What we know about Hillary's server

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Washington Examiner:

Hugh Hewitt

July 3 2016

 

The FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for many hours on Saturday morning.

 

On Saturday afternoon CNN Senior Producer Teddy Davis tweeted "Sources tell CNN's Evan Perez: expectation is that there will be announcement of no charges in Clinton email probe w/in next two weeks or so". After I — and perhaps others — pointed out that no source could make such an assertion unless he or she had been in the interview with Clinton, Davis — full disclosure, a fellow with whom I worked closely during debate season and who is very smart — added another tweet: "More from CNN's @EvanPerez: Expectation is no charges will be brought against Clinton- so long as no wrongdoing emerged in today's interview."

 

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Nobody who knows the status of the investigation into Clinton's server is talking, and those who are talking as if they do — well, they simply do not know what is truly going on but have some incentive to pretend to do so. They cannot know, in fact, unless they know (1) what has been recovered from the server by the forensic specialists working on the server and (2) the precise details of what Secretary Clinton said in her interview. That is because 18 USC 1001 makes it a crime to make false statements to federal agents. Unless someone was in the room with Secretary Clinton who knew exactly what had been deleted, the CNN "source" would have no idea — none — of whether the investigation is close to wrapping up. CNN's Perez should never have reported such spin. Either it came very close to tipping his source or it was pure spin and he should have known that.

 

Similarly, commentators holding forth about what the server did or did not represent in terms of a threat to national security are quickly in over their heads if they have never held security classifications or at least studied deeply the subject of the surveillance and espionage capabilities of foreign governments that we consider enemies — especially Russia, China and Iran. The capabilities of those countries when it comes to hacking and conducting surveillance of unprotected American computer systems are extraordinary. Knowing this simple fact would greatly assist pundits in their assessments of the server's national security significance, but few in MSM take the time to learn it or think on its significance.

 

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Huma Abedin admits that Clinton burned daily schedules
Daniel Halper
July 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those public records.

 

Huma Abedin was deposed in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit into Clinton’s emails — but her admission could be relevant to another lawsuit seeking Clinton’s schedules.

 

“If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, that . . . that certainly happened on . . . on more than one occasion,” Abedin told lawyers representing Judicial Watch, the conservative organization behind the emails lawsuit.

 

Abedin made the surprising admission in response to a question about document destruction at the Department of State. A lawyer for Judicial Watch asked: “And during your tenure at the State Department, were you aware of your obligation not to delete federal records or destroy federal records?”

 

Abedin was not pressed for more details.

 

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APNewsBreak: State Department Reopens Clinton Emails Probe

 

Not quite done yet. State to look at penalties of those involved as far as future Gov. security clearances..

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PANTS SUIT ON FIRE

 

Clinton has claimed that FBI director James Comey, in his testimony before a House committee, “clarified” his statement that her handling of top secret information was “extremely careless.” When she made this claim to Rose, he countered, “But he said it was sloppy.” Clinton responded, “no, he did not.”

 

Here’s the exchange Clinton and Rose were referring to:

 

Rep. Scott DesJarlais: I don’t want to put words in your mouth – but is it fair to say that your interpretation of Hillary Clinton’s handling of top secret information and classified documents was extremely careless?

 

FBI Director James Comey: Yes.

 

DesJarlais: And is it fair to say that you said, you went on to define extremely careless, that Hillary Clinton’s handling of top secret information was sloppy or represents sloppiness?

 

Comey: Yeah, that’s another way of trying to express the same concept.

 

Thus, Clinton is lying twice. First, Comey did not “clarify” his accusation that Clinton was extremely careless — he repeated it. Second, Comey did say that her practices in handling top secret information were “sloppy.”

 

Nor were these the only falsehoods Clinton peddled to Rose. She continued to deny that she ever sent or received classified information. The FBI found that she did. Even the left-leaning Politifact rates Clinton’s denial “false.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/07/pants-suit-on-fire.php

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Senator stiff-armed over concerns of FBI 'double standard' for Hillary Clinton
Pamela K. Browne, Catherine Herridge
July 22, 2016

The FBI has refused for a second time in six months to answer key lawmakers' formal questions about the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, including pointed queries about whether the former secretary of state received preferential treatment, Fox News has learned.

Despite a deadline of July 20, direct questions posed to FBI Director James Comey by the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Comey's decision not to recommend an indictment of Clinton remain unanswered. The Judiciary Committee has direct oversight responsibility for the bureau.

“ … the FBI should provide a detailed written accounting of the scope of its investigation, the investigative steps it took, and the evidence it gathered in the course of its investigation,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a six-page letter to Comey dated July 6. “Until the FBI does so, much of the public will rightly be skeptical of the integrity of this investigation.”

Fox News has confirmed there is still no response to the strongly- worded letter, in which Grassley charged that Comey’s public statement about his decision not to recommend criminal prosecution “contained a number of inconsistencies that also raise questions as to how the FBI reached its conclusions.”

 

Grassley wants the evidence and findings of the year-long probe released, so that the public can independently judge how the nation’s pre-eminent law enforcement agency recommended against criminal charges. The lawmaker also wants to know why Comey, who characterized Clinton’s handling of classified information as “extremely careless” did not find her in violation of a federal statute for which the threshold is “gross negligence.”

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Completed No Security Briefings Or Courses At State Dept.
Richard Pollock
8/1/16

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed no security briefings or courses on the proper handling of classified materials and how to conduct secure communications while at the Department of State, according to new Obama administration legal filings before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The surprise admission was released late Friday and could reignite the controversy over Clinton’s “careless” handling of classified materials as asserted by FBI Director James Comey, which has already been a central part of the presidential race.

 

The revelation also could renew calls for the Department of State to strip her of her security clearance. The co-founder of at least one retired military officers organization has called for a suspension of her clearance.

 

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8/5/2016

Hillary Clinton Keeps Racking Up The “I’m A Big Fat Liar” Points

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:01 am

[guest post by Dana]

 

What do you call it when a fundamentally dishonest individual tenaciously repeats a well known lie because she understands that sooner or later, Americans will become so exhausted from their efforts to refute it, they will just eventually give up, and perhaps, even, give in? Cynically determined to wear down Americans, or understanding that her loyalists, like Trump’s, believe truth is superfluous, malleable, and/or doesn’t really matter, Hillary Clinton is still peddling her particular brand of the “truth”. And now that she makes an appearance on the Washington Post’s Recidivism Watch – a unique place that “tracks politicians who repeat claims that we have previously found to be incorrect or false,” Americans are once again reminded that Hillary Clinton’s version of the truth is rarely ever that.

 

This is the lie she again repeated two days ago, even after receiving Four Pinnochios from the WAshington Post’s Fact Checker,“Pants on Fire” from PolitiFact, and “false” from FactCheck.org:

http://patterico.com/2016/08/05/hillary-clinton-keeps-racking-up-the-im-a-big-fat-liar-points/

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Why she should have faced the music

 

 

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Chaffetz not authorized to view Clinton emails
Sarah Westwood
8/18/16

Wednesday night that material related to Hillary Clinton's private email use that was provided by the FBI is so highly classified that he does not have the security clearance to read most of it.

"The sensitivity of the material is such that even I, as the chairman of the Oversight Committee, the chief investigative body, I don't have the proper security clearance as a member of Congress to look at this," Chaffetz said on Fox News.

The Utah Republican said the FBI files, which include notes from witness interviews and other documents from the agency's year-long probe, could only be accessed in a secure facility known as an SCIF that was "under lock and key and guard." Once inside the SCIF, Chaffetz noted, the documents available were still heavily redacted.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskUbq99zsM

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Powell: ‘No Recollection’ of Dinner Conversation Advising Clinton to Use Private Email Server

 

 

Hillary Lied!

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The ultimate Clinton scandal
Scott Johnson
Aug. 22 2016

The scandal of Hillary Clinton’s private email server is in a sense the ultimate Clinton scandal. It shows Hillary Clinton’s heedless treatment of national security for corrupt personal reasons. It shows her willingness to say anything to extricate herself from a fix.

Indeed, the scandal shows her pathological approach to facts. She may believe her own lies. One has the impression that she could pass a lie detector test on her multitudinous misrepresentations. She lies like a criminal, without a conscience, to cover up her criminal wrongdoing.

And like a criminal, she blames her wrongdoing on others. The buck stops somewhere down the line, with dedicated State Department professionals, or with Colin Powell. This past Friday Amy Chozick reported in the New York Times “Hillary Clinton told F.B.I. Colin Powell advised her to use private email.”

Thanks to Drudge, I find that Colin Powell told People Magazine on Saturday night in East Hampton that he does not accept the buck. He rejects it. He didn’t do it! It’s almost funny.

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Quotable quote from Colin Powell: “Her people have been trying to pin it on me. The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did.”

 

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FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe
Spencer S. Hsu
August 22 2016

The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than mid-October as it planned.

Justice Department lawyers said last week that the State Department would review and turn over Clinton’s work-related emails to a conservative legal group. The records are among “tens of thousands” of documents found by the FBI in its probe and turned over to the State Department, Justice Department attorney Lisa Ann Olson said Monday in court.

The 14,900 Clinton documents are nearly 50 percent more than the roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton’s lawyers deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.

 

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Chris Cillizza Weighs In

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Tech firm brags about blocking FBI from recovering Clinton emails

 

A technology company that provided the program Hillary Clinton's team used to scrub her private server of emails bragged on its website Thursday that it had prevented the FBI from accessing deleted records.

BleachBit, the application that deleted some of Clinton's emails ahead of an FBI investigation, said it had not yet been served a subpoena over its involvement in the destruction of potentially classified records.

A headline on the company's website read: "BleachBit stifles investigation of Hillary Clinton."

Rep. Trey Gowdy brought the involvement of the program to light Thursday when he told Fox News that Clinton's emails were so fully deleted that "even God can't read them."

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tech-firm-brags-about-blocking-fbi-from-recovering-the-clinton-emails/article/2600283

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Tech firm brags about blocking FBI from recovering Clinton emails

 

 

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Firm That Wiped Hillary’s Server Brags: We ‘Stifled Investigation Of Hillary Clinton’

AUGUST 26, 2016 By Bre Payton

The maker of software used by Hillary Clinton to delete thousands of e-mails bragged that it helped to “stifle investigation of Hillary Clinton.”

http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/26/firm-wiped-hillarys-server-brags-stifled-investigation-hillary-clinton/

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Byron York: Hillary Clinton BleachBits her past

By BYRON YORK (@BYRONYORK) • 8/25/16 11:06 PM

While Hillary Clinton was preparing to deliver a big speech portraying Donald Trump as a racist, a figure from Clinton's recent unhappy past — Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi — added a new word to the 25-year vocabulary of Clinton scandals: BleachBit.

 

That is the name of a publicly-available utility used to delete material from a computer's hard disk. And it's not just for casual, quickie deletes of junk mail. It's for when a user really wants to destroy material on a computer so that no one will be able to recover it.

 

According to Gowdy, BleachBit is what Clinton and her legal team used, or at least part of what her team used, to destroy the 30,000 or so emails on her secret system that she deemed "personal" from her years as secretary of state. On Thursday, after revelations that the FBI had perhaps worked its way around BleachBit to discover an additional 14,900 emails that Clinton did not hand over, Gowdy went on Fox News to discuss both that development and the FBI documents that underlay the Justice Department's decision not to prosecute Clinton for mishandling classified information http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2600249

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Judicial Watch submits questions for Hillary to answer under oath %5BUpdated%5D
Paul Mirengoff
August 30, 2016

Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan granted Judicial Watch additional discovery on the Hillary Clinton email matter. As a result, Clinton was ordered to answer written questions from Judicial Watch “by no later than thirty days” after their submission. Under federal court rules, Judicial Watch is limited to twenty-five questions.

Today, Judicial Watch announced that it has submitted the questions to Clinton. You can read the questions here.

The answers are due by September 29, before Election Day. However, Team Clinton has the option of objecting to questions (however, frivolously) and/or seeking extra time to answer them.

The opening questions from Judicial Watch pertain to Clinton’s creation of her private email system and her decision to use it for official State Department business:

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UPDATE: Apparently, there is a potential dispute as to whether the State Department must answer Judicial Watch’s questions within 30 days from now. That, at least, is what AP says:

It was not immediately clear from the wording of Sullivan’s order whether Clinton must answer the questions before or after the November election. Judicial Watch contends the deadline is Sept. 29.

Judicial Watch relies on this Order, issued earlier in August. It states:

It is hereby. . .FURTHER ORDERED that, consistent with Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judicial Watch may serve interrogatories on Secretary Clinton by not later than October 24, 2016; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that, consistent with Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Secretary Clinton’s responses are due by no later than thirty days thereafter.

The government may argue that “thirty days thereafter” means thirty days after October 24, not after the serving of the interrogatories. However, Rule 33, which Judge Sullivan referred to and incorporated, provides: “The responding party must serve its answers and any objections within 30 days after being served with the interrogatories. (Emphasis added).

So if there is a dispute here, it seems to me that Judicial Watch has the better argument.

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Clinton emailed classified information after leaving State Dept.
Daniel Halper
August 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton continued sending classified information even after leaving the State Department, The Post has exclusively learned.

 

On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton sent an email to a group of diplomats and top aides about the “123 Deal” with the United Arab Emirates.

 

But the email, which was obtained by the Republican National Committee through a Freedom of Information Act request, was heavily redacted upon its release by the State Department because it contains classified information.

 

The markings on the email state it will be declassified on May 28, 2033, and that information in the note is being redacted because it contains “information regarding foreign governors” and because it contains “Foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.”

 

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30 Benghazi-Related Emails Found On Hillary Clinton Server, Networks Don’t Bat An Eye

Filed under: General — Dana @ 6:11 am

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They keep finding these deleted emails that are anything but wedding plans or yoga routines, in spite of Hillary testifying under oath that she turned over all work-related emails in 2014. As I read somewhere, they find damning emails, but they never find that any laws have been broken. This is what it means to be Clinton:

 

The State Department says about 30 emails involving the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI’s recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.

 

Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30

http://patterico.com/2016/08/31/30-benghazi-related-emails-found-on-hillary-clinton-server-networks-dont-bat-an-eye/