Posted on 10/28/2016 6:26:41 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Protective detail assigned to guard former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her two residences complained that her closest aide Huma Abedin often overrode standard security protocols during trips to the Middle East, and personally changed procedures for handling classified information, including highly sensitive intelligence briefs the CIA prepared for the president, newly released FBI documents reveal.
The security agents, who were interviewed as witnesses in the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of an unauthorized private email server to send classified information, complained that Abedin had unusual sway over security policies during Clinton’s 2009-2013 tenure at Foggy Bottom.
FBI interview notes indicate that Abedin, a Pakistani-American Muslim whose family has deep ties to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the radical Muslim Brotherhood, was granted Top Secret security clearance for the first time in 2009, when Clinton named her deputy chief of staff for operations. Abedin said she “did not remember” being read into any Special Access Programs (SAPs) or compartments.
If Clinton wins the presidency next month, she is expected to tap Abedin as her chief of staff, a position that would give her the power to run White House operations — including personnel security and visitor access. The position does not require Senate confirmation.
Abedin now serves as vice chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign.In a now-disclosed September 2015 interview, a diplomatic security agent assigned to Clinton’s protective detail told FBI investigators that Abedin possessed “much more power” over Clinton’s staff, schedule and security than other former chiefs of staffs.
The witness, whose name is redacted by the FBI, said that “Abedin herself was often responsible for overriding security and diplomatic protocols on behalf of Clinton.”
While Clinton was traveling with Abedin in an armored vehicle during a trip to the West Bank, for example, the driver of the limousine was “forced” to ignore longstanding procedures to keep the windows closed for security reasons. After repeated orders to open a window so Clinton could be seen waving to the Palestinian people while in “occupied territory,” the driver relented and opened the window “despite the danger to himself and the occupants.”
Another guard assigned to Clinton’s residence in Chappaqua, N.Y., recalled in a February FBI interview that new security procedures for handling delivery of the diplomatic pouch and receiving via fax the highly classified Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) had been “established by Abedin.” The witness added that Abedin controlled the operations of a secure room known as a SCIF located on the third floor of the residence.
In her own April 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin contended that she “did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago, when it became public knowledge.” The clintonemail.com server was set up in the basement of the Chappaqua residence.
However, another witness told agents that he and another Clinton aide with an IT background built the new server system “at the recommendation of Huma Abedin,” who first broached the idea of an off-the-grid email server as early as the “fall (of) 2008,” ostensibly after Barack Obama was elected president.
The FBI pointed out that “the only person at DoS (Department of State) to receive an email account on the (clintonemail.com) domain was Abedin.”
In other words, Abedin, whose email account was huma@clintonemail.com, was the only State Department aide whose emails were hosted by the private Clinton server she claimed she didn’t know existed until she heard about it in the news.
Skeptical, FBI agents showed Abedin three separate email exchanges she had with an IT staffer regarding the operation of the private Clinton server during Clinton’s tenure at State. Abedin claimed she “did not recall” the email exchanges.
Making false statements to a federal agent is a felony.
“Multiple State employees” told the FBI that they considered emailing Abedin “the equivalent of e-mailing Clinton.” Abedin, in turn, “routinely” forwarded State government emails — including ones containing classified information — from her state.gov account to either her clintonemail.com or her Yahoo.com account “so that she could print them” at her home, the summary of her interview with the FBI reveals.
Another Clinton aide told the FBI that “Abedin may have kept emails that Clinton did not.”
By forwarding classified emails to her personal email account, Abedin appears to have violated a Classified Information NonDisclosure Agreement she signed at the State Department on Jan. 30, 2009, in which she agreed to keep all classified material under the control of the US government.
Even so, the FBI did not search Abedin’s laptop or Yahoo email account at any point in their year-long investigation into possible mishandling of classified information and espionage. Nor did the bureau call Abedin back for additional questioning, despite documentary evidence, as well as the statements from other witnesses, that clearly contradicted her own statements.
No one is watching the networks; news flash!!! Another news flash—Fox is being turned off as well!!! Liberal MSM can go pound sand if there’s room!
Maybe they should flee the US too.
You tense is wrong
should be “maybe they both do”
For Bubba, Huma always carries around those Viagra single pacs
All these “disgusted honorable” BFU agents need to get together and sign a joint statement. Safety in numbers.
Unless they’re afraid.
I read that in her testimony before Congress, she admitted to 5 Blackberry’s.
WRITING THEIR “TELL ALL” BOOKS...................
Most likely, but the books are being written, I’m sure............
Crap!!! This should be the headline in ALL MEDIA & ALL OF TRUMP’S SPEECHES!
We KNOW those sneaking, corrupt Sharia Muslims have entered into our government in many levels, but this is EYE OPENING!!!
Why can’t they band together and come out for a press conference and TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IT GOING ON? Are they just too afraid?
We need our honest government employees to find their voices before it is too late!
Comey should be hung by his toenails and beaten like the enemy he is.
I would love to see him occupy a jail cell along with Hillary.
It would be even better to make an example of Comey than it would of Hillary. A lesson to the successors of these positions...put him in prison for 20 years. That would be noticed by heads of federal agencies.
Don't you get it? She chose Huma because she COULD - and until now, hasn't faced any backlash! Just like all of the other corrupt decisions Hillary has made - it was because she COULD - with no questioning or push back! She is an enemy within and wants to ruin this country - period.
The fact that this b*tch can even run for POTUS is a testament as to how far this country has fallen. Ever wondered how Hitler happened? Now you know! Until Trump came along, most citizens have been asleep in their own little comfort zones being spoon fed by the corrupt media.
“Why can’t they band together and come out for a press conference and TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IT GOING ON? Are they just too afraid?”
They are...for their careers, pensions, mortgages, debt, kids.
They need to know the current dictatorship is going down...then they will come forward. Risk averse, as all who live by the whim of the king are.
Nope - I’m not willing to give Hitlery a pass, but agree that prosecuting and sentencing Comey would send shivers throughout our government.
Gone are the days that heroes would risk everything for their country, freedom and fighting tyranny. Too bad.... :-(
FBI reopening Investigation into Clinton’s e-mail use
Per Fox and Rep. Jason Chaffetz
REOPENING!?!
IT WAS CLOSED,
THEN,,,,
NO WAIT,,,
And for their very lives. Arkancide is quite real.
This is an effort to rescue Hillary. The Wikileaks releases had begun to take their toll. I can’t help thinking this case is being re-opened in order to clear Hillary next week.
They belong to the same clubs: Democrats, Marxists, Globalists, Revolutionary Communist Party, CPUSA, Tides Foundation, Clinton Foundation, etc, etc, etc.
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