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Hillary Clinton Campaign Says Classified Emails Were on Server
The Wall Street Journal ^ | By Byron Tau and Robert McMillan

Posted on 08/20/2015 8:16:43 AM PDT by Mariner

WASHINGTON— Hillary Clinton’s campaign said Wednesday that emails on the private server she used when she was secretary of state contained material that is now classified, the clearest explanation thus far of an issue that has roiled her bid for the presidency.

At the same time, the campaign sought to play down the disclosure by saying the material had been retroactively classified out of an abundance of caution by U.S. intelligence agencies.

“She was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became deemed as classified,” said Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

Mrs. Clinton has been criticized for using a private email server when she was in office. Since 2013, the server was maintained by a small Denver company and stored at a secure data center in New Jersey until it was turned over to the FBI last week. Her use of the server has prompted an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; election2016; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; newyork; server; wipewater
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To: Mariner

In one article, I think npr “probe may widen”, Hillary actually claimed innocent because of the “culture of classification” within the intelligence community.

I’m floored.

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/19/432908987/government-inquiry-into-clinton-emails-likely-to-widen


41 posted on 08/20/2015 8:43:28 AM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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To: Nep Nep

How would they know Platte River was secure?

FLASHBACK:

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Special Report with Brit Hume [Fox News] (USA) - December 10, 2008

HUME: The recent cyber-attack on Pentagon computers has been linked to former intelligence operatives from a foreign country. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joins us live from the Pentagon with details — Jennifer.

JENNIFER GRIFFIN, FOX NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Brit, FOX News has learned that the cyber-attack on the U.S. military’s classified information network has been traced to a front company run by former Russian FSB or KGB spies. The attack, you’ll remember, led the Pentagon to ban the use of all thumb drives because that is how the worm got into the classified military network.

One official said the worm managed to not only map classified military files but may still be in the system waiting to send files back, change information needed by commanders or destroy the system at a later time. The intrusion was discovered, we’ve learned, by the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

The attack came through the local Internet service provider which the Afghans, under U.S. supervision, contracted out to this front company run by former Russian spies. The U.S. military relies on this Internet service provider. Today, Michael Chertoff warned the Russians had already used cyber warfare in Georgia.


42 posted on 08/20/2015 8:44:23 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Mariner

43 posted on 08/20/2015 8:47:21 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: pepsionice

” prior to Sec of State....where exactly does she show that she’s multi-taskable? Where is her international affairs background?”

As Buddy Holly once sang, “Well, I guess it doesn’t matter any more.”


44 posted on 08/20/2015 8:49:12 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Mariner
Fix is in and the spin begins

Bubba and Hillary got assurances at the MV party

It was designed to debunk Obama being behind some kind of plot

Her appearing in that Orange Pants Suit at the Presser was an IN YOUR FACE to the internet pics of her in prison orange
45 posted on 08/20/2015 8:50:10 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: blueunicorn6

Drip....Drip....Drip....


46 posted on 08/20/2015 8:56:20 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Mariner
She was at worst a passive recipient

It's possible that this stuff we sent to her .gov e-mail and she set up a rule in Outlook to auto-forward all e-mails to her personal e-mail server. If I was investigating, I'd be looking for any custom rules like that being set up.

47 posted on 08/20/2015 8:56:22 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Mariner
The server was operated until last week?

He could easily back this up. Most co-lo datacenters produce bandwidth charts by week, month or year and they have the ability to dig deep and show what service is eating a customers data pipe (i.e., port 25 for mail for instance). They could show if the server was sending or receiving with ease.

48 posted on 08/20/2015 8:56:47 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: txrefugee

Just like our prez who is a bystander to his own presidency. These people get themselves into these messes and the media propagates the lie that the situation just fell out of the sky onto them.


49 posted on 08/20/2015 8:58:10 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Mariner
Since you were so talkative this week with the press hillary, would you expound on what you know about these three deaths!

Barbara Wise was a Commerce Department staffer when she died on Nov. 29, 1996. As the scandals continued to swirl around the Commerce Department, and most of all about John Huang, one of Huang's associates, Barbara Wise, was found dead in her locked office at the Department of Commerce, partially nude and covered with bruises. No cause of death has ever been announced.

Charles Meissner was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy. Following Ron Brown's death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Charles Meissner died in the crash of a small plane.

Ron Brown was a former Chairman of the DNC and was Commerce Secretary, died May 3, 1996. Ron Brown died along with 39 other people when the T-43 (a converted 737 used by the Air Force) carrying the group on a trip to Bosnia crashed while approaching the Dubrovnik airport. On the verge of being indicted and having stated his willingness to make a deal with prosecutors, Ron Brown's death brought to an end his ability to testify. Military investigators concealed from the public the fact that a perfectly cylindrical hole, the size of a .45-caliber round, was found in the top of his head. Surprisingly, no autopsy was performed.

Hillary needs to tell the press what she knows about these three deaths.

50 posted on 08/20/2015 8:58:48 AM PDT by Mr Apple (http://www.rense.com/politics4/clintbet.htm)
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To: maggief

She might as well just come clean...bad news does not get better as time goes on. Only gets smellier.


51 posted on 08/20/2015 8:58:51 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: skeeter

She’s been in government for most of her life and is telling us that she’s utterly unaware of the rules for handling govt. information. So she’s either a blithering idiot or complete and total liar, which is it? Wanna answer that one, Shrillary? Oh, wait, she doesn’t do press conferences.


52 posted on 08/20/2015 9:00:50 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Mariner

Let me get this straight, if I’m SOS, nothing I say can be considered classified material even when I’m commenting on classified material or when I’m issuing instructions based on my understanding of classified information? If so, do away with the position of SOS as it can have no functionality.


53 posted on 08/20/2015 9:01:01 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Mariner
So, the wife asks: "Can't we hear about the 'other classified channels' she used for classified information?"

Were there any other channels? I've heard that Hillary never took the secure Blackberry offered to her by State. So, how did she stay informed about sensitive information?

54 posted on 08/20/2015 9:03:06 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Mr Apple

Her answer is a pissy, “What difference does any of this make now?!”


55 posted on 08/20/2015 9:06:26 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: maggief
I don't think that's the right angle. The secrets Clinton had probably got out because she sold them, receiving the quid pro quo in the form of "speaking fees" and donations to the Clinton Foundation.
56 posted on 08/20/2015 9:13:22 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Mariner
In short, Obama has found the way to get the old (insert appropriate pejorative here!) out of the way, given Hillary has WAY too much political baggage for her to be a viable candidate. (Remember, I said a couple of months ago Hillary was highly vulnerable to a Swift Boat Vets style political attack. Hillary has proven to be more vulnerable than a lot of people anticipated.)
57 posted on 08/20/2015 9:16:07 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: TomGuy
"Per some reports, removing the classification status is a criminal offense. "

It's a felony.

58 posted on 08/20/2015 9:16:20 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner

59 posted on 08/20/2015 9:17:02 AM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: Slyfox

Yes, I think the classified stuff, even though it is level one red alert for members of the intelligence community, won’t be decisive for the average (and below-average) voters.

Much more important is the bribery, money-laundering, and tax evasion scheme known as the “Clinton Foundation”. All of them, including the Big He, could go to Federal prison for decades if the facts ever became known.

It’s even occurred to me that the classified material scandal might be boob bait to keep the FBI and the IRS off of the important stuff.

We shall see. It’s clear to me that, should HRC ever become President by popular election, that the America we thought existed is gone for good, and we can move on from politics to something a little more concrete.


60 posted on 08/20/2015 9:19:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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