Posted on 07/05/2016 11:03:20 AM PDT by walford
FBI Director James Comey shed new light on Hillary Clintons private email setup when he announced Tuesday that the FBI would not recommend charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Here are some of the new details revealed by Comey.
113 emails were classified at the time they were sent
Both Clintons presidential campaign and the State Department have repeatedly insisted that none of the approximately 2,000 emails now considered classified was deemed sensitive at the time.
But Comey on Tuesday said that wasnt quite the case.
In fact, federal agencies have claimed that 113 emails in more than 50 chains contained sensitive information at the time they were sent or received by her private setup, which she kept at her home in New York. Of those, eight chains contained information considered top secret, the highest level of classification.
Three of the sensitive emails were discovered among the thousands the former secretary of State claimed were purely personal in nature and which she deleted before giving her servers to the FBI last year.
An undisclosed very small number of messages bore markings indicating the presence of classified information, he said, without divulging additional details.
Thousands of work emails were deleted
Clinton has previously framed the decision to delete half of her machines cache of approximately 60,000 messages as an effort to avoid letting her private life become public.
I chose not to keep my private personal emails emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes, she said in March 2015 in a widely scrutinized press conference at the United Nations.
But FBI investigators uncovered several thousand work-related emails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to the State Department, Comey said on Tuesday.
The bureau found traces of those emails on machines connected to the private clintonemail.com domain, as well as fragments from decommissioned servers and from the email accounts of people who had communicated with her.
No official emails were intentionally deleted
None of the work-related messages was intentionally deleted from Clintons machine as part of an effort to evade federal laws, Comey said on Tuesday.
We found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them, he said. Our assessment is that, like many e-mail users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were purged from the system when devices were changed.
Both government systems and commercial services such as Yahoo or Gmail routinely archive old emails. But Clintons bespoke setup did not include that feature, Comey said.
While deciding which emails to preserve and which to delete, Clintons lawyers also used a search tool and did not go through the emails one by one, as officials from the FBI did as part of their investigation. In doing so, they may have accidentally overlooked some emails that should have been sent to the government.
So it is not surprising that we discovered emails that were not on Secretary Clintons system in 2014, when she produced the 30,000 emails to the State Department, Comey said.
There were likely more work-related emails that will never be recovered
The FBI could not recover all of the emails that Clinton deleted, so theres a good chance that other official messages will be lost forever.
It is also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, Comey said.
Those messages, he added, are likely now gone because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
Clinton used more than one server and multiple mobile devices
The public narrative about Clintons setup is that she used a single server throughout her tenure at the State Department, which was given to the FBI as part of its investigation last year.
But the reality is somewhat more complicated. In fact, Clinton changed machines when older ones became out of date, leaving a trail of out-of-order servers behind her.
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain, Comey revealed on Tuesday. As new servers and equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored and decommissioned in various ways.
Old servers, such as one that was decommissioned in 2013, contained email fragments in the unused slack space that investigators combed to try to resurrect some of the old messages.
It's possible she was hacked
FBI officials did not uncover any evidence that Clintons private setup may have been hacked by foreigners, terrorists, activists or anyone else.
But that doesnt mean it didnt happen, according to the head of the FBI.
Hackers have targeted people she communicated with, such as longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal, and her arrangement was relatively well-known and readily apparent, Comey said.
It is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clintons personal email account, he said.
Anyone else might have faced administrative punishments
Clinton was let off the hook in the eyes of the law, but the FBI doesnt want to send a message that her behavior was OK.
There was evidence of potential violations of laws against handling classified information, Comey said.
Just not enough to bring charges.
Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case, he told reporters.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences, Comey added. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.
But that is not what we are deciding now.
I can explain how she walks away, at least politically. The liberals and the media will say that Hillary was completely exonerated due to lack of an indictment. We will be told its time to move on.
Can we now, finally, stop telling ourselves what a fine champion of justice Comey is? I’ve been hearing that for so long, from every source, coming in the same breath where Loretta Lynch is also praised, I’m just sick of it. He is a tool of the powerful, as is every single member of our current administration. One rule for the powerful, one rule for the people. This is the most corrupt administration, Comey included, that has ever existed in our country.
Oh yeah, I remember. All the pundits were adamant on that point. I’ll be keeping track of the list. What a disgrace.
I guarantee that should Trump win the election, Obama will pardon her from later prosecution.
It would not matter if she Killed Bill in plain sight of 100 people.....she is the real Slick Dick here.........
Nice touch with 0Musloid flipping us peasants off...
Get yourself connected.
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I see thru you, I see thru you
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Your dirty tricks, you make me sick (oh yeah)
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(I’m gonna do it again)
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Cause something ain’t right (I’m gonna do it again)
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If you make sure you’re connected
The writing’s on the wall
But if your mind’s neglected, stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall
Ain’t gonna go blind (oh yeah)
I see thru you, I see thru you
I see thru you, I see thru you (oh yeah)
I’m gonna get myself, I’m gonna get myself
I’m gonna get myself connected
I ain’t gonna go blind for the light that is reflected
Hear me out
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Do it again, do it again
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I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
You terrified (I wanna do it again)
Ain’t gonna go blind, ain’t gonna go blind
I wanna do it again
Here we go
If you make sure you’re connected
The writing’s on the wall
But if your mind’s neglected
Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall
Hear me out, stumble you might fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8ClRnVxtE
This.
If she wins the election, he rationalizes the pardon as "heeding the will of the voter." If she loses he rationalizes it as "healing the nation and moving on."
IT is all about logging...everything.
After all of this, is there anyone here who thinks that the Powers That Be will not install Hillary as the next president, as in steal the election? I think it will happen. Our electoral process has too many places where it can be compromised. In my location, there is no printout of your vote. How do I know when I vote for Candidate X that my vote didn’t tally for Candidate Y? I don’t. Without a paper trail, it can’t be documented, just manipulated. Hillary will be our next president, no matter if Trump has a landslide. We’ll never know that he had one.
It just fades away in the dust of moving FORWARD!
Comey’s open admission that there was Secret SAP information on her server is de facto admission of criminal behavior.
That information would have had to have been stolen from secured computers illegally and then illegally transmitted.
Simply being in possession of such information is a crime.
Congradulations Director Commie, you turned your reputation in for a clown costume. I hope what they paid or promised you is worth it.
The Rosenberg’s were guilty of less than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Guccifer was brought over here to get him under their control (Not to find out what he knew) they already knew what he knew.
Same thing with Nakula. Ever wonder what happened with that guy?
They do an investigation now days to intentionally drag things out and to protect the Lords..
It’s our fault for letting these charades continue.
The question is.. when will the people rise up if ever to eliminate this tyranny that has evolved?
More interested in their leaks. Keep them in place. They are the good guys.
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