Emails in Clinton probe dealt with planned drone strikes: WSJ

Yahoo News ^ | 9 Jun 2016

[mandaladon]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emails between U.S. diplomats in Islamabad and State Department officials in Washington about whether to challenge specific U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are at the center of a criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the "low side" -government slang for a computer system for unclassified matters - as part of a secret arrangement that gave the State Department more of a voice in whether a CIA drone strike went ahead, according to congressional and law enforcement officials briefed on the FBI probe, the Journal said.

Some of the emails were then forwarded by Clinton's aides to her personal email account, which routed them to a server she kept at her home in suburban New York when she was secretary of state, the officials said, according to the newspaper.

Investigators have raised concerns that Clinton's personal server was less secure than State Department systems, and a recent report by the State Department inspector general found that Clinton had broken government rules by using a private email server without approval, undermining Clinton's earlier defenses of her emails.

The still-secret emails are a key part of the FBI investigation that has long dogged Clinton's presidential campaign, the officials told the Journal. Clinton this week clinched the Democratic presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election.

[thoughtomator]

a modified limited hangout

[jersey117]

She even outed CIA agents names. Scooter Libbey did time for less than that in the Valerie Plame case.

[DAC21]

Blah blah blah, looks like Odunga and his Sista at DOJ have mastermined a focus on this issue while there are 20 others as serious or more. No charges coming down the tracks. FUBO

[Ms Mable]

So now we know how Iran was able to intercept and capture our military drone. Remember when they showed the captured drone intact?

[Fhios]

Investigators have raised concerns that Clinton's personal server was less secure than State Department systems, and a recent report by the State Department inspector general found that Clinton had broken government rules by using a private email server without approval, undermining Clinton's earlier defenses of her emails.

So that's the narrative. It was bad that her private server was less secure than the state departs and that she broke rules?

Not espionage, spoliation of evidence, destruction of evidence? Breaking the law regarding government record keeping, classified material handling, and finaly the sheer appearance of wrong doing and purposeful misuse of her position as Secretary of State for her own enrichment either through money or political influence?

[Ghost of SVR4]

Extortion 17.....

They were "sacrificed" and there is some evidence a few members knew. Beyond that event, the manner in which some of those men's remains were treated had the families very, very vocal about it all.