Posted on 04/07/2015 11:07:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“If you’re using one device,” former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told Megyn Kelly last night in a discussion of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, “then nothing’s personal.” Of course, we know now that Hillary used multiple devices despite her claims otherwise after the exposure of her private e-mail system, but that’s hardly the worst of it. The former intelligence commander tells Kelly that penetration of Hillary’s communications by hostile powers was not just possible but “likely,” and the odds are “very high” that both friends and foes had a ringside seat to American diplomatic strategies for several years (via Daniel Halper):
FLYNN: As a military officer, if I said I was doing something for convenience’s sake to the soldiers that I was leading, and it was solely for my convenience instead of their, you know, their welfare, I should be relieved of duty. I would expect to be fired. You know, it’s one of those things where if it doesn’t feel good, it probably isn’t. And this one doesn’t feel good to me.
KELLY: What do you think the odds are that the Chinese, the Russians hacked into that server and her e-mail account?
FLYNN: Very high. Likely.
KELLY: Really?
FLYNN: Yep. Likely. They’re very good at it. China, Russia, Iran, potentially the North Koreans. And these — and other countries who may be our allies, because they can.
KELLY: But she says the sever was always at the house, and under protection by the Secret Service, at least the physical server. I mean, do you have any questions about who was actually [garbled] that server?
FLYNN: I think we all ought to be asking that question. I mean, if it’s government, if the Blackberry’s government and she did everything — I mean, everything that a person in that level of responsibility touches who’s in the government, everything belongs to the government, for the most part. I mean, if you’re using a government device to do personal things, I mean I just think that’s what you do. You accept that, and if somebody’s doing things — somebody’s sending you stupid things, you tell them to stop. But if you’re using one device, and it’s personal and professional, you know then nothing’s personal.
We should all be asking these questions, and more importantly, Hillary Clinton should be answering them. Where exactly is she these days? She hasn’t announced her run for the presidency officially yet, but the day is drawing closer. The winding down of the Ready for Hillary PAC will signal that it’s almost here:
When Hillary Clinton announces her presidential campaign, as expected, more than a dozen people in a nondescript office building overlooking the Potomac River will blast out the news by email and social media to millions of her supporters, urging them to sign onto her campaign.
And then the super PAC will begin winding down its operations — just as the Democrat opens her White House campaign.
Clinton’s new beginning will mark the end of Ready for Hillary, which launched two years ago to lay the groundwork for a Clinton campaign, organized her sprawling network of supporters and promoted the former secretary of state on campuses, at small gatherings and Democratic rallies. It will leave behind a data-rich list of volunteers and financial supporters to be tapped for her campaign.
Speaking of nothing being personal, Kate Anderson Brower got a chance to speak about the Clinton years with White House personnel, and they don’t paint a heartwarming picture of the couple. In her new book The Residence, Brower uncovered the second-floor secrets of several administrations — but only one is bidding for a comeback:
Allen cannot hide his reservations about the Clintons. Over lunch by the pool at his large home in rural Pennsylvania, he fondly recalled how Mrs. Clinton always asked him to help her by tying bows on her outfits, something she couldn’t do herself. But he said the Clintons never fully trusted the residence staff and were particularly suspicious of the Usher’s Office. “They were about the most paranoid people I’d ever seen in my life.”
Allen isn’t the only one with bitter memories of the Clinton White House. Usher Chris Emery, who had been close with the Bushes, remembers feeling unduly scrutinized by the Clintons. In the 14 months he served them, he says, he was subjected to three drug tests and a background check that he was not due to have for several years. He says that some of the questions he was asked—including what church he belonged to—were unusually personal, so he refused to answer them. “I think they were just trying to find something to make it easier [to fire me].” He sighed. And, indeed, when Emery was fired from the White House in 1994, it was in part because of a favor he had done for former first lady Barbara Bush.
The Secret Service can’t be terribly enthusiastic about it either:
One day, according to Payne, he was walking through the second-floor private kitchen when an agent walked in behind him waiting to escort Chelsea to Sidwell Friends, the private school she attended in northwest Washington. Chelsea was on the phone.
“Oh, I’ve got to go,” she told her friend. “The pigs are here.”
The agent turned “crimson,” Payne recalls. “Ms. Clinton, I want to tell you something. My job is to stand between you, your family, and a bullet. Do you understand?”
She replied: “Well, that’s what my mother and father call you.”
Ooooooo-kay.
The Secret Service provided and installed the private server for ex-President Clinton. I’m sure they have backups. Let’s bring Ken Starr out of retirement and start grilling these Secret Service personnel.
Sure I trust this woman with our national security apparatus. Don’t worry she can have Webster Hubbell shove NSC classified files down his pants for safe keeping.
Duck !
And all the e-mails stored on this server were classified so highly that only the enemy ever finds out about what is contained in them.
I am sure that any encryption that may have been applied has long since been cracked, and everything once stored on that server is available to the “right people” in plain text.
I heard this guy also has ocean front property for sale in Kansas and Saskatchewan.
“The former intelligence commander tells Kelly that penetration of Hillary’s communications by hostile powers was not just possible but “likely,....”
For that reason alone her damn server should already be locked in an evidence locker. We simply must know what all the enemies may have learned.
Barry Seal from the Contra Era would say, Yee Haww Sooo Weeee, pig.
He mocked the Clintoons too. He was assassinated, probably by drug lords.
This story comes under the heading of “No, really?” About 30 minutes after it was revealed that Hilary Clinton did all of her e-mail business from a private server, I knew every reasonably competent foreign intelligence service had hacked into it and had complete copies of all the data. There is absolutely no way all of these agencies didn’t know about the server, and absolutely no way a private encryption would keep out the professional hackers in Mi6, the DNB, FSB, or the Chinese and Iranian spooks. Not for five minutes. The Brits in particular have always been pros at this.
And think about the special relish the guys at the DNB felt hacking into Clinton’s system. How many jokes do you think they shared about having solved the “engima” of the American Secretary of State?
Of all the criminal things the Clintons have done, this one really takes the cake. And this alone is reason enough to never again trust those grifters with any public office.
Sorry, no “October surprise” is likely. Especially not from the Russians, Chinese or Iranians. The potential for blackmail is just too great. Plus, they want a President with a “For Sale” sign stamped on her forehead. Hilary is their wet dream, even more than 0bama. 0bama has loyalty to his world view. Hilary just has a price tag.
Nothing to see here. Move on. Let’s find another baker in small town Middle America who we can quote as saying they would not cater to a gay wedding.
The chinese had it compromised, root-kitted, and phoning home five minutes after the IP went online.
Apparently the only people who didn’t hack her emails was the GOP.
Ken was useless.
Our only hope of seeing those emails in an October Surprise is if Bibi decides that, instead of blackmailing Hillary, he wants an actual principled President who really cares about Israel.
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