Snipers, Vehicle Moves Among Classified Data E-Mailed to Clinton

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Bloomberg Politics:

Chris Strohm, John Walcott

Aug 21 2015

 

 

The e-mail painted a vivid picture of a fast-deteriorating situation in Libya’s bloody civil war, complete with snipers shooting people, armed forces on the move and diplomatic personnel preparing to evacuate. The message, dated April 10, 2011, was forwarded to “H,” for Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state. It came from one of her closest aides, Huma Abedin, who is now vice chairman of her presidential campaign.

 

And a U.S. government review of its seven terse paragraphs has led to a probe of how sensitive information got to personal e-mail accounts used by Clinton and some of her top aides and housed on a server at her New York home, according to two officials with knowledge of the inquiry who asked for anonymity. The matter could form the basis for a criminal probe of whether laws for handling classified material were broken.

 

The investigation, led by the FBI, comes after the inspector general for U.S. intelligence agencies determined that seven e-mails on Clinton’s server, including the April 2011 one, contained classified information at the time they were sent. The State Department and intelligence agencies now are trying to determine if other material in the e-mails was classified when sent.

 

As the controversy has grown around Clinton’s campaign, the question of how -- and in what form -- classified information may have been mishandled has moved front and center.

 

The Huma-to-Hillary e-mail gives a clue.

 

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Brit Hume

This Hillary whopper was too much even for Politifact: http://bit.ly/1fsJN1U

 

PolitiFact

 

7:46 PM - 20 Aug 201

 

 

 

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A Different Take....

Hillary’s Emails: The Silence of the Historians
John Rosenberg

Aug 20, 2015

Editor's Note: This guest essay comments on a controversy relevant to scholarly historical organizations; the NAS does not take a partisan position with regard to political candidates.

 

Over the years the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), and other historical organizations have spent much effort, and funds, successfully establishing that they have standing to intervene in litigation and public controversies about the preservation of government records. Why, then, are they sitting silently on the sidelines in the face of Hillary Clinton’s so far successful attempt to privatize, under her personal ownership and control, large swaths of the history of the State Department under her leadership and her destruction (or attempted destruction) of at least 30,000 emails that she and her staff alone have deemed “private”?

 

A disclaimer: I have a personal history of involvement with the issue of historians’ access to government records. In a former life as a practicing historian I discovered that an FBI field office had destroyed files after it had received and acknowledged receipt of my FOIA request for them. After a number of other similarly aggrieved individuals and organizations came forward, we filed suit. Historians have traditionally, and frequently, been outspoken in objecting to wanton, unreviewed governmental record destruction, and their standing to do so was given strong support by “the much admired” U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene in his sweeping decision in our favor in American Friends Service Committee v. Webster, 485 F. Supp. 222 (1980). I have discussed the possible relevance of this case to current controversies in "Is The IRS’s “Routine” Record Destruction Policy Legal?" and "Hillary And The IRS: Birds Of A Feather?"

 

In one of the cases with prominent participation by historian organizations, Armstrong v. Bush (1991), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held:

 

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More evidence, questions arise about existence of second, private Clinton email server

 

Platte River Networks, which managed Clinton's server and private email network after she left the State Department, has indicated it transfer – or “migrated” – emails from the original server in 2013, according to The Washington Examiner.

 

However, Clinton, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, has suggested that she gave the department 55,000 pages of official emails and deleted roughly 30,000 personal ones in January, which raises the possibility they were culled from a second device.

 

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Note The Date Aug 19, 2015 so some of what was said is wrong.

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Clinton to cut vacation short amid controversy

 

Hillary Clinton will cut short a lavish vacation in the Hamptons to continue campaigning as her poll numbers slide amid controversy.

 

The former secretary of state will visit Ohio and Minnesota next week, according to the New York Times.

 

She and her family planned to spend the last two weeks of August in a Hamptons vacation home that cost $50,000 per week.

 

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Clinton to cut vacation short amid controversy

 

 

Hillary Clinton will cut short a lavish vacation in the Hamptons to continue campaigning as her poll numbers slide amid controversy.

 

The former secretary of state will visit Ohio and Minnesota next week, according to the New York Times.

 

She and her family planned to spend the last two weeks of August in a Hamptons vacation home that cost $50,000 per week.

 

 

 

 

Vacation! In the middle of a Presidential campaign?

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Via iOTWReports

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Via iOTWReports

 

 

Hmmmmm? I wonder if there might be some sort of connection?

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James Carville Dismisses Hillary Email Scandal: “Stupid Media People Making Stuff Up”

Don Irvine — August 20, 2015

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http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/james-carville-dismisses-hillary-email-scandal-stupid-media-people-making-stuff-up-video/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggAtjo1y88

 

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James Carville Dismisses Hillary Email Scandal: “Stupid Media People Making Stuff Up” [Video]

 

 

 

I just Love Jimmy! Say what you will about him...if he,s on your side....He's On Your Side...no matter what.

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What Hillary’s classified emails discussed

Paul Mirengoff

August 25, 2015

 

Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner reports that “Hillary Clinton’s classified emails contain discussions of conversations with foreign diplomats, issues with embassy security, and relations with countries from Russia to China.” Embassy security. I seem to recall hearing about this issue before.

 

The issue arose in Clinton’s emails via a summary that Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff, forwarded to Clinton of a high-level 2009 meeting about “embassy security issues.” The “issues,” presumably concerns, had been raised by Eric Boswell, a diplomatic security official. Ironically, Boswell was later forced to resign in the wake of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi.

 

A memo regarding “embassy security issues” is among the most sensitive information a Secretary of State handles — as Clinton was reminded by the Benghazi attack. By transmitting such information on a private, unsecured email server, Clinton increased the likelihood that those who wish us harm would learn about problems with embassy security

 

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Here we see one reason why she had a private server.

 

Hillary Clinton’s Sycophantic Inner Circle
Brendan Bordelon

August 25, 2015

 

How could Hillary Clinton’s staff let her get away with it?

 

It’s one of the most perplexing questions surrounding the massive scandal over Clinton’s use of an unsecured, private e-mail server when she served as secretary of state. How could it be that no one in the State Department pointed out that Clinton was violating government policy and putting sensitive information at risk? Why didn’t her closest advisers warn that the move could torpedo her resurgent presidential ambitions?

 

State Department staffers aren’t talking — not yet, at least. But the thousands of Clinton e-mails reluctantly released by the State Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit are illuminating. They reveal a Secretary of State heavily insulated from her agency’s rank-and-file by a devoted inner circle, one which relentlessly lavished praise on Clinton and sometimes functioned more like receptionists than top strategic advisers. Many of the same confidantes appear set to take high-level jobs in a future Clinton White House, meaning her “yes-man problem” is likely to persist should she become president.

 

The vast majority of the 3,500 e-mails released so far were sent or received by just four members of Clinton’s inner circle at State: Cheryl Mills, Bill Clinton’s lawyer during his impeachment trial, who became Secretary Clinton’s chief of staff; Huma Abedin, Clinton’s longtime aide, who became her deputy chief of staff; Jake Sullivan, a foreign-policy adviser to Clinton’s 2008 presidential run, who became her top foreign-policy adviser at State; and Philippe Reines, Clinton’s long-serving Senate spokesperson, who became a senior advisor.

 

From day one, there was a sharp divide between the department’s career officials and this personal coterie of loyalists who followed Clinton into office. Reines lays out that divide explicitly on May 1, 2009, in an e-mail to Mills disputing a New York Times quote from a source “in [Clinton’s] circle” who described tension between Clinton and retired General James Jones, Obama’s national security adviser. “Someone in her circle is someone like you, or a Jake, or me,” Reines wrote. “And none of us would ever say anything like that. Someone who was slated for a position at State irrespective of the choice of HRC as Secretary should not be allowed to be identified that way.”

 

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John Podesta: I Haven't Read Hillary's 65,000 Emails But I Know She Didn't Send or Receive Classified Information
Katie Pavlich

Aug 26, 2015

 

While Hillary Clinton is still giving little access to reporters on the campaign trail, her closest allies have been tapped to defend her on the airwaves.

 

Last week long time Clinton confidant and loyal soldier James Carville lamented "having to come out of my vacation to deal with this kind of stupidity," in response to revelations Clinton sent and received top secret classified information on her private email server.

 

Over the weekend John Podesta, who much like Carville has been working for the Clintons since the 90s, attempted to defend Clinton by once again declaring she never sent or received classified information on her private server.

 

 

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Well if John Podesta says it it Must be true, because he's never lie about the Clintons.

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The Empire Strikes Back

 

Pro-Clinton group re-ups demand for Gowdy to turn over his emails

 

An outside rapid-response and research group dedicated to defending the records of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats running for president repeated its call Wednesday for Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, to release his own work-related and private emails and those of his staff.

 

A letter from Correct the Record founder David Brock, sent Wednesday and shared exclusively with POLITICO, follows another sent March 11 in which Brock also urged Gowdy to release his own private and work-related email as he called for Clinton to turn over her server.

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“I asked earlier what it is you may have to hide by not releasing your own emails and I recognize that I am unlikely to receive a response,” Brock wrote in a letter to Gowdy (R-S.C.) dated Wednesday.

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That would be David Brock of Media Mutters for Amerika

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Move

 

Deeper: Excuses Dropping Like Flies as Intel Agencies, Evidence Refute Clinton Email Claims

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6O491iTtz0

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Source: FBI ‘A-team’ leading ‘serious’ Clinton server probe, focusing on defense info
Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne

August 28, 2015

 

An FBI "A-team" is leading the "extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," an intelligence source told Fox News.

 

The section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793.

 

A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contained classified information regardless of the markings. The campaign's standard defense and that of Clinton is that she "never sent nor received any email that was marked classified" at the time.

 

It is not clear how the FBI team's findings will impact the probe itself. But the details offer a window into what investigators are looking for -- as the Clinton campaign itself downplays the controversy.

 

The FBI offered no comment.

 

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Who's who in Clinton's email saga

As the State Department prepares to release 6,000 more messages, the cast of characters grows.

Rachael Bade and Josh Gerstein

08/31/15

 

On Monday , Hillary Clinton's friends, aides, interrogators and anyone else wrapped up in the ongoing drama surrounding her email practices as secretary of state will be poring over the largest release yet of messages from the first four years of the Obama administration.

 

Her decision to use a private server, and whether that decision violated any State Department rules, has become the most intricate Clinton controversy since the long-running 1990s Whitewater land scandal, and the cast of characters in the drama continues to proliferate. Fueled by political rivals on the campaign trail and Republicans in Congress, the dispute has led to lawsuits, inspector generals’ investigations, an FBI inquiry and now has federal judges and committee chairs on Capitol Hill demanding answers about who knew what, when.

 

That clamor is only expected to grow with more than 6,000 pages of emails set to be posted on the agency's web site Monday, in accordance with a judge's order requiring monthly releases under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

The list of those drawn into the saga includes some of Clinton’s top aides at the State Department, now playing roles in her Democratic campaign for the presidency. They were among the ones who forwarded sensitive messages to Clinton that have raised national security questions. A few bit players merely helped her set up or store material from the private email system, operated out of her New York home. Fanning the flames are a growing list of officials questioning Clinton’s conduct and demanding more information.

 

In recent months, Clinton dismissed the email controversy as politically-spawned and aimed at hurting her reputation. Last Wednesday, she seemed to shift her tone, saying that she took responsibility for her use of a private account and that "it clearly wasn't the best choice." On Friday, she called the situation "complicated."

 

Many of the players in the email imbroglio would surely agree:

 

 

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Christie: Clinton caught ‘disease’ of lawlessness from Obama White House

Mark Hensch

Aug. 3015

 

Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) said on Sunday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is careless for using a private email server at the State Department.

“No one is above the law,” Christie told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

 

“Unfortunately with the Obama administration, there has been lawlessness in this country,” said Christie, a 2016 GOP presidential contender. “Apparently Hillary Clinton has caught this disease as well.”

 

Christie argued on Sunday that Clinton’s actions as secretary of State flaunted her disregard for the laws governing transparency and national security.

 

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