Snipers, Vehicle Moves Among Classified Data E-Mailed to Clinton

[Valin]

The secret life of Bryan Pagliano

Scott Johnson

September 6, 2015

 

Bryan Pagliano is the former State Department staffer who just advised congressional committees seeking his testimony of his intention to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The Washington Post’s Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig enlist the assistance of three of their colleagues to report on Madam Hillary’s private arrangement with Pagliano. The Post reports that Madam Hillary personally paid Pagliano for his services maintaining the private e-mail server she used for her official correspondence as Secretary of State. The Post reporters confirmed the story directly with an unnamed Clinton campaign official.

 

The Post adds this intriguing detail:* “Pagliano did not list the outside income in the required personal financial disclosures he filed each year.” Pagliano’s attorney declined to comment to the Post.

 

(Snip)

 

** That of course is not the rationale advanced by the mysterious campaign official to whom the Post turns. According to the campaign official, the arrangement “ensured that taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that was shared by Clinton, her husband and their daughter as well as aides to the former president.” The arrangement is thus held out as an application of Clintonian ethics for the public good.

 

(Snip)

 

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* Can We Say Perjury..filing a false statement?

 

** I Love This!!! She did this because she wanted to save taxpayer money and her high ethical standards.....I may have been born at night, But it wasn't Last Night.

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Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s Email

MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

SEPT. 7, 2015

 

WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.

 

Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general’s finding last month and questioned whether the emails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review — by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — concluded that the emails were “Top Secret,” the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Mrs. Clinton in 2009 and 2011.

 

(Snip)

 

President Obama signed an executive order in December 2009 that defined “Top Secret” as information that if disclosed could “reasonably” be expected to cause “exceptionally grave damage to national security.”

 

In the months after the disclosure, Mrs. Clinton and her campaign were unequivocal in their stance that there was no classified information on it. But after it was revealed in August that the F.B.I. was investigating how classified materials were handled in connection with the account, Mrs. Clinton’s aides began saying that she never sent or received anything that was classified at the time.

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Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday appointed a "transparency coordinator" to streamline the State Department's much-criticized response to records requests from the public and Congress.

Kerry named retired Ambassador Janice Jacobs to the post to improve the preservation and release times of documents requested by Congress and the public under the Freedom of Information Act. Jacobs was previously assistant secretary of state for consular affairs and was instrumental in revamping the U.S. visa application process after Sept. 11, 2001.

 

The department has been criticized for inefficiency, notably since the clamor over former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a private email server, in finding documents and releasing them in response to records requests. Since 2008, the number of FOIA requests has increased threefold and queries from Congress have jumped significantly. Officials say the sheer volume has strained existing resources and manpower, resulting in delays.

 

Within hours of her appointment, Republicans noted that Jacobs had donated $2,700 to Clinton's presidential campaign in June. Jacobs, contacted at home by The Associated Press, confirmed that she had made the donation and noted she was retired at the time and didn't expect to be recalled to work.

 

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kerry-taps-state-dept-transparency-czar-oversee-records-33606870

 

A transparency Czar at State Department. Read somewhere else they are adding 50 people to go thru the emails.

[Valin]

This is bad...very very Bad...for the Queen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaworCdj1I

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This is bad...very very Bad...for the Queen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaworCdj1I

 

That is very bad. Making fun of the Queen by MSNBC...

[Valin]

@clearvision

 

Indeed! Here's the thing...this is not (lying hateful) Fox News...this is MSNBC. Hillary, you've got problems!!

[Valin]

Warning the following is brim full of Trigger Words, Aggression both Micro and Mega, Hate Speech, and War on Women

 

Who Cares if Hillary Apologized?
Jonah Goldberg

September 9, 2015

 

So Hillary Clinton mumbled some kind of apology yesterday:

 

 

“Even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails,” she told ABC News. ”That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.”

 

 

This raises the question: Who gives a rat’s ass? Were you demanding an apology from Hillary Clinton? I wasn’t. I wanted the facts. And those are still in short supply. Which raises a second point: What the hell is she talking about when she says the State Department “allowed” her private, off-site server? First off, Hillary Clinton was running the State Department. Does she mean that she allowed herself to do it? If so, this may be the greatest example of Clintonian weasel-wording yet. If she doesn’t mean that, can we have the name of the official who told Clinton it was okay? Can we have the paperwork? Or is the Clinton team still drawing straws to see who gets to take one for the team?

 

Which brings us back around to this apology business. Note that she’s apologizing for the narrowest definition of her transgressions, which is a clever way of trying to minimize the scandal....................(Snip)

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Clinton aide Abedin to testify at Benghazi panel

Julian Hattem

09/10/15

 

Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is scheduled to testify before the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in the coming weeks.

 

Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told reporters on Thursday that Abedin would appear before a closed-door meeting of the committee at some point before Clinton’s public testimony on Oct. 22.

 

Abedin serves a top role in Clinton’s front-running 2016 presidential campaign and was her deputy chief of staff during Clinton’s time as secretary of State. Abedin is also the wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).

 

(Snip)

[Valin]

WOW! Never Saw This One Coming!

Justice Dept. Affirms Clinton Could Delete Personal Emails
Eric Tucker, associated press
WASHINGTON — Sep 11, 2015, 8:50 PM ET

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court. Lawyers for the government made the assertion in a filing this week with the U.S. District Court in Washington, part of a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that seeks access to Clinton's emails.

Clinton, the former secretary of state and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account for government business. She has said that she sent and received about 60,000 emails during her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and deleted. The others were turned over to the State Department.

The FBI has been investigating the security of Clinton's email setup, which she said she used as a matter of convenience. She has since acknowledged that her use of a private email server to conduct government business was a mistake and apologized this week. Clinton asserts that she had the right under government rules to decide which emails were private and to delete them. This week's filing puts the Justice Department's approval on Clinton's claim.

 

(Snip)

 

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H/T Hot Air

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WOW! Never Saw This One Coming!

 

Justice Dept. Affirms Clinton Could Delete Personal Emails

Eric Tucker, associated press

WASHINGTON — Sep 11, 2015, 8:50 PM ET

 

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court. Lawyers for the government made the assertion in a filing this week with the U.S. District Court in Washington, part of a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that seeks access to Clinton's emails.

 

Clinton, the former secretary of state and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account for government business. She has said that she sent and received about 60,000 emails during her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and deleted. The others were turned over to the State Department.

 

The FBI has been investigating the security of Clinton's email setup, which she said she used as a matter of convenience. She has since acknowledged that her use of a private email server to conduct government business was a mistake and apologized this week. Clinton asserts that she had the right under government rules to decide which emails were private and to delete them. This week's filing puts the Justice Department's approval on Clinton's claim.

 

(Snip)

 

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H/T Hot Air

 

Sounds like the rule is set up to protect the politicians then. If they can delete emails at will, before leaving office, or after if on their own server, then not truly a record of anything.

 

Let's see, time to delete personal emails.... ah "Top Secret".. personal .... delete. Ah "Only if you send my charity money"... personal... delete.

[Draggingtree]

Stunning: Justice Department lawyers argue Hillary Clinton had the right to delete any emails she chose

 

September 12, 2015

 

A laugh-out-loud reason is given in a brief filed in opposition to a Judicial Watch lawsuit seeking preservation of her records.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/stunning_justice_department_lawyers_argue_hillary_clinton_had_the_right_to_delete_any_emails_she_chose.html

 

 

[Valin]

 

WOW! Never Saw This One Coming!

 

Justice Dept. Affirms Clinton Could Delete Personal Emails

Eric Tucker, associated press

WASHINGTON — Sep 11, 2015, 8:50 PM ET

 

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court. Lawyers for the government made the assertion in a filing this week with the U.S. District Court in Washington, part of a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that seeks access to Clinton's emails.

 

Clinton, the former secretary of state and front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account for government business. She has said that she sent and received about 60,000 emails during her four years in the Obama administration, about half of which were personal and deleted. The others were turned over to the State Department.

 

The FBI has been investigating the security of Clinton's email setup, which she said she used as a matter of convenience. She has since acknowledged that her use of a private email server to conduct government business was a mistake and apologized this week. Clinton asserts that she had the right under government rules to decide which emails were private and to delete them. This week's filing puts the Justice Department's approval on Clinton's claim.

 

(Snip)

 

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H/T Hot Air

 

Sounds like the rule is set up to protect the politicians then. If they can delete emails at will, before leaving office, or after if on their own server, then not truly a record of anything.

 

Let's see, time to delete personal emails.... ah "Top Secret".. personal .... delete. Ah "Only if you send my charity money"... personal... delete.

 

 

 

Oh That Would Never Happen!

[Valin]

@WestVirginaRebel

 

Moved

 

Tech company: No indication that Clinton’s e-mail server was ‘wiped’

 

The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.

 

Clinton and her advisers have said for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that 31,000 e-mails were gone forever.

 

There is a distinction between e-mails being deleted and a server being wiped. If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device and the e-mails can often be restored.

 

To make the information go away permanently, a server must be wiped — a process that includes overwriting the underlying data with gibberish, possibly several times.

 

That process, according to Platte River Networks, the Denver-based firm that has managed the system since 2013, apparently did not happen.

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Hillary has been speaking gibberish instead.

[Valin]

 

[Valin]

Hillary’s Email Gaps: Another Blow to a Failing Campaign

John Hinderaker

September 14, 2015

 

The invaluable Judicial Watch released a report this morning on documents produced by the State Department relating to the department’s collection of Hillary Clinton’s emails for production in response to subpoenas and other legal requirements. As usual, the Obama administration defied the Freedom of Information Act and produced these documents only in response to a court order.

 

The report’s headline-grabber is the revelation that State Department employees identified significant gaps in Mrs. Clinton’s emails when they collected and analyzed them:

 

 

 

The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject “HRC Emails.” Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that the “gaps” in Clinton’s emails include:

 

Jan. 21 – March 17, 2009 (Received Messages)
Jan. 21 – April 12, 2009 (Sent Messages)
Dec. 30, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2013 (Sent Messages)

 

These are emails pulled from Hillary’s home server. It appears that there are no emails from the first two months of Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State, and no sent messages for the first three months. I haven’t gone back to check what is in the public record about when Hillary set up her home server, but presumably she didn’t go for months without sending or receiving emails. The other gap is at the tail end of her tenure: no sent messages for her last month as secretary.

 

(Snip)

[clearvision]

So maybe the missing time gaps will give someone the power to dig thru non-provided archives, server, etc. to recover this missing "work" related emails. Seems no one was going to go after an audit of what she provided versus real "work" emails.

[Valin]

Riiiight. Like This is Gonna Happen.

 

GOP Leader Demands DOJ Appoint Special Counsel to Monitor Clinton Email Investigation

Morgan Chalfant
September 15, 2015

 

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R., Tex.) is demanding Attorney General Loretta Lynch appoint a special counsel to oversee the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s personal email system.

 

In a letter to Lynch on Tuesday, Cornyn charged that Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email account while serving as secretary of state in the Obama administration “limited the public accountability on which our government depends and put our national security at risk.” He also accused Clinton of deliberately “keep[ing] information from the public.”

 

“Secretary Clinton’s misconduct is evident, and her intent–since the beginning of her tenure as Secretary of State–to keep information from the public is clear. The present circumstances surrounding her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State could not be more extraordinary, nor the conflicts greater. Americans deserve the assurance that justice–and justice alone–is being pursued,” Cornyn wrote.

 

(Snip)

[Valin]

And The Beat Goes On....And The Beat Goes On

 

Yikes: Voters in Nearly Every Demographic Say Hillary Broke the Law
Cortney O'Brien

Sep 16, 2015

 

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey about "emailgate" provides more bad news for Team Clinton.

 

When 1,000 voters were asked if former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton broke the law by using a private server to handle classified information, nearly 60 percent said "yes."

 

 

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s likely Clinton broke the law by sending and receiving e-mails containing classified information through a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of State. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% believe Clinton is unlikely to have done anything illegal. This includes 42% who say it is Very Likely Clinton broke the law and only 15% who think it’s Not At All Likely.

 

 

What's worse, a sizable number of Democrats believe her to be guilty.

 

 

Even among her fellow Democrats, 37% think it’s likely Clinton broke the law while using the private e-mail server at the State Department, with 16% who say it’s Very Likely.

 

 

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State Department Asked Hillary to Delete Classified Benghazi E-mail

Joel Gehrke

September 17, 2015

 

A top State Department official instructed Hillary Clinton to permanently delete a classified e-mail related to the Benghazi terrorist attack, but her lawyer refused because a congressional investigation into her use of a private e-mail server was already underway.

 

In a May 22 letter to Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy notified the Clinton team that a November 8, 2012 e-mail about a “report of arrests — possible Benghazi connection” was deemed classified and should be deleted. “Once you have made the electronic copy of the documents for the Department, please locate any electronic copies of the above-referenced classified document in your possession,” wrote Kennedy, who served under Clinton at the State Department. “If you locate any electronic copies, please delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.”

 

Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that released the correspondence, said that the order to delete the e-mail smacks of a cover-up. “Why on Earth would John Kerry’s State Department tell Mrs. Clinton to delete classified Benghazi records before finding out where and how this material had been disclosed?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That the State Department asked Clinton’s lawyer to destroy federal records shows a level of disdain for the rule of law that goes beyond the pale.”

 

(Snip)

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State Department Asked Hillary to Delete Classified Benghazi E-mail

Joel Gehrke

September 17, 2015

 

A top State Department official instructed Hillary Clinton to permanently delete a classified e-mail related to the Benghazi terrorist attack, but her lawyer refused because a congressional investigation into her use of a private e-mail server was already underway.

 

In a May 22 letter to Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy notified the Clinton team that a November 8, 2012 e-mail about a “report of arrests — possible Benghazi connection” was deemed classified and should be deleted. “Once you have made the electronic copy of the documents for the Department, please locate any electronic copies of the above-referenced classified document in your possession,” wrote Kennedy, who served under Clinton at the State Department. “If you locate any electronic copies, please delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.”

 

Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that released the correspondence, said that the order to delete the e-mail smacks of a cover-up. “Why on Earth would John Kerry’s State Department tell Mrs. Clinton to delete classified Benghazi records before finding out where and how this material had been disclosed?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That the State Department asked Clinton’s lawyer to destroy federal records shows a level of disdain for the rule of law that goes beyond the pale.”

 

(Snip)

 

So this is being spun to claim the state department was trying to get rid of evidence, I read it as they knew there was classified info, they did want a copy for official records and then certainly did not want random copies in unsecured locations. So not sure why that is do bad...

BUT it also says Hillary and crew WERE AWARE OF CLASSIFIED INFO BEING ON THE SERVER back in May for sure. So not sure how she can say she did not lie about that.

[Valin]

@clearvision

 

 

 

So not sure how she can say she did not lie about that.

 

Are you familiar with the mechanics of speech? That's how.

 

You could also say the State Dept. is trying to CYA, as to why they let her get away with using a private server.

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Form SF-312 and its potential consequences for Hillary Clinton

Paul Mirengoff

September 17, 2015

 

Back in March, as the Hillary Clinton email scandal heated up, the question arose whether Clinton executed Form OF-109 when she left the State Department. This is the form in which a departing official certifies, under penalty of perjury, that she has “surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents, and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department” (emphasis added).

 

Hillary indisputably did not surrender all such documents when she moved on from the State Department. Thus, as we noted (per Shannen Coffin), if Hillary signed this form, she’s vulnerable to the charge of perjury.

 

The State Department searched its records and announced that it found no OF-109 executed by Clinton. Although it seems mildly scandalous that Hillary wouldn’t follow required exit procedures, this aspect of the story naturally faded away.

 

But there’s another form Clinton was required to sign when she departed — SF-312. Unlike OF-109, this form pertains to classified documents. In fact, it’s a document signed by anyone who has been granted access to classified information, including government employees, military personnel, political appointees, and elected officials.

 

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[Geee]

More emails surface in Hillary Clinton Benghazi probe

 

More previously undisclosed State Department emails related to Benghazi have surfaced in a federal court filing, offering a public accounting of at least some of the records still being sought by congressional investigators.

The filing Monday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the conservative group Citizens United describes about a dozen Benghazi-related emails that were withheld in whole or in part as State responded to one of the group's requests seeking information about contacts between a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and officials with the Clinton Foundation.

 

Most of the documents also appear to have been withheld from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is investigating State's response to the attack. The committee is scheduled to take public testimony from Clinton on Oct. 22.

 

A panel spokesman said he could not immediately confirm which of the documents had been turned over to the committee, but Citizens United President David Bossie told reporters staffers at the House panel told the group State never produced the records to Congress.

 

"To the best of their knowledge, they do not have these documents either, even though they are under subpoena for an extended period of time," Bossie told reporters outside U.S. District Court in Washington after a hearing on the suit.

 

State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach told POLITICO there is no effort to impede congressional probes.

 

"The Department has made every effort to cooperate with the Benghazi Committee, providing 32 witnesses for interviews and over 70,000 pages of documents, including over 20,000 pages in the last month alone," Gerlach said. "We will continue to respond to the Benghazi Committee’s requests, but as they mount and modify over time, so too must we plan accordingly for the time and resources they consume.”

 

In the new court filing, State Department official John Hackett said nearly all the Benghazi-related emails involved in the FOIA lawsuit involve deliberations among State officials about how to respond to Benghazi-related congressional inquiries.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/clinton-emails-benghazi-213940