Good thing the FBI released their massive 58 page report on Hillary Clinton’s misuse of a private email server to store classified information the Friday afternoon before Labor Day weekend. Nothing to see here, folks, enjoy your hot dogs and hurricanes while the feds oblige this pesky Freedom of Information Act request.
Timing aside, this document release is important, so let’s dig into the FBI report. For those who don’t care, here is a video of a dancing banana to watch.
Writers note: by raising concern about this entire investigation, some of you will see me as naive and in league with the GOP. Politics is not my thing, but seeing the entire Democratic Party coalesce around a candidate under criminal investigation has my interest, especially because mainstream media continually denies that it was even happening. Finally, there is no doubt the liberal pundits would be going insane if this stuff implicated a Republican nominee.
First thing first, the FBI redacted some bizarre parts of the report like the name of Hillary’s attorneys and her date of birth. Stuff you can Google:
You will see Hillary eschew common sense often, like not considering deliberations about future drone strikes classified. USA robot airplanes that bring targeted death to our enemies like the finger of God, we classify those missions? Yes Hillary, we do:
But her primary defense was some kind of willful ignorance. Below is a list of things Clinton could not recall in the FBI interview:
- When she received security clearance
- Being briefed on how to handle classified material
- How many times she used her authority to designate items classified
- Any briefing on how to handle very top-secret “Special Access Program” material
- How to select a target for a drone strike
- How the data from her mobile devices was destroyed when she switched devices
- The number of times her staff was given a secure phone
- Why she didn’t get a secure Blackberry
- Receiving any emails she thought should not be on the private system
- Giving staff direction to create private email accounts
- Getting guidance from the state on email policy
- Who had access to her Blackberry account
- The process for deleting her emails
- Ever getting a message that her storage was almost full
- Anyone besides Huma Abedin being offered an account on the private server
- Being sent information on state government private emails being hacked
- Receiving cable on State Department personnel securing personal email accounts
- Receiving cable on Bryan Pagliano upgrading her server
- Using an iPad mini
- An October 13, 2012 email on Egypt with Sidney Blumenthal
- Jacob Sullivan using personal email
She played the “I don’t recall” card on the FBI 21 times. Moving on…
Hillary Clinton contradicts herself at one point during the investigation. Initially she claims ignorance about paragraphs marked with “C” by the state being confidential:
Clinton also said that when emails were marked (C), which State determined to hold confidential information, she did not know what the (C) meant and she thought it had to do with alphabetizing paragraphs.
Yes, this is elementary excuse is frustrating to read. But later in the interview, after being presented with an email that bore a “C” marking, HRC disputes the classification of the email. The FBI seems to have caught her in a contradiction that implies some measure of deception or untruthfulness, even if it wasn’t to the level of criminality.
The leading candidate heading into the November 8th Presidential election willfully deceived the FBI. Just imagine the lies we will be fed in Hillary Clinton’s America…
This is a fun part: When one of Hillary’s Blackberries could be located, something the FBI sure would like to see, Clinton aide Justin Cooper would smash them with hammers!
Then there was the “oh shit” moment when the deletion of emails required a more draconian approach:
This [redacted] aide wasn’t a dumb ape who smashed Blackberries with a hammer, he used software to vaporize the emails for good. Just in time, too.
At one point yesterday #HillarysHealth was trending on Twitter. Most tweets were nonsense, but it centered around HRC citing her 2012 concussion as why she might not be able to recall being briefed on information retention protocols. If she is saying health issues caused her to violate the Federal Records Act, than her health should absolutely become a public concern and no longer be dismissed as conspiracy.
Per the FBI documents, Hillary’s health is on the fritz:
Finally, there’s the curious case of the missing laptop and thumb drive containing the entire archive of Hillary Clinton’s email server. No big deal, the entire archive and all the state secrets it contains is MIA:
All of this information was released on the Friday afternoon before Labor Day with a tropical storm bearing down on the east coast. The FBI interview occurred Saturday of Fourth of July weekend. Nothing to see here, folks. Please go about your holiday and VOTE HILLARY come November.
FiveThirtyEight adjusted their probability of a Clinton victory accordingly, now HRC only has a 72.2% probability of being President:
Excellent work, Raul.
Your cursory investigative journalism far exceeds the paid Hillary-shill spinners at the NYTimes/WashPost, etc. not to mention CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc.
Hillary Clinton contradicts herself at one point during the investigation. Initially she claims ignorance about paragraphs marked with “C” by the state being confidential…
But later in the interview, after being presented with an email that bore a “C” marking, HRC disputes the classification of the email. The FBI seems to have caught her in a contradiction that implies some measure of deception or untruthfulness, even if it wasn’t to the level of criminality.
Have you read the relevant segments yourself? I have. They make clear that Clinton didn’t contradict herself.
Both the part where Clinton says she thought the “(C)” markings were alphabetical ordering of paragraphs and the part where Clinton disputes the classification of an email with “(C)” markings are in response to FBI questions about the same email.
You know what happened between the two parts? To quote, with my bolding, from the FBI report (see bottom paragraph on page 8 here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4rblq-fxqLadTRYSEpoS29mWkk/view ):
Whatever source you used for your post could have easily seen from the FBI report that Clinton didn’t contradict herself over the “(C)” matter. You might ask yourself why, if the lack of contradiction is so obvious in the report, your source decided to cover it as a contradiction.
At any rate, if there is no contradiction, you lose the evidence behind your claim that she “willfully deceived the FBI”.
If you want to learn why she would question the classification of that particular email (the State Department has stated that the classification marking was an error), FactCheck covers it well here: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/revisiting-clinton-and-classified-information/
Well done Ottnott, remember Dems require that you vote at least twice come November.
Ha ha! +1…
Subterfuge Ott
Raul pointed to two statements as evidence of a contradiction, and that the contradiction demonstrated deception. I pointed out that the FBI report shows that there wasn’t a contradiction.
Draw what conclusions you’d like from the report, but, if you are claiming that your conclusions are based on evidence, and the evidence doesn’t support that conclusion, I have to question the value of your conclusion.
according to Wikileaks — “Our records show that Clinton sent & received thousands of cables with “(C)” paragraph classification markings.”
therefore, that bump on the head must have really been something as Hillary thought the alphabet only consisted of “C”.
From the Congressional appearance and testimony of Comey of the FBI:
Gowdy, July 7: Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
State Department spokesman John Kirby noted that 2 of the 3 documents should have had the (C) removed, per the usual practice of downgrading call-prep documents to Sensitive But Unclassified once the Secretary decides that he/she will make the call. Kirby said that the State Department didn’t have enough info from the FBI about the third document to comment on it.
But, Juice will protest, Wikileaks is talking about thousands of DOS cables to and from Clinton. There are 2 important differences about the cables:
1) they would be on the separate DOS system used for classified documents.
2) they would have had a header indicating the classification level and other required information about the classification.
So, if you sent and received classified documents on a system set up specifically for such sensitive materials, and those documents were always marked with a classification header, you could easily attach no significance to the “(C)” that sometimes appeared down in the document.
If you then saw a (C) in another document, which arrived over regular email, had no classification header, and was a document that you knew should not be classified, it would be almost silly to come to the conclusion that (C) indicated classified material.
If that same (C)
Wikileaks: “FBI head James Comey is wrong to argue that Clinton lacked familiarity with S/C classifications; our records show she sent/recv’d thousands of cables with “(C)” & “(S)” marks.”
In fact, according to Wikileaks, in her first year alone, she was sent 23,035 cables using the “C”(classified).
When a crime suspect’s story continually changes, is inconsistent, red flags go up.
Now she claims she thought the letter “C” was simply an alphabetical designation. That could work in grade school. However at her press conference on March 10 of last year, Clinton: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
So it appears last year she was “well-aware” of classification requirement” but this year, due to her seizures and brain trauma, she now thought it was alphabet soup.
In contrast to your ridiculous downplaying of the whole scandal, Comey cited:
“…110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were ‘up-classified’ to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.”
Clinton had also told the public repeatedly that none of the emails carried classified markings. FBI Director ruled that statement to be false as well, stating that some of Clinton’s emails “containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.”
When a government worker with security clearance transmits material carrying a classified designation over a non-secure server, it should provide ample grounds for prosecution or, at the very least, a ban from future Federal government work. And this is ample precedent for this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/deutch21.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/petraeus-set-to-plead-guilty-to-mishandling-classified-materials/2015/04/22/3e6dbf20-e8f5-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news/press-releases/folsom-naval-reservist-is-sentenced-after-pleading-guilty-to-unauthorized-removal-and-retention-of-classified-materials
They all pleaded “guilty” and lost their security clearance, yet Hillary not only does not plead guilty but she will receive the highest clearance possible if she becomes President of the USA.
Meanwhile,
Go to the video of the SpaceX rocket, click the gear icon in the lower right and select .25% speed. Watch all the way through to 1:13.
https://youtu.be/_BgJEXQkjNQ?t=43s
Tell me Aliens didn’t do that shit.
that was a short-seller hit-drone
http://www.debka.com/article/25649/Was-Israel%E2%80%99s-satellite-sabotaged-on-US-rocket-pad-
I now think it’s bugs very close to the camera upon further inspection. You can even see little wing flaps.
Listen to this dude. DirkD is awesome. A true patriot and extreme gentleman.
Perhaps that is Musk’s payback for not joining the Pentagon’s ‘innovation advisory board’ as Bezos did. Perhaps Bezos gets the next NASA contract.
Inside job?
Juice. Dude is simply one of us. Cool and all. Seriously. DirkD rides the wave with humility and class. Good trader as well. Ibankcoin family.
Ott suffers from confirmation bias.
Possibly one too many Encyclopedias to the dome in the prison library. Tall ladders and all. Never know with those academics.