Posted on 05/23/2016 12:39:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Romanian hacker who claimed he easily breached Hillary Clinton’s personal email server is finalizing a plea deal with the FBI and U.S. attorney, Fox News has learned.
Marcel Lehel Lazar, the 44-year-old hacker also known as “Guccifer,” first gave indications he wanted to cooperate with the U.S. government in mid-April, during an interview with Fox News. Lazar, in a subsequent discussion, said he was working on a plea deal – he then suspended media contact earlier this month.
On Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia confirmed that a change of plea hearing is now scheduled for Lazar on Wednesday morning. He originally had pleaded not guilty to the nine-count indictment when he was extradited to the U.S.
He is now expected to plead guilty to some charges.
It is not publicly known whether the deal being worked out has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities – and whether that has anything to do with the investigation into Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server for government business while secretary of state.
But an intelligence source familiar with the FBI probe said if Guccifer pleads guilty to compromising Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account – which is one of the nine charges – it will show that Clinton’s use of a personal server put sensitive information outside secure government channels and made it accessible to foreign hackers.
“[Clinton’s] gross negligence allowed this material to get out to an adversary,” the source said. “Through her communications with Blumenthal, [Clinton] contributed exposure and risk.”
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and then instead of being up by 5 over hillary, donald could be down by 15 against bernie and energize the under 35 socialist ###holes like never before.
he is a menace and she’s a joke.
Hillary now claiming that she did not have e-mail with that man.
It is not publicly known whether the deal being worked out has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It would be very much in keeping with the Holder-Lynch Justice Department to do a plea bargain with him just to shut him up.
I do not anticipate him presenting ANY evidence against Hilary Clinton. I expect that he will be shut up or he will die in a “prison accident.”
The Justice system is exactly that —
It is meant for Just Us, Never Them...
Once you are in The Club, you can do anything you want to. The law is for the little people that don’t matter to anyone that is actually important. The riff-raff has to be kept in line, right? Otherwise, they start gettin’ all uppity and thinking that they actually matter. Can’t have that.
>>it makes the computer sound like a hub for America’s enemies,
It is. But who owns the OS source code?
All their baseclass are owned by MicroSoft. Ha Ha Ha.
Everyone here appears to be in agreement that Hillary’s Email was hacked by Numerous Countries and people, and I also agree.
BUT if this truly is the case, then what does it say about our own Intelligence Agencies?? Shouldn’t they ALL BE FIRED?? Who else Knew and Kept Quiet?? WHY DIDN’T THEY KNOW, Was anything of Value exchanged for this SILENCE??
There has to be quite a few people in Washington with DIRECT KNOWLEDGE of this, since the day it was setup!
They ARE ALL GUILTY
Sid (& others) should be in MAJOR trouble .....
From link: http://observer.com/2016/03/hillary-has-an-nsa-problem/
Now, over two months later, I can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal’s June 8, 2011, email to Hillary Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal’s highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence.
Specifically, this information was illegally lifted from four different NSA reports, all of them classified “Top Secret / Special Intelligence.” 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 from the CIA Ms. Clinton compromised in another series of her “unclassified” emails.
Currently serving NSA officials have told me they have no doubt that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from their reports. “It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” one of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret / Special Intelligence.
How Mr. Blumenthal got his hands on this information is the key question, and there’s no firm answer yet. The fact that he was able to take four separate highly classified NSA reports—none of which he was supposed to have any access to—and pass the details of them to Hillary Clinton via email only hours after NSA released them in Top Secret / Special Intelligence channels indicates something highly unusual, as well as illegal, was going on.
Suspicion naturally falls on Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA senior official who was Mr. Blumenthal’s intelligence fixer, his supplier of juicy spy gossip, who conveniently died last August before email-gate became front-page news. However, he, too, had left federal service years before and should not have had any access to current NSA reports.
There are many questions here about what Hillary Clinton and her staff at Foggy Bottom were up to, including Sidney Blumenthal, an integral member of the Clinton organization, despite his lack of any government position. How Mr. Blumenthal got hold of this Top Secret-plus reporting is only the first question. Why he chose to email it to Ms. Clinton in open channels is another question. So is: How did nobody on Secretary Clinton’s staff notice that this highly detailed reporting looked exactly like SIGINT from the NSA? Last, why did the State Department see fit to release this email, unredacted, to the public?
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