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Google search likely stoked fear China hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server
washington examiner ^ | 8/15/2019 | daniel Chaitin

Posted on 08/14/2019 9:30:53 PM PDT by bitt

A multipronged government review of whether China successfully hacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server failed to turn up evidence of a successful breach.

Senate investigators, the FBI, the intelligence community inspector general, and Justice Department inspector general were unable to confirm whether an intrusion into the server occurred, according to two top ..

The memo from Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin shows concerns about a Chinese state-owned company hacking Clinton's server were likely due to an over-reliance on a simple Google search.

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Columnist Kristen Soltis Anderson on the expanded Washington Examiner magazine

Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads The Senate inquiry began after an anonymously sourced article from the Daily Caller News Foundation in April 2018 that said a Chinese company succeeded in hacking the server. The report said a firm, located in the Washington, D.C., area, had access to Clinton's emails in real time courtesy of a code embedded in the New York-based server which then made copies of the emails, some of which contained classified information.

The newly released memo shows that these concerns likely were because of mistaken cyber identity, although Grassley and Johnson stressed that “neither the committees nor the FBI were able to confirm whether an intrusion into the server occurred."

Paul Combetta, a tech aide who administered the server, told the FBI he created a "dummy" email account to transfer archived emails into a mailbox entitled "HRC archive" on another server. The existence of that “dummy” email account was revealed in the DOJ inspector general’s report on the Clinton email investigation, dubbed “Midyear Exam" and released in June 2018. Cambetta, who also used software designed to prevent forensic recovery while deleting Clinton’s emails, “refused to speak” with the DOJ inspector general or Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; china; clinton; election2020; google; server

1 posted on 08/14/2019 9:30:53 PM PDT by bitt
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https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019-08-14%20Staff%20memo%20to%20CEG%20RHJ%20-%20ICIG%20Interview%20Summary%20RE%20Clinton%20Server.pdf


2 posted on 08/14/2019 9:31:29 PM PDT by bitt (Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul - Douglas MacArthur)
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“...Senate investigators, the FBI, the intelligence community inspector general, and Justice Department inspector general were unable to confirm whether an intrusion into the server occurred, according to two top ....”
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Well ... it’s kind of hard to “confirm” when you willfully go along with not gaining access to the relevant servers,


3 posted on 08/14/2019 9:48:46 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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Oh well. What difference does it make now. She’s not in office. Blah, blah, blah.


4 posted on 08/14/2019 9:59:33 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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So as a google search sidebar I just did a google search of Auschwitz and at first misspelled it. Google doesn’t have it in their spell check.

Typed a bunch of other countries I guessed the spelling of and all showed up corrected

Odd ?


5 posted on 08/14/2019 10:01:15 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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So tell me please, what are 50,000 plus employees of the NSA doing if they are not listening to every word across the planet, every e-mail and every communication with five eyes Echelon and yet we do not know what happened to the E-mails?
What nonsense, pure unadulterated crap. WTF are they doing, why are taxpayers forced to pay their employment? Anyone else would be before a court and every word they have ever spoken would be against them. This charade hast got to stop. Drain the swamp!!!!!! Screw this crap!!! Stop this--now.
6 posted on 08/14/2019 10:04:43 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: House Atreides

Not only that, but this is the same cabol of unusual suspects that tried to frame and get rid of Trump. What’s not to trust?


7 posted on 08/14/2019 10:05:49 PM PDT by Bommer (2020- Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!?)
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To: bitt

His name was Seth Rich. That is all you need to know.


8 posted on 08/14/2019 10:21:57 PM PDT by Revel
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To: jcon40

“Odd ?”

Not odd if you’re trying to erase history!


9 posted on 08/14/2019 10:26:55 PM PDT by bitt (Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul - Douglas MacArthur)
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3771876/posts?page=1

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10 posted on 08/14/2019 10:28:11 PM PDT by bitt (Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul - Douglas MacArthur)
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They didn’t have to hack it.

Hillary sold them the password.


11 posted on 08/14/2019 10:46:20 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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its-not-hacking-5c88fa-Hillary-Sold-Access-China
12 posted on 08/14/2019 11:43:21 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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“Justice Department inspector general were unable to confirm whether an intrusion into the server occurred”

Unable to confirm a crime occurred with Hillary’s server, yet they couldn’t exonerate Trump of a crime that didn’t occur.


13 posted on 08/15/2019 1:53:46 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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If they had been given full access to the server before they scrubbed it, their research may have actually meant something.


14 posted on 08/15/2019 3:07:42 AM PDT by fruser1
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