Clinton to surrender email server to feds; watchdog confirms ‘top secret’ content

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NBC: Democrats Think the Clinton Campaign Is ‘In Denial’ Over Email Scandal

David Rutz
August 20, 2015

 

NBC reporter Kristen Welker said many Democrats think the Hillary Clinton campaign is “in denial” over the severity of her private email scandal when she continually brushes off the controversy as a media-engineered, partisan witch hunt.

 

Welker asked Clinton at the conclusion of a tense press conference Tuesday whether she felt the issue wasn’t going away for her campaign, to which Clinton replied with a shrug, “Nobody talks to me about it other than you guys,” meaning the media.

 

Thursday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Welker said Clinton was off-base when she said voters didn’t care about her use of a private, unsecured server that passed along classified information while secretary of state.

 

“I think it is a legitimate story, and I don’t think it’s just a construct of the media or of the Republicans for that matter,” Welker said. “Her response that this is something that we only ask about, that we only care about, just doesn’t square with the conversations that I have with voters, quite frankly. Independents, undecideds and yes, Democrats, who say they have questions about this. They want answers from her.”

 

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[Geee]

Watchdog: Two National Security Laws Appear Broken in Clinton Email Scandal

 

Bill Getz

 

Hillary Clinton and two aides appear to have violated two national security laws by sending classified information on a private email server, according to a former Army counterintelligence agent and investigator for a public interest law group.

 

Additionally, the two Clinton aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, disregarded a federal judge’s order this month requiring both to make sworn statements to the court that all government documents in their possession will be returned to federal officials, said Chris Farrell, director of investigations for Judicial Watch, the law group.

 

“What we have is a secretary of state, the only cabinet official in our history, who established her own private email server … in an effort to avoid the normal protocols for unclassified and classified communications. It’s an end run,” he said.

 

Farrell, in a briefing on the Clinton email affair at the Judicial Watch offices, said supporters of Clinton have sought to portray the use of the private email system to send classified information as a minor administrative matter.

 

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/watchdog-two-national-security-laws-appear-broken-in-clinton-email-scandal/

[clearvision]

Excellent write up on the situation...

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/20/hillary_clinton_email_scandal_explained.html

[Valin]

Excellent write up on the situation...

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/20/hillary_clinton_email_scandal_explained.html

 

 

Not bad...for Slate quite good.

 

 

Ok, so back to the classified emails. What type of “classified” information are we talking about?

 

Since classified information is by definition classified, the public will likely never have the chance to judge for themselves just how sensitive the information in question was. And as Jeffrey Toobin explains in the New Yorker, while classified information is generally defined as anything with the potential to damage national security, in reality, “government bureaucracies use classification rules to protect turf, to avoid embarrassment, to embarrass rivals—in short, for a variety of motives that have little to do with national security.”

 

Totally misses the point. It matters not that way to much is classified (and I agree there is too much classification), or why it is. Its Classified is what matters.

[Geee]

Déjà Vu: When Bill Clinton Pardoned His Former CIA Director over Classified Documents on His Home Computer

 

Bill Clinton’s administration was nowhere near as lenient as Obama’s is being with Hillary.

 

What’s past is prologue.

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1

 

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton insists she did nothing wrong by running all of her government communications, including classified material, through her unsecured, home-brewed computer server. Perhaps she’s forgotten one of her husband’s final acts in the Oval Office: issuing a presidential pardon to former CIA director John Deutch.

Deutch’s offense? Keeping classified material on unsecured home computers.

 

The pardon came just as Deutch was reportedly going to cop a plea with the Justice Department.

 

Deutch headed the CIA from May 1995 to December 1996. Several days after he left the agency, classified material was discovered on a government-owned computer at his house in Bethesda, Md. Additionally, unsecured classified magnetic media were found in the study. According to the CIA inspector general’s report, the computer had been “designated for unclassified use only.”

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422863/bill-clinton-pardon-classified-documents

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Déjà Vu: When Bill Clinton Pardoned His Former CIA Director over Classified Documents on His Home Computer

 

Bill Clinton’s administration was nowhere near as lenient as Obama’s is being with Hillary.

 

What’s past is prologue.

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1

 

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton insists she did nothing wrong by running all of her government communications, including classified material, through her unsecured, home-brewed computer server. Perhaps she’s forgotten one of her husband’s final acts in the Oval Office: issuing a presidential pardon to former CIA director John Deutch.

Deutch’s offense? Keeping classified material on unsecured home computers.

 

The pardon came just as Deutch was reportedly going to cop a plea with the Justice Department.

 

 

 

I know I should , but with these folks.....I just can't.

 

Vaguely remember the whole Deuch thing. As I recall it was quite the To Do!

 

For Those interested...

REPORT OF INVESTIGATION

IMPROPER HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY

JOHN M. DEUTCH

(1998-0028-IG)

February 18, 2000

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Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
NEW YORK | By Jonathan Allen

Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:17am EDT

 

For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.

 

While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.

 

But the details included in those "Classified" stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.

 

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.

 

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[Draggingtree]

Classified Emails From Clinton Aides Kick-Started FBI Probe, Candidate Downplays Controversy

 

 

August 20, 2015

From Fox News:

 

An email from a top Clinton adviser containing classified military intelligence information, and one from a top aide containing classified information about the Benghazi terror attack, were the documents that kick-started the FBI investigation into the mishandling of classified information, Fox News has learned.

 

The emails, among thousands on Hillary Clinton’s personal server, were released to the Benghazi select committee in May and have been widely discussed but Fox News for the first time has identified which Clinton aides sent them and the subject matter.

 

The revelation came as the Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state tried to brush aside the burgeoning scandal, joking at a campaign event when asked by Fox News whether she had wiped her private server clean, “What, like with a cloth or something? I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”

Read the entire article… http://www.aim.org/benghazi/classified-emails-from-clinton-aides-kick-started-fbi-probe-candidate-downplays-controversy/

[Draggingtree]

Hillary’s Dangerous Negligence over Benghazi—Again

From National Review:

 

Who cares if Hillary Clinton is convicted of a crime? What we ought to care about is if Ahmed Abu Khatallah is convicted of a crime.

 

Khatallah is the only person charged thus far in the attack on a shadowy U.S. government compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Dozens of jihadists participated in the attack, during which four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, were slain. Yet Khatallah has been singled out for prosecution. As I’ve previously detailed (here and here), the Obama Justice Department has filed an indictment that infuses evidence with politics: Trying to prove the terrorist conspiracy that actually occurred without refuting the Obama/Clinton fiction that the attack was a spontaneous protest ignited by an anti-Muslim Internet video.

 

That’s why there are worse jobs to have right now than defense counsel for a murderous jihadist.

Read the entire article…http://www.aim.org/benghazi/hillarys-dangerous-negligence-over-benghazi-again/

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Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest

NEW YORK | By Jonathan Allen

Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:17am EDT

 

 

Guy Benson ‏@guypbenson

Guy Benson retweeted Jimmy

Busted.

 

@JimmyPrinceton

 

In light of this new Reuter's exclusive (http://reut.rs/1J9mylU ), let's revisit Hillary's "fact sheet" from March.

 

5:11 AM - 21 Aug 2015

 

[Draggingtree]

8/21/2015

Judge: Hillary!’s Email Practices Did Not Follow Government Policy

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:44 am

 

New York Times:

 

A federal judge on Thursday said that Hillary Rodham Clinton did not follow government policies when she relied exclusively on a personal email account while she was secretary of state, challenging her longstanding claim that she had complied with the rules.

 

The judge, Emmet G. Sullivan of United States District Court, also opened the door for the F.B.I. to look through Mrs. Clinton’s server for messages that she may have deleted but that should have been handed over to the State Department. http://patterico.com/2015/08/21/judge-hillarys-email-practices-did-not-follow-government-policy/