This is getting GOOD!
Posted on 03/11/2015 5:48:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- The furor over Hillary Clinton's decision to conduct her government communications through a personal, hideaway, email account isn't going away.
Clinton's abbreviated, 20-minute news conference Tuesday raised more questions than answers. The chief one: Who gave her the right to determine which emails were personal and thus deleted?
Not only is the secret email revelation growing into a politically damaging story, the Senate Judiciary Committee is also investigating a little-known government program Clinton used where some of her top political agents worked for her at the State Department while still in private employment.
When the blockbuster story broke about the former secretary of state's obsessive, rule-breaking secrecy, New York Sen. Charles Schumer said it would blow over in a day or so and eventually "be regarded as a slight hiccup."
Instead, it has mushroomed into a major scandal that threatens her second run for the presidency, reminding voters of her imperious habit of hiding critical details about her official acts in government. In this case, details that may explain why the State Department initially attempted to cover up what led to the murders of four Americans in a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Some of us still remember the photo of Clinton in 2011 on her Air Force C-17 typing some message on her BlackBerry as she traveled from Malta to Tripoli, which we now know was surreptitiously stored away in her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
"Given the paranoid/legalese perspective that permeates Clintonland, this made sense," writes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, a one-time Hillary cheerleader.
"It's hard to request emails from an account you don't know exists. Clinton Inc. can tough it out and even make stuff disappear," Dowd says.
To this day no one knows the full story about how she handled or mishandled the explanation behind the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
"It strains credibility to believe if you're on your way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy that there is not a single document to turn over to Congress," Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said on the CBS program "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"There are gaps of months and months and months" in the public record, said Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee that is investigating Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack her department originally said was not led by terrorists.
As is her habit, Clinton has stonewalled the calls on Capitol Hill to hand over her workday emails, saying little, if anything, substantive about why she did not use the government's internal computer accounts -- until Tuesday.
She said she had asked the State Department to make the emails public. But officials there say that it will take a lot of time to comb through the ones she's turned over to them before making any of them public.
You can see where all of this is headed, can't you? So can Gowdy. "It's not up to Secretary Clinton to decide what's public record and what's not," he said.
But Hillary's troubles worsened this week when it was reported that Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, is investigating yet another troubling aspect of her leadership as secretary of state.
Grassley is demanding internal documents, including emails, about a program in which some of Clinton's political advisers and fixers worked for her at State while still in the private sector.
Not only that, they used only her private email account to keep their work-related political communications secret within the department. Hillary didn't address what became of these emails in her news conference. Why not?
Among Clinton's political aides who were permitted this unusual double status were: Huma Abedin, her longtime confidante; Maggie Williams, her former campaign manager; Jonathan Prince, a speechwriter for Hillary and Bill Clinton; and Jeremy Rosner, one of her campaign pollsters.
Grassley thinks this political arrangement smells and has no place in the corridors of government.
"The public's business ought to be public with few exceptions," he said in a statement over the weekend. "When employees are allowed to serve the government and the private sector at the same time and use private email, the employees have access to everything and the public nothing."
Grassley has dug into many scandals over his long career and plans to dig deeper into this cozy arrangement that Clinton set up while occupying the highest Cabinet post in the government. He's demanding all of her emails and other documents be immediately turned over to his committee.
Moreover, he wants the State Department "to answer for any blurring of the lines between public and private service and any concealing of the blurred lines through private email."
It is common knowledge in political circles that Hillary's husband is her chief campaign strategist. Did Bill Clinton have access to inside information from the State Department via his wife's email account and the political aides who used it?
Throughout all of the media disclosures that have come out in recent weeks, Clinton had refused to comment on the story, hoping the controversy would simply melt away of its own accord.
She broke her silence only after top Democrats urged her to respond, warning that it would hurt her politically if she continued to stonewall the story much longer. "From this point on, the silence is going to hurt her," California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday on "Meet the Press."
In the end, her excuse for using a private email account was a matter of "convenience." But it was also a way to hide communications.
Remember those long-lost Rose Law Firm records in the Clintons' Whitewater scandal that suddenly were found in a White House closet after they'd been subpoenaed? And the secrecy surrounding the development of her doomed health care plan that even Democrats in Congress couldn't stomach?
If you despise transparency, but love secrecy and rule-bending in government, Hillary Clinton is your candidate.
While doing just a couple web searches on the Hacker, I was surprised to find the Hillary email crimes were brought to the attention of the U.S. congress and media 2013!!!
see this link at the Smoking gun:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker-distributes-memos-784091
Excerpt: “The hacker’s e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office.”
It goes on to talk about media too.
The emails in this clearly shows ‘sensitive’ Lybia email was going back and forth to this private email with Hillary.
She looks hungover, probably hittin’ the bottle a little too hard the night before.
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During that so called press conference she looked as nervous as an old whore in church.
Opps,,,Correction : Libya
LOL
Hillary entrusted everything to her little Muslim Brotherhood slave girl. ISIS was probably first up on her mailing list.
That would be the slime ball scumsucker Cheryl Mills who also went to Benghazi when the House Members were there interviewing witnesses of the attack. She was sent to intimidate witnesses to not talk on Hiilary's behalf. She has been a Clinton fixer going back to smearing bill's victims etc
Here it comes.....the hard drives crashed. All of them.
This is getting GOOD!
Thought this was pretty darn interesting too - this story from the ‘Rochester Smoke Out’ posted today about on the Hillary emails also shows a snapshot picture of her inbox! Very nice to see this.
This clearly show she has sensitive emails in it.
http://rochestersmokeout.com/2015/03/11/how-a-romanian-hacker-exposed-hillarys-secret-email/
Even the ones the N.S.A. run?
Someone has seen her emails. That is what they do. Let’s hope they go public
§ 1220.18 What definitions apply to the regulations in Subchapter B?
Snip...Electronic record means any information that is recorded in a form that only a computer can process and that satisfies the definition of a Federal record under the Federal Records Act. The term includes both record content and associated metadata that the agency determines is required to meet agency business needs.
Snip...Records or Federal records is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3301 as including “all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of the data in them (44 U.S.C. 3301).” (See also § 1222.10 of this part for an explanation of this definition).
Looks like paper might not cut it.
Here is her plan. She will delay, delay, delay and fight in the courts to keep her server from prying eyes. She will delay long enough that she will have the nomination locked up. It will be too late for someone else to step in and the RATS will be forced to support her or guarantee losing the White House.
This is getting GOOD!
Yes it is. I think it’s only going to get better.
The old hag is going to be miserable and more haggard by the time she decided not to run.
Many apologies to all **** that was NOT Hillary’s inbox. That was one that was corresponding with Hillary’s ‘private’ email. It shows some of the emails that was sent to Hillary. Pretty darn incriminating just the same though.
See this excerpt:
“As a reminder, this is just one hacked account – one which was corresponding with Hillary Clinton – and shows just the emails that were sent or received by Sidney Blumenthal. However, it provides a broad enough glimpse of the kind of information that Hillary was trafficking in without any US government supervision or tracking.”
The way Clintons parse words and issue denials later shown to be lies, did Clinton have another email server clintonCLASSIFIEDemail.com?
Disposal of Records (44 U.S.C. Chapter 33) § 3301. Definition of records
(a) RECORDS DEFINED.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—As used in this chapter, the term “records”—
(A) includes all recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics, made or received by a Federal agency under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the United States Government or because of the informational value of data in them; and
(B) does not include —
(i) library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes; or
(ii) duplicate copies of records preserved only for convenience.
(2) RECORDED INFORMATION DEFINED.— For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ´recorded´ information includes all traditional forms of records, regardless of physical form or characteristics, including information created, manipulated, communicated, or stored in digital or electronic form.
Did the attorney have a security clearance?
"And what is Form OF-109? It is a formal separation statement, in which the departing official certifies the return of any classified materials, and, more relevant for present purposes, that the departing official 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.” The form makes very clear that a false statement in the certification is punishable as a crime, including under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal facts in statements made to federal agencies concerning a matter within its jurisdiction."
Did Hillary sign OF-109? Maybe. Maybe not. In either case she is not in compliance with the requirements defined in this form.
Just read it. Thanks.
A thousand paper cuts.
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