Connecting the dots on Hillary Clinton

[neverbend]

"If.she's trying to persuade voters she's untrustworthy." I'll have to say that strategy's working like a charm.

This report is a clear signal to the DOJ that an indictment is not going to be opposed by State. At this point,
I would estimate it will be about a month before The Beast of Chappaqua resigns from the race "for health reasons".

 

[Dave007inVegas]

"If.she's trying to persuade voters she's untrustworthy." I'll have to say that strategy's working like a charm.

This report is a clear signal to the DOJ that an indictment is not going to be opposed by State. At this point,
I would estimate it will be about a month before The Beast of Chappaqua resigns from the race "for health reasons".

This is certainly a black cloud hanging over her head. I’m not sure even she has enough friends to get her out from under it.

 

[SheriffJoe]

"If.she's trying to persuade voters she's untrustworthy." I'll have to say that strategy's working like a charm.

This report is a clear signal to the DOJ that an indictment is not going to be opposed by State. At this point,
I would estimate it will be about a month before The Beast of Chappaqua resigns from the race "for health reasons".

That would be the most hilarious political development of my lifetime.

 

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[neverbend]

Will 'Pocahantus' come to the Democrats rescue!

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[h=2]Sanders calls for an end to closed primaries - where Hillary did well - says the process 'totally absurd' and 'undemocratic' and claims the Clintons 'play very dirty'[/h]

Sanders has a long list of complaints as the Democratic primary comes to a close about the way he's been treated and the process for picking the nominee.

 

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[h=2]I'm with Wintour: Hillary Clinton jets off to Los Angeles for yet ANOTHER fundraiser hosted by Vogue editor - who flew in from New York for the occasion [/h]

Hillary Clinton's quest for the White House once again brought her to the multi-million dollar home of a high-powered Hollywood player for yet another fundraiser on Monday night.

 

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[h=2]Democrats are all tied up in California as Hillary's lead over Bernie drops to just two points - within the margin of error[/h]

Clinton will still win the Democratic nomination when 'superdelegates' are factored in. Bernie could steal her thunder and deny her a psychological boost headed into July's party convention.

 

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[russ1945]

[h=2]Five State Department Rules That Hillary’s Email Practices Violated[/h]IG report notes failure to abide by a number of laws and regulations
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BY: Lachlan Markay
May 26, 2016 11:50 am

Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email address as secretary of state appears to have run afoul of five different laws and regulations governing information security at the State Department, according to a recent government report.
The report, from the State Department’s inspector general, has renewed scrutiny of Clinton’s email practices, which critics say jeopardized sensitive or classified information and shielded Clinton’s activities from laws designed to ensure public access to government information.
The inspector general’s examination focused on statutes and regulations specific to the State Department. The more serious allegations against Clinton have to do with potential violations of the Espionage Act, which lays out penalties for “gross negligence” in the handling of sensitive national security information.
That investigation is ongoing, but the report identifies five other laws or regulations that Clinton circumvented or failed to follow. They contradict the Clinton campaign’s repeated claims that Clinton’s email practices at the State Department complied with all relevant rules regarding federal records and information security.
[h=2]Retaining agency records after leaving[/h]“Departing officials and employees [may] not remove Federal records from agency custody” —36 C.F.R. § 1222.24
Clinton’s personal email address, which she used exclusively as secretary of state, was housed on a private email server in her Chappaqua, N.Y. home. That meant her emails, which are considered federal records, were never in federal custody while she served as secretary. She didn’t just retain records after leaving the State Department; those records were never in the department’s possession in the first place.
The State Department is responsible for transferring records to the National Archives and Records Administration after a federal employee’s departure. But the State Department only requested Clinton’s emails in October 2014, a year and a half after she left office. The records agency only learned of Clinton’s private email server through media reports in March 2015, more than two years after her tenure.
[h=2]Properly archiving agency records[/h]“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. § 1236.22(b)
Clinton claims that the fact she was sending emails to federal employees using official email accounts meant that those emails were being archived properly. The IG rejected that explanation and concluded that Clinton had violated rules on the preservation of federal records.
“Secretary Clinton should have preserved any Federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary,” the IG wrote. “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 that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.”
Provisions of that law are designed to preserve agency records so that they are available to the general public through open records requests. Clinton emails quoted in the report suggest she was attempting to avoid just that type of scrutiny.
[h=2]Preserving federal records from loss or destruction[/h]“All Department employees are … required by law to preserve documentary materials meeting the definition of a record under the Federal Records Act [and are] responsible for creating, using, maintaining, preserving, and disposing of the Department’s information and records.” —State Department Foreign Affairs Manual
Clinton has said that she deleted roughly 30,000 emails stored on her server that she deemed of a personal and non-official nature. Neither the State Department nor the records agency has ever seen those emails. We now know that they included messages that were official in nature.
The IG report identified a number of such emails to Gen. David Petraeus. “The Department of Defense provided to OIG in September 2015 copies of 19 emails between Secretary Clinton and General David Petraeus on his official Department of Defense email account.” None of those 19 emails were turned over to the State Department.
Other deleted Clinton emails included dispatches about the Libyan civil war and the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in the country.
[h=2]Use of department-approved computing devices[/h]“It is the Department’s general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized AIS, which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information.” —State Department Foreign Affairs Manual
According to the inspector general, Clinton never received department approval to conduct official agency business on her private email server. She never consulted with the proper authorities before doing so. If she had, her email arrangement would have been rejected.
“According to the current CIO and Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs,” stated the IG report.
“However, according to these officials, DS and IRM did not—and would not—approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions in the FAM and the security risks in doing so.”
[h=2]Handling of sensitive-but-unclassified (SBU) information[/h]“Where warranted by the nature of the information, employees who will be transmitting SBU information outside of the Department network on a regular basis to the same official and/or most personal addresses, must contact the [information security officials] for guidance in implementing a secure technical solution for those transmissions.” —State Department Foreign Affairs Manual
“Emails exchanged on [Clinton’s] personal account regularly contained information marked as SBU,” but she never obtained the required approval for the handling of such information on a personal computing device. Because a security review never occurred, “Secretary Clinton never demonstrated … that her private server or mobile device met minimum information security requirements.”
Information security officials from Clinton’s time at the agency told the IG “that they were not asked to approve or otherwise review the use of Secretary Clinton’s server and that they had no knowledge of approval or review by other Department staff. These officials also stated that they were unaware of the scope or extent of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email account, though many of them sent emails to the Secretary on this account.”

 

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[h=2]McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s Home[/h]SHARE
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BY: Natalie Johnson
May 26, 2016 11:57 am

Hillary Clinton met with the Chinese businessman at the center of a federal investigation into Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D.) during a 2013 fundraiser at her Washington, D.C. home, according to a Time report.
Clinton shook hands with Wang Wenliang during the Sept. 30 event. Less than a month later, Wang would donate $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, ultimately pledging a total of $2 million to the foundation throughout the year.
McAuliffe, who was on the board of the Clinton Global Initiative, invited Wang to the fundraiser three weeks after one of the businessman’s companies, West Legend Corp., contributed $60,000 to his gubernatorial campaign. The company gave a total of $120,000 to McAuliffe’s bid.
Wang’s representative told Time the event at Clinton’s personal residence was one of at least three meetings between McAuliffe and the businessman.
Just days earlier, McAuliffe denied ever encountering Wang. The governor vowed that he “did no deals” with Wang, adding, “I would not know the man if he sat in a chair next to me.”
He later admitted during a radio interview with WTOP that he had met the businessman “once or twice in my life.”
Wang’s representative told Time that the second meeting between McAuliffe and the businessman occurred at the Virginia state capitol after McAuliffe won the governor seat. The two reportedly discussed expanding a soybean export agreement between Wang and the State of Virginia.
Former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D.) arranged the third meeting between McAuliffe and Wang where they again discussed soybean exports. Wang’s company, Dandong Port Co., gave Hodges $1.5 million in 2012 to lobby Congress.
The FBI and Justice Department have been probing McAuliffe’s campaign fundraising for the past year, CNN reported on Monday. Government officials are investigating whether donations given to his gubernatorial campaign violated campaign finance laws.
The Justice Department refused to elaborate on the probe’s focus.
“As a matter of policy, the department generally neither confirms nor denies whether a matter is under investigation,” Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr told Time.

 

[russ1945]

[h=1]National Review: ‘Clinton Cash’ Exposes ‘Blatant Pay-to-Play Schemes’ of ‘Greedy, Corrupt, and Morally Reprehensible’ Clintons[/h]

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[h=2]Myra Adams writes in National Review that the new documentary film “Clinton Cash,” based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling bookof the same name, removes all doubt that “the Clintons are greedy, corrupt, and morally reprehensible.”[/h]In watching a review copy of the film, I was struck by the phrase, “follow the money,” which is woven like a thread throughout. Anyone who follows politics is familiar with that iconic phrase, but many may have forgotten that it was the creation of a Hollywood scriptwriter: It was popularized by the 1976 movie, All the President’s Men, itself a fictional adaptation of the famous book about how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate scandal.
To those who would uncover the truth about the Clinton Foundation, “follow the money” seems quaint advice, considering that billions of dollars were involved — making for a scandal ten-times the size of Watergate.
Back in February, Democrat pollster Pat Caddell proclaimed as much, arguing that the Clintons “were selling out the national interests of the United States directly to adversaries and others for money.” That assertion is the core of Clinton Cash, which makes clear that the “selling out” was actively facilitated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while she held that esteemed title. The viewer is shown numerous examples of blatant pay-to-play schemes. These lucrative business deals illustrate the unofficial partnership between Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation. Every scheme is perpetrated to personally enrich the Clintons, their Foundation, or their high-powered cronies — in the name of “doing good” for the world’s poor, naturally.
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Has our nation gone stark raving mad even considering allowing the Clintons back in the White House? Americans deserve the chance to see Clinton Cash and answer that question for themselves before November 8.

 

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[h=1]Former State Department Official: I Saw Hillary Use Non-Secure Blackberry on Foreign Trips[/h]

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[h=2]WASHINGTON, DC — A former State Department official testified that he saw Hillary Clinton using her Blackberry, which was non-secure, both at the Department and on foreign trips during her tenure as Secretary of State.[/h]Veteran Foreign Service officer Lewis Alan Lukens served as deputy executive secretary at the State Department for the majority of Clinton’s term. Lukens testified recently in the civil case filed by the transparency group Judicial Watch, which has been fighting for information on Clinton’s private email scandal.
Lukens said that he saw Clinton using her Blackberry abroad and also outside her office in the hallway. This testimony supports the case that Clinton could have violated the Espionage Act of 1913 by allowing national defense information to be “lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed” through “gross negligence.”
Former State Department official and current member of Clinton’s Democratic Party platform committee Wendy Sherman said in 2011 that Clinton used her Blackberry to exchange information that “would never be on an unclassified system.” Sherman said:

Now we have Blackberries, and it has changed the way diplomacy is done. Things appear on your Blackberries that would never be on an unclassified system, but you’re out traveling, you’re trying to negotiate something. And so they sat there, as they were having the meeting, with their Blackberries, transferring language back and forth between them and between their aides to multitask in quite a new fashion, to have the meeting and at the same time be working on the quartet statement.
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As Breitbart News reported, Clinton knew as early as February 2009 that her Blackberry was not secure enough to use in her “Mahogany Row” office at the State Department. Clinton was warned by a State Department official in March 2009 to stop using her BlackBerry because her device suffered a security “vulnerability” when she visited China and other Asian countries on her official State Department trip.
Here are some passages from Lukens’ testimony that detail his observations about Clinton’s Blackberry use:
He acknowledges that she was using her Blackberry to check her email.

ATTORNEY: I guess she was using her BlackBerry as equipment to check her e-mail.
LUKENS: Yeah.
ATTORNEY: Did you know what her e-mail account was?
LUKENS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you at this point believe that she was using a state.gov e-mail account?
LUKENS: I do not believe that.
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Clinton took her Blackberry overseas

ATTORNEY: You traveled with Mrs. Clinton on all of her foreign travel, or — while you were there?
LUKENS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: Did you ever see Mrs. Clinton send an e-mail?
LUKENS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you ever see Mrs. Clinton use her BlackBerry?
LUKENS: I saw her holding her BlackBerry.
ATTORNEY: Okay. How often did you see Mrs. Clinton holding her BlackBerry?
LUKENS: Infrequently during trips. I couldn’t put a number on it…
…ATTORNEY: And you — your travel with her was both domestic and international, or just international?
LUKENS: Just international.
ATTORNEY: Okay. So while you were traveling internationally, you just saw her holding or have possession of a BlackBerry a few times a month?
LUKENS: Correct…
…I don’t believe it was a State Department BlackBerry.
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Clinton could not use her Blackberry in her office

LUKENS: I don’t remember if we talked about issuing her a State Department BlackBerry. We did talk about how she could access her BlackBerry.
ATTORNEY: So while you were having those conversations about whether or not she could go to the counselor’s office to use a BlackBerry, your assumption was that it was her personal BlackBerry she wanted to use?
LUKENS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: If it was a State Department BlackBerry, would she have been able to use it in her office?
LUKENS: No.
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Clinton stood in the hallway outside her office to use her Blackberry

LUKENS: No. Can I just go back? Because I did on occasion see Secretary Clinton in the hallway outside the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] standing there looking at her BlackBerry.
ATTORNEY: Okay. Did you — do you know what she was doing on her BlackBerry at that time?
LUKENS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you think she was sending personal e-mail or reading personal e-mail at that time?
LUKENS: I had no idea what she was doing.
ATTORNEY: Do you know — you don’t know if she was conducting official government business or not during that time?
LUKENS: I don’t know what she was doing.
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[vitterd]

Great story Russ. Guy saw Hillary holding a blackberry. Does someone feed and cloth you? No chance you do it by yourself.

 

[russ1945]

Great story Russ. Guy saw Hillary holding a blackberry. Does someone feed and cloth you? No chance you do it by yourself.

He acknowledges that she was using her Blackberry to check her email. DUH

 

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