As more classified emails from Hillary’s personal server came to light today, I began thinking back to that big claim to fame for her time as Secretary of State – “she traveled more miles than any previous Secretary of State”. Was she using this private server while she traveled too? How secure was that set-up? What kind of security implications does all that foreign travel present, if she was using her home-brewed server to conduct all of her business as Secretary of State?
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“More miles than any previous Secretary of State”
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Backup Server would be very bad news for Hillary
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White House Played Role in Iran Deal Letter Signed by Former Flag Officers
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The boys club decides her fate
THE FIX IS IN!!!!
While Hillary pranced around the Iowa State Fair, murmuring about “partisanization”, pretending top secret email stored on HER PRIVATE server that SHE had set up in HER HOME has nothing to do with her, Bill was busy golfing. Yes, while she was serenely putting on this I-am-the-stately-queen act at the fair, her husband was golfing with President Obama trying to save her candidacy and assuredly playing hard ball. Old Clinton friend, Vernon Jordan, was there to mediate, this deal. So, the big-whig dem power brokers will try to hammer out a way to make this scandal go away quickly.
She rode her husband’s coattails to power and she still needs to use her husband’s power to survive this firestorm. Oh, the irony of this feminist icon needing her husband to save her from this scandal…. Yes, the old boys’ club will decide her political survival in the Democratic Party.
She knew her husband was going to use all of his political power to save her, that is why she was so smug today. The rule of law is for the little people in America!
Watch the calm Dem stalwarts come out and try to spin this server scandal into a minor nothing. Evan Bayh was on FOX tonight trying to quell the flames of Jeanine Piro. Oh, top secret information on her home-brewed server, just an “inadvertent mistake”, he dismisses. So in the next days the Dem inner-circle will send out more of the calmest old Dem hands to make this scandal go away. It’s a set-up, because as the Republicans and conservatives roar about the cover-up, she will keep her head high and pretend it’s a right-wing witch hunt – those crazy right wing-nuts and their endless conspiracy theories. The media will play along, as usual.
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Hillary refusal to turn over server for months may have led people off the trail
Hillary refusal to turn over server for months may have led people off the trail.
This link is to “Legal Insurrection” a very good blog, where Willliam A Jacobson lays out a very interesting theory. He believes that Hillary Clinton turning over this blank server is a red herring and that the information on that server was likely transferred to another server that she retains control over. Definitely read Mr. Jacobson’s post to follow his line of reasoning.
I wonder if they can figure out a timeline for when this server was scrubbed, when it got carted off to NJ, who carted it off, and who scrubbed it.
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It gets worse
The UK Daily Mail is reporting some alarming allegations about the company Hillary Clinton hired to manage her home-brew server:
“The Internet company used by Hillary Clinton to maintain her private server was sued for stealing dozens of phone lines including some which were used by the White House.
Platte River Networks is said to have illegally accessed the master database for all US phone numbers.
It also seized 390 lines in a move that created chaos across the US government.
Among the phone numbers which the company took – which all suddenly stopped working – were lines for White House military support desks, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, a lawsuit claims.
Others were the main numbers for major financial institutions, hospitals and the help desk number for T2 Communications, the telecom firm which owned them.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of T2 claims that the mess took 11 days to fix and demands that Platte River pay up $360,000 in compensation.
The claims raise questions about the competence of Platte River, which is based in Denver, Colorado, to handle Mrs Clinton’s highly sensitive personal information while she was Secretary of State.”
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One from the left
One candidate that isn’t getting much notice who might be worth looking at – Jim Webb, the former Democratic senator from Virgina. He mentioned FDR and Ronald Reagan as his two favorite presidents of the 20th century during a question and answer session at the Iowa State Fair according to this Washington Times report:
“The other favorite is Ronald Reagan — I served in the Reagan administration,” said Mr. Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy under Mr. Reagan. “And I will tell you, the Reagan administration did a terrific job whether you agreed politically with them or not of putting strong people into the administration, giving them guidance and having them step [forward] and lead.
“In a Webb administration, we will do that — we will bring the greatest minds in America to the table, give them direction as to where we want this country to go and have them lead,” he said, speaking at the Des Moines Register’s political “soapbox” at the fair.
I’m adding him to my list of candidates to watch.
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In her own words
From firstlook.org, The Intercept, comes this short piece by Glenn Greenwald:
“Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information”
In her own words, Greenwald quotes:
“I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so,” Clinton said.”
Drip, drip, drip….
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