Posted on 03/04/2015 8:47:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It appears Hillary Clinton was conducting serious and sensitive international affairs on her private email account. She also kept up confidential correspondence with a political operative who hasn’t worked for the government in over a decade.
The revelation that Secretary of State Clinton used a private e-mail account rather than an official State Department e-mail struck many as troubling and potentially criminal.
Experts in government transparency have debate the legality, and also the consequences of the emails. Patrice McDermott, head of Open The Government coalition, said:
“What she did was not technically illegal. It was highly inappropriate and it was inappropriate for the State Department to let this happen,” she said.
Some of the contents of Ms. Clinton’s emails have been revealed by an international hacker from Romania under the alias “Guccifer.” The Smoking Gun investigated details of Guccifer’s arrest in 2013 and discovered a trove of emails the convicted felon obtained when hacking American officials.
Guccifer broke into the email of Sidney Blumenthal, a former journalist who left The New Yorker for a job in the Clinton administration in 1997. He worked as a special advisor to President Clinton and often ran point on operations designed to fend off attacks during the scandals that plagued Clinton’s second term.
Blumenthal has not worked for the U.S. government since January 2001, when the Clinton administration ended. At the time, however, he was providing some high-level information gathering for the State Department, via direct communications with the Secretary herself.
Blumenthal’s correspondence appeared to contain highly classified information regarding serious international hotspots like Libya:
The memos to Clinton carried titles like “Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya,” and included all-cap warnings that, “THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCES AND SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE.” Blumenthal has not held a public post since leaving his White House job in January 2001.
Each memo included a note on the sources of intelligence included in the document. One typical memo referred to “Sources with access to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the leadership of the Armed Forces, and Western Intelligence, diplomatic, and security services.”
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) responded to the news of Clinton’s emails in a press conference Tuesday:
“Only she has a complete record, and the committee is now going to have to go to her and her attorneys and her email providers to ensure we have the access to everything the American people are entitled to know,” Gowdy said.
The Daily Beast investigated the Blumenthal emails in their provocatively titled article, “How Safe Were Hillary Clinton’s Secrets?” The question reveals how potentially damaging the emails could be.
According to reporter Shane Harris, Blumenthal would not respond to requests for comment.
It’s beginning to look like the “powers that be” in the Democratic Party want her out of the race. Since Hillary has not formally declared her candidacy, she still has time to save face by announcing that she’s decided not to run “in order to devote more time to her family.” If she does, the MSM will no longer pursue this story. (they should, but they won’t.)
It’s very believable.
I’ve said on here for 6 months that the journ-0-lists will transform Warren into a native American granny fighting for the middle class against Wall $treet and Big Banks. Throw in a minority VP running partner and Groupons to the millennials for student loan forgiveness and you have a winning candidate.
Valerie Jarrett doesn’t want Hillary running things.
Obama won’t support Hillary because Jarrett told him not to.
Jarrett wants Warren so that she can continue her reign over and ‘remake’ of the US.
Welcome to the New Socialist Caliphate of the Western Hemisphere.
Nice going. Now we have an idea of the price for her “expertise”.
Hillary Clinton is damaged goods and, if elected POTUS (God forbid), she will be subject to blackmail by Al-Qaeda, Russia and every anti-American political movement.
The secrets of her life will be put up for sale by the hackers.
Was Blumenthal doing all this work for free? He didn’t work for the gov’t anymore.
Whoa........Michael Hastings was killed in that strange car accident.......is he the one who said he was working on a huge story and would go dark for a while?
She was simply sending cookie recipes to woman’s shelters around the country to help them raise money.
Typical mean Republicans waging another war on women.
Hacker Reveals Contents from Hillary’s Private E-Mails.
Wonder if that was the plan she did receive a lot of money from many countries?.
Journalist Michael Hastings was investigating CIA Director John Brennan for an upcoming expose project prior to his tragic death in a car accident, the reporter’s wife, Elise Jordan, confirmed. XETV-TV reporter Kimberly Dvorak claims sources had told her the exact same thing.
Additionally, an anonymous source recently provided the news station with “an alarming email” hacked from CIA contractor Strafor’s President Fred Burton. The email, which was posted on WikiLeaks, claimed that Brennan previously headed up the government’s effort to crackdown on investigative journalists.
“Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,” the alleged email reads. “Note — There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode…”
The email’s authenticity has not been confirmed.
Yikes indeed. Muslim Brotherhood, Huma (Hillary’s girlfriend). Yeah Hillary at this point what difference do you make? Bill will have to rally to save the little woman!
Dammit Hillary, how am I supposed to run around with my hookers and how can I undo this mess?
A fine kettle of fish. Hillary and the word fish. I smell the stench from here.
Bwahahahhaaaaaaaaaa!
You’re good.
Yeah, the Clinton’s act as if their past will never, ever catch up with them.
Eh, no problem. I can’t imagine any terrorist organization being interested in our top level diplomatic secrets.
It would be interesting to find out that people died because her emails revealed where people would be at specific dates and times.
Perhaps even a die-hard Hillary savant would twitch at that.
“Has anyone thought that “Eric Hoteham” might be a word jumble, like a Scrabble version of something else?”
I was thinking the same thing, seems someone that is in the business of sorting things out should be able to solve the riddle fairly quick. Lets hope so, it would be another part of the puzzle these creeps keep throwing at us.
How did we ever get into this mess with all these shysters getting in a position of responsibility.
Trey should subpoena the NSA for all email with the sender Hitlery, her email name, while she was SoS during Benghazi.
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