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July 31, 2015, 03:40:05 PM
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Hillary Clinton: My Greatest Weakness Is Stupid People Who Don’t Understand Why I Should Be President







Hillary Clinton’s greatest strength, the candidate explained in an interview with the morning newsletter The Skimm, is her “passionate commitment to helping people.” The passion was on display in 2009, for example, when Clinton personally intervened to help Swiss bank UBS settle a lawsuit with the IRS and thus protect the identities of tens of thousands of Americans who may or may not be evading U.S. taxes through Swiss bank accounts.

Clinton was also asked about her greatest weakness. Here’s what she said:




Got that? Clinton’s biggest fault is her inability to deal with you idiots who can’t comprehend why Hillary Clinton should be president. You already rejected her once in 2008, and God help you if it happens again. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.

This weakness was on display in 2008 during the Democratic primary, when Hillary was brought to tears upon realizing that Democratic voters might reject her in favor of an inexperienced celebrity like Barack Obama.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0qCVPou790



http://freebeacon.com/blog/hillary-clinton-inside-out/





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July 31, 2015, 11:07:25 PM
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Obama heavily redacts latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails






The Obama administration slapped a secret designation Friday on a number of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state, raising more questions about whether her controversial email arrangement led to classified information being left unsecured.

A new tranche of Clinton emails, released by the State Department under a court order to impose transparency on the Obama administration, contains dozens of documents with information redacted and labeled either “confidential” or “sensitive.”

The classifications generally appear to have been done on Thursday, a day ahead of the release, which means the information wasn’t necessarily classified at the time Mrs. Clinton was emailing about it — but has now been deemed too sensitive to put out in public.

According to the exemptions cited in the redactions, the data is usually either information obtained from a foreign government or internal foreign policy information from the U.S. government.

For example one July 19, 2009, email from Huma Abedin to “H” — Mrs. Clinton — says “Please pass to S:” and then the body of the message is completely redacted, with both the foreign information and internal foreign policy exemptions cited: “Classified by DAS, A/GIS, DoS on 07/30/2015 — Class: CONFIDENTIAL — Reason: 1/4(B), 1.4(D) — Declassify on:07/19/2019”

Another email, marked “SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED” at the time it was sent in 2009, but now deemed to contain fully classified information, teases information about “two embassy security issues” — but the actual issues are redacted from the document

The emails posted Friday were the third major release from the cache of more than 30,000 email that Mrs. Clinton turned over to the State Department last year, shedding new light on her official communications that were hidden from Congress and the public for years.

Mrs. Clinton, the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has insisted that she followed all the rules and never handled classified information with her private email account, which was hosted on a private email server located in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

However, independent government auditors last week said that they found classified information in at least four of Mrs. Clinton’s emails and requested a Justice Department investigation.

Mrs. Clinton had initially said she never handled classified information on the email account, but has since narrowed that defense, saying none of the information was “classified at the time.”

The former first lady, senator and top diplomat did not turn over her stash of emails until nearly two years after she left office, after a congressional probe learned about her private email account.

Mrs. Clinton handed over about 30,000 messages to the State Department and erased another 32,000 messages that she deemed personal.

At some point, she wiped clean the email server, preventing any of the messages from being recovered.

Questions about her email setup have dogged Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign. The controversies have hit her in the polls, with a majority of voters nationwide saying they don’t think she is honest and trustworthy.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/31/hillary-clinton-emails-released-by-state-departmen/?1




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July 31, 2015, 11:29:36 PM
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Clinton email release falls well short of judge’s order




The State Department admitted it was violating a judge’s order Friday in releasing only 1,356 new emails from former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s time in the administration, with officials saying they’re falling behind because they are having to run all of the documents by intelligence agencies to make sure classified documents aren’t being released.

It’s the latest stumble for a department put on the spot by Mrs. Clinton’s unique email set-up, which saw her reject a State Department account and instead issue herself a private account, kept on a server she maintained at her New York home — raising questions about security and compliance with open-records laws.

Mrs. Clinton belatedly complied with those laws and returned the emails to the government late last year, nearly two years after she left office, and the department is now trying to fulfill a federal judge’s order setting out a timetable for them to be released.

Mark Toner, a spokesman for the State Department, acknowledged they were violating Judge Rudolph Contreras’s order requiring 2,400 new messages to be released by July 31.

“We fell short this month,” Mr. Toner said. “We’re going to catch up.”

The exchange of sensitive information on her own email server has raised a number of thorny legal and political questions for Mrs. Clinton, who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.

She has insisted she didn’t send or receive any information that was classified at the time, but an independent watchdog has said while information wasn’t specifically marked classified, it should have been secret.

The latest release Friday included a number of redactions accounting for those secrets, citing both sensitive foreign government information and information on American foreign policy, including sources, that needed to be protected.

The State Department had originally asked to release all of the emails early next year, but Judge Contreras rejected that, saying the department should release more every month, in the interests of transparency, until they are all released by January.

Mr. Toner said the department still intends to meet the final January deadline, but is slipping on the monthly deadlines — suggesting the administration is defying the judge’s schedule in favor of sticking with its own original goals.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/31/clinton-email-release-falls-short-judges-order/


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Everything is classified. Everything needs to be redacted. Everything is a secret. Yet hillary clinton said she only used the server for personal, private communications... How do one explain that situation?


Remember:
Hillary's emails are on a homebrew server registered to a pseudonym

http://www.businessinsider.com/using-a-private-email-account-allowed-hillary-clinton-to-limit-access-to-her-message-archives-2015-3




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August 01, 2015, 12:24:10 AM
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Newly Released Email PROVES Hillary Was TIPPED OFF on Meet the Press Questions


A new email released today by the Obama State Department revealed that Hillary Clinton was tipped off before her Meet the Press interview.


The email came from Lissa Muscatine who was aSenior Adviser and Chief of Speechwriting at the U.S. State Department. Hilary went on Meet the Press for an interview in July 2009.

Hillary was tipped off the Meet the Press would ask her about David Mazlar a US hostage in Iran.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/breaking-newly-released-email-proves-hillary-was-tipped-off-on-meet-the-press-questions/


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Hmm... 0bama does not want hillary to win... Biden next?


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August 01, 2015, 12:26:32 AM
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 Does any politician is trustworthy,my answer is no,never trust politicians never trust tv
Politician takecare of interest of his party ,fraqtion than interest of his own country

 
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August 01, 2015, 01:05:31 PM
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Top Clinton aide accused of receiving overpayments at State Department





State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department.

The finding — which Abedin has formally contested — emerged publicly Friday after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and others seeking more information about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin concerning her pay.

The letters also sought the status of an inquiry into whether Abedin had violated conflict-of-interest laws related to her special employment situation, which allowed her to work simultaneously for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a private firm with close ties to the Clintons.

The finding that Abedin, a longtime Clinton confidante who now serves as vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign, had improperly collected taxpayer money could prove damaging to Clinton’s candidacy, as Republicans charge that government rules were routinely bent to benefit Clinton and her aides.

At the same time, the letters, which for the first time have publicized an internal pay dispute that has been simmering for months, could bolster Democratic claims that congressional Republicans are using their oversight role to hurt Clinton politically.


Grassley indicates in the letters, which were provided to The Washington Post, that he is describing information from an inquiry by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General. A spokesman for Grassley said the senator’s office has not independently confirmed the allegations.

In letters sent Thursday to Abedin, Kerry and the Office of Inspector General, Grassley wrote that staff of the inspector general had found “at least a reasonable suspicion of a violation” of the law concerning the “theft of public money through time and attendance fraud” as well as “conflicts of interest connected to her overlapping employment.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-clinton-aide-accused-of-receiving-overpayments-at-state-department/2015/07/31/978d622a-3794-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.html


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August 01, 2015, 01:25:05 PM
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Judge Orders Hillary Clinton to Answer for ‘Home-Brew’ Server



U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued an order late Friday afternoon ordering former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and two of her most intimate State Department aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to account for, under penalty of perjury, their use of Clinton’s ‘home-brew’ server kept at her Chappaqua, New York home during Clinton’s four-year tenure as secretary, as well as any official documents in their possession.




Cheryl Mills


The order came in a FOIA lawsuit by Judicial Watch that was re-opened by Judge Sullivan in June after Clinton’s circumvention of the FOIA laws was revealed when news broke of her use of the private server.

Judicial Watch posted the text of the ruling. (Paragraphs added.)

As agreed by the parties at the July 31, 2015 status hearing, the Government shall produce a copy of the letters sent by the State Department to Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Ms. Huma Abedin and Ms. Cheryl Mills regarding the collection of government records in their possession.

These communications shall be posted on the docket forthwith. The Government has also agreed to share with Plaintiff’s counsel the responses sent by Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills. These communications shall also be posted on the docket forthwith.

In addition, as related to Judicial Watch’s FOIA requests in this case, the Government is HEREBY ORDERED to: (1) identify any and all servers, accounts, hard drives, or other devices currently in the possession or control of the State Department or otherwise that may contain responsive information;

(2) request that the above named individuals confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all responsive information that was or is in their possession as a result of their employment at the State Department. If all such information has not yet been produced, the Government shall request the above named individuals produce the information forthwith;

and (3) request that the above named individuals describe, under penalty of perjury, the extent to which Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills used Mrs. Clinton’s email server to conduct official government business.

The Government shall inform the Court of the status of its compliance with this Order no later than August 7, 2015, including any response received from Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on July 31, 2015.”


Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton issued a statement on the ruling.

This blockbuster ruling is the most significant legal development to date in the ongoing Clinton email scandal. Hillary Clinton will now have to answer, under penalty of perjury, to a federal court about the separate email server she and her aides used to avoid accountability to the American people.

This court action shows that the rule of law and public’s right to know will no longer take a back seat to politics. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration that is covering for her are not above the law.”



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/judge-orders-hillary-clinton-to-answer-for-home-brew-server/


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August 03, 2015, 03:00:44 PM
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These Hillary Supporters Want Her to Repeal the Bill of Rights if She's Elected President


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


 Cheesy Cry Cheesy Cry



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August 03, 2015, 03:36:53 PM
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(Drudge)

DEMS DODGE DEBATES; NOTHING 'SCHEDULED'
Sun Aug 02 2015 18:58:43 ET

As media attention heats round the first Republican presidential debate in Ohio this week -- Democrats are dodging a candidate showdown of their own!

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz promised voters a 'competitive primary process' and debates 'would be an important part.'

But little information is known.

As the Clinton coronation continues to crumble, there is only vague chatter around the party about a forum in Iowa within the next few months.

MORE

Going into first week of August, the Dem field is hardly settled.

A late addition of VP Biden and wild-card Howard Schultz, CEO of STARBUCKS, would bring fresh drama.

EDITOR'S NOTE: 6 millions viewers are expected to tune into FOXNEWS on Thursday for the stage-packed Republican gathering. Ironically, the same number of viewers that watched Trump 'APPRENTICE' finale earlier this year on NBC.

Developing...


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Family Strong


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These Hillary Supporters Want Her to Repeal the Bill of Rights if She's Elected President


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Wow such dopey people, they are allowed to vote "Unbelievable" even the question was (loaded) not true.

But you know what, the bill of rights "is" slowly disintegrating. I can see this from the UK.

Human rights is next in line to go, soon no one will have a legal leg to stand on.
It just business to some.

And its gone.
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August 04, 2015, 12:12:39 AM
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Clinton aide may have 'delivered favors' for friends, IG finds







Huma Abedin






An investigation may have found evidence a top State Department aide to Hillary Clinton took advantage of government employment rules with potential conflicts of interest and overpayments.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said an inspector general probe suggested Huma Abedin leveraged her State Department job to benefit her two other employers at the time: the Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm called Teneo Strategies.

Teneo Strategies was founded by a longtime aide to Bill Clinton, Douglas Band, and boasted the former president as a paid board member when it first launched in 2011.

Abedin allegedly sent or received more than 7,000 emails on her government account that involved Band, the letter said.


As an example of the potential conflicts of interest at play, Grassley cited an email exchange in which Band pressed Abedin to encourage her State Department boss, Hillary Clinton, to facilitate a White House appointment for one of his clients.

Judith Rodin, the Teneo client in question, was then president of the Rockefeller Foundation, "which donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, a fact which Mr. Band allegedly noted in his email to Ms. Abedin," the letter said.

"[E]mail evidence allegedly suggests that Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills shared a desire to find a way to ensure the Department paid for Ms. Abedin's travel to and from New York," the letter continued.

Grassley called into question a $33,000 payment Abedin received from the State Department for leave she hadn't used.

The Iowa Republican highlighted multiple allegations received by the Judiciary Committee that indicated Abedin had indeed taken leave during her time as a government employee, casting doubt on whether Abedin should have received $33,000 in taxpayer money.

Abedin worked as a full-time staffer to Hillary Clinton from January 2009 until June 2012, at which point she was given a "special government employee" designation and soon took on roles at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo.

That designation is designed to allow individuals who fill "an unmet government need for rare or unique expertise" to retain their private-sector positions while receiving compensation from the government.

But Abedin has drawn fire for the SGE arrangement that gave her heavy influence over Hillary Clinton's schedule and travel while allowing her to serve as a senior adviser at Teneo.

Critics have said the personnel rule was quietly bent to permit Abedin to collect her government paycheck while wielding her influence to the benefit of her other employers.

For example, Hillary Clinton jetted to Ireland with Abedin at her side for her last official trip as secretary, during which she attended an event hosted by a major Clinton Foundation donor that had been promoted by Teneo.

The State Department's inspector general began looking into the issue of Abedin's SGE designation in 2013, Grassley indicated in a letter to Abedin Thursday.

"The Committee has learned of allegations that, during your simultaneous employment by the Department of State, Teneo, and the Clinton Foundation, you were solicited for and delivered favors for preferred individuals," Grassley wrote to Abedin.

Abedin was reportedly among several key aides to Hillary Clinton that hosted email accounts on a private server in the presidential candidate's New York home in violation of federal records laws.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-aide-may-have-made-favors-for-friends-ig-finds/article/2569447


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WSJ/NBC Poll: Hillary Clinton Down 15 Points In Favorability Since June



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FBI looking into the security of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail setup





The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system, according to two government officials.

Also last week, the FBI contacted Clinton’s lawyer, David Ken­dall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state.

The FBI’s interest in Clinton’s e-mail system comes after the intelligence community’s inspector general referred the issue to the Justice Department in July. Intelligence officials expressed concern that some sensitive information was not in the government’s possession and could be “compromised.” The referral did not accuse Clinton of any wrongdoing, and the two officials said Tuesday that the FBI is not targeting her.

Kendall confirmed the contact, saying: “The government is seeking assurance about the storage of those materials. We are actively cooperating.”

A lawyer for the Denver company, Platte River Networks, declined to comment, as did multiple Justice Department officials.

The inquiries are bringing to light new information about Clinton’s use of the system and the lengths to which she went to install a private channel of communication outside government control — a setup that has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

For instance, the server installed in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home as she was preparing to take office as secretary of state was originally used by her first campaign for the presidency, in 2008, according to two people briefed on the setup. A staffer who was on the payroll of her political action committee set it up in her home, replacing a server that Clinton’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, had been using in the house.

The inquiries by the FBI follow concerns from government officials that potentially hundreds of e-mails that passed through Clinton’s private server contained classified or sensitive information. At this point, the probe is preliminary and is focused on ensuring the proper handling of classified material.


Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, declined to comment on the FBI’s actions. He noted that Clinton has called repeatedly for the State Department to release her e-mails to the public, a process that is ongoing.

In a statement, Merrill said that Clinton “did not send nor receive any emails that were marked classified at the time. We want to ensure that appropriate procedures are followed as these emails are reviewed while not unduly delaying the release of her emails. We want that to happen as quickly and as transparently as possible.”

The controversy over Clinton’s e-mail dates to the summer of 2014, when, according to government officials, State Department lawyers realized they didn’t have access to some of her records as they prepared responses to congressional requests related to the 2012 attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

In October 2014, the State Department asked four former secretaries to turn over e-mails in their private possession. In December, Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of e-mails, which she said represented all of her work-related correspondence. She has said she deleted all other e-mails she had sent or received as secretary of state, indicating that they dealt only with personal matters.

In March, the New York Times reported that Clinton exclusively used a private e-mail system. Clinton has said she handled her
e-mail this way for the convenience of carrying just one phone.

Critics say Clinton’s private server arrangement put her discussions with some aides outside the reach of government investigators, congressional committees and courts seeking public records from the State Department.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on July 24 asking him what steps his office had taken to ensure that classified information held on Kendall’s thumb drive, and once kept on Clinton’s server, was being properly secured. A State Department official said that once the agency identified classified material in the e-mails in May, it instructed Clinton’s lawyers on “appropriate measures for physically securing” the e-mails.

Responsibility for setting up and maintaining the server that handled personal e-mail communications for Bill and Hillary Clinton passed through a number of different hands, starting with Clinton staffers with limited training in computer security and eventually expanding to Platte River.

In 2008, responsibility for the system was held by Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to the former president who served as a personal assistant and helped research at least two of his books. Cooper had no security clearance and no particular expertise in safeguarding computers, according to three people briefed on the server setup. Cooper declined to comment.

“The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches,” Hillary Clinton said in March.

Those briefed on the server setup say the device installed for Bill Clinton was deemed too small for the addition of a sitting Cabinet official. Instead, a server that had been purchased for use by Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign was installed at the Chappaqua home.

With the new server came an additional specialist: Bryan Pagliano, who had worked as her campaign’s IT director. According to federal campaign finance records, Pagliano was paid by Clinton’s Senate leadership PAC through April 2009. The next month, he went to work for the State Department as an IT specialist, a department official said. The people briefed on the server indicated that he continued to act as the lead specialist responsible for it.

The e-mail system was not always reliable, these people said, with Pagliano summoned at various times to fix problems. Notably, the system crashed for days after New York was hit by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.

That led to new conversations about the need for better security, durability and a more professional setup, according to these people. In 2013, the Clintons hired Platte River to maintain the data.

Merrill, the Clinton spokesman, declined to respond to detailed questions about the setup of the server.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-looks-into-security-of-clintons-private-e-mail-setup/2015/08/04/2bdd85ec-3aae-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html




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FBI begins investigation of Clinton e-mail server security







Less than two weeks after a pair of Inspectors General referred several unsecured transmissions of classified data to the Department of Justice, the FBI has begun an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. One obvious problem, of course, is that the server has reportedly been wiped clean, although no independent investigator has yet to confirm that. Instead, the FBI has started its investigation by contacting the support team that managed it for Hillary, the Washington Post reports, and they also want to know more about David Kendall’s thumb drive too:

The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system, according to two government officials.

Also last week, the FBI contacted Clinton’s lawyer, David Ken­dall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state.

The FBI’s interest in Clinton’s e-mail system comes after the intelligence community’s inspector general referred the issue to the Justice Department in July. Intelligence officials expressed concern that some sensitive information was not in the government’s possession and could be “compromised.” The referral did not accuse Clinton of any wrongdoing, and the two officials said Tuesday that the FBI was not targeting her.


The Post’s Carol Leonig, Rosalind Helderman, and Tom Hamburger advance the Clintonemail server story in a few intriguing ways. First, it turns out that the server itself was repurposed from Hillary’s 2008 presidential primary campaign. Needless to say, that raises all sorts of questions about the possibilities that hackers had already made inroads into the system before it was reused as an e-mail server. Campaign server systems don’t require the kind of security needed to protect diplomatic communications, for instance, and are much more connected to public traffic. It’s staggering that the Clintons — who were making between $15 million and $19 million a year prior to 2008 — did not think to spring for an entirely new server rather than just reuse some campaign equipment for this task.

Next, the security arrangements were, shall we say, less than optimal. At first, the Clintons set up an old computer of Bill’s to handle family communications, and the task of managing the system fell to one of Bill’s researcher and personal assistant, Justin Cooper. What were Cooper’s qualifications for this task?

Cooper had no security clearance and no particular expertise in safeguarding computers, according to three people briefed on the server setup.

Cooper declined to comment on this, probably wisely. The recycled personal system gave way to the recycled campaign system in 2009. Interestingly, the man who ran the system, Bryan Pagliano, was paid by Hillary’s Senate PAC until April 2009, months after taking office as Secretary of State. At that point, Pagliano went to work directly for State as an IT specialist, where his job included the maintenance of the Clintonemail server.

Now, this is very interesting. As a State Department IT employee, Pagliano almost certainly had a security clearance, and he would have known the rules and regulations regarding the transmission of secured material in electronic format. In fact, it’s likely that Pagliano would have had a positive duty to report any violations to State’s internal security apparatus. Did he do so? The Post notes that Pagliano had to be called repeatedly to deal with operational problems, so he would have had plenty of opportunities to ascertain if violations had occurred. If not, both State and Justice should be having very intense discussions with Pagliano … and his attorney.

The Post includes one last interesting detail. The Clintonemail server crashed in late 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, and the Clintons finally decided they needed a more professional system than their home-brew server. And they got one … in 2013, after Hillary left State.

At the very least, the Clintons clearly took much less care in protecting the nation’s classified material than they did with their own interests. It’s shameful, and that’s just the start of it.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/08/05/fbi-begins-investigation-of-clinton-e-mail-server-security/



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BREAKING: CHERYL MILLS TO DESTROY EMAILS ABOUT BOSS HILLARY CLINTON








In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department and just filed today with U.S. federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the counsel for Cheryl Mills wrote: “Ms. Mills does not believe that she has paper copies of potential records in her possession. Following our production on August 10, 2015 [of the defense counsel’s version of the electronic records], we have instructed her to delete any and all electronic records in her possession.” That is a far stretch from a statement by Ms. Mills under penalty of perjury, and she and her lawyers are planning to delete the emails Judge Sullivan wants produced?

Needless to say, Judicial Watch has made an emergency filing in Judge Sullivan’s court to stop the further destruction of evidence of what may very well be assorted criminal conduct and violations of numerous federal laws.

This all just surfaced in State Department’s status report filed today in response to Judge Sullivan’s order. Yesterday evening, State finally produced some correspondence between it and Hillary’s right and left hands—Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills. It has not produced its correspondence with Mrs. Clinton, and it is now clear that Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills plan to thumb their noses at the Judge and the State Department. No one is “cooperating,” despite their empty rhetoric to the contrary.

The correspondence that has been produced verifies that the State Department itself has not been forthcoming with Judge Sullivan, with Congress, or with anyone else. It allowed Mrs. Clinton to use an off-the-grid system for her entire tenure in the Department, and it kept that startling fact a secret as long as possible. It is simply shocking that the State Department did not immediately inform Congress, the Court, and Judicial Watch that Mrs. Clinton operated solely on a private email server and that the State Department did not have her records. It took months even to discover those crucial facts. And as Judge Emmet G. Sullivan bores toward the truth, more revelations continue to surface.

It is especially telling that there was no Inspector General at the State Department while Mrs. Clinton led the department. That independent watchdog surely would have put a stop to such an illegal and unauthorized practice immediately. Obviously, that is why Mrs. Clinton didn’t allow an Inspector General. As soon as the Inspector General had the opportunity to review her first 40 emails, he immediately identified classified or sensitive information that should never have been outside the State’s secure channels.

And despite the Obama administration’s countless claims that it knew nothing of her private account, the few emails already produced by Mrs. Clinton, and by Clinton consigliere Sidney Blumenthal, themselves belie that—as does the address itself. When one writes an email to the address Clinton.com, one must know that it is not state.gov—and Clinton.com was the way she communicated with everyone in the administration and other branches of government. David Axelrod is only the first to be caught red-handed.

Equally remarkable now is a false assertion in the letter from Ms. Mills to the State Department in which she claimed that “Like Secretaries of State before her, Secretary Clinton at times used her personal email account when engaging with other officials. On matters pertaining to the conduct of government business, it was her practice to use the officials’ government email accounts.” We already know that Clinton used her personal server exclusively and that classified and sensitive information was improperly transmitted through it. In addition, she has failed and refused to return it—another offense in itself.

There is a lot more that we don’t know. The question now is, with all of this deceit, delay, and destruction past, present and planned, how long will it be before Judge Sullivan issues a show cause order to hold Secretary Kerry, Ms. Mills and/or others in contempt, issues an order to prevent the destruction of Ms. Mills or anyone’s electronic records, and appoints a special prosecutor to investigate the entire corrupt cabal?

The train a comin’ right now is driven by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan—the man who named a special prosecutor to investigate the Department of Justice and its “Public Integrity Section.”


http://observer.com/2015/08/breaking-cheryl-mills-to-destroy-emails-about-hillary-clinton/


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Ummm no! Her own party does not trust her and I’m suspecting there were some death threats and other things in order to get ahead and become the nominee. Why anyone else is putting their names in is unknown because she is going to be the candidate no matter what she has to do. I agree that no politician is trustworthy, but she is so much worse than the others. She lies, cheats, and steals her way to the top. And the fact that she runs as the ever day person and how she is middle class is laughable. I don’t think this woman would know what to do with a middle class income for just one day. I am really scared to find out that she wins what will happen to this country.
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I am really scared to find out that she wins what will happen to this country.

She will win, for sure.

During the 2012 POTUS elections, Romney received 59% of the White vote, but only 16% of the non-white vote. And he lost. The demographics have changed now. The GOP nominee will need 64% of the white vote, if the non-white support remains at the same level as of 2012 (indications are that the non-whites have moved further to the Democrat camp). And getting 64% of the white vote is next to impossible for GOP. If I am correct, no one has received that sort of support in the last 50 years.
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