Final Score: Hillary's Unsecure Server Held 2,079* Classified Emails

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Townhall/Tip Sheet:

Guy Benson

Mar 02, 2016

 

Why the asterisk? Because that "finalized" number is based Hillary's emails that did not include any of the 32,000 messages she and her lawyers unilaterally deleted with no oversight. She has claimed that all of the emails she failed to produce were unrelated to official business. We know for a fact that this is not true, based on emails discovered by the Pentagon, as well as work-related missives that turned up when Sidney Blumethal's private emails were hacked. So she lied about that, as she's lied about so many things pertaining to this national security-compromising scandal. That (important) caveat aside, the State Department has determined that more than 2,000 emails on Mrs. Clinton's unsecure, improper server were classified. Many of these emails were low-level and retroactively classified, still a far cry from her categorical, false "there is no classified material" assertion last March. But there were dozens of emails designated as secret, top secret and even above top secret -- allegedly covering extremely sensitive topics from the Iran nuclear negotiations, to North Korean nuclear weapons, to the identities of foreign nationals on the CIA's payroll. Bottom line figures, tallied by the RNC:

 

 

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The bootleg email server violated "clear cut" State Department rules, which has been affirmed by a Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge. It was woefully under-protected, so much so that several high-ranking members of the Obama administration have concluded that its contents were accessed by foreign governments. Clinton maintained her national security-endangering scheme even after she was specifically and personally warned that foreign hackers were seeking to penetrate classified secrets by exploiting American officials' private email accounts. Various attempts at spin and misdirection from Clintonworld have failed under scrutiny. The FBI's ongoing and expanded criminal investigation into the matter remains underway. Conservative research group America Rising notes that the latest tranche of emails includes classified information about enemy missile launches, US drone strikes in Pakistan and Americans operating abroad. It also includes a fully-redacted email between Clinton and John Kerry, who has said he knew nothing of her secret server. As they've done in the past, Team Clinton is trying to deflect from this scandal by assailing the integrity of the Intelligence Community's Inspector General, who was appointed by President Obama and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Meanwhile, the opacity-addicted and scandal-plagued continues to refuse to release the transcripts of speeches she delivered to Wall Street firms, despite some of her outlandish claims about what she told them. The pressure for her to do so ramping up via television ads and barbs from her Socialist opponent:

 

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This does not include the 30,000 she deleted that we may NEVER know what they were!!!

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Meanwhile, in the email primary. . .
Paul Mirengoff
March 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton is no longer running against Bernie Sanders; she’s running against her emails. The emails may be gaining on her.

 

The Washington Post reports that the Justice Department has granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department staffer who worked on Clinton’s private email server. Immunity was granted to Pagliano to help investigators determine whether others higher up the food chain (including Clinton) committed crimes. As one former senior law enforcement official told the Post, “there was wrongdoing, but was it criminal wrongdoing?”

 

As Scott says, this is not a “security review.” Yes, the FBI’s case began as a security referral from the inspectors general of the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies, who were concerned that classified information might have been stored outside a secure government network. But according to the New York Times, “multiple law enforcement officials said the matter quickly became an investigation into whether anyone had committed a crime in handling classified information.”

 

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[Draggingtree]

3/2/2016

Well, Well, Well. . . .

Filed under: General — JVW @ 10:36 pm

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News came earlier today from the Washington Post (who apparently broke the story) that the Justice Department is granting immunity from prosecution to Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton staffer who set up her now-infamous homebrew email server. Just six months ago, Pagliano pled the Fifth when appearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

http://patterico.com/2016/03/02/well-well-well/

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FBI focusing on how sensitive intel made it to Clinton’s server
Paul Mirengoff
March 3, 2016

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that as part of the FBI’s investigation of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, the Bureau is comparing electronic time stamps on classified sources. They hope thereby to figure out whether Clinton aides reviewed the sources and then retyped the information into emails that were sent or forwarded to the Secretary’s private server.

 

Today, a report from Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne of Fox News suggests that this is part of an effort to determine how sensitive intelligence “jumped the gap” between the classified systems and Clinton’s unsecured personal server. Herridge and Browne were told that there are several possible ways that classified information got onto Clinton’s server:

 

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According to Herridge and Browne, most of these scenarios would require a password. Moreover, all of these practices would be strictly prohibited under non-disclosure agreements signed by Clinton and others, and federal law.

 

Untangling this mess is made more difficult by the fact that, according to Herridge and Browne, it remains unclear who had access to which computers and devices used by Clinton while she was secretary of state and where exactly they were located at the time of the email correspondence. However, the FBI reportedly has been able to develop a list of individuals who will be questioned about their direct handling of the emails in order to get at the issue of how classified information “jumped the gap.”

 

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State Dept. Releases Personnel File For Hillary’s Private Server Technician

Chuck Ross
3/3/16

 

The State Department has released the personnel file for Bryan Pagliano, the IT worker who managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

 

The document, which The Daily Caller obtained last week through a lawsuit filed against the State Department on its behalf by the watchdog group Cause of Action, confirms that Pagliano was a type of political appointee known as a Schedule C employee. In that capacity, the White House ultimately approved his job, which granted him the official title of information technology specialist for policy and planning.

 

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As a Schedule C employee, Pagliano was vetted by State’s Office of White House Liaison, where longtime Clinton insider Heather Samuelson held a top position.

 

Samuelson, who, like Pagliano, worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, is the same Clinton insider who was put in charge of sifting through the former secretary of state’s emails before they were turned over to the State Department.

 

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While Clinton’s critics have questioned that claim, one powerful State Department official who has accepted it at face value — at least publicly — is Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s under secretary for management.

 

In his position, Kennedy oversaw the Office of White House Liaison, which vetted and approved Pagliano.

 

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But Kennedy was included on an August 2011 email chain with Clinton aides and other State Department officials in which Clinton’s server was openly discussed.

 

Finding out if Kennedy knew of the server and of Pagliano’s secondary role at State is key to understanding whether Clinton acted on her own to establish the unprecedented email system. While Clinton has claimed that using a private server was not forbidden by the State Department, her critics have said it raises questions about her judgement, especially since her use of a private server likely made her more vulnerable to foreign hackers.

 

A State Department official told TheDC that while Kennedy — as under secretary for management — does oversee the White House liaison, he is not responsible for day-to-day management of the office.

 

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@NCTexan

 

Nothing To See Here...Move Along. I said Move Along!

 

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Its time to play Spot The Lie!!!!

(Fun For The Whole Family)

 

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Here Are The 23 Classified Memos Sidney Blumenthal Sent To Hillary Clinton
Chuck Ross
Mar. 7 2016

Of the dozens of intelligence memos that Sidney Blumenthal sent to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state, 23 contained information classified as “Confidential” or “Secret,” a Daily Caller analysis shows.

 

Sending nearly two dozen sensitive emails makes Blumenthal, a former journalist and aide in the Bill Clinton White House, one of Clinton’s most prolific sharers of classified information. The Democratic presidential candidate herself sent 104 emails containing classified information, The Washington Post found.

 

Some of Clinton’s State Department aides, such as chief of staff Cheryl Mills and deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, sent dozens of emails which contain now-classified information. Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser, sent 215 now-classified messages.

 

But the Blumenthal memos are especially intriguing because the longtime Clinton ally did not work for the government. Instead, during the period that he sent Clinton memos, he was working for the Clinton Foundation as well as for several non-profit organizations with close ties to the Clintons. He also worked during some of that period as an editor for The Daily Beast.

 

Here is a complete list of Blumenthal’s classified memos and emails:

 

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Mar. 8 1999 - The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The firing was a result of alleged security violations.

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Its time once again to play Spot The Lie!

Win Valuable Prizes

 

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Its time once again to play Spot The Lie!

Win Valuable Prizes

 

 

 

Transparent

Scott Johnson

March 8, 2016

 

Forgive me for repeating myself, but I don’t know how else to say it. Hillary Clinton lies with the ease and abandon of a pathological liar. For example, take her performance yesterday at the FOX News Democratic town hall in Detroit. She seemed to tell Bret Baier that the nearly 2100 classified State Department emails passing through her insecure private server contained no classified information because, you know, the information “wasn’t classified at the time.” She might even be able to pass a polygraph examination on the point.

 

In this context Clinton declared to John Harwood this past Friday in Detroit: “I’ve been the most transparent public official in modern times as far as I know” (video below). Now that’s a lie I would categorize as a Whopper. But you have to love the Clintonian addendum “as far as I know.” It might be true in a sense; it depends on the meaning of “know.” Indeed, Jed Babbin construes Clinton’s statement in another way to derive some truth value from the proposition: “Hillary Clinton is the most transparently corrupt politician in American history since Boss Tweed.”

 

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Loretta Lynch Says White House Should ‘Stay Silent’ About Hillary Email Investigation

 

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that neither she nor anyone else at the Justice Department has briefed President Obama about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and that the White House should “stay silent” about the probe.

 

The question of whether she had was brought up during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing by North Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham 

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, who referred to comments that White House press secretary Josh Earnest made back in January downplaying the investigation into how classified information was handled on Clinton’s private email server.

 

“So when Josh Earnest speaks about the investigation and talks about basically, to reassure the American people that this is no big deal, do you know where he gets that information from?” Graham asked.

 

“Senator, I do not,” Lynch said.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/09/loretta-lynch-says-white-house-should-stay-silent-about-hillary-email-investigation/

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RNC Sues State Department for Clinton Records

 

The Republican National Committee filed two lawsuits against the State Department seeking records from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, the committee said Wednesday.

 

The RNC is requesting communications between Clinton and her key aides, including Bryan Pagliano, her former IT staffer. Pagliano has reportedly received a limited immunity deal from the Department of Justice as part of its investigation into the transmission of classified information over Clinton’s private email server.

 

The committee is also seeking correspondence between State Department officials and the Clinton campaign that took place after Clinton stepped down from the department.

 

According to the RNC, it originally submitted public records requests for these documents last October and December, but the State Department has yet to turn over the records. The RNC filed the lawsuits on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

 

http://freebeacon.com/issues/rnc-sues-state-department-for-clinton-records/

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RNC Sues State Department for Clinton Records

 

 

 

Two lawsuits have been delayed due to the State Department’s discovery of thousands of previously unsearched documents from the executive secretary’s office, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. The State Department said it could take until next fall to process the newly discovered records and turn them over to the plaintiffs.

 

 

Remember 3 years ago when we were told there is nothing more to see here?

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RNC Sues State Department for Clinton Records

 

 

 

Two lawsuits have been delayed due to the State Department’s discovery of thousands of previously unsearched documents from the executive secretary’s office, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. The State Department said it could take until next fall to process the newly discovered records and turn them over to the plaintiffs.

 

 

Remember 3 years ago when we were told there is nothing more to see here?

 

 

Doesn't she tell us that about every day still?

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RNC Sues State Department for Clinton Records

 

 

 

Two lawsuits have been delayed due to the State Department’s discovery of thousands of previously unsearched documents from the executive secretary’s office, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. The State Department said it could take until next fall to process the newly discovered records and turn them over to the plaintiffs.

 

 

Remember 3 years ago when we were told there is nothing more to see here?

 

 

Doesn't she tell us that about every day still?

 

 

 

Yup. The problem is we're just to stupid to understand what she's saying.....at least I r

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* Fox News
Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne
March 11, 2016

Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the case who called him a “devastating witness.”

The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary of state’s system – as well as when – and what devices were used, amounting to a roadmap for investigators.

"Bryan Pagliano is a devastating witness and, as the webmaster, knows exactly who had access to [Clinton's] computer and devices at specific times. His importance to this case cannot be over-emphasized," the intelligence source said.

The source, who is not authorized to speak on the record due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, said Pagliano has provided information allowing investigators to knit together the emails with other evidence, including images of Clinton on the road as secretary of state.

 

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* I mean the lying ultra evil war mongering hate filled Faux News....just to set the record straight.

 

Nothing to see here...move along...I said MOVE ALONG!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86jNHSUcXrA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZVQnwp35-8

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Another State Department IT guy refuses to talk to Congress about Clinton’s email server
Jazz Shaw
March 14, 2016

Is there some new super-bug strain of laryngitis going around the beltway this winter which is striking down employees (and former workers) at the State Department? They certainly seem to be losing their voices in significant numbers. The latest victim of this terrible affliction appears to be their former Director of Information Resources Management who was in charge while Hillary Clinton was heading up the department. His direct subordinates were discovered to be among the geek squad who knew of – if not worked on – the process of setting up the private server for their boss. But when he was invited in for a chat, he apparently had nothing to say. (The Daily Caller)

A second former State Department official is refusing to talk to Congress about what he might know about Hillary Clinton’s private email system.

Politico reports that John Bentel, who retired from the State Department in Dec. 2012, has told the House Select Committee on Benghazi and the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees that he will not meet to discuss the server and what, if anything, he knows about it.

In response to a Dec. 5 letter from Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security chairman Sen. Ron Johnson , Bentel said he had “no memory of knowledge” about the server.

But the Senators believe Bentel may know something. As director of information resources management at the office of executive secretariat, Bentel oversaw information technology for top level officials at the State Department, including Clinton.

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Stay tuned. It’s going to be a long hot summer and things are just starting to get interesting.

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How secret is it? (16)
Scott Johnson
Mar. 17 2016

In their most recent update on the Clinton email saga, Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne take a look at documents coughed up by the State Department to Judicial Watch. Hillary Clinton’s geezer ineptitude assumes comic proportions, though this really isn’t funny:

Less than a month after becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for government business, Hillary Clinton’s team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

“Anyone who has any appreciation at all of security, you don’t ask a question like that,” cybersecurity analyst Morgan Wright told Fox News. “It is contempt for the system, contempt for the rules that are designed to protect the exact kind of information that was exposed through this email set up. “

Current and former intelligence officials grimaced when asked by Fox News about the use of wireless communications devices, such as a BlackBerry, in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) emphasizing its use would defeat the purpose of the secure facility, and it is standard practice to leave all electronics outside.

 

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One sees the vexing problem of the Secretary’s limited desire to increase her technical competence consistent with the requirements of her job. How was the problem resolved? We don’t know. Herridge and Browne can only observe: “Clinton never used a State Department issued BlackBerry. It is not clear from the documents whether Clinton and her team went ahead and used their BlackBerrys in SCIFs despite the concerns, including those of the NSA.” They quote a State Department official commenting that “no waiver allowing PDAs within Mahogany Row [the seventh floor offices at Foggy Bottom including the secretary’s] was granted.” If I understand correctly, it appears that Clinton checked her email in an office that was set up for her outside the SCIF.

 

 

To be continued.

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Petraeus speaks out: Hillary ‘being treated fairly’ over emails

Josh Feldman

Mar. 17 2016

 

David Petraeus, former general and CIA director, is speaking out about the presidential election and Hillary Clinton‘s emails in a new interview.

 

The interview is airing in full on Fox Business Network tomorrow, on the brand-new program Wall Street Week, and in a preview clip that aired earlier today, Petraeus reacted to being asked about the Clinton email controversy and whether she’s been treated differently than he was.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SH5Ns30K5M

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WikiLeaks publishes searchable archive of Clinton emails
Rudy Takala
3/17/16

The secret-sharing website WikiLeaks has published a searchable archive of more than 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails that have been released by the State Department.

Unveiled on Wednesday, the archive allows users to browse through 30,322 emails and attachments sent to or from Clinton's private email server while she was secretary of state. In all, the archive comprises 50,547 pages spanning from June 30, 2010, to Aug. 12, 2014. According to the site, Clinton authored 7,570 of those documents.

 

The State Department began releasing the emails in May of last year pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, but it is the first time that the messages have been made easily available in a searchable format. The final PDFs of all the emails were just made available by the State Department last month.

 

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How secret is it? (17)
Scott Johnson
Mar. 18 2016

A reader writes to comment on part 16 of this series. I think that his (lightly edited) message may advance the analysis for readers following the saga of the Clinton private email server used for her official business as Secretary of State:

 

 

 

I am a retired Foreign Service Specialist who served as an Information Management Specialist. I worked on all Department communications systems. This whole thing with Hillary is proof that the DNC has completely destroyed the integrity of every government agency and politicized everything. Remember too that numerous Obama appointees have been caught at DoJ, the IRS and in the White House using private emails as well – this is a systemic problem from the top down; the government headed by Obama tried to shield its activities from FOIA, official systems and the American people. Nixon was a piker compared to this crew.

 

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In the final leg of my long career in government service, spanning a career with the Army, jobs with the EPA, VA, USMC/Navy, DoD-Army and the Department of State, I was a BlackBerry admin for the Department in South America and was an actual foreign service specialist doing information management work on all the systems Hillary (her team included) used. Many of us in the Department questioned why HRC22 was showing up in emails from the Secretary of State. We were told to drop it. In the Department of State those in management or supervisory positions frequently flout the rules for the rank and file employees; that is life in the Foreign Service.

 

At the Department of State, anyone who even leaves a classified document on his desk overnight is given a security violation; two or more mean reassignment to Washington, D.C., without a chance of promotion for five years. In the Department of Defense if an officer has a security violation, he rarely ever sees a promotion ever again and is forced out. The standard for a violation is not actual or accidental disclosure, but rather MISHANDLING of Classified information. To top it all off, nothing at the Department of State is classified below S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E-B-U-T_U-N-C-L-A-S-S-I-F-I-E-D and therefore not allowed on private systems or Gmail, Yahoo, Live Email addresses.

 

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How can anyone ever again be prosecuted for mishandling classified information?

 

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Clinton E-mail Scandal Update — Is Sidney Blumenthal in Trouble?
David French
March 21, 2016

I would urge everyone to read John Schindler’s Friday piece in The Observer, highlighting recent developments in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal. It’s well worth your time, but I’d like to highlight this portion, where Schindler claims to “confirm” earlier reporting that Clinton pal Sidney Blumenthal sent a word-for-word copy of highly-classified information to Clinton’s unsecured e-mail:

Now, over two months later, I can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal’s June 8, 2011, email to Hillary Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal’s highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence.

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Currently serving NSA officials have told me they have no doubt that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from their reports. “It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” one of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret / Special Intelligence.

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As the FBI investigation winds towards its conclusion, the first shoe to drop may be an indictment of one or more of Clinton’s aides. Arresting aides would be less politically explosive than initially indicting Clinton, and any subsequent cooperation with the government could make it extraordinarily difficult for the Obama administration to shield Hillary herself. The endgame is approaching.