Posted on 05/13/2016 4:18:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Thousands of e-mails from Hillary Clintons private, unsecured server, created while she served as Secretary of State, are reportedly in the possession of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The SVR is said to have gained access to the e-mails, of which it made copies, through its monitoring of a Romanian computer hacker named Marcel Lazăr Lehel (aka Guccifer). Guccifer had learned about the existence of Hillary Clintons private e-mail account after accessing the e-mails of her close confidante and informal adviser, Sidney Blumenthal, with whom Hillary had extensive correspondence during her term as Secretary of State.
A report attributed to Russias Security Council indicates that an internal battle has broken out over whether to publicly release the e-mails between the Director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, and Chairwoman of the Council of Federation, Valentina Matviyenko. The latter had authorized a release of some of the e-mails to Russia Today (RT) back on March 20, 2013. Russias Foreign Intelligence Service director expressed alarm at the release, primarily because of concerns that the release would reveal to U.S. intelligence services how Russia used its monitoring of Guccifer to obtain Clintons e-mails. He had good reason to be concerned. U.S. authorities worked with their Romanian counterparts to follow the trail that led to Guccifers arrest in Romania.
In March 2016, Chairwoman Matviyenko is said to have called for a total release of the e-mails, in part to influence the U.S. presidential election. Ms. Matvivenko reportedly cited Russian President Vladimir Putins positive statements about Donald Trump and claimed that Hillary Clinton was not liked by the Russian people.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but Guccifer was quickly extradited to the United States from Romania at the end of March. He is facing a nine-count federal indictment on various charges, including wire fraud, cyberstalking, identify theft, unauthorized access to computers and obstruction of justice.
The FBI requested the extradition, according to the Romanian government. Thus, it would be logical to assume that the FBI has been speaking with Guccifer regarding the server, although the agency has not officially confirmed such discussions.
Because of the proximity to Sidney Blumenthal and the activity involving Hillarys emails, [the timing] seems to be something beyond curious, said Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the FBIs Criminal Investigative Division from 2012-2014, as quoted by Fox News. Here is an individual in a relatively poor Eastern European country who was able to intrude on sensitive emails about activities in Benghazi.
The mainstream media had sought to protect Hillary Clinton from revelations about Guccifers role in the hacking of her private e-mail server as long as it could. For example, NBC News reporter Cynthia McFadden had interviewed Guccifer from a Bucharest prison and elicited Guccifers first-hand account that Hillarys server was not safe at all. NBC sat on this interview for more than a month. Only after Guccifer was extradited to the U.S. and appeared to be of interest to the FBI did NBC have to acknowledge the potential importance of what Guccifer had to say regarding Hillarys unsafe server.
On May 4th, NBC finally issued a press release about the interview that it planned to run several days later. Even then, NBC played defense for Hillarys campaign, emphasizing in the press release that Guccifer could provide no documentation to back up his claims, nor did he ever release anything on-line supporting his allegation, as hed done frequently in prior hacks. Of course, the best proof would be the released e-mails themselves, which RT had reported were obtained from Guccifer, complete with excerpts, in its March 20, 2013 article.
The New York Times has also played defense for the Clinton team. In an article appearing on May 11th entitled Use of Unclassified Email Systems Not Limited to Clinton, New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers claimed it was regular government practice to send e-mails that may contain classified information over unclassified government computer networks used for more routine business. These unclassified government computer networks even had a nickname - low side.
A review of the 30,322 emails from Mrs. Clintons private server that the State Department has made public under the Freedom of Information Act provides an extensive record of how such sensitive information often looped throughout President Obamas foreign policy apparatus on unclassified systems, from embassies to the United Nations to the White House, Mr. Myers wrote. Many of the emails were sent over the State Departments unclassified system, state.gov, which is considered secure but not at the level of the State Departments system for emailing classified information.
While acknowledging that Hillary Clintons private server was assumed to be even less secure than the State Departments low side, the New York Times reporter made sure to add that the unclassified servers at some government agencies have been hacked in recent years.
Undoubtedly, the governments own computer network systems need to be better secured. However, that is beside the point. For her own selfish reasons, Hillary Clinton set up a rogue private e-mail system that was not subject to any government oversight. Unlike with respect to its own systems, the government was not able to monitor the use of Hillarys private system. It was not in a position to periodically inspect and make decisions on whether to upgrade security. And there was no automatic archiving of e-mails passing through the private system for document retention purposes.
The bottom line is that Hillary Clinton, while Secretary of State, recklessly caused an evasion of whatever safeguards existed in the standard government handling of e-mails pertaining to government business. She recklessly created a non-accountable private system, with knowledge that classified information could pass through the system and be hacked without detection from government information technology security experts. Some of the e-mails reportedly involved national defense, including one determined to be secret sent by her aide Huma Abedin, which dealt with North Korea's ballistic missile launch. Another e-mail dealt with drone activities, particularly in Pakistan.
At minimum, therefore, it is highly likely that Hillary Clinton violated 18 U.S. Code § 793 (f):
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. [Emphasis added.]
Whether any of the e-mails were marked classified at the time they were sent or received through her server is irrelevant. Whether Hillary only received e-mails containing sensitive secret information, and did not produce or send any of her own, is also irrelevant. Moreover, her intent is irrelevant. By using the private system in the first place and causing her aides to communicate to her over that system, with knowledge of the potential harm to national security if adversaries gained access to her non-secure system, Hillary engaged in a pattern of reckless conduct over four years. She was grossly negligent in permitting information relating to the national defense to be removed from its proper place of custody and communicated via e-mail over her unsafe server. Russia appears to have copies of at least some of these e-mails, after tracking the hacker Guccifer who gained access to Hillarys server.
Hillary Clintons gross negligence in putting herself before national security, which she was entrusted to help protect, merits criminal prosecution.
Barack Obama specifically told Hilary not to hire Blumenthal when he named her Secretary of State. Hillary went behind his back and did it anyway. If her excuse is that she didn't actually hire him, but instead, he was an "informal adviser", then she should be prosecuted for sharing classified information with him (along with numerous other crimes.)
But there was no ‘intent’ so Hillary! can’t be punished.
But the reality of the world is what is good for business? Business produces the wealth needed for control power and domination
Trump is the better choice for business
He is pro American nationalist which they have not had to deal with fir many years- but his ideology is to make winning deals and then make more
This I believe suits their end game
Besides, won't it be “fun “ for their smartest people to take on the challenge of dealing with a smart worthy opponent/competitor?
Excellent post. Summarizes exactly what she should be charged with..as a MINIMUM. Intent..irrelevant.
"In March (2016), this report continues, Chairwoman Matviyenko hinted/suggested to her peers/comrades that due to President Putins favorable opinion/thoughts about American presidential candidate Donald Trump, as it relates to the Federation, the Security Council should considering releasing all of Secretary Clintons top secret and classified emails in a bid to assist him against a person (Hillary Clinton) whose global catastrophes are well documented and who is, also, hated/repugnant by the Russian people."
Wouldn't it be nice if Putin said: "Do it, release them all"?
Me too. But timing is everything here.
Do it now and you just might kill the Hillary candidacy. Or would it be better to to wait for the possibility of killing her candidacy after she is nominated?
I suspect there are serious discussions going on within the Trump Camp on this very subject.
My long ago recommendation: The GOP nominee (Trump) should spend $100 million to teach the American public about the damage, past and future, that has resulted from Hillary's reckless use of an unprotected E-Mail server.
Hillary should be in jail, not on the campaign trail.
Maybe not but it does give Russia a certain amount of.... leverage over Hillary’s future actions. This amounts to blackmail. Something the Clinton’s understand well.
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode 29 - Filegate; Who Hired Craig LivingstoneThe highly trusted agent wrote the following, which became part of the then-obscure Livingstone's own FBI background file:Hillarys use of a secret (secret from the U.S. public but unlikely to be unknown to U.S. adversaries) server reinforces the commonsense understanding that Craig Livingstone was hired by someone who was too important to be thrown under the bus the when FBI Filegate scandal exploded. Who else would it have been, but someone who considered themself utterly above the laws on classified information security? Who else would that have been but Hillary?"BERNARD NUSSBAUM, Counsel to the President, advised that he had known the appointee for the period of time that he has been employed in the new administration. He had come highly recommended to him by HILLARY CLINTON, who has known his mother for a longer period of time . h/t to Sir Napsalot
(1) I don’t deserve the ‘hat tip’
(2) It’s not JUST Russia,
WE can (sort of) count on Russian strongman PootyPoot behave in a logical way. Not so with other rogue entities (some of whom we may yet be unaware) that potentially could change US policies not in her interests. And WHY both Bill and Hill should be incarcerated and strip off all their wealth.
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