Posted on 05/12/2016 6:51:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Of course I had to ask Sen. Bernie Sanders about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account when he came to a San Francisco Chronicle editorial board meeting Tuesday. When Sanders famously offered that he didn't want to hear about those "damn emails" -- the focus of an FBI investigation -- during the first 2016 Democratic primary debate, he forfeited a potent issue. (Some Democrats fear the Department of Justice actually might indict Clinton after she wins the nomination.)
So I asked Sanders: Do you think the secretary of state's use of a personal server was safe and legal? Are you worried that foreign intelligence services might have hacked her account? Forget about whether she's indicted. Clinton's unforced error of using a "homebrew" server is the real story. It was reckless. In 2013, the Romanian hacker known as "Guccifer" released information about her personal account after he drilled into the AOL emails of former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal. If Chinese and Russian operatives were paying attention -- how could they not? -- Clinton's use of an unsecured system opened a door for their prying eyes. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden calls the secretary of state's decision to use a private server for official correspondence Clinton's "original sin."
Sanders' reply? "I'm gonna answer that question the same way I did famously back then. And that is, look, there is an investigation, as we all know, undergoing. You're asking me my opinion. Presumably, the people who are doing the investigation have a lot more information on that than I do or you do. And whatever happens will happen." Sanders added that he prefers to focus on issues that impact American lives, such as "why the middle class of this country is in decline."
It's odd how Sanders trusts the Department of Justice to investigate Clinton's emails when he repeatedly faults the feds for not charging Wall Street banks for criminal fraud despite his stated belief in their guilt.
Team Clinton has tried to make light of the FBI investigation by calling it a "security inquiry." Talk about fraud. FBI chief James Comey corrected the record Wednesday when he told reporters the "I" in FBI is for "investigation."
I don't want to see a former first lady hauled into court. I just want to hear Democrats acknowledge that Clinton recklessly -- inexcusably -- endangered national security. Sanders doesn't need to hear from the FBI to question Clinton's destructive judgment.
"I would lose respect for a variety of intelligence services around the world if they weren't thumbing through all the email," Hayden, author of "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror," told me. If he learned another country's top diplomat used a homebrew server, "I would move heaven and earth as the head of the NSA to get access to the unclassified information," just for the valuable clues. (And we know Clinton sent and received material later deemed classified). For anyone with federal experience to set up a private account "is inconceivable and all the subsequent explanations as to why it was done are incoherent."
Why doesn't Bernie Sanders know that?
Because Bernie was never meant to be anything other than a foil for Hillary, to show how moderate and centrist she is.
I found an article on Hillary’s server situation, could spell big trouble:
I don’t want to see a former first lady hauled into court.”
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Should people who committed FELONIES be Hauled in to court??
Why doesn’t the writer want FELONIOUS ESPIONAGE PUNISHED???
Backwards thinking from a lib who will go to any length to defend their own people.According to her, it's ok to recklessly --inexcusably -- endanger national security but not get hauled into court for it? How far can these people go to defend their own ilk?
Why doesn't Bernie Sanders know that?
For the same reason you don't want to see her hauled into court - protecting your own -- you dummy.
“Hillary Clinton’s Original Sin.” Well, probably not. In her life she committed far more sins than that before she set up the server. I am not the judge of that.
But the article is otherwise spot on for how she recklessly endangered national security, and it was for her own personal gain. That disqualifies her to be President, period. And Bernie really doesn’t get that, but being an international socialist, I can see why national security is irrelevant to him.
Even if she is guilty?
I don't give a sh!t if she is Mother Mary, if she is guilty she deserves to be imprisoned.
All the more proof that the elite always stick together.
It's odd how Sanders trusts the Department of Justice to investigate Clinton's emails when he repeatedly faults the feds for not charging Wall Street banks for criminal fraud despite his stated belief in their guilt.
If he’s not ready and willing to throw the kitchen sink at her, he’s not running to win; he’s working for her.
I don't care if your the First President of the United States, you commit a crime like this that could be and probably is treasonous, you deserve to go to PRISION!!!
Debra’s the token conservative at the Chronicle. I’m amazed they allowed her to ask even one question at that meeting.
FIRST, the position of "First Lady" is honorary, not an official position, despite what the wookie currently masquerading there would have you believe.
SECOND, having occupied that position should in no way allow you carte blanche exemption from laws and regulations for the rest of your life, especially when you flaunted numerous laws while in that position.
Me either. I want to see her burned at the stake and her little dog Bill too.
I guess that is a variation on "I wanted O.J. to be acquitted 'cuz I didn't wanna see another black man go down".
Any one who doesn’t believe our leadership shouldn’t be held to the same standards as everyone else is advocating for something other than what our founders believed in.
Quite interesting. Even discounting for credibility of the website, the FSB, and/or the Russian court system, this shows how damaging Hillary’s server follies have been and will be.
It is 100% plausible that Hillary’s email traffic was available to foreign intelligence agencies, including the FSB. Add to that Hillary’s announcement that she caused 1000’s of her messages to be destroyed, and the server scrubbed.
Perhaps the FSB really has damaging messages on a vast range of topics. But if they don’t, no problem — they can just manufacture anything they desire, proclaim it came from Hillary’s secret server, and who can prove it didn’t? That such data should have no evidentiary value in an “honest” court or with skeptics is irrelevant. It can be used to ruin US credibility (if any remains) with allies, and sow doubt, discord, and distrust, or send a Ukrainian patriot to he death. That Hillary caused great harm with her scheme requires no more proof.
We MUST vote for Trump to save America and then while he's working in the first 4 years, we need to clean out the House of Representatives and the Senate...
Michael Hayden: “I would lose respect for a variety of intelligence services around the world if they were not thumbing through all the emails.”
Hayden didn’t limit it to “foreign” intelligence services. I assume that “variety” includes the NSA.
If the NSA was not aware of Hillary’s server situation nd exploiting it to see what she was leaking. I would lose respect for it. But if they were aware and let it go on, I would lose respect for it.
If this story is confirmed, and if it gets by the liberal news censors, and if it gets legs, even Hillary will know she’s finished.
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