's personal
server and left his IT job at the State Department in February 2013, the same month Clinton stepped down as secretary, would
"respectfully assert his Fifth Amendment right" before the Benghazi Select Committee. "The matters for which Mr. Pagliano's
testimony and documents are being sought by the Select Committee are also the subject of investigative activity by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice," the letter said.
Clinton: Email use was
'fully above board'. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declined a chance to apologize for her email practices
Friday [9/4/20-15], saying it was not a good choice but was "fully above-board" and other government officials knew she was using it.
[...] She again insisted she did not send or receive any material marked secret, saying the nearly 200 messages already released and
marked classified were only designated after the fact and don't indicate she mishandled information.
Citizens
United Hires D.C. Lawyer to Help Gain Access to Clinton Emails. The conservative group Citizens United has retained a
top-flight Washington attorney to help in its fight to gain quicker access to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's records.
Citizens United has brought on Theodore Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general and his firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher as part of an
ongoing Freedom of Information Act case against the State Department. "The American people have the right to see former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton's records that Citizens United requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The government's efforts
to delay the disclosure of these records must be confronted," said Citizens United president David Bossie.
There's
a Whole Arsenal of Smoking Guns in the Clinton E-mail Scandal. The problem is that the standards for what counts as a
smoking gun keep changing. Nearly everything Clinton has said in her defense regarding her secret server has been a lie.
Among the minor lies: her claim that she set up the server so she could use a single device. (She had two.) Her
claim that the State Department was saving her e-mails to staff. (It wasn't until 2010.) Her claim that she erased tens
of thousands of e-mails because they included, among other things, her e-mail correspondence with her husband. (Bill Clinton
doesn't use e-mail.)
Clintons
personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally
paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an
official from Clinton's presidential campaign. The unusual arrangement helped Clinton retain personal control over the
system that she used for her public and private duties and that has emerged as an issue for her campaign. But, according to
the campaign official, it also ensured that taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that was shared by Clinton, her
husband and their daughter as well as aides to the former president. That State Department staffer, Bryan Pagliano, told a
congressional committee this week that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination instead of
testifying about the setup.
Clinton
family reportedly personally paid State Dept. staffer to maintain private server. Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary
Clinton and her family reportedly paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private email server she used during her tenure as secretary
of state. The Washington Post, citing an unnamed campaign official, reports the arrangement helped Clinton maintain her personal control
over the server that she used to conduct public and private business. The official also said it also ensured that taxpayers weren't
paying for the upkeep of the server that was shared by Clinton, her husband, the former president, and their daughter as well as former aides,
the Post reports.
Tech
specialist who helped Hillary Clinton set up her private email server was paid with Taxpayer dollars. The IT
specialist who set up Hillary Clinton's controversial private email was paid with taxpayer dollars after he helped the former
Secretary of State skirt the law. And Bryan Pagliano is finding his own words could be coming back to bite him. 'Some
things that look like good ideas...may actually have bad consequences,' he told an IT webinar last year. Pagliano, 39, was
taken on by the State Department when Clinton was appointed the nation's top diplomat in 2009. He had previously worked
for her presidential campaign.
Is This Why
Clinton Aide Bryan Pagliano is Taking the 5th? Hillary Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano's attorney said last week
that his client would not cooperate with the FBI and would exercise his Fifth Amendment rights. What does he have to
hide? In fact, he may have already hidden information that will get him into a pile of legal trouble if he admits it.
It was revealed today [9/5/2015] by the Washington Post that Pagliano was paid to run Hillary's private server —
out of Hillary Clinton's own pocket. She paid Pagliano an initial sum of $5,000 to set up the server. Pagliano
dutifully reported the sum on his financial disclosure form in 2008. But campaign officials now tell the WaPo that
Clinton continued to pay Pagliano to maintain the server until Hillary left the State Department in 2013. The paper could
find no record of Pagliano reporting any income from Clinton on his disclosure forms during the intervening years, and the State
Department says they had "found no evidence" of Pagliano earning outside income.
IT
Experts: Anti-Spam Companies May Have Copies Or Logs Of Clinton's Emails. Copies or logs of Hillary Clinton's
emails could be stored on the servers of companies that the former secretary of state used to manage and block spam for her
email domain, IT experts tell The Daily Caller. The existence of such residual information could have two major
implications, the experts say. First, the additional email footprints would have provided more information useful to
potential hackers. On a different front, the records would allow federal agencies investigating Clinton's email server
to compare the companies' records with what the Democratic presidential candidate turned over to the State Department in
December. Clinton has said that she handed all work-related emails over to the agency, though many of her critics
say they doubt the claim.
It's
fun and games 'til someone takes the Fifth. Perhaps [Bryan] Pagliano is not truly in criminal jeopardy. Maybe
he just thinks he is. People are entitled to anticipate the worst. For example, he could reasonably imagine that blame
for failing to secure the email system, thus compromising so much classified information, might be laid at his feet. The
Clintons' wake is littered with adherents who were sent to the slammer. Or what if someone tries to blame him for erasing
information that should have been preserved? As crazy and as unlikely as it might sound, Clinton might someday try to play
dumb about technology-related matters, in which case fingers might point in Pagliano's direction. If you do not believe this
possible, bear in mind that both Clinton and her campaign spokesperson have now publicly pretended that they do not know what it
means to "wipe" a computer server.
What Will the Public Make
of Hillary's Former IT Staffer's Decision to Take the Fifth? [Scroll down] Federal law also makes it a crime for
any person to aid or abet another person's commission of a crime. Pagliano can't be principally liable for concealing or
destroying records under Section 2071(b) because he wasn't their custodian. But if he set up Mrs. Clinton's server and
assisted her in maintaining it knowing that the purpose was to avoid federal disclosure laws, he too might be implicated in
criminal activity. That seems unlikely. More likely is that Pagliano is simply a techie who did what he was asked
to do — set up a server.
Hillary Rodham Bismarck Hit
With Another Salvo: Her Emails Altered to Hide Classification Markings. [Scroll down] In other words, 10 percent
of Hillary's emails appear to be edited in order to hide either: (a) SECRET and TOP SECRET data so egregious that
there would be a massive public outcry if they were revealed; or (b) surreptitious dealings with foreign governments in
exchange for donations to the Clinton Global Graft Initiative. Either situation simply reinforces the fact that Hillary
Clinton should be wearing an orange jumpsuit in a maximum security facility. Perhaps Gitmo. Maybe President Cruz
could make that happen.
Hillary
Clinton, inner circle responsible for most classified emails. Nearly a third of the classified messages released
so far from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails came from one man: Jake Sullivan, who served as her
deputy chief of staff in the department, and is now the top foreign policy adviser to her presidential campaign. Cheryl D.
Mills, a longtime top Clinton aide who was chief of staff at the department, ranked second, and Huma Abedin, Mrs. Clinton's close
personal assistant who was also a deputy chief of staff, ranked third, with 27 emails sent by her that contain information
marked "confidential" by the government, according to a Washington Times analysis.
Another
57 Clinton email threads contain foreign governments' information. "Here's my personal email," Hillary Clinton
wrote to U.S. special envoy George Mitchell on a summer Sunday in 2010 as he telephoned one European official after another
in an effort to keep peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians on track. "Pls use this for reply," Clinton
wrote in her email, sent from the clintonemail.com account she set up on an unsecured, private server in her New York home
for her work as secretary of state.
Has
Hillary Clinton created a national security disaster? Most coverage of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server (including mine) has focused on whether she lied about her usage and whether she violated the law. This focus is
natural because Clinton is running for president. Presumably, only partisan Democrats are likely to support a liar and even
some of them might balk at backing a criminal. But Stanley Kurtz looks at a different and vital question, namely the
nature and scale of the damage to American national security caused by Hillary's mishandling of classified information.
Hillary's
Emails: How Big a National Security Disaster? Has Hillary Clinton been lying about her e-mail system and did
she violate the laws against mishandling classified material? Coverage of Clinton's e-mail scandal has been focused on those
questions, but shouldn't we be paying more attention to the nature and scale of the damage to American national security caused by
Hillary's carelessness with classified information? We're not focused on the details of the security damage because it's
difficult to know whether and to what extent Hillary's communications were intercepted, and more difficult still to make public
whatever our intelligence agencies may have figured out on that score. But maybe we already know enough to conclude that
Hillary's e-mail scandal constitutes one of the most serious American national security disasters on record.
Staffer
who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server faces subpoena. The move by Bryan Pagliano, who had worked on
Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009, came in a Monday [8/31/2015]
letter from his lawyer to the House panel investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The
letter cited the ongoing FBI inquiry into the security of Clinton's e-mail system, and it quoted a Supreme Court ruling in which
justices described the Fifth Amendment as protecting "innocent men ... 'who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.'"
Former
Clinton Aide to Invoke Fifth Amendment in Response to Congressional Questions Over Private Email Server. The
former aide, Bryan Pagliano, was subpoenaed to testify before a House committee, but a lawyer for Mr. Pagliano has told the
panel that his client will assert his right to remain silent and decline to answer their questions. The subpoena was
issued by the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. As part of its inquiry, the panel is
examining Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email account while she was secretary of state, which shielded her correspondences
from congressional inquiries.
Former Clinton aide expected to plead
the 5th in response to email inquiries. A former State Department employee who worked on Hillary Clinton's private
email server has informed Congress that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before the House Select Committee
on Benghazi and in response to other Congressional inquiries related to the server. On Monday [8/31/2015], Mark MacDougall,
the attorney for former State Department employee Bryan Pagliano, sent a letter to House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey
Gowdy indicating that Pagliano would assert his Fifth Amendment right not to appear before the Select Committee for a deposition
on September 10, 2015.
Should
Government Employees be Allowed the Fifth Amendment Plea? When a person is in the public service, when that
person is compensated by the taxpayer, is it not demanded of the arrangement that there be transparency? We all know Lois
Lerner's Fifth Amendment plea, and now we are going to learn of Hillary's State Department's computer expert doing same.
He doesn't want to tell us, his employer, what he was up to. [...] Does the taxpayer, the citizen, not have the inherent right
to know what that servant was doing with the powers and appointments of his or her position? Let's take this to the absurd.
Imagine the President, upon being asked a question regarding his use of power, replied, "I don't want to tell you. I don't
have to tell you." If a situation exists where testimony is required by the "public servant" to explain how the powers
endowed to him or her, by the people, were indeed executed, should not the person be required to reply or be terminated?
The employee must be accountable to the employer.
What's Going on With the Republicans?
As I wrote earlier this year, it was hacker Marcel-Lehel Lazar, calling himself Guccifer, who in May 2013 revealed that
Clinton had been using a personal email address for official business. We learned of other information only through Freedom
of Information Act lawsuits filed against the State Department by organizations such as Vice News, Citizens United, and Judicial
Watch. Some of these FOIA emails, it seems, were already in the possession of Trey Gowdy's select committee, for it leaked
hundreds of them to the New York Times only hours before the State Department published its first batch. Why had the
select committee done nothing but sit on these? And why leak to the New York Times? Which leads one to wonder
about Trey Gowdy. Why is he allowing Hillary to run the clock on these emails? More importantly, why is Boehner
instructing him to do so?
Staffer
who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server faces subpoena. A former State Department staffer who worked on
Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail server tried this week to fend off a subpoena to testify before Congress, saying he
would assert his constitutional right not to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself. The move by Bryan Pagliano,
who had worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009, came in a Monday
[8/31/2015] letter from his lawyer to the House panel investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Exclusive:
Hillary's Email Server Had A Webmail Portal That Allowed Unrestricted Access To Hackers. Clintonemail.com had a
subdomain called webmail.clintonemail.com, according to the account's GoDaddy.com encryption certificate. That subdomain is a
web-based email portal that considerably weakened the server's defenses and invited attack. A webmail portal allows web
traffic to bypass hardware and software firewalls to easily access the server's mail "interface." If a user accesses emails
through a web portal on an unsecure network like Clinton's, then the emails can be read without any encryption whatsoever for safety.
State
Dept. seeks to oust 16 judges from Clinton email cases in favor of one judge. The State Department asked to
halt most of the judges prying into former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, filing papers Thursday [9/3/2015] proposing that
the cases all be combined into one so that a single judge can oversee the government's searches and releases. Admitting it's
"struggling" under the weight of the problem left by Mrs. Clinton's decision to use her own email account, the State Department
warned it might miss the January deadline for turning over all of her emails — and might not be able to process her
former aides' emails either — unless a single judge takes over and decides what they have to do.
Clinton
Spokesman: 'I Don't Know What Wiped Means'. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton told CNN he did not know what it
means for a computer server to be "wiped." Brian Fallon, Clinton's press secretary, spoke with CNN's Brianna Keilar about
the news that a former IT staffer who worked on Clinton's private email server is pleading the Fifth Amendment in front of a
congresional committee investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack. Keilar pressed Fallon about why the former secretary
of state deleted personal emails from her server, and the two had an exchange about the propriety of deleting those emails.
Lanny's Letter to
Hillary Is D.C.'s Most Cringe-Inducing Document Ever. The latest stash of emails from Hillary Clinton's private
server released by the State Department has (once again!) revealed Washington to be a particularly unbearable place, employing
particularly insufferable people. From Clinton's email correspondence with her senior staff we can observe how those
with proximity to power engage in rare forms of backstabbing, obsequiousness, pettiness, bad humor, and self-obsession.
Could
This Be the Scandal That Finally Sinks Hillary Clinton? This scandal is about national security. It's about
Hillary Clinton casually, recklessly mishandling something that was central to her job as Secretary of State: protecting
the secrets of the United States. That's why the latest revelation is so important: that her unsecure homebrew
e-mail server was not merely the passive recipient of classified information sent to her by others, but that she used it to
originate messages containing classified material.
Exclusive:
Hillary Paid to Hide Identity of the People Running Her Email Server. Hillary Clinton paid to hide the identity
of the people running her private email server, Breitbart News has learned. Her attempt to hide details about her server
has allowed another faceless company access to her classified email information, while doing little to nothing to secure that
information from hackers. Clinton's private email domain clintonemail.com was initially purchased by Clinton aide Eric
Hoteham, who listed the Clintons' Chappaqua, New York home as the contact address for his purchase. But the domain is
actually registered to an Internet company designed to hide the true identity of the people running it.
Will
Hillary Clinton's Emails Burn the White House? The Federal Bureau of Investigation can be expected to be
tight-lipped, especially because this highly sensitive case is being handled by counterintelligence experts from Bureau
headquarters a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, not by the FBI's Washington Field Office. That will
ensure this investigation gets the needed "big picture" view, since even senior FBI agents at any given field office may only have
a partial look at complex counterintelligence cases. And this most certainly is a counterintelligence matter. There's
a widely held belief among American counterspies that foreign intelligence agencies had to be reading the emails on
Hillary's private server, particularly since it was wholly unencrypted for months.
Staffer
who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server faces subpoena. A former State Department staffer who worked on
Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail server tried this week to fend off a subpoena to testify before Congress, saying he
would assert his constitutional right not to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself. The move by Bryan Pagliano,
who had worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009, came in a
Monday letter from his lawyer to the House panel investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Hillary
Email Scandal: Two Smoking Guns Found In Latest Batch. In November 2009, Clinton sent an email to her pal
Sidney Blumenthal. In response to his email asking "how did it go in Berlin?" Clinton writes back: "Berlin was
terrific. Lots of good exchanges w leaders." The entire rest of the email is blacked out. The Washington Post
reported Wednesday [9/2/2015] that it found six emails, so far, that Clinton wrote and sent that contained such classified
information. And, as the Post noted, the classification marks make clear that the information in these messages was classified
"at birth," whether marked or not, because it contained "foreign government information" and "foreign relations or foreign activities
of the United States, including confidential sources."
Hillary
Knew Good and Well Those Emails Would Become Classified. [Scroll down] Okay, so why does this matter, and why does it
matter that Hillary Clinton is doubtless intimately familiar with these concepts? Well, see, it matters because, as it is
revealed that more and more emails made their way through Hillary Clinton's insecure personal server that were later marked
classified, Team Hillary has become determined to hang their hat on the fact that Hillary did not receive nor send any
material that was marked classified at the time it was sent/received. While this may or may not end up being true,
technically speaking, it ignores the fact that Hillary knew good and well that a significant chunk of the emails she sent and
received would inevitably be labeled classified later, simply because of the fact that they contained the private thoughts
of the Secretary of State on matters of national security.
Hillary
Intentionally Originated And Distributed Highly Classified Information. A review of recently released e-mails
shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly originated and distributed highly classified national
security information. Clinton's classified e-mail missives were not constrained to State Department staff, either.
She also sent classified information to Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House operative banned by the Obama White House.
An analysis by The Federalist of e-mails released by the State Department late Monday shows that scores of e-mails sent by
Clinton contained highly confidential national security information from the beginning, even if they weren't marked by a
classification authority until later.
Hillary
Clinton's email trouble, explained. Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to quash the rising scandal over her misuse
of email when she was secretary of state has so far backfired spectacularly. Instead of cutting the story short, she has
fanned the flames, and now even some of her backers in the Democratic Party are worried about the trajectory of this drama,
which threatens to derail her presidential candidacy. For readers who have mostly ignored emailgate — assuming
it would disappear — and now feel the need to catch up, here's a primer on why it matters.
Hillary
Intentionally Originated And Distributed Highly Classified Information. A review of recently released e-mails
shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly originated and distributed highly classified national
security information. Clinton's classified e-mail missives were not constrained to State Department staff, either.
She also sent classified information to Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House operative banned by the Obama White House.
An analysis by The Federalist of e-mails released by the State Department late Monday shows that scores of e-mails sent by Clinton
contained highly confidential national security information from the beginning, even if they weren't marked by a classification
authority until later. The original date of classification of Hillary's e-mails can be discerned by noting the declassification
dates noted next to redactions in the e-mails.
Sources:
Clinton email markings changed to hide classified info. At least four classified Hillary Clinton emails had
their markings changed to a category that shields the content from Congress and the public, Fox News has learned, in what
State Department whistleblowers believed to be an effort to hide the true extent of classified information on the former
secretary of state's server. The changes, which came to light after the first tranche of 296 Benghazi emails was released
in May, was confirmed by two sources — one congressional, the other intelligence. The four emails originally were
marked classified after a review by career officials at the State Department. But after a second review by the department's
legal office, the designation was switched to "B5" — also known as "deliberative process," which refers to internal
deliberations by the Executive Branch. Such discussions are exempt from public release. The B5 coding has the
effect, according to a congressional source, of dropping the email content "down a deep black hole."
New
Hillary Clinton Emails Show Violation of Freedom of Information Law. The newly-released batch of Hillary
Clinton emails provides further proof that Freedom of Information (FOI) law has been blatantly violated. The documents
include material directly responsive to a FOI request I made back in 2012 after the Benghazi terrorist attacks on the U.S.
compounds. However, the material was not produced at the time, as required by law. Once again, there appears to be
nobody who holds government officials and agencies accountable for their routine violation of this law. So the infractions
occur frequently and with impunity. If nobody polices our government officials and agencies — if they are above
the law — then how does a lawful society function?
Clinton
Told Aide to Send Classified Info to Personal Email Address. On the same day that the "hacktivist" group
WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of classified State Department communications online, then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton told a top deputy to send now-classified information to her personal email address, newly released emails reveal.
"Here's my personal email," Clinton told former Sen. George Mitchell, then Clinton's special envoy for Middle East peace.
"Pls use this for reply." Mitchell responded with details of discussions with Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini.
Most of the contents of the email, released by the State Department on Monday night [8/31/2015], are redacted pursuant to a Freedom
of Information Act exemption designed to protect classified national security information.
Clinton
wrote classified e-mails sent using private server. While she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton
wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified
information, according to thousands of e-mails released by the State Department. Although government officials deemed the
e-mails classified after Clinton left office, they could complicate her efforts to move beyond the political fallout from the
controversy. They suggest that her role in distributing sensitive material via her private e-mail system went beyond
receiving notes written by others, and appears to contradict earlier public statements in which she denied sending or
receiving e-mails containing classified information.
A
prediction from Judicial Watch about 'Servergate'. A conservative watchdog group predicts that Hillary Clinton
could be forced to give up her presidential bid. "I think Mrs. Clinton and her immediate circle, they are in trouble.
It's not going to go away," Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch says of the Democratic front-runner. Clinton continues to be mired
in controversy over her use of personal email while secretary of state, with the FBI investigating her under the Espionage Act for
sensitive information that may have been unsecure on the email server, Fox News reported last week.
Tony
Blair's Appearance in the Clinton E-mails Demolishes Hillary's Excuses. Tony Blair knew about Hillary Clinton's
private e-mail account before the American people did — and his off-the-grid e-mail exchanges with Clinton are
another sledgehammer to the already crumbling edifice of excuses offered in defense of her homebrew server. [...] The
conversations cover a wide range of world hot spots, including the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iran, Sudan, and Haiti. Many
of them — nearly 200 in total to date — have now been classified by the State Department as "foreign
government information" and redacted or withheld from release. The very nature of the communications in those e-mails
established that they contained classified information from their inception. Mrs. Clinton's defense that she did not
know of the existence of such information on her server at the time is laughable.
State
Department releases thousand of Clinton emails, 125 contain classified information. The State Department
released thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton's emails Monday night [8/31/2015] that a department spokesman said contained
125 messages with material now considered classified. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the emails in question
were "subsequently upgraded" to classified. He stressed that none of the emails was considered classified at the time.
However, the sheer number of emails that have been redacted stands as the latest example of how much sensitive material was contained
in Clinton's email transactions.
Big
batch of Clinton e-mails being released; some have redactions. The State Department released on Monday evening
[8/31/2015] its biggest trove yet of e-mails sent or received by former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, including
a number of messages that were edited to remove material later deemed classified. The e-mails are the latest in a
rolling review of material that passed through an unorthodox private e-mail system that the Democratic presidential candidate
has said she now regrets.
Classified
data grows in Clinton emails. The Obama administration is increasingly finding classified information in former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, declaring secret material in nearly 3 percent of the batch released late
Monday night [8/31/2015]. That is up from just 1.7 percent of the emails in the previous releases and raises questions
about whether the new set of emails is more troublesome or whether the administration is being more strict after repeated
warnings by watchdogs that Mrs. Clinton's messages contain matters that should not be made public.
Seven
thousand pages released from Hillary Clinton's private server as 150 are 'upgraded' to classified status.
Hillary Clinton's private email account was a big enough secret at the State Department that the agency's computer help-desk
experts didn't recognize her address when they saw it. 'They had no idea it was YOU,' her top aide Human Abedin remarked at
the time. Although she would claim years later that she carried only a single email device — her personal
Blackberry — out of 'convenience,' Clinton emailed her press guru in 2010 to ask for help learning to use her new
iPad. And the once-and-future presidential candidate couldn't get skim milk for her tea — and was at a loss to
figure out what time to catch 'Parks and Recreation' or 'The Good Wife' on TV.
The Editor says...
Does any normal person write emails about trivial stuff like that? Did she ever do any work? I suspect these email
messages will be used as evidence in her favor someday soon: See? She's not a crook — she's just incompetent!
More
sleepless nights for Team Clinton as additional classified documents are released. The State Department has
just released a batch of about 7,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's private server. Approximately 150 of them are redacted
because they contain classified information. The classified emails deal with Haiti, China, and Sudan, among many other
subjects. A preliminary analysis by Fox News, presented on Megyn Kelly's program, found that some of the information on
Clinton's server was inherently classified. Fox's analysts cited a memo transmitting information provided by foreign
diplomats about Sudan peace talks.
State
Department IT staff among those in the dark about Clinton's private email address. Members of the State
Department's information technology staff were among those who were unaware that Hillary Clinton was using a private email
address during her time as secretary of state, the latest release of messages from Clinton's private server revealed late
Monday [8/31/2015]. In one email, dated February 27, 2010, an IT worker on the State Department's computer "help desk"
sends a message to Clinton's email address inquiring about why one of Clinton's correspondents has been getting a "fatal error"
when she tries to send messages to the secretary of state.
Hillary,
with Sid's Aid, Has Long Plotted to Overturn Citizens United. New e-mails released from Hillary Clinton's private
e-mail account by the State Department late on Monday [8/31/2015] show that the then-secretary of state was furious over the Supreme
Court's Citizens United decision, blaming mysterious "forces" for orchestrating the January 2010 ruling and plotting with shadow
adviser Sidney Blumenthal about ways to overturn it.
Who's who in Clinton's email
saga. The list of those drawn into the saga includes some of Clinton's top aides at the State Department, now playing
roles in her Democratic campaign for the presidency. They were among the ones who forwarded sensitive messages to Clinton
that have raised national security questions. A few bit players merely helped her set up or store material from the
private email system, operated out of her New York home. Fanning the flames are a growing list of officials questioning
Clinton's conduct and demanding more information.
State
Dept. to release 6,000 pages of Clinton emails. The State Department is set to release a new batch of Hillary Clinton's
private emails Monday [8/30/2015] amid a broadening FBI investigation into whether the former secretary of state mishandled classified
information on her private server. State officials have said they plan to release "6,106 or more pages" of emails Monday [8/31/2015],
according to court documents filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News that has forced the agency to publish
Clinton's emails on a rolling basis.
Hillary
Shared an Email Network with the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton's private email server was housed at the
same physical location and on the same network as an email server used and operated by the Clinton Foundation, Breitbart News
has exclusively learned. Records reveal that Hillary Clinton's private clintonemail.com server shared an IP address with
her husband Bill Clinton's email server, presidentclinton.com, and both servers were housed in New York City, not in the
basement of the Clintons' Chappaqua, New York home.
Jindal:
Hillary 'literally one email away from going to jail'. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private
email server during her tenure as secretary of state presents security implications that might land her in prison, charged
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Sunday [8/30/2015]. "With Hillary Clinton, it just seems to be one scandal after another,"
the GOP candidate said on ABC's "This Week." "She's literally one email away from going to jail."
Latest
Clinton Email Server Dump Reveals 150 More Documents Flagged For Classified Information. Things are rapidly
getting worse in the legal department for former Secretary of State and democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The State Department is set to release a batch of 6,000 personal emails belonging to Clinton tonight, but we're already
getting a sneak peak of what they contain.
Mystery
deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton's unclassified server. The daily revelations over
classified information finding its way onto Hillary Clinton's personal email server are raising perplexing questions for
former government officials who wonder how classified information made its way onto the former secretary of state's
non-classified server — especially since the two systems are not connected. "It is hard to move classified
documents into the non-classified system. You couldn't move a document by mistake," said Willes Lee, a former operations
officer for the U.S. Army in Europe and former operations officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Top
State Department Staff Used Personal Email to Send 'Sensitive' Data. Senior State Department officials at the
U.S. Embassy in Japan have been caught sending "sensitive" information over personal email accounts, subjecting the
information to potential hacking attacks and other cyber threats, according to a new report by the department's inspector
general. Embassy staff, including the U.S. ambassador to Japan, were found to conducted "official business" via their
personal email addresses, highlighting an issue of concern among national security experts and officials in the wake of
disclosures about Hillary Clinton's email habits during her tenure as secretary of state. The use of personal email
among Obama administration officials has raised concerns about the protection of sensitive data, which could be stolen by
hackers and foreign governments.
State
Department says 150 more Hillary Clinton emails have been 'upgraded' to classified status. The State Department
said Monday afternoon [8/31/2015] that when it releases the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails tonight, 'somewhere
around 150' of them will have been 'upgraded to classified' status. Agency spokesman Mark Toner briefed reporters in
advance of the periodic release, which was rescheduled twice during the day and is now expected at 9:00 p.m. EDT.
Under intense questioning, Toner conceded that the review of about 7,000 pages of emails in the latest batch has uncovered
the 150 communications 'that have been subsequently upgraded classified.'
Nobody
Cares About the Clinton Email Scandal, Says Clinton Camp. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating
Hillary Clinton's private email server to determine if its use violated the Espionage Act. The unsecured server contained
top-secret spy satellite information, raising the possibility that Clinton's decision to go outside official channels for her
correspondence jeopardized national security. That being said, the whole situation is a total snooze that is only
interesting to the buzzards in the press, Clinton and her allies say.
Source:
FBI 'A-team' leading 'serious' Clinton server probe, focusing on defense info. An FBI "A-team" is leading the
"extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to
"gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," an intelligence source told Fox News. The section of the
Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793. A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the
FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her
server contained classified information regardless of the markings. The campaign's standard defense and that of Clinton is that she "never
sent nor received any email that was marked classified" at the time.
Hillary
Stops Joking About Emails, But Doesn't Stop Lying. Clinton's crashing poll numbers, along with questions by
donors and supporters about her judgment in joking about the email scandal immediately after the FBI seized her private
server, are obviously taking a toll. She suddenly says she "takes responsibility" for the decision. (Well,
who else would be responsible?) She's stopped joking, but she hasn't stopped lying.
If
Clinton Loses Her Security Clearance, Could She Still Be President? For the past six months, the issue of
Hillary Clinton's secret e-mail server has mainly played out as a campaign news story, and for good reason. [...] After
staying silent on it initially, Clinton held a press conference in which she asserted that the e-mail server never
transmitted sensitive material, and that more than half of the e-mails on it had been deleted by her team before turning it
over to the State Department. Clinton pledged never to turn over the server itself, claiming that it was personal
property. Two of those emails from spy satellites and the NSA were classified as Top Secret when they were sent and are
classified now. None of these statements has held up to scrutiny. A small sample of 40 e-mails from the
data given to State was audited by Inspectors General from the intelligence community, which found four e-mails that contained
classified e-mails. Two of those included information from spy satellites and the NSA that was classified as
Top Secret/Compartmented Information, the highest classification level for the US — data that was "classified when
they were sent and are classified now."
Hillary's
rookie errors with classified information. When I write an op-ed — including this one — I
am required to submit a draft to the CIA's Pre-publication Review Board and also the security officer at the U.S. Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. This is to make sure that I don't inadvertently disclose something that I learned
when I had access to highly classified information. Actually, I very much respect this process, because it protects
me as well as the government. Anyone who has ever held a Special Intelligence/Talent Keyhole (SI/TK) clearance —
which is granted by the CIA — is required to do this for life, and the obligation comes from the agreement one signs in
order to be granted access to that category of information. I first signed such an agreement almost 35 years ago and a
similar one when I was general counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Hillary
Clinton Takes 'Responsibility' for Email Use, Saying It 'Wasn't the Best Choice'. Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Wednesday that she understood why people had questions about her decision to use only private email while she was secretary
of state and that she took responsibility for that decision, a shift from her past remarks about an issue that has dogged her
since shortly before she began her presidential campaign. Her remarks, made during a campaign stop in Iowa, came as Mrs.
Clinton has faced growing criticism for making light of her email use, which Democrats fear has become an albatross on her
hopes of winning the White House. "What, like with a cloth or something?" she said to a Fox News reporter last week
who had asked whether she had "wiped," or erased, her email server before turning it over to the F.B.I. recently.
Clinton
Data Went Unsecured For Over a Month After 'Classified' Data Discovered. A thumb drive containing Hillary
Clinton's State Department emails was not secured in a specially designated safe until over a month after it was publicly
confirmed that her server contained classified information, according to a timeline laid out in a letter by her attorney this
week. In the letter, first reported by Politico, an attorney working for Clinton, David Kendall, indicated that he had
copies of the emails as early as December 2014, raising concerns from congressional investigators and intelligence officials
that they may have been stored in an unsecured manner for months. While officials said in May that Clinton's emails
contained "now-classified" information, Kendall said the thumb drive was not moved to an officially secured safe in his
office until July 8.
Clinton
email had classified intel from 3 agencies. One of the emails that triggered the FBI probe into Hillary
Clinton's server contained classified intelligence from three different agencies, Fox News has learned — which
could mean the State Department violated a President Obama-signed executive order by authorizing its release. That 2009
order, EO 13526, lays out the rules for "classifying, safeguarding and declassifying national security information."
It states that the authority to declassify rests with the intelligence agency that originated the information. "Information
shall be declassified or downgraded by ... the official who authorized the original classification ... [or] the originator's
current successor," the order says.
Clinton ally accused of running interference
on email scandal. A State Department official who was embroiled in a number of controversies under Hillary
Clinton is reportedly attempting to influence the handling of his former boss' emails. Patrick Kennedy, State's
undersecretary for management, visited Capitol Hill in July to argue that an April 2011 email sent from longtime aide Huma
Abedin to Clinton contained no classified information, according to a report by Fox News. Abedin's message touched off
the present FBI probe into Clinton's email practices, as three separate intelligence agencies — the Defense
Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — each laid claim
to information in the email.
How
a 'mom and pop' firm which maintained Clinton's home-brew server ditched its contract as soon as scandal broke.
The IT company which maintained Hillary Clinton's private email server told employees they were cutting ties with the
Democrat after allegations emerged that classified information was stored on it. Telling staff 'we're done with this',
Platte River Networks sought to distance itself from the Presidential hopeful, a former employee revealed to Daily Mail Online.
Hillary laughs off email
scandal in Iowa. Hillary Clinton on Wednesday [8/26/2015] literally laughed off the ongoing email scandal engulfing
her campaign at an event accepting the endorsement of Secretary of Agriculture and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Vilsack
hailed Clinton's toughness and ability to weather "trumped up charges," eliciting raucous laughter from the former secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton's lawyer is in the FBI
crosshairs. Hillary Clinton, by virtue of some deus ex machina, might skate on charges that she mishandled
classified information. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that her inner circle — primarily but not
exclusively Huma Abedin Wiener, Cheryl Mills, Philippe Reines, and Jake Sullivan — are in grave legal jeopardy.
While Clinton can claim with some plausibility that she didn't send or receive classified information (because her aides had
stripped security classification from the material thereby giving her this out) her aides cannot make such a claim.
5
Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Drop Out Of The Race. [#1] Email scandal: Clinton's choice to use her
personal email account linked to a private server in her home while performing her duties as secretary of state shows an
astonishing lack of judgment. So does her decision to use her own personal device rather than a secure State Department-provided
device. By using her own email account and device, Clinton opened herself up to blackmail from hackers (does the Chinese government
know more of what was on her private server that was wiped clean than federal and congressional investigators ever will?) and provided
for herself and her top aides a way to skirt transparency laws. The case against Clinton picked up Monday [8/24/2015] when
former Attorney General Mike Mukasey said on MSNBC that Clinton has disqualified herself from holding office because she destroyed
federal records when she had the server wiped clean. That is, he noted, a felony.
GOP senator accuses Clinton of improperly
passing state secrets to her lawyer. In a "serious risk" to national security, Hillary Clinton gave her State Department
emails containing Top Secret and other classified information to her lawyer, who lacked sufficient clearances to possess it and who
kept it for as long as eight months, the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee charged Tuesday [8/25/2015]. In a
letter to her successor Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said when she turned over thumb drives containing her
official emails to her lawyer, "it appears Secretary Clinton sent (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) to an unauthorized person."
Most
ridiculous defense of Hillary Clinton's email scandal, ever. As sad as this defense is, it probably is the best
that is available to Team Hillary. When viewed in its most charitable light, Hillary was callously contemptuous of security
classification and of the requirement to safeguard classified material. In its worst case, that information was used as marketing
material to entice foreign leaders to pay Bill Clinton for speeches and to subsidize the shadow intelligence operation run by Tyler
Drumheller and Sid Blumenthal. It is difficult to see how her campaign survives this. In a best case scenario, Barack
Obama does a Gerald Ford and pardons her so that the Democrats have a candidate. The next best outcome is that she goes into
the primary season with one or more of her closest associates under indictment for mishandling classified information and probably
for lying to federal agents.
An
ominous precedent for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton likes to point out that she is not the first senior
national security official to conduct official business on a home computer system. She's right about that, but the precedent
should not give the Democratic presidential front-runner much comfort. Former CIA director John Deutch was also found to
have stored classified documents — including top-secret intelligence — on computers in his homes in
Bethesda and Belmont, Mass., leading to an investigation by the CIA inspector general and a criminal investigation by the
Justice Department. Deutch was stripped of his security clearance and ended up reaching a plea agreement admitting
to his crimes — but was saved by a last-minute pardon from none other than ... President Bill Clinton.
State
Dept.-released Clinton email had classified intel from 3 agencies, possibly violating Obama order. One of the
emails that triggered the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's server contained classified intelligence from three different
agencies, Fox News has learned — which could mean the State Department violated a President Obama-signed executive
order by authorizing its release. That 2009 order, EO 13526, lays out the rules for "classifying, safeguarding and
declassifying national security information." It states that the authority to declassify rests with the intelligence agency
that originated the information. "Information shall be declassified or downgraded by ... the official who authorized the
original classification ... [or] the originator's current successor," the order says.
EmailGate Gets Worse for Hillary
Clinton. As evidence mounts that as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff systematically violated
Federal rules and laws governing the handling of classified materials, her supporters have dug in, denying anything wrong was
done. As the emerging facts get worse, so do their lies and obfuscations. Clinton hangers-on are coming out of the
woodwork not merely attacking those who have pointed out Hillary's serious problems with classified information and her "private"
server — they now deny there is any scandal at all. It's all yet another invention of the Vast Right-Wing
Conspiracy, say Team Hillary with one voice.
Something's Happening Here. Clinton is now immersed in what could
very well be the scandal of the century. There's no way to wriggle free of the mishandling of classified data. You can
finesse financial laws and ethics rules. You can't finesse this stuff. News reports suggest there may be dozens of people
who have violated the law and conspired to hide their involvement. This is Watergate level stuff given her position.
Enablers: Hillary
Clinton's Sycophantic Inner Circle. How could Hillary Clinton's staff let her get away with it? It's one of the
most perplexing questions surrounding the massive scandal over Clinton's use of an unsecured, private e-mail server when she
served as secretary of state. How could it be that no one in the State Department pointed out that Clinton was violating
government policy and putting sensitive information at risk? Why didn't her closest advisers warn that the move could torpedo
her resurgent presidential ambitions?
The Tampa Tribune bravely states the obvious: Clinton
sidesteps the truth. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton these days brings to mind her husband — but
not the charismatic campaigner with a gift for making the most arcane public policy issue intriguing. Rather, the former
senator and secretary of state evokes the other side of President Bill Clinton, the dissembler who would parse the meaning of
"is" and act as if rules were meant for others. Mrs. Clinton has been both haughty and deceptive in explaining her use of a
private email account while secretary of state. The public has not been fooled. Her poll numbers are plummeting.
Hillary
Email Storage Firm Employs Top Clinton Operative. The small Denver-based company that stored Hillary Clinton's private email
server has close business and personal ties to Hillary Clinton and to the chairman of her presidential campaign, Breitbart News has exclusively
learned. The firm claims that it is an unsuspecting and apolitical small business that just happened to win a bid to store Clinton's server
in 2013.
Another Lie: State Dept. Never Told DHS About Hillary's
Server Despite The Rules. Seems to make sense: The DHS required regular updates about the security of email
systems so they could audit them to discover if they were secure or if they were hackable. Grandmonster Hillary never told
them about this key system, upon which she conducted all of her official State business Pinterest-based
Yoga Routine Research.
Obama's silent manipulation.
With the total of Hillary Clinton's "potentially classified" emails steadily climbing north of 300, Bob Woodward of Watergate fame recently
provided a proper context for the scandal. "It reminds me of the Nixon tapes," he told MSNBC, my old network but the one that now features
more objective commentary by Al Sharpton and Chris Matthews. How their faces must have dropped when Woodward suggested that investigators
should "follow the trail" of their front-runner's emails. Is Hillarygate unprecedented or really just Nixon 2.0?
Hillary
Clinton's Ever Changing Story. It seems every day there is a new development in the burgeoning scandal that is
Servergate, so here's what's happened since our original piece. The number of classified emails discovered that Hillary
Clinton wrote using her personal email account has grown to 60, and another batch that was forwarded to intelligence agencies
may likely result in 305 more. There are still about 32,000 outstanding emails she claims she destroyed since they were
"personal." She has now turned over 55,000 printed emails, but they do not contain any metadata, making them difficult
to trace.
Clinton's
email server firm scrubs 'data-disposal' references from website. The firm Hillary Clinton hired to manage her private email
server quietly removed information from its website in recent days, including references to its partnership with a Colorado data-scrubbing
company. Platte River Networks, the Denver-based company that hosted Clinton's email server, deleted several pages from its website,
including a section about how it outsources its data-disposal work to a local firm called Techno Rescue. That page appears to have
been removed earlier this month, but can still be viewed in a cached version on major search engines.
Hillary's
security breach, and why it matters. Perhaps you've heard of Sergey Lavrov — or perhaps you haven't. He has
been Russia's foreign minister since March 9, 2004. Imagine what U.S. intelligence agencies might have gained if they'd had access in
real time (or even with some delay) to every email and direct message Lavrov sent or received from Jan. 21, 2009 through Feb. 1, 2013.
Email
timeline suggests second server may exist. Conflicting accounts of when data was removed from Hillary Clinton's
private server indicate copies of emails known to contain classified information may reside on a device other than the one
presently in FBI custody. She may have printed 55,000 pages of emails for submission to the State Department from a
different device than the one presently in FBI custody.
More
evidence, questions arise about existence of second, private Clinton email server. The tens of thousands of
emails on Hillary Clinton's private server from when she was secretary of state could also be on a second device or server,
according to news reports. The FBI now has the only confirmed private server, as part of a Justice Department probe to
determine whether it sent of received classified information for Clinton when she was the country's top diplomat from 2009 to
2013. Platte River Networks, which managed Clinton's server and private email network after she left the State Department,
has indicated it transfer — or "transferred" — emails from the original server in 2013, according to
The Washington Examiner.
Hillary's
email account returns to haunt her. The controversy over Clinton's use of a private server and email address to
carry out State Department business as Secretary of State has been plaguing her for months now. But the issue resurfaced
again after the server was transferred to the FBI, and it became clear it had been wiped clean. While the evidence looks
bad, Clinton's attempts at damage control have only exacerbated the problem. She has attempted to employ several techniques
that worked during her husband's presidency to move past the scandal, but all have fallen flat.
Hillary's
e-mail defense is 'total BS': former State Dept. officials. Former State Department security officials don't
buy Hillary Clinton's latest alibi that she couldn't tell that government e-mails — which she improperly, if not
illegally, kept for several years on an unsecured home server — contained top-secret information because they
lacked official markings and weren't classified until later. Such messages contain sensitive "keywords" distinguishing
them from unclassified information, even if the material didn't bear a classified heading as she claims. The secretary
would have known better, the department officials say, because she was trained to understand the difference when she was
"read in" on procedures to ID and handle classified information by diplomatic-security officials in 2009.
If
there was no classified material, Clinton wasn't doing her job. "There is no classified material." That's how
Hillary Clinton put it when asked in March. To anyone who knows what the secretary of state actually does, this seemed
strange, to put it mildly. Then the Clinton line was: "I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at
the time." Notice that she is reduced to pleading mere recklessness as a defense against possibly mishandling confidential
material. Well, to begin with, classified material does not need a label to make it so.
Hillary Email Scandal News Roundup,
Panicked Liberal Media Edition. When Hillary Clinton claimed that her use of a private email server was legal, it
turns out (///shocked face///) that she was full of bullion. Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, says otherwise
according to the mouthpiece of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy known as The New York Times: [...]
Devices from Clinton, aides
wiped clean. Investigations into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server that held classified information –
as well as her inner circle's dealings – are being hampered by revelations that their computer devices have been wiped clean or
destroyed, despite the Democratic presidential candidate claiming earlier this week she doesn't know "how it works digitally at all."
Clinton's lawyer David Kendall recently told a Senate committee that emails and all other data stored on her computer server were erased before
the device was turned over to federal authorities.
A
special prosecutor for Hillary's special emails. When President Obama signed the Obamacare bill into law, Vice
President Joe Biden said, sotto voce, "this is a big (expletive deleted) deal." So it was. Hillary Clinton's
private email system, on which she trafficked in many of the nation's most closely guarded secrets, is just as big.
Start with the purpose for which Mrs. Clinton established the system. It was to prevent the government —
and any historians, journalists and the public — from knowing of and archiving her emails in order for her to
evade accountability. The emails to hdr22@clintonmail.com would only be revealed if she agreed, and whatever
corruption — remember the Clinton "pay-to-play" Foundation — would never be revealed.
Email
Scandal: 'Born Classified' Emails Destroy Hillary's Plea of Ignorance. [Scroll down] "I'm certainly well
aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material," she said. But after it became clear that
Clinton had at least received classified information, she suddenly became unaware of classification requirements. "I did not
send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified," she said, "which is the
way you know whether something is." Clinton has to say this, because she understands the potential legal ramifications if
she knowingly kept classified information on an unsecured, private server. But like every other claim that she's made since
this scandal surfaced, this one is full of holes.
Hillary
Clinton's Lawyer Defends Her Use of Personal Email. Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account for
conducting State Department business followed both federal rules in place at the time and the practice of some of her
predecessors, her lawyer says. The explanation, from Washington, D.C. lawyer David Kendall, comes in a letter sent late
Friday to the State Department's undersecretary for management, obtained by NBC News. "Secretary Clinton's use of personal
e-mail was consistent with the practice of other Secretaries of State and was permissible under State Department policy in
place during her tenure," Kendall writes.
The deceptions of Hillary
Clinton. Clinton admits deleting 30,000 government emails from her time in office. She claims they
were personal, and that because they were also on a personal server, she was free to destroy them. Yet, federal law
defines emails used during the course of one's work for the federal government as the property of the federal government.
She could have designated which of the government's emails were personal and then asked the government to send them to her and
delete them from government servers. Instead she did the reverse. She decided which of her emails were governmental
and sent them on to the State Department. Under federal law, that is not a determination she may lawfully make.
NBC News: Democrats Believe Clinton
Staffers [are] In Denial About Server Scandal. The scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's server and emails (which some
are calling wipe-water) continues to frighten fellow Democrats. On Thursday's [8/20/2015] Morning Joe, NBC News reporter (yes that
NBC News) Kristen Welker said many Democrats think the Hillary Clinton campaign is "in denial" over the severity of her private email
scandal when she continually brushes off the controversy as a media-engineered, partisan witch hunt.
Why
did Hillary have to desperately wipe yoga routines and wedding plans? The FBI is now in possession of Hillary
Clinton's private email server. Let us be clear — she did not "hand" it over as is widely reported. The
FBI took it. It is suggested that the sever may cough up more than just the emails. We shall see.
What did she claim was on that server? What was it she deleted?
Hillary: Prisoner of Her Own Device.
[Scroll down] The White House for its part is shocked — shocked and appalled! — to hear the former Secretary
of State was using her personal account for government business. For four years they were sending her top-secret information to
hrc@clintonmail.com, never once imagining this was not an officially sanctioned government destination. [...] Obama did not trust her
enough to keep her informed about cabinet meetings, much less vital intelligence. Occasionally Michelle sent a recipe for a salad
made from garden vegetables. Then there were those annoying audio clips of Valerie Jarrett singing "I feel the earth move under my
feet" and giggling uncontrollably.
The
birds circling over Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton may think those creatures making wide, gentle circles over
her campaign are bluebirds of happiness, but they're looking more and more like buzzards. They look hungry. [...] The lady
has been saying for weeks that nothing on her email server was classified, and recently she revised and extended that to "nothing
was classified at the time it was put it on the server." Now she revises and extends still further, arguing that the security
classifications are confusing and subject to interpretation. "She was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information
that subsequently became classified," a spokesman "splains." This may be the first time in her life that Hillary, who has
been called many things, has been called "passive."
Hillary's
Denver Server Company Claims To Have No Idea They Had Sensitive Material. The Washington Post reported
that Platte River Networks vice president David DeCamillis told them that his firm won a contract in 2013 to provide the
Clintons with IT services. He said that no one at the company was told about the material's secrecy when they accepted their
contract, though they now regret being involved. "It was an e-mail server, that simple," DeCamillis said. "We would
never have taken it on."
Judge
presses State Department to learn more about Clinton's e-mail server. A federal judge told lawyers for the
State Department on Thursday [8/20/2015] that they should "establish a dialogue" with the FBI to learn whether federal records remain on
Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail server. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan peppered the lawyers with questions
about what they are doing to ensure that the department has sought to retrieve public documents from Clinton and her top aides.
At one point Sullivan, who was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, flatly stated that the questions would have
been avoided if Hillary Clinton "had followed government policy" regarding e-mail.
U.S.
Said to Probe How Classified Data Got on Hillary Clinton's Server. U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating how
classified material found its way into messages that members of Hillary Clinton's State Department staff sent to her private e-mail
address, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the inquiry. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to
discuss an investigation still in its early stages, said there is some indication that Clinton aides drew upon a variety of messages
in classified information systems to produce summaries and updates of events in Libya and elsewhere and then sent them to Clinton or
her aides using a private server. The official didn't identify the aides.
Confirmed:
Despite Clinton's Claims, Documents on Her Server Were Always Classified. First, Clinton claimed during a press
conference in March that there was "no classified information." "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my
email. There is no classified material. So I'm certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send
classified material," Clinton said during the press conference. Then the story became Clinton never sent or received any
information that was marked classified. "I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material
that was marked or designated classified," Clinton said in New Hampshire recently.
Dozens
of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest. For months, the U.S. State Department has
stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on
her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids. While the department is now stamping a few dozen
of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it
says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election,
first sent or received it.
Reuters:
Hillary Clinton Sent and Received Scores of Emails Containing Information 'Born Classified'. A review of emails
found on Hillary Clinton's private server has revealed dozens of instances in which she sent and received a type of information
which is "born classified," according to the government's own rules. Reuters looked at the classification markings which
the State Department has added to emails already released from Clinton's server and found markings which indicate they contain
"foreign government information." That's a type of information relayed by a foreign government in confidence. Instances
of foreign government information identified by Reuters include "privately shared comments by a prime minister, several foreign
ministers and a foreign spy chief."
Everything
You Need to Know About the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal in Two-and-a-Half Minutes. The Hillary Clinton private
email scandal has been one marked by constant falsehoods uttered by the Democratic frontrunner and the simplest of rebuttals
from media reporting. From saying she neither sent nor received classified material while secretary of state, to
promising her server would remain private, to claiming she never received a subpoena, Clinton has constantly misled when she
is not joking about it. The saga of her private server, now under criminal investigation and flagged for potentially
having hundreds of classified documents on it, threatens to derail her presidential campaign. [Video clip]
Why
Obama is torpedoing Hilary Clinton. There is only one person who controls Hillary Clinton's fate, and it isn't
Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton is careening toward possible criminal charges involving her alleged mishandling of classified
material on her personal email server while she was secretary of State. And President Obama is driving the bus.
CBS:
Clinton's Excuse Doesn't Fly Since Classified Emails Don't Have to Be Stamped That Way. CBS correspondent Jan
Crawford threw cold water Thursday [8/20/2015] on Hillary Clinton's excuse that classified emails that passed through her server
weren't marked that way at the time, reporting for CBS This Morning that intelligence officials say that explanation doesn't fly.
Déjà Vu:
When Bill Clinton Pardoned His Former CIA Director over Classified Documents on His Home Computer. Former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton insists she did nothing wrong by running all of her government communications, including
classified material, through her unsecured, home-brewed computer server. Perhaps she's forgotten one of her husband's final
acts in the Oval Office: issuing a presidential pardon to former CIA director John Deutch. Deutch's offense? Keeping
classified material on unsecured home computers. The pardon came just as Deutch was reportedly going to cop a plea with
the Justice Department. Deutch headed the CIA from May 1995 to December 1996.
State Dept., intelligence community battle over Hillary's
emails. Tensions between the State Department and the intelligence community are mounting as agencies struggle
over which of Hillary Clinton's private emails should be classified. While Clinton's campaign has attempted to capitalize
on the disagreements — blaming recent controversy on simple bureaucratic infighting — the dispute has
highlighted the volume of sensitive material that circulated on Clinton's server. The State Department publicly disagreed
Wednesday [8/19/2015] with the intelligence community inspector general's assertion that at least two emails contained classified
information when they were written.
Hillary
Clinton Aide Palmieri on E-Mail: 'She Didn't Really Think It Through'. When it comes to using a private server
for her e-mails when she was secretary of state, Hillary Clinton "didn't really think it through," according to her communications
director. "I've encountered this a lot in politics where people think that the answer is a lot more complicated than it really
is," Jennifer Palmieri told With All Due Respect co-host John Heilemann in an interview on Wednesday [8/19/2015].
Watchdog:
Two National Security Laws Appear Broken in Clinton Email Scandal. Hillary Clinton and two aides appear to have
violated two national security laws by sending classified information on a private email server, according to a former Army
counterintelligence agent and investigator for a public interest law group. Additionally, the two Clinton aides, Huma
Abedin and Cheryl Mills, disregarded a federal judge's order this month requiring both to make sworn statements to the court
that all government documents in their possession will be returned to federal officials, said Chris Farrell, director of
investigations for Judicial Watch, the law group. "What we have is a secretary of state, the only cabinet official in
our history, who established her own private email server ... in an effort to avoid the normal protocols for unclassified and
classified communications. It's an end run," he said.
Hillary
Clinton spox on emails: 'She's actually never gotten one question about it' from voters. Former Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton has not gotten a single question on the campaign trail from voters about her private email
setup, her campaign's communications director said Wednesday [8/19/2015]. "I think it's worth repeating what Hillary
said when she was walking away from the press conference which is the press have a lot of questions about emails, but voters
don't, and voters have in her time in New Hampshire and Iowa and doing a lot of town halls, she's actually never gotten one
question about it," Jennifer Palmieri said on MSNBC. "People are asking her [about] questions that affect their lives."
Is
Playing Stupid a Good Tactic for a Candidate? Hillary is just a little too good at playing stupid.
"Wipe? You mean like with a cloth?" she says in answer to a question about her private email server. She
continued on to declare she doesn't know much about the digital technology involved. These are curious statements,
jests, and admissions for someone seeking the highest office in the land. Hillary essentially says with these
statements that she is technology ignorant. We are to believe she missed the tech revolution. Where was she?
Court
says Clinton emails broke 'government policy'. A federal judge said Thursday that former Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton's unique email arrangement violated government policy and prodded the department to talk with the FBI
to determine what documents can be recovered from the computer server and flash drives used to store her emails. Judge
Emmet G. Sullivan was surprised that the State Department hadn't made that request and poked at the administration's claim
that the FBI needed to be left alone to conduct its investigation. He gave the agencies 30 days to figure out
whether emails can be recovered.
State Department did nothing
to protect Clinton emails after hack. Despite a hack two years ago that publicly exposed Hillary Clinton's emails,
the State Department took no action to shore up the security of the former secretary of state's private computer server.
A State Department official said the department could not do anything in response to the March 2013 hack of longtime Clinton
confidant Sidney Blumenthal because it occurred on a non-governmental computer system. The hacked emails, which included
Blumenthal's frequent correspondence with Clinton while she was in office in 2012, were sent by the Romanian hacker to media
organizations, which later posted them online.
Clinton
Email Scandal: 19 Lame Excuses Can't Wipe It Away. Hillary Clinton's email scandal has grown into a credible
threat to her candidacy. Worse for her, she continues to offer up a defense filled with contemptible excuses, weak
explanations and outlandish dodges. [...] Here are examples of Clinton misdirection resurrected from its glory days of the
1990s. Some are lame attempts at obfuscation, others are outright lies.
Classified
emails from Clinton aides kick-started FBI probe, candidate downplays controversy. An email from a top Clinton
adviser containing classified military intelligence information, and one from a top aide containing classified information
about the Benghazi terror attack, were the documents that kick-started the FBI investigation into the mishandling of
classified information, Fox News has learned. The emails, among thousands on Hillary Clinton's personal server, were
released to the Benghazi select committee in May and have been widely discussed but Fox News for the first time has identified
which Clinton aides sent them and the subject matter.
Is Hillary Clinton Finished?
It was on August 11 that the FBI took possession of Clinton's server hardware and three thumb drives in her lawyer's possession,
which are said to contain copies of everything she turned over to the State Department. In addition, experts say that tens
of thousands of emails she deleted may be recoverable. Which means Mrs. Clinton has now lost control over events, which is
precisely what she was trying to ensure when she created her own homebrew computer system in the first place.
Special
Operations Vets Call For Kerry To Strip Hillary Of Security Clearance. A group of special operations veterans
and intelligence community officials have formally asked Secretary of State John Kerry to strip former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton of her security clearance along with three of her top aides, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The organization, called the Special Operations Educational Fund, wrote Kerry August 5 asking that he "immediately suspend
the security clearances" because of Clinton's use of a private unsecured email server and domain name that contains classified
information. SOF is a 501(c)4 nonprofit group.
State
Dept. Finds 17855 Missing Hillary Clinton Adviser Emails. More than two years after the State Department claimed there
were no emails responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about a close Hillary Clinton adviser's contact with the media,
the Department has informed a judge it has located 17,855 emails that appear to match the criteria.
Clinton
Spox: Asking About Wiping Server Shows There Aren't Many 'Legitimate Questions'. Clinton campaign Communications Director
Jennifer Palmieri stated, "when you get to the point where you're answering questions about wiping servers, that you're nearing the end
of legitimate questions for her to answer" on Wednesday's [8/19/2015] "Andrea Mitchell Reports."
State
Department Clamps Down on Speaking to Congress or Press. The State Department has quietly issued a new policy
that some insiders view as designed to keep employees from freely speaking to Congress or the press about Benghazi and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email controversy. The State Department issued 19 pages of revised rules about
official clearance for speaking, writing and teaching on July 27.
Judicial
Watch: State Department Did Not Provide Secure BlackBerry to Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch announced that the
State Department asserts in its most recent filing with the court the State Department did not issue personal computing
devices to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and possibly destroyed the Blackberries of her aides Huma Abedin and
Cheryl Mills: [...] "The questions just keep popping up. Every time the State Department tries to justify its stonewalling,
one more bit of information arises," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "If the State Department was not providing
secure email devices to Mrs. Clinton, who was? Best Buy? Target? Mrs. Clinton clearly did whatever she
wanted, without regard to national security or federal records keeping laws."
State Department: Mills and Abedin official BlackBerrys likely gone.
BlackBerry devices the State Department issued to former Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off
as surplus, a State official said in a court filing Wednesday [8/19/2015]. The secretary of state's information technology office "believes
that Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin were each issued BlackBerry devices," State Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in a declaration submitted to
a federal court in Washington. The office, referred to as S/ES-IRM in agency parlance, "has not located any such device at the department"
and "standard procedure upon return of such devices is to perform a factory reset (which removes any user settings or configurations) and then
to reissue the device to another employee, to destroy it, or to excess it," he added.
The Editor says...
That's the first time I've seen excess used as a verb.
State
Department destroyed Clinton aides' BlackBerrys. The State Department destroyed the BlackBerry devices issued
to two top aides of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and never issued Mrs. Clinton a device at all, officials told a
federal court Wednesday [8/19/2015] in a filing that raises still more security questions. The filing came a day before
officials will have to appear in court to detail the steps they took to try to track down Mrs. Clinton's emails, and whatever
computers or other devices she may have used to send them.
Judicial
Watch: State Department Did Not Provide Secure BlackBerry to Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch announced that the
State Department asserts in its most recent filing with the court the State Department did not issue personal computing
devices to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and possibly destroyed the Blackberries of her aides Huma Abedin and
Cheryl Mills: [...] "The questions just keep popping up. Every time the State Department tries to justify its stonewalling,
one more bit of information arises," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "If the State Department was not providing
secure email devices to Mrs. Clinton, who was? Best Buy? Target? Mrs. Clinton clearly did whatever she
wanted, without regard to national security or federal records keeping laws."
Latest Hillary server
sighting: Bathroom in a Colorado loft apartment. The story is a little involved and confusing, but what Clinton trail isn't?
Hillary's server has reportedly been in the basement of the Clinton home in Chappaqua. Then, after Hillary was secretary of state, it was
in a data center in New Jersey (where the FBI took possession of the wiped server). However, at some point before that, it sounds like the
contents of that server might have been sent to another server located in the bathroom of a Colorado loft apartment out of which a tech
company operated at the time. If the Hillary server story stinks to high heaven, the symbolism couldn't get more spot-on.
Hillary
Clinton's email defense...is no defense under the law. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, yet she seems oblivious of
the law. Either that, or she well knows she has no viable legal defense, leaving herself little alternative but to conjure
one. Over the weekend, Clinton repeated her claim that she neither received nor sent any emails with information marked
"classified." But how they were marked is irrelevant and immaterial under the law. Read the statutes (18 USC 1924
and 18 USC 793). The content of the documents is what counts, not markings.
Federal Judge Moves Up Hearing for
Hillary Email Case. A Washington, D.C., federal judge, perhaps tired of getting the runaround from the Obama State Department,
has moved up a hearing with the State Department, originally scheduled for September, to this Thursday, August 20th. This is
the latest development in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment
status of Huma Abedin, the former deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Law firm representing Hillary
has ties to State Dept.. An attorney who worked for the same firm representing Hillary Clinton in the legal battle over
her private emails now oversees the State Department's handling of those same emails. Catherine Duval, formerly of Williams &
Connolly, departed the Internal Revenue Service last year for the State Department, where she assumed responsibility for the release
of Clinton's emails and for the agency's production of documents to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Rep. Jim Jordan, a
member of both the select committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he sees similarities between the IRS
investigation and the Benghazi investigation.
New
Clinton email count: 305 documents with potentially classified information. More than 300 of former Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails — or 5.1 percent of those processed so far — have been flagged
for potential secret information, the State Department reported to a federal court Monday as the political furor continued to
grow for the Democratic presidential candidate and her aides. A top senator has demanded that Mrs. Clinton's attorney
detail the steps he used to protect classified information in her emails, which he kept on a flash drive at his office. ABC
News reported this weekend that the Colorado company that helped run her server said there may be a full backup server, which
might have many of the messages she said she deleted.
'Her
Arrogance Is Breathtaking': Hillary Jokes About Email Scandal. [Scroll down] "I worked for the federal government
for seven years as U.S. attorney. It was made clear to all of us when we walked in the door: official business is done on
your official email account," said [New Jersey Governor Chris] Christie, adding that when the Clintons get in trouble, they blame others.
He said there is definitely enough information for the FBI to investigate Clinton.
FBI
Optimistic It Can Recover Some Data From Clinton Server. The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from
Hillary Clinton's private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the
process told NBC News on Tuesday [8/18/2015]. The FBI is investigating the security of Clinton's personal server and the
thumb drives that contain emails related to her work as secretary of state during President Barack Obama's first term. The
Clinton campaign has previously acknowledged that there was an attempt to wipe the server before it was turned over last week
to the FBI. The FBI "will try to figure what's there, how it got there and who put it there," one of the sources said.
Federal
Judge Grants Early Hearing for Hillary Email Case. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding
the recent court order granting Judicial Watch's request for a hearing this week, on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 12:00 p.m.,
which had previously been scheduled for September: ["]The Obama administration's obstruction of the courts and our Freedom of
Information Act litigation must end. The court and the American people are weary of their legal gamesmanship. We are fighting
for the public's right to know what Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and others were sending and receiving during their four years running the
State Department.["]
Hillary
Clinton Turns Over Server; Problems Just Beginning. The investigation is being handled by the FBI and is considered a criminal
investigation, according to sources in the Department of Justice. In fact, though such cases are customarily handled by one of the
many field offices around the country, the Clinton case is being handled out of the Hoover Building. It is highly unusual for a case
like this to handled at FBI headquarters, but then again, this is an unusual case.
Classified
Clinton emails grow to 305. Intelligence experts have raised the number of Hillary Clinton's emails they think
contain classified information to 305, State Department officials admitted in court filings Monday [8/17/2015]. Those
emails have been handed off to other agencies for further review as the intelligence community and the State Department
together struggle to meet court-ordered deadlines for the production of Clinton's records.
Clinton
Aides Conducted Official Government Business on Personal Email. Hillary Clinton's top aides Huma Abedin and
Cheryl Mills have become key figures in the rapidly expanding Clinton email scandal. They figure prominently in a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan has issued a series of rulings
instructing the State Department to certify that Clinton, Abedin, and Mills have turned over all subpoena-responsive
documents, under penalty of perjury.
Is the Hillary email scandal
Watergate all over again? The reporter who broke the Watergate scandal wide open, Bob Woodward, says the Hillary email scandal
reminds him of Nixon's drawn out battle over the White House tapes 40 years ago. Just a few weeks ago Hillary Clinton seemed
unstoppable: a shoo-in to win the Democratic nomination, and favored to win the presidency. Now there is open speculation that her
candidacy is in trouble, and that she could be held criminally liable for mishandling highly classified documents — a crime that
has sent lesser-known people to jail.
Hillary
Says 'With a Cloth or Something?' When Asked If She Wiped Server. Hillary was asked if she tried to wipe the
entire server so there would be no personal or work emails on it. She answered, "Well, my personal emails are my personal
business, right? [..."] She was asked again if she tried to wipe the whole server, to which Clinton said, "I have no idea,
that's why we turned it over — ." Asked again, she answered, "What, like with a cloth or something?"
She further maintained that she doesn't know how the server "works digitally at all."
Clinton
pulls plug on testy presser over server questions. A visibly aggravated Clinton repeatedly insisted that she
had done nothing wrong, and seemed frustrated at questions about the issue. "What I did was legally permitted, number
one, first and foremost," she said Tuesday [8/18/2015]. "We turned everything that was work related, every single thing."
She added that in "retrospect" it had not turned out to be convenient to have the private server during her years as secretary of State.
State
Department Accused Of 'Incompetence' After It 'Finds' 81,000 Clinton Aide Emails. The State Department says it has more than
81,000 state.gov emails from a top Clinton aide at the State Department despite the agency's past claims that it did not have such records.
The discrepancy, which has led to accusations that the State Department is either "lying" or "incompetent," is laid out in the agency's
Aug. 13 response in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Gawker.
State
Dept. Finds 17,855 Missing Hillary Clinton Adviser Emails. More than two years after the State Department claimed there
were no emails responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about a close Hillary Clinton adviser's contact with the media,
the Department has informed a judge it has located 17,855 emails that appear to match the criteria.
Ex-officials
prosecuted for mishandling gov't info see 'double standard' in Clinton case. Ex-officials who were prosecuted
and had their lives upended for allegedly mishandling sensitive records are accusing the Obama administration of a
"double-standard" in its approach to the Hillary Clinton email scandal. This administration has charged more people under
the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law once used to go after major breaches, than any other in history. While the FBI is
looking into Clinton's server amid revelations of state secrets potentially passing through it, some critics —
including those charged under that act — doubt the Democratic presidential candidate will get the same treatment.
Key lawmaker asks Clinton's attorney to
say how he kept her emails secure. The State Department and the intelligence community are now reviewing 305 emails
sent or received by Hillary Clinton to determine whether they contain classified information, potentially deepening concerns over the
former secretary of state's handing of sensitive information. The examination identified the 305 emails from among 6,100 of
her emails from a personal account and routed through the private server in her New York house, according to a document filed by the
State Department in response to a lawsuit about the emails Monday [8/17/2015].
State Department Finds Thousands
of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist. Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its
response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news
outlets and Philippe Reines, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and aggressive defender of Hillary Clinton. Over
two years ago, the department claimed that "no records responsive to your request were located" — a baffling assertion,
given Reines' well-documented correspondence with journalists. Late last week, however, the State Department came up with a
very different answer: It had located an estimated 17,000 emails responsive to Gawker's request.
Hillarymail
'Chain of Custody' Request May Lead To Indictments. Department of State officials refused to identify to a
congressional committee the "chain of custody" — the complete list of people who had access to former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's private email server, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's investigation. The request
was made last spring by the House Select Committee on Benghazi probing the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in
which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were murdered. The chain of custody evidence is essential
to determining if Clinton or people close to her violated federal laws on handling of classified materials.
Hillary
as comedienne. Hillary Clinton dismisses her email troubles as a joke — she was having a high old
time with it in Iowa the other day — but there's no evidence that the FBI agents assigned to her case are
laughing. Joking about your transgressions while an FBI team is examining your life and times is not smart.
The investigators assigned to her case are said to be the same agents who handled the investigation of Gen. David Petraeus.
They got an indictment, forcing a plea bargain, and he broke far fewer laws, and less serious laws at that, than Hillary, both as
the secretary of State and as a collector of family boodle since.
Probe
of Clinton's server could find more than just emails. Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton's homebrew
email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves.
"You Think We're That Stupid?"
The almost unbelievable tale of Hillary Clinton's private email/server used for her official State Department business is fraught with
loose ends. While we struggle to keep up with developments, America Rising has put together the video [in this article] giving us
a fair take on the story so far. [Video clip]
The
real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets? While the media is focusing your attention on the
shiny object that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary
Clinton, or members of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it,
traded it, or used it for personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole.
Gowdy:
Hillary's email server shows high 'level of concealment'. Hillary Clinton finally surrendering her server "validates"
the House Select Committee on Benghazi's March request that she do, and the fact that she scrubbed it clean first shows "a higher
level of concealment," committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Sunday [8/16/2015]. [...] "So your viewers have to ask themselves to what
lengths would they go to delete a yoga email," said Gowdy on "Fox News Sunday." "Would they call in forensic experts to triple
wash a server so they could get rid of bridesmaids' emails or yoga practice emails? Of course not."
Wanna
See How Afraid Hillary Is Of The Email Scandal? Remember, if not for the Benghazi investigation, we would likely never
have known about that server and Mrs. Clinton's illegal use of top secret information. Team Clinton destroyed evidence, wiped
the server (the one she now boasts she handed over only after months of saying she would never do so) and if current rumors are true,
appears to have been caught willfully destroying yet more evidence long after she was legally obligated to turn it over.
Hillary's
Emails Were Backed Up On Another Server. Tens of thousands of emails once housed on former secretary of
state Hillary Clinton's private computer server were moved to another device after a Colorado company took possession of the
device in 2013, leaving open the possibility that copies of messages Clinton later chose to delete might still exist.
The FBI seized the server this week in a stunning move, signaling a new intensity in the investigation into whether Clinton
knowingly send or received top-secret classified information through her private address while she was America's top diplomat.
Backup Server would be very bad news
for Hillary. [Scroll down] If it turns out that not all potentially federal records were turned over, and if there is
evidence that Hillary knew that representation to be false at the time of the Declaration, Hillary may face a perjury prosecution, or more
likely because of the lower level of proof needed, obstruction of justice. In fact, depending on how the evidence turns out once the
"Second Server" is examined, the Feds could plausibly claim that the entire private server and deletion scenario was an attempt to obstruct
justice. So the Second Server, or backup database, could prove to be a major legal headache for Hillary.
Huma
Abedin Facing Investigation for Her Role in Hillary's Email Scandal. Earlier this week, it was announced that
at least two "top secret" documents were present on Clinton's server. Then, on Monday [8/10/2015], it was revealed in
federal court that Abedin also used an account on Clinton's email server for matters related to her position at the State
Department — a very unusual occurrence for any federal employee.
State
Dept. confirms Clinton aides had other unreported email accounts. Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides, used personal email accounts to conduct government business in
addition to a State Department email and an account on the controversial server Mrs. Clinton kept at her New York home, the
State Department confirmed to a federal court Friday [8/14/2015]. The State Department admitted to the judge that it
doesn't have control over those documents, and can't be sure it has all of the records from their time in the administration.
Number
of Hillary Clinton's emails flagged for classified data grows to 60 as review continues. While media coverage
has focused on a half-dozen of Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal emails containing sensitive intelligence, the total number
of her private emails identified by an ongoing State Department review as having contained classified data has ballooned to
60, officials told The Washington Times. That figure is current through the end of July and is likely to grow as officials
wade through a total of 30,000 work-related emails that passed through her personal email server, officials said. The
process is expected to take months.
Hero
Marine Nailed for Secret Email: What Did He Do That Hillary Didn't? No matter how much classified material is
found in her personal email server, Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue campaigning to become our next president.
Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he
used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.
Understanding
just how serious Hillary's server problem really is. Will Hillary Clinton survive this e-mail scandal criminally and
politically? It is tough for me to see how, given the revelation that she had retained on her private server e-mails containing
classified information. This is all dripping out slowly — the worst possible thing for Hillary. Her trustworthiness
rating in the polls is already Nixonian and it will only continue to drop as more information — or more stonewalling —
comes to light. And rightfully so. Every single word Hillary has said about her email system has turned out to be likely false,
demonstrably false, or ridiculous spin.
Hillary in the "let's laugh
about it" stage of campaign grieving. [I]n a completely contrived attempt to make light of the situation, Hillary's handlers had
her joke about how she just opened a Snapchat account and loves it because the messages disappear on their own. Get it?
Disappear on their own. Laugh, laugh. Oh, this is all just such a big joke. Nothing to see here, move along.
You all will get over it because I'm Hillary.
Hillary
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda Followed the Law. Ah, yes, the endless second-guessing to which poor Hillary is
subjected! And it's about ancient history, too, when she was Secretary of State. Who can remember back that
far? Well, for starters, Hillary shoulda, coulda, woulda obeyed the law, specifically 18 USC § 1924,
which makes it a crime, punishable by up to one year in prison, to "remove[] [documents or materials containing classified
information] without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location."
Hillary also shoulda, coulda, woulda obeyed State Department policy, which required official email correspondence to be
conducted using the Department's accounts on the Department's servers.
CNN
National Security Analyst Unloads On Hillary Over Email Scandal. Hillary Clinton's email scandal should disqualify her
from the Oval Office. At least so says former CIA operative and CNN national security analyst Bob Baer, who is not known for
being a political partisan. [...] "Seriously, if I had sent a document like this over the open Internet I'd get fired the same day,
escorted to the door and gone for good — and probably charged with mishandling classified information," Baer said.
Hillary Clinton needs a miracle to save her.
Hardly a day goes by without more developments in her e-mail scandal and the damage is reaching red-alert levels. The words "criminal
probe" that she fought so hard against when The New York Times broke the investigation story are now routine, as are mentions of the FBI
and the "home brew" server at the center of it all. The drip-drip-drip of new details, combined with the chance that there will be
a bombshell revelation, are taking a toll on supporters. There is open talk about Democrats abandoning ship and the hunt for
substitutes is picking up steam.
You Don't Have (Hillary's)
Mail. This week we learned the following: [#1] There was some highly classified secret information in her
emails — even in those very few she turned over that had not been scrubbed or tampered with by her and her staff.
[...] [#2] Hillary Clinton tampered with even those emails she turned over to the Department of Justice. [...]
[#3] Hillary's coterie may have stripped the "secret" classifications from the few emails she did turn over.
Prosecutor
Who Took Down Petraeus on Classified Information Now Looking Into Clinton Server. According to the Washington Post,
the same prosecutor who took down General David Petraeus for improper possession of classified information is now looking into Hillary
Clinton's email server. Earlier this week, an intelligence Inspector General revealed Clinton did in fact have at least four
pieces of top secret, classified information passed through and stored on her private email server.
Hillary
Email Scandal Requires A Special Prosecutor. [Scroll down] The inspector general for the federal
government's 17 spy agencies this week noted two of 40 random emails of the 30,000 that Clinton has handed over contained
what it called "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information." [...] If the 2-in-40 ratio for top secret to nontop-secret
emails holds up, investigators could find as many as 1,500 secrets made available to prying eyes on Hillary's private
email server. That's a massive potential breach of national security.
Hillary
Clinton emails included very secret satellite images. [Scroll down] NBC News already reported all top
national security and trade officials had their private emails targeted. Which means the hackers could have figured out a way
to penetrate her private email, or the private emails of one of her top subordinates. Remember, the released Clinton emails
showed the clintonemail.com addresses of both Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin. But the documents redacted the personal emails
of Cheryl Mills, which means it probably wasn't a clintonemail.com address.
The Editor says...
If Hillary's email system was hacked, as so many seem to suspect, perhaps there is
an Edward Snowden somewhere
with copies he'd like to publish.
How
did Hillary's lawyers search a server no longer in her possession. It's worth noting that at her March 10,
2015, UN press conference, when a reporter noted that some people suggested an independent review of the server, Hillary did
not say that she no longer had the original server or that it had been wiped clean. Instead, she said "the server
will remain private."
State
Dept. will not search Hillary's server. State Department officials will not attempt to search the private
server Hillary Clinton turned over to the Justice Department Wednesday [8/12/2015], court documents indicate. "The
Department is not currently working with the DOJ, the FBI, or other government agencies to search former Secretary Clinton's
private email server" for records related to a high-profile Freedom of Information Act case, the agency said in filings Friday.
F.B.I.
Tracking Path of Classified Email From State Dept. to Hillary Clinton. To track how the information flowed,
agents will try to gain access to the email accounts of many State Department officials who worked there while Mrs. Clinton
was secretary of state, the officials said. State Department employees apparently circulated the emails on unclassified
systems in 2009 and 2011, and some were ultimately forwarded to Mrs. Clinton. They were not marked as classified, the
State Department has said, and it is unclear whether its employees knew the origin of the information.
State
Dept. confirms Clinton aides had other unreported email accounts. Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides, used personal email accounts to conduct government business in
addition to a State Department email and an account on the controversial server Mrs. Clinton kept at her New York home, the
State Department confirmed to a federal court Friday [8/14/2015]. The State Department admitted to the judge that it
doesn't have control over those documents, and can't be sure it has all of the records from their time in the administration.
FBI
Said to Examine Whether Hillary Clinton E-Mail Was Backed Up. The FBI is seeking to determine whether data from
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server may still exist elsewhere, a U.S. official said.
After acquiring the server on Wednesday, agents are attempting to determine whether e-mails may have been backed up on
another machine, said the official, who asked for anonymity. The official said it's one of the next logical steps in the
agency's investigation into whether the former secretary of state's private e-mail account handled classified information.
A
Nugget Buried in the AP's Clinton E-mail Story. [Scroll down] Unless they were encrypted to U.S. government
standards, "In my opinion there is a 100% chance that all emails sent and received by her, including all the electronic correspondence
stored on her server in her Chappaqua residence, were targeted and collected by the Russian equivalent of NSA," said former CIA case
officer Jason Matthews, an expert in Russian intelligence.
Hillary's
IT Contractor Did Not Have Proper Security Clearance. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted her
email server to an IT firm that was not cleared to handle classified materials, according to the chief spokesman for the
Defense Security Service. The DSS is an arm of the Defense Department and is the only federal agency authorized to
approve private sector company access to sensitive or confidential material.
Hillary and Bill vs. the 'Little People'.
Hillary Clinton is under new scrutiny after the revelation that some of the e-mails on her now-infamous private server included information then classified as
"top secret." Her flat denial in March that classified information ever passed through the server was laughable at the time, and it's been proven false
now. But no one expects the Obama administration to punish Hillary the way it has so many "little people" who have mishandled classified data in
the course of their government service.
Parsing
Clinton: Deflection, Deception, and Untruths. In addition to skirting federal regulations, Clinton set a precedent
that threatens the public memory. Archiving email on government servers preserves the actions and decision-making of public
officials for release under the Freedom of Information Act, for congressional oversight, and for historical research.
Clinton's actions are an assault on the principles of transparency and accountability. Why is there no explicit prohibition
on the exclusive use of a private server? Because, before Clinton, no public servant had the gall to use one.
Hillary
has been playing a shell game with email server. Like a Times Square hustler with three walnut shells and a pea,
Hillary Clinton has been playing a game of misdirection with her email server. No, it wasn't in Chappaqua; it was in New
Jersey, although not dumped in a Meadowlands bog or buried under the goalposts of MetLife Stadium as Jimmy Hoffa was sometimes
reckoned to have been. Actually, it was in the hands of a company, Platte River Networks, that has been sued for "illegally
accessing" a master database of phone numbers and "stealing White House military advisers' phone numbers". And these dodgy
tech wizards are said to have turned over to the FBI a server that now is "blank."
Influential people worldwide wrote Clinton
on her personal email address. Many people said they were surprised when it was revealed in the spring that Clinton
relied on a private email account on a private server in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home to conduct official business during her four
years as Obama's secretary of state. But the review of emails shows influential people in Washington and around the globe
not only knew she used a personal account, but corresponded with her on that personal account.
The Editor says...
It's a vast left-wing conspiracy: Plenty of "influential people" knew about the private email server,
surely some must have known it was improper, yet nobody blew the whistle.
Federal
Judge Orders State Department to Report on Status of Hillary Email Server by Friday. The invaluable
investigators at Judicial Watch continue to perform the Congressional oversight duties that Darrell Issa, Trey Gowdy, John
Boehner, and the rest of the feckless GOP leadership hacks refuse to do. That is, actually see some tangible results
related to the serial perfidy of Hillary Clinton and the entire Obama administration.
The Annals of Corruption.
Hillary Clinton is a scandalous candidate for president of the United States. Most people acknowledge this, at least
judging by her plummeting poll numbers. A raft of stories gives the distinct impression that she and her husband have
been running an elaborate pay-to-play operation. Donations to the Clinton Foundation may have produced favorable State
Department policies dealing with Russia-owned U.S. uranium deposits, Haitian relief efforts, and foreign banking interests.
Her use of a personal email server while at the State Department, moreover, strongly suggests she has something to hide.
Top
secret Clinton emails include drone talk. The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server that an
auditor deemed "top secret" include a discussion of a news article detailing a U.S. drone operation and a separate
conversation that could point back to highly classified material in an improper manner or merely reflect information
collected independently, U.S. officials who have reviewed the correspondence told The Associated Press.
Classified data found on emails in May;
Clinton camp slow to protect secrets. [Scroll down] As federal investigators have been told previously, the
server is no longer active and had been erased of all data, the officials said. Clinton turned over all of her official
emails to the State Department on Dec. 5, 2012. She said at a news conference in March that she simultaneously deleted
more than 31,000 of personal emails. Clinton did not receive a federal directive to retain the emails until early March, the
officials said.
Intelligence
community wants Clinton's security clearance suspended. Security experts say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton
retained her government security clearance when she left the State Department, as is normal practice, it should be suspended
now that it is known her unprotected private email server contained top secret material. "Standard procedure is that when
there is evidence of a security breach, the clearance of the individual is suspended in many, but not all, cases," said retired
Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who was deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence in the George W. Bush administration.
"This rises to the level of requiring a suspension."
Dems near Clinton panic
mode. Democrats are worried that the furor surrounding Hillary Clinton's private email server will be
prolonged and intensified after her sudden move to hand it over to the FBI. The Clinton campaign's decision to
give up the server and a thumb drive containing backup copies of emails left Democrats scratching their heads
as to why the former secretary of State had resisted for months turning over the server. Coupled with new polls
that suggest Clinton is vulnerable, Democrats are nearing full-on panic mode.
Dems start to worry about
the Clinton email scandal. In interviews Thursday [8/13/2015], Democrats based in Washington insisted that their faith
that Clinton would win the party's 2016 nomination and be elected president hasn't been shaken. But when a campaign holds an
emergency conference call with party insiders and media surrogates to quell nerves and offer messaging guidance, as Team Clinton did
late Tuesday evening, people are bound to worry that a situation dismissed as Republican shenanigans might be worse than feared.
Scandal
Exposes Hillary's Disregard For Security. Thanks to the State Department's release of Hillary Clinton emails,
we now know she was more interested in how to permanently delete her emails than in protecting highly classified national
security secrets.
The
Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now. After years of holding herself above the
law, telling lie after lie, and months of flat-out obstruction, HIllary Clinton has finally produced to the FBI her server
and three thumb drives. Apparently, the server has been professionally wiped clean of any useable information, and
the thumb drives contain only what she selectively culled. Myriad criminal offenses apply to this conduct.
Hillary
Wanted a Book With Advice About How To Delete Emails That "Stay Deleted". Now why in the world would Hillary Clinton want a
book about how to permanently delete emails? According to a new report from ABC's Jon Karl, the former Secretary of State requested
a book about how to delete email before leaving her position in early 2013.
Hillary's
Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens. The political class is seriously underestimating the impact of Hillary Clinton's
email controversy. They see it mainly as a problem of public opinion and electoral politics, where it has been increasingly costly
but not yet fatal. The political damage — the drip, drip, drip of revelations — has been bad, but there is worse
to come. Hillary Clinton's big problem now is legal, and it could well be insurmountable politically. Here's why. Once a
"political" issue finally moves into the legal system, as the Clinton email server has, it moves forward with an independent logic.
That logic will slowly ensnare Secretary Clinton.
Official:
Clinton 'inner circle' may have stripped email classification markings. The latest revelations about top secret
information traversing Hillary Clinton's private email server have triggered accusations that someone in her "inner circle"
likely stripped the classification markings, illegally. The claims come after the Clinton campaign stuck to the argument
that the Democratic presidential candidate, while secretary of state, never dealt with emails that were "marked" classified at
the time. "Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked
classified at the time she sent or received them," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to
supporters Wednesday [8/12/2015].
"Morning
Joe" Panel In State Of Crisis Over Clinton Email Server Spin. "Morning Joe" runs down the latest details of the
quickly developing Hillary Clinton private server scandal. "Mika, please, we all knew this moment was coming six months
ago," says a glum Chuck Todd. "At some point the server was going to end up in the hands of somebody. And why they
made it have to be dragged out of them instead of giving it willingly. This is going to do nothing to help her politically."
"If the FBI is looking into your handling of emails, it is bad news, you can't spin that. The FBI wanted your server and now it
is blank."
Hillary
Clinton finally gives up her email server. But why now? Despite several attempted and ultimately unsuccessful
campaign launches to re-introduce herself to Americans who grew tired of her years ago, Clinton's favorability and trust
numbers are seriously declining. Tuesday [8/11/2015] came disheartening new poll results that New Hampshire's uppity
voters have dramatically shifted their Democrat allegiances since March and now favor what's-his-name, the ancient socialist
from next-door Vermont. That's got to sting to fall behind a Mr. Magoo.
Hillary
Clinton's Server Was In New Jersey This Whole Time. It's Blank Now. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton's mysterious email server has been in a private data center in New Jersey since 2013, that is, until the IT company
the former secretary of state hired to maintain the hardware handed the "blank" device over to the FBI Wednesday [8/12/2015].
Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, informed the Department of State in a letter Wednesday that the company hired to manage
and maintain the server, Denver-based Platte River Networks, was turning it over to the Department of Justice. Kendall
also told State he handed over three thumb drives that contained Clinton's emails.
Hillary
Clinton Hands Over Private Email Server to Justice Department. Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server
to the Department of Justice, the Clinton campaign confirmed to ABC News. Barbara Wells, a lawyer for Platte River Networks, the
technology company that has managed Clinton's email server since 2013, said the company turned the server over to the FBI Wednesday
afternoon [8/12/2015] at a New Jersey facility. She said the server was handed over voluntarily, under an agreement between
Platte River and Clinton's presidential campaign, with no subpoena.
Judge
orders Clinton to preserve all records; she misses deadline to certify compliance. A federal judge ordered the
State Department on Thursday [8/13/2015] to work with the FBI to try to get access to the 32,000 emails former Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton said were personal and that she didn't return to the government, as the courts get more deeply involved in her
email practices. One judge is trying to decide how the government is going about determining what classified information
is included in Mrs. Clinton's messages, while another is exploring the email practices of Mrs. Clinton's top aides, as the State
Department deals with a backlog of requests for her communications, which she only recently returned to the administration.
Tips
on Deleting Emails From Email Book Hillary Clinton Wanted to Read. [Scroll down] The copy that ABC downloaded
for $9.99 had some interesting revelations. Take, for example, Chapter Six: "The Email That Can Land You In Jail." The
chapter includes a section entitled "How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted." "Some people are hoarders, some are
checkers," the authors write. "The main thing to consider is that once you do decide to delete, it's like taking the
garbage from your kitchen and putting it in your hallway. It's still there."
Boehner,
Gowdy tout victory on Hillary's email server. As Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign attempted to frame the
decision to relinquish control of her private email server Tuesday as an act of cooperation, House Speaker John Boehner and
Rep. Trey Gowdy highlighted the five months of congressional requests for the server she previously ignored. Boehner
released a video Thursday [8/13/2015] in which he ticked through a few of the dozens of instances he and Gowdy, chairman
of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, called on Clinton to hand over the server.
FBI
Gets Thumb Drives of Hillary Emails, Including "Top Secret" Ones. After going through her pinky-promise under
threat of perjury, Hillary Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, has turned over two thumb drives containing her emails to the
FBI, according to an anonymous official.
FBI
Seizes Hillary Emails; Revelations of TOP SECRET emails. First Hillary said there was no classified information
contained within her emails; then the narrative changed to there was nothing classified "at the time" it was on her email
server; which later evolved to there was nothing "labeled" as classified when her communications were exclusively on her
personal email system. Now it is revealed that TOP SECRET classified information was contained in her communication.
The Truth is Catching Up With
Hillary. The FBI investigation of the handling of classified information on Hillary's personal e-mail account,
which she used for all her government business while serving as Secretary of State, is underway. Her campaign announced
on August 11th that she has directed her aides at long last to turn over to federal investigators her private server and
a thumb drive containing copies of her e-mails. Hillary's campaign is trying to portray her decision as evidence of her
cooperative spirit. This is utter nonsense, considering that she has refused to turn over her server for months to any
independent third party.
Hillary
is following the Clinton Scandal Playbook in email criminal investigation. The skill set of the Clintons
includes mastery of handling scandals, because, as the saying goes, "Practice makes perfect." Bimbo eruptions, shady
commodities trades, dodgy land deals — ever since the earliest days in Arkansas politics, the Clintons have
developed expertise in delaying, distracting, denying, evading, expunging, lying, intimidating, impugning, and otherwise
minimizing the impact of their unethical and illegal activities.
Clinton
campaign says email server to go to Justice Dept. Hillary Rodham Clinton relented Tuesday [8/11/2015] to months of demands
she relinquish the personal email server she used while secretary of state, directing the device be given to the Justice Department.
Hillary
Clinton and the Perks of Being Powerful. From the Associated Press, a headline for the ages: "Clinton Relents,
Gives up Possession of Private E-mail Server." "Relents" isn't quite the right word, of course. A better way of putting it
would be, "runs out of options." Since the news first broke, Hillary has run and she has run and she has run, and now the men
with guns have caught up with her. [...] What was once casually derided as so much partisan hype has matured into a full-fledged
criminal investigation.
Cover-Up:
Major Newspapers Keep Hillary's E-Mails Off the Front Page. Four of the country's largest newspapers on Wednesday
[8/12/2015] kept the latest developments in Hillary Clinton's growing E-mail scandal off the front page (one kept it out of the paper
completely). The revelation that the Democratic candidate had top secret information on her server was relegated to the bottom
of page A13 in the New York Times. The Washington Post managed to place the news that Clinton will finally
turn over her server on A2. The Los Angeles Times hid the story on A9. All of these newspapers, however, did better
than USA Today, which completely skipped Clinton's scandal in the print edition.
Cloak and Dagger Again. Hillary Clinton's
website argues the material may not have been classified at the time she mailed; or if it was, the fact was unknown to her. The former
is unlikely, since information from these sources would have been classified at origination. It was Kryptonite from the get-go.
The more plausible claim is "Hillary didn't know" what it was. [...] However, Charles Cooke writing in the National Review argues that
Hillary's ignorance would be no excuse, quoting the relevant statues themselves. "Under 18 USC 793(f)(1)-(2), it is a
felony to transmit classified information on the subject of national defense through unapproved channels". He adds, "legally speaking,
however, her intentions are wholly and utterly irrelevant. In this area of federal law, the standard isn't intent, it's negligence."
Is Hillary above the Law? Hillary
Clinton is in trouble. Or more accurately put, she should be in trouble — very big trouble, in fact. The latest from
the Department of Justice is that, yes, they have seized Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server and an accompanying thumb drive. The
FBI has reportedly confiscated copies of the same e-mails from Hillary's lawyer because it deemed the information contained in them too sensitive
for him to keep.
Hillary
Clinton emails contained signal intelligence from spy satellites. The revelation that Hillary Rodham Clinton's
private emails contained sensitive information derived from spy satellites and signal intelligence undercuts her defense that
she had no reason to believe she was dealing with classified information, security experts say. "If she is so ignorant
that she doesn't recognize that this type of information in the email as being classified, it just calls into question her
overall competence," Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst trained in the rules of handling government secrets, told The
Washington Times.
All
data gone from Hillary Clinton's email server. All data from Hillary Clinton e-mail server and thumbdrive are
gone due to a transfer error. I'm no tech specialist or anything, but I've never lost data due to a 'transfer error.'
In fact, I've been able to get data back after a hard drive failure with free utilities available all around the Internet.
The Editor says...
Lois Lerner accidentally lost all her emails at the most convenient moment, and now Hillary Clinton accidentally loses hers.
What amazing coincidences! If "transfer errors" could destroy data at both ends of the transfer, the internet wouldn't work at all.
Report:
Hillary Aide REMOVED 'Top Secret' Markings Upping The Ante To A FELONY. A Hillary Clinton insider must have tampered with
'Top Secret' documents by removing the markings that identified those documents as 'Top Secret', which would be a felony. Judge
Napolitano explains: [Video clip] Hillary's inner circle has someone who is covering up for Hillary or they are
tampering with the email classification to send it to Hillary's private server. The intelligence community stripping the markings
is unlikely. This leaves the felons to be Hillary or her circle. As it seems, the noose is tightening on Hillary. Or
maybe its Huma Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood agent? The snow is melting and all the crap laying under is quickly being revealed.
Did Bill Clinton's Aides Access Hillary's
Server? It's not just Hillary's email practices that are under serious investigation. The Inspector General for the
State Department has confirmed that Hillary's top aides are also being scrutinized for how they used emails. "Our review is not
just focused on Secretary Clinton," the Inspector General's office said. "We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include
former aides and associates, as appropriate." Although no specific aides were disclosed, the review likely includes Hillary
diehards Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan, and Philippe Reines.
Hillary's
Private E-Mail Server Contains Exactly what we Thought it would. The ongoing scandal involving the contents of
Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server appears to have gotten too big for even our government to ignore. For months,
conservatives have been saying she used her private e-mail server for official business during her time as Secretary of State,
including the possible transmission of classified material. The Clinton campaign, Democrats across the nation, and her
allies in the media have denied it for months, but now that she has turned her server over to the FBI, it appears that we on
the Right have been vindicated.
Emails
May Show Hillary's Connection To The Muslim Brotherhood via Huma Abedin. Fox News reported tonight that Hillary
Clinton may have had several different private email addresses she used that were all on her private email server. They got
this information on the multiple email addresses from a professional hacker that used a tool to comb through public
information found in major search engines.
Lady Justice will never catch up to a presidential-bound
Madam Clinton. Only the hopelessly gullible would believe that Hillary Clinton has volunteered to willingly
surrender her private email server to "authorities". Mainstream media reporting the latest on the Hillary email
controversy would have been far more honest and accurate had they reported that Clinton handed over her private email server
only after all it contained had been scrubbed, scoured, whitewashed and edited. Hillary would NEVER have turned over to
authorities anything that would implicate her signature cunning and dishonesty.
Hillary
Clinton's Al Capone moment? [Scroll down] So is this for real — is Hillary Clinton in some
legal peril? There are a couple of reasons to believe this is the case. First, the investigation is being handled
by the FBI, headed by widely-respected director James Comey. He has no reason to slow-walk an investigation or look the
other way. Nor does he have an incentive to refrain from forensic investigation and, if need be, reconstruction of the
server's deleted e-mails. The last thing he or the FBI wants is the allegation that they helped Clinton cover her tracks.
Second, high level officials including Gen. (Ret.) David Petraeus and another former CIA director John Deutch were investigated for
improper handling of classified materials.
Hillary Clinton's top-secret sins. The
news that Hillary Clinton is finally turning over her private e-mail server to the FBI isn't even the most serious part of the
scandal — because three bigger issues stand out. [#1] The intelligence community inspector general says her private
server held "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information" — one of the highest levels of classification. Improper
handling of such info violates federal law. [...] [#2] Clinton said she'd had her server wiped clean. If so, it now seems she was
destroying evidence of her own illicit activity. The FBI will see if she truly erased everything.
State
Dept. accused of stiff-arming intel watchdog over Hillary emails. Top U.S. intelligence officials are running
out of patience with the State Department's reluctance to turn over emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, which
have already been shown to have included top secret communications, Fox News has learned. The Intelligence Community's
Inspector General has requested some 30,000 emails from Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State in order to conduct its own
review. Those emails are in possession of the State Department, which has been gradually releasing them to the public.
FBI
Is Moving Quickly and Hillary Is One Email Away From Prison. Out of 40 emails reviewed by the Inspector
General, 4 of them or 10% had classified information on them. Generally, 10% is a statistically significant sample
and it indicates there are probably a lot more. This is supported by information from the State Department. The top lawmakers
on the House and Senate intelligence committee were notified last week that the extent of classified information on Mrs. Clinton's
private email server was likely far more extensive than the four emails publicly acknowledged last week as containing some sensitive
spy agency secrets.
Gowdy:
Clinton email bombshell a 'serious national security issue'. "Secretary Clinton's decision to prioritize her
own convenience — and desire for control — over the security of our country's intelligence should
concern all people of good conscience," Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said late Tuesday [8/11/2015]. "This is a serious
national security issue, and the seriousness of it should transcend normal, partisan politics."
Hillary
Clinton protected herself and left America exposed. It turns out that Hillary Clinton's email scandal could in
fact get worse. It was known already that Clinton had sent at least seven emails through her unsecured private system
containing information that is classified or was at the time. (There could be many more still undiscovered.) But
on Tuesday night [8/11/2015], Senate investigators revealed that two of these contained information that is "Top Secret."
The FBI is finally taking control of her server, and her candidacy is on the precipice.
Hillary
Clinton email probe turns to Huma. The 2016 Democratic front-runner on Monday [8/10/2015] told a federal judge that
[Huma] Abedin — long considered her boss's keeper and even dubbed her "shadow" — had her own email account
on Clinton's now infamous home-brewed server, "which was used at times for government business," Clinton acknowledged.
That's an unusual arrangement, even for top brass at the State Department.
The
Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary's Emails. After months of denials and delaying actions, Hillary Clinton has
decided to turn over her private email server to the Department of Justice. As this controversy has grown since the spring,
Clinton and her campaign operatives have repeatedly denied that she had placed classified information in her personal email
while serving as Secretary of State during President Obama's first term. ("I am confident that I never sent nor received any
information that was classified at the time it was sent and received," she said last month.) Her team also denied that she
would ever hand over her server to investigators. Now both those assertions have been overturned.
Turmoil
mounts surrounding Clinton emails. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Wednesday sought to dismiss
criticism that her decision to give the FBI her private email server suggested any admission of wrongdoing. The vigorous
pushback came as the server's handover dominated the news cycle and the State Department's inspector general vowed to "follow
the facts wherever they lead."
Clinton
Scandal: The Emails She Wanted To Hide. That sound of panic screeching across the country Tuesday night
[8/11/2015] emanated from the Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters after the media broke the story that two emails on
Clinton's private account had "top secret" information. It's material that's "more sensitive than previously known,"
McClatchy News reported. This revelation takes the scandal to a whole new level, and it makes us ask again:
How long can Clinton stay in the race?
Exclusive:
Sources Say Clinton Campaign Lying in Email Cover-Up. The Hillary Clinton campaign is pushing outright falsehoods as it
attempts to defend itself against its private-email scandal, according to a top-level source and an inspector general memo.
A high-level government source familiar with the investigation spoke to Breitbart News on condition of anonymity, telling us the
inspector general for the intelligence community confirms that some of Clinton's emails were "classified when originated."
The
Queen of Paradox and Her Crumbling Stone Wall. [Scroll down] Where do I start? How about with the Clinton
campaign's ridiculous suggestion that coughing up the server and email were voluntary acts. We know that's bunk —
because Clinton herself said she wouldn't surrender the people's records without a fight. "The server will remain private," she
said in March. Her attorney told Congress at the time that there was "no basis" to support a third-party examination of the
server. Besides, he said, the server had been scrubbed. "There are no hdr22@clintonemail.com emails from Secretary of State
Clinton's tenure on the server for any review, even if such a review were appropriate or legally authorized," attorney David Kendall
wrote Congress. It's safe to assume two things changed Clinton's mind: political and legal pressure. First, the
public's trust and approval of the Democratic front-runner has plummeted amid revelations that she established an email system that
violated federal policy, thwarted congressional oversight, and skirted the Freedom of Information Act.
Email scandal is just 'nonsense' to
Hillary. Congress is investigating her emails, the FBI is involved and top-secret data may have been compromised,
but to Hillary Clinton it's all "nonsense." That's the message Clinton's campaign sent to supporters today [8/12/2015] in
response to the latest developments in the email mess ensnaring the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
Clinton
Campaign Tries To Calm Supporters About Email Scandal. The Hillary Clinton campaign is seeking to downplay the
bombshell news that emails maintained on the private server she used as secretary of state contained Top Secret information
and that she has turned over the server to the Justice Department to help with its investigation into the matter. "You
might hear some news over the next few days about Hillary Clinton's emails," writes Clinton's communications director, Jennifer
Palmieri, in an email to supporters. "There's a lot of misinformation, so bear with us; the truth matters on this."
Hillary,
Huma and Cheryl Mills Blow Off Court-Appointed Deadline. Amidst the hubbub about last week's Republican candidates' debate,
the media seems to have ignored a development of potentially far more enduring impact on the coming presidential election. On Friday
[8/7/2015], Hillary Clinton and two top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedein, missed a court-ordered deadline arising from a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan required the three to produce all government records
in their possession and describe their use of Hillary Clinton's email server to conduct government business.
Hillary
Clinton's empty excuses on e-mailing classified info. It's important to put the questions about Clinton's
personal storage of government emails into the same context in which they are viewed by national-security professionals.
Clinton's spokesperson vehemently and repeatedly claimed that press reports about her emails were "false." However, the
most troubling allegation — that the emails on Clinton's personal server were found to contain classified information —
was not specifically refuted. Probably because it's not "false."
FBI Seizes Hillary
Clinton's 'Top Secret' Emails. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now in possession of Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as Secretary of State. Seven emails are currently being reviewed by an
inter-governmental agency, led by the FBI, to determine whether or not they are classified. The two "Top Secret" emails were
classified as top secret by the CIA, according to information circulated by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Why Did
Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Maintaining Hillary's Private Server? According to Hillary, her private emails
server contained over 30,000 personal emails that she sent and received while Secretary of State. Hillary described them as
covering her daughter's wedding, mother's funeral, family vacations, and yoga tips. She says they had absolutely nothing to
do with State Department business. So why did the State Department hire a former member of her political staff to maintain
the server? Why were taxpayers charged for her private business? The server also held an additional 30,000 emails
that were official public records that she deliberately kept out of the State Department email system.
Two
"Top Secret" e-mails found on Hillary's private e-mail server; Update: FBI has Hillary's e-mail archives.
[Scroll down] McClatchy's looser with its language there than I'd prefer given the stakes. I think they mean that "top
secret" messages were found on the server, which hosted not just Hillary's private e-mail account but accounts used by
some of her top cronies, including Huma Abedin. Finding a "top secret" e-mail in Hillary's own account would be
more damning than finding it elsewhere on the server since it would mean she was knowingly trafficking in top-secret info.
Hillary
Clinton to give her private email server to Justice. Hillary Clinton agreed to turn over her private email
server to authorities on Tuesday [8/11/2015], the same day an intelligence community inspector general told congressional
committees that at least five emails from the server did contain classified information. The decision to hand over the
server, as well as a thumb drive of all her work-related emails to the Justice Department, represents an effort to blunt an
expanding probe into her use of a private email account.
[The]
FBI Should Not Be 'Investigating [the] Security' of Clinton['s] Server — It Should Be Seizing Clinton['s]
Server. Politico's Josh Gerstein reports that the FBI is "investigating the security of classified
emails formerly stored on Hillary Clinton's private server," which now are apparently also "maintained on a thumb drive by
Clinton's personal attorney, David Kendall." The issue, however, is not whether Mrs. Clinton made good security
arrangements for her private system, or whether the private thumb-drive Mr. Kendall is reportedly maintaining is secure. The
issue is whether the Clinton server system or Kendall's law firm are authorized government storage facilities for national
defense information. Obviously, they are not; if the government had authorized them as storage facilities, there would
be no reason for the FBI to be investigating their security precautions.
Why Hillary Supports the Iran
Deal. Hillary Clinton doesn't stand for much of anything anymore other than the most conventional left pabulum.
She doesn't answer questions and she won't debate. But she has doubled-down in favor of Obama's Iran deal: [... because]
Hillary Clinton is in such deep legal trouble over her emails that she needs the backing of Obama to survive.
State
Dept. to fall short of Clinton email production again in August. State Department officials will not publish
the required number of Hillary Clinton's emails at the end of August, marking the second month in a row that the agency has
failed to meet a court-ordered benchmark for the production of the records. Although a judge laid out a schedule for the
agency with specific milestones for the State Department to meet each month, officials said they were unable to meet the July
milestone due to the burden of screening the records for classified information.
Colorado
Company Visited as Part of FBI Investigation into Hillary Clinton emails. Tasked with digging into the security
of Hillary's home brewed email server, the FBI investigation into presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
is expanding it's [sic] reach. A local CBS News affiliate reports the Denver based Platte River Networks received a visit
from the FBI last week regarding former Secretary Clinton's email. Platte River Networks handled the Clinton's email
accounts though there's been no public explanation as to what that entailed.
FBI
finally takes Hillary's thumb drives from her lawyer. Hillary Clinton has finally agreed to turn over her personal
email server to the government. As RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says: "All this means is that Hillary Clinton, in the
face of FBI scrutiny, has decided she has run out of options." In related news, Clinton's attorney David Kendall turned
over to the FBI three thumb drives containing copies of work-related emails sent to and from her personal email addresses via
her private server. He did so after the FBI determined he could not remain in possession of the classified information
contained in some of the emails.
White House: China's been hacking our
emails since, oh, around the time Hillary began using her own insecure email server. Completely unexpected news o' the
day: it would appear that Red China's cyber-warriors have been hacking sensitive White House, State Department, and related diplomatic
emails since — you guessed it — Hillary Clinton began operating her own private email server to conduct official
government business. [...] In fact, a wide variety of cybersecurity experts had claimed that it was a virtual certainty that Clinton's
private email server had been hacked by China, Russia, and Iran.
'Top Secret'
emails found as Clinton probe expands to key aides. As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her
official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday [8/11/2015]. It was disclosed her
top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as "Top Secret."
The inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four classified emails discovered on the
server Clinton maintained at her New York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest security classifications — more
sensitive than previously known.
The Editor says...
Yes, "more sensitive than previously known," but certainly not more sensitive than previously suspected, otherwise why would she conduct her
business through her own email system?
Federal
Judge Issues Emergency Order Blocking Cheryl Mills From Deleting Emails. A federal
judge has intervened to block Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff at the State
Department, from deleting any emails in her possession after her attorney informed the State
Department last week that she had instructed her client to do so. U.S. District Court judge
Emmet Sullivan issued the order late Friday in response to an urgent request from the watchdog group
Judicial Watch, which is suing the State Department over its failure to produce records related to a
special work arrangement granted to Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff at State.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Cheryl Mills To Judge — Drop Dead. Hillary Clinton aide
Cheryl Mills has brazenly threatened to violate a court order and delete State Department emails.
What role would she play in a Hillary Clinton administration? Investigation obstructor in chief?
Hillary
Clinton's e-mails: The 'old news' keeps getting worse. The investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private account for official e-mails has just taken a significant turn: The
FBI is now actively looking into the security of her secret home server. It also wants to know
what her lawyer is doing to protect the thumb drive he's holding — a drive holding copies
of tens of thousands of her e-mails. Clinton's lawyer and campaign dismissed this revelation as
old news, but a federal source with knowledge of the probe told The [New York] Post's Jamie Schram and
Laura Italiano it could "lead to criminal violations."
Clinton
certifies she has turned over work-related emails. Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton has told a federal judge that she has turned over all of her work-related emails to the
State Department after she was ordered to certify that she had done so, a state department
spokesman confirmed to CNN on Sunday [8/9/2015].
Yes, the FBI's Investigation
of Hillary's Emails is Definitely a 'Criminal Probe'. "It's definitely a criminal probe," an unnamed source says
in regards to the FBI investigation into whether Hillary Clinton knowingly sent classified information through personal email.
"I'm not sure why they're not calling it a criminal probe," the source adds. The Clinton camp, in the meantime, downplays this.
State
Dept. blames classified info for Clinton email delays. The State Department says all
of the potential secret information in former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails has knocked
them off pace, and told a federal judge late Friday that's why they are currently in violation of
his orders. John F. Hackett, the top open-records officer for the department, said the
government belatedly realized all of the potentially classified information in Mrs. Clinton's
communications and, prodded by two watchdogs, realized they needed to be running her emails by
intelligence officers to make sure they weren't giving out secrets.
More
twists and turns in Hillary's email saga. On Friday [8/7/2015], things began heating
up again in the legal proceedings regarding Hillary Clinton's emails. Readers will recall the Judge
Emmet Sullivan, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered the State Department
to ask Clinton, her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and her former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma
Abedin to personally vouch that they'd turned over all records responsive to a Freedom of Information
Act request that Judicial Watch filed seeking information on Abedin's employment arrangements.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Turn Loose The Investigations. A handful of Republican congressional
chairman are reportedly "itching to investigate" Hillary Clinton. It appears that they're just
waiting on permission from their leadership. There's no reason to wait longer.
Cheryl
Mills to erase Hillary emails. The attorney for a top aide to Hillary Clinton when she
was secretary of state has informed a federal judge presiding over FOIA requests from Judicial Watch
related to Huma Abedin's employment status that she will destroy electronic communications not
already handed over. "Ms. Mills does not believe that she has paper copies of potential records
in her possession. Following our production on August 10, 2015 [of the defense counsel's
version of the electronic records], we have instructed her to delete any and all electronic records
in her possession," said the attorney.
Cheryl
Mills to Destroy EMails About Boss Hillary Clinton. In a letter sent to the U.S. State
Department and just filed today with U.S. federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the counsel for Cheryl
Mills wrote: "Ms. Mills does not believe that she has paper copies of potential records in her
possession. Following our production on August 10, 2015 [of the defense counsel's version of the
electronic records], we have instructed her to delete any and all electronic records in her
possession." That is a far stretch from a statement by Ms. Mills under penalty of perjury, and she
and her lawyers are planning to delete the emails Judge Sullivan wants produced? Judicial Watch has
made an emergency filing in Judge Sullivan's court to stop the further destruction of evidence of what
may very well be assorted criminal conduct and violations of numerous federal laws.
The
FBI and Justice Department Let the Clinton Camp Hold on to Classified E-mails. When a
bank gets robbed, is it now the Justice Department's practice to let the suspect hold on to the
money while the FBI does its investigation? According to the Washington Examiner, the Justice
Department has still not seized the Clinton server and at least one thumb-drive copy of its contents
even though government officials have conceded that national-defense secrets are stored on them.
Former secretary of state Clinton apparently still has the server, while the thumb drive is reportedly
in the possession of her private lawyer, David Kendall.
Judge
asked to seize USB flash drive containing Hillary Clinton's email. A federal judge is being asked to seize
the USB flash drive that holds copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private emails. Conservative
legal activist Larry Klayman on Wednesday [8/5/2015] filed a motion to have a judge take control of the flash drive,
which is being held by David Kendall, Clinton's lawyer, as part of his ongoing racketeering lawsuit against the Democratic
presidential frontrunner. "This court has a responsibility to preserve evidence and must do so to avoid its destruction,"
Klayman wrote in the new motion. "Importantly, plaintiff has not requested to see the documents, hard and thumb drives
at this time, but simply asked that this court take them into its custody for safekeeping."
Intelligence
watchdog was denied access to Clinton emails. Hillary Clinton's attorney has been
allowed to keep emails now known to be classified, but the inspector general of the intelligence
community was denied access to the same emails upon request, a State Department spokesman said
Wednesday [8/5/2015]. "The counsel for former Secretary Clinton advised the department at the
time that [the cache of emails] was subject to a separate document request" from the House Select
Committee on Benghazi, said Mark Toner, State Department spokesman. Toner said the intelligence
community inspector general's request was denied on "jurisdictional" grounds.
FBI
investigation of Hillary's emails is 'criminal probe'. The FBI investigation into former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's unsecured email account is not just a fact-finding
venture — it's a criminal probe, sources told The [New York] Post on Wednesday [8/5/2015].
The feds are investigating to what extent Clinton relied on her home server and other private devices to send
and store classified documents, according to a federal source with knowledge of the inquiry. "It's
definitely a criminal probe," said the source. "I'm not sure why they're not calling it a criminal probe.
Why
a Criminal Prosecution of Hillary Clinton Might Not Happen. Will the presumptive
Democratic nominee face criminal prosecution? The answer is not a simple one, despite the apparent
gravity of Clinton's actions. Attorney General Loretta Lynch must first agree to open a full-scale
investigation, and the DOJ must then find evidence of Clinton's criminal intent in order to
prosecute. National-security lawyers say the decision to charge Clinton would depend largely on
whether the offending documents were actually marked "classified." But given the Justice
Department's history of foot-dragging in cases involving high-level government officials mishandling
classified documents, Clinton may well avoid a criminal investigation altogether — much
less a prosecution.
Report:
FBI Investigation of Hillary Email is "Criminal Investigation". The Clintonian
parseltongue continues. First she said "there was never anything classified on her private email
server". Then she said there was never anything "classified at the time" it was on her email
server. Now she claims there was never anything with "classified written on it", at the time it was
on her private email server. The Clinton's could debate the verbiage on a stop sign.
Former
Intel Officials Call for Revocation of Clinton's Security Privileges. A group of
former special operations forces and intelligence community members are calling on the State
Department to revoke "any and all security clearances" still held by former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and her confidants in the wake of revelations Clinton used a private email server to
transfer classified information. OPSEC, an advocacy group comprised of former intelligence and
security officials, petitioned Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday to revoke classified privileges
for Clinton, as well as her former chief of staff Cheryl Mills, her former deputy chief of staff Jake
Sullivan, and her top adviser Huma Abedin, according to a copy of the letter.
Clinton
Email Scandal: People Need To Know If She's A Crook. The Clintons became convinced
many decades ago that they are above the law. Nothing has persuaded them otherwise, not even that
pesky impeachment of Bill. Hillary's use of a personal email account powered by a private server
while she was secretary of state, however, might be her undoing. And we haven't even mentioned
the Benghazi scandal, and the investigation into that terrorist attack, which led to the uncovering
of the private server. That alone should be enough to bring down Clinton's presidential ambitions.
The server is believed to have been installed at the Clintons' Chappaqua, N.Y., home for use in
Hillary's 2008 presidential run. She said she used it as secretary of state for the convenience of
being able to do her State Department business on a single cellphone. Here we'll add what she won't:
The private account also looked like a way for Clinton to conduct government business in secret — or
so she thought.
FBI
looking into the security of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail setup. The FBI has begun looking into the
security of Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm
that helped manage the unusual system, according to two government officials. Also last week, the FBI contacted
Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains
copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state. The FBI's interest in Clinton's
e-mail system comes after the intelligence community's inspector general referred the issue to the Justice Department
in July.
New
documents suggest Clinton's email server may have crashed. An email conversation between a top Hillary
Clinton aide and a Clinton Foundation executive suggests the private server that Clinton and her staff used to
communicate may have malfunctioned at least once during her tenure. Huma Abedin, Clinton's then-deputy chief
of staff, complained that her private email was "down" the evening of Oct. 9 and into Oct. 10, 2012,
according to an email chain obtained by Citizens United through the Freedom of Information Act.
Has
the Justice Department Seized Hillary's Server? If Not, Why Not? We now know for
certain what I argued was a virtual certainty back in March: Hillary Clinton and her top aides
illegally maintained and communicated classified information on Mrs. Clinton's private e-mail system.
One pressing question now is: Has the government — preferably the Justice Department and
the FBI — taken possession of the Clinton private server? If not, why not? Recall
that rather than providing the government with her server(s) or, at the very least, with a readily searchable
electronic download of all government-related information on her private system, Mrs. Clinton and her lawyers
provided the government with "hard" (paper) copies of e-mails she unilaterally selected and decided to provide
to the government. What was inevitable has now been confirmed: Those e-mails contained classified
information, almost certainly lots of it.
Clinton
email security breaches worry officials. Hillary Rodham Clinton's email narrative had
finally seemed to run its course as a top news story when Washington was entering the dog days of
summer. Then, from of all places, her former place of employment — the State
Department — suddenly injected new life into the scandal on July 1 by announcing
that a significant number of her private stash of emails contained classified information.
Hillary
Clinton's Sandy Berger problem. The Clinton e-mail scandal reached a new level of
seriousness when the intelligence community inspector general found classified information from five
intelligence agencies in e-mails housed on Clinton's private server. It is against the law to remove
classified information from government facilities and retain it after you have left office and have
no official reason to possess it. Just ask Sandy Berger. In 2003, Bill Clinton's former
national security adviser was caught removing five classified documents from a secure reading room
at the National Archives, as he prepared to testify before the 9/11 commission.
Calls
mount for Hillary Clinton criminal investigation amid email data breach fears. With U.S. intelligence
officials scrambling to contain damage from potentially hundreds of spy agency secrets in Hillary Rodham Clinton's
private emails, questions are mounting over why the Justice Department has not yet opened a criminal investigation
against the Democratic presidential front-runner for mishandling a mountain of classified information.
Hillary
Clinton's email woes will worsen. The Hillary Clinton campaign has been engaged in a
major spat with the New York Times. On July 23, the paper published a story reporting that
inspectors general at the State Department and the intelligence community had issued a criminal
referral to the Justice Department regarding her handling of classified information while serving
as Secretary of State.
The
Hillary Email Scandal Just Saw Its 'Most Significant Legal Development To Date. A federal judge has ordered
Hillary Clinton and two of her top aides at the State Department, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to attest, under penalty
of perjury, that they have turned over all official government records in their possession. U.S. District Court judge
Emmett Sullivan issued the bombshell ruling late Friday [7/31/2015], hours after the State Department released its second
batch of Clinton emails. The ruling was issued in the matter of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
against the State Department.
Newly-released
Hillary Clinton emails show her concern about...email. The State Department on Friday [7/31/2015]
released 1,356 of Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary of state, in its continued effort to comply
with Freedom of Information Act requests. The emails date back to 2009, Clinton's first year in the Obama
administration. While most of the emails released Friday [7/31/2015] were of little significance, one casual
email showed that Clinton may have had concerns about her electronic communications.
Clinton
email release falls well short of judge's order. The State Department admitted it was
violating a judge's order Friday [7/31/2015] in releasing only 1,356 new emails from former Secretary Hillary
Rodham Clinton's time in the administration, with officials saying they're falling behind because they are
having to run all of the documents by intelligence agencies to make sure classified documents aren't being
released. It's the latest stumble for a department put on the spot by Mrs. Clinton's unique email set-up,
which saw her reject a State Department account and instead issue herself a private account, kept on a server she
maintained at her New York home — raising questions about security and compliance with open-records laws.
Judge
Sullivan is not amused. It's hard to keep up with the news bearing on Madam Hillary's
use of a private email account/server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Federal
Judge Slaps Hillary and Huma With Full Disclosure Demands. Today [7/31/2015] U.S. District Court
Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department to request that Hillary Clinton and her top aides confirm,
under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other
government records immediately, and describe their use of Hillary Clinton's email server to conduct government
business. The court issued the ruling late today after holding a status hearing in a Judicial Watch Freedom
of Information lawsuit that sought records about Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The
lawsuit reopened last month because of revelations about Hillary Clinton's email records.
Emails
Show Top Hillary Aide Complaining That Clinton Email Account Wasn't Working. A 2012
email exchange in which Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin complains that her Clinton email
account was down raises new questions about the national security implications of Clinton's private
email server arrangement. Citizens United obtained the Oct. 10, 2012, emails between Abedin
and Stephanie Streett, the executive director of the Clinton Foundation. Citizens United has filed
several lawsuits for emails from Clinton and several of her top aides. The conservative watchdog
group is trying to find out whether Clinton used her position as secretary of state to help the Clinton
Foundation or any of its donors. In one email sent from her official State Department account,
Abedin complains to Streett that her Clinton email account was not working.
Email
Scandal: Bad Day For Clinton A Good Day For U.S.. Friday [7/31/2015] had to be an
extraordinarily trying day for the Democratic front-runner. On the same day she releases a letter
from her doctor saying she is fit to run for president, the latest tranche of emails showed that she
is not fit to hold office. Even before the 2,000 pages containing 1,300 emails were dumped, the
McClatchy newspaper chain was reporting that classified emails stored on the former secretary of state's
private server held "information from five U.S. intelligence agencies." It also included "material
related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks."
Obama
heavily redacts latest batch of Hillary Clinton's emails. The Obama administration slapped a secret
designation Friday [7/31/2015] on a number of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state,
raising more questions about whether her controversial email arrangement led to classified information being left
unsecured. A new tranche of Clinton emails, released by the State Department under a court order to impose
transparency on the Obama administration, contains dozens of documents with information redacted and labeled either
"confidential" or "sensitive."
Hillary
Clinton Emails: 1,300 Messages From Private Account Released. The State Department released a
third batch of highly sought after emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's controversial
private email account today [7/31/2015]. Posted on the State Department's Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) website, the collection includes just over 1,300 emails all dated in 2009.
Hillary's
"classified" excuse doesn't wash. McClatchy reports that the classified emails known to have been
stored on the former Secretary of State's private server contained information from five intelligence agencies,
and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks. And this, if I understand correctly, is
just from a sample of 40 emails.
U.S.
intel preparing for massive breach of classified data in Hillary Clinton emails. The U.S. intelligence
community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email account
contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage
to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday [7/30/2015]. The top lawmakers on the House
and Senate intelligence committee have been notified in recent days that the extent of classified information on Mrs.
Clinton's private email server was likely far more extensive than the four emails publicly acknowledged last week as
containing some sensitive spy agency secrets.
Judge
Blasts State Dept for Clinton Email Delays: 'Even the Least Ambitious Bureaucrat Could Do This'. A federal
judge blasted the State Department during a court hearing Wednesday [7/29/2015] about the government agency's lack of
response to Freedom of Information Act requests having to do with documents from Hillary Clinton and her staff.
Politico reported that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon balked at State's inability to produce about 60 emails
demanded in one particular FOIA request, saying, "Now, any person should be able to review that in one day — one
day. Even the least ambitious bureaucrat could do this." The judge, like Clinton critics, suggested that the
government agency is protecting its former secretary of state by failing to produce documents related to her staff.
Is
Obama taking Hillary out? The Clintons and the Obamas have a long history of bad blood, dating to the
2008 primary race. After Mr. Obama creamed her, he offered her the plum gig of secretary of state. Friends
close, enemies closer. She tried to get her dirty tricks consigliere, Sidney Blumenthal, a top position in the
State Department, which Mr. Obama pointedly denied. So she hired him anyway through the Clinton Foundation.
Through Mr. Blumenthal, she was fed all kinds of intelligence on global hotpots such as Libya, much of it inaccurate, as
she circumvented traditional government communication chains via her private email server. What was she hiding
from Mr. Obama? And why? Perhaps because she trusted Mr. Obama about as much as she trusted Bill.
Classified
info on Clinton server, thumb drive violation of law, national security lawyer says.
Classified emails on Hillary Clinton's personal server, and a back-up copy on a thumb drive held by
her lawyer David Kendall, appear to be a violation of the U.S. code governing the unlawful removal
and storage of classified information, according to a leading national security lawyer. "In most
situations like this you'd expect that a warrant would be issued and that the Marshals and the
feds — FBI, somebody would go and get that thumb drive and take it somewhere where it
would be considered safe by the government," said Edward MacMahon Jr., an attorney who has handled
major national security cases including the leak investigation of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling.
Hillary
Clinton's Emails: 69% Want Special Prosecutor To Investigate. Fully 69% of those
following the Hillary Clinton email scandal want the Justice Department to appoint a special
prosecutor to determine whether she mishandled classified information on the private email account
she used while secretary of state, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll. That finding comes
just as the State Department released a new batch of Clinton's emails on Friday. The poll was taken
in the wake of recent revelations that some of Clinton's emails contained classified information, despite
repeated claims to the contrary by the Democratic presidential candidate. Two inspectors general
asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the matter.
Hillary
Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails. Long-time Hillary Clinton
spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part
from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday [7/29/2015], calling into question the extent
to which top aides to the former secretary of state also engaged in controversial email practices.
State Department top document official John Hackett, who heads Freedom of Information Act requests for the
agency, told a federal judge in a court hearing Wednesday that Reines was among several officials asked to
turn over any any work-related documents in his possession.
Facts in Clinton's
'secret' emails came from five intelligence agencies. The classified emails stored on
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server contained information from five U.S.
intelligence agencies and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks, McClatchy
has learned. Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among
296 emails made public in May by the State Department. Intelligence community officials have
determined it was improperly released.
The
Unique Challenges of Vetting Hillary Clinton's Email. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told
reporters earlier this year that she chose to use a personal email server for "convenience," opting to carry just one
device while she served at the State Department. But her use of a personal email server for official purposes has
been anything but convenient for the agencies charged with reviewing her emails for public release. The choice has
created major headaches for the agencies as they grapple with the issues raised by the situation: a cabinet-level
official with access to wide sources of potentially classified information using her own email server to send and
receive messages that by law are eligible for public release under the Freedom of Information Act.
Is
a Criminal Probe of Clinton Near? The U.S. Department of Justice has been asked to
open a criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling of
classified information in emails she sent through her unauthorized, insecure private email server.
Whether such a probe, if it happens, will actually accomplish anything is a separate question.
That's because the DoJ is headed by Obama appointee Loretta Lynch who is essentially a carbon copy
of her predecessor, the corrupt Eric Holder, a man who was held in contempt by the U.S. House of
Representatives and who came close to getting impeached for misconduct in office.
Parsing
Clinton: What Is She Hiding? Let's return to the original sin: Hillary Rodham Clinton violated White
House policy, federal rules, and every principle of political common sense by stashing her government email on a
home-brewed server. Her covert and unprecedented actions — she deleted more than half the email
and scrubbed the server — thwarted the rights of Congress and the public to review many of those records.
Now for the repeated sin: Clinton is not being honest with people about what she did and why she did it. Her
most recent comments were legalistic at best, deceptive at worst, and require an experienced Clintonologist to parse them.
The Screws Tighten
Around Hillary Clinton. The Wall Street Journal reports that the inspector general of
the intelligence community has found that at least four emails from Hillary's personal account
contained information that was classified at the second highest level of secrecy at the time that
she sent them. Uh... I mean "at the time that they were sent." The IG referred the
matter to the FBI's counterintelligence division. The Justice Department first disclosed that
the investigation was criminal in nature, but later it inexplicably reversed itself on that point.
This is interesting because of the timing of the Administration's leak to the New York Times, its
favorite stenographer, as it came just days after Hillary went out on a limb and committed herself
to supporting the Iran nuke deal.
Clinton's
Conspiracy of Secrecy Worthy of Criminal Probe. [Scroll down] She's blaming The New York Times, which is as
pathetic as it is laughable. Post-production revisions of online and wire-service stories are standard practice after the parties
involve respond. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Times reporter Michael Schmidt called the revision minor without
detailing it. Politico's Dylan Byers described the "small but significant changes." Here's all you need to know:
The Clinton campaign doesn't — and can't — deny the nut of this story. Two Obama administration inspectors
general want an investigation into whether her personal email system contributed to the release of classified information.
Mitchell:
No One Can Give Explanation For Clinton's Server Other Than Dodging Inquiries and FOIAs. MSNBC host and NBC News Chief
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that when she spoke to intelligence officials at a security conference, "nobody
can give an explanation for why a cabinet secretary would have a private email system other than to thwart inquiries, FOIAs" on
Monday's [7/27/2015] broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Mitchell said that it's possible that the impact of Clinton's emails
on her campaign has been underestimated.
Obama
Administration Officials: Hillary Clinton Lied; Used Personal Email Server to Transmit Classified
Documents. Try and contain your shock, but it turns out that Hillary Clinton blatantly
lied to the American people about the use and nature of her illegal, personal email server. Simply
operating her own server to conduct official business was in all likelihood a direct violation of
federal statutes; but sending and receiving classified information using personal servers is another
set of crimes entirely. Several Inspectors General in the Obama administration have reviewed a
tiny fraction of the Clinton emails and determined that 10 percent were classified SECRET or
higher at the time they were transmitted.
Fmr
NY Times Sr. Reporter Reams Paper over Hillary Email Story. On Friday [7/24/2015], the
Times push-alerted its readers that the Inspector General was opening up a criminal inquiry
into whether Clinton discussed classified information on her private, non-secure server while
Secretary of State. This would have constituted a major development in the email story, which
until now Clinton had been weathering, and seriously imperiled the frontrunner's campaign. But
no quickly was it published than it began to crumble, as ranking member of the House Select Committee
on Benghazi Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said the documents the Times thought it had obtained were merely FOIA
requests. The Times reworded the post at the Clinton campaign's requests, walking back much
of the criminal element of the story, and Clinton's direct involvement in the actions described therein.
Clinton
denies sending classified information from private email server. Hillary Clinton told
reporters Saturday [7/25/2015] that she never sent or received classified information using her
private e-mail server when she served as secretary of state, and that the facts on the issue "are
pretty clear." The Democratic presidential hopeful spoke briefly about the growing controversy
surrounding her use of the server after a Democratic gathering at the Madison County Historical
Complex in Iowa. Reporters raised the issue during a news conference that followed the event.
Hillary's email
troubles deepen. Federal officials on Friday confirmed they have been asked to
investigate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of State, deepening the
political controversy surrounding the 2016 Democratic front-runner. Clinton and her team fiercely
pushed back at reports that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to look into
whether sensitive information was mishandled in connection with her private account. "Maybe the
heat is getting to everybody," Clinton quipped during an economic address in New York City in which
she decried "inaccuracies" in the reports.
Hillary
Clinton's Vast Non-Right Wing Problem. Is Hillary Clinton a criminal, one who broke
the law when she decided to homebrew her emails and compromise national security? That's the
question Attorney General Loretta Lynch faces, according to a report in The New York Times.
It seems that Clinton may have stored "hundreds of potentially classified emails" on her personal server
in possible violation of the law. That Clinton's move was stupid and bad politics is beyond doubt.
But even worse, it may have been criminal, according to the two Inspectors General who want a Justice
Department investigation into the latest Clintonian escapade.
At
this point, it might make a difference. I take it that we cannot necessarily trust Madam Hillary
to take care that confidential national security information is treated with care commensurate with its
importance if such treatment conflicts with her personal interests. In ordinary life, she would be
deemed too careless or irresponsible to be entrusted with such information. You probably already
knew that, but this is news: [...]
IG:
Clinton's Emails Included 'Classified Information;' 30,000 Emails 'Purported to Have Been Copied' to
Thumb Drive in Possession of Her Lawyer. Four out of a sample of just 40 emails that
were on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal email server "included IC-derived classified
information," according to a memorandum that L. Charles McCullough, III, the Inspector General of the
Intelligence Community, sent yesterday to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate
intelligence committees and to DNI James Clapper. Additionally, McCullough said, "we were informed
by State FOIA officials that there are potentially hundreds of classified emails within the approximately
30,000 provided by former Secretary Clinton" and that these 30,00 emails "are purported to have been copied
to a thumb drive in the possession of former Secretary Clinton's personal counsel, Williams and Connelly
attorney David Kendall."
Probe
sought into possible 'classified' details in Clinton private e-mails. The Justice
Department said Friday [7/24/2015] that it has been notified of a potential compromise of classified
information in connection with the private e-mail account that Hillary Rodham Clinton used while serving as
secretary of state. A Justice official said the department had received a "referral" on the matter,
which the inspector general of the intelligence agencies later acknowledged came from him. The
inspector general, I. Charles McCullough III, said in a separate statement that he had found
information that should have been designated as classified in four e-mails out of a "limited sample"
of 40 that his agency reviewed. As a result, he said, he made the "security referral," acting
under a federal law that requires alerting the FBI to any potential compromises of national security
information.
Round One. Something
is setting the cat among the pigeons. The New York Times reported that a "Criminal Inquiry Is Sought
in Clinton Email Account" in connection with the mishandling of classified material. A reproof
from the Clinton campaign caused the New York Times to issue what it called a correction.
Hillary
camp rips NY Times, but email story still dogs her. Hillary Clinton's email mess has
been like a low-grade fever that keeps returning in nastier form. And the problem is she's never
taken the cure — by answering all the outstanding questions — as part of her
media-averse approach. Now the Clinton campaign is on the offense against the New York Times,
branding its latest story on the controversy "false" and "discredited."
Clinton's
Conspiracy of Secrecy Worthy of Criminal Probe. Post-production revisions of online
and wire-service stories are standard practice after the parties involve respond. Appearing on
MSNBC's Morning Joe, [New York] Times reporter Michael Schmidt called the revision
minor without detailing it. Politico's Dylan Byers described the "small but significant
changes." Here's all you need to know: The Clinton campaign doesn't — and
can't — deny the nut of this story. Two Obama administration inspectors general want an
investigation into whether her personal email system contributed to the release of classified information.
Clinton
facing new calls to turn over server after IGs request criminal probe. Hillary Clinton
faced new calls Friday [7/24/2015] to turn over her personal server after key inspectors general
asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into whether classified material was
improperly shared on the former secretary of state's account. In correspondence obtained by Fox
News, the inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence community raised deep concerns
about the contents of the Democratic presidential candidate's emails. An initial joint memo sent
June 29 to State Department Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy said a review of
Clinton's email archive showed "hundreds of potentially classified emails."
Todd:
Hillary lost any high ground when she refused to turn over the server. "Now they've
just got to hope nothing is found," NBC's Chuck Todd concludes in this short clip from MSNBC's
Morning Joe earlier today [7/24/2015]. The panel discussed the New York Times' report on a
request for a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private e-mail system, and the potential
fallout from the new revelation that two Inspectors General believe classified material got transmitted
through it. Hillary had a chance to get in front of the story and blew it, Todd states: [...]
Admit it,
Dems: Hillary Could Strangle a Puppy on Live TV, and You'd Still Back Her. At first
Clinton claimed that she needed a single non-governmental email account for "convenience," because
she only had one phone. That claim turned out to be provably false. Next, she claimed
that it didn't matter much, because "The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees
at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system
at the State Department." The latter half of that claim turned out to be provably false, too.
She further insisted that none of the emails contained classified information, a claim that many people
with intimate knowledge of such things — such as a former senior State Department official —
described with phrases like "hard to imagine." And her assertion in a CNN interview this month that
she went "above and beyond" the email disclosure requirements was — wait for it —
false. In sum, the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential frontrunner brazenly violated government
transparency policy, made a mockery of the Freedom of Information Act, placed her sensitive communications
above the law, and then just lied about it, again and again.
MSNBC
Reporter: Clinton Email Probe Could 'Completely Change the 2016 Contest'. MSNBC
political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald reported that depending on the specifics of the probe into
Hillary Clinton's emails sought by State Department investigators, it could have "enormous
consequences" on the 2016 presidential race. "The stakes are incredibly high, but there are
still lots of questions to which we still do not have answers. The Hillary Clinton campaign is
saying that Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong, she complied with all requirements in using her
private e-mail account... " he told MSNBC host Tamron Hall.
Report:
Some Hillary Clinton Emails Were Classified As 'Secret' When She Was At State Department. Though
Hillary Clinton has steadfastly denied she ever handled classified emails as secretary of state, the inspector
general for the intelligence community has found at least four of her emails that should have been marked as
"secret" — the second-highest classification category — The Wall Street Journal reports.
Clinton's emails "were classified when they were sent and are classified now," Andrea Williams, a spokeswoman for
the intelligence community's inspector general, told The Journal.
WSJ:
Despite Denials, Hillary Sent Classified Material Through Private Server. A few weeks
back, we published a post detailing five lies Hillary Clinton and her team have told about her
improper use of a totally under-secure, private email server. [...] We also refuted the notion that
the White House was unaware that she was using her home-brew server to conduct official business.
It's time to add a sixth major whopper to the list. Despite repeated and vehement denials to the
contrary, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Mrs. Clinton did, in fact, transmit classified
materials via her gerry-rigged, insecure email scheme: [...]
Bill
and Hillary Clinton ordered to give depositions about emails in civil case. Hillary Clinton and her husband,
former President Bill Clinton, have been ordered to give depositions in a civil case investigating the pair's growing email
scandal. Mrs. Clinton will give her deposition on the morning of July 28 in Washington, and Mr. Clinton
will give his the following morning, according to copies of the notices of deposition reviewed by The Washington Times.
Hillary's Email
Story Unravels. Clinton scandals have a way of bumping and rolling along to a point
where nobody can remember why there was any outrage to begin with. So in the interest of clarity,
let's take the latest news in the Hillary email escapade, and distill it into its basic pieces: [...]
Peter
Schweizer: Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to 'Clinton Cash' Transactions.
During a C-SPAN interview on Sunday, July 5th, Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior
Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer addressed the renewed interest in Hillary Clinton's private email
server, saying the scandal "works hand in glove with the issues raised" by his bestselling book.
Hillary
Spox: We Don't See The Need To Turnover Email Server. On Monday's [7/6/2015] broadcast
of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Hillary Clinton presidential campaign communications director Jennifer
Palmieri discussed the controversy regarding the Clinton campaign, including roping the media off in
an event over the weekend, the state of the Clinton campaign and her Democratic presidential race
opponent Bernie Sanders. Palmieri also discussed the issues involving Clinton's email server and
said she didn't see the need for Clinton to turn over the email server from she set up from her
time at the State Department.
Hillary
Clinton's E-mails Expose Washington's Culture of Duplicity. "I was there. I was a
senior advisor. I didn't know that," former White House political advisor David Axelrod said of
Hillary Clinton's shadowy private email practices. He offered that self-defense on June 17
in an unsolicited effort to defend former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, who claimed that he was
similarly unaware of Clinton's email methods. "The question is, what are people focused on?
What do they care about?" Axelrod continued. His implication was that no one will or even should care about
Clinton's decision to jeopardize national security in service to her own cherished "convenience" and then lie
repeatedly about the affair in a press conference. Axelrod was no doubt speaking for much of official
Washington when he tried to wish Clinton's email scandal away. Not only is he now implicated in it,
it seems as though much of the American political class was well aware of Hillary Clinton's careless and
privileged communications practices.
Dozens
of Hillary Emails Classified. Michael Schmidt of the New York Times reported
this morning that dozens of Hillary Clinton's emails are now be labeled classified. Clinton, of
course, said that none of her emails were classified.
New
Revelations From Hillary Clinton's Latest Emails. I'm working my way through the
latest Clinton email dump and there are several observations that stick out. Hillary and her crew
thought Barack Obama was a clueless amateur; "Journalist" David Broder of the Washington Post
apparently allows Clinton ghost writers to pen his columns; disgraced, unindicted criminal Sandy
Berger (of the shredded Top Secret Bill Clinton/Bin Laden memos) was a key adviser to Clinton; and,
based upon the dozens and dozens of pages of fully redacted material, Granny Catlady was definitely
sending and receiving tons of classified information through her compromised email server (which
gives the feds the right to seize that box).
Hillary: The More
You Know.... E-mails revealed that Blumenthal, who was forbidden employment by the
Obama White House, essentially functioned as a State Department employee, advising Clinton about
Libya and messaging on crucial issues. We also reported yesterday [7/1/2015] on the proof that White House
aides weren't forthcoming about being aware of Clinton's private e-mail account. Both Rahm Emanuel
and David Axelrod were in the know about the e-mail system as far back as 2009.
Emails
Show Hillary's State Department Communicating With Google About Blocked Benghazi Video. Emails among
State Department officials show the administration was in contact with Google regarding a blocked YouTube video
after President Obama conceded that the Benghazi attack was a preplanned act of terror. On Sept. 27,
2012, Nora Toiv, a special assistant to the counselor of the Department, sent an email to other State Department
officials with the subject line "RE: Google and YouTube." The email referenced a phone conversation with a
person named Sue who assured Toiv a block would remain on an unnamed video at least through Oct. 1, 2012.
"Sue just called back and the block will stay through Monday," Toiv said in the email. "They will not/not be
unblocking it before then."
Latest
Batch Of Hillary Clinton Emails Reveals More Lies. While the latest batch of Hillary
Clinton emails contains many embarrassments — like her troubles with a fax machine —
it also exposes still more deceptions on her part and by those around her.
Clinton might have hoped she put that whole silly email kerfuffle behind her when she deigned to
hold a press conference in March to answer questions about all the official email correspondence as
secretary of state that took place on her personal account.
Five
Lies About Hillary's Secret Emails. CLAIM [#1]: After the existence of the "home brew"
email server was revealed, Hillary turned over all work-related emails to the State Department from
her private server, deleting only personal emails — including missives about "yoga
routines," "family vacations," and "planning Chelsea's wedding." REALITY: Records prove
that among the 30,000-plus emails deleted by Hillary's team were notes regarding Benghazi and other
Libya-related policies. Congressional investigators have no idea what else may have been
unilaterally erased without independent supervision. What we know for certain is that some
number of official emails were permanently deleted, not handed over to State, as claimed.
Admission
of Hillary's classified emails opens door for feds to seize her servers. A former senior intelligence
official told The Washington Times the policy also requires the government to check other Internet paths her secret
information could have taken. The procedures are spelled out by the National Security Agency's special
panel on controlling leaked secrets, called the Committee on National Security Systems. It published a policy,
"Securing Data and Handling Spillage Events," that fits Mrs. Clinton's unauthorized private server kept at her home
while she was secretary of state, according to the retired officer's reading of the regulations.
Blumenthal's
Advice to Hillary 'Unsolicited'? E-mails Suggest Otherwise. Despite an express ban on
his employment by the Obama White House, newly released e-mails show how Hillary Clinton confidant
Sidney Blumenthal operated as a shadow State Department employee during the first year of her term
as secretary of state, sending her a steady stream of diplomatic memos and media advice even as her
staff fretted over his possible discovery.
Hillary
Emails Reveal Axelrod Knew About Private Account Despite Past Claims. Emails released
Tuesday [6/30/2015] by the State Department as part of the Hillary Clinton email dump reveal former
White House advisor David Axelrod knew the former secretary of state had a private account despite
recent claims. [...] According to the latest batch, two email chains show Axelrod did indeed
correspond with the then-secretary of state — once in June, 2009 and again in July, 2009.
Axerlrod
Said He Wasn't Aware of Hillary's Secret Email, Now Proof He Emailed Her. Top Obama adviser and
architect of his many campaigns, Chicago operative David Axelrod, has for months insisted that he had no idea
that Hillary had a secret email account when she was Secretary of State. Now, in the latest data dump,
we find that Axelrod actually emailed Hillary at that very secret email address he claimed he never knew about.
Emails
show top officials [were] aware of Clinton's private address. Senior Obama administration officials,
including the White House chief of staff, knew as early as 2009 that Hillary Rodham Clinton was using a private
email address for her government correspondence, according to some 3,000 pages of correspondence released by the
State Department late Tuesday night [6/30/2015].
A.B.
Stoddard: 'Hillary Clinton's Entire Strategy Was to Circumvent the FOIA'. On America's
Newsroom today [6/30/2015], The Hill's A.B. Stoddard absolutely savaged Hillary Clinton for
the corrupt manner in which she handled her emails while at State, and predicted that Hillary would
have a difficult time persuading skeptical voters that she would make a trustworthy president.
"She not only cherry-picked and left everything she doesn't want anyone to see on the server —
the entire strategy was to circumvent the FOIA," AB explained. "It was very shrewd and very keen and
they knew exactly what they were doing. They didn't even give the State Department the emails that
they cherry-picked electronically. They printed pages so that the State Department wouldn't have to
spend another five weeks trying to scan them to a system that could be shared and assessed and read.
This is the most intentional act of keeping government property and then destroying it... "
State
Dept. set to produce nearly 4,000 pages of Clinton emails Tuesday. State Department
officials are set to release new emails Tuesday from the 55,000 pages Hillary Clinton provided to
the agency in November of last year. The State Department was forced to begin publishing
portions of that batch, which contains roughly 30,000 individual communications, through a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News. Vice sued the agency after officials stonewalled
its request for all of the records submitted by Clinton and many of those created by three of her
top aides: Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Philippe Reines.
Blumenthal
gave diplomatic advice to Hillary Clinton as early as 2009, emails show. Controversial
aide Sidney Blumenthal was sending then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advice on sensitive
diplomatic matters much earlier than previously known, even as the White House was blocking him from
becoming a part of her staff, according to emails released late Tuesday [6/30/2015] by the State
Department. The emails, which make up the first in a number of document dumps of Clinton's
private email server, from which she controversially conducted official State Department business,
also show that Clinton paid special interest to the attempt to hire Blumenthal.
Hillary Clinton, Get This, Edited the Emails She
Turned Over to State. Another story the media won't discuss. I saw someone note
that altering official federal records — which Hillary's emails are — is a
felony. [...] The White House is putting out the word that they're "disgusted" by the email scandal,
but this is par for the course for this White House, which tacitly approves of actions but puts out
claims about how "angry" they are. There's a way a president can show his anger about remorseless
law-breaking: Appointing a Special Prosecutor with the power to investigate and bring criminal
charges, if warranted.
The latest
mystery over Hillary's missing e-mails. Now this was predictable: The State Department
on Thursday said Hillary Clinton failed to turn over 15 work-related e-mails from her private
server, despite claiming she'd handed over everything. Which raises the troubling question:
How many more did she also, uh, "miss"? Remember, the former secretary of state and her aides had
insisted they'd sent the department all her work-related e-mails from her personal server after conducting
a "careful" review. Now it turns out she didn't include 15 of those she'd exchanged with longtime
confidant Sidney Blumenthal concerning Libya.
Hillary
Clinton's missing e-mails may matter after all. Former prosecutor and chairman of the
Benghazi select committee Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has had enough of Hillary Clinton's antics. That
was plain from this exchange on CBS's "Face the Nation." Host John Dickerson asked about the State
Department's admission that she had not turned over all her work e-mails, which Sid Blumenthal provided
in his deposition.
Hillary
Clinton's missing emails likely to raise new questions. The State Department cannot
find in its records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton's private
server that were released this week by a House panel investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi,
Libya, officials said Thursday [6/25/2015]. The emails all predate the Sept. 11 assault
on the U.S. diplomatic facility and include scant words written by Clinton herself, the officials said.
They consist of more in a series of would-be intelligence reports passed to her by longtime political
confidant Sidney Blumenthal, the officials said.
State
received Libya emails Clinton did not disclose. The State Department has received 15 emails involving
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton it did not previously possess, a new report says. A State official
admitted Thursday evening [6/25/2015] that the agency could not previously find the messages from Clinton's tenure as secretary
there, according to The New York Times. It said State discovered it lacked the communications following the House
Select Committee on Benghazi's release of roughly 60 emails it had acquired Monday.
State
Dept admits Hillary did not turn over all emails; Gowdy calls news 'troubling'. [Scroll down] The documents
contained an admission that Libya-related emails between Clinton and longtime associate Sidney Blumenthal that Blumenthal turned
directly over to the Benghazi committee had not been given by Clinton to the State Department. The discovery of the emails
proved that Clinton, contrary to her public claim, had not turned over all her emails "that could possibly be work related."
[The]
State Department Says [it] Can't Locate 15 Hillary Clinton Emails. Hillary Clinton did not give the
U.S. State Department at least 15 emails from her personal server from her time as secretary of state, the department
said on Thursday [6/25/2015], undercutting her claim that the 30,000 emails she provided were a complete record.
State
Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn't Hand Over. The State Department said on Thursday [6/25/2015]
that 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she has turned over, raising new
questions about whether she deleted work-related emails from the private account she used exclusively while in office.
The disclosure appeared to open the door for Republicans on Capitol Hill to get more deeply involved in the issue.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is running for president, said he planned to send a series of
questions to the State Department about the missing emails and about why it allowed her to use the personal account.
Missing
Clinton emails likely to raise new questions. The State Department cannot find in its
records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server that were
released this week by a House panel investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, officials said.
Looks
like Hillary did not give State Dept. all of her work-related emails. Earlier this month, we learned that Sidney
Blumenthal turned over to Trey Gowdy's committee 61 emails in which he corresponded with Hillary Clinton that the State
Department hadn't produced in response to a subpoena by the committee for such documents. The question was: did
State have the documents but fail to produce them to the committee or did State not have the documents because Hillary, who
kept them on a private server, didn't give them to State? The answer, it appears, is "both."
Benghazi
panel says Hillary Clinton didn't turn over all Libya emails, despite her claims. Rep. Trey Gowdy, South
Carolina Republican and the Benghazi panel chairman, said the State Department informed his panel that it did not have
in its possession some emails related to Benghazi and Libya that Mrs. Clinton had exchanged with longtime confidant Sidney
Blumenthal, and which he turned over to the committee. If true, it suggests that Mrs. Clinton either did not perform
a full search, intentionally shielded some messages, or had some other hiccup when she claimed to have belatedly complied
with federal law and turned back to the department some 30,000 messages from her time as secretary.
Busted:
Hillary Caught Not Turning Over All Work Emails. The Select Committee on Benghazi is
accusing Hillary Clinton of not turning over all her work-related emails. The committee says
it will release the proof later today [6/22/2015].
Hillary
Clinton shoots [her]self in foot by talking cybersecurity. Former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton opened herself up to fresh attacks from Republicans yesterday over the home server
and private email she used for official business, after she admitted top-secret government
information was in danger of cyberattacks — saying the State Department was targeted "at
least every day." Clinton, who sat down with WMUR for a rare one-on-one interview that aired
yesterday, was responding to a question about the recently revealed suspected Chinese hack of the
Office of Personnel Management that compromised millions of federal employees.
Emails
sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Clinton. The revelations
about Clinton's emails have raised questions about the State Department's email practices.
Earlier on Thursday [3/19/2015], U.S. officials said the State Department does not automatically
archive the emails of its assistant secretaries of state, contradicting the department's prior
public statement. Gowdy said no decisions had been made in the House of Representatives about
when Clinton would be called to testify, either about her email use or about the Benghazi events.
Fox
News Alone Covers Hillary's High-Level Private-Server Libya Emails. 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
as seen in [a] March 10 Associated Press report, has claimed for several months that "No Classified Material (was) Sent via Her Personal
Emails" from a home-based server she said "would remain private." That claim, like so many other representations Mrs. Clinton has made,
fell apart earlier this week, when, as Fox News reported, it was learned that Mrs. Clinton "used her personal email account to handle high
level negotiations in 2011 for a no-fly zone to help topple Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi." Only Fox considers this a story.
Shock: Hillary Clinton Did Not Turn Over Subpoenaed
Benghazi Emails. We only know this because the Benghazi Committee has subpoenaed Hillary
consiglierte (and Clinton Foundation employee, natch) Sidney Bluementhal for his correspondence
with Hillary about Benghazi — and, get this, Blumenthal turned over more Hillary emails than
State did. But these emails had been previously subpoenaed — not from Sidney Blumenthal,
but from Hillary Clinton. Or, rather, from State, which had been assumed until recently to have
Hillary's emails in their possession.
Hillary
Scrubbed Benghazi Emails. Hillary Clinton scrubbed her Benghazi emails. That is the
logical conclusion drawn by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson who, while at CBS, fought to
break stories exposing the Obama administration's lies on "phony" scandals from Fast and Furious to
Benghazi and for her efforts had her computer hacked and monitored, likely by administration
operatives concerned by her revelations and curious about her sources. Attkisson said on
NewsmaxTV's "The Steve Malzberg Show" recently that she thought it was a common sense conclusion
that Hillary Clinton erased the contents of her personal email server, created and used in violation
of the National Records Act and State Department rules, because she would rather "take the heat"
from destroying information under subpoena and sought by congressional investigators than suffer
the political and possibly criminal consequences of the truth about her Benghazi activities.
Fmr
Obama Chief Of Staff: I Had No Idea Hillary Had A Private Server. President Obama's
former chief of staff Bill Daley admitted he had no clue Hillary Clinton had a private e-mail server
in her home while he served the president Sunday [6/14/2015] on "Meet The Press." "Obviously, it
was something that I did not know and others didn't, but she followed the rules of the State Department,
and we're beyond that," Daley told the radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Bill
Clinton contradicts Hillary on email claims. Bill Clinton appeared Wednesday to contradict his wife's
claims about their personal email use, saying he's only sent two emails in his life — despite Hillary
Clinton saying some of the private messages on her personal server were from her and her husband. The former
president addressed his very sparing email use at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Denver. He said the
"only time" he got on the Internet was to do "two emails" and order Christmas presents.
Classic
Trey Gowdy cross-examination: Does President Obama have a private email server? The
State Department is taking Hillary Clinton's word for it. That was the message Wednesday [6/3/2015] when a
State Department employee testified in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
telling lawmakers she relied on former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's assurances that all relevant
emails had been turned over, just as they do with all other employees.
Federal
officials voiced growing alarm over Clinton's compliance with records laws, documents show. Over a
five-year span, senior officials at the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA) voiced growing alarm
about Hillary Clinton's record-keeping practices as secretary of state, according to internal documents shared with
Fox News. During Clinton's final days in office, Paul Wester, the director of Modern Records Programs at
NARA — essentially the agency's chief records custodian — privately emailed five NARA
colleagues to confide his fear that Clinton would take her official records with her when she left office, in
violation of federal statutes.
House
Committee Knows Of Hillary Email Server Whistleblower. The House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform recently heard new information that could blow the lid off of the
Hillary Clinton private email server scandal and shed new light on a consulting job Huma Abedin held
while working as Clinton's aide at the State Department. The Daily Caller learned of a three-hour
May 1 meeting two State Department whistleblowers held with the general counsel and staffers for the
Oversight Committee, which is led by Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz.
Hillary's
top aide with terror ties saw all emails. A full review of Hillary Clinton's personal
emails released last Friday by the State Department finds Clinton's senior aide, Huma Abedin, was
exposed to highly sensitive U.S. government information. It was Abedin who forwarded to Clinton's
personal email address details about the initial establishment of the U.S. special mission in Benghazi,
updates about security threats to both the mission and Ambassador Chris Stevens, intelligence on the
growing terrorist threat in Libya and insider information on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in
Benghazi. Abedin was privy to emails that contained the exact movements of Stevens while he was
stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat.
WND previously reported on Abedin's personal and family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other to
Islamic supremacists.
Judicial
Watch Files Lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry to Force Action on Clinton Emails. Judicial
Watch announced today [5/28/2015] that it has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia to compel Secretary Kerry's compliance with the Federal Records Act
and challenge "the failure of Defendant Kerry to take any action to recover emails of former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton" and other U.S. Department of State employees unlawfully removed from the agency (Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. John F. Kerry (No. 1:15-cv-00785)). Kerry's predecessor at the State Department,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, conducted official government business using a secret, unsecured email
server and email accounts. Her top aides and advisors also used non-"state.gov" email accounts to conduct
official business.
Hillary's
Libya Emails. Hillary Clinton has sought to avoid public scrutiny of her emails since
before she was sworn in as secretary of state. When she did turn over some of her emails to the
State Department, it was Clinton and her lawyers who decided which ones they would make available and
which they would withhold. While it might be useful for Clinton defenders to pretend otherwise,
there was no expectation that Clinton would voluntarily share incriminating emails, especially now,
in the first weeks of her presidential campaign.
If
Hillary becomes president, who will make her obey the law? Last year, before Hillary
Clinton's secret email system became publicly known, Congress passed a law to keep presidents from
trying the same trick. If Clinton wins the White House, the law could well be put to the test.
The statute is the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014. It recognizes that
government officials sometimes (or in Clinton's case, all the time) want to use private email
accounts — in the words of the law, "non-official electronic messaging accounts" —
to conduct government business. Such communications are still federal records, Congress declared,
and must be preserved in accordance with existing laws requiring not just the president but all federal
officials to preserve their documents.
Judge
rejects State Dept. plan for Clinton emails, sets timetable for release. A federal
judge rejected the Obama administration's latest effort to delay release of some of former Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, issuing an order Wednesday [5/27/2015] demanding that the State
Department start rolling out the emails on a firm schedule every month. Judge Rudolph Contreras
gave the department until the end of January to complete the production of all 30,000 emails, which
means the final messages will be released about the same time Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking the
Democratic presidential nomination, prepares to face voters.
GOP
Zeroes In On Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Over Email Controversy. The Republican Party's
well-oiled research team led by Indian-American Raj Shah which shoots out sometimes deadly volleys
against potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is now honing in on one of the
former Secretary of State's closest confidants. Huma Abedin, who is married to former disgraced New
York Congressman Anthony Weiner, has been Clinton's right-hand for many years seen by her side on most
occasions. Now Abedin is being accused, along with Clinton, of using unofficial email accounts
for communicating with her boss of many years.
Another
Reason Why Hillary Clinton Does Not Deserve to be President. Anti-Hillary Clinton
political ads are writing themselves on a weekly basis. The latest source is this New York Times
report that Hillary's private email account contained sensitive information. The official name for
the information is "sensitive but unclassified" (SBU). [...] Considering the fate of Christopher Stevens
the following year, it's safe to say that this information was, indeed, sensitive. And it's safe
to say that it should not have been contained in an unsecure email system.
Sliver
of Clinton emails hint at lingering political trouble. Former Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email account about the deadly attack on
U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that was later classified "secret" at the request of the FBI,
underscoring lingering questions about how responsibly she handled sensitive information on a home server.
8
things we learned from the Clinton emails. The highly selective trove of Hillary
Clinton emails released by the State Department Friday [5/22/2015] revealed both the seemingly strong influence
Sidney Blumenthal wielded over the secretary of state and the preoccupation with media coverage exhibited by her
closest aides. [...] The emails show that Clinton's staffers often circulated and debated press clippings amongst
themselves and occasionally discussed how to respond to certain media criticisms. They also provide a
narrow glimpse of how the State Department's top ranks operated in the weeks before and after the greatest
crisis of Clinton's tenure.
Will
anyone step up to challenge Hillary? I cannot be the only pundit who believes former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's reckless disregard for American national security is disqualifying.
This was made manifest in one particular episode of almost unimaginable fecklessness: her selfish, and
at best marginally legal, choice to maintain a non-secure server in her home from which she sent non-secure
emails to and fro around the world. Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell cannot be the only
intelligence professional who believes all of that Internet traffic to and from Chez Clinton was compromised,
monitored by foe and friend alike.
Hillary
Deliberately Caused Delay Of Email Release By Submitting Only Paper Copies. Hillary
Clinton ended her 37-day boycott of the press today when she spent a few minutes claiming she wants
her emails released by the State Department ASAP. But here's the thing: the only reason that
there's been such a long delay is that Hillary deliberately delivered the 550,000 emails in hard
copies, instead of in electronic files. Why does that make a difference? Because that meant
every single one of the 550,000 pages has to be manually scanned. And, to make it even harder,
Hillary made sure that some of the documents were copies on both sides. That took 5 weeks of
12 people working full time to complete. And Hillary knew that would create just one more
obstacle and cause an enormous delay.
Krauthammer: The
release of Hillary's 296 emails is 'a farce'. "What is being released now, as Gowdy indicates, is stuff that
was scrubbed, cleansed and decided upon, chosen by her own people, acting in her own interest rather than as should happen,
as the law requires to happen," said Krauthammer. [...] Krauthammer said the media will not find damaging information on Mrs
Clinton and she will seem proactive in wanting the emails out in the open, "When people attack her later in the campaign she
is going to says 'it's all been released, the press has looked at it, spent weeks and months examining it. So I'm
clean and it's old news."
Hillary
Discussed Highly Sensitive Information, Now Classified "Secret," on Her Private Email —
as We Predicted. Today [5/22/2015], the State Department released Benghazi-related
email from the private server and one of the (at least) two private email accounts on which former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conducted official business — recklessly and in
violation of laws and guidelines relating to the exchanging and preservation of electronic
communications. Within hours, the Obama administration was forced to concede that at least one of
the emails contained classified information. Mrs. Clinton has previously and dubiously claimed that
she did not discuss classified information on her private email account(s). Despite today's
disclosure, she is standing by that claim as, apparently, is the State Department.
FBI
reminds us why Hillary's emails matter. Back in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
tried to address revelations that she had conducted all official business as secretary using a private email
address housed in a server within her own home. Among other things, she maintained: "I did not
email any classified material to anyone on my email." At the time, we recognized that this statement
seemed carefully parsed and should not be taken at face value. [...] Today [5/22/2015], the AP reports that we
were right. At least one email directly related to the Benghazi attack was indeed sensitive enough to
require redaction by the FBI.
Krauthammer:
Hillary E-mail Dump Is 'Farce,' We Saw What She Wanted Us to See. Hundreds of Hillary
Clinton's emails were released today [5/22/2015], something Clinton herself said she wants, but
Charles Krauthammer doesn't really buy this is some great victory for transparency and disclosure.
"There isn't a shred of evidence," he said, "because she shredded the evidence. This whole release
is a farce." He pointed out that it's not like every little email Clinton ever sent will be
released to the public, only the ones 'scrubbed and cleansed and decided upon, chosen by her own
people, acting in her own interest."
Newly
Released Emails Cast Doubt on Hillary Clinton's Benghazi Claims. Newly reported emails
indicate Hillary Clinton was personally made aware of security dangers in the months leading up to
the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya. That's according to the
House Benghazi Committee, which has obtained 300 long-sought emails from the State Department among tens of
thousands under subpoena.
The
State Department's In-Kind Contribution to the Clinton Campaign. The State Department
is taking a page directly from the IRS's playbook. First, you destroy incriminating emails, but
don't tell anyone. Former Top IRS official Lois Lerner and the IRS perfected this as thousands of
her emails mysteriously disappeared. Clinton played that part well, destroying emails on her own
private server instead of using the government server, while State Department staffers blocked attempts
by the public to obtain public information. Second, you wait years until the public discovers what
you've done. Third, you deny anything happened to the emails. Fourth, you cover up.
When that is no longer feasible, you delay, stonewall, obfuscate, and otherwise drag out the process of
turning over said emails.
Clinton
handled "now-classified" Benghazi info on private server. More than two months ago,
Hillary Clinton told the media at a UN presser that she never accessed classified material through
her private e-mail server, which produced considerable skepticism at the time. Secretaries of State
access all kinds of classified material — diplomatic cables, intelligence, and military
information — and since she didn't use the State Department e-mail system, it seemed
unlikely that she was telling the truth.
How
the State Department Is Tackling 55,000 Pages of Hillary Clinton Emails. With voracious campaign
reporters and now Hillary Clinton herself demanding to know when her emails will finally be made public, deep
within the State Department lies a small factory of workers tasked with the laborious task of sorting, reading,
redacting and reviewing paper copies of what now amounts to hundreds of thousands of pages of documents.
The unenviable task falls to the State Department's Office of Information Programs and Services and its lawyers,
better known as the FOIA office — which stands for Freedom of Information Act.
Hillary
Clinton's Benghazi emails released; Gowdy accuses State Dept. of holding back docs.
Under pressure from a federal judge and from the press, who'd already obtained many of the emails,
the State Department on Friday afternoon finally released the first sliver of former Secretary
Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails showing her communications concerning Benghazi. The 296 messages
released are a fraction of the 30,000 or so she kept on her private server but which she has now deemed
to be public business, and — at the prodding of Congress and the department to live up
to her obligations under the law — has now turned over to the administration.
Hillary
Clinton on her emails: I want them out, too! Hillary Clinton and the State Department
on Tuesday insisted they are not slow-walking the public release of her emails during her time as
secretary of state, while a federal judge ordered up a plan for a rolling release of the hotly
anticipated documents. "Nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than I do,"
Clinton said to reporters in a rare instance of fielding press questions on the campaign trail.
The Editor says...
Technically, that's true, but let us now parse: "Nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than I do,"
Clinton said. But what that means is nobody has more to lose if these emails ever become public.
I
Don't Believe Hillary Clinton. I don't believe Hillary Rodham Clinton when she
says — as she did at a brief news conference on Tuesday — that she has no
control over the release of her State Department email. "They're not mine. They belong to the State
Department." I don't believe her because a person's actions are more revealing than words: She
kept her government email on a secret server and, only under pressure from Congress, returned less than half
of them to the State Department. She deleted the rest. She considered them hers.
NYT:
Banned from State Dep't, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway — while
pursuing business there. The crony in question is Sid Blumenthal, former White House
advisor to Bill and longtime hatchet man for the pair. We already knew Blumenthal was running his
own off-the-books intelligence operation for the Secretary of State. We also knew that he'd put a
friend representing a pro-Putin pol in Georgia in touch with Hillary to lobby her on behalf of the
Georgian opposition. And the reason we knew those things isn't because Hillary Clinton voluntarily
turned over Blumenthal's communications to State as part of routine recordkeeping protocols. We know
it because a hacker infiltrated Blumenthal's e-mail account a few years ago and lifted his copy of his chats
with Hillary. If not for that, the Clinton/Blumenthal communiques might be a secret to this day, sent
into the ether after Hillary mass-deleted "personal" e-mails from her time in office that were stored on
her private server. Unless those deleted e-mails are retrieved, we may never know the extent of
their exchanges.
What
Sidney Blumenthal's Memos to Hillary Clinton Said, and How They Were Handled. In 2011
and 2012, Hillary Rodham Clinton received at least 25 memos about Libya from Sidney Blumenthal, a
friend and confidant who at the time was employed by the Clinton Foundation. The memos, written in
the style of intelligence cables, make up about a third of the almost 900 pages of emails related to
Libya that Mrs. Clinton said she kept on the personal email account she used exclusively as secretary of
state. Some of Mr. Blumenthal's memos appeared to be based on reports supplied by American
contractors he was advising as they sought to do business in Libya.
Federal
Court Issues Historic Ruling in Hillary Email Scandal. Last Friday, a federal court
judge did something we had never seen before — U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton
reopened a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The lawsuit had sought
documents about an advertisement intended to air in Pakistan entitled "A Message from the President
of the United States Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton." Judge Walton issued
the ruling on Friday, May 8, in response to a joint motion by Judicial Watch and the State Department.
Michael
Morell: Foreign governments have Hillary's email. Former Deputy CIA Director Michael
Morell said that he believes some foreign intelligence agencies possess the contents of Hillary
Clinton's private email server. "I think that foreign intelligence services, the good ones, have
everything on any unclassified network that the government uses," Morell said Friday [5/15/2015] in
an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Hillary
Caught in Another Email Lie: New Docs Reveal She Used Second Private Account While Sec. of
State. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been caught in another lie
regarding her private email accounts that she used during her tenure at the agency. Though her
lawyer David Kendall told the House Select Benghazi Committee that Clinton's "hrod17@clintonemail.com"
email address "was not an address that existed during Secretary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State,"
new emails obtained by the New York Times show that Clinton did indeed use that email address for
official business.
Hillary
Clinton email case reopened by federal judge. Judge Reggie B. Walton agreed Friday
[5/8/2015] to a joint request by the State Department and Judicial Watch, which sued in 2012 to get
a look at some of Mrs. Clinton's documents concerning a public relations push. Both sides agreed
that the revelation that Mrs. Clinton had kept her own email server separate from the government,
and exclusively used her own email account created on that server, meant that she had shielded her
messages from valid open-records requests.
Hillary
email scandal moves court to reopen lawsuit against State Department. A U.S. district
judge has reopened a lawsuit abandoned late last year against the State Department, concluding that
the Hillary Clinton email scandal provided the plaintiff in the case with "newly discovered evidence."
Government watchdog Judicial Watch (JW), the plaintiff, announced the reversal Monday [5/11/2015],
essentially crediting the revelation that Clinton had secreted her official State Department emails
on a private server with reviving the lawsuit.
State
Dept: Clinton's personal email use 'not acceptable'. Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's use of a personal email account run through a private server was "not acceptable" and
happened without officials' knowledge, a top State Department record-keeper said on Wednesday
[5/6/2015]. "I think the message is loud and clear that that is not acceptable," Joyce Barr,
the State Department's assistant secretary for the Bureau of Administration, testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Hillary
Clinton's aide Huma Abedin's emails now face disclosure lawsuit. The emails of Huma
Abedin, the top personal aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are now facing a
disclosure lawsuit after the State Department failed to turn them over in response to an
open-records request. Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that uses
open-records laws to pry information loose, had filed a request to get a look at Ms. Abedin's emails
during her four years at the State Department. News outlets have reported that Ms. Abedin also
used the private email server Mrs. Clinton set up to handle government business, but the status
of her messages is unclear.
New
Lawsuit Attacks Hillary's Use of iPhones and iPads While Conducting Official Business at State.
Revelations this week lead one to wonder not so much whether Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic nomination
for president, but whether she can stay out of jail. Last week, we learned about apparent Clinton, Inc.
tax fraud, bribery and money laundering to help Putin corner America's uranium market, and abuse of office to
reward funders of the Clinton Cash Machine — not to mention Judicial Watch's bombshell of untoward
Saudi influence and corruption in Hillary Clinton's State Department. This week, we received more news
about apparent money laundering out of India; lies by Clinton, Inc. about more Putin-connected contributions
out of Canada; and more cover-up from another Hillary operation that focused on health care.
State
Department allowing Clinton Foundation to approve emails for release. State Department
officials began allowing the Clinton Foundation to review emails the government planned to release
to Congress and Freedom of Information Act requesters in January 2014, prompting a process that has
delayed the publication of agency records for months, according to the group pursuing the records.
Many of the emails Clinton Foundation officials were permitted to review discussed the charity's work,
as well as the hundreds of ethics reviews that former President Clinton faced as a result of his
paid-speaking engagements around the world while his wife, Hillary Clinton, was secretary of state.
Judge
sets deadline for deadline to release Hillary Clinton emails. The State Department has
about three weeks to propose a date by which it will release tens of thousands of work-related
emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent or received on her personal account, a federal
judge said in an order issued Tuesday [4/28/2015]. Clinton's former agency has pledged to use
Freedom of Information Act procedures to process for release about 55,000 pages of emails the former
secretary turned over in December after a State Department official asked four former secretaries to
return copies of any official records they had. Clinton has since declared her candidacy for
the Democratic presidential nomination
Boeing
and GE Refuse to Turn Over Hillary Emails. The Washington Free Beacon's Lachlan Markay
reports that industrial giant Boeing is refusing to release emails with Hillary Clinton's State
Department that could implicate the candidate in (yet another) pay-for-play scandal.
Boehner
Says Hillary Clinton Broke Law in Handling of Her E-Mail. Speaker John Boehner made
clear Thursday for the first time that the House of Representatives might subpoena Hillary Clinton's
personal e-mail server if she doesn't voluntarily turn it over for examination by an independent
party. "I've not made any decisions yet but all options are on the table... If we need to do
that, we may have to," he said. "It's important for the American people to know the truth about what
happened in Benghazi and it's important to know what was going on at the State Department before, during,
and after the events that occurred in Libya."
John
Boehner may hold House vote to subpoena Hillary Clinton's email server. House Speaker
John A. Boehner said Thursday that the full House may have to vote to subpoena former Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email server, as the chairman of the Benghazi investigative committee
officially called on her to testify twice to his panel. The invitation by Rep. Trey Gowdy, South
Carolina Republican and chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, sets up a test for Mrs.
Clinton, the former first lady and newly announced Democratic presidential candidate, whose attorney
has said she wants to appear before the committee only once, in public.
GE
CEO: I Will Not Release Hillary Clinton State Department Emails. General Electric (GE)
CEO Jeffrey Immelt said Wednesday [4/22/2015] that he will not release the emails that GE exchanged
with Hillary Clinton's State Department during the period in which GE was donating to the Clinton Foundation.
Study:
How the Broadcast Networks Have Deleted Hillary's E-Mail Scandal. Hillary Clinton's
official presidential announcement was a golden opportunity for networks to demand the former
Secretary of State respond to unanswered questions about her e-mail scandal. Yet in the flurry of
coverage since her official rollout (April 12 - April 20) the e-mail scandal garnered a total of
just 7 minutes, 12 seconds on the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening and morning shows.
Even a new angle on the e-mail scandal — the New York Times reported April 14 that Clinton
never responded to a congressional inquiry [in December of 2012] that "directly asked" if she had used a
private e-mail account — failed to re-ignite the interest networks initially showed when the
scandal first broke in March.
The
most comprehensive depiction of Hillary lies yet? Rep. Gowdy requested two interviews, a private,
transcribed interview before the Select Committee on Benghazi as well as a public hearing. While Mrs. Clinton
has said she would testify in a public hearing before the committee, to date, neither she nor her counsel have
responded to Gowdy's request. On March 31, Gowdy subpoenaed Clinton's private server, but said this
week he alone lacks authority to do so. The server is not in the clear just yet as the full House may be
able to make that request legally binding.
Hillary's
email scandal will 'haunt her'. House Speaker John A. Boehner says former Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton "ignored the law" in setting up a private email system and server as the
nation's top diplomat and that questions on the matter are "going to continue to haunt her until she
comes clean." "What's she going to do for America? That's the real question," Mr. Boehner,
Ohio Republican, told Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo when asked about Mrs. Clinton's 2016
presidential candidacy. "It's not about personalities.
MSNBC
Guest: Hillary Didn't Ignore Email Requests, She Just 'Hadn't Got Around To It'. New
Republic senior editor Brian Beutler may have set the record for lamest defense of Hillary Clinton's
private email use during a guest appearance on MSNBC's "The Cycle." Beutler was quizzed on The New
York Times report Tuesday [4/14/2015] that Hillary Clinton was asked by Congress two years ago about
whether or not she used a private e-mail account. The official State Department response was
delivered two months after Clinton left office and "ignored the question and provided no response."
Hillary
Clinton Was Asked About Email 2 Years Ago. Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly asked
by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email
account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.
But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State Department answered in March 2013,
nearly two months after she left office, it ignored the question and provided no response.
Congress
first asked Hillary Clinton about personal email use in 2012, letter shows. Fox News
has obtained a copy of a letter dated Dec. 13, 2012 that was sent from then-House Oversight
Committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to Cabinet secretaries, including Clinton, inquiring
about their e-mail habits. The committee was conducting an investigation into the Obama
administration handled the use of personal e-mail by its officials. The letter contained eight
questions related to officials' use of personal e-mail accounts. The very first question asked by
Issa was "Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal email account to conduct official
business? If so, please identify the account used." Subsequent questions asked about whether
"alias e-mail" accounts and text messages were used to conduct official business.
Down
the Yellow Brick Road with Hillary. Hillary's pretensions of innocence and her
countless denials of wrongdoing began a long time ago. Most recently, in her response to
e-mail-gate, a wide-eyed Hillary again denied misconduct, insisting on her right to protect —
and then destroy — thousands of her so-called personal e-mails, which she said had to do with
things like her daughter's wedding, her mother's funeral, and (get this!) her yoga appointments.
Inasmuch as Hillary employs the well-compensated wife of Anthony Weiner as her personal scheduler, one
might think it easy enough for Huma Abedin to set up exercise sessions for her boss. [...] In fact,
it seems rather incredible that a highly placed government appointee would have so much free time in
which to send such a plethora of personal e-mails.
A
breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary. [Scroll down] In March, we learned that
during her four-year stint as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton conducted all business — political,
public and private — solely through her personal email account, on a server in her house. When
asked why she didn't use two emails, one for official business and one for personal use, Hillary said: "I
thought it would be easier to just carry one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."
Then an email surfaced that was sent from her iPad, undermining that excuse. In a press conference to
address the controversy, Clinton answered questions with all-too-familiar arrogance, contempt and incredulity
that her word should be questioned.
Three
Reasons Hillary Won't Win the Democratic Ticket. [Scroll down] Then there's the issue of her private email server,
which she apparently used to "conduct official business as US Secretary of State." Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) had "issued
a subpoena for the private server" to acquire emails pertaining to the Benghazi scandal, but Americans then discovered that the server
was "wiped" of about 30,000 to 60,000 emails. We are to take at her word, in a case which is specifically meant to investigate the
merits of her dubious integrity, that she only had emails that were "personal in nature" deleted? Yes, that's a rat you smell.
Why
is Trey Gowdy allowing Hillary to testify behind closed doors? [Scroll down]
But I think most probably, the closed-door interview will explore detailed and potentially tedious
questions and get Mrs. Clinton on the record, under oath, for use when public testimony is later
heard. Distractions in her defense offered by Elijah Cummings and other Democrats on the panel will
have no effect on the public in these circumstances. But what she admits to (or denies) can then be
read back to her in the public hearing, cutting to the chase, as it were. Especially if evidence is
produced that contradicts her previous testimony under oath.
Top
Spy: Hillary's Emails 'Likely' Hacked by China, Russia, Iran. A top intelligence
official under President Obama, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, says that the chances Hillary Clinton's
private emails were hacked is "very high." Flynn, who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency
but is now retired, called it hackings "likely."
Hillary
Clinton's Private Server [Was] A Foreign Spy Magnet. As secretary of state, Clinton routed
all her government-related email through the server, based in her house in Chappaqua, New York. She
reportedly hired a Cablevision subsidiary to run the server, with antivirus protection from Intel's McAfee.
And she registered her domain name, clintonmail.com, through Network Solutions. Intelligence professionals
fear that the use of the privately installed server, free of certified government defenses against foreign
interception, has been a boon to foreign cyberspies.
Open
Government Experts: Hillary's Use of Personal Email 'Brazen Decision' to Flout Law.
When Hillary Clinton began using a personal e-mail account to conduct official business as secretary
of State, she made a "brazen decision" to flout the law and deny Americans access to records they
deserve, according to a panel of open government experts and political watchdogs. What's more, they
say, dozens of officials in and out of the Obama administration must have known about her use of the
private e-mail.
State Department found 4 emails
about drones sent by Clinton. The State Department says it can find only four emails
sent between former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff concerning drone strikes and
certain U.S. surveillance programs, and those notes have little to do with either subject.
Feds
should have told national archivist of Clinton's private email abuse. State Department
officials who briefed Secretary Hillary Clinton on administrative policies and procedures soon after
she took office were obligated to inform her of federal laws and regulations requiring her to use an
official email account for government business and to inform the national archivist if they believed
she was not doing so thereafter.
Former
U.S. Attorney: 'Hillary Clinton Is Going to Have to Testify in a Federal Court'.
Hillary Clinton knowingly acted to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act by creating a private
email server, according to legal experts. Speaking at a panel hosted by government watchdog group
Judicial Watch, experts in the field of government accountability agreed that Clinton's decision to
create her own email server was a deliberate attempt to avoid transparency laws. Daniel Metcalfe,
who was the founding director of the Justice Department's office of information and privacy, said that the
regime created by Clinton at the State Department was a "prescription for blatant circumvention of FOIA."
Benghazi panel summons Clinton.
A House panel Tuesday [3/31/2015] formally requested Hillary Clinton to testify about the private server and
email account she used while serving as secretary of state. Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select
Committee on Benghazi, sent a request to Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, requesting that
Clinton appear before the committee no later than May 1 for a transcribed interview about the server and email.
Hillary's
accidental drone email about decorating reveals BIG new problems. Being publicly
proven a liar and a fool at the same time can't be easy, but that's what happened to Hillary Clinton
on Tuesday [3/31/2015]. The Associated Press published a story proving the former secretary of
wasn't telling the truth when she claimed she used a private email account and private server to
conduct public business as a matter of "convenience" to avoid using two separate devices.
Hil
on the grill: Gowdy demands Clinton face questions on emails by May 1. The Benghazi
investigative committee on Tuesday [3/31/2015] formally requested that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton give a transcribed interview detailing her decision-making in determining which emails she
turned over to the government and why she wiped her email server clean. Chairman Trey Gowdy,
South Carolina Republican, made the request as the State Department began to divulge some of Mrs.
Clinton's emails that she hid for years. One of the early messages contradicts her claim that
she wanted to use a single electronic device for email.
Hillary
Clinton Makes It Hard to Follow the Money. One way to evaluate presidential candidates
is to follow the money. To whom is a politician beholden? To what extent are her personal financial
interests at odds with the public interest? Which moneyed groups is he unlikely to flout?
Republicans and Democrats have their respective (if sometimes overlapping) fundraising bases. Very
rich individuals sometimes support a given candidate. And then there's Hillary Clinton, whose
relationship to money is even more complicated.
AP:
Hillary used more than one device for e-mail while SecState. For a decade or more,
anyone who used e-mail for work usually had more than one mobile device with which to retrieve it,
especially for those whose jobs required them to have constant access to their communications. Three
weeks ago, though, Hillary Clinton claimed not to have done so, preferring "convenience" rather than
carrying two devices to handle two different accounts as she would have had to do had she used an
official State Department e-mail account. [...] It's been obvious that Hillary has been lying all
along. The AP's report this morning only confirms it. Now we need to find out what Hillary
wanted to hide by using a private e-mail system.
Rep.
Duckworth, Top Dem Recruit, Demands Hillary Testify. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) says
Hillary Clinton should testify before the special select committee examining the tragedy in
Benghazi. Duckworth added she would hold former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
"accountable" for erasing emails from her personal server. Duckworth's strong stand may be a
matter of political expediency. She's running for U.S. Senate, for a seat Democrats would probably
need to take if they hope to reclaim the majority in the elections in 2016. She is challenging
first-term Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), a former military intelligence officer. Duckworth herself
is a veteran of the Iraq War.
Swing-state
poll shows 'red flag' for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton appears to have been
damaged by revelations about her email use and is not seen as honest or trustworthy by about
half of voters in three key states, according to a new poll.
The
Latest Bombshell from Mrs. Clinton's Lawyer. In the ongoing saga of Hillary Clinton's
exclusive use of a private server at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, the latest bomb was thrown by her
lawyer, David Kendall (of Bill Clinton impeachment fame). Late last week, Mr. Kendall wrote a
lengthy letter to the Benghazi Select Committee to respond to Chairman Trey Gowdy's demand that she
turn over her server for inspection and analysis by a "neutral detached and independent third-party."
Mr. Kendall flatly refused the demand, suggesting that the committee lacked the authority to request it.
But for good measure, Kendall explained that review of the server would be fruitless.
Obstruction of Justice - A Must For Hillary.
It does not matter when Hillary decided to do this. All that matters is that she knew at the time that the
records in question might be requested during an investigation and destroyed them so as to prevent
their production. The law under 18 USC 1519 is extremely broad and does not require that
the person destroying (or ordering the destruction) of records know of an investigation at the time or even
that said investigation exist. It is only requires that the item destroyed might have reasonably
become subject of a future investigation before any department or office of the United States. 18 USC 1519
was added by Sarbanes-Oxley which, incidentally, Hillary Clinton voted for as a Senator and thus knows [very]
well applies to both this situation generally and to her specifically.
Hillary
Clinton withheld information from Congress. Now what does Congress do? On September 20,
2012, just nine days after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, the House
Government Oversight Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requesting that she turn over
"all information ... related to the attack on the consulate." About two weeks later, on October 2, 2012,
Clinton responded, saying she would cooperate fully with the investigation into what went wrong in Benghazi.
Hillary Agonistes.
[Scroll down] Consider her response to the e-mail scandal. Compare it to that of her previous
efforts to emulate the Borgias. There has been no outrage on her part. No Medusa on the
rampage. No counterattacks, no legal maneuvering, no horde of media sock puppets leaping into
the breach. No. She and her entourage have been petulant and ineffectual — a
truth underlined by her dog-ate-my-homework excuse to Gowdy's committee late last week.
Explanations have been offhand and feeble, allies scattered and virtually shame-faced.
Experts
say portions of Hillary's emails are recoverable. Computer forensic experts
interviewed by Politico told the publication that portions of Hillary Clinton's 30,000 emails
deleted by her aides are almost certainly recoverable, although getting at them would be time
consuming and expensive. [...] If Clinton deleted the emails to hide something, it's safe to say she
got the best IT expert available to do a good and thorough job of it. Even as arrogant as she is,
it's hard to see why she would chance anything that made her culpable remaining on the server.
The new Nixon. At least Richard
Nixon never burned the White House tapes. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, wiped clean the
private e-mail server at the heart of her current scandal. So says Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who heads
the House Select Committee on Benghazi. And she did it after Congress and the State Department issued
subpoenas for her e-mails. Seems she learned from her time as a lawyer for the Watergate committee:
The only safe way to keep potential evidence from investigators is to destroy it.
Clinton
Also Used iPad for Email; Mixed Personal, Work Chats. Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed
her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she
exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single
device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Where
have all Her emails Gone? First, she used a private server for her e-mails. She
irresponsibly exposed her own schedule, even the president's and the nation's security. Her
obsession with secrecy overrode all other considerations! Is this the kind of personality trait
we want in the Oval Office? Second, she decided what is personal and what is private —
i.e., the ultimate in Clintonian arrogance! I guess that we are supposed to believe that only
personal stuff or "the grandma files" were deleted and all of the "State stuff" was turned over.
What happened to Clinton Foundation e-mails that were personal and public?
Hillary
Clinton's unpardonable scandal trail. It was bad enough that while secretary of
state — under President Obama's watch — Clinton violated the rules, and
possibly the Federal Records Act, by operating her own private email server system in her home
rather than using the government email system. Now we learn that not only has Clinton deleted more
than 30,000 emails, but her non-governmental server has since been wiped clean. This is despite the
ongoing congressional investigation into the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, subpoenas and
multiple Freedom of Information Act requests from a variety of parties.
Hillary's
emails: Deleted but not gone. As House Republican leaders weigh whether to try to
force former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to hand over her personal email server, experts say
the messages she deleted from it — or at least portions of them — can almost
certainly be recovered. Half a dozen computer forensics experts interviewed by POLITICO said
remnants of Clinton's emails likely still exist on the server, although retrieving them could be
time intensive and expensive.
Senate
GOP asking new questions about emails for Clinton and Abedin, who has special employment
status. Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top
assistant to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency
under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting
firm. The new requests are being made by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, following revelations that both women used a private Internet server and email
accounts for State Department correspondence.
Hillary
Clinton wiped email server clean, refuses to turn it over. Former Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton has refused to turn her email server over to an independent third party and
claims she has wiped the server clean, dealing a setback to the special investigative committee
looking into the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, the probe said late Friday [3/27/2015].
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said the whole House will have to decide what the next steps are in
the push to pry information from Mrs. Clinton, but said she will likely have to appear and testify
on her decision-making about her emails, setting up another dramatic showdown between the former
first lady and her congressional critics.
Hillary
deleted e-mails after request by State Department. Hillary Clinton permanently deleted
all e-mails from her personal server — and it appears she did so after Oct. 28, when the
State Department asked her to turn them over, the chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012
terror attacks in Benghazi said Friday [3/27/2015]. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said the former
secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to
relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested.
Head
of House Benghazi probe says Hillary Clinton wiped email server 'clean'. Hillary
Clinton wiped her email server "clean," permanently deleting all emails from it, the leader of the
House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi said Friday [3/27/2015]. Rep.
Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document
in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review,
as Gowdy has requested.
Our
government counts on public indifference to its spying and lying. When Hillary Clinton
learned that a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives had subpoenaed her emails as secretary
of state and she promptly destroyed half of them — about 33,000 — how did she
know she could get away with it?
Gowdy:
Clinton Wiped Email Server Clean, Deleted All Emails. Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her
email server "clean," permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House
committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Friday [3/27/2015].
Hillary
Clinton Defies Subpoena, 'Wiped Her Server Clean'. Former secretary of state Hillary
Clinton failed to provide any new documents to the congressional panel investigating the Benghazi
terrorist attacks, instead notifying the committee that she has "wipe[d] her server clean," the lead
investigator announced.
Trey
Gowdy: Hillary's Server Was Recently 'Wiped Clean'. Hillary Clinton's email server has
been "wiped clean," and she has not turned over any new documents in response to a subpoena from the
House Select Committee on Benghazi, committee chairman Trey Gowdy said Friday [3/27/2015]. "After
seeking and receiving a two week extension from the Committee, Secretary Clinton failed to provide a
single new document to the subpoena issued by the Committee and refused to provide her private
server to the Inspector General for the State Department or any other independent arbiter for
analysis," Gowdy said in the statement.
The Hillary
Spoliation. The latest news about Hillary Clinton's email destruction may take her
emails saga to another level. As John and Scott have discussed, Clinton apparently had her server
wiped clean of emails after a congressional committee had been established to investigate matters as to
which she knew her emails were relevant Even more importantly, Trey Gowdy says that Clinton made this
decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked her to
return her public record. The destruction of documents after they have been requested by a body
authorized to do so is a quite a serious matter.
Reference material, in case you missed it earlier: Spoliation of evidence. The spoliation of evidence is the
intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding. [...] The spoliation inference is a negative evidentiary inference
that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable
civil or criminal proceeding: the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the
spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.
Black's Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1401.
Grassley
pushes for new investigations of Clinton email, Abedin's special status. Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Charles Grassley is pressing the Department of State Inspector General to open a new investigation of the
use of a private email account and server by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of her inner
circle of advisers, particularly that of Huma Abedin. Grassley is concerned that the private email allowed
Clinton, Abedin and other high-ranking State Department officials to conduct official business without archiving
them for government record-keeping purposes as required by federal laws and regulations.
Bloomberg:
Don't forget that State had no independent IG under Hillary. How did the State
Department get away with so many failures during Hillary Clinton's leadership? They ran a consulate
in Benghazi with substandard security even for normal locations, let alone in the collapsed-state
region of eastern Libya in 2011-12. Hillary herself and her closest aides didn't use State
Department e-mail systems despite both policy and legal requirements to do so.
One
More Question on Hillary Clinton E-Mails: Where Was the Watchdog? One of the many
unanswered questions of the Hillary Clinton e-mail story has been: Whose job was it to raise and
address concerns about her exclusive use of a private account? According to open government
advocates, it would have been the agency's permanent, independent Inspector General —
someone nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate — if such a person had existed.
DOJ
Lawyers Argue Government Has No Duty to Search Hillary Emails. Justice Department
lawyers argued Thursday [3/19/2015] the federal government has no responsibility produce Hillary Clinton's
private emails in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Politico reported: "FOIA
creates no obligation for an agency to search for and produce records that it does not possess and
control," Justice lawyer Matthew Collette and Catherine Dorsey wrote in the government's first
written court submission on the Hillary Clinton email issue. The filing (posted here) came in
response to a motion by conservative gadfly Larry Klayman asking for contempt proceedings against
Clinton and one of her former top aides.
It
Could Take 30 Years for Hillary Clinton's Emails to Reach the National Archives. In
recent weeks, the Federal Records Act has received widespread attention following news that Clinton
used a private email account to conduct official government business as secretary of State. The
legislation, established in 1950 to provide guidance to federal agencies on record management, was
amended last year by President Obama to include electronic records. But the National Archives can't
guarantee that federal agencies are keeping records properly, and acquiring them takes considerable time.
Van
Susteren Slams NY Times Story on Clinton Emails. Ever-blogging Fox News anchor Greta
van Susteren called out the New York Times Monday morning [3/23/2015] for its exclusive use
of anonymous sources in an article about Hillary Clinton's emails. The article was by Michael
Schmidt, who broke the story of Clinton's use of a personal email account several weeks ago. This
morning the Times published a follow-up on the 300 emails Clinton had submitted to the House
Select Committee on Benghazi. This collection first alerted the committee to existence of the
personal email account. The committee now plans to subpoena more.
White
House scrambles to limit damage from Hillary Clinton email scandal. Hillary Rodham
Clinton's email practices are now becoming a legal headache for the Obama administration, which for
the first time has admitted to a court that the former secretary of state withheld her emails.
Administration attorneys are now scrambling to contain the damage by promising to redo what eventually
could be hundreds of open records searches that were tainted by Mrs. Clinton's email practices and
those of her top aides, who, according to a New York Times report Monday [3/23/2015], also occasionally
used private emails to communicate.
Benghazi
committee officially requests Clinton surrender her email server. Committee Chairman
Trey Gowdy sent a letter to the former secretary of state's personal lawyer making the request,
which he said only comes after "exhaustive efforts" to get a look at her communications during the
time of the 2012 terrorist attack on the diplomatic post in Libya's second-largest city. "Though
Secretary Clinton alone is responsible for causing this issue, she alone does not get to determine
its outcome," the South Carolina Republican said.
Benghazi
panel head Gowdy asks Clinton to 'relinquish' personal server. The chairman of the
congressional committee probing the Benghazi terror attacks has formally asked that Hillary Clinton
turn over her personal server — warning that the House could take steps to pressure her
if she refuses. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sent a letter, released Friday [3/20/2015], to
Clinton's attorney requesting that the former secretary of state "relinquish" the server to a
"neutral, detached and independent third-party" for review.
Virtually
impossible for top White House, State Department officials to miss Clinton's private email address:
security expert. A senior information security professional with intimate knowledge of
federal systems has raised new security concerns about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton's use of a private email address and server to carry on official business, telling Fox News
it would have been virtually impossible for White House officials to be unaware of the
practice. For one thing, the expert said, Clinton received many sensitive White House emails
regarding top-level "Principals" meetings — sessions involving the most senior heads of
government departments and agencies — she attended during her four-year tenure.
Where
in the world is Hillary Clinton's server? It was less than two weeks ago that former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured the nation that her "homebrew" email server was safely
secure in her home in Chappaqua, New York. She insisted that the hardware was fortified behind a
locked door and had a Secret Service detail mentoring it night and day, as though the greatest security
threat that system faced was via a physical attack by a team of cartoonish cat burglars. Nevertheless,
Clinton insisted that the safeguards around the email system she constructed out of "convenience" were
"effective and secure."
The
Criminal Arrogance of Hillary Clinton. Hillary Rodham Clinton decided to conduct, for
four years, the office of Secretary of State using her own private email server. Because these
emails were not transacted and recorded through the official State Department servers, Mrs. Clinton
"willfully concealed and removed" these critical documents from the records and archives of the
United States Government. You can further argue that by electing to not have these records placed
onto government servers — which are secure, routinely backed up, and most importantly
subject to Freedom Of Information Act requests, that she has, by any reasonable interpretation,
"mutilated, obliterated and destroyed" these essential records, which belong not to Hillary Rodham
Clinton but rather to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and her employers, the
people of that nation. The penalty for this is a fine or up to three years imprisonment,
or both.
Hillary
committed obstruction of justice. Hillary Clinton, and her attorneys who have helped
delete her e-mails, have committed the serious federal crime of obstruction of justice. In an
op-ed today at the Wall Street Journal, legal professor Ronald D. Rotunda of Chapman
University's Fowler School of Law and the co-author, with John Nowak, of Treatise on Constitutional
Law, mentions any action to destroy information that is subject to subpoena, or may even become
subject to investigation in the future.
Congress
Subpoenas Emails of Nearly a Dozen Clinton State Dept. Employees. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has
subpoenaed the emails of "close to a dozen" people who worked for Hillary Clinton at the State Department,
including "aides to aides," according to a Reuters report. Gowdy, who chairs he House Benghazi Select
Committee, told the outlet on Thursday that, "We sent a subpoena to the State Department for emails from a
number of individuals within the State Department, other than Secretary Clinton."
Defense
Intelligence Analyst: 'No Doubt' Hillary's Emails Hacked by Foreign Governments. Let's
examine a few significant updates on the Hillary email scandal, starting with perhaps the most
important — but least covered — aspect of the imbroglio: Unconscionable
national security risks. In order to shield her communications from oversight and public information
requests, Hillary Clinton chose to set up a private email server in her home, rather than use a
secure official account. Regardless of the ethical propriety and legality of that decision (stay
tuned on those points), intelligence experts believe her actions led to extraordinary breaches at
the hands of foreign governments and outside entities.
Virtually
impossible for top White House, State Department officials to miss Clinton's private email address:
security expert. A senior information security professional with intimate knowledge of
federal systems has raised new security concerns about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton's use of a private email address and server to carry on official business, telling Fox News
it would have been virtually impossible for White House officials to be unaware of the practice.
For one thing, the expert said, Clinton received many sensitive White House emails regarding top-level
"Principals" meetings — sessions involving the most senior heads of government departments
and agencies — she attended during her four-year tenure.
Why doesn't Obama
just pardon Hillary? President Obama doesn't need his phone for this job —
just a pen. With but a stroke of it, he could pardon Hillary Clinton for any crimes she may have
committed in Emailgate and spare the rest of us the long drama. At first blush that might seem
ridiculous. Though the press is rattling on about how the former secretary of state has broken all
sorts of federal laws in connection with her email, Clinton hasn't been formally accused of anything.
That doesn't mean that she couldn't get a presidential pardon. Richard Nixon hadn't been indicted
for any crime when President Gerald Ford gave him a pardon. Nor had most of the Vietnam-era draft
dodgers whom President Jimmy Carter pardoned (on his first day in office).
The Editor says...
The difference is that Mr. Nixon had already served as President and none of the draft dodgers could have been expected to run for the office.
To pardon Hillary while she is actively campaigning for the presidency is to acknowledge, abet and facilitate her apparent crimes. A person who
is not guilty does not need a pardon.
Was
Hillary Clinton running her own rogue intel operation? We all know that the only
reason you would deliberately and premeditatedly set up a private email address and server is to
have total control over your communications — to keep people away from those
communications and to retain the ability to edit and delete your content. In Hillary Clinton's
case, given her long history of concealment and duplicity, total control was the system's purpose,
not to keep track of Chelsea's bridal gift registry. A story originally reported in 2013 (and
little-noticed at the time) may offer a deeper dimension to the reasons she wanted this
control — and it leaves us with many new, unanswered questions.
With
Hillary, the Buck Stops Anywhere but Here. Addressing the legal questions surrounding
Hillary Clinton's email evasions, our friend Shannen Coffin noted last night: ["]The Federal
Records Act says that the obligation of the department is actually the obligation of the secretary.
The Federal Records Act says that the secretary is responsible for preserving all of the records of
the agency. It falls on the Secretary of State to be the responsible party.["] That is important as
a legal point, but, the law aside: Isn't this exactly what we would expect regardless? The Federal
Records Act simply codifies in one particular area what we already regularly take for granted generally:
The head of a government body is responsible for that body.
Liz Warren: The
next Obama. [Scroll down] Obama and the Clintons have a hate-hate relationship —
which is why Hillary's e-mail scandal has hit the headlines at this time. The media are still Obama's
obedient servants. They must have known about Hillary's personal e-mail server, since thousands of people
in D.C. have been getting those emails, complete with her private "sent-from" address on top. Hillary's
personal aide Huma Abedin, the most visible Muslim Brotherhood loyalist in this administration, also used the
private Hillary server. It would be interesting to subpoena those electronic records. Eric Holder
had three private e-mail addresses; Lois Lerner had hers; and the White House refused to say whether the Obamas
have theirs. You can guess the answer.
State
Dept: We Have No Record of Hillary Clinton's 'Separation Form'. After he repeatedly
pressed State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on the whereabouts of former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's so-called "separation form," Associated Press reporter Matt Lee finally got his
answer: the State Department has no record of Clinton singing the form. As Mediaite reported
yesterday, the OF-109 form could give clues as to whether Clinton violated any laws while she
exclusively used a personal email address. Employees leaving the State Department are required to
sign the form, which says the employee turned over all official records before leaving. If Clinton
signed the OF-109 form, some are saying she might have committed a felony given that she admitted
to deleting 31,000 emails she deemed "personal."
Hillary's
Email Defense Is Laughable. First, while it is accurate for Secretary Clinton to say
that when she was in office there was not a flat, categorical prohibition on federal government
officials ever using their personal email accounts for the conduct of official business, that's a
far different thing from saying (as she apparently would like to) that a government official could
use his or her personal email account exclusively, for all official email communications, as she
actually did. In fact, the Federal Records Act dictates otherwise. That law, which applies
to all federal agency employees who are not within the White House itself, requires the comprehensive
documentation of the conduct of official business, and it has long done so by regulating the creation,
maintenance, preservation and, ultimately, the disposition of agency records. When it comes to
"modern-day" email communications, as compared to the paper memoranda of not so long ago, these
communications now are themselves the very means of conducting official business, by definition.
Hillary's
Secret Email Was a Cyberspy's Dream Weapon. The private email address for Hillary
Clinton, which became the talk of Washington this week and created her first major speed bump on her
road to the White House, has actually been freely available on the Internet for a year, thanks to a
colorful Romanian hacker known as Guccifer. On March 14, 2013, Guccifer — his
real name is Marcel-Lehel Lazar — broke into the AOL account of Sidney Blumenthal, a
journalist, former White House aide to Bill Clinton, and personal confidante of Hillary Clinton.
Lazar crowed about his exploits to journalists, disclosing a set of memos Blumenthal had written to
Clinton in 2012, as well as the personal email address and domain she's now known to have used
exclusively for her personal and official correspondence. Few journalists noticed that at
the time, and it caused no ruckus in Washington.
Clinton
campaign shifts story on destroyed emails. "Hillary Clinton's camp late Sunday
[3/15/2015] issued a significant clarification about the steps they say were taken to review
thousands of personal emails before they were deleted, claiming her team individually read 'every
email' before discarding those deemed private. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill made the clarification
in a written statement to Fox News. This comes after the former secretary of state's office revealed
last week that while more than 30,000 'work-related' emails were turned over to the State
Department, nearly 32,000 were deemed 'private' and deleted.
Krauthammer:
Hillary 'acted to destroy the files'. Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer told
'Special Report with Bret Baier' Tuesday [3/17/2015] that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
willfully "acted to destroy" email files created during her tenure that were stored on her private
server in New York State. "This is really an elaborate scheme, very obvious, not done for
convenience, but done to conceal," Krauthammer said Tuesday after State Department spokeswoman Jen
Psaki revealed that they "do not have any record of her signing" a "separation" form, or OF-109,
declaring that Clinton surrendered all official records when she left office.
Whistleblower:
State Department Employees Who Don't Sign Separation Agreement Face Dire Consequences.
By signing OF-109, agency employees affirm that they have turned over all records — classified
or unclassified; emails or physical documents — pertaining to official government business.
Whether or not Clinton — who used a private email account hosted on a private server to conduct
official business — signed the document when she left office in Feb. 2013 was finally answered
on Tuesday [3/17/2015] by State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Psaki said that it does not appear
that Clinton signed the document when she left the agency.
Megyn
Kelly Battles Juan Williams over Hillary: She 'Willfully Concealed Records'! Megyn
Kelly took her outrage at the State Department and Hillary Clinton to Fox's The Five today
[3/17/2015] to go off on the absolute lack of transparency from anyone in the government on this
issue, saying, "No one cares about the American public's right to know." Kelly was one of the
first people to publicly question whether Clinton signed a separation statement saying the signee has
already handed over all relevant documents to the government. Today State Department spokeswoman Jen
Psaki said they have no record of Clinton signing such a statement, and that really set Kelly off.
State:
No record of Clinton signing separation statement. The State Department said Tuesday
[3/17/2015] it had no record showing that Hillary Rodham Clinton signed any official statement
attesting that she had turned over all unclassified documents related to official business when she
left her post as secretary of state in 2013.
Treasury
Secretary Lew: No Recollection of Clinton Email System. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob
Lew was pulled into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email controversy Tuesday as House
Republicans grilled him on what he knew as her top operations officer. Mr. Lew, who was Mrs.
Clinton's deputy secretary of state for management and resources between 2009-2010, said he had no
recollection of conversations about Mrs. Clinton's private email system.
White
House counsel reportedly kept in dark on Clinton's personal email use. The White House
counsel's office reportedly was kept in the dark about Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of personal
email while secretary of state, in the latest detail raising questions over how and why she stayed
off the government system despite administration guidance to the contrary. Clinton used
non-official personal email, and also used a server traced to her New York home. An unnamed
source told The Associated Press the White House counsel's office only found out about her heavy
personal email use as part of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack.
AP
reporter to Psaki: Why is it so hard to find out whether Hillary signed the separation form when she
left State? Via the Right Scoop, if you're following the Hillary e-mail saga you
already know which form he means. It's OF-109, which, per former DOJ lawyer Shannen Coffin, requires
the employee to declare under penalties of perjury that she's turned over all relevant records to
the Department before leaving her position. Work-related e-mails, which Hillary didn't turn over
until two years after she stepped down as secretary, are relevant records. Which means, if she
signed the form, she's presumably guilty of perjury. If she didn't sign the form, she's guilty (or
guiltier) of following irregular procedures to avoid the sort of accountability that's routinely
required of lesser mortals. You would think someone in State's HR department could find the form
and answer this question in 15 minutes but we've waited nearly a week for an answer.
Spam
Filtering Service had access to Clinton Classified Emails. [Scroll down] While
the Russians are trying to hack her state department account, which doesn't exists, no one would
ever think she's stupid enough to have her email on a private server in her home. Security through
obscurity. And that is assuming that she's telling the truth about that. Although we don't know
what IP address Clinton's real email is on. It's interesting to note IP addresses in the DNS for the
clintonemail.com domain. Most host names like www.clintonemail.com all map to some holding page of
no importance. However that host mail.clintonemail.com maps to a different IP address 64.94.172.146,
which is in a data center in the New York area, Internap.com. Interesting that her "home server"
resolves to a data center. Seems worth investigating to me.
Citizens
United Sues State Department over Clinton-Related Records. Citizens United has filed a
new lawsuit against the U.S. State Department regarding "long-lingering freedom of information
requests," in effect asking the judge to compel them "to respond to four separate requests seeking
documents that were filed in May and July of last year. Those included a request for
correspondence between Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
and officials at the Teneo Consulting firm.
Of
Course Obama Wants to Take Hillary Down. We can believe Ed Klein's sources claiming Valerie Jarrett
is the White House point woman for the destruction of Hillary Clinton. Evidence: It was the New York
Times which broke the story. The Democratic press does not eat its own, ever. Yet here was the Gray
Lady, setting the headlines for Drudge. People asked how Hillary could have been so stupid. The answer
is that in the normal course of mainstream reporting, there is no Democrat crime too large for the press to
cover up. She knew she was perfectly safe. [...] To make it even clearer that something was going on
behind the scenes: the fact that Secretary of State Clinton was using private email had come out in the news
two years ago. Raking up an old story detrimental to their team is not normally what the New York Times
does. The Times followed the emerging scandal with article after article. They didn't just want to
embarrass Hillary, they were out to destroy her.
Hillary
Is Being Investigated for a Possible Felony. Former Justice Department lawyer Shannen
Coffin believes Hillary Clinton might have committed a felony if she signed the "separation" form
OF109 when she left the State Department. That form certifies that she turned over all
"classified or administratively controlled" materials, as well as all "unclassified documents and
papers" relating to official government business. If she didn't sign it, she didn't follow
department policy. There are two investigations currently going on.
Hillary
Clinton should face criminal charges. Let's get down to brass tacks: Hillary Rodham
Clinton should be criminally charged for failing to turn over her government emails as mandated by
law. It's not a hard call. While she nominated to be Secretary of State by President Obama, and
confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she's just like any other government employee — there were documents
she was required by law to sign over upon her departure.
Trey
Gowdy: House may go to court to get Clinton email server. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.,
told "Fox News Sunday" [3/15/2015] he'll summon Clinton to talk to the committee about the emails as
part of the probe into the department's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya,
that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Gowdy can't subpoena the server,
but the House of Representatives does have the power to demand it and could be "forced to go to
court" to get it.
'How
Hard Can It Be?' State Dept Still Can't Find Hillary's Crucial 'Separation' Form. AP
reporter Matt Lee was stumped by the State Department's inability to find the "separation" form
Hillary Clinton should've signed when she quit as Secretary of State, wondering why the department
cannot go back and pull the document from the department's HR files. The form, OF-109, is critical
to understanding whether Clinton violated the law by maintaining her own private e-mail account and
server to conduct official business as Secretary. If she signed the form, as is required for all
departing employees, she may have committed a felony. The document asserts, under penalty of
perjury, that the employee turned over all relevant records at the time of signing. And if
she didn't sign the form, the question remains: Why not?
Laws
are for the little people, not the Clintons! Hillary Clinton insists she did
everything by the book, that she broke no laws and heeded all regulations. That book is obviously
not the State Department records management handbook. The government's book says that you don't
get to keep materials, classified or unclassified, in your personal possession and then get to sift
through them at your leisure to decide which ones the government that paid you gets to see. All
documents are the property of the government. The State Department determines which ones are
returned to you.
Clinton's
Cover Up Team. Hillary Clinton explains her use of a private e-mail account and a
secret server to conduct State Department business as a matter of "convenience." But congressional
investigators are almost as interested in the fact that two of her closest advisers, personal aide
Huma Abedin and chief of staff Cheryl Mills, also had e-mail addresses on the secret server. Were
they also interested in "convenience" or intent on shielding their work from public-record requests?
Obama
adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Obama senior adviser Valerie
Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address during her
time as secretary of state, sources tell me. But she did so through people outside the
administration, so the story couldn't be traced to her or the White House. In addition, at
Jarrett's behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into
Hillary's conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of
funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
Top
Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett reported to have leaked Hillary Clinton email scandal to press.
The New York Post is reporting that Valerie Jarrett, one of President Barack Obama's top advisers, leaked
details of the story to the press through outside sources hoping it would not trace back to the White House.
What's more, the entire thing was timed to become public just as Clinton was planning to announce her candidacy
for president.
This
is Why Hillary's Email Scandal Captured the Media's Attention. Because President
Jarrett wanted it that way. Writing at The New York Post, Edward Klein reveals that "Valerie
Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address during her
time as secretary of state." [...] And the media continues to pile on, almost as if they were
taking orders from the White House.
White
House dismisses Hillary-Jarrett story as untrue, nonsense. White House officials
emphatically denied Monday [3/16/2015] a report that senior White House aide Valerie Jarrett had
ordered the State Department to launch a series of probes into former Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton. The inquiries were in response to a weekend column in the New York Post by author
Edward Klein that said Ms. Jarrett ignited the issue both by ordering the State investigations and
by leaking the information about Mrs. Clinton's email server to reporters. "These uncorroborated,
third-hand allegations are not only nonsense, they are simply not true," Deputy White House Press
Secretary Jen Friedman told The Washington Times.
'Utter
Baloney': White House Dismisses Report That Valerie Jarrett Leaked Clinton Email Story. Did Valerie
Jarrett secretly leak the details of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account to the media?
That's "nonsense" and "utter baloney" according to the White House. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was
questioned about the report during the White House Press briefing by Fox News reporter James Rosen. "It's utter
baloney," Earnest replied flatly.
The Ides of
March Are Upon Us. Barry promised Bill and Hill to back Hill's 2016 presidential run
if they helped out during the historic 2008 contest. In politics, though, 8 minutes is a long time
to keep a promise, let alone 8 years. So it seems BO and Val are now actively working to undermine
her — which explains all the long daggers coming from the previously compliant media woodwork
as of late.
White
House says Valerie Jarrett didn't leak Hillary emails. The White House has a rather
unfavorable view of a report suggesting that Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's senior adviser,
leaked news of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. "It's utter baloney," White House
press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday [3/16/2015]. The New York Post late Saturday
published an article saying that Jarrett, Obama's closest confidant, was behind the leak of
Clinton's personal emails. The paper said the White House was intentionally trying to
sabotage the presumptive Democratic frontrunner's campaign.
Defending the
indefensible Hillary Clinton. The toughest job in politics these days is defending
Hillary Clinton, mocked brilliantly by The [New York] Post as the "Deleter of the Free World."
Her beleaguered defenders, as they retreat behind the bunker door, are settling on a crude legal
defense. Their mumbo jumbo chorus begins with the claim that she didn't break any laws by doing
government business on her private e-mail and ends with the insistence that everybody does it.
That's their story, and they are sticking to it — until they are forced to find another one.
Hillary
Clinton Spokesman: We Did Read Each Email. Hillary Clinton has taken a lot of hits
over her decision to exclusively use a personal email account for her work as secretary of state.
Among them: that in deciding which of the emails to turn over to the State Department, and which to
withhold, nobody opened and read each email. That was the conclusion that some reporters and
experts drew from a nine-page fact sheet from Mrs. Clinton's office, which lays out the process she
used in detail. Nowhere in that description does it say that the emails were individually reviewed.
Hillary's
performance doesn't inspire confidence in a potential president. Hillary Clinton put
on her dancing shoes and did all she could to convince reporters, and potential 2016 voters, that
nothing untoward played into her decision to use a personal email account while serving as secretary
of state. It was just easier, that's all. "I saw it as a matter of convenience," Clinton said
Tuesday of using one mobile device and a private email account. "I now, looking back, think it might
have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning."
More
body blows to Hillary's presidential prospects. Friday saw the shocking disclosure
that the State Department did not automatically archive official email correspondence during
Clinton's term as SecState. Not only does this seem to be a blatant evasion of requirements of the
Public Records Act, it puts the lie to Hillary's UN press conference claim that her emails to State
Department employees were automatically archived.
Media
Matters pushes hard for Hillary 2016, putting its nonprofit status in question. By
retaining longtime Clinton loyalist James Carville as a regular columnist, the liberal watchdog
Media Matters for America has increased its influence as a player in the 2016 presidential election.
But Media Matters may be edging toward violating the tax rules that govern nonprofit organizations.
Carville's new role at Media Matters was announced Thursday [3/12/2015], following two weeks of controversy
surrounding Hillary Clinton, a likely Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state.
Media Matters was founded by another Clinton friend, David Brock, one of the rare Clinton acolytes willing to
defend her amid reports that she violated federal law by exclusively using a personal email address during
her tenure as secretary of state.
30,000
e-mails, nothing classified? Judicial Watch cries foul!. Earlier this week, the press
savaged the former Secretary of State at a press conference where she attempted to explain the
logistics governing her private e-mail server. Then, a report released by the Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) revealed that one of Clinton's key claims — that all of her
e-mails were somehow captured by the State Department — is completely baseless. Now,
advocacy organization Judicial Watch has laid into the feeble argument that Hillary never used her
private e-mail account to deal with classified information. They focus on a previous JW
investigation showing that top State Department officials circulated sensitive and classified
e-mails amongst themselves during and in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi.
An
Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com. It has come to our attention while observing
your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our
constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our
democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an
American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states' payola.
Judge
Orders State Dept. to Release Records From Clinton Trips. A federal judge on Friday [3/13/2015]
ruled on behalf of Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, in its lawsuit against the State
Department for documents related to Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure there. Judge Gladys
Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the State
Department to produce passenger manifests from 47 overseas trips that Mrs. Clinton made as secretary
of state. Citizens United requested the manifests last July through a Freedom of Information
Act Request. The State Department, the judge wrote, must release the first batch of records by
April 3, with more being released every two weeks; all the documents must be given to the group
no later than Aug. 1.
No
one read Hillary emails before destruction. How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens
of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal? Did she or
even her staff scroll through her sent items scanning emails about "yoga routines" or "family
vacations" before deleting them? Nope. No one looked at them. The Clinton
campaign said those emails that did not crop up in a keyword search performed by her team were
automatically deleted. No eyes. No one to be subpoenaed. Just highlight all
and press delete.
State
Department challenges Clinton claim that emails to officials 'immediately' saved. A
State Department spokeswoman said Friday that the department did not start automatically archiving
emails from senior officials until February of this year — raising questions about
Hillary Clinton's claim that her emails were "immediately" saved whenever she corresponded with
colleagues. The former secretary of state made that assertion during her press conference
earlier this week — and in a lengthy statement put out by her office — as she
defended her exclusive use of personal email. Clinton downplayed concerns that official emails
could have been lost by suggesting anytime she emailed anyone with a ".gov" address, that email
would be stored for posterity.
This is enormous, and incandescently illegal.
Hillary's emails were never actually secured or encrypted, despite reports to the contrary (that
they were encrypted "after three months.") In fact, only "accessing the server" was encrypted;
if I'm reading this right, the actual traffic was never encrypted.
5
Questions Hillary Clinton Ducked. This is not about her personal email. It's about why
she seized control of documents that were supposed to be on a government server.
Hillary
Clinton Is Still Violating the Law and the Justice Department Should Take Custody of the
Server. While it is true, as Mrs. Clinton has said, that the departing official must
decide what information belongs to the government and what is private, that is just the start of the
process. What the official claims is private must be inventoried and reviewed by the
department's records retention staff; if there is any doubt about whether a record is related to
official business, the default position is that the government retains the record. More
importantly for present purposes, there is a form involved — this is the government after
all. The departing official must complete Form OF-109.
Former
DOJ Deputy Attorney General: Hillary Clinton Broke The Law. Period. She didn't comply
with the Federal Records Act. And she clearly did not comply with her own records management
handbook for the Department of State which sets out a very specific process about how you remove
records from the department control.
Freedom
of Information Act expert: Clinton's email system 'laughable'. A top
freedom-of-information expert isn't buying Hillary Clinton's explanation of why she set up her own
email system to conduct official State Department business, calling it "laughable." Daniel
Metcalfe, who advised White House administrations on interpreting the Freedom of Information Act
from 1981 to 2007, told The Canadian Press that the former secretary of state acted "contrary to
both the letter and the spirit of the law."
'Major disconnect':
Why no red flags in Clinton's use of personal email? While Clinton says she followed
the rules, questions are mounting over why administration and government information security
officials apparently did little to nudge her back into using the government system —
which various guidelines make clear is preferred, if not legally required. Part of the problem
may be that a key IT office has been plagued with problems and confusion for years. Plus, the
responsibility for email systems is so far-flung across the government that it's unclear whether any
one person or agency could be accountable.
Hackers,
probing Clinton server, cite security lapses. Stirred by the controversy surrounding
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, a determined band
of hackers, IT bloggers, and systems analysts have trained their specialized talents and
state-of-the-art software on clintonemail.com, the domain under which Clinton established multiple
private email accounts, and uncovered serious lapses in security, according to data shared with Fox News.
White
House frets return of 'Clinton way'. With so much on the line, with so much time to
prepare, she's back to classic Clinton? She's flubbing a campaign kickoff eight years in the making
because she somehow thought that no one would ever care that she set up a secret email
server? That anyone would then accept her word that it was OK that she deleted 30,000 emails
even though the State Department had been asking for some of them? And then go silent
again? After all, 2008's "Change you can believe in" campaign slogan wasn't just a reference
to George W. Bush. It was also about her, and the uneasy feeling many people had that
with Clinton, something else was always going on.
The
Obama administration doesn't trust Hillary. Of course Republicans don't trust Hillary
Clinton when she claims she has turned over all government-related documents created on her secret
email server. Some Democrats appear to have doubts as well. But surely Clinton's old
colleagues in the Obama administration — the people who worked with her for four years
and know her well — surely they trust the word of the former secretary of state?
Not at all. Listen to the administration's official voices, particularly at the White
House and the State Department, and you'll hear bureaucrats carefully keeping their distance from
Clinton. Nobody wants to fully vouch for her truthfulness.
Hillary's Crime:
Section 1001. Shannen Coffin, former counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, told Fox's
Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night [3/11/2015] that there is "no doubt" that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton committed a felony when she didn't turn over her email records as she left the State
Department — if she signed the usual exit form given to all exiting employees. The
State Department's "Separation Statement," Form OF-109, [...] requires the outgoing State Department
employee to certify that all "classified or administratively controlled documents and material" have
been "surrendered to responsible officials."
Hillary
Clinton could face jail time as email scandal sparks legal challenges. The Obama
administration will soon find itself in court having to explain to federal judges why it never told
anyone former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used a secret email address, potentially
spoiling dozens of open records requests, experts said Wednesday [3/11/2015]. And Mrs. Clinton
could face up to three years in prison per message if she is found to have broken her word and
handled classified information on the secret account, one open records expert told The Washington Times.
Clinton was required to sign document claiming
she turned over emails in 2013. "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, like all
departing federal employees, was required to fill out and sign a separation statement affirming that
she had turned over all classified and other government documents, including all emails dealing with
official business. Fox News Megyn Kelly reported Wednesday evening [3/11/2015] on the
requirement and that a spokesman for Clinton had not responded to a request for comment, including
an explanation of when the former chief U.S. diplomat signed the mandatory separation agreement or,
if she didn't, why didn't she.
Hillary Clinton
Says Her Email was Secure; She Can't Know. The internet protocols we use to zap email
about the globe were largely written during the early freewheeling days of the net, and they're
still vulnerable to a wide range of attacks. Emails can be spoofed; they can be read in
transit; and servers can be hacked. "Email is one of the least secure services you can run,"
says Jonathan Zdziarski, a forensic scientist. "[Clinton's] people might be very good, but
no one who really is at the top of their game is going to try to make the claim that they can
catch 100 percent of the attacks."
Dear
State Department: Where is Hillary Clinton's OF-109 Form? According to people who
would know, like National Review's Shannen Coffin, on or near her last day as Secretary of State,
per government policy, Ms. Clinton was required to sign what is known as the OF-109 form.
Coffin, a former senior lawyer at the State Department, says that the OF-109 is an acknowledgement
that the departing State Department employee has returned and/or turned over all official documents
and records to the State Department.
Report
on Hillary Email: Apparently It Was Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills Executing The Plan.
Earlier today Steve Hayes reported that Hillary aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills also used the
"clintonmail" personal email scheme to communicate and avoid disclosure. Now the Wall Street
Journal is reporting that Huma and Cheryl were key players in the original plan to set up the
communication network. The "inner circle" around Hillary is comprised of Huma Abedin, Cheryl
Mills, Philippe Reines, Jake Sullivan, Capricia Marshal and Maggie Williams — in that order.
Gowdy:
Benghazi Panel Will Ask Clinton to Appear — Twice. Saying Hillary Rodham
Clinton's Tuesday afternoon news conference raised more questions than it answered, the Republican
chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi announced plans to call the former secretary of
State to appear — at least twice — before his investigative panel. Rep.
Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., in a statement issued after Clinton spoke for the first time publicly about her
extensive use of a private email address and server during her four years at State, said the email
server should be turned over to a neutral third party.
State
Department IG: Employees Not Preserving Enough Email. A report released Wednesday [3/11/2015] by
the State Department's Inspector General concludes that the department's employees are not saving
enough of their emails for "official records." In a review of the State Department's systems
that took place in Washington, D.C. during the first three months of 2014, the IG found that State
Department employees "have not received adequate training or guidance on their responsibilities for
using those systems to preserve 'record emails.'"
Subpoena
Hillary's server. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the special House Committee that's
investigating Benghazi, said today that his committee lacks the power to subpoena Hillary Clinton's
email server because it is personal property. At the same time, Gowdy called on Clinton to
turn over the server voluntarily. Clinton "doesn't get to determine what's a public record and
what's a personal record," said Gowdy. Actually, in the absence of a subpoena, Clinton gets to
do exactly that — her determination that the emails she deleted were personal records
will not be reviewed.
Clinton was
required to sign document claiming she turned over emails in 2013. Former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, like all departing federal employees, was required to fill out and sign a
separation statement affirming that she had turned over all classified and other government documents,
including all emails dealing with official business. Fox News Megyn Kelly reported Wednesday evening
[3/11/2015] on the requirement and that a spokesman for Clinton had not responded to a request for comment,
including an explanation of when the former chief U.S. diplomat signed the mandatory separation agreement
or, if she didn't, why didn't she.
Democrats
struggle to defend Hillary Clinton's email practices as GOP threatens subpoena to get more
information. Democrats struggled Wednesday [3/11/2015] to defend Hillary Clinton's
email practices in the wake of her first public remarks on the matter, while Republicans threatened
to use subpoena power to get the information they are demanding. After Clinton on Tuesday
acknowledged deleting 30,000 emails that she said were personal, backers were left with little to
say beyond urging voters to take her word for it.
State
Dept. Docs Call Into Question Clinton's Claim She Complied With Rules. "The Kelly
File" learned tonight [3/11/2015] that every employee leaving the State Department must sign an
OF-109 form. The document requires every employee to certify that s/he has "surrendered to
responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the
Government acquired by [the employee] while in the employ of the Department or USIA."
WSJ:
Hillary's Private Email Was Planned in 2009. The Wall Street Journal is out
with a new report tonight [3/11/2015] claiming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal
email address was actually "planned" way back in 2009 before she became the United States' top
diplomat, and was her idea in the first place. Citing people familiar with the situation, the
WSJ reported that Hillary's aides approached Bill Clinton's aides with the proposal —
setting up her private email account through a server set up by the former president at
the family's Chappaqua, N.Y., home. The aides reportedly expressed trepidation about the
potential for hackers, and were not aware at the time that Clinton would be exclusively using the
private account instead of a government one via State.gov.
"Their words are always innocent — which makes it hard to figure out when they actually are." The
Clinton's tricky way with words. Already, the press has changed its focus from the
deleted — I mean, not saved — emails to the security of her private email
server. This question, which the press can probably keep aloft for weeks, can't be finessed
away in a future Hillary Clinton press conference because it is largely speculative. Given the
Internet's capacity to remember everything, perhaps server logs detailing who corresponded with
Clinton on her private account exist somewhere even if the emails themselves have been destroyed, as
Clinton implies.
More
than a billion emails at State Department, but few saved. The State Department's
government watchdog has released a review of its email record-keeping practices and concluded that
the vast majority of emails sent by State personnel are not being preserved, possibly in violation
of the Federal Records Act. Out of the billion emails sent by personnel in 2011, the Office of
the Inspector General found that only a minuscule fraction — 61,156 — were
actually recorded within employees' official email accounts. That number dropped to 41,749 in
2013.
Hillary's
Presidential Hopes, Deleted. In my opinion, the current email controversy represents a
death knell for Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes. Not because her crude deception is
decisive in itself — although in some voters' minds, it may be — but because
it reminds us of what a lousy, unlikable, not-very-competent candidate she is.
Don't
Blame Gowdy. Congress, of course, can issue subpoenas, but only for conducting
oversight and the fact-finding necessary to craft legislation. Congress is not a grand jury.
Unlike the Justice Department (the main executive-branch law-enforcement arm), Congress has no
standing to appear in court on behalf of the United States and to seek search warrants. Nor
does it have a police force for the execution of warrants — that's the job of the FBI and
other executive-branch police agencies.
David
Brock's Nonprofit Once Attacked NY Governor For Using Private Emails. Media Matters
for America founder David Brock has emerged as the preeminent defender of Hillary Clinton in the
wake of her recent email scandal, even battling fellow liberals on MSNBC over the issue. But
Brock's own organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, once attacked
another Democrat and a potential Clinton rival for exactly the same behavior.
'Obscure'
Court Filing Explodes Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. I have no doubt that it was
Judicial Watch's focused Freedom of Information lawsuits, the disclosures from which led to the
creation of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which led to the uncovering of a scandal that
could have criminal ramifications for Mrs. Clinton. We knew something was up. And we had
gotten hints in our blockbuster litigation that uncovered the smoking-gun documents showing
Hillary's top aides at State knew that the Benghazi terrorist attack had nothing to do with
"demonstrations" or Internet videos.
AP
sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records. The Associated Press on
Wednesday [3/11/2015] sued the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and
government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
Fox
Guest: Hillary Email Controversy an 'Inside Job' Ordered by Obama, Valerie Jarrett.
Author and purported Clinton insider Ed Klein has a theory about how the Hillary Clinton email
controversy came about: it was sparked by President Barack Obama and ordered by senior adviser
Valerie Jarrett. Appearing on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning [3/11/2015], Klein said
he's not the only one who buys into that explanation, and that Bill Clinton also believes it.
According to Klein's sources, the White House is leaking information to their "friends in the
mainstream media" about Hillary's actions as Secretary of State. Klein also said his sources
from within the White House told him that Hillary is under six investigations that were sparked by
the Obama Administration.
No
one in government knows knows how to use email — except Hillary Clinton.
It's claimed Clinton hosted her own email server at home, a practice endorsed by privacy enthusiasts
as one of the best ways to avoid the government snooping on your private emails. The irony being, of
course, Clinton was one of the country's most powerful government officials and using this practice.
This set-up allowed Clinton to keep her emails far away from the prying eyes of the Federal Records Act,
which requires government officials to keep digital records of their email correspondence. Her staffers
only recently disclosed her emails to the State Department for review, according to the Associated Press,
and only upon request.
History
lesson: President Hillary Clinton would be secretive, too. News that Hillary Clinton
exclusively used a private email account to keep secret her communications as Secretary of State
should surprise no one. She came to Washington more than 20 years ago determined
to keep secrets, and she's still at it. In 1993, the newly inaugurated President Bill
Clinton chose his wife to head his administration's most important domestic initiative, health
care reform. Hillary Clinton proceeded to create a task force that seemed more determined
to keep secrets than to restructure health care.
Gowdy:
'Our Committee Doesn't Have the Power' to Seize Hillary's Email Server. The House
Select Committee on Benghazi will not subpoena Hillary Clinton's email server, because it can't,
committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday [3/11/2015].
"Well our committee doesn't have the power — under our rules, we don't have the power to
seize a personal property like that. The House as a whole, that's franky an open constitutional
question as to whether the House as a whole has that legal authority, but frankly, we shouldn't have
to compel it," Gowdy said.
IT
Expert Says He Traced Hillary's Email Server To Manhattan Government Building.
Cyber-security expert Vinny Troia told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday [3/10/2015] that he traced the IP
address of the server Hillary Clinton used to host the private email account she used as secretary of state to a
government building in the heart of New York City. "I did read reports that [the server] was at her house,
but when we traced the IP address it came back to the city office here in downtown Manhattan," Troia told Van Susteren.
Hillary
in Free Fall: What Happens Next? Last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton hoped the email mess would die quietly, a one-day story. Bad calculation. The story has
staying power, is metastasizing, and is engaging the legacy media. Worst of all for the denizens of
Hillaryland, all its responses have failed to quash it.
No
Classified Emails by Clinton? Some Experts Are Skeptical. Anyone who has tried to pry
information from the federal government may have been surprised on Tuesday [3/10/2015] by Hillary
Rodham Clinton's assertion that in all her emails in four years as secretary of state she never
strayed into the classified realm. After all, a consensus of both Republicans and Democrats for
many years has been that the government routinely overclassifies information, reflexively stamping
"secret" on mountains of documents with marginally sensitive content. The government classified
more than 80 million documents in 2013, according to the Information Security Oversight Office,
which publishes an annual count.
The
Mendacious, Charmless, Painfully Mediocre And Unelectable Hillary Clinton. Little can
be done for Hillary following today's shambles of a press conference. She took a bad circumstance
and turned it into a roaring inferno with one implausible statement after another, creating a series of
conundra for her supporters along the way. Do you believe her "creature of convenience" story and
thus agree someone incapable of setting up two email accounts on a mobile phone has the intellect to
be president? Do you buy the idea that all emails she sent to other State Department employees would
therefore have gone to the "state.gov" server and are already archived? If so, what of the reports
that her key advisors at State, for example Huma Abedin and Phillippe Raines, also had email addresses at
clintonemails.com? What of the idea that Hillary wasn't the only employee at State using personal
emails to do government business? Do you believe someone who forewent a state.gov account of her
own would never contact another government official at their personal email?
Hillary's
E-Mails May Cost Taxpayers Millions. The State Department is beginning to sort through
more than 55,000 pages of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary that she handed over
late last year, sticking taxpayers with additional costs that could reach into the millions. [...]
Clinton's office sent the e-mails to the State Department last December, a portion of the total in
her possession, after printing them out and stacking them in boxes. The department largely sat on
them until last week, when news broke that she had used a "homebrew" server rather than her government
account to conduct her official business.
The
Hillary Email Scandal: Who Profits? [Scroll down] I think it's at least
possible at this point that not too many weeks down the road Hillary will suddenly develop "health
issues" and not run at all. So who profits by this?
Gowdy:
'No Choice' But for Clinton to Turn Server Over to Third-Party Arbiter. House
Republicans who have been trying to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails in the
Benghazi investigation weren't satisfied with her press conference today [3/10/2015]. "For
instance, there remain serious questions about the security of the system she employed from a
national security standpoint, who authorized this exclusive use of personal email despite guidance
to the contrary from both her State Department and the White House, who had access to the server
from the time Secretary Clinton left office until the time — almost two years later —
the State Department asked for these public records back, and who culled through the records to determine
which were personal and which were public," Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the special
committee investigating Benghazi, said in a statement.
The
real Hillary Clinton. If you want to know why Hillary Clinton thought she could get away with violating
federal regulations in order to conceal her emails when she was secretary of state, take a look behind the facade.
Mrs. Clinton pretends to be a compassionate woman who cares about the little people and will champion the middle class
if elected president. The reality is that behind the scenes, she is abusive to those same people.
Not
My Circus, Not My Monkeys. [Scroll down] But it is impossible for any person with a
functioning central nervous system to believe that Hillary Clinton is telling the truth about her emails,
inasmuch as her statements on the matter are in conflict with established facts and in conflict with each
other. They simply are not compatible with reality. Likewise, it is impossible for any sentient
person to believe that Barack Obama is telling the truth about the matter, that he learned about the situation
from press reports when he in fact corresponded with her via email.
AP
Reporter: Hackers Have More Access to State Dept Records Than Public. AP Reporter Matthew Lee argued that hackers
"have more access to the State Department records and archives than the American public and Congress do" during Monday's [3/9/2015]
State Department briefing. "It seems to me a little bit unusual where we're in a position where hackers from Russia, or from
wherever they are, have more access to the State Department records and archives than the American public and Congress do" he declared.
Hillary acts stupid
when she plays dumb. I'm talking about the Hillary Clinton who makes unforced errors
every time she opens her mouth — the one who last year described herself as having been
"dead broke" in 2001 when she had $20 million in book advances coming her way. That moment of
playing dumb was designed to make her seem more accessible to the hoi polloi she wanted to buy her new book.
Obama
Once Called Hillary's Refusal To Release Communications With Bill A 'Problem'.
[Hillary] Clinton, who eventually served as Obama's secretary of state during his first term, is now
under fire for conducting business with a private e-mail address that was attached to a personal
server. Obama told CBS he first learned about Clinton's use of a private email address "through
news reports," implying that he never personally corresponded through email with the secretary of
state.
Secrecy,
sex, Hillary and Bill. Secrecy is to Hillary Clinton what sex was to Bill. She has
to have it. She doesn't care if it is wise. She doesn't care if it does more harm than good.
And enjoyment doesn't enter into it. She has been secretive for much of her political life, which
is one reason that many people still have no clear idea who she really is.
Hillary
Clinton scandal spreads as tea party group seeks private IRS emails. One of the tea
party groups targeted by the IRS asked Congress Monday to demand the private emails of some agency
employees, while a top committee chairman issued a request for instant-chat messages from the EPA,
as the Clinton emails scandal begins to envelop other parts of the Obama administration. The
White House, meanwhile, tried to keep the burgeoning scandal at arm's length, with spokesman Josh
Earnest acknowledging President Obama and Mrs. Clinton did email, but insisting the White House
followed all record-keeping laws, and the president didn't know Mrs. Clinton was exclusively using
a private email until reports surfaced last week.
Gov.
Palin: I faced tough questions over email, so should Hillary Clinton. The latest Obama
administration scandal involving Hillary Clinton's emails has many Americans discussing private
email accounts used by government officials, and clarification is in order. It's appropriate and
proper for a politician to use private email for personal and campaign business. This is what I did
as governor of Alaska in order to be in compliance with the law, which requires that personal or campaign
business not be conducted using public resources such as a government email account. There is a firm
line separating the two. However, that's not what we see with this Clinton email scandal.
Hillary's
house of no cards to play. Richard M. Nixon taped himself planning a cover-up; Gary
Hart posed with a blonde in his lap; and Hillary Clinton decided to accept donations to her private
foundation-cum-personal-piggy-bank while serving as the country's first diplomat, after having set
up a private email account that is not only unaccountable to outside authorities but also easy to
hack. It is not the Clintons' first scandal, but it is by far their least timely, and their most
dangerous. For the first time, they lack the protections that managed to save them before.
Hillary Clinton's Possibly Fatal
Email Mistake. Hillary Clinton's email scandal showcases that she shouldn't be
president. This has nothing to do with her party or politics — it has to do with how she
seems to approach a decision — through tunnel vision leadership. This method isn't biased
on the left or right, but it is more hardwired into men than women. Unfortunately, Clinton seems to
have this in spades. It may even explain mistakes like Benghazi better than any of the hair-brained
theories that her opponents so far have fielded.
Trey
Gowdy: Shame on me if I trust State Department to be 'neutral arbiter' of Clinton records. Rep. Trey
Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, says he is not confident the State Department can be a neutral arbiter of former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's records amid the controversy over Mrs. Clinton's use of a private e-mail
during her time as the nation's top diplomat. Mr. Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi,
said Monday evening [3/9/2015] on Fox News' "The Kelly File" that the State Department "is not the neutral third
party arbiter that I would recommend the secretary turn her server over to so you can analyze it for forensics to
see whether or not there's been any hacking or tampering."
The
public deserves answers, not stonewalling, from Hillary Clinton. A week has passed
since the disclosure that Ms. Clinton used a private account for all of her e-mail messages while
serving as secretary of state, contrary to the administration's instruction that officials should
use government e-mail accounts and contrary to what the State Department — on her
watch — was telling its ambassadors and other officials to do. Ms. Clinton did not turn
in the e-mail records to the government when she left office. Since then, she has given the
department 55,000 pages of messages in response to a request, but those were selected by her and her
staff, not by government archivists or officials. All of this reveals a cavalier attitude to the
public's legitimate claim on government records.
Hillary
Exposed Her Emails To Spies... To Hide Them From You. We already noted that there was
no way she couldn't have known that she had to use government email systems for government work, as
there was a big scandal from the previous administration using private emails and within the early
Obama administration as well. This morning we discovered that Clinton also gave clintonemail.com
email addresses to staffers, which undermines the argument made by Hillary's spokesperson that it
was okay for her to use her own email address because any emails with staffers would still be
archived by the State Department thanks to their use of state.gov emails. But that's clearly
not the case when she's just emailing others with the private email addresses.
Mystery location
of Clinton email server seen as 'matter of national security'. In the depths of the hacker and
IT-blogger community, a skirmish has broken out over the nature of Hillary Clinton's email server —
a debate that could have profound implications for national security during Clinton's tenure as secretary of
state, and for investigators hoping to mine her emails for evidentiary purposes. The questions center
on where, exactly, Hillary Clinton's email server is, or was, physically located; which private-sector firms
may have been hosting it; and how secure Clinton's emails were at any given point.
Hillary
made the case for disclosing her emails in 2011. The former first lady's situation
seems to worsen by the day. First it was revealed that Hillary had a private email account for
the duration of her tenure as Secretary of State. Then it was discovered that her private email
account was run through servers reportedly in her home. And no one in Obama's administration seemed
to have been aware that Mrs. Clinton was operating an extra-governmental account. Or at least that's
the current story. When asked if they could prove with certitude that no classified information
was exchanged via Hillary's private email, the State Department replied, "that's not a pertinent question."
Late last week, the State Department changed their story saying it was up to each Secretary to determine what
was relevant and then submit that information back to the DOS for record keeping.
Hillary's Missing
Emails. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email scandal widened as the lead
Republican investigator into the deadly Benghazi fiasco accused Clinton of failing to hand over
months of emails from her tenure. "There are gaps of months and months and months," Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Sunday on "Face the Nation"
on CBS.
Clinton, Inc.
is what's wrong with America. Here's the bottom line of the latest HillaryWorld
scandals: Clinton Inc. embodies what's wrong with America. It's about getting stinking rich from
the inside connections forged in a life of public service. It's about using your "charity" and
your high government office as adjuncts of your political machine. It's about refusing to play by the
rules even as you want to set the rules for everyone else. Start with the latest shocker, the email
lunacy. You don't get to keep your government work a secret from the government.
Republicans
warn that Hillary could be charged with a crime if she doesn't hand over ALL her State Department
emails. Top House Republicans are warning Hillary Clinton they won't hesitate to have
her charged with criminal wrongdoing if it turns out she didn't provide the State Department with
copies of every email she sent in relation to the Benghazi assault. A spokesperson for Clinton
has said that the former secretary of state completely complied with the requirement but Republicans
have continued to question the veracity of that statement.
Hillary
Clinton's Trained Seals and Their Tiresome Act. Over the last few days we've seen one
former Clinton aide and acolyte after another come out of the woodwork to defend yet another Clinton
from yet another series of scandals. It's like a tired, awful syndicated series that's been
cancelled but just won't go away. In one corner, it was Lanny Davis being methodically taken apart
by Fox News's Chris Wallace. In another corner was the Ragin' Cajun, James Carville, whining about
"cockamamie right wing talking points" being responsible for this story. [...] Watching these men
react like trained seals is pathetic, causing a wave of Clinton Fatigue to once again wash over America.
White
House: Hillary And Obama Did Email Each Other. White House Press Secretary Josh
Earnest admits that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama did exchange
emails while she was in the Obama administration. "The president, I think as many people
expected, did, over the course of his first several years in office, trade emails with his secretary
of state," Earnest confirmed, but added that the number of emails they exchanged was "not large."
Earnest said that Obama did know Clinton's email address, but was not probably not aware of the
details of the address or the existence of the secretary's private server.
Hillary's
Watergate. It is hard to imagine the 2016 presidential race without Hillary Clinton.
But Mrs. Clinton seems to have missed the most important lesson that everyone else learned from the Watergate
scandal: The cover up is worse than the crime. It is especially ironic since Mrs. Clinton
started her legal career in Washington advising the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation.
Hillary
being hung out to dry by her own. Hillary Clinton has a lot fewer friends than she
must have supposed. In a stunning turn of events, people she should have been able to count on are
turning on her in the wake of her mushrooming e-mail scandal. The way things are going, we may hear
her warn of a "vast left wing conspiracy" against her. Let's start with the man who should be her
stoutest defender: Bill Clinton.
Defenseless
Secretary. It's been nearly four days since the world learned that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton did all of her
government emailing on a private account — a decision that skirted the law and thwarted public records requests in the process.
Since the story broke, Clinton remarkably has made no effort to explain herself. Instead, she's relied on an army of spokesmen,
surrogates, and other allies to deflect the criticism or simply distract from it with a variety of political explanations that don't
add up to a convincing real-world defense.
Sebelius
Offers No Excuse for Hillary's Email Troubles. Even Kathleen Sebelius isn't going out
of her way to defend Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Services denied using private email while she served in the Obama administration. "No," Sebelius
said in response to a question about whether she used a private email system, according to an
article in the Topeka Capital-Journal. "We were told specifically, in our department at
least, that we needed to use government emails and even if you receive something on your private
email that was professional, you needed to transfer it over to your government email and respond
that way."
While
Clinton Hid Emails, $6 Billion Went Missing in Her State Dept.. [Scroll down]
But the emails — if they are ever disclosed to the public — are not the half
of it. They are the proverbial tip of the iceberg of secrecy. Recall that not even a year ago,
it was quietly disclosed that the Hillary Clinton State Dept. "misplaced" more than $6 billion
dollars that remain unaccounted for.
The
Benghazi Committee's Belated Interest in Hillary's Hidden E-mails. The Benghazi massacre was the lowlight of Mrs.
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Suddenly this week, the public was informed, for the first time, that during those
four tumultuous years, she conducted State Department business through a private e-mail system designed to evade government
record-keeping requirements. The scheme is redolent of Clintonian hypocrisy: Even while Mrs. Clinton was exclusively
using personal e-mail, she admonished State Department personnel that doing so was prohibited as a major security breach, and she
forced the resignation of the U.S. ambassador to Kenya for, among other things, using private e-mail for public business.
'Huge
gaps' in Clinton emails: Chairman of House Benghazi Committee. The chairman of the
House committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans on Sept. 11,
2012, said there are "huge gaps" in the Hillary Clinton emails turned over to his panel. "We
don't have all of them," Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." Included
in the gaps are emails from Oct. 18, 2011, the date of the well-known photo of then-Secretary of
State Clinton wearing sunglasses and gripping her BlackBerry while on a plane to Libya. In fact,
there were no emails released to the committee from that entire trip, Gowdy said.
Next!.
The Democrats' response to Herself's trouble has taken three main forms: 1) What she did wasn't
technically illegal, says David Brock and other slavish Clinton retainers, even hauling out that old
Al Gore classic, "no controlling legal authority"; [...]
Obama weighs
in on Hillary Clinton's private emails. President Obama only learned of Hillary
Clinton's private email address use for official State Department business after a New York Times
report, he told CBS News in an interview. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante
asked Mr. Obama when he learned about her private email system after his Saturday [3/7/2015] appearance
in Selma, Alabama. "The same time everybody else learned it through news reports," the president
told Plante.
White
House: Obama Was Aware Of Clinton's Email Address. The White House says the president did email with
Clinton during her time in office, but he was unaware of that she used the personal account exclusively and housed
it on a private server.
The Editor says...
The president is either lying or he is monumentally stupid, or his staff is incompetent and corrupt. Take your pick.
Guess
who else was on Clinton's private at-home server. [Hillary Clinton] deliberately
sought to hide her email correspondence from the public — shielding her skulduggery,
failures and treason perhaps. No one installs a server in their home for their emails just because.
The motive is malevolent and the American people should be outraged. Further, the server should have been
seized before Clinton could destroy what is obviously damning and indictable. Further, it is striking that
Huma Abedin was the only non-family member to have her own account on Clinton's server.
State
Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see. The State Department has faced a
lot of questions about former Secretary Hillary Clinton's secret email account, but the most
fundamental one is: Do you have them all? Officials at State have said repeatedly that Clinton has
turned over 55,000 pages of emails from her time at the department. But each time spokeswoman Marie
Harf has been asked whether that material — 55,000 pages, not 55,000 emails —
represents all of Clinton's State Department emails, she ends up citing Clinton's staff, who have
told department officials that Clinton has turned over everything that is "responsive" to the department's
request for documents. Clinton, of course, decided what is "responsive" and what is not.
'Huge
gaps' in Clinton emails: Chairman of House Benghazi Committee. The chairman of the
House Benghazi Committee said "there are huge gaps" in the Hillary Clinton emails turned over to his
committee investigating the deadly attack that killed four Americans on Sept. 11, 2012. For
instance, there were no emails on Oct. 8, 2011, the day the iconic picture of the Secretary of State
clad in sunglasses and bracing her Blackberry on a plane to Libya. In fact there were no emails from
that entire trip.
Hillary's
Twitter Disconnect. An imperial message came from the Internet's one-dimensional
darkness Wednesday: "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them.
They said they will review them for release as soon as possible." Those brief keystrokes were Hillary
Clinton's Twitter response to the firestorm over her apparent bypassing of the State Department's email
system and instead using a personal account on "dark" computer file-servers at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home,
260 miles from Washington.
White
House alerted to potential Clinton email problem in August. The White House, State
Department and Hillary Clinton's personal office knew in August that House Republicans had received
information showing that the former secretary of state conducted official government business
through her private email account — and Clinton's staff made the decision to keep quiet.
Sources familiar with the discussions say key people in the Obama administration and on Clinton's
staff were aware that the revelation could be explosive for the all-but-announced candidate for
president. But those involved deferred to Clinton's aides, and they decided not to respond.
Obama:
All my emails 'are available and archived'. President Obama was asked about Hillary
Clinton's secret emails during his trip to Selma, Ala., Saturday [3/7/2015] and said he did not know
his former secretary of state was using a secret account until he read it in the news. The president
also noted he does not follow Clinton's practice of secrecy. "Mr. President, when did you first
learn that Hillary Clinton used an email system outside the U.S. Government for official business
while she was secretary of state?" asked CBS's Bill Plante. "The same time everybody else
learned it, through news reports," Obama said.
Trey
Gowdy sees months-long gaps in Clinton emails. The top House Republican Benghazi
investigator says the emails Hillary Clinton has handed over for review have "huge gaps" that
challenge her credibility over what happened in the 2012 attacks in Libya. "There are gaps of
months and months and months," Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said on Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Emails
May Be a Key to Addressing 'Pay to Play' Whispers at Clinton Foundation. Hillary
Clinton's secret communications cache is a bombshell deserving of full disclosure because of her
assault on government transparency and electronic security. But its greatest relevancy is what the
emails might reveal about any nexus between Clinton's work at State and donations to the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Foundation from U.S. corporations and foreign nations. Under fire, Bill Clinton
said his namesake charity has "done a lot more good than harm" — hardly a ringing
endorsement. One of his longest serving advisers, a person who had worked directly for the
foundation, told me the "longtime whispers of pay-to-play are going to become shouts."
Did
the White House expose Hillary's e-mails this week to protect their deal with Iran?.
[Scroll down] Allegedly, State Department lawyers working on producing documents for the
House's Benghazi investigation first raised the alarm about private e-mails last summer. Hillary's
advisors met with State officials in August to discuss producing her private e-mail correspondence.
It took Team Hillary until December to actually hand over the files. [...] Not until three weeks ago
did State finally hand over the files to Trey Gowdy's Benghazi committee.
Huma
Abedin's private emails, Muslim Brotherhood. Hillary Clinton's Emailgate scandal is
becoming more problematic by the day. Turns out she exclusively used a private email account while
personally prohibiting other State Department employees from doing the same. One other State
Department official evidently violated this policy: Mrs. Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Huma
Abedin. Her emails are of particular interest insofar as Ms. Abedin has extensive ties to the
Muslim Brotherhood. That's the Islamist organization whose self-declared mission is "destroying
Western civilization from within."
The
curious case of Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood and all of their missing
emails. Watchdog group Judicial Watch, which doesn't like being lied to or jerked
around any more than the House Benghazi Select Committee does, has filed a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit against the Department of State seeking all communications, including emails, between
Secretary of State Clinton and Huma Abedin with Nagla Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president
Mohammed Morsi between Jan. 21, 2009, and Jan. 21, 2013. The lawsuit —
which also seeks a thorough search of Clinton's newly discovered private email accounts connected
to a home-based server to exclusively conduct government business — comes alongside the
issue of subpoenas by the Benghazi Select Committee. Both have long been curious about the
scarcity of produced emails with Clinton's name on them.
FOIA
Request for Hillary Clinton's Email Address Went Missing. The State Department may
have ignored or rejected a request made in 2012 under the Freedom of Information Act by the watchdog
group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) seeking Hillary Clinton's email
addresses, according to a Daily Caller report on Thursday [3/5/2015]. The New York
Times reported on Monday that Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server for
her email during her four years as secretary of state, skirting federal records laws, as well as
State Department and Obama administration transparency guidelines, and raising suspicions that
numerous public records requests for her emails were improperly blocked.
Hillary's
Email Escapade. Hillary Clinton has made some disingenuous statements over her
political career, but none remotely compare to the tweet she issued Wednesday night: "I want the
public to see my email," she said. This requires — how to say it — a willing
suspension of disbelief.
Hillary's
email practice raises larger questions. The excuses coming from the Hillary Clinton
camp about her private email account are hard to swallow. Claims that she lived up to the
"letter and spirit of the rules" governing email accounts while serving as secretary of state border
on insulting. And the fact she released 55,000 pages of emails when asked for them is hardly
evidence that she embraces transparency. Far from it. The email episode reveals a deliberate
flouting of the rules, and it could limit our understanding of key events that occurred during her
tenure at the State Department. Her use of an email server traced to her New York home raises
security questions.
AP
Doesn't Ask WH Officials if They Successfully Emailed Hillary on Private Account. On
Thursday [3/5/2015], the Associated Press reported, citing "a person familiar with the matter," that
the "White House counsel's office was not aware at the time Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of
state that she relied solely on personal email and only found out as part of the congressional
investigation into the Benghazi attack." The outlet did not note whether anyone outside
of the White House counsel's office knew about Clinton's private email account.
Review
of Hillary Clinton emails to take months: official. A growing controversy over
Democrat Hillary Clinton's use of personal email for work while she was U.S. secretary of state
could drag on for months, threatening to cloud the expected launch of her 2016 presidential campaign.
Top
Dem Congressman Praises Hillary For Email Transparency. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is
the ranking member on the House Select Committee on Benghazi. So when it was discovered that former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had every email she ever sent during her tenure on a previously
unknown private server in her home — and that it was not accessible or searchable by
anyone in government — you'd think he'd be upset that his committee had not received
all the information they need to conduct their investigation. You would be wrong.
Why
Hillary Will Abandon Her Run for the Presidency. It's not like Hillary did not know
she was supposed to use the State Department's email system for reasons of national security; her
private emails could have been hacked by forces unfriendly to the U.S. All government employees are
routinely briefed on the laws that require this.
Huma
Abedin: Clinton's Unindicted Email Co-Conspirator. Watchdog group Judicial Watch,
which doesn't like being lied to or jerked around any more than the House Benghazi Select Committee
does, has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of State seeking all
communications, including emails, between Secretary of State Clinton and Huma Abedin with Nagla
Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi between Jan. 21, 2009, and Jan. 21,
2013. The lawsuit — which also seeks a thorough search of Clinton's newly discovered
private email accounts connected to a home-based server to exclusively conduct government
business — comes alongside the issue of subpoenas by the Benghazi Select Committee.
Both have long been curious about the scarcity of produced emails with Clinton's name on them.
Exclusive:
Internal cable from Clinton State Department office barred use of personal email. An
internal 2011 State Department cable, obtained by Fox News, shows that then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's office told employees not to use personal email for security reasons —
while at the same time, Clinton conducted all government business on a private account. Sent to
diplomatic and consular staff in June 2011, the unclassified cable, bearing Clinton's electronic
signature, made clear to employees they were expected to "avoid conducting official Department
business from your personal e-mail accounts." The message also said employees should not
"auto-forward Department email to personal email accounts which is prohibited by Department policy."
Hillary
fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account. Jake Tapper points out
a very important detail in all of this. Hillary Clinton and her staff have only turned over a
limited number of emails from her time as Secretary of State, but the Federal Records Act requires
all communication conducted by cabinet officials to be permanently archived.
State
Dept. Silence on How It Handled FOIA Requests For Hillary Email. The State Department
is refusing to provide insight into how the federal agency handled Freedom of Information Act
requests for Hillary Clinton's emails, as fallout from Clinton's use of a private email account as
secretary of state is poised to stretch into a third day. As The Daily Caller, The New York Times
and others noted on Tuesday, Clinton's use of a personal email account [...] thwarted the FOIA
request process. Since 2009, federal regulations have required agencies to preserve emails
generated on outside systems. By failing to make those documents available to the Department,
Clinton avoided having her emails made subject to numerous FOIA requests.
Was
the State Department 'IT guy' Asleep at the Switch? At the very least, Hillary
Clinton showed very bad judgement. At worst, she did not care that her fear of transparency could
end up hurting the nation. Don't be surprised if a lot of Democrats start looking for an
alternative to Hillary Clinton!
More
bad news for the sorcerer's apprentice. Hillary Clinton's trouble with her email
account is only a symptom of what ails the lady. Like Bubba, she suffers from terminal arrogance.
Hillary and Bubba — or should that be Bubba and Hillary? — think rules don't
apply to them. When he gets caught in a jam, which is often, he winks, smiles, crooks his crooked
pointing finger, and asks one and all: "Whatcha gonna do with a good ol' boy like me?" That always
worked. Hillary knows better than to try that anywhere but at home. When the heat is turned up
under her, as when the telephone rang at 3 o'clock in the morning with news of catastrophe at Benghazi, she
disappears.
Are
we watching a cheap spy movie or a presidential campaign? According the New York
Daily News "Mrs. Clinton "had her own computer server and private email that she used for official
business while working as secretary of state. The server was registered at the Clinton's Chappaqua
home under an apparent pseudonym, 'Eric Hoteman.'" That name is curiously similar to long-time
financial adviser Eric Hothem who has been involved with the Clintons for decade. Like so many
Clinton loyalists, Hothem is linked to various controversies, including suspected pay-to-play pardons
issued by Bill Clinton during his presidency and the controversy over the removal of family of furniture
from the White House. Classy folks, those Clintons.
The
Hillary Camp's Rationale for Staying Quiet. Hillary Clinton won't be presiding over a
soul-searching press conference or sitting down for a come-clean interview about her use of a
private email address any time soon — at least if everything goes according to her team's
plan. The former secretary of state and her advisers have decided to adopt a time-tested
Clintonian approach: take a concrete step to ease the pressure, then wait out the storm,
according to three sources with knowledge of her team's approach.
Newly
Relevant Benghazi Panel Spooks Dems. When the House created its Benghazi Select
Committee last year, it seemed like a joke — derided by mocking Democrats and eye-rolling
Republicans, who'd already run through multiple investigations and hearings on the U.S. consulate
attack. Then the committee revealed Hillary Clinton had used multiple personal email accounts for
official business at the State Department. And suddenly, Democrats are terrified —
terrified that the Benghazi panel is about to become the House Select Committee to take down
Clinton, their presumptive presidential nominee.
Clinton
created multiple email addresses on private server, data show. Hillary Clinton appears
to have established multiple email addresses for her private use, and possibly the use of her aides,
under the domain of "clintonemail.com," according to a prominent member of the hacking community who
supplied independent research data, conducted with high-tech tools, to Fox News. The hacker used
an open-source tool, publicly available, called "The Harvester" to search a variety of data sources —
including well-known platforms such as Google, Bing, LinkedIn, Twitter and others — for any stored
references to email addresses seen using a particular domain, in this case clintonemail.com.
Clinton's
personal email use — despite clear rules — raises double-standard
questions. Hillary Clinton's State Department for years was telling underlings not to
use personal email — even ousting an ambassador, the ex-diplomat says, in part over his
Gmail habits — despite the secretary of state herself ignoring that advice. The
disconnect is now raising questions of a double standard during her tenure. An internal 2011
State Department cable, obtained by Fox News, shows Clinton's office told employees not to use
personal email for security reasons.
Larry
Klayman pushes for contempt proceedings against Clinton, aide. The fight over Hillary
Clinton's private email system is moving to the courts as a conservative legal activist presses for
contempt proceedings against the former secretary of state and one of her top aides. Longtime
Clinton nemesis Larry Klayman filed motions late Thursday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit to send two cases pending there back to lower courts so they can explore whether
Clinton's use of a private email account during her tenure as secretary led to incomplete and
inaccurate responses from the State Department to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.
White
House knew about Clinton's e-mails in August. The White House learned in August that
House Republicans knew Hillary Clinton had been using her personal email to conduct official
business as Secretary of State, Politico reported Friday [3/6/2015]. It was then that officials
at the State Department first noticed the personal email appeared in a document being provided to
Republicans has part of their investigation of the Benghazi attacks, according to the report.
Administration officials reportedly deferred to Clinton's personal staff, who decided not to tackle
the issue publicly until it was made public this week by The New York Times.
White
House Suggests Obama Found Out About Hillary Email Scandal From 'Reading The Newspaper'. Aboard Air
Force One, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest indicated that President Obama probably found out about the
Hillary Clinton email scandal from "the newspaper." Earnest admitted he had "no idea" when Obama learned
that Clinton was exclusively using a private email account based on a home server but that he "wouldn't be surprised,
however, if he had learned about that by reading the newspaper."
Valerie
Jarrett: 'I Don't Know' if Obama Officials Ever Received Emails from Hillary. During a
Friday morning [3/6/2015] interview on Bloomberg TV, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett was
asked whether she or any other administration officials received emails from former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton on her personal clintonemail.com server. Her answer: "I don't know."
The grilling came at the tail end of an interview about the White House "Let Girls Learn" initiative,
when anchors Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle pivoted to the ongoing Clinton email controversy,
asking: "I'd have to imagine that while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State you received emails
from her..." "I actually did not," Jarrett insisted. "No, I have not received an email from
Secretary Clinton."
A
Hillary Clinton Email the State Department Couldn't Find. Hillary Clinton supporters
have defended her use of a private email account to conduct official State Department business by
arguing that she emailed colleagues at their government addresses, ensuring that a copy of the
correspondence would be retained on government servers and available to archivists. As it turns out,
some aides to Hillary Clinton also used private email addresses. But even if Team Hillary's initial
claim had held together, it wouldn't matter. Public records laws encompass not just correspondence
with other government employees but also emails with third parties about government business.
That's why a particular email flagged by J.K. Trotter is important.
State
Dept. changes story on Clinton emails. In a reversal, the State Department
acknowledged Friday [3/6/2015] that a Congressional investigation into the attack on U.S. facilities in
Benghazi played a role in the agency's decision to ask Hillary Clinton and three other secretaries
of state to turn over copies of all work-related emails they sent or received on private accounts
during their tenure. State spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that a special House committee's
ongoing probe into the Benghazi incident was one of many factors that led the department to send a
request last October that resulted in Clinton sending her former agency 55,000 pages of emails she
exchanged on an unofficial account.
Dems
denounce subpoena for Hillary Clinton emails. Democrats on the House Committee on
Benghazi are calling on the panel's Republican chairman to withdraw subpoenas sent to the State
Department for Hillary Clinton's personal emails. In a letter sent to Chairman Trey Gowdy
(R-S.C.) on Friday, the five Democrats on the panel criticized Gowdy for issuing the formal request
for documents from Clinton's term as secretary of state without consulting with Democrats and
accused the committee of operating as a campaign arm of the Republican National Committee.
Is
the Mysterious 'Eric Hoteham' Actually Longtime Clinton Aide Eric Hothem? The name of
the mysterious individual who registered the servers for Hillary Clinton's private email address
used at the State Department bears a striking resemblance to a longtime Clinton aide. [...] The
customer listed in records registering the Internet address to the Chappaqua home was "Eric
Hoteham." The AP, however, was unable to identify an "Eric Hoteham," stating that the
"name does not appear in public records databases, campaign contribution records, or Internet
background searches." But the name is similar to that of Eric Hothem, who worked as a
staff assistant for Clinton during her time as First Lady.
Geriatric oligarch hacks hardest hit. Reports:
Hillary's Use of Covert Email System to Skirt Subpoenas May Constitute a Felony. As
Flyovercountry observes, "Her crime, my fellow gentle snow flakes, had little to do with email,
although that was the vehicle which she used to commit her transgression. Her crime was establishing
a subpoena-proof system to hide her dealings on behalf of a public which has a legal right to know
what their servant is up to, even before she held the job for which said email was to be used. She
committed a covert act, three days before her confirmation hearing to cover up a crime she hadn't
even committed yet, but clearly was planning on committing in the very near future. [...]"
Hillary
lets Dems twist on her email scandal. If anything frightens lawmakers more than 4 inches of
snow, it is the prospect of getting crossways with Clinton's communications cutthroats. But they're not
giving Democrats much to work with here. Lashing out at the NYT and trying to shift the blame to the Obama
administration is not exactly putting Hill Democrats in their sweet spot. And when the subject —
lack of transparency and ethical concerns — goes to the heart of the party's misgivings about its
presumptive nominee, it's that much tougher.
Former
Clinton Spokesman Denies Using Private Email Account. A former State Department
spokesman for Hillary Clinton denied using a private email address to conduct official government
business in a lengthy email barrage that began Tuesday night [3/3/2015] and continued Wednesday. Gawker
reported on Tuesday [3/3/2015] that Huma Abedin and Philippe Reines, two longtime Clinton confidants, used
private email addresses to conduct State Department business during Clinton's time as secretary of state.
Clinton has been embroiled in a public records controversy since Monday, when the New York Times reported that
she exclusively used a private email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department, a possible
violation of federal records law and clearly at odds President Obama's much-touted transparency directives.
Hacker
Reveals Contents from Hillary's Private E-Mails and Shows Who She Was Talking To. It
appears Hillary Clinton was conducting serious and sensitive international affairs on her private
email account. She also kept up confidential correspondence with a political operative who hasn't
worked for the government in over a decade. The revelation that Secretary of State Clinton used a
private e-mail account rather than an official State Department e-mail struck many as troubling and
potentially criminal.
Bigger
Question: Did Hillary use unsecured email for Classified Info? [Scroll down] As Secretary of
State, Hillary presumably received classified and other protected information via email at least on
occasion, since it was her only email account. That distinguishes her from predecessors, who at
least had government email accounts. We need more facts on her usage, but if Hillary maintained
classified documents (including emails) on an unclassified computer device and email account, that
could raise much more serious issues than the records violation.
White House scrambles
to answer when they learned of Clinton email habits. White House spokesman Josh
Earnest, when asked about what the White House knew, said senior officials were emailing Clinton
while she was secretary of state and a few noticed she wasn't using a .gov email address. However,
he did not say when they noticed it and whether red flags were raised. He also said he had no
idea when President Obama first found out and claimed he wouldn't be surprised if Obama only learned
about it from "newspapers."
Krauthammer:
Hillary E-mails a Version of Depends on the Meaning of 'Is'. Krauthammer argued
Clinton was "clearly constructing a system in which you control access. If anybody ever demands
access you will have your lawyers out there for a year blocking, questioning, and protecting it.
And, as we just heard, if you want to make something disappear by swapping out a server, you can do
it, and nobody knows. Why would you do that if you're Secretary of State and you're not intending
at some point to be secretive about it? [...]"
Hillary
Clinton's use of private e-mail reflects poor judgment. Hillary Rodham Clinton has
served as first lady, a senator from New York and secretary of state. She is no newcomer to the
corridors of power. Her decision to exclusively use a private e-mail account while secretary
suggests she made a deliberate decision to shield her messages from scrutiny. It was a mistake that
reflects poor judgment about a public trust. Under the rules as they existed during Ms. Clinton's time
as secretary, from 2009 to 2013, government officials were not strictly required to use official e-mail
accounts. However, in 2011 the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said, "We are definitely instructed
that we need to conduct all of our work on our government accounts...." He said it was "administration
policy" to use government accounts. Did this not apply to Ms. Clinton at the State Department?
As
House panel issues subpoenas, questions mount over Clinton e-mails. A congressional
committee issued subpoenas Wednesday [3/4/2015] seeking information about Hillary Rodham Clinton's
use of a private e-mail account for official business while she was secretary of state, setting up
a potential legal clash with the presumptive Democratic front-runner for president. The move
followed the revelation that Clinton had installed a private server at her New York home that
allowed her, and not the State Department, to store her e-mail correspondence and later decide
which ones to turn over as public records.
Judicial
Watch Sues for Hillary and Huma's Egypt Emails. Judicial Watch announced today
[3/4/2015] that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State
Department seeking any and all communications — including emails — from
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Chief of Staff Huma Abedin with Nagla Mahmoud, wife
of ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi, from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2013.
This latest lawsuit will require the State Department to answer questions about and conduct thorough
searches of Hillary Clinton's newly discovered hidden email accounts. Judicial Watch also has
nearly a dozen other active FOIA lawsuits that may require the State Department to search these
email accounts. Huma Abedin is also alleged to have a secret account as well.
A
flustered Marie Harf is grilled on Clinton's private email. At this point, I feel
sorry for Department of State spokeswoman Marie Harf. She's always in way over her head.
Harf's latest mess comes to us from a press conference held earlier today. Reporters asked if the
Department of State could say with certitude that Clinton's private email was never used to share
classified information. DOS's response? "It's not really a pertinent question."
Don't
ask Dems about Hillary Clinton's emails. Everyone in Washington is talking about
Hillary Clinton's email controversy — except Democrats in Congress. The mere mention of
Clinton's travails sent Democrats scrambling to avoid commenting, if they answered questions at all.
White
House lawyers were not aware of Hillary Clinton's use of personal email. The White
House counsel's office was not aware at the time Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state that
she relied solely on personal email and only found out as part of the congressional investigation
into the Benghazi attack, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Clinton's
Parallel Government and Obama's Great Miscalculation. When it was revealed last week
that the Clinton Foundation accepted money from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was
secretary of state, Fox anchor Bret Baier asked a good question: "How big a problem is this
becoming? Now not only for Clinton but for the [Obama] administration?" Now with latest revelations
that for purposes of digital communication Hillary essentially ran her own parallel government, it's clear that
Clinton's ethical lapses should also be a scandal for President Obama. But to understand where Obama went
wrong here it's instructive to remember how he approached the idea of nominating Hillary to be his secretary of
state after the 2008 election.
Hillary
Clinton: Too big to fail. Here's the good news for Hillary Clinton: She is a bona fide
rock star. She consistently tops the list of the most admired women in the world, and she is arguably one
of its most powerful. Not since Margaret Thatcher has a woman commanded the attention of so many while
having to answer to so few. And nothing — not even losing a second Presidential election, I'd
wager — can diminish the level of stardom and influence she has achieved. Here's the bad news:
All this should probably disqualify her from becoming the next President of the United States.
Who's
ready for a Marie Harf grilling over Clinton email scandal? [Scroll down] Harf claims Clinton
was in line with the practices of Sec. Condolleezza Rice. That is not true, according to reports on Rice's
practices. Sources contend she rarely used e-mail to conduct official business — more understandable
in the world of 2006 than now — but that when she did, it was on official state.gov servers.
Clinton
Emails Inject Obama's Administration Into 2016 Fray. The White House counsel's office
was not aware at the time Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state that she relied solely on
personal email and only found out as part of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi
attack, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Hillary
Clinton says she's asked State Department to make emails public. Hillary Clinton said
late Wednesday [3/4/2015] that she had asked the State Department to make thousands of her emails
available to the public, her first public response to a furor that followed the revelation that she
used a private email account for her correspondence while secretary of state.
Secrets
of Clinton emails revealed. Chelsea Clinton went by the pseudonym Diane Reynolds, and
Hillary used the same email account that was dedicated to her work at the State Department to plan
her daughter's wedding, a new report has revealed. At the center of the controversy is Hillary
Clinton's email account [...], which was set up a day before she was confirmed in 2009 by a Senate
committee to join newly elected President Barack Obama's cabinet.
Clinton
State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email. In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to
Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post. According to a Foreign Policy
report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a withering
evaluation from the State Department: [...]
Something
to hide. There's a new chapter in the familiar Clinton dodge, this one written by
Hillary. On Monday [3/2/2015] The New York Times reported that Mrs. Clinton stubbornly refused to use a
government email account during her tenure as secretary of state, choosing instead a private account
to better hide her emails. This likely violates the U.S. Records Act, and we've seen this kind of
Clinton subterfuge before. The Associated Press reports that Mrs. Clinton's private email server
is registered to one Eric Hoteham, a name connected to presidentclinton.com and wjcoffice.com, an
address no longer in use. Bill Clinton (aka wjc) used this address when he was in the White House.
Fast forward 14 years, over to Benghazi and through the woods, and the email address for Mr. Hoteham
is traced to the Clinton residence in Chappaqua, New York.
If
Not Hillary Clinton, Then Who? Clinton's allies are already insisting the email
story — that Clinton exclusively used her personal email address while at the State
Department — is a nothing-burger. It isn't news. It will blow over after conservatives
have had their 48 hours of outrage. After all, it's unclear whether Clinton actually violated any
rules! Move along, nothing to see here. But the story doesn't make the Democrats' only current
hope look good.
Awkward
Petraeus precedent as Hillary may face criminal liability over her secret email system. It must have
seemed like a good idea at the time to prosecute General David Petraeus over mishandling of classified material.
But that was before it came to light that Hillary Clinton did not bother with an official and secure State Department
email account, instead preferring to use a private server under her own control that lacked the kind of security measures
in place at the state.gov domain. Now, explicit comparisons of the two former officials are being drawn.
Hillary
Clinton Still Doesn't Get It. A cornered Clinton is a craven Clinton, which is why we
should view Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest public relations trick with practiced skepticism. "I
want the public to see my email," she tweeted Wednesday night [3/4/2015]. "I asked State to release
them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible." If she wants us to see
her email, why did she create a secret account stored on a dark server registered at her home?
Did
Hillary Commit a Felony? Plenty of lawyers, including some who have a lot of experience with
federal-records laws, have opined that Hillary Clinton did not "technically" violate the law.
Reasonable minds may disagree, but that conclusion is hard to accept. The Federal Records Act
requires the preservation of any official "record," which is defined functionally to require preservation
whenever a record relates to the performance of a federal official's duties. There is little
question that Hillary Clinton was conducting official business on her private e-mail account, and her
turning over 55,000 pages of documents only after she left office all but concedes that (but
may not concede the full scope of her use of that account).
In
2000 Video Hillary Clinton Says She Doesn't "Do Email" Because Of Investigations Into Her. Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come under fire in recent days after the New York Times revealed she
exclusively used a private email address to conduct official business in her capacity as the nation's top
diplomat. A subsequent Associated Press report revealed Clinton used a computer server registered to
her New York state home to send and receive email, a move they described as "highly unusual."
Hm:
Hillary was warned over private e-mail use, security? Several have wondered, surely
there was someone in the Clinton orbit who said, "Hey, maybe it's not the greatest idea ever for you
to ignore federal records acts, never get a government e-mail, and so obviously hide everything you
do during your tenure at the State Department." Well, there wasn't anyone close enough to her
to care to get the message through, apparently, but there was someone.
Clinton
Ran Homebrew Computer Service For Official Emails. The computer server that
transmitted and received Hillary Clinton's emails — on a private account she used exclusively for
official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to
her family's home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The Hillary Cover-Up
and the End of Democracy. On Monday [3/2/2015], The New York Times reported that
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never — not once — used her official
State Department email address for her official communications. Instead, she utilized a private
email account, effectively protecting her emails from public scrutiny. The Washington Post then
broke the news that Hillary had registered her email address the same day her confirmation hearings
for secretary of state began. In other words, Hillary knew she would be secretary of state
conducting official business, and coincidentally opened a private email account at the same time
to guard her from Freedom of Information Act requests.
Planet
Hillary Sends in The Cavalry to Debunk Email Scandal, Fails to Correct the Record. One
Hillary Clinton ally believes the New York Times owes Clinton an apology. David Brock,
known for his loyalty, went on Morning Joe Wednesday [3/4/2015] to come to Clinton's defense.
Brock called Michael S. Schmidt's article about Clinton using a private email address while
Secretary of State "sloppily done" and demanded a retraction. Instead, the reporter doubled down.
Schmidt reported Wednesday that when Clinton was asked for emails related to the Benghazi scandal, the
State Department did not hand over any emails from Clinton's personal account.
Hillary
Clinton's Criminal Activities Must Disqualify her from the Presidency. 'Witch hunts"
sometimes find a witch, and those who dismissed the establishment of the House Benghazi Select
Committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as just another witch hunt are eating their words.
The existence of a personal account that Hillary Clinton used to conduct government business as secretary
of state was discovered by the committee and reported by the New York Times. Clinton's use of this
personal account explains why investigations of the Benghazi terrorist attack — and her
culpability in our diplomatic mission's vulnerability there, the failure to heed warnings and the
cover-up afterward — failed to find much email evidence of her direct involvement.
Other
Hillary State Dept Aides Held Private Email Addresses For Secretive Communication. We
shared this expectation last evening within hours of finding out about the secret Clinton email
accounts. Specifically, regarding Huma Abedin. If there were other State Department Officers and
aides to Hillary who held similar email profiles Abedin would definitely be at the top of the list.
Hillary's
Benghazi problem is back. Monday night [3/2/2015], it was revealed that Hillary
Clinton used a personal email account the entire time she served as secretary of state. Not only
does conducting official business with a private account violate federal law, it raises a host of
concerns ranging from whether or not her communications were secure from foreign intelligence
services, to whether we'll be able to piece together an accurate historical record. Given Hillary
Clinton's legal troubles in the 1990s relating to keeping track of documents, it seems implausible she
was not aware of the illegality of what was going on.
Hillary
Clinton's private e-mail address at State reinforces everything people don't like about
her. The New York Times' report Monday night that Hillary Clinton never used an
official government e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, a possible violation of
requirements for federal officials to archive their correspondence, is a perfect storm of political
bad news for the soon-to-be presidential candidate. Why? Because it reminds and reinforces for
people many of the traits that they do not like in the Clintons while also suggesting a level of hubris
that is very dangerous for someone who is the biggest non-incumbent frontrunner for a presidential
nomination in modern political history. Let's tackle — point by point —
why this story is so bad for Clinton. [...]
The
Lessons of Hillary Clinton's Secrecy. We now know that Hillary Clinton evaded government record-keeping
and jeopardized national security by using a private email account while Secretary of State. Troubling as this
incident is, it points to larger and more disturbing lessons about the woman who may become our next president.
Hillary
Clinton's email server traced to home-based service: AP. The computer server that transmitted and
received Hillary Clinton's emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business
when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home
in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press. If the details in
the AP report are true, they add a new level of secrecy and sophistication surrounding her e-mail use while she
was at the State Department, observes CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan.
NYT:
Hillary conducted official State business on her private e-mail account — all of it. Ever wonder
why multiple investigations of the Benghazi attack failed to turn up much from Hillary Clinton's e-mails? So
did the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the facility and the failures that led to it. To their
surprise, the Secretary of State had conducted all of her e-mail on a private account rather than an official State
Department account — and her aides had carefully culled only the e-mails they wanted investigators to see.
Report:
Hillary Clinton Evaded Government Email While Secretary Of State. The New York
Times is reporting that, during the time that she served as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
exclusively used a private email account with unknown security protocols to communicate with State
Department employees, others in the Federal Government and, presumably, foreign government
officials, in what appears to be a violation of both the letter and the spirit of Federal
record keeping laws.
Hillary
Set Up Her Off-the-Books Email Account the Day Her Confirmation Hearings Began. No, it
wasn't a mistake, or an oversight. Clinton's efforts to drag her correspondence into the
unaccountable shadows were carefully planned and deliberate. They required a great deal of
cooperation from the rest of the Obama administration, which had to pretend not to notice that none
of Hillary's mail was coming from the State Department's domain. And we're not talking about a
couple of messages sent improperly here and there, or even the sort of secretive backstage
communications network Obama administration officials are so fond of (and which, let us stipulate,
politicians of both parties, at every level of government, have employed.) No, Hillary Clinton
routed all of her correspondence through her off-the-books account, and only a portion of it
was captured when her email slipped into the in-boxes of other officials who did use properly
archived accounts.
Hillary
Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules. Hillary Rodham
Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of
state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials'
correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record.
Hillary
Clinton 'used an unsecured personal email account for her four years as Secretary of State. Hillary
Clinton used only a personal email address to conduct official government business during her four-year tenure as
Secretary of State in a 'serious' breach of protocol, officials have said. The 67-year-old former first lady
did not acquire nor use a government email account while serving in the position from January 2009 to February
2013, State Department officials said. She also failed to preserve her correspondence on the State Department's
servers — something that is required of officials under the US Federal Records Act — until two months ago.
Clinton
may have broken transparency rules with email use at State. Former Secretary of State
and presumptive Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton might have violated transparency
rules by solely using her personal email address for official business, according to a report in The
New York Times. That means that her official correspondence from her tenure at the State
Department wasn't immediately backed up on government servers, so aides had to comb through emails
to hand official work over to the State Department. So far, aides gave the agency 55,000 emails,
according to the Times, and recently turned over 900 pages discussing the attacks on the
annex in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
Does
Clinton Email Report 'Breathe New Life' into Benghazi Investigation? Last night
[3/2/2015] the New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton had used a personal email address
while Secretary of State, meaning portions of her correspondence were potentially not archived by
the department per federal regulations. The discovery was made by the Benghazi Select Committee,
to which Clinton submitted about 300 emails as part of its investigation into the 2012 attack on the
American consulate in Libya. The revelation of Clinton's personal email account and the possibility
that it portends of an unknown number of emails not captured by the State Department's system would
appear to be the exact sort of treasure trove for which committee head Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was looking.
Will
Rep. Trey Gowdy and Benghazi Select Committee Subpoena Hillary's Personal Emails? The
New York Times reported yesterday [3/2/2015] that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
may have violated the law by exclusively using a personal email account to conduct State Department
business and further that Clinton did not EVER have an official State Department email. It is
required by the Federal Records Act that all government emails and records must be preserved.
Clinton's aides did not take any action to preserve Hilary's private emails, the only record
of her communications. The New York Times also reported that Clinton's people sent over
55,000 emails and documents to the State Department only TWO MONTHS AGO to comply with federal
record keeping laws.
Hillary's Choice.
Hillary Clinton is responsible for her choices. Bad choices. Dodge federal transparency and security
rules for email. Take money from foreign countries that discriminate against women and seek influence over
U.S. policy.
Clinton
e-mail scandal disqualifies her for president. [Scroll down] Clinton was
nowhere to be found when members of both parties complained about the NSA wiretapping scandal
conducted by President Obama. Clinton has yet to denounce President Obama for maintaining a kill
list of American citizens without providing them any due process. She not only did not denounce
Obama Administration officials from maintaining secret e-mail accounts — she set one up
herself. This is a classic case of partisan doublespeak. Hillary Clinton is not to be trusted.
Democratic
Donors Unfazed By Hillary Clinton's Use of Private Email. Top Democratic donors say
they are unfazed by the disclosure that Hillary Clinton conducted State Department business on a
personal email account, although several said she could fend off Republican criticism by addressing
the issue head-on and announcing her candidacy for president. The presumed front-runner for the
Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination had generally avoided controversy until the email
issue emerged.
President Obama discusses the Clinton email scandal:
Obama
still thinks Clinton email use didn't hurt national security. The top White House spokesman said Tuesday
[5/31/2016] that President Obama stands by his earlier statement that Hillary Clinton didn't do anything to jeopardize
national security by using a private server for all of her work email when she ran the State Department.
Obama's
latest defense of Clinton has lawyers cringing. The president tried to remain neutral for months in the race
for the White House, and pledged only to get involved in the general election after the Democratic Party had selected its
nominee. But this month, Obama waded into the increasingly contentious primary to bat down Bernie Sanders' argument
that Clinton is not qualified to be president, and more recently appeared to diminish the severity of her alleged mishandling
of classified documents on her private server.
Obama puts his thumb
on the scale for Hillary. [Scroll down] Naturally, the assumption is that the Clintons have this thing
wired, that she's got it all rigged the Chicago Way. [...] All the president had to do was decline to comment.
Officials do that all the time with pending investigations. But the president didn't decline. He talked.
And he knows that every word a president says has profound weight. So with Mr. Obama all but testifying for
Clinton, saying what she did was unintentional, that it may have been careless but ultimately harmless, well, you don't
need a be a mountain man to read those tracks in the snow.
Machiavellian
or dumb? Obama's take on Hillary Clinton's emails is hard to figure out. President Barack Obama's recent
remarks to my Fox News colleague Chris Wallace about Hillary Clinton's email issues were either Machiavellian or dumb.
It is difficult to tell from them whether he wants the mountain of evidence of her criminal behavior presented to a federal
grand jury or he wants her to succeed him in the White House. He cannot have both. His efforts to minimize his
former secretary of state's diversion of emails from government-secured servers to her own non-secure home server by calling
it "careless" may actually harm her in the eyes of the public or even serve as a dog whistle to the FBI. That's because
carelessness is a species of negligence, and espionage, which is the failure to safeguard state secrets by removing them from
their proper place of custody, is the rare federal crime that can be proved by negligence — to be precise, gross negligence.
Leading Republican Rips
Obama For Insulting Decision to 'Opine' About Clinton Email Probe. The Senate's No. 2 Republican criticized
President Obama's recent decision to "opine" publicly about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email,
calling the move inappropriate and insulting. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R., Texas) reiterated his call for the
appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation during remarks to the Senate floor Thursday [4/14/2016], adding that
Obama's remarks earlier this week reinforced the need for an objective party to investigate and possibly prosecute Clinton, a
former member of the administration. During an interview that aired on Fox News Sunday, Obama admitted that Clinton
displayed a "carelessness" in handling her emails but dismissed concerns about her correspondences holding classified
information. While none of Clinton's messages were marked classified on her email, the federal government has
determined that over 2,000 are currently classified, 22 of which at the "top secret" level.
Obama
Declares Hillary Innocent, Then Guarantees No Interference. [T]he reason the email affair of the Democrats'
presidential front-runner is so important is that it has already been proved that she handled classified information, after
categorically denying doing so, through the private server she set up at her home in New York state. Unlike protected
government communications, those emails could have been intercepted or later compromised by foreign governments like those of
Russia or China, or by nongovernmental personnel tied to terrorists. So when President Obama went on to double down on
his claim last year that "I can tell that you this is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered,"
he was doing, as president, exactly what he was promising not to do — interfering. In fact, he was declaring
her innocent before she has been proven guilty or not guilty.
Obama's
Latest View on Secrecy Overlooks Past Prosecution of Leaks. When President Obama defended Hillary Clinton's
email practices in a television interview over the weekend by saying, "there's classified, and then there's classified," he
was only repeating what critics of government secrecy have long contended: that most of what is classified is merely
sensitive, a little embarrassing or perhaps a policy debate still in progress. But these are distinctions the Obama
administration has not necessarily made in its treatment of classified information when dealing with news organizations,
whistle-blowers or government officials accused of leaking information.
Obama
Again Uses His Main Lie-Tell: "Period". If you've kept up with our president's lying tells you'll recognize one
of them in the following: You can keep your doctor, period. You can keep your plan, period. You'll save $2500 a
year, period. More recently he's been quoted as saying that Iran has not broken the Nuke deal, period. So at this
point we have the advantage of knowing how to tell if Obama is lying (aside from his being awake and talking). When Chris
Wallace of Fox News last weekend asked him if he was involved in the FBI investigation of Hillary's email and server issue he
said that he was not, "Period". So there you have it from the supreme ruler's mouth. Obama is heavily involved in
getting Hillary out of her mess and no punishment will be inflicted on her at all.
Obama:
"There's Classified, And Then There's Classified". In the quote above, our beloved president was of course
referring to Hillary's exposing of classified national secrets via her unsecured and illegal email server, and without
question he asserts that Hillary has done nothing wrong, so we can expect the outcome of the FBI investigation into her
destructive ramblings about the globe as Secretary of State to reflect what he wants to not happen here. There will
be no consequences for her destructive and illegal behavior and she'll continue her pursuit of the presidency.
Barack
Obama, National Security Risk. Barack Obama has made some of the stranger foreign policy decisions in American
history such as going into Libya even after the Iraq debacle and making the nuclear deal with (aka billion-dollar
hand-out to) Iran. Now we know why. He simply doesn't care about our national security. He practically said
as much on Fox News Sunday this weekend [4/10/2016]. As Obama explained to Chris Wallace regarding the contents of
Hillary Clinton's email currently under FBI investigation, "there's classified and then there's classified." He further
opined that all Hillary was guilty of was "carelessness." What a bizarre and lawless thing for a president to say while a
federal investigation is being undertaken by over a hundred FBI agents. Put simply, the president of the United States
is a security risk.
Obama's
'classified' comments strike nerve. President Obama's latest defense of Hillary Clinton has struck a nerve with
both the GOP and government leakers such as Edward Snowden. The president's comments — "there's classified
and then there's classified" — suggested some classified information is more sensitive than other classified
information, uniting in scorn critics across the political spectrum. To advocates for government transparency, the
remarks stunk of duplicity by suggesting that federal classification rules are arbitrary and don't apply to the Democratic
presidential front-runner.
Obama
vows no influence in Clinton email probe, defends terror fight. President Obama repeatedly vowed there would be
no political influence over the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while
secretary of state — in a wide-ranging interview with "Fox News Sunday" in which he also ardently defended his
efforts to defeat the Islamic State and other terror groups amid criticism about his perceived indifference. "I guarantee
that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this
case, but in any case," Obama said." "Nobody is above the law. How many times do I have to say it?"
The Editor says...
If you believe anything Barack H. Obama says, especially when he's this emphatic, you obviously haven't browsed
through the catalog of Obama's lies.
Not
Really TOP SECRET TOP SECRET. [Scroll down] Now this is almost unbelievable from a variety of perspectives,
but we have grown accustomed to Obama's transgressions against propriety and taste as well as the legal order. Today
President Obama gives us a new top secret security classification for the benefit of Hillary Clinton: Not really
top secret top secret. Loose translation: forget about it. The fix is in. Incidentally,
the exposure of national defense information through gross negligence makes out a felony violation of the Espionage Act.
You don't have to mean to do it. You just have to do what Clinton did.
Obama Interferes
in Hillary Email Case. President Obama on Sunday [4/10/2016] appears to have inappropriately interfered in an
FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton, suggesting she did little that was seriously wrong and touting her as a woman who might
have exhibited "carelessness" but had done "an outstanding job" as secretary of state. "I continue to believe that she
has not jeopardized national security," Obama said during an interview on Fox News on Sunday [4/10/2016]. "There's a
carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she has recognized, but I also think it's important to keep
this in perspective. This is somebody that has served her country for four years as secretary of state and done an
outstanding job."
Obama
vows 'no political influence' in Clinton email probe. President Obama repeatedly vowed there would be no political influence
over the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state — in a
wide-ranging interview with "Fox News Sunday" [4/10/2016] in which he also ardently defended his efforts to defeat the Islamic State and
other terror groups amid criticism about his perceived indifference. "I guarantee that there is no political influence in any
investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case," Obama told "Fox News
Sunday." "Nobody is above the law. How many times do I have to say it?"
Obama
tells Loretta Lynch not to prosecute Hillary on classified email crimes. Interviewed by Chris Wallace of Fox
News, President Obama pulled down the blindfold on Lady Justice and signaled that there was no crime at all when Hillary
Clinton set up an unsecured private server and left classified information vulnerable to hacking by the world's intelligence
services. He also created a new category of classification: "top secret top secret" as opposed to mere
"top secret," which he averred to Chris Wallace might be information that could be gleaned from public sources.
All in all, it was a remarkable performance, in which the president of the United States in effect told the Justice Department
not to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Obama:
'I Guarantee That There Is No Political Influence' in Any DOJ Investigation. President Obama said he can
"guarantee" that the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails will be based on evidence, not politics. [... But]
the Obama Justice Department previously has sidestepped investigations that could prove damaging to the president. Under
former Attorney General Eric Holder, the Justice Department refused to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious
gun-walking operation, for which Holder was held in contempt of Congress. And the Obama Justice Department refused to
prosecute former IRS official Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress after she to testify about the improper scrutiny given to
conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
The Inspector General's report:
The
overlooked bombshell of the IG report. Before the report was released, we knew from Comey's July 2016 statement
that Clinton's private emails included "seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special
Access Program level when they were sent and received." We also knew that the FBI "also found information that was
properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail." Comey further
declared, "We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom
Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account." And he speculated that, given how "extremely
careless" Clinton had been, it was "possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail account."
Well, it turns out, the FBI knew with certainty at the time that hostile actors had in fact gained access to classified information
via Clinton's emails.
The
FBI Deliberately Ignored 'Golden Emails,' Crucial Abedin Messages And More. The Department of Justice, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Hillary Clinton have a HUGE Weiner problem that is even bigger than we first
realized. According to the recently released inspector general report, on September 28 and 29, 2016 the New
York office of the FBI immediately reported to the Washington headquarters its discovery of, first, 141,000 and then 350,000
emails on the laptop of Anthony Weiner — also known as "Carlos Danger," a now-convicted sex offender.
Mr. Weiner is the husband of Hillary Clinton's inseparable aide Huma Abedin.
The Buried Lede
of the Inspector General's Report. Buried in Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz's report on the Clinton
email investigation lies a disturbing passage concerning information obtained by the FBI alleging that Attorney General
Loretta Lynch attempted to put her thumb on the scales of justice to exonerate Hillary Clinton. "Comey said that he
also was concerned about an issue specific to Lynch," Horowitz reports. "As discussed in more detail in the classified
appendix to this report, Comey told the OIG that the FBI had obtained highly classified information in March 2016 that
included allegations of partisan bias or attempts to impede the Midyear investigation by Lynch." What, specifically,
did the "highly classified information" indicate? It is "highly classified," so we naturally remain in the dark.
What justified making the information "highly classified"? Nuclear secrets? A list of U.S. spies abroad?
War plans to invade Canada? We do not know. But in an age when the Justice Department assails words that merely
embarrass with redacting markers, the words "highly classified" provoke curiosity rather than close questions. Comey's
manner of dismissing the information does not inspire confidence.
Clinton
Email IG Report: Why Is The FBI Still Covering For Discredited Agents At The Heart Of The
'Investigation'? Two agents and an attorney at the heart of the FBI's Clinton email "investigation" expose
flagrant political bias at the heart of that probe. So why won't the FBI release their names to the public? And
given what these key players said, how did the inspector general come to conclude that the "investigation" was
unbiased? Were changes made to water it down?
Understanding
Hillary's Crimes. An overwhelming wealth of story lines emerge from the IG report on the Clinton email
"investigation," as I call it, released this past Thursday. I posted it via Scrbid here. Andrew McCarthy pointed
out before the election in 2016 and repeatedly since (perhaps most recently here), the fix was in from the beginning.
The fix was in because Obama was in on the wrongdoing and he was the head of the executive branch at the time. When
Obama spoke, as he did, FBI Director James Comey took his cues from him. She meant no harm, Obama said. There was
nothing to see there!
Dinesh
D'Souza on IG Report: In America Today There Are Quite a Few Criminals with Badges. On Thursday,
Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his much anticipated review on FBI and DOJ actions during the Hillary Clinton
email investigation. The IG report found an institutionalized corruption and bias and far left operatives influencing
policy throughout the upper echelons of the FBI. Inspector General Horowitz referred FIVE FBI employees for investigation
after MORE disgusting anti-Trump text messages surfaced. The five FBI employees have not been named at this time.
The Anatomy of a Partisan Pile-Up.
The picture that emerges of Jim Comey from the Inspector General's report is one of an astonishingly arrogant weirdo, an FBI
director who pompously talked about "norms" while shattering them on his own say-so — from crowning himself the de
facto attorney general, thereby sparing Hillary an indictment, to lesser offenses of self-indulgence, such as his richly
ironic use of Gmail to conduct official business. Anyone who goes to the trouble of slogging through this mountainous
report will wonder how such an unreliable and self-deluded flake could hold any position at the FBI, let alone serve as the
chief witness in Mueller's investigation of a sitting president.
IG
report: DOJ official sought Clinton campaign job for son, then shared case info with Podesta. The Justice
Department inspector general report released Thursday [6/14/2018] faulted a former DOJ official for sending then-Hillary
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta a "heads up" about the release schedule for Clinton's emails — as he also
tried to get his son a job with the campaign. Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report found that former Assistant
Attorney General Peter Kadzik demonstrated "poor judgment" in failing to recognize appearances of a conflict of interest or
properly recuse himself from investigations related to Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. The report, which
looked at the FBI and DOJ's handling of the Clinton email investigation, found that Kadzik asked Clinton campaign spokesman
Brian Fallon in April 2015 for a job for his son — while Kadzik was involved in discussions about Clinton-related matters.
Why Hasn't Peter
Strzok Been Fired Yet? I don't understand why he wasn't showed the door the day the IG discovered the "we'll
stop it" text. Whether he actually did anything to stop Trump is key for investigative purposes but beside the point
for employment purposes. The mere appearance of impropriety in having a federal official on the Clinton/Trump beat
talking about "stopping" one presidential candidate is so foul that you have to fumigate. Step one is Strzok finding a
new career.
IG
Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received Free Handouts From Journalists. The Department of Justice inspector
general identified a number of instances where FBI employees regularly spoke with members of the media and received a number
of free perks from journalists including meals and tickets to various events. On page XII in the report, the IG says
the department "identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact
with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters." The IG expressed "profound concerns bout [sic]
the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered our review."
The
IG Report Shows that the Fix was In from [the] Start of the Clinton Email Investigation. The long-awaited report from the
Justice Department's inspector general about the FBI's handling of the Clinton email scandal seems to absolve the bureau of any political
bias. What it really shows, however, is that the FBI — under pressure from President Obama — was just going
through the motions the whole time.
Inspector
General's Report: FBI May Have Covered up Weiner Laptop to Help Clinton. Democrats have long complained
that then-FBI Director James Comey's announcement in late October 2016 that he was re-opening the investigation into Hillary
Clinton's emails cost them the presidential election. But the report of the Department of Justice Inspector General,
released Thursday, shows that the FBI may actually have neglected an investigation into emails found on Anthony Weiner's
laptop in an effort to stop Donald Trump from winning.
Comey
Broke From FBI Procedures in Clinton Probe, Watchdog Finds. Former FBI Director James Comey was "insubordinate"
in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the bureau and the Justice Department's image of impartiality even
though he wasn't motivated by politics, the department's watchdog found. Although the report issued Thursday [6/14/2018]
by Inspector General Michael Horowitz doesn't deal directly with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russia meddling
in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with those around Donald Trump, the president and his Republican allies in
Congress were primed to seize on it as evidence of poor judgment and anti-Trump bias within the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Justice Department.
IG
Report: FBI Agent Said Trump Voters 'Poor, Uneducated, Lazy, POS'. The Justice Department inspector
general released a 500-plus page report on misconduct by FBI agents and DOJ staff working on the Hillary Clinton
investigations. Among many other topics, the IG report documents the content of texts and instant messages sent by FBI
agents. The communications show favoritism towards Hillary in the agents' personal views, but also in how various
aspects of the investigation should be conducted. They also reveal a rancid contempt towards Donald Trump as well as
Americans who support him.
Report
rebukes Comey, but says no bias in Clinton email case. Former FBI Director James Comey made a "serious error of judgment"
when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary
Clinton's use of a private e-mail server, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Thursday [6/14/2018].
IG
report suggests either Bill Clinton or Loretta Lynch is lying about their tarmac meeting. Department of Justice
Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report strongly indicates that either former Attorney General Loretta Lynch or former
President Bill Clinton is lying about how Clinton came to board Lynch's plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix
in June 2016. That meeting took place as the FBI was conducting its investigation into Hillary Clinton's possible mishandling
of classified material. When it became public, the meeting thus raised concerns that Lynch was being pressured by or
colluding with the former president to prevent Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted. Yet while Horowitz's report does
not shed light on whether the Hillary Clinton email investigation came up in the meeting between Lynch and Clinton's husband
(both parties deny that it was raised), the report does suggest that Bill Clinton or Lynch is lying. Because the two
stories do not add up.
DOJ
watchdog sets date for release of long-awaited review of Hillary Clinton probe. The long-awaited watchdog
report on the FBI and DOJ's Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign will be released next
Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Horowitz said "we anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018." That day is also President Trump's birthday.
The inspector general also told committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in the letter that he has accepted the invitation
to testify about the report on June 18, meaning his scheduled appearance before the committee is being delayed again.
Who
leaked portions of the IG report, and why? [Scroll down] Up until now, there have been no leaks at all
from the I.G.'s office itself, so a leak at this late stage most likely comes from a subject asked to review it. In other
words, the leaks came from people anxious to minimize the impact of the report when it finally comes out and to shape its impact
in a direction favoring a narrative hostile to conservative concerns. As to the delay of the report, last night, Joseph
DiGenova expressed my worst fears to Sean Hannity — that big-time pressure is being brought to bear on the I.G. to
sanitize it.
Stop
Sanitizing the Inspector General's Report and Deliver It Now. Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on
the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email "matter" (and other things, no doubt) has been completed for weeks.
Nevertheless, you and I, the taxpayers who paid for it, have not been permitted to see it. Only the
"elect" — those in that American nomenklatura composed of upper echelons of the DOJ, FBI and intelligence
agencies — have been given the privilege of perusing the roughly 500 pages in their pristine form. We,
the poor citizens, will probably never get that chance — and even that slim likelihood diminishes the longer this
seemingly interminable process takes, increasing the opportunity to exercise the red pen. Why has this happened?
Nothing, I'm afraid, could be more obvious. Those same privileged elites in our government are being given or are
taking the time themselves to sanitize the report, to bowdlerize the contents in order not to offend (or worse) certain
parties. This is only fair, they would say. If people are being accused, they should have a chance to defend
themselves. Indeed. But not before they are accused.
The
Collapse of the Collusion Narrative. The inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, is apparently
only a week away from a release to the Congress (i.e., the world) of his report on the official handling of the Clinton emails affair.
His report is reportedly 400 pages, and there has never in recent history been a 400-page nothingburger. It would be astounding
if there were not further criminal referrals for some of Trump's prominent tormenters, presumably starting with Comey, as there were for
former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe from the inspector general's first report.
Hillary
lies to create the illusion of transparency. Mrs. Clinton spurned the idea her decision to use a private
email server as Secretary of State was a way to avoid public record searches, and said it was more of a matter of convenience
that was allowed by the State Department, which broke no laws. "There's only so much I can control," Mrs. Clinton
said of what she considered unwarranted attacks on her email server, adding her responses to federal authorities
investigating the matter contained "more transparency and more information than anybody I'm aware of that's ever served in
the government." Not true. Lies, according to a State Department Inspector General report leaked on Wednesday [5/25/2016].
How EmailGate
Weakened America's National Security. Last week's devastating report by the State Department Inspector General
has made it plain to all who wish to see that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, violated numerous regulations pertaining
to federal records and cybersecurity, then lied effusively about it to the public. That State IG assessment has left
Clinton's defenders without much of a leg to stand on if they want an honest, fact-based defense of her actions in EmailGate.
Therefore, Team Clinton has resorted to their customary deceptions and dissimulations, buttressed by legalisms designed to obscure
truths rather than reveal them.
Inspector
General Report Effectively Terminates Hillary Clinton's Presidential Aspirations. With a State Department
Inspector General's report concluding that Hillary Clinton was not, and would not have been, permitted to use a private email
server during her tenure as secretary of state, the mainstream media have been forced to finally wake up and take notice of
this persistent Clinton scandal. But instead of reporting that the revelations demonstrate how unfit Mrs. Clinton
is for president, these news reports largely focus on the claim that it was merely record-keeping policies, or rules, which
were broken. "When two IT staffers raised concerns in 2010 that the system might not properly preserve records, the
official said the system had been reviewed by attorneys and chided the staffers 'never to speak of the Secretary's personal
email system again,' the report says," according to The Washington Post. "The IG's office said it could not find
evidence of such a legal review." In other words, the IT department was strong-armed into accepting Hillary's dangerous
email setup.
Hillary
on the ropes. The inspector general's report is damning to Mrs. Clinton. It refutes every defense
she has offered to the allegation that she mishandled state secrets. It revealed an email that hadn't been publicly
made known showing Mrs. Clinton's state of mind. And it paints a picture of a self-isolated secretary of state
stubbornly refusing to comply with federal law for venal reasons; she simply did not want to be held accountable for her
official behavior. The report rejects Mrs. Clinton's argument that her use of a private server "was allowed."
The report makes clear that it was not allowed, nor did she seek permission to use it. She did not inform the FBI, which
had tutored her on the lawful handling of state secrets, and she did not inform her own State Department information technology
folks. The report also makes clear that had she sought permission to use her own server as the instrument through which
all of her email traffic passed, such a request would have been flatly denied.
Clinton,
aides tried to use wireless devices in secure areas. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides tried to use personal
hand-held electronic devices inside areas used to store classified information, according to the just-released State Department inspector general
report. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the State Department's security arm, told the inspector general that in March 2009 Mrs. Clinton
rejected an offer from security officials to provide her with a secure government smartphone. "DS was informed that Secretary Clinton's staff
had been asking to use BlackBerry devices inside classified areas," said the report, released late last month.
White
House Can't Defend Hillary's (Lack Of) Cooperation With Inspector General Probe. During Tuesday's White House
briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest dodged a question asking him to defend Hillary Clinton's decision not to cooperate
with the Inspector General's probe into her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. The
report the Inspector General's office released in late May stated Clinton refused to use a government email to avoid risking
making her personal records "accessible."
How EmailGate
Weakened America's National Security. Last week's devastating report by the State Department Inspector General
has made it plain to all who wish to see that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, violated numerous regulations pertaining
to federal records and cybersecurity, then lied effusively about it to the public. That State IG assessment has left
Clinton's defenders without much of a leg to stand on if they want an honest, fact-based defense of her actions in EmailGate.
Therefore, Team Clinton has resorted to their customary deceptions and dissimulations, buttressed by legalisms designed to obscure
truths rather than reveal them.
Hillary
Clinton's Emails Now Might Finally Take Her Down. This past week has been a milestone of sorts for those who
closely follow the continuing saga of Hillary Clinton's wrongful use of email systems during her tenure as Secretary of
State. But the kind of milestone it was depends on where you stood when the week began. For those of us who
recognized from the outset that Ms. Clinton's exclusive use of a personal email system for all her official business
(not to mention her unprecedented use of a private server atop that) was a clear violation of the Federal Records Act
("FRA"), the findings of the State Department's Inspector General ("IG") to that effect in his May 25 report were no
surprise. In fact, on the admitted facts of the case, no other conclusion was possible, and it was simply another "shoe
waiting to be dropped."
Six
Clinton lies contradictions exposed by State's audit. [#4] It wasn't against the
rules: In July of last year, Clinton told CNN her private email use was not problematic because "there was no law,
there was no regulation" prohibiting her from using a personal account. She has repeatedly argued that her
record-keeping practices were "above board." However, the inspector general concluded Clinton did indeed violate rules
that were in place at the time she served as secretary of state. "Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal
records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records ... because she did not do so,
she did not comply with the department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act," the
report said.
State
Department Destroys 6 Clinton Lies About Her Email Server. The State Department Investigator General released
an 83 page report on Hillary Clinton's email practices as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 — and ripped her
over and over again for corrupt practices and lies. Here are six of those lies, debunked: [...]
Top
3 Lies Hillary Clinton Told About State Department Emails. The State Department Office Of Inspector General
(IG) released an audit last week that was absolutely damning to Hillary Clinton. Comparing the "Evaluation Of Email
Records Management And Cybersecurity Requirements" with the former secretary of state's past excuses and explanations could
only conclude she was lying — pretty much at every turn. Here are a few of the most notable, relevant
statements made by Mrs. Clinton that have now proven to be categorically false.
Hillary
Clinton is Compromised. To assess just how damaging a new State Department Inspector General's report on
Hillary Clinton's email practices is to her political career, one need only take note of the fact that the former secretary
of state has disappeared. When trouble arises, Clinton predictably scurries back into her bunker and allows the news
cycle to sort itself out — presuming perhaps that the unfocused political media will tire of the story faster if
she does not provide them with any new material to parse. That is not an invalid operating theory for dealing with an
ADD-afflicted press. 16 months into this scandal however, Clinton should know by now that this story isn't going away.
Further, the IG's report is objectively damning beyond its trite political value. The report casts doubt on the notion
that Hillary Clinton can serve as an unprejudiced commander-in-chief of the armed forces. In fact, to swear Clinton
into the presidency may seriously jeopardize American national security.
We Now Know
Hillary Lied Multiple Times About Her Email Server. Ever since news broke that Hillary Clinton used an
unauthorized and unsecured private e-mail server for all of her correspondence as secretary of state, she has defended
herself with several arguments. None of the information transmitted through the server was classified, Clinton insisted
at first, a claim that has been proven false in well over a thousand instances. Even after that fell apart, Clinton
claimed that the use of private e-mail for official business fell within the rules of the State Department and that she had
ensured that the server met the department's security requirements.
Hillary
Clinton's Emails: Lying in Plain Sight. Even after the inspector general's report was released, Clinton
continued to spin lies. She told ABC News and CNN that her use of a private server was "allowed." It was
not. Indeed, the report found that her modus operandi presented "significant security risks." State
Department officials warned of hacking attempts, which she did not heed. In an email she explained, "I don't want any
risk of the personal being accessible." So she risked national security. According to the report, when staff
spoke up about those risks, a staffer was told "never to speak of the Secretary's personal email system again."
Last week, the Associated Press reported that Clinton claimed, "I have provided all my work-related email." Wrong again.
Hillary
Clinton's endless lies. With the Clintons you can always count on one thing — it's never the crime;
it's the cover-up. For more than a year former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has insisted her use of a private
email server during her tenure at State was no big deal — nothing her predecessors didn't do. However,
according to a new inspector general's report, "By Secretary Clinton's tenure, the department's guidance was considerably
more detailed and more sophisticated. Secretary Clinton's cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in
light of these more comprehensive directives." The IG also found, "Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal
records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records... At a minimum Secretary
Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with department business before leaving government service, and because
she did not do so, she did not comply with the department's policies..." We also know she destroyed 32,000 emails
because they were "personal." How do we know that? Well, because she says so.
Clinton
email headache is about to get worse. A scathing inspector general's report this week was just the first in
what is likely to be a series of official actions related to her private server stemming from the FBI, a federal courthouse
and Capitol Hill. Clinton's presidential campaign has failed to quiet the furor over the issue, which has dogged her
for more than a year. In the next few weeks — just as the likely Democratic presidential nominee hopes to
pivot towards a general election — it will face its toughest scrutiny yet.
Origin
of Key Clinton Emails From Report Are a Mystery. After 14 months of public scrutiny and skepticism over
Clinton's motives in keeping her emails secret, new questions emerged Thursday [5/26/2016]. They centered on her
apparent failure to turn over a November 2010 message in which she worried that her personal messages could become accessible
to outsiders, along with two other messages a year later that divulged possible security weaknesses in the home email system
she used while secretary of state. The Clinton campaign has previously denied that her home server was breached, but
newly revealed emails show an aide worried it could have been compromised.
Clinton's
Style of Deception More Insidious than Trump's. The State Department's inspector general released a report this
week concluding that Hillary Clinton is a breathtakingly brazen and consistent liar. No, that's not a direct quote.
Bureaucrats don't talk that way under the best of circumstances — and this IG, Steve Linick, is an Obama appointee
whose report is about the apparent Democratic nominee for president. So it's all the more shocking, then, that the report
confirms nearly everything Clinton's critics have been saying. By setting up a secret email server in her home in
Chappaqua, N.Y., without proper authorization from any legal or security official, Clinton displayed a cavalier disregard for
national security and an outrageous desire to hide her doings from Freedom of Information Act requests, government archivists,
Congress, the press and, ultimately, the American people.
Cornyn:
IG Report Shows Need for Special Counsel to Probe Hillary's Server. The Senate majority whip today [5/26/2016]
reiterated his call for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server in the wake of the
State Department inspector general's report that sharply criticized the practices of the former secretary of State. The
IG found that Clinton, who refused to be interviewed for the investigation, used the home-based server throughout her term as
senator and in her 2008 presidential campaign, and kept on using it once at the State Department.
EmailGate
Just Crippled the Clinton Express. Running for president this year, after her abortive 2008 effort against Barack
Obama, has not worked out quite as planned for Hillary Clinton. This was supposed to be her year, at long last.
After enduring a quarter-century on the national stage — including tough years by the side of her gifted but scandal-prone
husband — 2016 finally lined up as Ms. Clinton's best shot at moving back into the White House, this time with her
in the Oval Office. That outcome is looking less likely by the day.
Hillary
Emails Confirm Private Server [was] Set Up For Secrecy. It seems so long ago that Hillary Clinton
unconvincingly told a packed press conference at the U.N. that she used a private email server "for convenience," instead of
using the government server like all other executive branch employees. It wasn't for convenience sake, though.
Not at all. It was to keep Hillary's emails secret and outside of federal records laws and the Freedom of Information
Act. Now she is caught red handed in her lie. The State Department Inspector General has released a "smoking gun"
email exchange between Secretary of State Clinton from her top personal aide Huma Abedin indicating her concern that
Hillary's emails were not being received by her employees.
Hillary
Clinton, Drowning in Email. Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency just got harder with the release of
the State Department inspector general's finding that "significant security risks" were posed by her decision to use a
private email server for personal and official business while she was secretary of state. Contrary to Mrs.
Clinton's claims that the department had "allowed" the arrangement, the inspector general also found that she had not sought
or received approval to use the server. So far, no security breaches have been reported; a separate F.B.I.
investigation is looking into that. But above and beyond security questions, the inspector general's report is certain
to fuel doubts about Mrs. Clinton's trustworthiness, lately measured as a significant problem for her in public polls.
The
Clintons and the comeuppance at hand. The 83-page summary of the State Department's investigation of Hillary's
determined use of a private email server, stubbornly used despite dozens of warnings from high and low in the government, was
released Thursday [5/26/2016] and it's devastating. Beginning in late 2005, when widespread use of email was first
introduced, the State Department revised its Foreign Affairs Manual and "issued various memoranda specifically discussing the
obligation to use Department [email] systems in most instances and identifying the risks of not doing so." Hillary knew
these rules and she knew the risks when she arrived as secretary of State, and she ignored them. Rules are necessary to guard
the nation's secrets from prying eyes, but such rules were not for Clintons. Rules never are. So outrageous has
Hillary's wanton disregard for rules and responsibility become that even her friends are saying enough is enough.
Clinton
Campaign Responds to IG Report By Again Claiming She Did Nothing Wrong. [Their] statement discounts these facts: a) Hillary Clinton
maintained a personal server in addition to a number of personal email addresses. This is unique. Other Secretaries of State who used private email
from time to time weren't using private servers set up inside their homes. b) The inspector general found Hillary Clinton violated the Federal Records
Act by deleting tens-of-thousands of emails from her personal email server before turning over what she deemed to be government business emails to the State Department
prior to her departure in 2013. Other Secretaries of State did not engage in mass deletion as Clinton did. [...] c) Thousands of pieces of top secret,
classified information have been found on Clinton's private server.
State
Dept IG Finds Hillary Clinton Violated Government Records Act and Refused to Speak to Investigators. The report
is devastating, although it transparently strains to soften the blow. For example, it concludes that State's
"longstanding systemic weaknesses" in recordkeeping "go well beyond the tenure of any one Secretary of State." Yet, it
cannot avoid finding that Clinton's misconduct is singular in that she, unlike her predecessors, systematically used
private e-mail for the purpose of evading recordkeeping requirements.
Clinton's
inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules. Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary
of state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized as an error of judgment. What the new report from the State
Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight. Ms. Clinton had plenty of
warnings to use official government communications methods, so as to make sure that her records were properly preserved and
to minimize cybersecurity risks. She ignored them. The 83-page report declares that "beginning in late 2005 and continuing
through 2011," the department revised its Foreign Affairs Manual and "issued various memoranda specifically discussing the obligation
to use Department systems in most circumstances and identifying the risks of not doing so." Ms. Clinton didn't.
Report
on E-mailgate shows Hillary can't be trusted. Here's the bottom line: Virtually everything Clinton has
said about her emails has been a lie. And no longer can supporters laugh off Emailgate so easily. Hillary's
culpability and her flouting of the law now seem clear. But that leaves one more shoe to drop: Will Attorney General
Loretta Lynch indict the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee? If she doesn't, she'll need a good excuse why.
Hillary
Clinton's email problems just got much worse. One of the two big dominoes in the Hillary Clinton email
controversy toppled today: The State Department's inspector general released its report on the email practices of
Clinton and a number of other past secretaries of state. (The other major domino is, of course, the FBI investigation into
Clinton's decision to exclusively use a private email server while serving as the nation's top diplomat.) The report,
which you can read in its entirety here, badly complicates Clinton's past explanations about the server and whether she complied
fully with the laws in place governing electronic communication. And it virtually ensures that Clinton's email practices
will be front and center in Donald Trump's fusillade of attacks against her credibility and honesty between now and Nov. 8.
FNC's
Bret Baier Absolutely Dismantles Hillary Spox on IG Report About Her E-Mail Server. Hillary Clinton campaign
spokesman Brian Fallon conducted a number of interviews on Wednesday in reaction to the State Department Inspector General's
scathing rebuke of Clinton's private e-mail account and server, but none measured up to FNC's Special Report host Bret
Baier and his calm, thorough dismantling of Fallon. Baier jumped right into the substance by showing video of Clinton
repeatedly claiming her e-mail server was legal before noting that "[a]s you know, the Inspector General's report says
something completely different" and providing an extensive quote from the IG about Clinton having failed to seek approval
and notify the State Department.
Brzezinski:
It Feels Like Hillary Clinton is 'Lying Straight Out' About Her Emails. Liberal Morning Joe co-host Mika
Brzezinski has been one of Hillary Clinton's staunchest critics over her email scandal, and she said Thursday [5/26/2016] it
felt like Clinton had lied "straight out." Brzezinski challenged reporter Andrea Mitchell as to whether Clinton was
lying as well, but Mitchell said she couldn't say for sure. She acknowledged "there are so many inconsistencies."
A damning report from the State Department Inspector General Wednesday [5/25/2016] condemned Clinton's email practices as
secretary of state, showing she violated clear rules about records-keeping. As MSNBC reported, the IG served to
"directly contradict" repeated claims by Clinton that her email conduct was permitted and aboveboard.
Leona
Clinton and the little people. Ever since Hillary Clinton first acknowledged in March 2015 that she had
concealed her work emails from the public for up to five years, she and her allies have repeatedly claimed that she broke no
rules. They didn't care that the experts said otherwise. It made no difference to their thinking that Clinton had
obviously thwarted the purpose of both State Department rules and the entire purpose of the Freedom of Information Act.
But the task of defending, which is the Pavlovian impulse of her entourage to any suggestion of Clintonian misconduct, became
more difficult on Wednesday [5/25/2016]. The State Department's Inspector General released a 78-page report to
lawmakers that concluded that she broke the law.
State
Department Inspector General: Hillary's Private Bathoom Email Server Was, In Fact, Illegal. The IG went
on to note that Clinton and her lackeys failed to notify the State Department of possible security breaches (yet another
crime) and that her exclusive use of a personal server was "an inappropriate form of [record] preservation." Had a
normal peon engaged in Hillary's email skulduggery while handling classified government documents, they'd be breaking rocks
at Leavenworth and not wheezing while walking down flights of stairs while wearing Mao-style pantsuits.
The
Clintons: New York's Sixth Crime Family. In a report that surfaced Wednesday, the State Department
inspector general pulverized Hillary's claims that her outlaw e-mail server was perfectly legal. The report said that
Hillary "did not comply with the Department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."
When staffers warned that her private server was vulnerable to hackers, they were ordered "never to speak of the Secretary's
personal e-mail system again." Indeed, in a January 9, 2011, e-mail, technology aide Bryan Pagliano wrote, "We were attacked
again so I shut [the server] down for a few min." And when then-deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin suggested that Hillary use
government e-mail, she chose personal secrecy over national security: "I don't want the personal being accessible."
Clinton
campaign's email defense takes hits from all sides after IG report. Hillary Clinton's myriad statements
explaining her exclusive use of personal email for official business while secretary of state are coming under heavy fire
from all sides in the wake of a damaging inspector general report — and her campaign's insistence the report
proves her practices were nothing unusual is being met with similar criticism. Top Republicans from presumptive
presidential nominee Donald Trump to House Speaker Paul Ryan slammed Clinton over the report, accusing her of breaking agency
rules to "serve her own interests" and putting security at "risk" in the process. But aside from shows of support from
Democratic allies on Capitol Hill, other prominent voices in Washington were similarly unsparing toward the Democratic
presidential front-runner.
Everyone
is Missing the Most Troubling Part About Hillary Clinton Email Audit! [Scroll down] However, what is
probably the most troubling about all of this is that, despite these blatant violations, there will be absolutely no legal
repercussions for Mrs. Clinton for this offense. She's off the hook! Why aren't all the pundits
screaming about that? As LawNewz.com's contributor, Dan Metcalfe, wrote about several weeks ago, anyone who violates
this law (and leaves office) will face zero consequences. That's because it is a civil law, not a criminal law, and
penalties only apply to current federal employees. Employees, like Clinton and Powell, who leave office, can skirt
punishment. The Federal Records Act is in place not only to provide the American public with some level of transparency
but also "to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency's
activities." "There are absolutely no penalties provided by law for this misconduct," Metcalfe said. He would
know, Metcalfe was the founding director of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy.
NBC,
ABC Cover for Hillary After Release of Damaging E-Mail Report. NBC News tried to play it down, first by
reporting on it after leading the night with the riots at Donald Trump's rallies in New Mexico and California. "An
independent government report is breathing new life into the controversy that just won't go away for Hillary Clinton,"
Nightly News host Lester Holt whined while leading into the story. Clinton fan, Andrea Mitchell was the reporter
on the case and she described the development as, "Today Hillary Clinton again dogged by her e-mail controversy."
Emails
Add to Hillary Clinton's Central Problem: Voters Just Don't Trust Her. For more than a year, Hillary
Clinton has traveled the country talking to voters about her policy plans. She vowed to improve infrastructure in her
first 100 days in office, promised to increase funding for Alzheimer's research and proposed a $10 billion plan to combat
drug and alcohol addiction. But as the Democratic primary contest comes to a close, any hopes Mrs. Clinton had of
running a high-minded, policy-focused campaign have collided with a more visceral problem. Voters just don't trust her.
The Clinton campaign had hoped to use the coming weeks to do everything they could to shed that image and convince voters that
Mrs. Clinton can be trusted. Instead, they must contend with a damaging new report by the State Department's inspector
general that Mrs. Clinton had not sought or received approval to use a private email server while she was secretary of state.
State
Department audit faults Clinton on emails, says she broke records rules. The State Department watchdog, in an
extensive and detailed report, accused Hillary Clinton of flouting federal records rules and cybersecurity guidelines with
her exclusive use of personal email for government business while secretary of state. [...] But the report singles out
Clinton's failures as more serious. The report includes numerous revelations, including that her server was at one
point "attacked," that Clinton declined to be interviewed for the audit and that Clinton never sought approval to use her
personal account for government work.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Hillary Never Got Legal OK For Her Risky Setup. When Hillary Clinton's use of a private
email server located in the basement of her New York home became public a year ago, Clinton claimed that there was nothing
wrong with what she had done. "I fully complied with every rule I was governed by," she said at her March 2015 news
conference. She's repeated that claim many times since. But a new report from the State Department's inspector
general says that, in fact, Clinton broke the rules.
Hillary
Clinton failed to report several hacking attempts, grew afraid of opening emails. Former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's use of a secret email to conduct official business broke a number of department policies, an inspector
general concluded in a report sent to Capitol Hill Wednesday that also suggests she used the account to try to hide her
communications from the public. The 83-page report, obtained by The Washington Times, is devastating in its evaluation
of Mrs. Clinton's behavior, saying it can find no record of her getting approval from either security or legal staffers
for her unique arrangement. The report also undercuts many of her campaign's explanations for her use of the system,
dismisses comparisons to her predecessors' email use, and points to repeated hacking attempts that she failed to report.
Hillary
Clinton clobbered by State Department audit. Hillary Clinton disregarded various State Department guidelines
for avoiding cybersecurity risks, an internal audit found Wednesday [5/25/2016], faulting her and past secretaries of state
for weak information management. And she failed to report numerous attempted hacker intrusions into a private email
server she maintained at her home. Despite guidelines to the contrary and never seeking approval, Clinton used mobile
devices to conduct official business on her personal email account and on that private server, a 78-page analysis from the
department's inspector general concluded. She never sought approval from senior information officers, who would have
refused the request because of security risks, the audit said.
Hillary's
summer of scandal. A long-awaited State Department inspector general report on the impact of personal email use
on recordkeeping at State was released to lawmakers on Wednesday, and concluded that Clinton violated the agency's records
rules. And as many Americans prepare for the traditional Memorial Day kickoff to the summer season, longtime Clinton
aide Cheryl Mills is scheduled to sit for a sworn deposition Friday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the
conservative group Judicial Watch. Mills' testimony would be the first known time a member of Clinton's inner circle has
been questioned under oath in the email controversy. Another top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, is set to testify next month.
State
Dept Audit Faults Clinton in Emails. Hillary Clinton disregarded various State Department guidelines for
avoiding cybersecurity risks, an internal audit found Wednesday [5/25/2016].
State
Dept Audit Faults Clinton in Emails. A State Department audit has faulted Hillary Clinton and previous
secretaries of state for poorly managing email and other computer information and slowly responding to new cybersecurity
risks. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report by the agency's inspector general Wednesday [5/25/2016].
It cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications. These started in the secratary of state's
office before Clinton's appointment to the post, but her failures were singled out as more serious.
The FBI neglects to indict Hillary Clinton:
This subsection has moved to a page of its own, located here.
Hillary Clinton's use of file-wiping software:
Immunity
deals stopped FBI from investigating BleachBit use in Clinton email case. In a letter to Attorney General
Loretta Lynch Wednesday, four Republican committee chairmen demanded to know why Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, two
witnesses who also served as Clinton's personal attorneys, were granted such expansive protections despite the FBI's
awareness that they had participated in potentially illegal activities. For example, the FBI agreed to limit its search
to emails written after June 1, 2014, but before Feb. 1, 2015. By doing so, investigators were barred from
looking at emails authored around the time Mills and David Kendall, Clinton's lead attorney, held a pair of conference calls
with technology contractor Paul Combetta that immediately preceded his use of BleachBit to erase thousands of Clinton's emails.
Yes,
the Fix Was In. With concerns about Hillary Clinton's health intensifying, Congress is poised to revisit the
FBI's investigation of her e-mail scandal. As the Washington Examiner's Byron York reports, the House Government
Oversight Committee chaired by Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) will begin hearings this week. The committee is especially
troubled by the facts that (a) unbeknownst to Congress, the Justice Department gave immunity to a key witness; yet,
(b) prosecutors and the FBI indulged that witness's refusal to answer critical questions. Specifically, Paul Combetta,
a technician at Platte River Networks (the Colorado firm retained by the Clintons to handle the private e-mail system), is the
person who destroyed Clinton's e-mails despite the fact that they were under congressional subpoena. Nevertheless, he
was permitted to invoke attorney-client privilege — not his own, mind you, but Mrs. Clinton's —
in declining to discuss any instructions he received before (and after) carrying out the mass deletion of tens of thousands of
Clinton e-mails, a task for which he used the "BleachBit" program in an effort to ensure that the deleted e-mails would be
irretrievably lost.
Giuliani:
Clinton acted 'with criminal intent'. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday that Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton "acted intentionally and with criminal intent" in regard to the private email server she
used while secretary of state. Giuliani, a Donald Trump surrogate and former United States attorney for the Southern
District of New York, said in a statement released by Trump's campaign that Clinton's "powerful evidence of criminal intent"
was how she deleted 33,000 emails and erased them with "expensive BleachBit software" that he claims is "used by criminals
seeking to hide evidence from law enforcement."
The Editor says... Bleachbit is not expensive software; in fact, it seems to be surprisingly affordable if not free.
Hillary
Wiped Her Server With BleachBit Despite Subpoena. [Scroll down] Shortly after providing that data dump to
the State Department, in "December 2014 or January 2015," both Heather Samuelson and Cheryl Mills requested that all emails
be removed from their computers using "a program called BleachBit to delete the e-mail-related files so they could not be
recovered." For her part, "Clinton stated she never deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her e-mails to avoid
complying with FOIA, State or FBI requests for information." Of course not. Hillary knew it would be a little too obvious
to specifically instruct her staff to permanently delete the emails but she also knew it might be "inconvenient" to have them
around. So, she simply "decided she no longer needed access to any of her e-mails older than 60 days." See?
She never specifically said to delete anything she just made a simple administrative decision on document retention policies.
Hillary's
Emails: Soaked in Bleach. [Scroll down] When questioned about the contents of the emails that
Hillary and her team deleted and that have never been turned over to investigators as mandated, the company line that she and
her team have stuck to is that they were mostly related to Hillary's yoga classes (anybody else not buy that Hillary does
yoga?) and Chelsea's wedding and other such banalities irrelevant to the state. If that's true, then why the BleachBit?
Sure, the software makes it easy, but make no mistake: using BleachBit is an extreme measure.
FBI
may not have been able to detect software used to scrub Clinton servers. The developer of the Bleachbit
software told the Daily Caller that the FBI may not have been able to detect its use in scrubbing the private email server
used by Hillary Clinton. [...] It seems probable that many of the 14,900 emails recovered by the FBI were from sources other
than the server.
Clinton's
use of BleachBit avoided 'money trail' in email destruction. Hillary Clinton's decision to use BleachBit to
scrub her private email server could have been based on the fact that the free software can be downloaded and used with
complete anonymity, the program's developer said. Andrew Ziem, the creator of BleachBit, pointed to a recent CNN report
about his software in which a computer security expert had speculated that Clinton's team would have selected a more
expensive, more sophisticated service if it truly sought to conceal records.
Hillary
Gets (More Than) a Little Help from Her Media Friends. [Scroll down] Indeed, we learned this week that
Hillary used software called "BleachBit" to erase emails from her private server, a software that "helps users delete files
in a way to 'prevent recovery and hide traces of files deleted'. I'm sure even as credulous an observer as [Ruth] Marcus
would have to concede that this seems rather extreme for emails which Hillary claimed were just about yoga and wedding plans.
CNN
Tries to Whitewash Hillary Email Deletions. 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. [...]
Industrial
strength data-erasing software company BRAGS that Hillary Clinton used their product to 'wipe' her email
server. A software company that sells a brute-force data erasure program is boasting that its technology gave
Hillary Clinton the power to 'wipe' her private homebrew email server before it fell into the hands of the FBI.
Application developer Andrew Ziem wrote in a Thursday night [8/25/2016] press release that his BleachBit software prevented the FBI
from accessing emails that Clinton deleted. 'Last year when Clinton was asked about wiping her email server, she joked, "Like
with a cloth or something?" It turns out now that BleachBit was that cloth.'
Hillary
Clinton BleachBits her past. While Hillary Clinton was preparing to deliver a big speech portraying Donald
Trump as a racist, a figure from Clinton's recent unhappy past — Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House
Select Committee on Benghazi — added a new word to the 25-year vocabulary of Clinton scandals: BleachBit.
That is the name of a publicly-available utility used to delete material from a computer's hard disk. And it's not just
for casual, quickie deletes of junk mail. It's for when a user really wants to destroy material on a computer so that
no one will be able to recover it. According to Gowdy, BleachBit is what Clinton and her legal team used, or
at least part of what her team used, to destroy the 30,000 or so emails on her secret system that she deemed "personal"
from her years as secretary of state.
Hillary
Clinton Deleted Emails Using Program Intended To 'Prevent Recovery'. Hillary Clinton's team of aides and
lawyers deleted emails from her private server using a software program intended to "prevent recovery" and hide traces of
deleted files. South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy revealed the information during an interview on Thursday [8/25/2016] on Fox
News. Citing notes that FBI investigators took during their probe of Clinton's private email server, Gowdy said that Clinton's
team used open source software called BleachBit to remove tens of thousands of emails from her server.
Gowdy:
Clinton used special tool to wipe email server. [Congressman Trey] Gowdy (R-S.C.) said the use of BleachBit,
computer software whose website advertises that it can "prevent recovery" of files, is further proof that Clinton had
something to hide in deleting personal emails from the private email system she used during her tenure as secretary of
state. Clinton has long said that the deleted emails were all of a personal nature, relating largely to yoga and her
daughter's wedding, but Gowdy said he did not know whether the Democratic nominee considered emails pertaining to the Clinton
Foundation to be personal.
Clinton
team used special program to scrub server, Gowdy says. Hillary Clinton's team used more than just a "cloth" to
scrub her private server — employing a special program known as BleachBit to delete her private emails and try to
prevent their recovery, a senior Republican on the House oversight committee who has read the FBI's investigative file told
Fox News. [...] The account is striking considering that Clinton, at a rare press conference last year in Las Vegas, seemed
to claim ignorance when asked by Fox News whether she wiped her server. "What, like with a cloth or something?" Clinton
quipped, adding: "I don't know how it works digitally at all." Yet Gowdy said her team was using BleachBit,
which is like an electronic shredder that permanently scrambles data.
Press conference, March 10, 2015
When elites lie without much consequence,
the public follows their examples. Hillary Clinton, to be candid, is a habitual fabulist.
She entered public life lying about everything from her 1-1000 cattle futures con to the location of her law
firm's subpoenaed legal documents. Recently she has been unable to tell the truth in any context
whatsoever. She will lie about big and small, trivial and fundamental, from the immigrant myths about
her grandparents to the origins of her own name Hillary to her combat exposure in the Balkans. [...] Her
press conference on the disappearing emails was unique in American political history in that everything
Ms. Clinton said was, without exception, a demonstrable untruth.
How
Many Lies Did Hillary Pack Into Her Press Conference? In her brief press conference on
Tuesday, which was meant to clear the air on her unusual use of a private email account while
secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made several claims that even the mainstream press have begun to
question. Some seem like outright fabrications, others are dubious assertions, and some just
unanswered questions.
The
Eight Biggest Lies Hillary Told At Her Email Press Conference. Actually she lied
through her teeth but that is the Clinton way. Going through the text of her press conference
about her emails again, I found ten statements which I believe are false. Since research only
turned proof for only eight of them, the below only contains the first eight of her lies.
Hillary's
email explanation is self-contradictory — here's how. The problem with
Hillary Clinton's explanation for her use of a personal email server and account for government
business goes beyond the demonstrable falsehoods and suspicious nature of setting up such an
arrangement. Hillary explained that she turned over all work-related emails to the State
Department, and "chose not to keep" (i.e., deleted) the personal emails on the server. Thus,
according to Hillary, the server now only has work related emails. But Hillary says that she
will not turn over the server to a neutral person for review, because the server has her personal
emails on it. But she already said the personal emails are not on it anymore.
Does Anyone Believe
Hillary Clinton? On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said she set up a private email account
simply because it seemed more convenient than carrying two phones — which in her world
probably translates into having an aide carry two phones. She said she deleted private emails
only. By the way, half of the 60,000-plus emails on the account were personal. Oh, and
she deleted them. [...] We all know why she set up a private account. She didn't want to
leave a paper trail. She didn't want the media to get ahold of documents that might require
explanation during her inevitable run for the White House in 2016.
Carefully
scripted Hillary knocked out of comfort zone. "I thought it would be easier to carry
just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," she said. Never mind that
it's much easier to set up two email systems on one device than it is to set up a whole dark server
hidden from the government. And leave aside that a woman who travels with a very large entourage on
non-commercial flights could probably manage two devices. I'm sure she's right. She set up
the server for convenience — but not the convenience of sparing her the load of an additional
4-ounce phone. When you want to hide what you're doing, a private server is definitely the way
to go.
Hillary
explains, eyes roll. Clinton expects us to take her word that the deleted emails deal
only with trivialities and that she transmitted no classified information. However, nothing in
Clinton's history suggests that we should take her word on anything, and her 20 minute (or so)
appearance raised additional questions about her honesty. For example, Clinton said she "fully
complied with every rule." Yet, as the Washington Post reminds us, even the Obama administration
has said that Clinton did not follow its policy against using private or commercial e-mail for
government business.
White
House Squirms Trying to Defend Hillary Clinton's Deletion of Thousand of Emails. In
Tuesday's press conference, Hillary Clinton addressed the issue of her use of a personal email
address for official State Department business. Clinton mentioned that she deleted roughly half of
the emails because she deemed them personal. She defended this action by saying that they include
details of her daughter's wedding as well as yoga poses. During Wednesday's [3/11/2015] White
House press briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest could not escape a barrage of questions on Clinton's
statements.
White
House won't say whether Obama uses private email. White House press secretary Josh
Earnest Wednesday [3/11/2015] declined to say whether President Obama uses a private or a government email
address, claiming the president's personal security as a reason for withholding an answer. "I'm
not going to be in a position to talk about the president's email address for a variety of reasons,"
Earnest told reporters Wednesday when asked if Obama uses a private or a dot-gov email address.
Clinton's
email explanation won't placate critics. The message from Hillary Rodham Clinton:
Trust me. But in a 21-minute news conference to address why she used a private email account as
secretary of state, the favorite for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2016 did
little to try to build that trust among those willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Democrats
Are Ready for Hillary and Stuck with Her. The good news was that after a week of
ominous and politically damaging silence, Hillary Clinton emerged to answer questions from the press
about her emails and demonstrated that she had no intention of letting this story deflect her from
her goal of winning the presidency. The bad news was that barely-suppressed rage about having to
answer those questions and arrogant "trust me" attitude not only failed to defuse this controversy,
it also raised serious questions as to whether she had the temperament to run a successful campaign
for the presidency. Taken together, it is more or less a perfect storm for a party seeking to hold
onto the White House next year without having Barack Obama on the top of the ticket.
Hillary
Clinton deleted 32,000 'private' emails, refuses to turn over server. Former Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton deleted nearly 32,000 emails she deemed private from her time in the
Obama administration and refused Tuesday to turn over her personal email server, insisting she
"fully complied" with the law and that voters will have to trust her judgment. Answering
questions for the first time about her emails, Mrs. Clinton said she's turned over to the State
Department 55,000 pages of emails she deemed work-related, but said she got rid of the rest last
year. She defended her decision to keep control of her emails by using a private account, saying
previous secretaries did the same thing, and saying it was more "convenient" for her this way.
Are
we ready for 10 more years of wrath from the eternal Woman Scorned? Hillary Clinton's
press performance Tuesday afternoon was, truly, everything Americans could have hoped for from our
former First Lady, Modern Joan of Arc, Lady Macbeth, Senate carpetbagger and eternal public Woman
Scorned. She was everything she has ever been, always was and ever will be.
Multiple Contradictions in Clinton's
First Comments on Email Scandal. Hillary Clinton spoke publicly for the first time since her
practice of using a private email address as secretary of state was revealed, and said the sole reason for
the decision was "convenience." The press conference came after nearly two weeks of silence from
Clinton following the initial report that she exclusively used a personal email address during her time
as secretary of state. It was later revealed she set up a private email server to house emails for
both herself and her top aides. Clinton said she made a mistake when she "opted for convenience."
She said she chose not to use a government email address because she did not want to carry multiple devices.
Shameless.
Hillary stonewalled and has now outsourced her problem to attack-dog subordinates and Democratic stalwarts who,
she believes, have Hillary — or no one — for 2016. I guess the message is "I'm
lying, so what?" Remember Richard Nixon's vain attempt to keep Watergate tapes because he alone had determined
that some were only private in nature and did not relate to government business or subpoenas — and the
subsequent reaction to his "gaps." That is Hillary Clinton's absurd line of something like "secretary of state
privilege," and thus her press conference could only end in disaster. After all the obfuscation, the only thing
that one can take away from this embarrassing performance is that Hillary Clinton envisioned her own personal server
for just such contingencies: to trash a large percentage of her incoming and outgoing e-mails after becoming
the sole arbitrator of what constituted her own, and her government's, business, and thus the preserver or destroyer
of all her communications.
Jon
Karl Grills Hillary: Why Did You Wait 2 Years to Comply with Email Rules? Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took questions from eager reporters on Tuesday about her personal
email address, which she used exclusively instead of a government account during her time at the
helm of the State Department. Clinton said she opted for "convenience" in using just one email
account (instead of carrying multiple phones), but added in hindsight "it would have been better if
i'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem
like an issue."
Hillary
said she emailed with Bill, but the thing is ... Bill Clinton doesn't use email. At
a press conference on Tuesday [3/10/2015], Hillary Clinton said the server that housed her emails while
she was secretary of state (that was reportedly housed at her home in New York) was set up for
President Bill Clinton. She also said that some of the "personal" emails she deleted were between
her and her husband. But just before Hillary began the press conference at the United Nations
building, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bill Clinton does not use email.
Hillary
Clinton: A Pay Phone Candidate in an iPhone World. Staggered by self-inflicted wounds,
the former secretary of State faced a choice between the right way and wrong way to manage a
public-relations crisis in the post-Internet era, when the 1990s tactics of deflection, deception,
and victimization are far less effective. She chose the wrong way. Rather than be transparent,
completely honest, and accountable, Clinton doubled down on the 1990s. She refused to turn over her
emails stored on a secret service in violation of federal regulations. She defended contributions to
her family's charity from foreign nations that discriminate against women and support terrorism, a brazen
contradiction to her public profile.
Hillary
Flashback: I Have Two Phones. At an event on February 24, Hillary Clinton said that
she owns both an iPhone and a Blackberry. When asked if she prefers iPhone or Android, Clinton
responded "iPhone, OK, in full disclosure — and a Blackberry." [Video clip]
Hillary
speaks on email scandal. She claims she used the server set up for Bill Clinton's
post-presidency office, and therefore it was fully secure. However, Fox News just reported that Bill
Clinton has stated that he has sent only 2 emails in his life. [...] She will not let any other
parties get their hands on her server. She claims that because personal emails are on it, nobody
should have access. However, as Judge Andrew Napolitano and some others have pointed out, she is
the one responsible for mixing official and private emails on the same server, and so must bear the
burden of verification that she did not delete any emails. [...] She claimed there were no security
breaches on the server. As if she could possibly know.
Hillary
Clinton had a duty higher than convenience. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a soupcon
of regret at a news conference Tuesday [3/10/2015] for having used private e-mail exclusively during
her nearly four years as secretary of state. "Looking back, it would've been better" if she had not
used a private e-mail account for official business, she conceded. Ms. Clinton said she decided to
do so for "convenience" because "I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and
for my personal e-mails instead of two."
State
Dept. Source: Hillary Likely Used Unauthorized iPad, iPhone as Sec. of State. Besides
exclusively using a secret email account to conduct official government business, it's likely that
Hillary Clinton also used unauthorized electronic equipment — an iPad and an iPhone —
as Secretary of State after being warned not to, a veteran State Department official told Judicial Watch
this week. On at least half a dozen occasions Clinton's top aides asked the State Department's
Office of Security Technology to approve the use of an iPad and iPhone, according to JW's inside
source. Each time the request was rejected for security reasons, the source confirms. The
only mobile device that meets the agency's security standards is the BlackBerry, JW's source said,
adding that the Office of Security Technology — Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Directorate
of Countermeasures must approve all equipment such as cameras, phones and communication devices for
all officials.
Hillary's
Prickly Apologia. Hillary Clinton's reliance on that word during her news conference at the United
Nations on Tuesday minimized the exemption from standard procedure that she allowed herself when she decided —
all on her own — to use only a private email address for both personal and government business. She told
reporters that she hadn't wanted to be weighed down by a second electronic device.
Fact
Check: Clinton and Her Emails. Federal officials are allowed to communicate on private
email and are generally allowed to conduct government business in those exchanges, but that ability
is constrained, both by federal regulations and by their supervisors.
Clintons
and controversy: The circus is back in town. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet even announced that she is running
for president, but the spectacle of the Clinton years is unfolding again, touched off by the controversy over her practice of
using a private email account, rather than an official one, while she was secretary of state.
America's Ex-Wife.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bill Clinton does not use email. A few hours
later, Hillary said he did use email. She said it was convenient for her to only use one email
account and one device. Two weeks ago she said she used both an iPhone and a Blackberry.
In fact, anyone savvy enough to go the private server route should be savvy enough to know an iPhone
or Blackberry can handle multiple email accounts. In fact, former Secretary of Defense Gate,
who served along Hillary Clinton, used one device with multiple email accounts. Hillary also
said the server was someplace protected by the Secret Service. Of course, that mean physical
protection. What about the internet connection? Therein lies the rub. Hillary
Clinton clearly decided the rules did not apply to her.
Hillary's
Train Wreck Press Conference: The Gender Card, The Spin, The Lies & The Many Unanswered Questions. Hillary did herself no favors by claiming that the private e-mail account
was strictly about convienience, that she did not want to have to use more than one device. She certainly
has not had that problem since leaving the State Department. According to Legal Insurrection, Hillary
appeared at Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women and ostentatiously made note that she "had both an
iPhone and ... a Blackberry." In addition, there's this from Hot Air regarding her time at the State
Department: "Judicial Watch claims that not only did she operate multiple devices, she insisted on using
Apple products even though State's IT people told her that their enhanced security is designed for Blackberry
only." Moreover, the reason she gives for refusal to allow a neutral third party to inspect her server is
even more obviously a lie (thanks, Bill). Hillary says that she will not allow a third party to inspect her
server is because it contains private communications between her and her wayward husband, former President Bill
Clinton. But according to Bill's spokesperson, Bill has sent all of two e-mails in his entire life, both
when he was President.
In
light of Clinton email scandal, media continues search for GOP comparisons. News that
Clinton used a likely compromised "homebrew" server to send and receive sensitive government
documents has dominated headlines for the past two weeks. And although Clinton maintained this week
in a press conference that no classified material ever passed through her server during four years
she served at State, doubts remain. "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my
email," Clinton said Tuesday during a press conference that drew harsh bipartisan criticism.
Liar, liar, Hillary's
pantsuit is on fire. She can't help herself. Hillary Clinton is addicted to deception.
The news that she used an iPad as well as BlackBerry demolishes her already-ridiculous claim that she set up
a private e-mail server so she would only need to carry one gadget as secretary of state. At a
March 10 press conference, Clinton put it this way: "I thought using one device would be simpler,
and, obviously, it hasn't worked out that way. Looking back, it would have been probably ... smarter to
have used two devices." Those comments, her first public ones on the scandal, are now revealed as
a lie. What a way to start a presidential campaign!
Update: Emails:
Hillary Used iPad And Blackberry, Despite Previous Claim. Leading Democratic Party presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton told the nation that she only used one device, a Blackberry, for her official email while secretary of
state, and she promised those emails were secure. But new emails to her friend Sidney Blumenthal casts doubt on
that assertion. In an email dated Aug. 30, 2012, then Secretary Clinton was soliciting more intelligence from
Blumenthal, who was not a State Department employee, regarding an upcoming meeting with the National Transition Council
of Libya. The NTC was the governing body of Libya after the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In the
solicitation, Clinton mentioned that she was without Blackberry coverage or power after Tropical Storm Irene hit the
East Coast. As a result, she switched to a "new iPad" for her email and wasn't sure her emails were going through.
Press conference, August 18, 2015
Vote
For Hillary, Not Convicted of Anything Yet. Hillary Clinton has maneuvered her presidential campaign into a
lose-lose situation — of her very own making. Tuesday [8/18/2015] Clinton's second journey to become the first
female to capture her presidential spouse's former office took on even more water with a disastrous abbreviated news conference
in Las Vegas. Remember last spring after the first of several campaign launches, she wouldn't take any media questions?
That lasted more than a month.
Hillary
goes to Vegas, loses big with performance at press conference. Wearing a prison-orange pantsuit yesterday, Hillary Clinton
dug the hole she occupies several feet deeper with Tuesday's [8/18/2015] North Las Vegas gym presser. Even normally supportive liberal
pundits were appalled at her performance. Ron Fournier of the National Journal, who has known and been fond of the Clintons since
covering them in Little Rock, counted six separate lies, evasions, and mis-directions in appearances on Fox News and MSNBC. Even
Chris Matthews was shocked, discussing the presser on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning [8/19/2015].
The
Shrug Heard Round the World: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Wiping Email Server 'with a Cloth'. The contentious
exchange took place between Fox News' Ed Henry and Hillary just after an event in Las Vegas. The question was prompted
by an NBC News report in which unnamed sources at the FBI expressed confidence it could recover data from Hillary's server
despite the fact that an attempt had been made to wipe it. [Video clip]
Hillary
Clinton won't say if her server was wiped. In a testy exchange with reporters following a town hall meeting in North Las
Vegas, Clinton responded, "What, like with a cloth or something?" when asked if the server had been wiped. "I don't know how it
works at all," she added. After Ed Henry of Fox News pressed Clinton on the issue repeatedly, an aide ended the question-and-answer
session and Clinton turned to walk away. Another reporter shouted a question about whether the e-mail issue will ever go away.
Clinton turned and shrugged. "Nobody talks to me about it other than you guys," she said.
Press
Conference Disaster: Hillary Refuses To Say If She Knew Her Server Was Wiped. Following her town hall event in Las Vegas on Tuesday,
Hillary Clinton was challenged by skeptical reporters to explain her email arrangement, and once again she insisted that everything she did while
secretary of State was "legally permitted." Clinton also refused to say if she knew that her email server, which was turned over to the FBI
last week, had been wiped clean of data. Fox New's Ed Henry asked Clinton if she plans on taking responsibility for her email scandal rather
than making jokes about Snapchat and blaming Republicans.
Hillary Clinton's dumpster fire press
conference. America's addled grandma, Hillary Clinton, made a campaign stop in North Las Vegas today. ["]More than
300 cheering and applauding people welcomed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to a town hall at the Pearson Community
Center in North Las Vegas where she was scheduled to speak Tuesday.["] [...] You read that right. A crowd of 300.
She also had a press conference. Instead of the somnolent, compliant press corps she usually faces (I've been told the mixed aromas
of Polident and Depends has a soporific effect) she found one that was strangely awake and a little hungry and irritable. They
weren't interested in student loans. They were interested in top secret emails kept of servers stored in bathrooms.
Hillary loses her cool when hounded
about email servers. According to reports, the FBI, which has possession of Clinton's server, believes there was an attempt
to wipe it clean of data, but missing messages can be recovered. Clinton talked to reporters after a Vegas speech, and defended her
decision to not hand over emails that she deemed private.
Clinton
apologists: Hey, just wait until Hillary testifies before Congress! To call Hillary Clinton's press conference yesterday
a disaster is to engage in understatement. In a brief two-minute exchange with Fox News' Ed Henry, Hillary tried changing history
by claiming totally voluntary transparency, and then put on a dumb-grandma act when asked about an act to which her attorney
admitted months ago. [...] It's a two-minute exercise in falsehoods, false posturing, and stonewalling.
Clinton's Self-Inflicted Wounds. Tuesday's news conference in North Las
Vegas provided the latest installments in a series of misleading statements Mrs. Clinton has made since aides announced that last December
they had turned over to the State Department 31,000 work-related emails. In early March, it was revealed that Mrs. Clinton had used
only a personal email account to conduct official business as secretary of state — potentially a violation of federal regulations.
The Associated Press then traced the account to a private server at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
5
mistakes Hillary Clinton made in her latest e-mail press conference. [#2] She casts the whole thing as normal
and everyday. I don't doubt that there are regular disagreements between the State Department and the intelligence
community's inspector general about who gets to look at what. And we know that other secretaries of state have used private
e-mail addresses. But what Clinton elides over are these two facts: (1) She is the first secretary of state in
history to exclusively use a private e-mail address and server while on the job, and (2) she is running for president
in 2016. Those two facts explain why her situation does (and should) get more attention and scrutiny.
