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

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And The Beat Goes On....And The Beat Goes On

 

New Clinton records to contain 150 classified emails

Sarah Westwood

8/31/15

 

A batch of Hillary Clinton's private emails slated for release late Monday evening contains roughly 150 emails that include information that has been classified, the State Department said.

 

None of the 150 emails were classified at the time they were written, according to agency spokesman Mark Toner.

 

Intelligence community officials have repeatedly clashed with the State Department over what should be classified and when it should have been marked as such. The intelligence community has insisted some of the emails were classified when written, a position both Clinton and the State Department have rejected.

 

Toner deflected questions about whether foreign governments whose information has been exposed in the Clinton emails made public so far have contacted the State Department to raise concerns about their privacy.

 

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Hillary, with Sid’s Aid, Has Long Plotted to Overturn Citizens United

 

ew e-mails released from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail account by the State Department late on Monday show that the then–secretary of state was furious over the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, blaming mysterious “forces” for orchestrating the January 2010 ruling and plotting with shadow adviser Sidney Blumenthal about ways to overturn it.

 

Two days after the Court’s January 21, 2010, decision — which cited the First Amendment in its decision to overturn aspects of campaign-finance laws that restricted the political spending of organizations — Blumenthal forwarded to Clinton an article from the Center for Public Integrity. The piece postulated that the new ruling would allow foreign leaders to sway American elections through donations from U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies.

“This is unbelievable,” Clinton replied to Blumenthal. “Or maybe totally so given the forces at work.” She gave no further hint as to what “forces” she was referring to.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423338/citizens-united-ruling-hillary-clinton-blamed-mysterious-forces

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Hillary Emails: Sid Blumenthal Rips Netanyahu as One Who ‘Can Never Equal His Dead Brother,’ Hillary Responds with ‘I Told You So’

 

A new trove of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department tonight includes scathing opinions about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from close confidante Sidney Blumenthal — and an agreement in internet slang from Hillary.

Blumenthal was an aide to President Clinton and has been a longtime loyalist of the Clinton family, so fiercely loyal that he wasn’t welcome in any State Department position in the Obama administration. He went to work for the Clinton Foundation and has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi to testify about his communication with Clinton in his time period.

 

His analysis, suggestions and advice show up regularly in the official State Department correspondence conducted on Clinton’s private email server.

 

A number of the latest emails from 2010 center on the Gaza flotilla raid. Israeli commandos boarded the “Freedom Flotilla” to force the ships to port for inspection. A few dozen of the hundreds on board fought the commandos; 10 activists were killed and 10 of the Israeli commandos were wounded.

 

In an email to Clinton that day — May 31, 2010 — Blumenthal called the incident “Bibi’s Entebbe in reverse.”

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/08/31/hillary-emails-sid-blumenthal-rips-netanyahu-as-one-who-can-never-equal-his-dead-brother-hillary-responds-with-i-told-you-so/

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Oh Boy: Clinton Reportedly Used Private Server For Clinton Foundation and State Department Business

 

Late last night the State Department released 7,000 new emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The emails were stored on her private server and 150 have been flagged as containing classified information. State Department Spokesman Mark Toner maintains that the emails deemed classified weren't categorized as such when Clinton had them on her server and that they were later upgraded to classified status.

 

"So writ large or speaking broadly, classification – and we’ve said this many times – it’s not an exact science. It’s not often a black-and-white process. There’s many variation and there’s many strong opinions even on this very issue about classification. And this is all part, as we’ve said, again, many times, of the process that we’re undergoing – an interagency process where we look at these emails and we upgrade them as necessary, as we see fit," Toner said in a press briefing yesterday about the email release. "I can just say that we stand by our contention that the information we’ve upgraded was not marked classified at the time that the emails were sent."

But the most damning part of last night's document dump comes from Patrick Howley, who has reportedly discovered Clinton not only used a personal server and email address to conduct all of her State Department business, but that she also used and shared the same server with the Clinton Foundation.

 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/09/01/oh-boy-clinton-reportedly-used-private-server-for-clinton-foundation-and-state-department-business-n2046399

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Hillary’s Email Crashed: Agency Didn’t Know The Account Was Hers!

Patrick Howley

1 Sep 2015

 

Hillary Clinton’s secret email network crashed in 2010, and the email help-desk at the State Department dismissed the problem as unimportant because they didn’t know that she used a private email address to run the nation’s foreign policy.

 

Clinton’s private email went down in February 2010, causing confusion for her and her top aide Huma Abedin, according to a new set of highly-redacted Clinton emails released by the State Department Monday night.

 

Clinton received a routine message from a State Department computer staffer who clearly didn’t know that HDR22@clintonemail.com was the Secretary’s email address The message had told Clinton that some of the HDR22 messages were being flagged with “fatal errors.”

 

Clinton forwarded the message to Abedin, asking what was going on.

 

“Ur email must be back up!!,” Abedin said excitedly. “What happened is judith sent you an email. It bounced back. She called the email help desk at state (I guess assuming u had state email) and told them that. They had no idea it was YOU, just some random address so they emailed. Sorry about that. But regardless, means ur email must be back! R u getting other messages?”

 

“I’ve gotten some messages from yesterday – how about you?” Clinton replied.

 

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The State Dept. Knows Nothing See's Nothing

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@WestVirginaRebel

 

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Sources: Clinton email markings changed to hide classified info

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Did Hillary violate the law against disclosing defense information? A preliminary analysis

Paul Mirengoff

September 1, 2015

 

Last night, I suggested that, pending a review of the just-released batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s server, we should contemplate the section of the U.S. Code that Clinton may have violated — 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f). 24 hours after the release of these emails, we can now contemplate (but not reach firm conclusions as to) how Clinton’s conduct stacks up against Section 793(f).

 

First, let’s again examine the statutory language:

 

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The threshold question, it seems to me, is whether Hillary Clinton had possession or control of any document relating to the national defense. The documents produced by the State Department have been so heavily redacted. Thus, it’s extremely difficult to assess first hand the extent to which they relate to the national defense.

 

However, the very fact that the material was redacted strongly suggests that they do so relate. Indeed, under the terms of President Obama’s Executive Order 13526, which I cited earlier today, any email that is classified as “confidential” by definition contains “information. . .the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.” (Emphasis added)

 

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Nor was it mere negligence to deliver highly sensitive information to someone lacking a security clearance (in this case, an inveterate gossip). Such imprudence, again, seems grossly negligent or worse.

 

Clinton may also be in jeopardy under other subsections of Section 793. We will leave this analysis for later.

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WaPo: Yeah, Hillary sent six e-mails with classified material — so far
Ed Morrissey

September 2, 2015

 

Those denials by Hillary Clinton look pretty ragged after the most recent release of e-mails from her secret server — and more than just the New Media have noticed. The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig and Rosalind Helderman count up at least six e-mails in this tranche that originated with the former Secretary of State that contain classified information. That “appears to contradict” Hillary’s categorical denials of having personally sent any classified information through the unsecured and unauthorized home-brew e-mail system, they write:

 

 

Although government officials deemed the e-mails classified after Clinton left office, they could complicate her efforts to move beyond the political fallout from the controversy. They suggest that her role in distributing sensitive material via her private e-mail system went beyond receiving notes written by others, and appears to contradict earlier public statements in which she denied sending or receiving e-mails containing classified information.

 

The classified e-mails, contained in thousands of pages of electronic correspondence that the State Department has released, stood out because of the heavy markings blocking out sentences and, in some cases, entire messages.

 

The State Department officials who redacted the material cited national security as the reason for blocking it from public view.

 

 

The State Department tried offering an out to the Clintons, but the Post’s reporters aren’t quite buying it:

 

 

State Department spokesman John Kirby said that “classification is not always a black-and-white, binary judgment. Responsible people can draw different conclusions.”

 

But the presence of classified information in e-mails Clinton wrote appears to contradict her assurances that she sent no such material.

 

 

For everyone else, the notion that compliance with classification isn’t “binary” would be ludicrous. You either comply with classification protocols or you get fired, you lose your clearance, and in some cases you get prosecuted. Individual users don’t get to pick and choose which items they believe should and should not be classified. Only the originating agency gets to make that choice, and even then declassification procedures have to take place before information is in the clear.

 

On top of that, the classification dates applied by State in these documents show that they considered the information classified at the moment the e-mail was created. These are not retroactively classified in the sense that data that was once in the clear has suddenly become too sensitive for public dissemination since. In fact, common sense would inform people that such retroactive classifications would be extremely rare if they ever take place at all.

 

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Morning Joe Continues....I believe they are off the Clinton's Christmas Card List

 

 

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Can all these talking heads be right?

Scott Johnson

Posted on September 2, 2015

 

The Washington Free Beacon has worked up a video (below) documenting the collective wisdom of the punditocracy regarding Madam Hillary’s email problem. “Analysis: It’s not going away.”

 

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BILL CLINTON’S TOP ADVISER RAN HILLARY’S EMAIL SERVER

 

Former president Bill Clinton’s senior adviser ran the private email network that Hillary Clinton used to conduct official government business when she was Secretary of State, Breitbart News has learned.

 

Hillary Clinton, who is under federal investigation for allegedly allowing classified information to end up in the hands of non-government workers without a security clearance, paid a company called “Perfect Privacy, LLC” to cover up the true identity of the person running her email network. Now we know why.

 

Bill Clinton’s senior adviser Justin Cooper was the man responsible for running the email network, according to archived Internet records. Cooper also works as a top fundraiser for the Clinton Foundation. He also serves as a senior adviser to Teneo Holdings, a private corporate advisory and investment banking firm founded by former Bill Clinton adviser Doug Band. Cooper has never worked for the State Department.

 

Cooper was listed as the registrant for Hillary Clinton’s private email domain clintonemail.com when Hillary Clinton left the State Department. Cooper was also listed as the administrative and technical contact for the domain.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/exclusive-bill-clintons-top-adviser-ran-hillarys-email-server/

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FORMER STAFFER WHO MAINTAINED HILLARY CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER TO PLEAD THE FIFTH

 

Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is attempting to dodge a subpoena issued by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)85%

’s House Select committee on Benghazi.

The Washington Post reports Pagliano’s attorney sent a letter to the House committee which said, “While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution.” In other words, Pagliano is prepared to plead his 5th rather than testify.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/former-staffer-who-maintained-hillary-clintons-private-email-server-to-plead-the-fifth/

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Look how well that worked out for Lois Lerner..... Oh I guess not so bad. Early retirement with full benefits.

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FORMER STAFFER WHO MAINTAINED HILLARY CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER TO PLEAD THE FIFTH

 

Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is attempting to dodge a subpoena issued by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)85%

’s House Select committee on Benghazi.

The Washington Post reports Pagliano’s attorney sent a letter to the House committee which said, “While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution.” In other words, Pagliano is prepared to plead his 5th rather than testify.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/former-staffer-who-maintained-hillary-clintons-private-email-server-to-plead-the-fifth/

 

 

 

More At Washington Free Beacon

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuf1AZTlTUM

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FBI Scours Clinton Server for Evidence of Spying

Eli Lake & Josh Rogin

Sept 3, 2015

 

The FBI has begun a probe into whether foreign intelligence services compromised Hillary Clinton's e-mail server during and after her tenure as secretary of state, according to U.S. intelligence and Congressional officials.

 

The damage assessment, which is part of the bureau's investigation into whether the former secretary and her staff mishandled classified information, will hunt for digital traces of cyber-espionage by foreign governments. Even mundane and unclassified Clinton e-mails could provide important insights into the inner workings of the U.S. government and the actions of its top officials.

 

Clinton herself has dismissed the prospect that her e-mails were hacked. Speaking in March, she said the system used for the private e-mail "was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches."

 

U.S. officials familiar with the probe tell us the FBI is not so sure. These sources say the damage assessment will be conducted by the FBI's own spy hunters and cyber security experts. The FBI will not hand off the task to the National Counterintelligence & Security Center, the office inside the intelligence community that coordinates counter-intelligence activities. It is conducting the damage assessment of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's 2013 leak to journalists.

 

The FBI declined to comment for this column. Other officials told us the damage assessment of Clinton's e-mail server would focus on how the data on the server was protected, whether traces of code that would suggest hacking programs show up in the forensic analysis of the physical server, and whether it is possible to reconstruct the logs of what machines accessed the server when Clinton was secretary of state.

 

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H/T Hot Air

 

 

Hillary Clinton insists that her unsecured e-mail server never got penetrated by foreign intelligence services, but the FBI isn’t convinced. Bloomberg’s Eli Lake and Josh Rogin hear from intelligence and Congressional sources that their investigators have begun to “scour” the server for traces of espionage. After all, no one thought to even encrypt the server’s communications for the first few months of its operation, and could every hostile (or even friendly) intelligence service have missed that opportunity?

Is it possible for this gang to get any dumber? If it is I don't want to know.

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Hillary’s Fall Guy Revealed?

Noah Rothman | @noahcrothman09.03.2015 - 11:40 AM

Hillary Clinton likely compromised national security in service to what she said in her defense was the level of “convenience” to which she had become accustomed. Her longtime aide, Huma Abedin, also had an email account on Clinton’s server and conducted State Department business on it. She is almost certainly also a target of the federal investigation into Clinton’s email practices as well as her dual roles as both a government employee and private contractor simultaneously. Another trusted Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, was the target of a court injunction after her attorney threatened to destroy the electronic communications remaining in her possession from her time at State. Of the handful of emails Clinton released to the State Department that have been made public, over one hundred have been deemed to have contained classified information. Some are alleged to have contained “Top Secret” information, and it is now clear that some of those sensitive documents originated as sensitive. All of this behavior violates long-established U.S. national security law. Clinton and her aides were involved in what may end up being regarded as a criminal conspiracy. In the coming days, however, it is reasonable to expect the nation’s focus to turn to the true mastermind behind this deceitful affair: Bryan the IT guy.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/09/03/clinton-email-scandal-fall-guy/#more-901439

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Clinton aides says 2016 bid hurt by email controversy
LISA LERER
Sep. 3, 2015

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to more fully address questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state starting this month, part of an acknowledgment by her campaign that her presidential bid has been hurt by the heavy focus on the controversy over the summer.

 

"We've had some headwinds particularly around the email question," said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. "There's been a lot of noise that's made it more difficult to break through."

 

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There’s a Whole Arsenal of Smoking Guns in the Clinton E-mail Scandal
The very existence of her illicit server means she broke the rules.
Jonah Goldberg

September 4, 2015

 

Every time the State Department pulls out a new fistful of Hillary Clinton e-mails like Richard Dreyfuss yanking a license plate out of a shark’s belly in Jaws, someone declares that there’s “no smoking gun!” I’ve written before about how shouting “There’s no smoking gun!” is a non-denial denial. Ask a cop. When a murder suspect immediately exclaims, “You have no indisputable evidence I murdered my boss!” instead of, “I didn’t do it!” it’s a good sign that the suspect thinks he covered his tracks, not that he’s innocent. Fellas, if your wife asks if you’re having an affair, respond by saying, “You have no proof!” See if she takes that for a denial.

 

But here’s the thing. There is a smoking gun. In fact, there’s a whole smoking arsenal. The problem is that the standards for what counts as a smoking gun keep changing.

 

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But the deceit goes deeper. Most people can be forgiven for not understanding the difference between classified documents and classified information. A classified document is marked “Top Secret” or some such. But people who work in government understand that lots of information is classified simply by virtue of the kind of information it is.

 

My National Review colleague Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, has been setting his head on fire trying to get the mainstream media to take note of this fact. He points out that according to an executive order issued by President Obama, all “foreign government information is presumed to cause damage to the national security” and is therefore presumed classified. Clinton routinely ignored this rule. That’s not just my opinion. A study by Reuters found that “Clinton and her senior staff routinely” ignored these rules.

 

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All of these — and many other — facts would have counted as “smoking guns” if they had been divulged immediately after Clinton’s U.N. press conference. But Clinton, with the help of her praetorian defenders in the media, keeps moving the goalposts. Still, all of this ignores the biggest smoking gun of them all: her illicit server. It’s sitting in plain view, its smoke visible to anyone with eyes to see.

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Second top Clinton aide appears before Benghazi inquiry

Julian Hattem

09/04/15

 

A former top State Department aide who now assists Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign arrived for what is likely to be a marathon deposition for the House committee on Benghazi on Thursday. The closed-door briefing with former director of policy planning Jake Sullivan could be particularly revealing, committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said on his way into the secure meeting room in the Capitol’s basement.

 

“In a country like Libya, you need to understand what policy you’re pursuing and then you need to understand what physical presence is necessary to effectuate that policy, then you have to balance the two,” Gowdy said. “He probably is going to be in maybe even a unique position to explain to us how the policy required physical presence.”

 

In addition to working for Clinton in the State Department, Sullivan is also the top advisor on her front-runner Democratic presidential campaign. Friday’s deposition comes a day after another former Clinton aide — ex-chief of staff Cheryl Mills — appeared in a marathon, nine-hour meeting of the committee.

 

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Time to play Spot The Lies!

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FORMER STAFFER WHO MAINTAINED HILLARY CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER TO PLEAD THE FIFTH

 

Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is attempting to dodge a subpoena issued by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)85%

’s House Select committee on Benghazi.

The Washington Post reports Pagliano’s attorney sent a letter to the House committee which said, “While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution.” In other words, Pagliano is prepared to plead his 5th rather than testify.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/former-staffer-who-maintained-hillary-clintons-private-email-server-to-plead-the-fifth/

 

 

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary's emails WERE for sale on the open market but the Obama administration didn't go after them, says US intelligence official

 

A US intel agency knew during the summer that someone was marketing a tranche of Hillary Clinton's private emails

 

But the Obama adinistration never cleared its spooks to obtain them

 

'Opportunities were missed,' an intelligence official told DailyMail.com

 

Revelation is separate from debunked claims that a hacker had put Clinton's entire email collection on the market for $500,000

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It’s Tough for Hillary! to be a Gangsta
Posted on September 5, 2015 by The Political Hat


It is clear that Hillary! Clinton is nowhere near the scam artist and confidence trickster as her accused-rapist husband. She largely escaped the Benghazi scandal, but the sheer degree of illegality combined with utter hubris she has shown over her private servers and freely tossing about classified documents seems to have grown real legs.

The scandal, though, has also revealed the seedy under-jowl-belly of Hillary! and Bill’s political machinations, http://politicalhat.com/2015/09/05/its-tough-for-hillary-to-be-a-gangsta/

Edited September 6, 2015 by Valin
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