Category Archives: ThatWitch2016

FBI Director, James Comey, caved to Clinton/Obama pressure to bury Hillary’s email server scandal and now he’s stuck trying to salvage his reputation and at the same time trying to avoid questions about his decision.  He is now part of the Clinton, “Time to move on” choir and will do whatever it takes to bury this email server scandal.  The Hill reports:

“Republicans on the House Oversight Committee asked officials from the FBI and three other agencies for a classified briefing on Wednesday regarding redactions in the report on Hillary Clinton’s email server — but were denied.

In response to the refusal, the committee has now scheduled a hearing for Monday morning at which the same four agencies — the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice and State departments — will be asked to testify.”

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/294780-fbi-refused-to-brief-oversight-committee-on-clinton-report#.V9BO15c7E94.twitter

The Clinton WALL of obstruction is stronger and higher than any wall Donald Trump could ever dream of building.

The Clinton spin continues apace – blaming Colin Powell again.  Rep Elijah Cummings released a Powell email acquired from the State Department, according to a Politico report.  So, once again Cummings is going to carry more water for the Clintons and try to use Powell as the scapegoat, to deflect blame from Hillary Clinton.  Politico reports:

“This email exchange shows that Secretary Powell advised Secretary Clinton with a detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records, although Secretary Clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice,” Cummings said in a statement. “This email exchange also illustrates the longstanding problem that no Secretary of State ever used an official unclassified email account until the current Secretary of State. The Republican obsession with Secretary Clinton has reached a fever pitch, and they have been using taxpayer resources to single her out in a desperate and abusive attempt to hurt her presidential campaign.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-emails-227861#ixzz4JceHOTjZ
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The Clintons will stop at nothing to strong-arm their way back into the White House.  The problem for Cummings is Hillary had THOUSANDS of classified documents on, not only a private email account, she had them on her unsecured home-brew server and her aides, the recipients or senders of these classified emails, also have these classified emails on whatever email system they were using.  She had them on 13 mobile devices, which she never turned over to the FBI and she had them on 5 ipads, which only 3 were turned over to the FBI.

And the entire time she was using all these devices, heck in the FBI notes one aide to Bill Clinton mentioned that he often say Hillary using a flip phone to talk on and using a blackberry in her hands – so much for the only wanted to use one device for convenience LIE….

Clinton had over 904 emails recovered by the FBI from her gmail account according to these FBI Notes. 56 of those were classified .  Those emails were NOT included in the emails her attorneys returned to the State Department AND not on her home-brew server.  The FBI uncovered those emails in their investigations.

Cummings is once again trying to deflect and deceive, in his usual rabid partisan fashion.

I am sure he and his fellow Democrats already have their brain-dead talking points prepared and distributed, ready for tomorrow’s congressional hearing.

They will relentlessly repeat these talking points and refuse to even listen to, or consider, any evidence or testimony that reflects negatively on Hillary.   The goal is repeat these talking points continuously , so that these talking points are what is remembered and also repeated by the liberal media.  It’s the same old vile mass media saturation brainwashing technique they rely on.

Their friends in the liberal media will aid and abet them in every way they can – repeating their talking points and repeating the claim that it’s another “vast, right-wing witch hunt” to hurt Hillary.

SHE is the one who decided to use this UNSECURED  server and she is the one who allowed classified information to be relayed on her email system.  No Republicans made her do this.

She is UNFIT to ever be trusted with sensitive information.

Retired general Michael Hayden, in the Washington Times, writes:

“Mrs. Clinton’s defense — that many of the discussed strikes never occurred — is also stunning. It’s not quite as bad as saying that it would have been OK for Marshall and Eisenhower in early 1944 to debate over an open line whether to land in Europe at Normandy or Pas de Calais because, after all, we ultimately didn’t land at Pas de Calais. Not quite as bad, but still hard to fathom. Uncertain and unclassified are two different things.

I signed a letter last month with 49 other officials who have served in Republican administrations. We all said Donald Trump was unfit for the presidency. He still is. But many of us also insisted in the letter that this not be read as an endorsement of Mrs. Clinton.

Recently in this space I said that even though I could not vote for him, I would not vote for her. That still holds. In fact, the revelations of the past week make that latter position even more certain.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/the-302-makes-it-more-certain-hillary-clinton-isnt/

I agree with him completely.

Update: 9/8/16, The House Oversight Committee is meeting, as I type.  I’ve learned that the Democrats on this committee requested this Powell email FIVE days ago and the State Department could cough it up.  Numerous email requests, from Republicans on more than one House committee, have NOT been responded to in YEARS.  The State Department officials, especially Undersecretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy’s answers,  rank as nothing short of parsing bullshit and massive obfuscations.

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

To be continued….

“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.”

pg. 18 of FBI Notes on Hillary’s Interview

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” personal emails 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.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/02/23-shocking-revelations-from-the-fbis-clinton-email-report/#ixzz4JGQUGwaw

That has to be a lie, because Abedin, in the first 4 pages, was the one who recommended a new server system and she recommended Pagliano for the job.

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.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/235265-does-bill-clinton-email-it-depends-who-you-ask

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.””

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/25/trey-gowdy-clinton-deleted-emails-so-even-god-couldnt-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.