Connecticut firm backed up Clinton’s server, might still have personal emails

[Valin]

Found: a signed copy of Clinton’s agreement on handling sensitive compartmented info
Paul Mirengoff
November 6, 2015

The Washington Free Beacon reports that a day after becoming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that set forth the criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information. It had been assumed that she signed this document, but now it has been confirmed that she did.

 

By signing the statement, Clinton affirmed, among other things: “I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation.”

 

As the Free Beacon notes, the State Department has already acknowledged that Clinton’s private email system was not authorized to handle top secret/sensitive compartmented information. And it has been determined by the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general that Clinton received at least two emails on her personal email server that constituted top secret/sensitive compartmented information. (That determination, however, is under review and, according to Politico, a source says it will be reversed).

 

Clinton’s defense has been that the SCI documents were not marked as such when she received them. However, the Agreement she signed said: “I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department. . .in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control that I have reason to believe might be SCI.”

 

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[Valin]

The FBI’s Clinton Email Probe Just Took A New Turn
Chuck Ross
11/10/15

The FBI has expanded its probe into Hillary Clinton’s personal email system to what one analyst is calling a “full-blown investigation,” Politico is reporting.

 

The FBI has interviewed a former State Department official about how Clinton aides communicated over email. And last month, the agency requested records from a data broker Clinton hired to find companies to manage her private email system after she left office in early 2013.

 

While the FBI’s handling of the case has so far been characterized as a “preliminary inquiry,” the depth of the probe indicates it has reached a new phase.

 

“This sounds to me like it’s more than a preliminary inquiry; it sounds like a full-blown investigation,” Tom Fuentes, a former assistant director of the FBI, told Politico. “When you have this amount of resources going into it…I think it’s at the investigative level.”

 

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@Geee

 

Moved

[Geee]

State ordered to release 700 new Clinton records by December

 

A federal judge ordered the State Department Tuesday to provide 700 new pages of records from Hillary Clinton's former office by Dec. 1, paving the way for a spate of document releases that could continue well into next year.

 

The order by Judge Rudolph Contreras pushed agency officials to finish searching documents from Clinton's time as secretary of State, including emails, memos and notes, by the end of the year, according to court documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

 

Jason Leopold of Vice News had first filed a broad request under the Freedom of Information Act for virtually all written records from Clinton and her staff in November of last year, long before the public learned Clinton had shielded her communications on a private server.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-ordered-to-release-700-new-clinton-records-by-december/article/2576142

[Casino67]

I am currently reading Ed Klein's "Unlikable The problem with Hillary."

 

 

 

It's a fun read and is uptodate. Plenty of f bombs from Ms Evil. If you even slightly thought about voting for her, this will definitely change your mind.

[Casino67]

Report: FBI expanding Clinton email probe (source) http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/259921-report-fbi-expanding-clinton-email-probe

 

The FBI has expanded its probe of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails beyond a provision involving "gross negligence" with national defense information, Fox News reports.

Agents are now also looking at whether statements that have been made violate a federal statute on providing "materially false" information, according to Fox.

"The agents involved are under a lot of pressure and are busting a--," an unidentified intelligence source told the network, which noted that the statute can be broadly applied.

[Casino67]

Grassley steps up Clinton email probe, blocks key nominees

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/23/grassley-steps-up-clinton-email-probe-blocks-key-nominees.html

 

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is putting a hold on top State Department appointments -- including the nominee for the department's fourth-highest post -- until he gets the answers he's seeking from a former top aide of Hillary Clinton tasked with helping determine which of the former secretary of state's emails should be made public.

 

The Iowa Republican -- who also is investigating the special employment status afforded to Clinton confidant Huma Abedin while at State -- has slammed the department for its "continued intransigence and lack of cooperation" throughout the inquiry, which dates back to June 2013. Critics, including Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, have derided the probe as a politically motivated bid to undermine the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign for the White House.

 

For its part, the State Department says it has responded to Grassley's questions "in 16 formal letters and many briefings, calls and emails," but remains overwhelmed by the volume of requests.

 

[Geee]

Senator Wonders If Hillary Is Covering Legal Expenses For Tech Firm That Managed Her Email Server

 

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley , the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is questioning whether Hillary Clinton paid legal and public relations expenses for a former State Department aide and a tech company that worked on her private email system.

 

“As you are aware, such arrangements can pose conflict-of-interest issues,” Grassley wrote in a letter he sent on Tuesday to attorneys representing Clinton and several of her State Department aides, including Bryan Pagliano, the IT staffer who managed Clinton’s email system while she was secretary of state.

Grassley appears concerned that Clinton’s former aides and the tech companies she has hired to manage her mysterious email system would continue to work on her behalf rather than provide information on the email arrangement to investigators.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/26/senator-wonders-if-hillary-is-covering-legal-expenses-for-tech-firm-that-managed-her-email-server/

[Valin]

I am currently reading Ed Klein's "Unlikable The problem with Hillary."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her politics aside, she's just not a good candidate...she can't fake sincerity...like Bill could.

[Valin]

“As you are aware, such arrangements can pose conflict-of-interest issues,” Grassley wrote in a letter he sent on Tuesday to attorneys representing Clinton and several of her State Department aides, including Bryan Pagliano, the IT staffer who managed Clinton’s email system while she was secretary of state.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/26/senator-wonders-if-hillary-is-covering-legal-expenses-for-tech-firm-that-managed-her-email-server/

 

 

Conflict-of-interest issues, with The Clintons!!! I find that hard to believe.

[Valin]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

Moved

 

State Dept. cannot find emails of Clinton IT staffer
Dec 12 2015

 

The State Department cannot find emails sent by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s IT staffer Bryan Pagliano who helped setup Clinton’s private email server, a State Department official told Fox News on Friday.

 

Alec Gerlach, a State Department spokesman, told Fox News investigators working on recovering Pagliano's emails from the server “have not yet located a .pst that covers the time period of Secretary’s Clinton tenure.”

 

Politico first reported that state officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a closed-door meeting they couldn’t find backup copies of Pagliano’s emails during his work under Clinton when she served as Secretary of State, according to a letter reportedly sent from committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to Secretary of State John Kerry.

 

The letter, according to Politico, also said the department told the committee the FBI had taken Pagliano’s government computer system, where traces of the messages may be located.

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They seem to have an awful lot of trouble doing this...

[Geee]

Hillary Emails: Government Another Word For How Clintons Plunder Together

 

A watchdog group seems convinced that Hillary Clinton used her office to provide a special favor to her son-in-law, who was helping out a friend who called him "bud." It certainly fits the pattern. The Clintons didn't choose government work to serve the public. They chose it to serve the Clintons.

The Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust has filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, alleging that "Clinton gave a private company special access to the State Department based upon the company's relationships with Secretary Clinton's family members and donors to the Clinton Foundation." FACT is reacting to a recently released email that indicates, according to the Associated Press, Clinton "intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm."

 

This appearance of impropriety goes back to 2012, when a representative of (an investor in, actually) Neptune Minerals Inc. asked for a meeting with Clinton or other State Department officials. The request just happened to come, AP reported, "while Clinton — now the leading Democratic presidential candidate — was advocating for an Obama administration push to win Senate approval for a sweeping Law of the Sea Treaty. The pact would have aided U.S. mining companies scouring for minerals in international waters, but the Republican-dominated Senate blocked it."

 

http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/121515-785378-government-just-another-word-for-how-clintons-steal-together.htm

[Valin]

Intelligence agencies say 2 Clinton emails were 'top secret,' but one is no longer

Josh Gerstein

12/15/15

 

 

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

[Valin]

While You Were Partying

State Department releases over 3,000 Clinton emails on New Year's Eve
January 01, 2016

The State Department on Thursday released over 3,000 of Hillary Clinton's personal emails from her time as Secretary of State, marking the last of the major document dumps of the year.

Still, the agency said Thursday that it will fall short of the mandate to release 82 percent of Clinton’s total emails by the end of 2015, blaming the holiday schedule and the sheer number of documents involved.

“We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month,” the State Department said in a statement. “To narrow that gap, the State Department will make another production of former Secretary Clinton’s email sometime next week.”

The latest batch of 3,105 emails includes 275 documents upgraded to "classified" since they landed in the former Secretary's personal inbox. That brings the total number of classified docs found in the emails to 1,274. A State Department official told Fox News on Thursday that two of those emails were upgraded to "secret," while most of the others were upgraded to "confidential."

 

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Related

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0AuhPrBE0

 

It's the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy....War On Women Division

[clearvision]

"blaming the holiday schedule".... Does no one in government know how to plan and do things. It is not like the holidays are a surprise.

[Draggingtree]

January 1, 2016

5500 Hillary emails released late afternoon on New Year's Eve

By Rick Moran

Gee...it's almost as if the State Department doesn't want anyone to read them.

 

While just about every journalist in the United States was leaving their office to perpare for New Year's Eve parties and festivities, the State Department dumped 5500 emails on the public, thus guaranteeing that they would receive little if any notice.

 

Thankfully, a few reporters were pressed into service to examine the latest batch, and there were several emails that will raise a few eyebrows in Washington.

 

But most of the emails deal with mundane matters and fawning aides.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/5500_hillary_emails_released_late_afternoon_on_new_years_eve.html

[Draggingtree]

Plenty of Revelations in Latest Clinton Emails Batch, Including Obamacare Link

By: Jake (Diary) | January 1st, 2016 at 10:00 AM | 4

As I mentioned yesterday, New Year’s Eve was the deadline for the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails to be released by the State Department. While they fell 2,000 pages short of their court-ordered goal of 43,000 for the year, there are still a lot of interesting stories in what we did get yesterday. We have already learned from previous email batches that Hillary had |

http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/01/plenty-revelations-latest-clinton-emails-batch-including-obamacare-link/

[Valin]

Report: State Department gave ‘inaccurate’ answer on Clinton email use

Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman

January 6 2016

 

Two years before the public learned of Hillary Clinton’s private server, the State Department gave an “inaccurate and incomplete” response about her email use when it told an outside group that it had no documents about Clinton’s email accounts beyond her government address, according to a report from the State Department’s inspector general to be released Thursday.

 

The State Department made its statement in response to a 2012 records request from the independent watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The response came even though Clinton’s chief of staff, who knew about the secretary’s private account, was aware of the inquiry, the report says. In addition, the IG review found that agency staffers had not searched Clinton’s office for emails.

 

The incident was one of four cases that the report highlights as examples of flawed responses to public-records requests made while Clinton was in office. The report found it was part of a long-standing problem stretching back through previous administrations.

 

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But the new report demonstrates the potential peril Clinton still faces over the issue. In addition to the FBI probe, the State Department inspector general, Steve Linick, indicated that his work is not done.

 

His office is preparing an additional report that could touch even more directly on Clinton’s conduct — examining the use of personal email and its effect on the department’s compliance with its duty to preserve records.

 

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H/T Hot Air

[clearvision]

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/key-to-hillary-conspiracy-to-subvert-classification-system-revealed/

 

Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel.

 

That should be game, set, and match, yes?

 

“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” That’s an order to violate the laws handling classified material. There is no other way to read that demand. Regardless of whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary’s claim to be ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came under her direction.

 

[Valin]

Grassley: State Dept Gave ‘False Information’ About Hillary Clinton Emails
Judiciary chair knocks ‘broken’ FOIA process at agency
Morgan Chalfant
January 8, 2016

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman accused the State Department of providing “false information” about Hillary Clinton’s emails in light of a new government watchdog report faulting the agency’s handling of Freedom of Information Act requests under Secretary Clinton. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) knocked the State Department’s “broken” FOIA process in a statement Thursday after an inspector general report found that the agency during Clinton’s tenure did not respond to the vast majority of FOIA requests in the legally required timeframe.

 

Investigators also concluded that the agency’s productions of Clinton emails in response to FOIA requests have contained inaccuracies and been incomplete. “There are systemic failures at the agency ranging from actually searching for responsive emails, extensive delays in the amount of time it takes to fulfill a request, and failures to provide accurate and complete responses that don’t seem to be going away,” Grassley said Thursday. “These breakdowns are particularly troubling in light of the report’s revelation that former Secretary Clinton’s exclusive use of a non-government email server was known to senior staff at the department, but unknown to the FOIA office, thus causing the FOIA office to provide false information about the secretary’s use of email.”

 

Grassley demanded a public explanation from agency officials who made sworn statements in regards to FOIA cases that now appear to be false .

 

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[Valin]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

Moved

 

Smoking Gun: Email Suggests Hillary Broke Law

 

The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department early Friday contain what may be the smoking gun that forces the Justice Department to charge the former secretary of state with a crime, according to former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova.

 

“This is gigantic,” said diGenova. “She caused to be removed a classified marking and then had it transmitted in an unencrypted manner. That is a felony. The removal of the classified marking is a federal crime. It is the same thing to order someone to do it as if she had done it herself.”

 

On the June 17, 2011, email chain with senior State Department adviser Jake Sullivan, Clinton apparently asked Sullivan to change the marking on classified information so that it is no longer flagged as classified.

 

Clinton, using her private email server, asks for “the TPs,” apparently a reference to talking points being prepared for her. Sullivan, who is using his official State Department email, responds, “They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax. They’re working on it.” Clinton responds, “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w[ith] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

 

It’s not clear if Sullivan actually followed through on Clinton’s orders. But if he did, it may expose Clinton to serious legal jeopardy.

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Grandma goes down?

[Valin]

[Valin]

Forward to 1:00 mark

 

More At Power Line

[clearvision]

So her response is it was never actually sent (even though she gave the order to have it sent unclassified).

[Valin]

So her response is it was never actually sent (even though she gave the order to have it sent unclassified).

 

 

Well I'm glad we've got that all cleared up.

[Valin]

Lawmaker probes tech firms that ran Clinton's server
Sarah Westwood
1/15/16

Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, fired off a series of letters Thursday to firms that provided tech support to Hillary Clinton's private server in an effort to learn more about the cybersecurity measures Clinton used to protect her emails.

"A high profile government official deviating from established information security requirements raises significant concerns," Smith said of the four letters he sent out Thursday. "The sensitive nature of the information stored on Sec. Clinton's private server created a unique challenge to ensure all of the information was properly safeguarded."

Two of Smith's letters went to Datto, Inc. and Platte River Networks, tech companies known to have provided services to Clinton during her State Department tenure.

The other pair of letters went to Fortinet, Inc. and SENCAP Network Security Corp., two firms whose role in managing the Clinton email server was not well known.

 

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