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To: zax who wrote (724)	5/26/2016 2:17:39 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1289

Speaking of lies...... thenewamerican.com

To: zax who wrote (724)	5/26/2016 2:20:40 PM
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Experts: Audit justifies FBI’s push for Hillary Clinton indictment Brian Dowling Thursday, May 26, 2016 The scathing audit of Hillary Clinton’s use of a basement email server while secretary of state gives cover to the FBI chief as he weighs whether to push for an indictment against the Democratic presidential front-runner. The 82-page report leaked yesterday — which found Clinton’s hard drive at her New York home broke federal standards and left sensitive material vulnerable to hackers — makes FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation to Attorney General Loretta Lynch that much easier, said GOP consultant Brad Marston. “It gives Comey additional cover,” Marston said, “and makes it easier for the FBI to recommend to the Justice Department to pursue an indictment.” Republican strategist Ford O’Connell said the report helps the FBI’s decision by establishing whether Clinton’s server was attacked by hackers and whether the former secretary of state did keep all her emails on the server. “If you’re a neutral arbiter like James Comey, you have to say, ‘Hats off. There’s actual proof,’” O’Connell said. “It gives him cover if he wants to pursue charges through the Department of Justice.” ...

To: zax who wrote (724)

5/26/2016 2:23:06 PM

From: jlallen

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When she's lost Mika.........................

Brzezinski: It Feels Like Hillary Clinton Is ‘Lying Straight Out’ About Her Emails
2K Washington Free Beacon by David Rutz

Liberal Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has been one of Hillary Clinton’s staunchest critics over her email scandal, and she said Thursday it felt like Clinton had lied “straight out.”

Brzezinski challenged reporter Andrea Mitchell as to whether Clinton was lying as well, but Mitchell said she couldn’t say for sure. She acknowledged “there are so many inconsistencies.”

A damning report from the State Department Inspector General Wednesday condemned Clinton’s email practices as secretary of state, showing she violated clear rules about records-keeping. As MSNBC reported, the IG served to “ directly contradict” repeated claims by Clinton that her email conduct was permitted and aboveboard.

“Here are the things that over time we remember here,” Brzezinski said. “Her saying repeatedly it was allowed. A private server, set up in her home, by an IT guy who was given immunity and his emails are missing, and she even joked when she was asked, I think in a high school, did you wipe the server … And she joked about it being with a cloth.

“I really don’t want to be the one delivering this, but I’ve got to tell you, this is really hard to believe. It feels like she’s lying straight out. Andrea Mitchell, is she lying?”

“I can’t say that,” Mitchell said. “I would let the viewer, I would let the voter make those determinations, but it doesn’t hold up. There are so many inconsistencies, including their response yesterday.”

Mitchell, as others have done, pointed to the Clinton campaign claiming that the report showed her server was not hacked. In reality, it confirmed there were hack attempts, but even the State Department spokesman on Wednesday could not definitively say none of them were successful.

The post Brzezinski: It Feels Like Hillary Clinton Is ‘Lying Straight Out’ About Her Emails appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

To: zax who wrote (724)

5/27/2016 8:55:47 AM

From: jlallen

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Origin of Key Clinton Emails From Report are a Mystery
by Chad Day, Stephen Braun and Jack Gillum
Associated Press
Friday May 27, 2016
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Source:AP Photo/John Locher)

Since her use of a private email server was made public last year, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted she turned over all work-related emails to the State Department to be released to the public.

But after 14 months of public scrutiny and the release of tens of thousands of emails, an agency watchdog's discovery of at least three previously undisclosed emails has renewed concerns that Clinton was not completely forthcoming when she turned over a trove of 55,000 pages of emails. And the revelation has spawned fresh criticism from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The three messages - which appear to have been found among electronic files of four former top Clinton State Department aides - included Clinton's own explanation of why she wanted her emails kept private. In a November 2010, email, Clinton worried that her personal messages could become accessible to outsiders.

Two other messages a year later divulged possible security weaknesses in the home email system she used while secretary of state. The Clinton campaign has previously denied that her home server was compromised.

On Thursday, Clinton, who has called her use of a private email server "a mistake," said she had been forthcoming with her personal emails and said she believed her use of a private email account was allowed.

"I have provided all of my work-related emails, and I've asked that they be made public, and I think that demonstrates that I wanted to make sure that this information was part of the official records," Clinton said, according to an interview transcript provided by ABC News.

Most of Clinton's emails have been made public by the State Department over the past year due to both a court order and Clinton's willingness to turn them over. But hundreds were censored for national security reasons and 22 emails were completely withheld because the agency said they contained top secret material - a matter now under investigation by the FBI.

Clinton said in March 2015 that she would turn over all work-related emails to the State Department after removing private messages that contained personal and family material. "No one wants their personal emails made public and I think most people understand that and respect their privacy," she said after her exclusive use of private emails to conduct State Department business was confirmed by media reports.

Senate investigators have asked for numerous emails about Clinton's server as part of their own inquiry into Clinton's email practices in recent months, but they didn't get copies of key messages made public by the State Department's own watchdog this week, a senior Republican senator said Thursday.

"It is disturbing that the State Department knew it had emails like this and turned them over to the inspector general, but not to Congress," said Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee that's been probing Clinton's use of a private server.

The emails appear to contain work-related passages, raising questions about why they were not turned over to the State Department last year. The inspector general noted that Clinton's production of work-related emails was "incomplete," missing not only the three emails but numerous others covering Clinton's first four months in office.

The inspector general also found Clinton's email set up violated agency policies and could have left sensitive government information vulnerable. It also complicated federal archiving of her emails, in turn making it more difficult to obtain them under the Freedom of Information Act.

On Thursday, Clinton told ABC News her use of the personal email was "allowed," saying that "the rules have been clarified since I left." In a later interview Thursday with CNN, Clinton said she "believed it was allowed."

A spokesman for the Clinton campaign did not respond to emailed questions Thursday. An inspector general's spokesman declined to discuss the report.

The report said the inspector general was able to reconstruct some of Clinton's missing emails by searching the email files of four former Clinton aides who had turned over thousands of pages of communications in 2015 at the request of the State Department, which is defending itself in multiple public records lawsuits, including one filed by The Associated Press. The four aides who turned over those files, according to the report, were Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and top aides Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines.

Abedin was the aide who authored the key email in November 2010 that provoked Clinton's concerns about outsiders obtaining her personal emails. After the State Department's computer spam filters apparently prevented Clinton from sending a message to all department employees from her private server, Abedin suggested that she either open an official agency email or make her private address available to the agency.

Clinton told Abedin she was open to getting a separate email address but didn't want "any risk of the personal being accessible." Clinton never used an official State Department address, only using several private addresses to communicate. Abedin, Mills, Sullivan and Reines all also used private email addresses to conduct business, along with their government accounts.

Two other emails sent to Abedin were cited in the inspector general's report, but also did not turn up among the emails released by Clinton. Those messages to Abedin contained warnings in January 2011 from an unidentified aide to former President Bill Clinton who said he had to shut down Hillary Clinton's New York-based server because of suspected hacking attacks.

In response, Abedin warned Mills and Sullivan not to email Clinton "anything sensitive" and said she would "explain more in person."

To: zax who wrote (724)

5/27/2016 1:31:15 PM

From: jlallen

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Related: If Clinton Loses Her Security Clearance, Could She Still Be President?

The new IG report gives clarity to the screamingly obvious. Hillary Clinton used an unauthorized and unsecured private e-mail server to avoid compliance with legitimate Congressional oversight and Freedom of Information Act requests. Under her leadership, the State Department misled several courts and a number of Congressional inquiries about the existence of Clinton’s e-mails.

In doing so, she allowed the system to transmit and retain highly classified information relating to intelligence and national security, putting that data and those responsible for collecting it in danger. Clinton did so recklessly, negligently, and in violation of 18 USC 793 and 18 USC 1924 – statutes that identify such transgressions as felonies.

What happens if the FBI investigation goes to a grand jury? We might have the spectacle of a major-party nominee getting subpoenaed to testify in a criminal inquiry – and taking the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination. And that might be the most honest statement that Clinton would have made about her secret e-mail server in the past 15 months.