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House Opens New Investigation Into Hillary Email Server
Legal Insurrection ^ | 1-15-16 | Kemberlee Kaye

Posted on 01/16/2016 4:40:46 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Talk about a bad week. Poll numbers tanking, polling shows millennial ladies prefer Bernie, her attempts to connect with minority demographics flopping hard, 13 Hours hits theaters, resurrecting the Benghazi story, and now a second Congressional investigation.

This latest investigation centers around the security of Hillary's home-brewed email server used during her tenure as Secretary of State.

According to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman:

Understanding these companies' roles in providing software and services to maintain former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server is critical to improving government cybersecurity standards. A high profile government official deviating from established information security requirements raises significant concerns. The sensitive nature of the information stored on Sec. Clinton's private server created a unique challenge to ensure all of the information was properly safeguarded. The Committee takes seriously its duty to ensure the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is properly equipped to safeguard our nation's information."

Earlier this month, the Committee held a hearing where a private sector cybersecurity expert told the Committee his company would not set up a private server for a government official because such an arrangement is "illegal" and because it would expose classified data.

Today's letters are aimed at improving the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the Framework) and the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA), which set cybersecurity standards and enable federal oversight of information technology programs.

Last year, more than 178 million records on Americans were exposed in cyber attacks. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2014, federal agencies reported more than 60,000 cyber security incidents that exposed personally identifiable information.

Moreover, the State Department scored only a 42 out of 100 on the federal government's cybersecurity report card. This score is lower than the Office of Personnel Management's score, an agency that recently experienced an attack that exposed the private information of 20 million Americans.

In his letters today, Chairman Smith requests all documents and communications related to Secretary Clinton's private server as well as information about any security breaches that may have occurred during her tenure.

Clinton's campaign is calling the investigation a "sham," according to The Hill.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201601; 20160115; cybersecurity; cyberwarfare; emails; emailserver; hillaryclinton; house; investigation; lamarsmith; nist; privateserver
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To: afraidfortherepublic; HarleyLady27; SkyPilot; MinuteGal; freekitty; vette6387

Trey Gowdy and Daryl Issa proved to be useless. Now what?


21 posted on 01/16/2016 6:14:03 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: afraidfortherepublic

OK. Pee or get off the pot!


22 posted on 01/16/2016 6:14:56 AM PST by Twinkie
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To: VRW Conspirator

Yes Sir!
How many times have we been down this road to nowhere, this road that has no dead end, it just gradually fades away, you know like Fast & Furious.


23 posted on 01/16/2016 6:44:17 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Tupelo

Oh noes! Another flurry of sternly worded letters and emails. Everyone run!


24 posted on 01/16/2016 7:56:47 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Are they going to let Trey Gowdy waste more time, energy, money and oxygen by being out in charge of it?


25 posted on 01/16/2016 7:57:20 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Useless? How much further than inept is complicit? Cohorts? In cahoots?

All we needed were some more instances showing the ‘accused’ gaming the system with those Dems on the panel (ala Cummings and IRS) to show just how bad it TRULY has been.

J.W. with their FOIA requests were able to gleam more than the ‘esteemed’ on the committee.

EVERY SINGLE person incarcerated for the same should be filing their appeals ASAP. Just point to the Patreus vs. Clinton dichotomy and have your ‘Get Out of Jail FREE’ card stamped immediately.


26 posted on 01/16/2016 8:33:53 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

27 posted on 01/16/2016 10:05:12 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Liz
Some enterprising reporter itching for a Pulitzer needs to match-up Hillarys official State Dept moves w/ the Clintons’ vast buck-raking operation. That tell$ the whole $tory in exqui$ite detail.
That is great - but to me the real story of “the Clintons’ vast buck-raking operation” is that the Constitution presumes that any money going to a federal employee from a foreign government is corrupt. It takes an act of Congress to rebut that presumption:
Article 1 Section 9:
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
Hillary cannot prove the negative that her buck-raking operation was not corrupt - and the burden of proof lies with her. She should be divested of control of all foreign government money which came into her control. Every dime. Or else she should prove that negative - to a majority of both the House and the Senate (and, FWIW, the POTUS).

Every candidate for nomination as POTUS (by any party) should argue in every state that the legislature should pass a law enforcing the above constitutional provision against any and all presidential candidates by keeping violators’ names off the presidential ballot.


28 posted on 01/16/2016 5:16:16 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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29 posted on 01/16/2016 7:19:43 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is all a complete waste of taxpayer money. Everybody knows nothing is going to happen to her and there is a possibility that she could be the next president of the usa. All she has to say is there will be more free stuff for everybody and they will vote for her.


30 posted on 01/16/2016 10:08:02 PM PST by seawolf101
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To: DaveA37

The problem is, who is going to “hang” hitlery? In what venue? A criminal court? The regime of the kenyan antichrist controls all the prosecutors. In an impeachment trial? As we saw with the perjuring felon, dammocraps will not vote to convict in the Senate one of their own.

So, we are powerless to meet out any real punishment to hitlery, unless we put a conservative Republican in the White House.


31 posted on 01/16/2016 10:17:47 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Tupelo

I can’t decide if Obama will allow her to be indicted or if .. he makes an agreement with her, as soon as she is charged.

The rules would be: She has to quit the race; and remain out of politics; IF she does that .. he could pardon her.

That could allow her to get away with everything. I know I’m going to be mad as hell if that happens, but just to get her out of politics will be relief for most of us.


32 posted on 01/16/2016 11:27:31 PM PST by CyberAnt
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To: Tupelo

TOTALLY agree.


33 posted on 01/17/2016 5:18:21 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Liz

I think, based on what I heard last week, some enterprising FBI agents are working on that.


34 posted on 01/17/2016 5:26:36 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

The cunning Clintons left a paper trail that wraps around the globe.


35 posted on 01/17/2016 6:33:38 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Eye candy for to entertain the sheeple. No, I don’t mean hillarity, I mean the House and another of their show trials. They must need something to do every day.


36 posted on 01/17/2016 8:31:00 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
A high profile government official deviating from established information security requirements raises significant concerns.

Since when?

37 posted on 01/17/2016 9:15:27 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Vermont Lt

based on what I heard last week, some enterprising FBI agents are working on that......NEVER,ever trust the FBI on anything. If it makes the Bureau look good, they will make up anything. if they were negligent in ANY investigation (of which we are speaking) it will be disregarded.


38 posted on 01/17/2016 9:28:10 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

I don’t trust anyone but my wife. And even she doesn’t have access to the gun safe. You know, the one with one old deer rifle and my grandfathers pistol. Wink, wink.


39 posted on 01/17/2016 10:26:52 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Rumor is the FBI got ALL the emails...


40 posted on 01/17/2016 11:39:04 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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