Posted on 07/13/2018 6:23:34 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
A member of the House Committee on the Judiciary said during a hearing Thursday that a government watchdog found that nearly all of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent to a foreign entity and that the FBI didn’t follow-up on that finding.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list,” Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a hearing with FBI official Peter Strzok.
“It was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia,” he added.
Gohmert said the ICIG investigator, Frank Rucker, presented the findings to Strzok, but that the FBI official did not do anything with the information.
Strzok acknowledged meeting with Rucker, but said he did not recall the “specific content.”
“The forensic examination was done by the ICIG and they can document that,” Gohmert said, “but you were given that information and you did nothing with it.”
He also said that someone alerted the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to the issue.
“Mr. Horowitz got a call four times from someone wanting to brief him about this, and he never returned the call,” Gohmert said.
The ICIG previously caught problems regarding Clinton’s server that the FBI missed. The bureau didn’t notice that some emails were openly marked classified with a “(C)” when they were sent. (RELATED: FBI Missed Clinton Emails Openly MARKED Classified, Wanted To Conclude Probe Before IG Caught Mistake)
The ICIG spotted the oversight after the FBI missed it, texts between Strzok and his mistress, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, show.
“Holy cow,” Strzok wrote, “if the FBI missed this, what else was missed? … Remind me to tell you to flag for Andy [redacted] emails we (actually ICIG) found that have portion marks (C) on a couple of paras. DoJ was Very Concerned about this.”
In late 2017, ICIG Chuck McCullough — who was appointed by former President Barack Obama — took the unusual step of coming forward publicly to say that he perceived pushback after he began raising the alarm about issues with Clinton’s servers to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
He said he found it “maddening” that Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, were underselling the amount of classified information on the server.
McCullough said he “expected to be embraced and protected,” but was instead “chided” by someone on Capitol Hill for failing to consider the “political consequences” of his investigative findings, Fox News reported.
The ICIG has not publicly disclosed the findings Gohmert described in the meeting between Rucker and Strzok, but the congressman said the watchdog can document them.
Thursday’s exchange is below:
Gohmert: You said earlier in this hearing you were concerned about a hostile foreign power affecting the election. Do you recall the former Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough having an investigation into an anomaly found on Hillary Clinton’s emails?
Let me refresh your memory. The Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough sent his investigator Frank Rucker along with an IGIC attorney Janette McMillan to brief you and Dean Chapelle and two other FBI personnel who I won’t name at this time, about an anomaly they had found on Hillary Clinton’s emails that were going to the private unauthorized server that you were supposed to be investigating?
Strzok: I remember meeting Mr. Rucker on either one or two occasions. I do not recall the specific content or discussions.
Gohmert: Mr. Rucker reported to those of you, the four of you there, in the presence of the ICIG attorney, that they had found this anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list. It was a compartmentalized bit of information that was sending it to an unauthorized source. Do you recall that?
Strozk: Sir, I don’t.
Gohmert: He went on the explain it. And you didn’t say anything, you thanked him, you shook his hand. The problem is it was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia and from what you’ve said here, you did nothing more than nod and shake the man’s hand when you didn’t seem to be all that concerned about our national integrity of our election when it was involving Hillary Clinton. So the forensic examination was done by the ICIG — and they can document that — but you were given that information and you did nothing with it. And one of the things I found most egregious with Mr. Horowitz’s testimony, and — by the way Mr. Horowitz got a call four times from someone wanting to brief him about this, and he never returned the call.
One of many bombshells ignored by the media.
...who was connected to Sid Blumenthal, Drumheller and Cody Shearer
Hillary Clinton took bribe money from foreigners to sell you, your children and grandchildren into slaughter and slavery.
Charles, thanks for posting this. It was maddening that everyone was concentrating on the minutiae of yesterday’s hearing and ignoring this bombshell.
Daily Caller seemed to be the only one to report it. CSPAN had a clip but it was buried. You had to specifically look for it.
Hope it gets some airplay today.
When law enforcement covers up espionage, which is what this really is, for political reasons it's because they are involved.
That's why Strozk did nothing with the information. To quote Sherlock Holmes, "The dog didn't bark."
I had a chat this AM with a serious high-level infosec professional with some military background.
I told him that I’d been saying since the HRC private server was first revealed, that based on my limited IT background, I expected every country with an intelligence apparatus worthy of the name had a copy of that server, and that our military and intelligence community had better be operating on that assumption. I then reeled off a starter list of countries - UK, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, China, NK. I’ve made this statement here, too.
He smiled and essentially said “pretty much”. He also opined that just about any decent hacker could probably have gotten into that system.
We were in real trouble when both parties colluded to violate the Constitution and allowed an ineligible muslim/Marxist usurper into the Oval Office.
Yeah, but you peasants* be sure to obey the law.
And remember to touch yer forelock. Don't forget the forelock-touching thingee.
unless you're an illegal peasant, in which case get yer welfare check and break all the laws you want
Re Hil’s “open” server:
Hillary was obviously an idiot concerning things electronic, and well-known for brushing away opinions she didn’t want to hear. Still, it’s hard to believe any reasonably competent IT guy wouldn’t have known the danger and at least mentioned it to her.
The conclusion I had previously drawn was that her motivation was secrecy for Clinton Foundation doings. But I may have missed this: an open door subscription to US info might have been part of the deal—a subscription provided as part of her influence peddling services.
I think that’s entirely possible.
It is my studied opinion, that in her brazsn lawlessness, Hillary intentionally set up her homebrew email system like an electronic smorgasbord. ALL of her USDOS communication was open and free for the taking by any and all. And the $$$$$ “tokens of appreciaton flowed into the Clinton Family Coffers.
“Strzok’s claim he didn’t remember ... is beyond BS.”
Reminds me of his favorite presidential candidate, hillary, saying ‘I don’t recall’.
It’s a shame we didn’t have a text record back then to prove otherwise.
they are all together on it and it’s worse than the Mafia because your whole family is in danger.
The secret recipient was a Chinese non-tech company located in Northern VA that is known for its associated with Chinse intelligence.
LOL, if Trump was colluding with the folks who hacked Hillary’s server he would have addressed his remark to China, not Russia...
“China, if you’re listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails...”
Presumably the ICIG has the url for wherever the copies of Hillary’s email traffic were being sent (Chinese Non-tech Company X). I continue to wonder whether the NSA or other hi tech spooks can determine whether Company X forwarded the messages on to other servers (by matching metadata, file size, etc.), who owned/operated those servers, where they are (or were) physically, etc.
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