Posted on 03/04/2015 8:47:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It appears Hillary Clinton was conducting serious and sensitive international affairs on her private email account. She also kept up confidential correspondence with a political operative who hasn’t worked for the government in over a decade.
The revelation that Secretary of State Clinton used a private e-mail account rather than an official State Department e-mail struck many as troubling and potentially criminal.
Experts in government transparency have debate the legality, and also the consequences of the emails. Patrice McDermott, head of Open The Government coalition, said:
“What she did was not technically illegal. It was highly inappropriate and it was inappropriate for the State Department to let this happen,” she said.
Some of the contents of Ms. Clinton’s emails have been revealed by an international hacker from Romania under the alias “Guccifer.” The Smoking Gun investigated details of Guccifer’s arrest in 2013 and discovered a trove of emails the convicted felon obtained when hacking American officials.
Guccifer broke into the email of Sidney Blumenthal, a former journalist who left The New Yorker for a job in the Clinton administration in 1997. He worked as a special advisor to President Clinton and often ran point on operations designed to fend off attacks during the scandals that plagued Clinton’s second term.
Blumenthal has not worked for the U.S. government since January 2001, when the Clinton administration ended. At the time, however, he was providing some high-level information gathering for the State Department, via direct communications with the Secretary herself.
Blumenthal’s correspondence appeared to contain highly classified information regarding serious international hotspots like Libya:
The memos to Clinton carried titles like “Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya,” and included all-cap warnings that, “THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCES AND SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE.” Blumenthal has not held a public post since leaving his White House job in January 2001.
Each memo included a note on the sources of intelligence included in the document. One typical memo referred to “Sources with access to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the leadership of the Armed Forces, and Western Intelligence, diplomatic, and security services.”
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) responded to the news of Clinton’s emails in a press conference Tuesday:
“Only she has a complete record, and the committee is now going to have to go to her and her attorneys and her email providers to ensure we have the access to everything the American people are entitled to know,” Gowdy said.
The Daily Beast investigated the Blumenthal emails in their provocatively titled article, “How Safe Were Hillary Clinton’s Secrets?” The question reveals how potentially damaging the emails could be.
According to reporter Shane Harris, Blumenthal would not respond to requests for comment.
How ironic.
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So when is Guccifer going to get the “really good stuff”?
Yikes.
Interesting that Hillary’s email problems would come to light not long after the truce between the Obama and Clinton camps ended.
I imagine her IRS audit and the EPA investigations can’t be far behind.
The Clintons aren’t only evil and traitorous - they are venal too.
I bet Hillary billed the government for the use of her own E-Mail too.
He’s in jail. He released a lot of stuff to Russia Today.
Sidney Blumenthal’s connection with Hillary bringing down her run for the presidency. I love it. Irony and it couldn’t happen to two nicer people.
That be Sid "Vicious" Blumenthal" A nastier, more vile little man never lived.
There are more. File a lawsuit and name all the regular Clinton creeps and depose them for any email accounts they held under _____@clintonemail.com. That's a place to start.
Yep, she tried to distance herself from his policies. She is under the bus and the bus is going forward and backward over her just to make sure.
No, that was for imparting classified information to his girlfriend.
Aren’t there very strict rules on using open email systems to send governmental confidential information? And that’s even if the email itself is encrypted?
The Clintons.. the stain that won’t go away.
Shhh. You’re not supposed to talk about that.
I wonder if this is opening the door for Fauxcahontas as Baraq 2.0?
These people are incapable of doing anything honestly
She shoulda used “https”. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Well, there is a two part answer to that. 1) Yes 2) Not if you're Hillary
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