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

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Romanian hacker who claims he breached Clinton server says he spoke with FBI at length
Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne
May 07, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: The Romanian hacker who says he easily breached Hillary Clinton’s personal email server also claimed, in a series of interviews with Fox News, that he spoke with the FBI at length on the plane when extradited from Romania to Virginia last month.

 

"They came after me, a guy from the FBI, from the State Department," 44-year-old Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," told Fox News during a jailhouse phone interview. He said the conversation was "80 minutes ... recorded," and he took his own notes.

 

A government source confirmed that the hacker had a lot to say on the plane but provided no other details. Lazar was flown to the U.S. to face separate cyber-crime charges.

 

In addition to the apparent conversation with the FBI on the plane, Fox News has learned a meeting was expected as early as this week at the Alexandria, Va., detention center where he’s being held involving Guccifer, the FBI, the U.S. attorney and the defendant’s court-appointed lawyer.

 

These officials have not commented on his clams or detention.

 

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Decision time for FBI on Clinton
Julian Hattem
05/08/16

The FBI investigation swirling around Hillary Clinton’s presidential run appears to have entered its final stages.

Many of the former secretary of State’s top aides have been interviewed over the course of the last month, and Clinton herself is expected to answer investigators’ questions about her use of a private email server in the coming days or weeks.

Former officials and legal experts say the Democratic front-runner's testimony will likely be the final puzzle piece for federal prosecutors and FBI investigators as they decide whether to file any charges over her use of a personal email server while secretary of State.

“This certainly sends the signal that they are nearing an end to their investigation,” said Steven Levin, a former federal prosecutor and current partner at the law firm Levin & Curlett.

 

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Emails From Hillary Clinton’s IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing

 

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So in 4 years an IT staffer has no emails????

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Emails From Hillary Clinton’s IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing

 

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So in 4 years an IT staffer has no emails????

 

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Emails From Hillary Clinton’s IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing

 

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So in 4 years an IT staffer has no emails????

 

 

Bryan Pagliano: Are His Missing Emails Obstruction Of Justice? (Video)

http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2016/05/bryan-pagliano-are-his-missing-emails.html

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VTQTsIBx4&feature=player_embedded

 

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

A criminal offense that involves interference, through words or actions, with the proper operations of a court or officers of the court.

The integrity of the judicial system depends on the participants' acting honestly and without fear of reprisals. Threatening a judge, trying to bribe a witness, or encouraging the destruction of evidence are examples of obstruction of justice. Federal and state laws make it a crime to obstruct justice.'

 

ThePoliticalCommentator via TheoSpark

 

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Top Clinton aide Mills reportedly walks out of FBI interview about emails
Fox News
May 11, 2016


Senior Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and her lawyer walked out of a recent interview with the FBI about Clinton's private email system after an investigator asked a question Mills believed to be off limits, according to a published report.

The Washington Post said that Mills and her lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, returned to the interview room after a brief absence. However, the Post reported that Mills and Wilkinson asked for breaks during the interview to confer more than once.

According to the paper, the FBI investigator's questions that caused Mills and Wilkinson to walk out were related to the procedure used to produce emails for possible public release by the State Department. Mills ultimately did not answer questions about it because her attorney and Justice Department prosecutors deemed it confidential under attorney-client privilege.

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On Tuesday, the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch said it had obtained emails showing that a top Clinton political aide pushed the State Department to hire Bryan Pagliano, who helped manage Clinton's personal email server.

The emails show that State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, a key figure in the Benghazi investigation, was involved in Pagliano's hire. The emails also appear to show members of the State Department's IT division questioning why Pagliano, a political appointee who had worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, would be assigned to that office.

"[Kennedy] specifically said we didn't need to be [political appointees], but it sure sounds like we do," one email reads.

 

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Clinton abandoned secure line to use home phone, new email shows
Julian Hattem
05/12/16

New emails released by a conservative watchdog group on Thursday appear to show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton directing a top aide to call her via an unsecured phone line when technical troubles prevented a secure phone conversation.

“I give up. Call me on my home #,” Clinton told then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills in a February 2009 email, after more than an hour of trouble trying to communicate via a secure line.

 

“I just spoke to ops and called you reg line - we have to wait until we see each other b/c [the] technology is not working,” Mills said in another email sent at almost exactly the same time.

“Pls try again,” responded Clinton, a few moments later.

 

It’s unclear whether the two did connect, or if they moderated any discussion they may have had to avoid sensitive topics while on an unsecure landline.

 

But the episode is likely to cause concern among critics of Clinton, who have previously accused her of resorting to unsecure forms of communication out of convenience, potentially jeopardizing sensitive information. Another email of Clinton’s, released in January, appeared to show her telling a top aide to remove identifying details and send a sensitive document through a “nonsecure” channel instead of via "secure fax."

 

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It's not about her, really:

 

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Clinton E-mails: Is the Fix In?

 

Obama’s Justice Department shields Cheryl Mills from FBI’s questions

There was an extraordinary report in Tuesday’s Washington Post about the Clinton e-mail investigation. It involved the government’s interview of longtime Clinton consigliere Cheryl Mills. It details how Justice Department attorneys made an agreement with Mills’s attorney to cut off questioning about a key aspect of the case.

 

Mills, who is a lawyer, was represented at the interview by a lawyer named Beth Wilkinson. As is customary in these situations, the questioning was conducted jointly by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. Yet when things got dicey, it seems the Justice Department prosecutors worked jointly with Ms. Wilkinson to block the FBI from asking about Mills’s collusion with Clinton in the belated provision of thousands of Clinton’s e-mails to State — provided only after nearly 32,000 of those e-mails were deleted.

 

The Post’s Matt Zapotosky describes the incident this way:

 

Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off-limits, according to several people familiar with the matter.

 

Mills and her lawyer left the room — though both returned a short time later — and prosecutors were somewhat taken aback that their FBI colleague had ventured beyond what was anticipated, the people said.

 

The report subsequently elaborates (the italics are mine):

 

The questions that were considered off-limits had to do with the procedure used to produce e-mails to the State Department so they could possibly be released publicly, the people said. Mills, an attorney herself, was not supposed to be asked questions about that — and ultimately never was in the recent interview — because it was considered confidential as an example of attorney-client privilege, the people said.

 

Though reported matter-of-factly, this is quite amazing.

 

The first remarkable thing to note is that there is a press report at all. This is supposed to have been a law-enforcement interview in a criminal investigation. Those are supposed to be non-public, much like grand-jury proceedings.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435393/hillary-clinton-e-mails-Cheryl-Mills-DOJ

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Jake Tapper Takes Clinton To The Woodshed Over Claim That Private Email Server Was 'Absolutely Permitted'
Matt Vespa
May 15, 2016

 

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Depositions Start This Week In Hillary Email Lawsuit

The watchdog group Judicial Watch will interview several Hillary Clinton aides and State Department officials over the next few weeks, it announced on Tuesday.

 

The first interview will be conducted on Wednesday with Lewis Lukens, the former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the Executive Secretariat.

 

Next week, on May 27, Judicial Watch’s lawyers will depose Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Bryan Pagliano, the information technology specialist who managed Clinton’s email system, will be deposed on June 6 and Huma Abedin, Clinton’s “body woman,” will be interviewed on June 28.

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Judicial Watch President: State Dept. Official’s Deposition Was ‘Embarrassing’ For Hillary
Chuck Ross

May 20 2016

 

The president of the watchdog group Judicial Watch says that information that a former State Department official provided about Hillary Clinton and her private email system in a lawsuit deposition conducted on Wednesday will be embarrassing for the former secretary of state.

 

Tom Fitton, whose group is suing the State Department, says he is restricted in what he can legally say about an interview conducted with Lewis Lukens, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state and the executive directory of the secretariat during Clinton’s tenure. But the Judicial Watch president did tell The Daily Caller that Clinton will not be pleased with the information he provided.

 

“The testimony was not helpful for Clinton or the State Department,” Fitton told TheDC in a phone interview.

 

Lukens is of interest to Fitton and Judicial Watch because of emails that he sent just days into Clinton’s term in which he proposed the idea of setting up a stand-alone computer so that she could email from the agency’s executive offices.

 

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Hillary Clinton broke the rules for using private email, State Department says

 

OIG report out. Press not good for Hillary so far.

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Hillary Clinton broke the rules for using private email, State Department says

 

OIG report out. Press not good for Hillary so far.

 

 

More Here at Hot Air

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Andrea Mitchell: Can’t View IG Report About Clinton Email Server As ‘Anything But Devastating’

 

 

The Whole Segment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42LRVjlnzjs

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Clinton spokesman floats conspiracy theory when asked why Hillary refused to cooperate with Inspector General
John Sexton

May 26, 2016

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBcX10t29A

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Hill: IG Email Report Will Not Affect My Presidency

 

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How to read the IG report
Scott Johnson
May 29 2016

John posted the State Department Inspector General’s report on Hillary Clinton’s private email server for the conduct of her official business as Secretary of State here. John also excerpted a few telling passages from the report that expose a few of the repeated lies Clinton has told about her arrangement.

 

Andrew McCarthy is the former Assistant United States Attorney who had substantial professional experience dealing with serious issues of national security. At NR’s Corner he contributes some valuable advice on how to read the report.

 

Andy notes that Clinton and her deputies declined requests to be interviewed as part of the IG’s investigation. “When a government official or former government official refuses to answer questions in a formal government investigation into potential wrongdoing, this in effect is the assertion of a legal privilege not to speak — otherwise, there is no valid reason not to cooperate.”

 

He asks: “So what conceivable legal privilege do Clinton, Mills, Sullivan, and Abedin have that would allow them to refuse to answer investigators’ questions? Only one: the Fifth Amendment privilege — i.e., the refusal to answer on the grounds that truthful responses might be incriminating.”

 

He concludes:

 

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The Full Schill
Scott Johnson
May 29 2016

On FOX News Sunday this morning Chris Wallace pulverized Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff as he sought to regurgitate and reiterate one of the mandatory Clinton talking points on her private email server. Wallace knew that Schiff would play the Colin Powell card from the bottom of the deck and was not amused. In the clip below Wallace draws the line and makes it clear that Schiff is full of it. This is a great moment in Sunday gabfests.

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Supplement Wallace’s confrontation of Schiff on this point with Megan McArdle’s Bloomberg News column on the State Department Inspector General’s report.

 

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