Posted on 04/25/2018 1:10:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From CNBC.com, July 7, 2016...
A House panel grilled FBI Director James Comey two days after he recommended against prosecuting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an email server scandal. In the hearing, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy questioned Comey on the definition of intent and how Clinton could possibly evade punishment. ..."
Heres a full transcript of the exchange:
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Gowdy: Good morning, Director Comey.
Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: Thats what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, Im looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: Thats not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material. That is true?
Comey: There was classified information emailed.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?
Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?
Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.
Comey: Thats a harder one to answer. We found traces of work related emails in on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, theres no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
Comey: No.
Gowdy: Well, in the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon, Im not going to go through any more of the false statements but I am going to ask you to put on your old hat. Faults exculpatory statements are used for what?
Comey: Well, either for a substantive prosecution or evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.
Gowdy: Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right?
Comey: That is right[]
Gowdy: Consciousness of guilt and intent?
In your old job you would prove intent as you referenced by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and i just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve.
You would argue all of that under the heading of content. You would also intent. You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme when it started, when it ended and the number of emails whether
They were originally classified or of classified under the heading of intent. You would also, probably, under common scheme or plan, argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal.
Two days ago, Director, you said a reasonable person in her position should have known a private email was no place to send and receive classified information. Youre right. An average person does know not to do that.
This is no average person. This is a former First Lady, a former United States senator, and a former Secretary of State that the president now contends is the most competent, qualified person to be president since Jefferson. He didnt say that in 08 but says it now.
She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account, kept the private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account.
So you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office, thousands of what we now know to be classified emails, some of which were classified at the time. One of her more frequent email comrades was hacked and you dont know whether or not she was.
And this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the destruction of public records and yet you say there is insufficient evidence of intent. You say she was extremely careless, but not intentionally so.
You and I both know intent is really difficult to prove. Very rarely do defendants announce On this date I intend to break this criminal code section. Just to put everyone on notice, I am going to break the law on this date.
It never happens that way. You have to do it with circumstantial evidence or if youre Congress and you realize how difficult it is prove, specific intent, you will form lathe a statute that allows for gross negligence.
My time is out but this is really important. You mentioned theres no precedent for criminal prosecution. My fear is there still isnt. Theres nothing to keep a future Secretary of State or President from this exact same email scheme or their staff.
And my real fear is this, what the chairman touched upon, this double track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country. That if you are a private in the Army and email yourself classified information you will be kicked out.
But if you are Hillary Clinton, and you seek a promotion to Commander in Chief, you will not be. So what I hope you can do today is help the average person, the reasonable person you made reference to, the reasonable person understand why she appears to be treated differently than the rest of us would be. With that I would yield back.
(the source of this transcript is closed captioning)
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collusion ........................
Ah, the Clinton “Foundation” - one of the best money-laundering and influence-buying schemes developed in the last forty years.
Hello Jeff Sessions....hello?...Jeff? Are you there? Mr Sessions?....
Does it really matter? Sessions & Co. are going after Trump, not Clinton. I am betting She, Comey and McCabe will all skate.
It means nothing, until something is done about it.
Why Colombia?
WIKI REFERENCE---In 2000, the Clinton administration committed $1.3 billion in foreign aid to the corrupt country of Colombia...... and up to five hundred military personnel to train local forces. An additional three hundred civilian personnel were allowed to assist in the eradication of coca.
The Clinton deal was an addition to $330 million of previously approved US aid to Colombia. $818 million was earmarked for 2000, with $256 million for 2001.
The Clinton-era appropriations for his Colombia Plan made Colombia the third largest recipient of foreign aid from the United States at the time.
--SNIP--
As of 2008, the U.S. has provided nearly $1.3 billion to Colombia through Clinton Plan Colombia nonmilitary aid programs:
<><> Alternative Development (2000-2008 cost: $500 million)
<><> Internally Displaced Persons (2000-2008 cost: $247 million)
<><> Demobilization and Reintegration (2000-2008 cost: $44 million)
<><> Democracy and Human Rights (2000-2008 cost: $158 million)
<><> Promote the Rule of Law (2000-2008 cost: $238 million)
LONG READ--REST AT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia
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04/16/2008----Former President Bill Clinton has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking on behalf of a Colombia-based group pushing the trade pact, and representatives of that organization tell The Huffington Post that the former president shared their sentiment.
In June 2005, Clinton was paid $800,000 by the Colombia-based Gold Service International to give four speeches throughout Latin America. The organization is, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombias business opportunities.
The groups chief operating officer, Andres Franco, said in an interview that the group supports the congressional ratification of the free trade agreement and that, when Clinton was on his speaking tour, he expressed similar opinions. He was supportive of the trade agreement at the time that he came, but that was several years ago.
In the present context, I dont know what his position would be. It is not only about union trade rights. It is about what benefit or damage it can do to the US economy, said Franco. Events with the Clinton campaign [concerning Mark Penn] are not good at all for the trade agreement... Right now it became a campaign issues and that is sad, because it needs to go through.
The comments were supported by a June 23, 2005 article from the news portal Terra (uncovered by Ben Smith at Politico) in which Clinton offered unambiguous support for the free trade agreement with Colombia.
They appear to be the first public indication that Clinton has, at least in the past, supported the trade deal. But evidence that the former president has been sympathetic to Colombias position is widely known. In 2007, Clinton met personally with and accepted an award from Colombias controversial president, Alvaro Uribe, during a time when the country was attempting to improve its image within the United States.
Subsequently, Clinton urged Congress to view the country in a more favorable light.
Moreover, Clinton has helped Frank Giustra, one of the biggest donors to the Clinton Global Initiative, score meetings with high-ranking Colombian officials. Giustra has several business interests in the country, and both he and Clinton have collaborated on an effort to (cough) "fight poverty in developing world by partnering up with mining companies in Colombia and elsewhere." http://nypost.com/2008/12/19/bubba-sheik-ing-the-money-tree/
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UT OH---Obama requested billions for Columbia---to (cough) curb the drug trade.
hillary needs to be in jail.
Observer: Sidney Blumenthal Was Reading Above-Top-Secret NSA Reports Hours After They Appeared
FR posted by blam / September 6, 2016
Former NSA officer John Schindler reports on a devastating fact NOT mentioned in the FBIs investigation of Hillary Clinton conducting State Department business on an unsecure homebrew email server. From the Observer:
[Sidney] Blumenthals email read exactly like classified NSA reporting, as anybody acquainted with our SIGINT would immediately recognize. As one veteran agency official told me back in January, Blumenthals email was NSA information with at least 90 percent confidence.
Which was no coincidence, since an NSA investigation subsequently determined that Blumenthals Sudan assessment was derived from their reportingin some cases verbatim. As I reported in March, NSA concluded that Blumenthals Sudan report came from four different agency SIGINT reports, all classified Top Secret/SCI. Then it got 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 Clinton compromised in another series of her unclassified emails.
NSA had no doubt that Blumenthal somehow got his hands on some of their crown jewels information. Its word-for-word, verbatim copying, an agency official of them explained. In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report that was classified Top Secret/SCI. To add to the mystery, Sid emailed Hillary his personal assessment on Sudan only hours after some of those classified NSA reports were issued. (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The 5 most outrageous things Hillary Clinton said in her FBI interview
CNBC ^ | 02 September 2016 | Jake Novak / FR Posted by Lorianne
Here are five of the most outrageous statements Clinton made in that three-and-a-half hour FBI interview:
1. She cited her 2012 concussion as the reason that she cannot remember details of briefings during her transition out of office.
2. She said she never even thought whether emails she exchanged on a future U.S. drone attack should be classified.
3. She said she thought the C before a paragraph indicated alphabetical order. The C actually stands for classified.
4. She said no one ever raised concerns to her about her use of a private email server.
5. She said she could not recall any training on how to handle classified information.
Whats more, Clinton aides told the FBI that the Secretary of State frequently replaced her Blackberry phone and the whereabouts of her old device would become unknown. The FBI report suggests there were at least 13 different devices used.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Comeys brother, Peter, is connected to the Clinton Foundation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. A review of FBI Director James Comeys professional history and relationships shows that the Obama cabinet leader now under fire for his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. His personal and professional relationships all undisclosed as he announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton reinforce bipartisan concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
These concerns focus on
<><> millions of dollars that Comey accepted from a Clinton Foundation defense contractor,
<><> Comeys former membership on a Clinton Foundation corporate partners board,
<><> his financial relationship with his brother Peter Comey,
<><> Peter Comey works at the law firm that does the Clinton Foundations taxes.
More evidence of Gross Negligence.
Thank you.
So just to confirm:
“newly uncovered emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecure, non-state.gov email system.”
The government had to redact certain sections of Hillary’s e-mails from her non secure server because they contained classified info. So what else do we need to know? Book her Dano!
Jeff is taking a nap. Nothing will ever be done to any of them.
Following her trial and conviction for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, Hillary needs to take a short drop and quick stop.
But that email was about CHelsea’s wedding. Or Huma’s yogurt classes. /sarcasm
Notice all of the MidEast emails? We should ask for Israeli copies of all 33,000 of Hillary's deleted and scrubbed emails.
Whats more, Clinton aides told the FBI that the Secretary of State frequently replaced her Blackberry phone and the whereabouts of her old device would become unknown. The FBI report suggests there were at least 13 different devices used
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Blackberry phones disappear?
Check with Imran Awan
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