Hildabeast didnt have a government email

[Dave007inVegas]

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/house-panel-hillary-turn-over-your-server-now-or-else

House Panel to Hillary: Turn Over Your Server Now -- Or Else

Or else what?

 

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“They made it crystal clear that the ask was from Hillary”: Inside the Clinton fundraising machine — as secretary of state


Hillary needed cash. Balderston was still setting up the office when Hillary approached him at the end of February 2009. “I have the first project for you,” she said. The job: raise more than $60 million from the private sector in nine months. In an era of billion-dollar presidential campaigns, that might not sound like much jack. But the government generally doesn’t raise money from the private sector, in large part because of the potential for corporate donors to give with the expectation that they will get specific government actions in return. Moreover, Congress and the Bush administration had shunned the very initiative Hillary wanted Balderston to execute.

:hammerit

No matter, Democrats will rush to vote for her.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

“They made it crystal clear that the ask was from Hillary”: Inside the Clinton fundraising machine — as secretary of state


Hillary needed cash. Balderston was still setting up the office when Hillary approached him at the end of February 2009. “I have the first project for you,” she said. The job: raise more than $60 million from the private sector in nine months. In an era of billion-dollar presidential campaigns, that might not sound like much jack. But the government generally doesn’t raise money from the private sector, in large part because of the potential for corporate donors to give with the expectation that they will get specific government actions in return. Moreover, Congress and the Bush administration had shunned the very initiative Hillary wanted Balderston to execute.

:hammerit

No matter, Democrats will rush to vote for her.

Yes they will, no doubt about it. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

 

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Hillary caught in yet another lie on this matter:

they did show that Mrs. Clinton’s top aides at times corresponded with her about State Department matters from their personal email accounts, raising questions about her recent assertions that she made it her practice to email aides at their government addresses so the messages would be preserved, in compliance with federal record-keeping regulations.

[h=1]In Clinton Emails on Benghazi, a Rare Glimpse at Her Concerns[/h]

 

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[h=1]Hillary Clinton communicated with at least FOUR aides through their personal email accounts despite claim that 'the vast majority of my work emails' went to archived 'dot-gov' addresses[/h]

• Clinton claimed March 10 that 'the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses'
• At least some conversations, though, went through aides' personal addresses
• That means they happened entirely outside the scope of automatic archiving at the State Department
• Republicans in Congress are probing Clinton's involvement in an alleged cover-up following the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya

Emails Hillary Clinton turned over to a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, show her aides sometimes used their personal email accounts to communicate with her through her own private account.
Clinton said during a March 10 press conference that 'the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses.'
That, she claimed then, 'meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department' for archiving, where they would turn up in searches conducted in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
But The New York Times reported on Monday that some of the approximately 300 Clinton emails examined by a congressional committee suggest otherwise.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could be waving goodbye to her presidential ambitions if 'email-gate' gets deeper. She spoke at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress on Monday

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LOST TO HISTORY? Former State Department Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Huma Abedin (right) was one of her closest aides, and emailed Clinton in a conversation where both women used personal accounts

THE ADDRESS: Abedin had an email address on the former secretary of state's private server, judging from records maintained by Lexis-Nexis

The emails from Clinton, a presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, do not prove the former secretary of state ordered a 'stand down,' stopping U.S. forces from responding to the Benghazi attack or participated in a related cover-up, the newspaper reported, citing four senior government officials.
But they do raise new questions about how much of Clinton's correspondence has been lost to history. Federal record retention laws are designed to prevent the kind of archive side-stepping Clinton is accused of carrying on for the four years she led the State Department.
Congress subpoenaed email records last week from 'close to a dozen' people who worked for Hillary Clinton at State.
The Times report is the latest revelation in the saga over Clinton and her use of a personal email address to conduct government business, as well as a private computer server to store that correspondence.

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PROBLEMS: Clinton has been dogged by allegations that she purposely hid incriminating emails from the State Department – and from public records requesters – by keeping all her emails on a private server

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told the Times that Clinton's aides primarily used their work email to correspond with her about government matters, adding that 'only the tiniest fraction of the more than 1 million emails they sent or received involved their personal accounts.'
According to the Times, she occasionally exchanged emails with at least four aides via personal accounts while she was at the State Department, including her foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan; chief of staff, Cheryl Mills; senior adviser, Philippe Reines; and her personal aide, Huma Abedin.
Abedin used an email address on Clinton's private server in addition to her official 'dot-gov' address. Mills reportedly did the same.
Clinton has confirmed that she exclusively used her private account, calling it a matter of 'convenience.'
In one email exchange cited by the Times, she asked an aide to assess the performance of a top State official before Congress.
'Did we survive the day?' she wrote.
'Survive, yes,' the adviser responded.

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DAMAGE CONTROL? It's not clear what Clinton's inner circle said to her about her turn before the US Senate – the infamous 'What difference does it make?' moment – because the former secretary's emails were outside the State Department's archive system

In separate exchanges weeks later, Sullivan wrote Clinton to reassure her that she wouldn't be held to account in the same way as then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who falsely claimed on national television that the death and destruction in Benghazi was the consequence of a protest that spiraled out of control.
'She did make clear our view that this started spontaneously then evolved,' he wrote to Clinton at one point, seeming to reinforce the idea that the Obama administration planned to stick with that assessment..
Later, when the White House began referring to Benghazi as a 'terror attack,' Sullivan told Clinton that in her own publiccomments she had steered clear of the nettles that had snared Rice.
'You never said ‘spontaneous’ or characterized their motivations,' he wrote, according to the Times.
Details on conversations like these are sketchy: The Times wasn't permitted to look at the emails, but relied on descriptions from four different sources.

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COULD IT BE? Housing secretary Julian Castro (right) has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate and would catch momentum if Hillary Clinton's email scandal derailed her campaign hopes

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PROBE: South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy chairs a special congressional committee looking into the Benghazi attacks, and has subpoenaed emails from 'close to a dozen' current and past Clinton aides

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Cheryl Mills (left) was Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department and reportedly used an off-the-books email address to trade messages with the then-secretary of state, potentially putting their work emails beyond the reach of government investigators

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BECAUSE I'M HAPPY? Clinton is her party's presumed presidential front-runner, having come in second to Barack Obama in 2008

A spokesman for the Republican-controlled House Select Committee on Benghazi declined to comment, according to the newspaper.
Clinton has said she gave copies of all work-related emails to the State Department, but Republicans, who see her as their top target in the run-up to the 2016 election, continued to press for more records.
Last week Republicans asked the State Department to hand over numerous documents related to Clinton's use of private email while she was secretary of state and have called on her to hand over her email server to a third party.
Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who chairs the House committee investigating Benghazi, has said he does not think Clinton has given the committee all emails related to the attack and last week extended the deadline for her to turn them over.

 

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[h=1]Hillary Clinton cracks a joke about her illicit email account in wake of scandal as she promises 'no more secrecy'[/h]

• Former Secretary of State made light of accusations over her emails
• Has been castigated for using personal account for government business
• Spoke tonight and hoped for 'new beginnings' - and a new account
• Appeared at journalism prize-giving ceremony in Washington, D.C.
• Promised transparency - then joked everyone had to sign a gagging order

PUBLISHED: 02:12, 24 March 2015 | UPDATED: 02:12, 24 March 2015
Hillary Clinton has been hammered time and time again for the scandal which erupted after it emerged that she used her personal email account for government business.
But she made light of the scandal at a gathering of reports on Monday night, looking forward to 'new beginnings'... including a new address.
Clinton, who is expected to declare her bid for president in the coming weeks, even promised 'no more secrecy' after weeks of being pressed to turn over State Department emails she had hitherto kept to herself.

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Joker: Hillary Clinton showed her lighter side, joking with reporters about her recent email scandal, and promising 'no more secrecy'. She is pictured about at a speech earlier on Monday

The former Secretary of State and First Lady, who was speaking at the awards ceremony for a political journalism prize, admitted it was odd for her to willingly put herself in the way of the press - but tried to spin the occasion as a fresh start.
She said: 'I am well aware that some of you may be a little surprised to see me here tonight. You know my relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated.'


'... But I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account – why not a new relationship with the press?
'So here goes. No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy - after all, what good does that do me.'

'... But I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account – why not a new relationship with the press?
'So here goes. No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy - after all, what good does that do me.'

Prank: Clinton joked that everyone at the prize-giving in Washington, D.C., had a non-disclosure agreement under their seat

 

[russ1945]

New beginnings. How about finishing what you start. New beginnings, does that mean forget about her past. No way. When you dig a hole it is all on you. She is all about herself, an ego only second to Obama. Oh well, what difference does it make (who said that?) She is the butt of many more jokes than she can throw out there that is for sure. In fact she is a joke.

 

[russ1945]

And the beat goes on:

[h=2]Report: Terry McAuliffe, Tony Rodham Received ‘Unprecedented’ Favoritism from DHS[/h]

EMAIL


BY: Brent Scher
March 24, 2015 5:04 pm

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security gave an “unprecedented” level of special treatment to GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company run by Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham, according to a report from the department’s inspector general.
The report states that McAuliffe and Rodham’s treatment by DHS “created an appearance of favoritism and special access.”
The Washington Post reports:

The intervention, on behalf of McAuliffe’s GreenTech Automotive company, “was unprecedented,” according to the report, which noted that “staff perceived it as politically motivated.” [...]
The report did not find evidence of law-breaking. It focuses on decisions by Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that appeared to show favoritism for politically powerful applicants, notably McAuliffe.
The long-anticipated report reviewed Mayorkas’s management of the EB-5 program, which allows foreign nationals who create jobs in the United States to obtain green cards. The report concluded that Mayorkas’ actions “created an appearance of favoritism and special access.’’
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McAuliffe’s GreenTech Automotive was working with a company, Gulf Coast Funds Management, that specialized in obtaining EB-5 visas and was run by Rodham.
DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wrote in a response to the IG report that McAuliffe was “persistent and obnoxious” in his objections to denials of visa applications. Mayorkas recalls hearing several voicemails from McAuliffe that were “laced with expletives at a high volume.”
McAuliffe also wrote a letter directly to Janet Napolitano, who was head of DHS at the time, complaining that his applications for visas were denied.
The DHS investigation into whether Mayorkas expedited the approval of visa applications after being urged to due so by Rodham began before McAuliffe was elected to be Virginia’s governor in 2013.
Both GreenTech Automotive and Gulf Coast Funds Management were also being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Virginia officials feared doing business with GreenTech due to their belief that the company was a “visa-for-sale scheme.”

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Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.

“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/gowdy-clinton-wiped-her-server-clean-116472.html#ixzz3VmNN8EJq

Notice how no Democratic voters care why she wiped the server out entirely.

 

[russ1945]

[h=2]Senators: Spies May Have Intercepted Hillary Emails[/h]Corker, Burr, Johnson express concerns to State Dept. IG


EMAIL

AP​

BY: Alana Goodman
March 28, 2015 11:30 am

There are growing concerns that Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private email server to conduct State Department business may have allowed foreign spies to access her correspondence, according to the chairmen of three major Senate national security oversight committees.
Clinton’s personal email could have become “a priority target for foreign intelligence services,” according to a letter sent to the State Department inspector general by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R., N.C.), and Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) on March 12.
“We write to you today concerning the recent revelations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top aides used non-State Department email addresses and servers to conduct official U.S. Government business,” the senators wrote. “We are concerned that diplomatically sensitive, and possibly classified, information may have been transmitted and stored in an insecure manner.”
The senators noted that overseas intelligence agencies “continuously probe our government’s information systems for weaknesses and attempt targeted intrusions.”
“The use of privately maintained information systems that are not protected by federal government experts and key technical capabilities raises serious concerns as those networks may be less secure,” they wrote.
The senators asked the State Department inspector general to provide the names of any other officials who worked under Clinton who used personal email for government correspondence, details about the security of Clinton’s private email, an assessment on whether any official emails were deleted by Clinton or her staff, and information on whether Clinton or others withheld any emails that should be publicly available.
“We ask that this be an unclassified report, and that a classified annex be provided if necessary,” said the letter.
The senators warned that “if a non-government server was known to be a repository for the secretary’s emails, it would almost certainly become—if it is not already—a priority target for foreign intelligence services and others.”

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.
While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton's correspondence while secretary of state. The messages came from and were sent to her private email address, hosted on a server at her property in Chappaqua, New York, as opposed to a government-run email account.
They show that Clinton, on at least one occasion, accidentally mingled personal and work matters. In reply to a message sent in September 2011 by adviser Huma Abedin to Clinton's personal email account, which contained an AP story about a drone strike in Pakistan, Clinton mistakenly replied with questions that appear to be about decorations.


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Ho-hum, the left doesn't care. They'll line up to vote for her.

 

[russ1945]

According to emails obtained by Gawker, longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal appears to have secretly lobbied then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on behalf of a Georgian billionaire politician seeking closer ties with Vladimir Putin, and in doing so may have violated federal law:

In 2012, Georgia was gearing up to elect a new prime minister. Oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili led the opposition Georgian Dream party, which called for closer relations with Russia—a state that had invaded Georgia only four years earlier. He was opposing the incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili, who had enjoyed U.S. support.
Ivanishvili was eager to meet with then-Secretary of State Clinton, but found himself snubbed during a state visit in June 2012. In September 2012, Blumenthal prepared a long, official-looking memo for Clinton on the subject of the Georgian election. It passed along a note from John Kornblum, an international lawyer who had served as ambassador to Germany under Bill Clinton. According to Blumenthal’s memo, Kornblum was “working with the political party in Georgia opposing Saakashvili”; contemporaneous press accounts corroborate the fact that Kornblum was formally acting as an adviser to Georgian Dream.
Blumenthal’s preamble to the memo warned that Georgia “could be a potential hot spot a month before the U.S. election” if Saakashvili decided to “ratchet up tensions with Russia” as a political maneuver. Though he wrote that he was passing on Kornblum’s memo “without comment,” it is clear that Blumenthal thought the ideas should be taken seriously.
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Gawker​

Kornblum went so far as to forward a personal letter (via Blumenthal) to Clinton from Ivanishvili requesting Clinton’s support.
Given that Kornblum and Blumenthal were pretty clearly engaged in lobbying on behalf of a foreign official, they should have registered with the Department of Justice if they wanted to follow the law. But they didn’t, probably because they assumed they could claim that no direct lobbying occurred because the communications were delivered through a middleman, in this case Blumenthal. The law seems pretty clear that this is not allowed, but we’re talking about the Clintons here, so they’ll probably get away with it.
Maybe Hillary Clinton’s personal email server can shed some light on the situation. Oh, right. Never mind.

 

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CONFIRMED: HILLARY CLINTON LIED ABOUT NOT WANTING TO CARRY TWO EMAIL DEVICES

The Associated Press

by JOHN HAYWARD31 Mar 2015327

Are you dead-end Hillary Clinton supporters a bit disturbed that everything she said in her email scandal press conference was a lie?
Granted, nobody with two sparking neurons to think with believed her absurd claim that she created her insecure, illegal private mail server to save herself the inconvenience of carrying two cell phones. The problem is that loyal service to Her Imperious Majesty requires Democrats to pretend to believe it, and that’s impossible now.
It was always very difficult to accept the mandated pretense, because in previous remarks and in her book, Clinton talked about carrying multiple devices. She’s rhapsodized about her love of Apple products, but she’s been photographed ostentatiously waving a Blackberry around.
However, the loyal Democrat drone could pretend not to be aware of that evidence, or claim to believe Clinton was gently fibbing when she talked about lugging multiple Apple devices around, in an effort to curry favor with left-leaning Apple execs and their left-leaning customers.
That’s all over now, because the Associated Press has obtained documents conclusive proving that “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.”
(Is it just me, or does it seem like the media trots out “Rodham” more frequently when they’re uncomfortable with one of her scandals? Even the dismissive laughter over at MSNBC is beginning to sound strained and nervous, as Clinton-friendly media concedes there is no way to spin this as a trivial non-story.)
Furthermore, for those of you worried about Clinton’s corruption jeopardizing national security, the AP found an instance of the SecState replying to an illegally concealed work-related email as if it were one of those personal emails she claims she didn’t have to pass along to the government and public. Gee, you don’t suppose she might have made a few similar mistakes when deciding which emails were “personal” and could be safely deleted, do you?

The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton’s correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.
While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton’s correspondence while secretary of state. The messages came from and were sent to her private email address, hosted on a server at her property in Chappaqua, New York, as opposed to a government-run email account.
They show that Clinton, on at least one occasion, accidentally mingled personal and work matters. In reply to a message sent in September 2011 by adviser Huma Abedin to Clinton’s personal email account, which contained an AP story about a drone strike in Pakistan, Clinton mistakenly replied with questions that appear to be about decorations.
“I like the idea of these,” she wrote to Abedin. “How high are they? What would the bench be made of? And I’d prefer two shelves or attractive boxes/baskets/ conmtainers (sic) on one. What do you think?”
Abedin replied, “Did u mean to send to me?” To which Clinton wrote, “No-sorry! Also, pls let me know if you got a reply from my ipad. I’m not sure replies go thru.”
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One of the prominent individuals worried about how Clinton endangered national security in her zeal to avoid public and congressional oversight is Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who will likely be one of Clinton’s 2016 presidential rivals, if she gets away with the felony offense of destroying subpoenaed documents and runs as the Democrat candidate. “If you are using a private server, you make them susceptible to foreign espionage,” Rubio said of Clinton’s emails Monday on Fox News. “If there was anything in those emails that was sensitive in nature, not just classified God forbid, even sensitive, I think it puts national security at risk.”
How about if Clinton accidentally forwarded sensitive material about U.S. military operations to insecure email addresses by accident, when she thought she was chatting about yoga with one of her pals?
We might have to check with foreign intelligence services to get the Clinton emails Congress and the American people are entitled to see, because she declared herself fully in compliance with lawful subpoenas and nuked everything she didn’t feel like handing over. Don’t try that at home, kids – you’ll go to jail for doing it.
We learned this because Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) of the House Benghazi Select Committee demanded Clinton hand over her server for independent review, and her lawyer David Kendall snottily responded that she wouldn’t do that, and it wouldn’t matter if she did, because she’s wiped the server clean.
“Lawyers are not usually this bold when disclosing evidence that suggests potential breaches of criminal law,” writes Shannen Coffin at National Review. “I say ‘potential’ because it is impossible to know for sure — unless, of course, you, like most congressional Democrats, are willing to take Mr. Kendall’s (and Mrs. Clinton’s) word for it. But the destruction of any record while a person is subject to a congressional-committee investigation is a reason for humility, rather than hubris, on the part of that person’s lawyer. This is so because a number of federal laws prohibit obstruction of such investigations.”
Coffin goes on to list those laws in detail, including one that passed with then-Senator Clinton’s support to prevent Enron’s accountants from doing exactly what Hillary Clinton just did. If the targets of investigations get to unilaterally decide which documents comply with subpoenas from now on, citing the Hillary Clinton precedent, criminal law would completely disintegrate; the FBI might as well dissolve its organized-crime and corporate-crime divisions, because they’ll never secure another high-profile conviction. I can’t wait to see some mob boss take the stand and say he and his lawyers went through his correspondence, hand-picked everything they thought was relevant to a federal investigation, and destroyed the rest.
Congressional oversight will also become even more of a joke than it already is. The fallback position for Clinton defenders, beginning with ancient Clinton hatchet man James Carville but no longer ending with him, is to admit that Clinton was spinning fairy tales when she claimed she set up her secret server to save herself the trouble of carrying two tiny smart phones. You’re darn right she did it to escape congressional scrutiny, because all congressional investigations are partisan witch hunts!
Naturally, the implication is that all Republican investigations are partisan witch hunts, but we haven’t quite reached the stage of tyranny and corruption where Democrats can say that openly to their hack media.
They don’t have to – they know their friends in the press will take Democrat investigations of a Republican administration very seriously, no matter what Democrats say about Republican subpoenas today. Nothing about the lawful subpoena powers of Congress says the target can blow them off if she thinks the investigators are motivated by partisanship. Every significant congressional investigation would likely be dismissed as partisan by the targets, wouldn’t it? The political model that strips opposition politicians of their lawful powers, on the grounds that they are the opposition party, is tyranny, not democracy.
The rest of us, including – no, especially - Democrat voters, need to think long and hard about whether we’re ready to wave aside all legal restraints on the aristocracy, in favor of trial by political combat. Making polls the only courtroom aristocrats ever need to face is a dumb idea, but it’s especially dumb when their favorite crimes involve concealing their activities and misleading the public. Are we really going to make accountability the punishment for losing a game politicians are experts at cheating? What Hillary Clinton did with her email server was obviously wrong, unprecedented, dishonest, and dangerous. Loyalty to her after this obnoxious debacle is an act of submission, not support.


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What Hillary Clinton did with her email server was obviously wrong, unprecedented, dishonest, and dangerous. Loyalty to her after this obnoxious debacle is an act of submission, not support.

 

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[h=1]Top Spy: Hillary's Emails 'Likely' Hacked by China, Russia, Iran[/h][h=2]And 'potentially the North Koreans'[/h]8:34 AM, APR 7, 2015 • BY DANIEL HALPER


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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."
Flynn made the comments to Megyn Kelly last night on Fox News:

"As a military officer, if I said I was doing something for convenience's sake to the soldiers that I was leading and it was solely for my convenience instead of their, you know, their welfare, I should be relieved of duty. I would expect to be fired," Flynn said. "You know, it's one of those things where if it doesn't feel good it probably isn't. And this one doesn't feel good to me."
Kelly asked, "What do you think the odds are that the Chinese, the Russians hacked into that server and her e-mail account?"
"Very high," Flynn said without hesitation. "Likely."
"Really?"
"Yep. Likely. They're very good at it. China, Russia, Iran, potentially the North Koreans. And other countries who may be 'our allies' because they can."
Flynn said we "all ought to be asked" about Hillary Clinton's emails and the security surrounding her private account.

 

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[h=1]ISSA ASKED HILLARY IN 2012 ABOUT PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS, CLINTON DELETED EMAILS AFTER INQUIRY[/h]

AFP Photo / Michael B. Thomas

by MATTHEW BOYLE14 Apr 2015Washington, DC1256

[h=2]Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was asked in an official congressional inquiry from former House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) about whether she used a private email for government work as far back as 2012.[/h]The letter from Issa to Clinton, sent on Dec. 13, 2012 and obtained by Breitbart News after an explosive New York Times expose on it late Tuesday evening, specifically asks eight detailed questions about government record-keeping.
“Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal e-mail account to conduct official business?” the first question reads. “If so, please identify the account used.”
The next two questions asked about whether she or other senior agency officials used text messages or alias email accounts to send or receive government work messages—and the fourth question asks for specific details on the agency’s policies on such accounts.
“Please provide written documentation of the agency’s policies regarding the use of non-official e-mail accounts to conduct official business, including, but not limited to, archiving and record keeping procedures, as well as disciplinary proceedings for employees in violation of these policies,” Issa asked Clinton.
The next question follows up on that. “Does the agency require employees to certify on a periodic basis or at the end of their employment with the agency they have turned over any communications involving official business that they have sent or received using non-official accounts?” Issa asked Clinton.
The next question asks about social media accounts before the final two of the eight questions to Clinton hone in yet again on agency policies.
“What agency policies and procedures are currently in place to ensure that all messages related to official business sent or received by federal employees and contractors on private, non-governmental e-mail accounts or social networking platforms are properly categorized as federal records?” the seventh question to Clinton from Issa reads.
“Have any agency employees been subject to disciplinary proceedings for using non-official e-mail accounts to conduct official business since January 20, 2009?” the final question from Issa to Clinton reads. “If so, please provide a list of names, dates of proceedings, and final outcomes.”
An identical version of Issa’s letter to Clinton was also sent to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Attorney General Eric Holder, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, NASA administrator Charles Bolden, GSA administrator Daniel Tangherlini, Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills, and Office of Management and Budget director Jeffrey Zients.
At this time, it is unclear if any other of the agencies responded to Issa’s inquiry. But thanks to a New York Times report from Michael S. Schmidt on Tuesday evening, it is now known that the State Department—through Thomas B. Gibbons, the acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs—responded to Issa’s letter after Clinton left office.
Clinton resigned from the State Department on Feb. 1, 2013—as Schmidt wrote on Tuesday evening, “seven weeks after the letter [from Issa] was sent to her.”
Gibbons waited several more weeks, until March 27, 2013, to respond to Issa’s letter on the State Department’s behalf. Gibbons did not answer in that letter whether Clinton used a personal email address, and it’s unclear based on the Times report—which does not include the full text of the letter Gibbons sent back to Issa—how specific he was in answering any of the other questions Issa had for Clinton and her State Department.
“When Mr. Issa received a response from the State Department on March 27, all he got was a description of the department’s email policies,” Schmidt wrote.
From the two sections of the letter Schmidt did quote in his piece, however, it is clear that Clinton was in violation of the State Department policy that employees should not be using personal email addresses to conduct official business.
Any employee who had a personal account, Gibbons wrote in the letter according to Schmidt’s report, “should make it clear that his or her personal email is not being used for official business.”
Gibbons added, according to Schmidt, that “employees may use personal email on personal time for matters not directly related to official business, and any employee using personal email ‘should make it clear that his or her personal email is not being used for official business.’”
Schmidt also paraphrased another portion Gibbons’ letter by writing that the “State Department offered training on its record management programs to its employees.”
State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach on Tuesday, Schmidt wrote, “declined” to “answer questions about why it had not addressed Mr. Issa’s question about whether Mrs. Clinton or senior officials used personal email accounts.”
“The department responds to thousands of congressional inquiries and requests for information each year,” Gerlach told Schmidt instead of answering specific questions. “In its March 2013 letter, the department responded to the House Oversight Committee’s inquiry into the department’s ‘policies and practices regarding the use of personal email and other forms of electronic communications’ with a letter that described those policies in detail.”
There are several major takeaways from this development, as it breathes brand new life into the scandal rocking Clinton as she just launched her 2016 presidential campaign this week.
The first is that she was clearly aware that her private email account was a serious issue as far back as during her time at the State Department.
Secondly, she deliberately decided to not respond to the inquiry—waiting for officials at the State Department to do so well after she resigned, and even further after the deadline for a response. The actual deadline was Jan. 7, 2013.
The third major takeaway is that after Clinton was made aware this was an issue, she deleted upwards of 30,000 emails that she or her staff deemed to be private and not government-related. Since the full text of Gibbons’ response to Issa at this time is unavailable, it’s unclear what the official policy was—according to him—for preserving or archiving such records, or ensuring as Issa put it proper categorization of such messages.
At her widely panned press conference at the United Nations last month, Clinton herself claimed that it is a government official’s personal responsibility to determine what messages are worthy of keeping records of and which ones are not.
“In going through the e-mails, there were over 60,000 in total, sent and received. About half were work-related and went to the State Department and about half were personal that were not in any way related to my work,” she said in response to a question about that angle of the scandal. “I had no reason to save them, but that was my decision because the federal guidelines are clear and the State Department request was clear. For any government employee, it is that government employee’s responsibility to determine what’s personal and what’s work-related. I am very confident of the process that we conducted and the e-mails that were produced. And I feel like once the American public begins to see the e- mails, they will have an unprecedented insight into a high government official’s daily communications, which I think will be quite interesting.”
It’s absolutely clear at this time, however, that she deleted emails after receiving Issa’s inquiry.
In fact, in a document released in early March 2015—in response to the widespread media scrutiny she was receiving—the “Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton” made clear the decisions about which emails to delete and which ones to keep was made after a 2014 correspondence with senior State Department officials, well after Issa’s letter.
“Following conversations with Department officials and in response to the Department’s October 28, 2014 letter to former Secretaries requesting assistance in meeting the Department’s record-keeping requirements, Secretary Clinton directed her attorneys to assist by identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records,” the Clinton document reads. “This entailed a multi-step process to provide printed copies of the Secretary’s work-related emails to the Department, erring on the side of including anything that might potentially be a federal record. As the State Department has said, Secretary Clinton was the first to respond to this letter.”
Kurt Bardella, a former senior adviser to Issa when he was chairman of the committee–who, in the interest of full disclosure, now serves as a communications aide for Breitbart News Network–but served with Issa at the time this letter was sent to Clinton, said there are more questions than answers that are coming from this development.
“The fact is in December of 2012, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was directly asked if she used a private e-mail account,” Bardella said. “Why did the State Department wait until after Secretary Clinton left office to respond to the Issa letter? Were Secretary Clinton’s efforts to deliberately conceal her official activities through use of her private e-mail prompted by then-Chairman Issa’s request? As is status-quo with the Clintons, there are far more questions than answers and it’s likely that these revelations of her secrecy are just the tip of the iceberg.”
Clinton has been oddly secretive in her first few days as a presidential candidate. In an interview with Breitbart News earlier on Tuesday, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus argued that Clinton’s campaign rollout has been deliberately underwhelming, and she is “hiding” because she is afraid of answering any real questions from press or voters about her email scandal.
“The reason why she didn’t give a speech is because she can’t avail herself to the media,” Priebus said. “She cannot get herself in a situation where she’s going to have to deal with a question about Benghazi or about the emails or about her speeches or about the Clinton Foundation or about her disastrous tenure as Secretary of State. She wants to be able to have a few days and a couple weeks of peace and change the subject from what’s been plaguing her and the only way she can do that is by hiding and that’s what she’s doing: Hiding.”