Let me count the ways Hillary lost control of classified information
Using an unsecured server for her State Department business
Having her aides use an unsecured server for their State Department work
Sending classified information without using encryption technology
Using and losing track of 13 mobile devices and 2 ipads (she used 5 ipads, 3 were turned over to the FBI)
Her aides using personal devices to send and receive classified information
Using not only her personal server, but also a gmail account (p. 17 of the FBI notes) to send and receive classified information (56 out of 904 emails found on her gmail account contained classified information)
Allowing IT people, to include the Platte River Network, Justin Cooper and Bryan Pagliano, with no security clearances, to have complete access to her private email server,
Allowing David Kendall and Heather Samuelson, who did not possess the security clearance to handle this information, to have complete access to her private email server
Having both servers in insecure environments at various times before turning them over to the FBI
Why did Hillary Clinton decide to use the private server?
On page 3 of the FBI notes, Justin Cooper stated that Huma Abedin recommended he contact Bryan Pagliano to replace the server with a new server in late 2008,
Cooper was the aide to Bill Clinton, who set up and maintained this personal server for Bill Clinton. Pagliano was the IT guy for Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign. After the new server was installed, both Cooper and Pagliano had administrative accounts to maintain the server. Pagliano believed he was building the new server for Bill Clinton’s staff and was unaware Hillary was going to use it.
Pagliano stated he transferred only two email accounts to the new server – Huma Abedin and BLANK. However, Cooper believed the other account was Hillary’s account and not Abedin’s, so once again, we are at the whose account is BLANK, on Bill Clinton’s personal server, that he had set up in his home for his foundation work…
At the bottom of page 10, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan all told the FBI that they were unaware of the private server until after Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.
So, Abedin obviously lied to the FBI. She recommended that Cooper contact Pagliano about setting up a new server in late 2008 and which was set up in January 2009.
Previously released emails show Mills had knowledge of the private server too, but even in these FBI notes, on page 5, it states that in 2013, Cherly Mills is the person who searched for a new vendor to manage the email server.
Hillary Clinton claims she was unaware of the server in her basement, but became aware of it at some point. She claims she had no knowledge of the new server being installed to replace the old server in 2009 (just as she took office at the State Department). This is the woman who had teams of spies to keep tabs on her husband on the campaign trail in 1992. Assuredly, she had “minders” keeping tabs on him in 2007, when this server was installed in their home, because she was launching her presidential bid for 2008. It seems inconceivable she didn’t know about this server being installed in her home in 2007 or about the new server being installed to replace that server, in 2009.
The new server was set-up specifically to accommodate the email from Hillary and her staff with Bill Clinton and his staff ABOUT THE FOUNDATION BUSINESS – that is what it was for.
Huma Abedin was the go-between between Bill Clinton’s IT guy, Cooper, and Hillary’s campaign IT guy, Pagliano to merge this from the Bill Clinton server to the Bill and Hillary server – to merge their Clinton Foundation work.
Hillary and her “easier to use one device” explanation for her use of the server was clearly absurd, as she went through 13 mobile devices and 5 ipads, as bad about electronics as Imelda Marcos was with shoes……. although Imelda kept better track of her shoes…. On page 8, Cooper describes Hillary using a flip-phone to talk on while using her blackberry at the same time, so she could multi-task with multiple electronic devices….
Hillary was still using email from an account she had on her blackberry during the first few months of the new server system being in place. Then she moved to using the new server exclusively. The new server was intended for the Clintons, and their staffers, to keep all their foundation work on this private email server. Hillary deciding to do all of her State Department business on the server was likely out of her belief that she could control and keep her State Department records private too. She, like her husband, or likely from listening to her husband, believed that the server was “safe”, because it was protected by the Secret Service in their home.
“Clinton stated she never deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her emails to avoid complying with FOIA, State or FBI requests for information.”
Okay, let’s think about this for a second. If Hillary did not delete any emails or instruct anyone to delete her emails, there are two choices for how those thousand of “yoga schedules and wedding plans” personalemails ended up deleted, since we know her Clinton lawyers, David Kendall, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson carried out the process of deleting those emails.
Either these lawyers took it upon themselves to delete all those emails
OR
Someone else instructed this team of lawyers to delete all those other emails
My guess is BILL CLINTON.
Since that server contained, not only Hillary’s State Department emails and personal emails, it ALSO contained Bill Clinton’s Clinton Foundation emails, I highly doubt David Kendall just decided to delete Bill Clinton’s emails, without Bill Clinton’s involvement in the decision to delete those emails.
Bill Clinton has been directing every aspect of this cover-up, just as he has been orchestrating Hillary’s campaign, from the strong-arming President Obama, to the setting up the GOP Insurgency, to the meeting on the tarmac with Loretta Lynch in Phoenix.
Lawyers don’t just start deleting government or non-profit corporation records a client has in his/her possession, without the client’s knowledge and permission.
Today there are several headlines on news sites about how Cheryl Mills is the “mastermind” behind this cover-up. Mills was allowed to be present, as part of the team of lawyers for Hillary, during her FBI interview, despite Mills also being a material witness in this criminal investigation. The DOJ allowed Mills to be present and that goes to Cheryl Mills and Loretta Lynch being long-time friends and Bill Clinton’s tarmac visit with Lynch.
However, Mills is just a Clinton toady, she is not the “mastermind.”
Bill Clinton is the mastermind behind this cover-up.
On page 16 of the FBI Notes on Hillary’s Interview, there are details about who was involved in sorting through the emails on her home-brew server and the process of determining which emails were “work-related” emails. David Kendall, Bill Clinton’s long-time friend and attorney and Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s long-time friend and attorney oversaw the process, while Heather Samuelson, an attorney and former Bill Clinton administration staffer, was tasked with the actual sorting and printing out hard copies of “work-related” emails to be returned to the State Department.
In the footnotes at the bottom of page 16, here’s the answer, cover-up of what keywords were used to conduct these searches, that were ostensibly to locate State Department “work-related” emails:
“The FBI was unable to obtain a complete list of keywords or named officials searched from Samuelson, Mills or Clinton’s other attorneys due to an assertion of privilege.”
What kind of “privilege”??? Was this because of Bill Clinton’s emails on that server and an assertion of “executive privilege” or attorney/client privilege to avoid providing incriminating evidence??? Is there some other type of privilege???
I think it’s a safe bet that the #1 keyword search was to locate all of Bill Clinton’s emails, then all emails between Bill and Hillary Clinton. That would be to assure their pay-to-play emails were isolated first. And after that, I’d guess keywords like “Benghazi” were high priority, to remove any damaging emails relating to Hillary’s disastrous tenure as Secretary of State.
The Clintons weren’t concerned with locating emails that contained “classified” information, because in their world THEY decide what is and isn’t “classified”. Their view of “classified” has nothing to do with the national security of the United States of America (this goes for President Obama too). In these hyper-partisan, power-players everything has to do with acquiring and maintaining their domestic political power. They don’t waste any thoughts for the people in the field, who are risking their lives to keep America safe, or how their careless handling of sensitive information affects those brave Americans.
Bill Clinton is the president who launched bombing raids on Iraq in December 1998 (Operation Desert Fox) to deflect attention away from his impeachment scandal.
For the Clintons, their only concern is for their own power and greed.
Update: A Daily Caller article claims that the privilege claimed was attorney/client privilege. That same article has this tidbit too:
Clinton’s top 3 aides said they didn’t know about server
Clinton’s State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills, her top policy adviser Jake Sullivan and Abedin all told the FBI that they did not know about Clinton’s server until after they left the State Department with their boss in Feb. 2013. All three emailed extensively with Clinton.
The FBI acquired TWO separate email servers and mobile devices that Hillary used.
The FBI determined 81 email chains containing classified information, ranging from CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET/SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM were transmitted on Clinton’s TWO UNCLASSIFIED email server systems. Of those 81 emails chains, 68 remain classified.
The FBI did not find evidence that Clinton’s server had been compromised. However, the FBI was unable to acquire all of the computer components and mobile devices used by Clinton, so they couldn’t conclusively determine whether the classified information on her system was compromised.
On page 4, the FBI notes that Pagliano, whom Clinton had set up the second email server in home, reported that he only transferred clintonemail.com email accounts for Huma Abedin and BLANK from the old system to the new system. (The old system Bill Clinton had set up for his foundation work).
Okay, that’s four pages reviewed in this post. So, the FBI could did not find evidence her server was hacked. The FBI does NOT have all her mobile devices and some computer components to analyze. Sophisticated hackers can penetrate systems and leave NO evidence. Evidence of penetration conclusively confirms penetration of a system, absence of evidence does NOT prove conclusively the system was NOT penetrated. From an intelligence perspective, once the intelligence is put in insecure environments, you operate from the assumption it is compromised. From a legal perspective you must prove that the intelligence was compromised. Two different metrics and as President, the FIRST one holds true – she showed she is UNFIT to be trusted with highly sensitive information, because she knowingly put highly sensitive information at risk.
Bill and Hillary have used the “over-use of classifying information” canard, as if the classified emails on her server are just a clerical error, to downplay the seriousness of the classified information on Hillary’s server. Yet, 68 out of 81 emails chains STILL remain classified.
The first server was set-up by Bill Clinton’s aide, Justin Cooper around 2007. Once Hillary was using that server for her State Dept email, there were problems. Around January 2009 the decision was made to upgrade the server. Huma Abedin recommended they hire Bryan Pagliano to set up a new server. Abedin contacted Cooper and Pagliano acquired equipment from Hillary’s presidential campaign to build the new server system.
Pagliano stated that he transferred email from the old system to the new system and there shouldn’t be ANYemail content left on the old server. Pagliano stated to the FBI that he ONLY transferred clintonemail.com email accounts for Huma Abedin and BLANK and that he was unaware of and did not transfer any email account for Hillary. So, who is BLANK. Since Pagliano ONLY transferred clintonemail.com email accounts for Huma Abedin and BLANK and this was Bill Clinton’s PERSONAL email server for foundation business, who could BLANK be….. Now, Clinton’s IT guy, Justin Cooper, recalls the one email account as being Hillary’s email account, not Huma’s, which again brings us back to whose email account was the only other email account on Bill Clinton’s personal server…
My guess is BLANK is Bill Clinton, who had this email server set up in his home to do his foundation work. His aides and mouthpieces keep saying Bill Clinton does not use email. I am sure Bill Clinton’s aides conducted foundation business via email too and likely used other public email server systems. They could have set that server up ANYWHERE, like in the NYC Clinton office, but Bill Clinton wanted it in his home, because he wanted his own private server, for his own use. I suspect he felt it was physically safer in his home, protected by Secret Service 24/7. Hillary has used that line too about the server being protected by Secret Service. Both Clintons seem to be clueless on cyber-security though…
Since Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server became exposed to the public, many of us have joked constantly about the “yoga schedules and wedding plans” line Hillary used to describe those 30,000+ deleted emails.
Recently, Trey Gowdy made a statement that some professional product known as BleachBit was used to wipe her server clean and FBI Director Comey made a statement about the FBI being unable to recover most of those deleted emails.
The media has speculated about how much more “classified” information might be in those deleted emails. I believe the speculation is speculating on the wrong thing. I believe Hillary Clinton told us the truth on one thing in her first, lie-filled press conference on her email server ( start at minute 12:51 as she answers a reporter’s question).
There is the answer to why BleachBit was used. I believe the emails deleted were “personal”, but she told you right there – they were emails from her and from her husband. Although, assuredly the Clintons have a unique marital relationship, the one thing they have always been completely united in is amassing political power and money.
Of course, everyone from Dick Morris to Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Matt McKenna, continue with the story that Bill Clinton does not use email. Here’s a news report from March 10, 2015 on Bill Clinton and does he or doesn’t he use email:
“The server contains personal communications from my husband and me,” Clinton told reporters, “and I believe I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private and I think that the State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the records that were provided.”
But the ex-president’s spokesman said in a Wall Street Journal story published prior to the news conference on Tuesday that Clinton doesn’t use email.
Paraphrasing the spokesman, Matt McKenna, the newspaper reported, “The former president, who does regularly use Twitter, has sent a grand total of two emails during his life, both as president.”
The newspaper added, “After leaving office, Mr. Clinton established his own domain that staff use — @presidentclinton.com. But Mr. Clinton still doesn’t use email himself, Mr. McKenna said.”
Hillary told us in that first press conference that he does. Their entire pay-to-play operation would be exposed in those “yoga schedule and wedding plans” personal emails and THAT is why I believe they were deleted, so that in Trey Gowdy’s words:
“MacCallum asked Gowdy if he thought Clinton classified her foundation-related emails as “private”, along with “the yoga and wedding plans.”
Gowdy said, if that was the case, he would be very concerned because the deleted emails were expunged using a drastic cyber-measure called “BleachBit.”
“If she considered them to be personal, then she and her lawyers had those emails deleted,” Gowdy said, “They didn’t just push the delete button, they had them deleted so even God couldn’t read them.””
So, really what Hillary is covering up isn’t just her “extremely careless” handling of highly sensitive and classified information, she is covering up Bill Clinton and her emails about their Clinton Foundation pay-to-play dealings.
Bill Clinton, the man who supposedly doesn’t use email, had that private email server set up in their home, not in his NYC office, before Hillary was even Secretary of State.
All along I’ve been saying the LIBERAL MEDIA COLLUSION that gave Trump BILLIONS of dollars in FREE media, to run his GOP Insurgency, was WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION and part of the LIBERAL MEDIA’s effort to help Hillary win this election. Now, Trump supporters are crying foul about the avalanche of dirt being dumped on Trump, but they refuse to see that Trump, the GOP Insurgent, was a Clinton-inspired dirty trick all along.
Bill Clinton set up the perfect triangulation strategy and Trump is the perfect caricature of a LOOSE CANNON.
In July, Donald Trump made bizarre comments in regard to Hillary Clinton’s emails. He was saying he hopes the Russians find the 30,000 missing and return them. He also praised Putin as a strong leader. The NY Times reported:
DORAL, Fla. — Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he hoped Russian intelligence services had successfully hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, and encouraged them to publish whatever they may have stolen, essentially urging a foreign adversary to conduct cyberespionage against a former secretary of state.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Mr. Trump’s call was another bizarre moment in the mystery of whether Vladimir V. Putin’s government has been seeking to influence the United States’ presidential race.
His comments came amid questions about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers, which American intelligence agencies have told the White House they have “high confidence” was the work of the Russian government.
Trump’s comments were construed by Democrats as urging the Russians to hack America and by Trump followers as either he was urging Putin to hand them over to the FBI or pointing out how much Hillary jeopardized national security, which seems an irrefutable FACT – she did jeopardize national security. However, there’s an ominous danger to trusting in anything hostile foreign intelligence agents release, even though sometimes they do release factual information. It’s always important to keep in mind that their objective is to stir up distrust among our allies, or distrust between Americans and their government or distrust between our partisan political factions. Their objective is NEVER to benefit America or the American people.
Their efforts are ALWAYS to HARM America. It is very important to remember that they follow a ruthless “divide and conquer” strategy at all times and playing sides against each other remains their favorite tactic. It’s a very vicious and cynical form of fighting, of the type psycho women engage in when catfighting – poisoning people, setting up sex traps, playing people against each other, spreading vicious rumors, etc. It is a warfare tactic for BULLIES, who are really nothing more than wimps, imo.
BUT trusting Putin or Wikileaks, an organization widely believed to be a Russian front organization by many US intelligence experts, is NOT the answer.
No American should trust Wikileaks’ revelations at face value. Herein comes a short warning message about Russian active measures and their long history of incredibly sophisticated and sometimes brilliant disinformation campaigns against the West, and America in particular:
As this scorched earth presidential campaign between these two vile,very corrupt candidates descends toward hell, we the American people will be ruthlessly manipulated and lied to, not only by the candidates and their mouthpieces, but by our very corrupt media, by BIG moneyed interests like, George Soros, and ALSO by some foreign intelligence agencies, working to sway this election.
Here are a few links on Wikileaks being a Russian front:
RedState had a piece on Russian disinformation, “Harry Reid Joins Donald Trump In Pushing Russian Dezinformatsiya In The United States” yesterday and there’s a link to a very interesting CIA study into the Russian AIDS disinformation campaign, to plant the false story that the CIA created AIDS as a biological agent. This disinformation lie still resonates today, especially in the black community.
The black community in America, due to America’s long, difficult history on race, makes it a group that the Russians (and Soviets), Islamists and others hostile to America frequently target with disinformation campaigns to make them distrust the US government. Trump and Hillary are also targeting the black community with campaign rhetoric (much of it lies).
With so many people targeting, we the American people, with LIES, it’s best to trust, only after arduous fact-checking. And even then, be prepared to consider new information that comes to light, because we’re in for a rough few months between now and November in this take no prisoners, scorched earth battle of the wholesale public corruption titans, Drumpfzilla vs. the Witch of Chappaqua, as they slug it out in the sewer for the keys to the White House.
Donald Trump still lacks self-discipline and continues to trample on his own message, with crazy tweets, outbursts and plenty of name-calling. Media reports and even Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign manager who just resigned, commented on Trump’s refusal to stay on message and his penchant for making impetuous, angry comments that kept the campaign mired in doing damage control. Trump still wants to run a Clinton-style mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy, trying to revive some of that primary mojo, but it’s not working. Guess he hasn’t figured out that the corrupt BILLIONS of dollars in FREE media was what made the difference, not his “great” personality.
Never fear though, the Clinton ghosts still haunt Trump Tower.
Trump hired Stephen Bannon from Breitbart and Kellyanne Conway to head up his campaign, but now it’s being reported that Corey Lewandowski was paid $20,000 by Trump in July and is continuing to advise Trump in almost daily phone calls and even showing up at rallies and being treated like staff.
At the same time Lewandowski is working at CNN as an analyst and proclaims he’s impartial on the race.
I think someone should be looking to see if the Clinton campaign is funneling money and memes to Lewandowski, to egg on Trump, encouraging him to act out….. throwing the election for Hillary:
One senior level campaign official said, “He’s more involved than anyone realizes.”
Another senior-level aide said, “The days that Corey’s influence were widely seen were the days that Trump wanted to go back to — the old days, how he ran it in the primaries,” the person said, adding that Lewandowski “keeps telling him [Trump] to do what he wants, and for that, they’ll go down together.”
The Potemkin Trump campaign did not write all those talking points, orchestrate the perfect hits on the other GOP candidates or generate all those memes. As I’ve said since last Fall, it has Clinton sewer rat fingerprints all over it.
So, now Trump and his mouthpieces wail about the UNFAIR media in the tank for Hillary and yes, they are. However, the BILLIONS of dollars in FREE media Trump received in the primary was UNFAIR and corrupt too.
Tomorrow, I’ll try to get a blog post written on Russian disinformation and allegations being raised about Russian active measures at play trying to influence our election.
“While his wife, Huma Abedin, is off campaigning for former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the New York Post reported Weiner has been sexting another woman — at one point posting a raunchy selfie with his 4-year-old son in the background.”
USA Today states it’s a photo of Weiner with his four-year old son, but the photo looks like baby to me. This raises the question of whether Trump or his friends in the media paid an old sexting partner of Weiner’s for this photo. I would love the history of this photo – from the sexting partner who received it to how it ended up in this NY Post story. I would love to know if money, and how much, passed hands, and from whom, to acquire this photo.
Fox News said the photo was taken in 2015 (at 1:05 is the NY Post photo). As far as the sexting allegation itself, it’s not hard to believe that Weiner would continue sexting. Does the detail of the age of the child and exactly when this photo was taken and the trail of how the NY Post acquired this photo matter? It’s a small detail, right?
So, let’s examine another deliberate media collusion and the deception it played:
Breitbart wrote about this CNN video today too. Stop at 0:16 in the video and read Trump’s tweet. Breitbart reports that the CNN report on Trump’s tweet edited out the word “Crooked” in front of Hillary. What could be the reason for that – well to downplay Trump’s negative meme of Hillary – ie, to help Hillary. This wasn’t some little inadvertent mistake. Someone had to deliberately alter the screenshot of Trump’s tweet. That is doctoring a photo btw.
This is the level of LYING and deliberate MEDIA COLLUSION at play to promote these two vile candidates. It’s a choice between two of the worst sewer rats, who will do anything to win – one who is a king of buying political favors and the other who is THE queen of selling political favors. They are fighting for control of the WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION racket.
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