Posted on 01/22/2018 5:37:33 AM PST by Liz
Huma Abedin, top aide to then-Secy of State Hillary Clinton, routed sensitive information,including passwords to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows.
Abedin, the top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, used her insecure personal email provider to conduct sensitive work. This guarantees that an account with high-level correspondence in Clinton’s State Department was affected by one or more of a series of breaches—at least one of which was perpetrated by a “state-sponsored actor.”
The U.S. later charged Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin with hacking 500 million Yahoo email accounts. The initial hack occurred in 2014 and allowed his associates to access accounts into 2015 and 2016 by using forged cookies.
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Sushchin also worked for the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, which paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a June 2010 speech in Moscow.
A separate hack in 2013 compromised 3 billion accounts across multiple Yahoo properties, and the culprit is still unclear.
“All Yahoo user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft,” the company said in a statement.
Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, regularly forwarded work emails to her personal humamabedin@yahoo.com address.
“She would use these accounts if her [State] account was down or if she needed to print an email or document. Abedin further explained that it was difficult to print from the DoS system so she routinely forwarded emails to her non-DoS accounts so she could more easily print,” an FBI report says.
Abedin sent passwords for her government laptop to her Yahoo account on Aug. 24, 2009, an email released by the State Department in September shows.
Long-time Clinton confidante Sid Blumenthal sent Clinton an email in July 2009 with the subject line: “Important. Not for circulation. You only. Sid.” The email began “CONFIDENTIAL … Re: Moscow Summit.” Abedin forwarded the email to her Yahoo address, potentially making it visible to hackers.
The email was deemed too sensitive by the government to release to the public and was redacted before being published pursuant to the Judicial Watch lawsuit. The released copy says: “Classified by DAS/ A/GIS, DoS on 10/30/2015 Class: Confidential.”
The unredacted portion reads: “I have heard authoritatively from Bill Drozdiak, who is in Berlin. … We should expect that the Germans and Russians will now cut their own separate deals on energy, regional security, etc.”
The three email accounts Abedin used were abedinh@state.gov, huma@clintonemail.com, and humamabedin@yahoo.com. Though the emails released by the State Department partially redact personal email addresses, the Yahoo emails are displayed as humamabedin[redacted].
Clinton forwarded Abedin an email titled “Ambassadors” in March 2009 from Denis McDonough, who served as foreign policy adviser to former President Barack Obama’s campaign and later as White House chief of staff. The email was heavily redacted before being released to the public.
Stuart Delery, chief of staff to the deputy attorney general, sent a draft memo titled “PA/PLO Memo” in May 2009, seemingly referring to two Palestinian groups. The content was withheld from the public with large letters spelling “Page Denied.” Abedin forwarded it to her Yahoo account.
Abedin routed sensitive information through Yahoo multiple times, such as notes on a call with the U.N. secretary-general, according to messages released under the lawsuit.
Contemporaneous news reports documented the security weaknesses of Yahoo while Abedin continued to use it. Credentials to 450,000 Yahoo accounts had been posted online, a July 2012 CNN article reported. Five days later, Abedin forwarded sensitive information to her personal Yahoo email.
Abedin received an email “with the subject ‘Re: your yahoo acct,’” an FBI report says. “Abedin did not recall the email and provided that despite the content of the email she was not sure that her email account had ever been compromised” on Aug. 16, 2010.
The FBI also asked her about sending other sensitive information to Yahoo. The FBI report said:
Abedin was shown an email dated October 4, 2009 with the subject ‘Fwd: US interest in Pak Paper 10-04’ which Abedin received from [redacted] and then forwarded to her Yahoo email account. … At the time of the email, [redacted] worked for Richard Holbrooke who was the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP). Abedin was unaware of the classification of the document and stated that she did not make judgments on the classification of materials that she received.
The U.S. charged Sushchin with hacking half a billion Yahoo accounts last March, in one of the largest cyberbreaches in history, The Associated Press reported. Sushchin was an intelligence agent with Russia’s Federal Security Service—the successor to the KGB—and was also working as security director for Renaissance Capital, Russian media said.
“It is unknown to the grand jury whether [Renaissance] knew of his FSB affiliation,” the indictment of Sushchin says.
Renaissance Capital paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech in 2010 that was attended by Russian officials and corporate leaders. The speech prompted a thank-you note from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Renaissance Capital is owned by Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, who also owned the Brooklyn Nets basketball team. He unsuccessfully ran for Russian president against Putin in 2012.
Sushchin’s indictment says “the conspirators sought access to the Yahoo Inc. email accounts of Russian journalists; Russian and U.S. government officials,” and others. Information about the accounts such as usernames and password challenge questions and answers were stolen for 500 million accounts, the indictment says. It does not mention Abedin’s account.
A hacker called “Peace” claimed to be selling data from 200 million Yahoo users.
The user data also included people’s alternate email addresses, often work accounts tying a Yahoo user to an organization of interest. The hackers were able to generate “nonces” that allowed them to read emails “via external cookie minting” for some accounts.
The New York Times reported that in the 2013 hack, which affected all Yahoo accounts:
Digital thieves made off with names, birth dates, phone numbers and passwords of users that were encrypted with security that was easy to crack. The intruders also obtained the security questions and backup email addressed used to reset lost passwords—valuable information for someone trying to break into other accounts owned by the same user, and particularly useful to a hacker seeking to break into government computers around the world.
Yahoo published a notification Sept. 22, 2016, saying: “Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor.”
Days later, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ nominee for president, downplayed the risks of her using a private email server to conduct official business, saying it was simply a matter of convenience.
“After a year-long investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using and there is no evidence that anyone can point to at all, anyone who says otherwise has no basis, that any classified materials ended up in the wrong hands. I take classified materials very seriously and always have,” Clinton said Oct. 9, 2016, during her second presidential debate with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Abedin’s use of Yahoo email is consistent with the determination by the FBI that Clinton associates’ emails were, in fact, compromised.
“We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private email accounts of individuals with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her private account,” then-FBI Director James Comey said in 2016.
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She was/is a foreign agent. Part of the plot to destroy this country.
As the Dothraki say: “It is known.”
Move along, nothing to see here...by the way did you see that Trump did not appear at any of the “women’s” marches this weekend.
Excellent depiction of Q’s post of “The Memo” contents - thanks!
Electric chair, hanging or firing squad...nothing less.
BACKSTORY In 2013, news broke that Hillary gave Abedin a special US govt employee
status.That gave Abedin a financial windfall, allowing her to simultaneously
<><>cash US govt checks on the US govt payroll
<><> be paid by the Clinton Foundation, and,
<><> work for Teneo, founded by former Clinton White House adviser, Doug Band.
This became news fodder, b/c Abedin previously had not disclosed her unusual employment status. Abedin had publicly said she stepped back from government work and became a “contractor” so she could be with her family and her newborn son, Zain.
Critics have questioned whether she had a conflict of interest while working as a US govt employee at State Dept and at Teneo-—said to be the pricey “toll booth” to get access to the Clintons.
A shady aspect of Huma Abdein’s unusual (and lucrative) State Department career......... she founded a private company called “Zain Endeavors” eleven days before she left Hillary’s employ. Zain Endeavors is named for her infant son).......
Abedin saying she was a “contractor” is also suspect.....b/c after Hillary left, the State Dept said
$6 BILLION dollars went missing from the contractors fund. This has yet to be investigated.
Hillary’s hubris and flaws scared me, but the Greeks got it right. Her “tragic” flaw brought her down. Thank God!
Go to prison. Waterboarding ahead???
Because president Trump, like many or most of us, does not consider Feminazis to be real women. And he disapproves of baby killing.
What will it take to arrest this scumbag(Huma)? By the way, wasn’t Holbrook involved in the Scooter Libby Matter?
...Trump did not appear at any of the “women’s” marches this weekend.
Because president Trump, like many or most of us, does not consider Feminazis to be real women. And he disapproves of baby killing.
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An awesome reply! And so true.
Sen Charles Grassley has been pressing the State Department to answer questions over Huma Abedin’s lucrative govt job arrangement facilitated by then SoS Hillary.
Sen Grassley wrote:
It appears that one of Abedin’s clients, the Clinton-connected Teneo Strategies, may have been compensating Ms. Abedin for gathering information from US government sources for the purpose of informing investment decisions of her consulting clients - or in other words, political intelligence.
This raises important questions about whether Abedin’s dual role was adequately disclosed to government officials who may have provided her information without realizing that she was being paid by private investors to gather information.Grassley’s letter recounted:
<><> Abedin allegedly sent or received more than 7,000 emails on her US government account that involved Teneo’s Doug Band, a close confidante and travel companion of the globe-trotting Bill clinton. Teneo is known as the tool booth to the Clintons-—in order to get access to them an entity or individual has to pony up bigtime.
<><> one email exchange involved Teneo’s Doug Band pressuring Abedin to encourage her State Department boss, Hillary Clinton, to facilitate a White House appointment for one of his clients. Judith Rodin, then-president of the Rockefeller Foundation, “donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation,” Mr. Band allegedly noted in his email to Ms. Abedin.
<><> email evidence allegedly suggests that Ms. Abedin and another Hillary aide, Cheryl Mills, colluded to find a way to ensure the US govt paid for Ms. Abedin’s travel to and from New York.
<><> multiple allegations received by Sen Grassley’s Judiciary Committee indicated Abedin had actually taken leave during her time as a govt employee, casting doubt on whether Abedin should have received $33,000 in taxpayer money.
<><> allegations surfaced that the State Dept personnel rule was quietly bent to permit Abedin to collect her government paycheck while wielding her influence to the benefit of her other employers (connected to the Clintons).
<><> Hillary Clinton jetted to Ireland with Abedin at her side for her last official trip before exiting the State Dept, during which Hillary attended an event hosted by a major Clinton Foundation donor that had been promoted by Teneo (for which Abedin then-served as a “consultant”)
<><> Abedin’s special employment status gave her heavy influence over Hillary Clinton’s State Dept daily schedule and travel plans at the same time Abedin served as a senior adviser at Teneo, and performed other duties at the Clinton Foundation.
<><> Abedin using information about Hillary’s travel schedule in discussions w/ her clients, could be a serious breach of US ntl security, since even the calendar amd travel plans of the Secy of State is considered classified information.
<><> Abedin was among several key aides to Hillary Clinton that hosted email accounts on a private server in the 2016 presidential candidate’s Chappaqua, New York home, in violation of federal records laws.
Abedin was vice-chair of Hillary’s losing presidential campaign committee.
Abedin was no doubt funneling US taxpayer money to her relatives in the Muslim Brotherhood. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should be investigated and these missing funds should be traced.
Abedin is still walking around free as a bird - so whatever she did doesn’t meet any standard for even a misdemeanor charge /s
Thanks Liz, for posting!
Ping, to VJ letting yahoo passwords out, right before yahoo got hacked AND putting sensitive docs on her yahoo mail.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3624770/posts?page=1#1
That’s how the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund worked while HRC was SOS. She had Huma load passwords and classified material onto their rinkydink “private” server; our foreign enemies easily hacked into it, got the info they wanted and transferred $$$$ to the FAKE Clinton charity foundation. Slicker ‘n snot....until she lost the election.
<><>one head in the US govt,
<><>one head in the Clinton Foundation,
<><>one head soaking up govt intel,
<><>another head inhaling tax dollars.
They Clintonistas romped all over the State Dept like it was their personal playground grabbing at dollar opportunities. Huma had four jobs....Cheryl Mills flitted in and out of the Foundation...as did other Clinton factotums.
When did they ever do any actual govt work?
The Clinton suck-ups are not content w/ six-figure govt salaries, expense accounts, housing and clothing allowances and free travel.
Sucking off the backs of hard-working taxpayers is the name of the Clinton game. The opportunistic Clintons grab anything that isn't nailed down. They became multi-billionaires overnight selling off US ntl security to the highest bidder.
The Clintons were lying in wait to duplicate the State Dept heist in the WH. They had army of workers ready and waiting at the infamous foundation. All of them salivating over the prospect of high-pay govt jobs and endless pensions and perks under a prez Clinton (gag).
The FBI also asked her about sending other sensitive information to Yahoo.
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The FBI wanted additional tips on excuses to use when you “lose” email and text messages.
MORE OF HUMA'S SKULLDUGGERY---FINANCING MUSLIM FAMILY MEMBERS WITH MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
THE SORDID DETAILS--This'll give you nightmares, people.....counting up the endless line of Huma's Muslim cousins w/ their greedy Muslim hands in the State Dept cookie jar.
CONVICTED OF FRAUD ---This smirking Muslim creep is Huma's Muslim first cousin AKA "a serial swindler." The Muslim cousin subsidized businesses w/ our tax dollars looted from Hillary's State Dept. He made six million tax dollars vanish.
ABEDIN EMAIL EXCERPT--“Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting,” Muslim Huma Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to her Muslim cousin Omar Amanat and Muslim Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.
In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations.
Then in October 2010, Hillary's State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a media technology project. “Muslim Huma helped Muslim Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Secy Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars),” said an attorney familiar with the case.
“This helped Muslim Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his Muslim brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million tax dollars vanished.” Muslim Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, Amanat, known as "a serial swindler,” was in personal bankruptcy and being sued by other investors. Despite his shady reputation, the Muslim still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned Muslim cousin and his donations to the Clinton Foundation.
THE MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that Muslim Omar Amanat and several other Abedin Muslim family members and related Muslim charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Omar Amanat, Abedin's Muslim cousin, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was officially appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as US secretary of state.
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While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Clinton’s unsecured private email server (the House has reopened it), its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open. It’s not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation. However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged “pay-for-play” schemes involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.
Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors. And tax dollars....all you could possibly want.
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