See sentence at the bottom:
"The improper access granted to the xxx contractors was apparently in place xxxx and seems to have been the result of deliberate decisionmaking."
Posted on 02/09/2018 8:49:13 AM PST by TigerClaws
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your support, I get a lot of flak for my position.
Seems like many want to stretch the Constitution to cover their own favorite ineligible.
From link: http://observer.com/2016/03/hillary-has-an-nsa-problem/
........one of the most controversial of Ms. Clinton’s emails released by the State Department under judicial order was one sent on June 8, 2011, to the Secretary of State by Sidney Blumenthal, Ms. Clinton’s unsavory friend and confidant who was running a private intelligence service for Ms. Clinton.
This email contains an amazingly detailed assessment of events in Sudan, specifically a coup being plotted by top generals in that war-torn country. Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from a top-ranking source with direct access to Sudan’s top military and intelligence officials, and recounted a high-level meeting that had taken place only 24 hours before.
To anybody familiar with intelligence reporting, this unmistakably signals intelligence, termed SIGINT in the trade. In other words, Mr. Blumenthal, a private citizen who had enjoyed no access to U.S. intelligence for over a decade when he sent that email, somehow got hold of SIGINT about the Sudanese leadership and managed to send it, via open, unclassified email, to his friend Ms. Clinton only one day later.
NSA officials were appalled by the State Department’s release of this email, since it bore all the hallmarks of Agency reporting. Back in early January when I reported this, I was confident that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from highly classified NSA sources, based on my years of reading and writing such reports myself, and one veteran agency official told me it was NSA information with “at least 90 percent confidence.”
We can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal’s June 8, 2011, email to Hillary Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal’s highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence.
Specifically, this information was illegally lifted from four different NSA reports, all of them classified “Top Secret / Special Intelligence.” Worse, at least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which from the CIA Ms. Clinton compromised in another series of her “unclassified” emails.
Currently serving NSA officials have told me they have no doubt that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from their reports. “It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” one of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret / Special Intelligence.
How Mr. Blumenthal got his hands on this information is the key question, and there’s no firm answer yet. The fact that he was able to take four separate highly classified NSA reports—none of which he was supposed to have any access to—and pass the details of them to Hillary Clinton via email only hours after NSA released them in Top Secret / Special Intelligence channels indicates something highly unusual, as well as illegal, was going on.
Suspicion naturally falls on Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA senior official who was Mr. Blumenthal’s intelligence fixer, his supplier of juicy spy gossip, who conveniently died last August before email-gate became front-page news. However, he, too, had left federal service years before and should not have had any access to current NSA reports. There are many questions here about what Hillary Clinton and her staff at Foggy Bottom were up to, including Sidney Blumenthal, an integral member of the Clinton organization, despite his lack of any government position.
How Mr. Blumenthal got hold of this Top Secret-plus reporting is only the first question. Why he chose to email it to Ms. Clinton in open channels is another question. So is: How did nobody on Secretary Clinton’s staff notice that this highly detailed reporting looked exactly like SIGINT from the NSA?
Last, why did the State Department see fit to release this email, unredacted, to the public?
He is supposed to be a professional in the State Department and he's never heard of Cody Shearer? Even I know who Cody Shearer is. He dates back with Bill Clinton to their years at Oxford and has done dirty work for both of the Clintons ever since. His sister, Brooke, married Clinton's roommate, Strobe Talbott who became the second ranking officer in Clinton's State Department.
I don’t think he knew just how deep and wide the swamp was until he got there.
You echo my sentiments exactly.
Actually, his campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again” ... but then you knew that already.
0bama is now reminding me more and more of George Costanza, in the episode where he got fired for having sex on his desk with the cleaning woman where he works. He says, “was that wrong, was I not supposed to do that?”
That’s what 0bama’s defense will be, he didn’t know that he wasn’t supposed to turn the FBI and DoJ into a DNC spy operation.
IDR? It’s like they’re the Urkel of the DC swamp. “Did I do that?”
I agree with you, I would like to be excited about this but, honestly with all the bs and foot dragging it looks like a political only drag out to nowhere..
If we cannot end muellers investigation on our duly elected president now that proof has come out.., how can anyone believe it will move forward.
ok, we hope something will happen....we are in a coup, these folks are not going to stop, if we don’t cut out the cancer now, we will perish as a nation
Did you see where Little Marco Rubio come out to defend this guy? Actually said the committee knew about this months ago. It had zero effect on “our work”. What a telling statement!!
What “work” is that, Marco? You do know this is in-your-face, true collusion, right Marco? How come the American people only found out about this recently, Marco? Did you feel it wasn’t “important” enough to tell us Americans?
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Ignorance or, more likely, obfuscation. His emails were stolen through phishing. He gave away his password inadvertently. The dolts using the DNC server were using trivial passwords, sharing passwords and putting passwords in emails. They were stolen from the DNC server, not a Russian server. Their own stupidity was to blame.
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You have no clue here. All this has just started. After decades of government corruption in every direction, it’s going to take more then a year to fix it. If not for Trump, you’d be listening to Hillary Clinton speeches for the next 7 years while their leftist finished off the country.
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Tell me, FRiend, how does it take to begin prosecuting F&F? Lerner/IRS? Benghazi?
How ‘bout the laws broken they READILY ATTEMPT to breaking (IE: Comey’s leaking, Clinton’s e-mail server\destruction of phones\bleach-bit, Zero’s pallets of cash)??
Immunity is only viable upon the OUTCOME of the case, no?
How many more Congressional Committees need be convened for the DOJ to pick-up the ball and run? How many more JW FOIA cases need they file before enough ‘pages’ of evidence are collated to begin the ‘slow grind of Justice’??
First thing that came to my mind was: Funny how Steele and Blumenthal both suddenly thought that Winer was just the right person to receive their dirt. I’m sure he was dumbfounded by this random occurrence...
I gotta tell you, I’m afraid I’m impressed by Democrats’ prosecutorial record. They got our Texas AG Ken Paxton indicted in no time flat on flimsy “securities” charges. Now, they’ll grind him down with YEARS of trial machinations, because they know they won’t convict him in the end.
See sentence at the bottom:
"The improper access granted to the xxx contractors was apparently in place xxxx and seems to have been the result of deliberate decisionmaking."
Try voting for one of the many political stooges other than Trump. See how fast everything happens for ya!
Ya think you can do better than Trump? Take your pic.
And you also apparently forgot Trump is surrounded by entrenched career political crooks. Every agency and the courts are full of them all the way down through state levels. But you want them all jailed now, not later, now. You want 30 years of blatant epic corruption from the top down, fixed now!
Get real.
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This is THE big story today and not geting enough attention.
Balderdash. Now you just sound like you haven't been paying attention. President Trump has dropped "#DrainTheSwamp"? Have you not seen his tweets? Have you not watched his rallies?
You're obviously an incorrigible "glass half empty" type of person, but willfully denying reality—and ascribing your gratuitous cynicism to President Trump—is beyond the pale.
If the President had dropped #DTS "as soon as he was elected", his voluminous archive of tweets would be about half the size that it is today! Jeez! Displaying defeatist apathy is one thing, but fallaciously revising the factual history of President Trump in the last year in an effort to justify your negativity is neither accurate or honest...
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