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

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Flashback: Hillary’s First Email Scandal, Project X

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers May 29, 2016 at 5:00pm

 

1996-98: nearly a million “lost” West Wing emails

 

Here at LI, we’ve been covering the current Hillary Clinton email scandal, but it seems this is not the first time she has engaged in hiding sensitive high level email communications. As First Lady, Hillary was embroiled in an email controversy that was known as “Project X.”

 

The New York Post reports:

 

As first lady, Hillary was embroiled in another scheme to bury sensitive White House e-mails, known internally as “Project X.”

 

In 1999, as investigators looked into Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate and other scandals involving the then-first lady, it was discovered that more than 1 million subpoenaed e-mails were mysteriously “lost” due to a “glitch” in a West Wing computer server

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/05/flashback-hillarys-first-email-scandal-project-x/

[Valin]

Let's Play Spot The Lie. Fun For The Whole Family...Win Valuable Prizes.

 

[Geee]

Transcript of Clinton aide's deposition released in email case

 

A conservative legal watchdog group on Tuesday released the transcript from a seven-hour deposition with Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff as part of a lawsuit related to Clinton’s use of a private email server.

 

Release of the transcript on Tuesday afternoon follows Judicial Watch's Friday deposition of Cheryl Mills in Washington. The organization is posing questions to current and former Clinton aides under an open records lawsuit.

 

Mills's comments are the first public accounting of a close member of Clinton’s inner circle talking at length about the server that Clinton used throughout her tenure as secretary of State. Questions about the email arrangement have dogged her presidential campaign.

 

Last week, a State Department inspector general report criticized Clinton’s setup, claiming the arrangement violated department policy and that it would not have been approved had Clinton sought permission

 

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281759-clinton-aide-transcript-released-as-part-of-email-case

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Dark clouds gather over Hillary Clinton
Paul Mirengoff
May 31, 2016

Dan Metcalfe teaches secrecy law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He served as Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy for more than 25 years, during which time he handled information-disclosure policy issues on dozens of Clinton Administration scandals. He’s a registered Democrat who says he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November “if she escapes indictment and manages to become the Democratic presidential nominee.”

Metcalfe believes, however, that Clinton will be indicted, and should be, over the email scandal. He explains why in this column.

 

Metcalfe writes:

 

 

 

For those of us who recognized from the outset that Ms. Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email system for all her official business (not to mention her unprecedented use of a private server atop that) was a clear violation of the Federal Records Act (“FRA”), the findings of the State Department’s Inspector General (“IG”) to that effect in his May 25 report were no surprise. In fact, on the admitted facts of the case, no other conclusion was possible, and it was simply another “shoe waiting to be dropped.”

 

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My view is that, more likely than not, a Comey recommendation to prosecute would be overruled at Main Justice. One way or another, however, the IG’s report signals stormy weather for Hillary Clinton.

[Valin]

Transcript of Clinton aide's deposition released in email case

 

 

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281759-clinton-aide-transcript-released-as-part-of-email-case

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQW8bRoCYbI

[Valin]

 

Transcript of Clinton aide's deposition released in email case

 

 

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281759-clinton-aide-transcript-released-as-part-of-email-case

 

 

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

 

[Valin]

Inside the Ring: Clinton, Aides Tried to Use Wireless Devices in Secure Areas
Bill Gertz

June 1 2016

 

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides tried to use personal hand-held electronic devices inside areas used to store classified information, according to the just-released State Department inspector general report.

 

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the State Department’s security arm, told the inspector general that in March 2009 Mrs. Clinton rejected an offer from security officials to provide her with a secure government smartphone. “DS was informed that Secretary Clinton’s staff had been asking to use BlackBerry devices inside classified areas,” said the report, released late last month.

 

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[Geee]

Albright: 'Nobody is going to die' because of Clinton's email server

 

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defended Hillary Clinton on Friday, claiming "nobody is going to die" because of the business she conducted on an unsecure email server during her own tenure at the State Department.

 

"She has said she made a mistake, and nobody is going to die as a result of anything that happened on emails," Albright, a top Clinton surrogate, told CNN's Chris Cuomo.

 

Albright's comments follow last week's report by the State Department's inspectors general which concluded that Clinton violated the agency's record-keeping rules and never sought permission from the department's legal team to use a private server.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/albright-nobody-is-going-to-die-because-of-clintons-email-server/article/2592927

[Pepper]

Albright: 'Nobody is going to die' because of Clinton's email server

 

 

Because she often wore a red coat, Don Imus said Albright looked like the cleaning lady at Red Roof Inns

[Geee]

Albright: 'Nobody is going to die' because of Clinton's email server

 

 

Because she often wore a red coat, Don Imus said Albright looked like the cleaning lady at Red Roof Inns

 

Are you sure that wasn't Bates Motel

[WestVirginiaRebel]

EXCLUSIVE: Clinton Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email

Federal records reveal that Clinton swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached repeatedly by Russia-linked hacker attempts. These new revelations — reminiscent of the Valerie Plame scandal during George W. Bush’s tenure — could give FBI investigators the evidence they need to make a case that Clinton violated the Espionage Act by mishandling national defense information through “gross negligence.”

Numerous names cited in Clinton’s emails have been redacted in State Department email releases with the classification code “B3 CIA PERS/ORG,” a highly specialized classification that means the information, if released, would violate the Central Intelligence Act of 1949.

 

[Valin]

 

Albright: 'Nobody is going to die' because of Clinton's email server

 

 

Because she often wore a red coat, Don Imus said Albright looked like the cleaning lady at Red Roof Inns

 

Are you sure that wasn't Bates Motel

 

 

 

For someone who is supposedly so smart she really is quite stupid.

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Judge to Pagliano: Show me the immunity
Ed Morrissey
June 4, 2016

Could there be public fireworks coming in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal? While the FBI investigation into her use of a secret e-mail system continues in necessary public silence, Judicial Watch and a federal court have proceeded in contesting potential violations of the Freedom of Information Act by State stemming from the hidden communications. The latter civil action has mostly unfolded in parallel to the FBI’s criminal investigation, but those streams may cross.

 

The computer technician who set up and maintained the secret server, Bryan Pagliano, planned to invoke the Fifth Amendment in the civil case to avoid testifying. However, the judge threw a potential wrench into the works — and may end up forcing Pagliano to testify in public about the information he’s been telling the FBI in private:

 

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Put simply, the Fifth Amendment can only be used when there is a risk of self-incrimination for a prosecutable criminal offense. It doesn’t apply in a civil case unless the testimony in the civil case could also result in criminal prosecution. Pagliano and his attorneys wanted to make the case that his testimony in the civil action brought by Judicial Watch could end up as evidence in a criminal trial against Pagliano … which tells us that there is something besides smoke in the e-mail scandal.

 

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[Chickadee]

So do you suppose Pagliano will have a heart attack or stroke, an automobile accident, or commit suicide? IMO, one of these is possible.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

It'll take a little time:

State Dept. Says Its 75 Year Estimation To Provide Hillary Aides' Records Is 'Not Outlandish'

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ALL the Secrets: Clinton Aide Wants Immunity Deal Kept Under Wraps

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye June 8, 2016 at 10:00am

FBI wants a new secret filing in the Hillary email investigation

 

I think it’s safe to say that cat’s out of the bag.

 

A former tech aide to Hillary Clinton wants an immunity deal with the Department of Justice kept quiet. The DOJ is currently investigating Hillary’s use of a private email account and home-brewed server while Secretary of State.

Josh Gerstein for Politico:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/06/all-the-secrets-clinton-aide-wants-immunity-deal-kept-under-wraps/

[Geee]

ALL the Secrets: Clinton Aide Wants Immunity Deal Kept Under Wraps

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye June 8, 2016 at 10:00am

FBI wants a new secret filing in the Hillary email investigation

 

I think it’s safe to say that cat’s out of the bag.

 

A former tech aide to Hillary Clinton wants an immunity deal with the Department of Justice kept quiet. The DOJ is currently investigating Hillary’s use of a private email account and home-brewed server while Secretary of State.

Josh Gerstein for Politico:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/06/all-the-secrets-clinton-aide-wants-immunity-deal-kept-under-wraps/

 

 

See @Chickadee s post above

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Report: Clinton donor bought spot on national security board
Paul Mirengoff
June 10, 2016

ABC News reports, based on State Department emails, that “a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field.” The decision “baffled” the department’s professional staff.

 

The Clinton Foundation donor in question is Rajiv Fernando. The agency is the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). Fernando, a Chicago securities trader who specialized in electronic investing, possessed no known background related to the matters the ISAB deals with, such as nuclear disarmament and other arms control issues.

 

Fernando himself would not answer questions from ABC News in 2011 about what qualified him for a seat on the board or led to his appointment.

 

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[Valin]

Despite Clinton claims, 2012 email had classified marking
Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne
June 11, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton, from the moment her exclusive use of personal email for government business was exposed, has claimed nothing she sent or received was marked classified at the time.

 

But a 2012 email released by the State Department appears to challenge that claim because it carries a classified code known as a “portion marking” - and that marking was on the email when it was sent directly to Clinton’s account.

 

The “C” - which means it was marked classified at the confidential level - is in the left-hand-margin and relates to an April 2012 phone call with Malawi's first female president, Joyce Banda, who took power after the death of President Mutharika in 2012.

 

"© Purpose of Call: to offer condolences on the passing of President Mukharika and congratulate President Banda on her recent swearing in."

 

Everything after that was fully redacted before it was publicly released by the State Department -- a sign that the information was classified at the time and dealt with sensitive government deliberations.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twR40FlwWCg

[Valin]

Ralph Peters Blasts Clinton Over Emails: Petraeus Stole a Candy Bar, Clinton Robbed Fort Knox

 

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Sources: Russia Intercepted Hillary's Private Emails

Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services.

 

Delete THIS, Hillary.

[Valin]

Judge Blocks Public From Viewing Clinton Email Deposition, So New Film Reenacts Highlights
Craig Bannister
June 10, 2016

A Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge ruled that Americans can’t watch the depositions taken in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail case because it might hurt her election chances – but, that’s not stopping one filmmaker from bringing the proceedings to life in a new video series.

Petitioned to keep the film of one witness’s testimony secret, the judge took the opportunity to ban all witnesses’ depositions from the public eye:

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But, now filmmaker Phelim McAleer has released the first of his five-part series of videos reenacting the highlights of the depositions, using actors and the official transcripts to bring the confessions, accusations and exchanges to life.

 

The first film highlights the questioning of Cheryl Mills who worked with the Clintons for almost 30 years and was Hillary's Chief of Staff while she was Secretary of State. The last will reenact Huma Abedin's deposition.

 

"Cheryl Mills' deposition last week is a masterclass in Clintonian evasions," McAleer said. "She said a version of 'I don't know' or 'I don't recall' 189 times during her deposition. Her team of lawyers objected to questions more than 200 times."

 

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More on Clinton’s Emails

Ricochet Editor's Desk June 21, 2016

Via the WSJ:

 

At the center of a criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information is a series of emails between American diplomats in Islamabad and their superiors in Washington about whether to oppose specific drone strikes in Pakistan. The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the “low side’’—government slang for a computer system for unclassified matters—as part of a secret arrangement that gave the State Department more of a voice in whether a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike went ahead, according to congressional and law-enforcement officials briefed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe. Some of the emails were then forwarded by Mrs. Clinton’s aides to her personal email account, which routed them to a server she kept at her home in suburban New York when she was secretary of state, the officials said. Investigators have raised concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s personal server was less secure than State Department systems. https://ricochet.com/more-on-clintons-emails/