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Benghazi terror attack show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received detailed information indicating the strike was planned by well-trained fighters, yet her office continued to push the narrative days later that it began "spontaneously."

The messages were among 296 emails released Friday by the State Department, in the first batch of emails to be made public from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Totaling 896 pages, the emails show a series of Libya dispatches Clinton received from a confidant in the months leading up to the attack -- and the barrage of messages among her and her aides after Sept. 11, 2012.

Those messages depict the rapidly changing understanding of what happened at the U.S. compound that night, and the administration's internal struggle to settle on a public narrative.

As previously reported, confidant Sidney Blumenthal fired off two memos in the two days after the attack. But the full email release shows he gave a highly detailed picture of what "sources" said had happened that night. Initially, on Sept. 12, he sent Clinton an email linking the attacks to anger over an anti-Islam Internet video which had triggered protests across the region.

Sid Blumenthal was Hillary Clinton?s go-to guy as a journalist, as a White House aide and, we?ve just learned, as an informal adviser to the secretary of State on Libya.

And that took place while he happened to be working with some businessmen who were trying to land contracts in Libya?deals that would have required State Department approval.

What?s more, the information he provided was mostly lousy.

This remarkable story is contained in some of Hillary?s private emails, which have now been leaked to the New York Times. And they provide a flashback for those who endured the Clinton wars of the ?90s, when Blumenthal wound up testifying before a grand jury over his role in the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

The story is apparently based on information furnished by Trey Gowdy?s House Benghazi committee, which is prominently mentioned as planning to subpoena Blumenthal.

The night a U.S. ambassador was killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary Clinton sent a message three senior State Department officials.

The recepients were Jake Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Secretary of State Clinton, Cheryl Mills, an adviser to Clinton?s 2008 presidential campaign and Counselor and Chief of Staff to the Secretary, and Victoria Jane Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

?Cheryl told me the Libyans confirmed his death. Should we announce tonight or wait until morning?? Clinton says in the email, time stamped 11:38 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012.

Hillary Clinton received now-classified information about the Benghazi attacks on her private email, documents released by the State Department on Friday show.

The department made public 296 emails from Clinton?s private server related to the congressional investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The emails are only a sliver of the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton gave State, but include all those related to the attack.

One email chain from State Department officials, forwarded to Clinton from an aide, Jake Sullivan, discussed the arrest of possible suspects. A note in the margin redacts a portion as "secret," noting that the FBI classified the email on Friday. It indicates the email was classified because it referred to "foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources."

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The AP first reported the existence of the email.

Brian Fallon, a press secretary for Clinton?s 2016 White House campaign, said on Twitter that the emails were classified only in recent days. 

The classified email is likely to add new fuel to the controversy over the 2016 contender's use of

Not that there was ever much doubt. Three days after the Benghazi attack, the White House admitted it had pressured Google and YouTube to yank ?Innocence of Muslims? as some sort of terms-of-use violation. Google refused. A week after that, having failed to twist a major corporation?s arm into censoring a politically unhelpful bit of free speech on its behalf, the State Department started running ads in Pakistan denouncing the movie, in hopes that jihadi savages would be appeased by the show of national contrition and not target any more embassies. Also around this time, YouTube did agree to censor ?Innocence of Muslims? by blocking it in Egypt and Libya, the two nations that saw the most violent attacks on U.S. diplomats on September 11, 2012. Hillary Clinton had to have known about and signed off on all this, we naturally assumed. And now here?s evidence that she did: Although the message below is vague, I assume it?s referring to the ban that Google imposed on the video in Africa.

Leaning on corporate cronies to suppress Americans? speech for political ends would be a disqualifying offense for a candidate in a sane world.

    Emails show State Dept. contacted Google, YouTube over anti-Muslim film in 2012 pic.twitter.com/xGJQ8wEYvp

    ? Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) May 22, 2015

Fun fact: On the very day that e-mail was sent, the man who made ?Innocence of Muslims? was arrested by the feds on a ?parole violation.? Hillary?s leisure reading in the weeks before that was interesting too:

    On 9/12/12, Hillary sends link on "Meet the Right-Wing Extremist Behind the Anti-Muslim Film" pic.twitter.com/cKYuaSg8ro

    ? Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 22, 2015

Then again, not all of what she was reading had to do with the Mohammed movie:

    daaaaaaamn pic.twitter.com/R2Z6SorFxJ

    ? daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 22, 2015

Exit question: Hillary was paying enough attention to Libya to know that her ambassador?s name was Chris Stevens, right? Right?

Update: Here?s a sneak preview of how the wider media?s going to relate to Hillary once First! Woman! President! fee-vah really gets going next year. If the text is too small in the tweets below, just click the images and it?ll enlarge. Quote: ?HILL, can I ride on your lap to the White

Hundreds of Hillary Clinton?s emails were released today, something Clinton herself said she wants, but Charles Krauthammer doesn?t really buy this is some great victory for transparency and disclosure.

?There isn?t a shred of evidence,? he said, ?because she shredded the evidence. This whole release is a farce.?

He pointed out that it?s not like every little email Clinton ever sent will be released to the public, only the ones ?scrubbed and cleansed and decided upon, chosen by her own people, acting in her own interest.?

And, Krauthammer added, it?s working, because the media is eagerly looking through ?pre-scrubbed material? and months later, when Clinton?s opponents try to use the controversy against her, she?ll be able to say she called for their release and everyone already spent so much time on it.

My general opinion of people in the media has fallen to an all time low.  How stupid are these people today?  Newspapers and networks are employing some of the dumbest people I have ever witnessed.

Education has declined so badly in America, I seriously doubt it will return.  Integrity has flown the coop!

Cheryl Mills, who was the State Department?s counselor and chief of staff during the entirety of Hillary Clinton?s tenure, said in an email on November 13, 2012, that her colleagues were ?on board? after a ?come to? (Jesus?) meeting, in reference to classified congressional hearings that would be taking place later that week.  Her correspondent was Philippe Reines, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton who had asked how the ?hearings?were going (perhaps meaning ?briefings??) The classified hearings were on the 15th and 16th.

Of the newly released batch of Hillary Clinton emails, this one seems to be the most significant.

 

    Cheryl Mills getting folks ?on board.? pic.twitter.com/ARjXU1raFE

    ? John Sexton (@verumserum) May 22, 2015

Mills, who is up to her waist in the Benghazi affair,  is on the House Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy?s witness list to testify before the committee or commit to a transcribed interview.

Also on the list are Huma Abedin, Sidney Blumenthal, Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes.

Some other interesting emails include one from HRC herself linking to an article alleging that the anti-Mohammed video was produced by a ?right-wing extremist.?

    On 9/12/12, Hillary sends link on ?Meet the Right-Wing Extremist Behind the Anti-Muslim Film? pic.twitter.com/cKYuaSg8ro

    ? Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 22, 2015

The article was written, incidentally, by Sid ?Vicious? Blumenthal?s slimy son ? the lefty smear merchant Max Blumenthal.

More good stuff collected by Allahpundit at Hot Air.

Among her shenanigans:

    As White House deputy counsel, Mills ordered Commerce Department officials to ?withhold? from investigators emails and other documents detailing then-President Bill Clinton?s and first lady Hillary Clinton?s allegedly illegal selling of seats on foreign trade junkets for campaign cash, according to sworn statements by Commerce?s former FOIA chief. ?Ms. Mills, in her position as deputy counsel to the president, advised Commerce officials to withhold certain documents,? testified Sonya Stewart Gilliam in a July 2000 sworn affidavit taken by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group in Washington. ?The Commerce Department?s collaboration with White House Deputy Counsel Mills on these matters was, in my experience, highly irregular and at variance with normal procedures.

    At the same time, a federal judge ruled that Mills ?failed miserably? to take proper steps to search for and recover 1.8 million Executive Office of the President and Office of the First Lady emails under subpoena in the Monica Lewinsky and Filegate scandal investigations, after computer contractors discovered them mysteriously missing from the automated White House archiving system. Mills, who was in charge of finding the lost email, conveniently made ?the most critical error? in recovering them, US District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded in a 63-page opinion, adding that he found her actions ?loathsome.? In fact, Judicial Watch accused Mills of orchestrating a ?cover-up? in what became known as ?Email-gate.? Her court testimony in the case, during which she repeatedly answered ?I don?t have a recollection,? sounds like an interview with an amnesia patient. (In the end, the emails were never recovered.)

    In another scandal, Mills ?concealed? so many subpoenaed emails and other documents detailing allegedly illegal fundraising activity between the White House and the Democratic National Committee ? specifically, Hillary?s illegal integration of White House and DNC computer databases ? that staff lawyers for the House Government Oversight Committee in 1998 sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department demanding federal prosecutors charge Mills with obstruction of justice and perjury. ?Ms. Mills knowingly and willfully obstructed the investigative authority of this committee by withholding documents,? the panel concluded in a 647-page investigative report. ?Moreover, when this obstruction was brought to light in a hearing before the committee, Ms. Mills lied under oath about the documents and the circumstances surrounding their nonproduction.?

    In October 2012, Mills sorted through key Benghazi documents and decided which ones to withhold from an independent review board. She also leaned on witnessses. Deputy ambassador to Libya Gregory Hicks testified before Congress in 2013 that Mills told him in an angry phone call to stop cooperating with investigators.

    On behalf of the Clintons, Mills negotiated the weak conflict-of-interest rules for disclosing foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation with the Obama administration. She also reportedly helped broker international payments to the group.

In short, Mills ?is in the middle of it,? Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

An investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi said if the panel calls Mills as a witness, her testimony will most likely be taken behind closed doors in a ?transcribed interview.? That would be a mistake.

Mills should be sworn in and grilled in a public hearing

Apparently, Hillary Clinton isn?t even ready for the 10 a.m. phone call.

Information obtained from her emails released by the State Department Friday revealed that Clinton missed President Obama?s first daily intel briefing after the 2012 terrorist attacks on Benghazi.

?I just woke up,? the former secretary of state wrote at 10:43 a.m on Sept 15, 2012.

It was a far cry from her 2008 campaign ad against then-Sen. Barack Obama asking if he would be ready for a 3 a.m. phone call.

Then again, at her advanced age she does need her rest.

The Twitterverse was brutal in its criticism of Clinton.

    .@HillaryClinton slept through the mtg where she was to get the Presidential Daily Brief. "I just woke up" she wrote at 10:43 am on 9/15/12.

    ? James Rosen (@JamesRosenFNC) May 22, 2015

    @JamesRosenFNC If this is the stuff she is releasing, how bad is the stuff she deleted?

    ? Eileen (@mylifeback) May 22, 2015

    @JamesRosenFNC @HillaryClinton CLEARLY, Hillary asleep at the switch LONG before the Benghazi horror. Awakened to conjure, "Twas the video!"

    ? GretchenInOK (@GretchenInOK) May 22, 2015

    @JamesRosenFNC @keder @HillaryClinton in 2008 she claimed shed answer the 3am phone call; now she sleeps through the 8am alarm clock

    ? CTIronman (@CTIronman) May 22, 2015

    @JamesRosenFNC for those who thought @HillaryClinton would actually answer that 3 am call?nope, not even at 10:43 am. #SnoozeResetButton

    ? C (@IStateYourName_) May 24, 2015

    @JamesRosenFNC @BrianWilsonDC @HillaryClinton She was prob up all night waiting for that 3am phone call.

    ? Major Chisholm (@creativeliberty) May 24, 2015

    Old Snorebox Granny Hillary Clinton Slept Trough Benghazi Daily Briefing http://t.co/tO9KBK5zXH #OhHillNo #PJNET pic.twitter.com/EzpIj6ZVRO

    ? Leah (@LeahR77) May 23, 2015

    @LeahR77 @Callisto1947 She should be sleeping in a jail cell.

A federal judge issued an order Wednesday requiring the State Department to make public batches of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails every 30 days starting next month.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras also set particular targets for the agency to meet each month as it wades through the roughly 30,000 emails totaling about 55,000 pages. (The percentages set for each disclosure can be viewed in the judge's written order, posted here.)

The monthly disclosure essentially splits the difference between the State Department's most recent proposal of releases every 60 days and lawyers for Vice News reporter Jason Leopold, who proposed releases every two weeks.

The State Department initially proposed releasing the vast majority of the emails in a single batch by next January, but Contreras rejected that suggestion, citing the public interest in the materials.

Clinton, now a Democratic candidate for president, has said she wants the emails released by State as quickly as possible.

Vice News sought the emails and other records from Clinton's office last year under the

Recently released emails detail then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's interest in arming Libyan opposition groups using private security contractors before the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 ? though at the time, the opposition was not formally recognized by the U.S. or United Nations, which prohibited arming without following strict guidelines and oversight.

The issue remains so sensitive that the emails recently released by the State Department redacted a key line on the matter. But the unredacted version of the same email, released to the congressional Benghazi Select Committee and first posted by The New York Times last Thursday, showed Clinton appearing to endorse the idea of using private contractors to her then-deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan.

"FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered," Clinton wrote to Sullivan on April 8, 2011, attaching an intelligence report from Hillary?s adviser Sidney Blumenthal. The opposition was known as the Transitional National Council, or TNC.

Another email released by the State Department shows that three days earlier, on April 5, 2011, Bill Clinton said he would not rule out arming the Libyan opposition.

Over a five-year span, senior officials at the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA) voiced growing alarm about Hillary Clinton?s record-keeping practices as secretary of state, according to internal documents shared with Fox News.

During Clinton?s final days in office, Paul Wester, the director of Modern Records Programs at NARA ? essentially the agency?s chief records custodian ? privately emailed five NARA colleagues to confide his fear that Clinton would take her official records with her when she left office, in violation of federal statutes.

Referring to a colleague whose full name is unknown, Wester wrote on December 11, 2012: ?Tom heard (or thought he heard) from the Clinton Library Director that there are or may be plans afoot for taking her records from State to Little Rock." That was a reference to the possibility that Clinton might seek to house her records at the Clinton Presidential Center, which was largely funded by the Clinton Foundation.

"[W]e need to discuss what we know, and how we should delicately go about learning more about?the transition plans for Secretary Clinton?s departure from

This story was co-published with Gawker.

Update, March 27, 6:48 p.m.: This story has been updated to include responses from the FBI and the State Department.

Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by  a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal?s account.

The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya?s civil war raged in 2011.

Blumenthal?s emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal?s account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently heard new information that could blow the lid off of the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal and shed new light on a consulting job Huma Abedin held while working as Clinton?s aide at the State Department.

The Daily Caller learned of a three-hour May 1 meeting two State Department whistleblowers held with the general counsel and staffers for the Oversight Committee, which is led by Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz.

According to a copy of notes from that meeting, State Department whistleblower Richard Higbie and another whistleblower told of an inspector-turned-whistleblower with State?s office of the inspector general who claims his investigation into Abedin?s work with Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm, led to the discovery of Clinton?s private email server.

    State Department published a massive tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails Tuesday night from her days as secretary of state
    Judge ordered the release in response to a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit
    Tuesday's revelation covers barely 3,000 of the 55,000 pages that must go online by the end of the year; 9:00 p.m. release suggested State Department tried to bury it
    Funny moments (Clinton can't work a fax machine) vied with imperious messages (telling aides to fetch her iced tea) and confusing references to someone on her calendar named 'Santa'

WASHINGTON ? Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.

The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton's private account contained "hundreds of potentially classified emails." The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management.

It is not clear if any of the information in the emails was marked as classified by the State Department when Mrs. Clinton sent or received them.

A reported two-month gap in emails from Hillary Clinton's private account during 2012 coincides with a period of escalating violence in Libya and the obtaining of a special exemption by her top aide, Huma Abedin, to work for both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

The Daily Beast reported late Tuesday that no emails between Clinton and her State Department staff for the months of May and June 2012 are among the estimated 2,000 messages that have been released from the Democratic presidential frontrunner's account.

A State Department spokesman told The Daily Beast that only emails related to the security of U.S. diplomats in Libya or the consulate in Benghazi were turned over to the House select committee investigating the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack. If true, that means neither Clinton nor her staff communicated via e-mail during a period that saw three attacks on international outposts in Benghazi

The proof of her outright dishonesty just continues to mount.  What she did was treasonous.  Again, the reckless, feckless administration of Obama is fraught with criminal activity, total negligence, etc.

gowdy acts like that server still exists.  it doesn't.  it was shredded and melted down into charm bracelets of huma's husband's private parts.  the clinton's won't admit it until it's finally subpoenaed.  "oh, THAT email server?  heavens.  that was melted ages ago.  SORRY!"

WASHINGTON

The classified emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?s private server contained information from five U.S. intelligence agencies and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks, McClatchy has learned.

Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among 296 emails made public in May by the State Department. Intelligence community officials have determined it was improperly released.

Revelations about the emails have put Clinton in the crosshairs of a broadening inquiry into whether she or her aides mishandled classified information when she used a private server set up at her New York home to conduct official State Department business.

While campaigning for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton has repeatedly denied she ever sent or received classified information. Two inspectors general have

(Washington, DC) ? Judicial Watch announced today that Secretary of State John Kerry asked a court to delay by nearly 40 days his obligation to answer a Judicial Watch lawsuit that seeks to force Kerry to take steps to ?recover emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? and other U.S. Department of State employees (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. John F. Kerry (No. 1:15-cv-00785)). Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit on May 28, and the State Department is obligated to answer the complaint on August 7, but the State Department is seeking an extraordinary 38 more days to answer the complaint.

Judicial Watch notes in its opposition to the delay that Kerry has already had 60 days to respond to the Judicial Watch lawsuit.  Judicial Watch notes that the concerns about unsecured classified information on Clinton?s email system increases the urgency of the issue:

    This case involves the removal and ongoing failure to recover agency records.  Nearly every day brings new, startling revelations of possible destruction of these records and Defendant?s continuing failure to recover them.  See Exh. B (Michael S. Schmidt, No Copies of Clinton Emails, Lawyer Says, N.Y. Times, July 24, 2015).  Even more disturbing, many of which apparently contain classified information.  See Exh. C (Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo, Hillary Clinton Emails Said to Contain Classified Data, N.Y. Times, July 24, 2015).  While Defendant would like 98 days to fashion a response to the Complaint, time is of the essence in taking action to recover these records.

Kerry argues to delay the lawsuit by consolidating it with a case brought by Cause of Action Institute.  The Cause of Action lawsuit argues the same legal theory as Judicial Watch?s lawsuit, was filed nearly six weeks after Judicial Watch filed its complaint, and raises no new legal issues that require 38 days of legal work.

Judicial Watch attorneys note to the Court that if the two lawsuits against Kerry are so similar that they require consolidation, then Secretary should be able to respond to both complaints next week.  Consolidating two or more lawsuits is supposed to be used ?avoid unnecessary cost or delay? under federal court rules.

While at the State Department, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conducted official government business using unsecured email

The FBI has begun investigating the security of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server, an attorney for the Democratic presidential front-runner confirmed to Fox News late Tuesday.

The probe, which was first reported by The Washington Post, comes days after watchdogs from the State Department and the intelligence community asked the Justice Department to explore whether classified material was improperly shared or stored on the former secretary of state's private e-mail account.

The Post first reported the FBI contacted Clinton attorney David Kendall about the security of a thumb drive he possesses that contain copies of work emails sent by Clinton during her time as America's top diplomat. The paper also reported that the FBI had contacted a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the server.

"Quite predictably, after the [intelligence community's inspector general] made a referral to ensure that materials remain properly stored, the government is seeking assurance about the storage of those materials," Kendall told Fox News. "We are

So, how many months, if not years has it taken the FBI to get off its politically dead *ss to do their job?

Our government could not be more corrupt if they try.

Certainly, the FBI knew years ago that Clinton was using her own server.  This should have been addressed within the first year she was Secretary of State.  That was 2009! 

When a bank gets robbed, is it now the Justice Department?s practice to let the suspect hold on to the money while the FBI does its investigation?

According to the Washington Examiner, the Justice Department has still not seized the Clinton server and at least one thumb-drive copy of its contents even though government officials have conceded that national-defense secrets are stored on them. Former secretary of state Clinton apparently still has the server, while the thumb drive is reportedly in the possession of her private lawyer, David Kendall.

Remarkably, although these private parties are being permitted to maintain custody of classified information, the State Department has denied the intelligence community?s inspector general access to Mrs. Clinton?s e-mails ? at least, the 30,000 or so she finally deigned to surrender.

A State Department flack cited ?jurisdictional grounds? as the rationale for refusing to hand the e-mails over to the intel IG. Perish the thought that it might have anything to do with the fact that, last month, the IG found classified information on 10 percent of the small sample he was permitted to examine ? four out of 40.

Realize how cynical this is: While candidate Hillary Clinton, who unilaterally destroyed over 30,000 e-mails precisely so no one could see what was in them, runs around the country telling voters she desperately wants the State Department to make her e-mails available to the public, the State Department won?t even allow an investigator for government intelligence services to see them. After all, if the IG were allowed to investigate, the public might learn exactly how many national-defense secrets Clinton was storing on her private email system and discussing in her correspondence over that system. Can?t have that.

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - August 07, 2015) - Judicial Watch announced that the State Department today provided a status report as required by a July 31 federal court order requiring the State Department to request that Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides Human Abedin and Cheryl Mills confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hillary Clinton's email server to conduct government business. The State Department filing shows that the agency sent the former officials the request and a copy of Judge Sullivan's order but that both Mills and Abedin, who responded through their attorneys, ignored Judge Sullivan's request to submit information under penalty of perjury. The State Department reports that Mrs. Clinton has yet to respond. Contrary to both Judge Sullivan's order and the State Department's request, Ms. Mills' attorney said that she told Ms. Mills to destroy federal records in her possession on Monday, August 10. Tonight, Judicial Watch filed an urgent response informing Judge Sullivan of this plan to destroy federal records.

The State Department produced the August 5 letter it sent to Mrs. Clinton, which included a copy of Judge Sullivan's order.

The developments come in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit was reopened last month because of revelations about Hillary Clinton's email records.

A controversial Clinton adviser who faced penalties for conflicts of interests under President Bill Clinton was still assisting Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, despite the fact that his consulting firm was engaged in commercial activities in countries where she worked, emails show.

Sandy Berger, who gained notoriety when he stole classified documents from the National Archives prior to testimony before the 9/11 Commission, had Hillary Clinton's personal email address and emailed her about Israel, Pakistan and terrorism in 2009.

Berger's consulting firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group, has engaged in business in more than 100 countries around the world, according to its website.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is giving the U.S. Justice Department her private email server and a thumb drive of work-related emails from her tenure as secretary of state, a spokesman for her campaign said on Tuesday.

Clinton's use of her private email for her work as America's top diplomat came to light in March and drew fire from political opponents who accused her of sidestepping transparency and record-keeping laws.

The private account was linked to a server in her New York home. For months, Republican lawmakers have demanded that Clinton relinquish the server for inspection by an independent party, which Clinton said she was not willing to do. Some of those lawmakers quickly began issuing statements on Tuesday night, saying their concerns were vindicated as not being motivated only by politics.

The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation both declined to comment.

The FBI recently began looking into the security of the federal records and classified

Tasked with digging into the security of Hillary?s home brewed email server, the FBI investigation into presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is expanding it?s reach.

A local CBS News affiliate reports the Denver based Platte River Networks received a visit from the FBI last week regarding former Secretary Clinton?s email.

Platte River Networks handled the Clinton?s email accounts though there?s been no public explanation as to what that entailed.

It?s been confirmed by both the intelligence community and the office of the Inspector General that classified information was transmitted through Hillary Clinton?s private email account. Also true is that Hillary Clinton deleted thousands of emails prior to turning some over to the State Department for record keeping.

Platte River Networks may have copies of emails Hillary Clinton deleted.

According to CBS News Denver:

    Sources related to that visit told CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger the company has been asked to preserve any information related to the emails involving Bill and Hillary Clinton.

    The company?s website lists awards including for being among the best Colorado businesses and places to work. But Metro State University As

The latest revelations about top secret information traversing Hillary Clinton's private email server have triggered accusations that someone in her "inner circle" likely stripped the classification markings, illegally.

The claims come after the Clinton campaign stuck to the argument that the Democratic presidential candidate, while secretary of state, never dealt with emails that were "marked" classified at the time.

"Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to supporters Wednesday.

But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton's emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.

The FBI has taken possession of the personal e-mail server used by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, according to a published report.

Barbara Wells, an attorney for Denver-based computer services firm Platte River Networks, told The Washington Post that federal agents picked up the server from a private data center in New Jersey Wednesday afternoon. The attorney told the paper that the server "was blank" and no longer contained useful information.

"The information had been migrated over to a different server for purposes of transition," Wells told the paper. "To my knowledge the data on the old server is not available now on any servers or devices in Platte River Network?s control." Wells added that the company had cooperated with the FBI and had been told it was not a target of the investigation.

The Justice Department is looking into whether classified information was improperly stored on or passed through the server, which Clinton used for all her correspondence during her time as secretary of state.

   

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 24: Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton gives an economic speech at New York University on July 24, 2015 in New York City. It has been disclosed by inspector general for the intelligence community that material Hillary Clinton emailed from her private server contained some classified information. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)


The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary?s Emails
These weren?t just ordinary secrets found in Clinton?s private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.

After months of denials and delaying actions, Hillary Clinton has decided to turn over her private email server to the Department of Justice. As this controversy has grown since the spring, Clinton and her campaign operatives have repeatedly denied that she had placed classified information in her personal email while serving as secretary of state during President Obama?s first term. (?I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received,? she said last month.) Her team also denied that she would ever hand over her server to investigators. Now both those assertions have been overturned.

Hillary Clinton has little choice but to hand over her server to authorities since it now appears increasingly likely that someone on her staff violated federal laws regarding the handling of classified materials. On August 11, after extensive investigation, the intelligence community?s inspector general reported to

I would be surprised the server handed over is the actual server.

She should be shot for treason.  Anything less than that makes a mockery of the USA.

The last batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department included one from Clinton asking to borrow a book called ?Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better,? by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe.

Clinton has not said why she requested the book, but it includes some advice that is particularly interesting in light of the controversy over her unconventional email arrangement at the State Department and her decision to delete tens of thousands of emails she deemed to be purely personal.

The copy that ABC downloaded for $9.99 had some interesting revelations.

Take, for example, Chapter Six: ?The Email That Can Land You In Jail.? The chapter includes a section entitled ?How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted.?

?Some people are hoarders, some are checkers,? the authors write. ?The main thing to consider is that once you do decide to delete, it?s like taking the garbage from your kitchen and putting it in your hallway. It?s still there.?

The chapter advised that to truly delete emails may require a special rewriting program ?to make sure that it?s not just elsewhere on the drive but has in fact been written over sixteen or twenty

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton?s most trusted confidante, is increasingly becoming a central figure in the email scandal that?s haunting her boss on the campaign trail, as Republicans and federal judges seek information about Clinton?s communications while she was running the State Department.

The 2016 Democratic front-runner on Monday told a federal judge that Abedin ? long considered her boss?s keeper and even dubbed her ?shadow? ? had her own email account on Clinton?s now infamous home-brewed server, ?which was used at times for government business,? Clinton acknowledged. That?s an unusual arrangement, even for top brass at the State Department.

Abedin has hired a team of lawyers, one of whom is a former Clinton aide, who are responding to information requests from the courts and State. They?ve denied any wrongdoing on the part of their client and said Abedin is cooperating with requests for official emails in her possession, aiming to turn over all her correspondence by the end of August.

The revelation that Hillary Rodham Clinton?s private emails contained sensitive information derived from spy satellites and signal intelligence undercuts her defense that she had no reason to believe she was dealing with classified information, security experts say.

?If she is so ignorant that she doesn?t recognize that this type of information in the email as being classified, it just calls into question her overall competence,? Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst trained in the rules of handling government secrets, told The Washington Times.

As details emerge about the extent of Mrs. Clinton?s use of personal email to exclusively conduct business as secretary of state, her defense has shifted.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server that an auditor deemed "top secret" include a discussion of a news article detailing a U.S. drone operation and a separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in an improper manner or merely reflect information collected independently, U.S. officials who have reviewed the correspondence told The Associated Press.

The sourcing of the information could have significant political implications as the 2016 presidential campaign heats up. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, agreed this week to turn over to the FBI the private server she used as secretary of state, and Republicans in Congress have seized on the involvement of federal law enforcement as a sign that she was either negligent with the nation's secrets or worse.

On Monday, the inspector general for the 17 spy agencies that make up what is known as the intelligence community told Congress that two of 40 emails in a random sample of the 30,000 emails Clinton gave the State Department for review contained information deemed "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," one of the government's highest levels of classification.

The two emails were marked classified after consultations with the CIA, which is where the material originated, officials said.

    Platte River Networks was used by Clinton to maintain 'homebrew' server in her New York State house which held her State Department emails
    She handed over the server and a thumb drive this week to FBI after emails were found to contain 'above top secret' material
    Her White House campaign is said to be in 'panic' over the growing scandal which comes out of probe into US diplomats' deaths in Benghazi
    Daily Mail Online can reveal Denver, Colorado, based firm was sued for illegally accessing master database of US phone numbers
    It was also accused of causing chaos to White House military advisers when their numbers stopped working as it took their numbers
    Case raises questions over how Platte River Networks' ability to secure server which would have been major target for foreign spy hackers

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted her email server to an IT firm that was not cleared to handle classified materials, according to the chief spokesman for the Defense Security Service.

The DSS is an arm of the Defense Department and is the only federal agency authorized to approve private sector company access to sensitive or confidential material.

The agency reviews and approves private contractors to assure they have secure facilities and approves security clearances for employees to clear them for access to sensitive or classified materials.

Since 2013, Clinton used Platte River Networks, a small Denver-based company, to upgrade and maintain her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.

Almost 90 people had former secretary of state?s address

List includes Obama aides, lobbyists and lawmakers

They may not have known she used a personal server


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Some 90 people, including lobbyists for foreign governments, lawmakers, top Obama aides and State Department employees, communicated directly with Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state using her personal email address, according to a McClatchy review of thousands of her recently released emails.

Many people said they were surprised when it was revealed in the spring that Clinton relied on a private email account on a private server in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home to conduct official business during her four years as Obama?s secretary of state. But the review of emails shows influential people in Washington and around the globe not only knew she used a personal account, but corresponded with her on that personal account.

Jeffrey Farrow, a lobbyist for the nation of Palau, exchanged several emails with Clinton between June and October 2009 about U.S. aid and the transfer of Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to the sparsely populated island. Laurie Rubiner, vice president of public policy and advocacy for Planned Parenthood, asked Clinton in July 2009 to discuss abortion during an upcoming trip to Kenya. Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister, repeatedly urged Clinton in September 2009 to meet with her friend, Sheikha Mozah, the second wife of the then emir of Qatar.

All the best to you its fantastic to see you doing so well and when I see what a difference you are making it reminds me why politics is too important to be left to the bad people, Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister in a 2009 email

And dozens and dozens of State Department employees used Clinton?s private email account to address a host of international issues, from a coup in Honduras and the draw down in Afghanistan to a conflict on the Azerbaijan border to security in Libya.

It happened sooner than even the doomsayers predicted. The era of artificial intelligence is here. A computer has become self-aware, a moral agent responsible for its own actions.

This breakthrough didn?t happen in Silicon Valley or at MIT. It happened, of all places, in Chappaqua, NY. And the person responsible isn?t even a computer scientist, but a lawyer and politician: Hillary Clinton.

Clinton?s critics say a lot of things about her, but who would?ve believed she was Skynet?s mother?

A little background. Clinton was forced to turn over her ?home-brewed? e-mail server to the FBI this week, along with a flash drive unlawfully stored at her lawyer?s office.

The server and the drive are tangible evidence of Clinton?s decision to circumvent laws and procedures designed to preserve government records and keep classified information secret.

She says she never knowingly sent classified information, but Clinton leaves out that the whole reason federal officials are barred from using private servers is that such systems are invisible to the classification process.

Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s top aides, used personal email accounts to conduct government business in addition to a State Department email and an account on the controversial server Mrs. Clinton kept at her New York home, the State Department confirmed to a federal court Friday.

The State Department admitted to the judge that it doesn?t have control over those documents, and can?t be sure it has all of the records from their time in the administration.

John F. Hackett, the top open-records official at the department, said they have officially concluded that Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills ?used personal email accounts located on commercial servers at times for government

    Platte River Networks maintained 'home brew' server Clinton used while Secretary of State
    This week the embattled Democratic White House frontrunner handed it over to FBI after ultra-secret material found in tiny sample of emails
    Daily Mail Online can reveal David DeCamillis of Platte River Networks was director of firm run by Lou Pearlman, who ran $500m Ponzi scheme
    Pearlman was jailed in 2008 and documents show that DeCamillis was sued for 'fraud' by bankruptcy trustee
    Federal court documents show he was accused of several counts of fraud and receiving $1.5m in payments from cash traceable to duped investors
    Disclosure raises questions what background checks - if any - were made on firm which handled server containing ultra-sensitive secrets

More than 300 of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton?s emails ? or 5.1 percent of those processed so far ? have been flagged for potential secret information, the State Department reported to a federal court Monday.

Officials insisted, however, that the screening process is running smoothly and they are back on track after falling behind a judge?s schedule for making all of the emails public.

The reviewers have screened about 20 percent of the 30,000 emails Mrs. Clinton returned to the department, which means if the rate of potentially secret information remains steady, more than 1,500 messages will have to

When State Department officials first discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal email account contained classified information, they did not seize the thumb drive containing her digitally archived inbox but rather provided her attorney a special safe to secure the device, according to interviews and documents.

The move allowed Mrs. Clinton's attorney to keep the device for several additional weeks while State officials reviewed paper copies of the emails for possible classified data. Officials were unconcerned that the thumb drive remained out of their possession because preservation orders from courts and Congress would ensure that her attorney would not destroy the evidence. The digital archive was turned over to the FBI for examination this month.

Throughout the review process, career State officials who normally handle the release of data under the Freedom of Information Act ran into disagreements with attorneys about which information in the emails was classified, The Washington Times has learned.

Democratic White House front-runner used Platte River Networks of Denver, Colorado, to maintain her controversial 'home brew' server
Up to 60 emails with classified material have been found in a sample of those she did not delete - meaning there could be many more
Now Daily Mail Online reveals new questions over security of her emails when Platte River was involved in maintaining server
'Mom and pop' firm used converted residential apartment and had its own servers in a bathroom closet
Links between 'local' IT company and Clinton remain unclear but its VP of sales and marketing, who was sued for 'fraud' is said to be 'big Democrat

(Washington, DC) ? Judicial Watch announced that the State Department asserts in its most recent filing with the court the State Department did not issue personal computing devices to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and possibly destroyed the Blackberries of her aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills:

    [The State Department] does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not located any such device at the Department. [The State Department] believes that Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin were each issued BlackBerry devices. [The State Department] has not located any such device at the Department ? Because the devices issued to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed.

State did identify the ?state.gov? email accounts of Mills, Abedin and two other former officials, but stated that Clinton ?did not use a state.gov account.?

The filing follows the recent court order granting Judicial Watch?s request for a hearing this week, on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 12:00 p.m., which had previously been scheduled for September. State recently sought a one-week extension from the court, and the judge denied it (the court changed the time of the hearing to 1 p.m.)

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BlackBerry devices used by two former Hillary Clinton aides during her time as Secretary of State have most likely been destroyed or sold off by the agency, a State Department official said in a court filing Wednesday.

The devices, used by Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, have not been located by the agency, State Department Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in a filing submitted in a Washington federal court, adding that the agency?s ?standard procedure upon return of such devices is to perform a factory reset (which removes any user settings or configurations)  and then to re-issue the device  to another employee, to destroy it, or to excess it.?

?Because the devices issued to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed,? Macmanus wrote.

He also said that Clinton did not have a BlackBerry from the State Department or any other device. ?SES/IRM (Two State Department offices) does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and has not located any such device at the Department,? Macmanus wrote.

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.

For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.

While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as "Classified," it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.

But the details included in those "Classified" stamps ? which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification ? appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go ? regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.

Dozens of emails that passed through Hillary Clinton's server during her time as secretary of state reportedly contained information automatically considered classified by the U.S. government and State Department's own regulations.

According to Reuters, at least 30 e-mail threads dating from as far back as 2009 contained what the State Department describes as "foreign government information." That number represents scores of individual emails that have already been made public, including 17 sent by Clinton herself. At least one of those emails was sent to longtime supporter Sidney Blumenthal, who did not hold a government position at the time.

The report says that the State Department identified the emails as containing "foreign government information" when it retroactively classified them upon their release earlier this year. However, the regulations say that such information, defined as having been provided orally or in writing to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts in confidence, must be "presumed" classified, regardless of whether it is initially marked that way.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the State Department to communicate with the FBI about Hillary Clinton?s personal email server, and opened the door to additional demands on the former secretary of state.

Judge Emmet Sullivan told the department to ?establish a dialogue? with the FBI about the machine, and be prepared to demand that the FBI turn over documents that may be related to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

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?I'm surprised that State didn't do that already,? Sullivan told government lawyers.

?If you can get the information as result of a dialogue with the FBI... I think I may be satisfied,? he added. ?Let's see what the investigation reveals, if anything.?

The order comes amid increasing scrutiny on Clinton's unorthodox email practices while serving as the nation's top diplomat. Her use of a ?home brew? email system has grown into an increasing drag on her front-runner presidential campaign, and forced top campaign officials to grow more aggressive in trying to get out in front of the story.

Last week, Clinton handed the server and thumb drives containing copies of 55,000 pages of her work-related emails over to the FBI, after news broke that classified information may have inappropriately passed through her inbox.

The firm Hillary Clinton hired to manage her private email server quietly removed information from its website in recent days, including references to its partnership with a Colorado data-scrubbing company.

Platte River Networks, the Denver-based company that hosted Clinton?s email server, deleted several pages from its website, including a section about how it outsources its data-disposal work to a local firm called Techno Rescue. That page appears to have been removed earlier this month, but can still be viewed in a cached version on major search engines.

On the now removed page, Platte River Networks said it provided its customers with ?complimentary e-waste technology recycling? through its partnership with Techno Rescue, including the ?disposal of data still residing on old technology.?

?In order to ensure our customers recycle responsibly, we provide them complimentary e-waste technology recycling,? said Platte River Networks. ?We partner with Techno Rescue ? a fully certified Colorado Electronics Recycling and Data Destruction E-waste company. It is illegal and socially irresponsible to throw your electronics in the trash. Responsible electronics recycling also includes the safe and proper disposal of data still residing on old technology.?

Readers may be tempted to respond Join the club, but this is ? in the words of the Obama administration?s most eloquent figure, a big effin? deal.  The White House has demanded more authority and jurisdiction over private networks as part of its push to improve cybersecurity in the US, even while it has botched its own network security at OPM, the Pentagon, and even the State Department under both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with auditing the security of federal government networks, but no one at State ever told DHS about Hillary?s private system (via Jeff Dunetz):

    The State Department does not appear to have submitted legally required information regarding Hillary Clinton?s secret computer server to the Department of Homeland Security during her term as secretary, FoxNews.com has learned.

    All federal government agencies are mandated to submit a list of systems, vulnerabilities and configuration issues to DHS every 30 days. The department then performs a ?cyberscope audit? to ensure security, a responsibility the agency has had since 2010.

    FoxNews.com learned of the lapse as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted June 11. It is not clear if State Department officials in charge of compliance with the DHS audits knew of their boss?s server, which has been shown to have included ?top secret? information in emails.

The 2011 email was one of the messages that triggered the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton?s server
It contained 'classified' intelligence from three different agencies - but the State Department published it anyway
An Obama order from 2009 states only the agencies that classify any information have the right declassify it
Therefore the State Department may have violated this order by deciding to 'declassify' it and authorize its release

Former President Bill Clinton attempted repeatedly to get approval from Hillary Clinton's State Department for lucrative speaking engagements in "two of the most repressive countries in the world ? North Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo," according to ABC News.

"While Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, Bill Clinton earned speaking fees around the globe totaling more than $48 million ? speeches that had to be vetted by the State Department to ensure there were no conflicts of interest with his wife's work as America's top diplomat," ABC?s Jonathan Karl reported. "These newly revealed emails show speech requests that the State Department refused to approve.

"The emails ? which have come to light because of a public records request by the conservative group Citizens United, which sued the State Department to get the documents ? show just how far Bill Clinton was willing to go to earn those lucrative fees ? seeking approval for appearances with ties to two of the most brutal countries in the world."

In May 2012, Clinton Foundation foreign policy director Amitabh Desai emailed Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton?s chief of staff during her tenure as secretary, and two other State Department officials, asking "Is it safe t

An FBI "A-team" is leading the "extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," an intelligence source told Fox News.

The section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793.

A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contained classified information regardless of the markings. The campaign's standard defense and that of Clinton is that she "never sent nor received any email that was marked classified" at the time.

It is not clear how the FBI team's findings will impact the probe itself. But the details offer a window into what investigators are looking for -- as the Clinton campaign itself downplays the controversy.

The FBI offered no comment.

If their investigation does not result in an indictment, then the entire upper tier of the FBI should be terminated.  If anyone deserves to be indicted for high treason, it is Hillary Clinton.

The daily revelations over classified information finding its way onto Hillary Clinton's personal email server are raising perplexing questions for former government officials who wonder how classified information made its way onto the former secretary of state's non-classified server -- especially since the two systems are not connected.

"It is hard to move classified documents into the non-classified system. You couldn't move a document by mistake," said Willes Lee, a former operations officer for the U.S. Army in Europe and former operations officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach confirmed the two systems don't connect. "The classified and unclassified system are separate and you cannot email between the two," Gerlach told Fox News.

The Clinton campaign adamantly denies any emails traversing Clinton's homebrew server were marked classified at the time. The intelligence community inspector general says "potentially hundreds" of classified emails may be in the mix, but acknowledges at least some were not properly marked.

Things are rapidly getting worse in the legal department for former Secretary of State and democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The State Department is set to release a batch of 6,000 personal emails belonging to Clinton tonight, but we're already getting a sneak peak of what they contain.

    Just in: State Dept found about another 150 Clinton emails with classified information -- more now @FoxNews @GretchenCarlson
    ? Ed Henry (@edhenry) August 31, 2015

That's right, 150 more documents flagged for classified information. This news comes on top of revelations earlier this month Clinton had at least 300 classified documents passing through her private email server, which intelligence officials are almost certain was hacked by foreign governments. Also keep in mind that out of hundreds of classified documents, at least two found in Clinton's system were deemed top secret (the highest level of classification).

As Guy wrote about last week, the FBI is reportedly using it's "A-Team" to investigate the legal aspects of Clinton's inappropriate handling of classified information with the prosecutor who took down General David Petraeus leading the way. Felonies for Clinton could be on the table if she is in fact indicted.

    An FBI "A-team" is leading the "extremely serious" investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," an intelligence source told Fox News. The section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793. A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contained classified information regardless of the markings. The campaign's standard defense and that of Clinton is that she "never sent nor received any email that was marked classified" at the time. It is not clear how the FBI team's findings will impact the probe itself. But the details offer a window into what investigators are looking for -- as the Clinton cam

    State will publish about 7,000 pages of emails at 9:00 p.m. from Hillary's private home-brew server after scouring them for classified material
    Another 150 messages will be added to the 63 that were already classified retroactively
    Clinton faces political pressure from both her right and left flanks as her email crisis deepens
    Asked if he could state categorically that Clinton 'followed the rules and the law,' a State Department spokesman said: 'I'm just not going to answer that question'

Obama is orchestrating this.  It will continue to drip out, and then all of a sudden, a server will be found with all the deleted emails that she conveniently disappeared.

The older Blumenthal, who served in the Clinton White House as a close political aide to the president and first lady, sent Clinton, in December 2010, an article his son wrote about ?Islamophobia? in the Republican Party, the tea party, and the ?Islamophobic crusade? from the ?pro-Israel lobby.? (Email 1 , Email 2)

Max attacked a number of individuals and groups for their financial or political support of Israel as well as excoriated them for their criticism of radical Islamic terrorism.
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Hillary Clinton's recently released emails includes a memo sent by David Brock titled, "Memo on Impeaching Clarence Thomas."

The purpose of the document might suggest Clinton, or at least those closest to her and in her circle, are interested in impeaching Justice Thomas.

The document contains information from Brock about his book, The Real Anita Hill, and other similar points on Justice Thomas's personal life.

The document contains details of Brock himself potentially intimidating women close to Justice Thomas. These details were from a 2001 New York Times article, in which the author reached out to a colleague of Thomas, Kaye Savage.

    "Reached at home in Washington last night, Ms. Savage said that Mr. Brock had tried to intimidate her but that he had not told her the source of the negative information."

In the memo found in Clinton's email, Brock notes his use of "journalistic sleight-of-hand involving a written statement Savage had given me under duress":

Thousands of Hillary Clinton's private emails released by the State Department Monday evening illustrate the deep ties Clinton maintained to her family's foundation while serving as secretary of state.

Clinton seemingly kept close tabs on the Clinton Foundation's activities ? a situation the Obama administration had hoped to avoid when bringing Clinton into the State Department in 2009.

Much of her involvement with the foundation focused on its work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake there. The Clinton Foundation was heavily involved in projects across Haiti after the disaster, many of which have subsequently been criticized.

Clinton referred to the Clinton Foundation's cash flow as "unencumbered" in January 2010 when she suggested to Cheryl Mills, then her chief of staff, that they pitch the Clinton Foundation or the Red Cross on a series of project ideas.

Hillary Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal had nothing but bad things to say about incoming House Speaker John Boehner on the day Republicans won back the House from Democrats in 2010, according to new emails released by the State Department late Monday.

"Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior."

"He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle," he added.

According to dictionary.com, "louche" means "dubious, shady, disreputable."

Members of the State Department's information technology staff were among those who were unaware that Hillary Clinton was using a private email address during her time as secretary of state, the latest release of messages from Clinton's private server revealed late Monday.

In one email, dated February 27, 2010, an IT worker on the State Department's computer "help desk" sends a message to Clinton's email address inquiring about why one of Clinton's correspondents has been getting a "fatal error" when she tries to send messages to the secretary of state.

Clinton forwarded the email to her top aide, Huma Abedin, asking "Do you know what this is [sic]". Abedin responds, "Ur [sic] email must be back up!!" and explains that a woman named Judith tried to send Clinton an email and called the department's IT team when the message was returned to her.

"They had no idea it was YOU," Abedin writes to Clinton, "just some random address so they emailed. Sorry about that. But regardless, means ur [sic] email must be back!"

Clinton has previously said she used the private server so she would not inconvenience herself by carrying separate devices for work and personal communications wherever she went. However, her use of the iPad as well as her State Department BlackBerry would appear to undercut her defense that she only wanted to use one device at a time.

The emails also contain a joke from Clinton about using multiple email addresses on her server. In a May 2010 email to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, Clinton says Rice should "please feel free to use (whatever my current address may be!) anytime." Fox News, citing independent research data, reported in March that Clinton appeared to have established multiple email addresses for her private use, and possibly the use of her aides, under the domain of ?clintonemail.com."

So if the Clinton denial is to be believed, individuals in her inner circle would have simply typed or scanned classified information into a non-classified system without regard for its contents. In this case, emails would have started in, and stayed in, the unclassified system -- albeit improperly, based on the findings of the intelligence inspector general.

But if it turns out emails literally jumped from the classified to the non-classified system -- something the State Department claims cannot happen -- it would seem to point to Clinton's staff going to great lengths to create a work-around to do so.

A government employee doing so would commit numerous felonies, according to Bradford Higgins, who served as assistant secretary of state for resource management and chief financial officer from 2006-2009. "A violation, in addition to criminal charges and potential prosecution, would likely mean that person who committed the breach would never again be given a security clearance," Higgins said.

Washington (AFP) - The US State Department released over 4,000 more of the emails former secretary of state Hillary Clinton kept on a private server and revealed that some 150 others have been retroactively classified.

Reporters and Clinton's rivals as she campaigns for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination began scouring 7,000 additional pages of messages from the mails she handed over earlier this year after coming under fire for operating the unofficial server.

But perhaps the greater danger to her, with no smoking gun emerging immediately as the hunt began, lay in the mails which officials said had now seen their security status upgraded to "classified" or above, implying they should not have been sent.

"I think it's somewhere around 150," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters, adding that the process of reevaluating the remaining unreleased emails was continuing.

Last month, officials said that 63 other mails had also been "upgraded in some form."

- Potential hack target? -

Clinton has been criticized for using a private server rather than an official government domain for all her emails during her time at the State Departmen

New Hillary Clinton e-mails released in a late-night document dump Monday reveal how the former secretary of state?s use of a private e-mail account sowed confusion in the State Department, with government IT professionals unaware that she was using a private ? and apparently buggy ? computer server to conduct official business. On February 27, 2010, State Department computer technician Christopher Butzgy sent an e-mail titled ?E-mail test? to Clinton?s private e-mail account. ?I work as a help desk analyst and it has come to my attention that one of our customers has been receiving permanent fatal errors from this address, can you please confirm if you receive this message,? he wrote. Clinton did not confirm, instead forwarding the e-mail to top aide Huma Abedin. ?Do you know what this is?? she asked. ?Ur email must be back up!!? Abedin replied. ?What happened is judith sent you an email. It bounced back. She called the email help desk at state (I guess assuming u had state email) and told them that.?

Why is this traitor not in irons?

Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton's homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves.

Clinton last week handed over to the FBI her private server, which she used to send, receive and store emails during her four years while secretary of state.

The bureau is holding the machine in protective custody after the intelligence community's inspector general raised concerns that classified information had traversed the system.

Questions about her use of the server have shadowed her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clinton again this weekend repeated a carefully constructed defense of her actions, in that she did not send or receive emails marked classified at the time.

Hillary Clinton?s private email server was housed at the same physical location and on the same network as an email server used and operated by the Clinton Foundation, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

Records reveal that Hillary Clinton?s private clintonemail.com server shared an IP address with her husband Bill Clinton?s email server, presidentclinton.com, and both servers were housed in New York City, not in the basement of the Clintons? Chappaqua, New York home.

Web archives show that the Presidentclinton.com Web address was being operated by the Clinton Foundation as of 2009, when Hillary Clinton registered her own clintonemail.com server.

Numerous Clinton Foundation employees used the presidentclinton.com server for their own email addresses, which means that they were using email accounts that, if hacked, would have given any hacker complete access to Hillary Clinton?s State Department emails, as well.

The bombshell revelation raises new concerns about the possible illegality of Hillary

One of the most serious potential breaches of national security identified so far by the intelligence community inside Hillary Rodham Clinton?s private emails involves the relaying of classified information concerning the movement of North Korean nuclear assets, which was obtained from spy satellites.

Multiple intelligence sources who spoke to The Washington Times, solely on the condition of anonymity, said concerns about the movement of the North Korean information through Mrs. Clinton?s unsecured server are twofold.

First, spy satellite information is frequently classified at the top-secret level and handled within a special compartment called Talent-Keyhole. This means it is one of the most sensitive forms of intelligence gathered by the U.S.

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Second, the North Koreans have assembled a massive cyberhacking army under an elite military spy program known as Bureau 121, which is increasingly aggressive in targeting systems for hacking, especially vulnerable private systems. The North Koreans, for instance, have been blamed by the U.S. for the hack of Sony movie studios.

While she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified information, according to thousands of e-mails released by the State Department.

Although government officials deemed the e-mails classified after Clinton left office, they could complicate her efforts to move beyond the political fallout from the controversy. They suggest that her role in distributing sensitive material via her private e-mail system went beyond receiving notes written by others, and appears to contradict earlier public statements in which she denied sending or receiving e-mails containing classified information.

The classified e-mails, contained in thousands of pages of electronic correspondence that the State Department has released, stood out because of the heavy markings blocking out sentences and, in some cases, entire messages.

The State Department officials who redacted the material cited national security as the reason for blocking it from public view.

Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was one of about four dozen State Department officials whose e-mails were redacted because of national security concerns, according to a Washington Post review. Those officials included top aides such as Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills, some of whom would be likely to fill out senior r

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s emails reveal how prominently the Clinton Foundation factored into her thinking as America?s top diplomat, raising questions about where she drew the line between official business and aiding the family charity run by her husband and daughter.

In one instance, Mrs. Clinton appeared to try to steer a Haiti earthquake recovery project to the foundation, according to new emails released this week as the State Department belatedly complies with open records requests for her communications during her four years in office.

Another email shows Mrs. Clinton directing a State Department employee to handle solicitation of money from Norway for a program she was about to announce in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2010, and which was being run by the United Nations Foundation, another nonprofit created by Ted Turner that has close ties to her family?s operation.

And she had to look good doing it all. Even though she confided to an aide in December 2009 that she had ?collapsed? with fatigue after a speech, Clinton was discouraged from letting on that her demanding job took a human toll. An April 23, 2010, email from outside adviser Sidney Blumenthal appears to chastise her after unspecified remarks for ?stepping all over your story by saying you are tired.?

Next time, Blumenthal advised, ?use the line of the black woman in the Montgomery bus boycott who walked to work: ?My feet is tired, but my soul is rested.??

Media-related emails flew continuously into Clinton?s inbox, from the gloating (coverage of her surging past Sarah Palin in popularity polls) to the mundane (a list of the names and affiliations of 10 reporters who would accompany her to Montreal) to the urgent (?We are in an information war on all fronts,? a senior official wrote about combating militant messages).

Staffers monitored what other people said about Clinton, even sending her a transcript of Michelle Obama?s remarks from a Larry King talk show appearance in 2010.

More broadly, State Department officials ? as they do in every administration ? try to shape coverage of the big picture. In a Feb. 26, 2010, email, one official wrote she was ?increasingly concerned about the tone of the media coverage about Afghanistan,? and she recalled how ?we waged a very successful campaign against the negative stories concerning our involvement in Haiti.?

Such skill at damage control came in handy on multiple occasions mentioned in the emails. Clinton complained that a Washington Post editorial about a human rights speech she gave in December 2009 was ?either deliberately obtuse or clueless? and ordered her staff to ?respond and refute.? Within a half-hour, aides promised that they?d draft a response to show her and would promote other commentary, ?most of which has been very favorable.?

In another instance, after a federal judge threw out criminal charges against Blackwater guards in the killing of 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians ? an episode that drew sharp criticism of the U.S. government?s reliance on private security contractors ? Clinton grasped for the appropriate public response. She asked about the likelihood of success on appeal and floated taking civil action against the company or paying compensation to the victims.

In a Jan. 2, 2010, email, State Department legal adviser Harold Hongju Koh assured Clinton that lawyers were ?working up a memo? on the subject, but he appeared to suggest that she could just let the Justice Department take the fall because ?significantly, the press accounts are all saying that State Department lawyers appropriately warned the DOJ prosecutors, but that the DOJ lawyers chose to take a different route.?

Team Clinton also courted favorite reporters, particularly Mark Landler, who at the time covered diplomacy for The New York Times and appears by name in more than dozen emails from the latest batch released. According to the emails. Landler was invited to a private lunch with an ailing religious figure, Clinton was scheduled to call him for a 15-minute phone interview, and aides brainstormed on how to respond to his query on an unnamed subject that appears to have been controversial.

Reines told Clinton and others in the inner circle that ?I don?t think Mark?s writing, just fishing ? unless the WH gave it to the Times, but there?s no way they?d handle you that way.? ?WH? presumably refers to the White House; relations between the staffs were strained at times because the Obama and Clinton teams had been bitter rivals on the campaign trail.

The latest stash of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server released by the State Department has (once again!) revealed Washington to be a particularly unbearable place, employing particularly insufferable people. From Clinton's email correspondence with her senior staff we can observe how those with proximity to power engage in rare forms of backstabbing, obsequiousness, pettiness, bad humor, and self-obsession.
Lanny Davis

There was the revelation that Huma Abedin, Clinton's aide-de-camp who held down multiple six-figure salaries at outside consulting firms while making $135,000 at State, apparently complains about not getting "paid enough." Another top Clinton aide, Philippe Reines, was seen tattling on a colleague directly to the secretary. "I for one loved that you finally called out the ogrish males on your staff who roll their eyes at womens [sic] issues and events," Reines wrote to Clinton before calling out one such male staffer by name.

The Reines email might be the second most cringe-inducing document in Washington ever. The top (so far!) prize, however, certainly goes to Clinton lawyer, advocate, and all-around flunky Lanny Davis. In September 2010 Davis sent his "dear friend Hillary" an email with the subject line "Personal - a personal favor." What follows are two pages of over-the-top praise for the former first lady, more than a healthy dose of self-promotion on Davis's part, several hand-wringing apologies for even bothering the great and powerful Hillary Clinton with such a terrible request, and four groveling "pleases."

The email has to be seen to be believed:

Max Blumenthal really, really hates Israel. And by hatred I mean, proposals to destroy it and ethnically cleanse its Jewish population.

A while back I asked whether Sidney Blumenthal had been feeding his son's rants to Hillary. We've already known that he was forwarding Max Blumenthal's rants about Egypt in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood to Hillary. Now we also know he was passing on Max's Israeli stuff too.

Here's one that Huma Abedin made a point of printing out for Hillary Clinton.

In it Max Blumenthal claims there's a "Great Islamophobic Crusade" of "Bloggers, Neo-Fascists, Israeli Settlers and Republicans" also the Tea Party, British Soccer Hooligans, Zionists, Evangelicals, Sarah Palin, Anthony Weiner, the New York Post, Michael Bloomberg, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Newt Gingrich, the American Jewish Committee, Geert Wilders and the Harlem Globetrotters.

Probably.

A review of recently released e-mails shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly originated and distributed highly classified national security information. Clinton?s classified e-mail missives were not constrained to State Department staff, either. She also sent classified information to Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House operative banned by the Obama White House.

An analysis by The Federalist of e-mails released by the State Department late Monday shows that scores of e-mails sent by Clinton contained highly confidential national security information from the beginning, even if they weren?t marked by a classification authority until later.

The original date of classification of Hillary?s e-mails can be discerned by noting the declassification dates noted next to redactions in the e-mails. Under a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack Obama, classified material in most circumstances is to be automatically declassified after 10 years. In some instances, that duration may b

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A former aide to Hillary Clinton who helped set up her private email server has told at least three congressional committees that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying against his former boss, Fox News has confirmed.

Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before helping install the so-called "homebrew" server system in her Chappaqua, N.Y. home, was asked to testify about the server by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

"Mr. Pagliano?s legal counsel told the committee yesterday that he would plead the 5th to any and all questions if he were compelled to testify," a spokesperson for Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox late Wednesday.

A letter from Pagliano's attorney Mark MacDougall explaining his client's decision cited the ongoing FBI investigation into whether classified national security information was mishandled when it passed through Clinton's server.

Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton?s private email account are up for sale. The price tag ? a whopping $500,000!

Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of State?s emails to the highest bidder, the specialist is showing subject lines as proof of what appear to be legitimate messages.

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?Hillary or someone from her camp erased the outbox containing her emails, but forgot to erase the emails that were in her sent box,? an insider reveals to Radar of the Presidential contender?s latest nightmare.

Radar has learned that some of the topics discussed in the email appear to include everything from Benghazi to the Algerian hostage crisis ? with subject lines such as:

?H Libya security latest. Sid? (with attachment)
?H FYI, best analysis so far of hearing Sid,? about the latest security
in Libya?

The State Department asked to halt most of the judges prying into former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton?s emails, filing papers Thursday proposing that the cases all be combined into one so that a single judge can oversee the government?s searches and released.

Admitting it?s ?struggling? under the weight of the problem left by Mrs. Clinton?s decision to use her own email account, the State Department warned it might miss the January deadline for turning over all of her emails ? and might not be able to process her former aides? emails either ? unless a single judge takes over and decides what they have to do.

?They are struggling to keep up,? Marsha Edney, a Justice Department

Every time the State Department pulls out a new fistful of Hillary Clinton e-mails like Richard Dreyfuss yanking a license plate out of a shark?s belly in Jaws, someone declares that there?s ?no smoking gun!?

I?ve written before about how shouting ?There?s no smoking gun!? is a non-denial denial. Ask a cop. When a murder suspect immediately exclaims, ?You have no indisputable evidence I murdered my boss!? instead of, ?I didn?t do it!? it?s a good sign that the suspect thinks he covered his tracks, not that he?s innocent.

Fellas, if your wife asks if you?re having an affair, respond by saying, ?You have no proof!? See if she takes that for a denial.

But here?s the thing. There is a smoking gun. In fact, there?s a whole smoking arsenal. The problem is that the standards for what counts as a smoking gun keep changing.

Nearly everything Clinton has said in her defense regarding her secret server has been a lie. Among the minor lies: her claim that she set up the server so she could use a single device. (She had two.) Her claim that the State Department was saving her e-mails to staff. (It wasn?t until 2010.) Her claim that she erased tens of thousands of e-mails because they included, among other things, her e-mail correspondence with her husband. (Bill Clinton doesn?t use e-mail.)

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Hillary Clinton said she never solicited e-mail from her lugubrious political hatchet man, Sidney Blumenthal. The latest e-mails show that she was in near-constant contact with him, encouraging him to keep his various reports coming. Blumenthal was barred from getting a job at the White House, so Clinton set him up at her charity?cum?super PAC, the Clinton Foundation.

The more important lie: She said she never received or sent classified information. ?I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material.?

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Note: This was not an off-the-cuff statement. She said this while reading from notes, after consulting with her campaign team and her lawyers, in a ballyhooed press conference in March at the United Nations.

And it was a lie. When the inspectors general of the State Department and the Intelligence Community confirmed in July that she had sent classified material, Clinton ?clarified? her carefully prepared lie by saying that what she meant was none of the e-mails she sent or received were marked classified at the time.

#share#This left out the fact that the whole point of the secret server was that it was hidden from the officials whose job is to

Edward Snowden has branded as ?completely ridiculous? the idea that Hillary Clinton?s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state.

The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera.

In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent.

On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server.

?This is a problem,? Snowden said, ?because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.?

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday her use of a private email system at the State Department wasn't the "best choice" and acknowledged she didn't "stop and think" about her email set-up when she became President Barack Obama's secretary of state in 2009.

The Democratic presidential front-runner said in an interview with NBC News that she was immediately confronted by a number of global hotspots after joining the new Obama administration as its top diplomat and didn't think much about her email after arriving at her new job.

"You know, I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world," Clinton said. "I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be?"

But Clinton did not apologize for her decision when asked directly, "Are you sorry?" Instead, she again said she wishes she had "made a different choice" and that she takes responsibility for the decision to use a private email account and server based at her home in suburban New York.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton?s presidential campaign.

The unusual arrangement helped Clinton retain personal control over the system that she used for her public and private duties and that has emerged as an issue for her campaign. But, according to the campaign official, it also ensured that taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that was shared by Clinton, her husband and their daughter as well as aides to the former president.

That State Department staffer, Bryan Pagliano, told a congressional committee this week that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination instead of testifying about the setup.

Hillary Clinton?s e-mail scandal is drawing in those closest to her: Two top aides of the former secretary of state?s were called to testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill this week. The House Select Committee on Benghazi grilled Jake Sullivan, a top policy aide who is rumored to be a shoo-in for the position of national security adviser in a future Clinton administration, on Friday. Cheryl Mills, one of Clinton?s longest-serving aides, spent eight hours testifying before the committee on Thursday.

The two have been accused of sending the lion?s share of classified e-mails discovered on Clinton?s server. Sullivan himself sent nearly a third of the 186 messages found to contain classified material. And both were daily fixtures in Clinton?s professional life. 

Their testimonies are confidential, but based on leaks from the committee and telling statements from lawmakers, here are the key takeaways.

Mills testified that all of Clinton?s work-related e-mails were turned over.

Because Clinton and her staff determined which of the tens of thousands of e-mails stored on her private server were turned over to the State Department, Republican lawmakers have expressed concern that sensitive e-mails were withheld from the 55,000 pages of documents Clinton turned over in December. But according to Politico, a source familiar with Mills?s Thursday testimony said the Clinton aide told the committee that she turned over all messages concerning Clinton?s professional activities, and said that she did not destroy documents; withhold documents from the State Department; or know of anyone who did.

But Mills had no explanation for e-mails between Clinton and Sid Blumenthal that were not included in the initial document dump.

Before Clinton?s shadow adviser Sidney Blumenthal testified before the committee in June, he was compelled through a subpoen

In the days following the Benghazi terrorist attack, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top advisers were busy. They were designing a new nonprofit group for Clinton and her husband Bill to raise money in Ireland.

Clinton Foundation official Amitabh Desai sent an email on September 21, 2012, just ten days after Benghazi, to a mixed group of Clinton State Department staffers including top Hillary aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation employees including Doug Band and Laura Graham. Desai reported that Hillary Clinton was urgently engaged in setting up a flexible new fundraising apparatus for herself.

?Stella O?Leary called to say she saw HRC this week and that HRC ?firmly instructed? her to urgently form a 501c3 called Friends of the Clinton Centre,? Desai said in the email, which Breitbart News obtained from Citizen United?s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for Clinton emails.

?Stella said she?s now working with counsel to create it,? Desai wrote.

    I asked that she send us  copy of the document(s) before they?re executed, and she said she would. I also asked if the new org could be flexible so that any funding raised could be used in whatever manner WJC and HRC wish in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and not restricted to support only the current iteration of the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen (which I think needs some more thought and development and after CGI we?ll prepare options for WJC?s review). Stella said yes, the new fundraising vehicle would be flexible. She said she believes the American Ireland Fund could put money into it and that she would enjoy fundraising for it too. She said she?d like to see a board formed for it with all of WJC?s Ireland folks on it ? she mentioned herself and Declan and Fitzpatrick and a couple others. Wanted to be sure everyone is in the loop and I?d welcome your feedback.

?Surprised to hear this ? checking w/her,? replied Cheryl Mills on her official State Department government email account.

?Jake was in meeting so he can verify. but HRC had said she made no commitments to her,? chimed in top Clinton aide Huma Abedin on an email address that was redacted.

As Breitbart News reported, Clinton?s State Department was also dealing with other big issues in the weeks after Benghazi, including bamboo flooring and email complications.

?My bigger problem right now is I can?t even get into my clinton email and I wanted to print all the latest documents to go through line by line with Oscar,? Huma Abedin wrote to Clinton Foundation director Stephanie Streett while discussing flooring options on October 10, 2012. ?May need them re-sent to this email but will let you know if I can?t figure it out here first.?

?I meant that my email was completely down so I can [sic] even access the last bio script,? Abedin added. ?Would just need it sent to this email. But hopefully its up and running soon.?

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) ? Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because "what I did was allowed."

In an interview with The Associated Press during a Labor Day campaign swing through Iowa, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also said the lingering questions about her email practices while serving as President Barack Obama's first secretary of state have not damaged her campaign.

"Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly," Clinton said. "But it hasn't in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're making to organize here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country. And I still feel very confident about the organization and the message that my campaign is putting out."

Yet even in calling the inquiry into how she used email as the nation's top diplomat a distraction, Clinton played down how it has affected her personally as a candidate.

"As the person who has been at the center of it, not very much," Clinton said. "I have worked really hard this summer, sticking to my game plan about how I wanted to sort of reintroduce myself to the American people."

As she has often said in recent weeks, Clinton told AP it would have been a "better choice" for her to use separate email accounts for her personal and public business. "I've also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible," Clinton said.

WASHINGTON ? A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account ? including one about North Korea?s nuclear weapons program ? has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.

Mrs. Clinton?s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general?s finding last month and questioned whether the emails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review ? by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ? concluded that the emails were ?Top Secret,? the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Mrs. Clinton in 2009 and 2011.

Two top Senate investigators floated the idea of immunity Tuesday to Bryan Pagliano, the staffer who set up the email server in former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s home, in exchange for testimony about her activities.

Mr. Pagliano last week said he would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions about the matter, but Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the chairmen of two key committees investigating the situation, said they have authority to extend immunity if Mr. Pagliano is willing to talk.

They proposed a proffer session, where

A federal judge Thursday rejected the Obama administration?s efforts to halt all of the open-records lawsuits seeking access to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s emails.

But just minutes later another judge granted the same request in another case, underscoring just how much of a legal mess Mrs. Clinton left in the wake of her email use.

Judge Richard J. Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush, rejected the Justice Department?s request for a stay, while Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, granted the request for a stay, saying she would hold off on any more decisions.

The Obama administration has asked for a halt to more than 30 open-records cases filed seeking documents from

The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton?s private e-mail server said it has ?no knowledge of the server being wiped,? the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.

Clinton and her advisers have said for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that 31,000 e-mails were gone forever.

There is a distinction between e-mails? being deleted and a server being wiped. If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device, and the e-mails can often be restored.

To make the information go aw

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s top aides have belatedly turned over more than 100,000 pages of emails they had kept on personal email accounts, or accounts tied to Mrs. Clinton?s server, the government told a federal judge late Friday.

Huma Abedin turned over an estimated 23,000 pages of emails, Philippe Reines gave back 70,000 pages of messages and Cheryl Mills returned somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,870 pages, the Obama administration told Judge Rudolph Contreras in a court filing.

And unlike Mrs. Clinton?s emails, the State Department does not have plans to post online all of those three aides? messages, instead deciding to release only select messages that are requested through particular open-records demands.

The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s email server, telling the State Department that they won?t even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government what?s going on.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered the State Department to talk with the FBI and see what sort of information could be recovered from Mrs. Clinton?s email server, which her lawyer has said she turned over to the Justice Department over the summer.

The FBI?s refusal, however, leaves things muddled.

This play has too many acts in it.  This is being choreographed, but poorly in my mind.  I am certain Clinton ends up getting indicted, the question is for how many felony charges.

  We are 16 months away at the longest before she is indicted.  .

Hillary Clinton?s right-hand aide Huma Abedin exposed the travel schedules and locations of top State Department staffers ? including Clinton herself ? on Clinton?s unsecure private email network.

Abedin used her clintonemail.com server ? a non-secure server that shared an email network with Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation staff ? to discuss specifics about the hotel room accommodations and travel details of Clinton and other State Department officials, sometimes well in advance of the trips in question, according to new records obtained by Judicial Watch.

Abedin?s conversations raise further national security concerns in the wake of revelations that Clinton discussed Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens? location on email. Stevens was later murdered by terrorists who knew about a secret annex in the Benghazi consulate.

?The Sheraton hosted the Secretary in July 2010 and October 2010 and much of the hotel staff remains, so they know the drill The July 2010 visit S stayed in the Imperial Suite (shown in attachment and the suite available for this visit);? the State Department?s

The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation?s success at salvaging personal e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate?s correspondence eventually could become public. The disclosure of such e-mails would likely fan the controversy over Clinton?s use of a private e-mail system for official business.

The FBI is investigating how and why classified information ended up on Clinton?s server. The probe probably will take at least several more months, according to the person, who described the matter on condition of anonymity because the investigation is

Throughout the controversy over her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has described her decision last year to turn over thousands of work-related e-mails as a response to a routine-sounding records request.

?When we were asked to help the State Department make sure they had everything from other secretaries of state, not just me, I?m the one who said, ?Okay, great, I will go through them again,? ? Clinton said Sunday on CBS?s ?Face the Nation.? ?And we provided all of them.?

But State Department officials provided new information Tuesday that undercuts Clinton?s characterization. They said the request was not simply about general rec?ord-keeping but was prompted entirely by the discovery

And to think this audacious woman believes she can be elected president, and worse yet that so many brain dead Americans support this traitor's candidacy, why it just amazes the sh*t out of me!

Who ever knows how, or if, ?the law? will apply to Democrat royalty? It sure looks as if Hillary Clinton committed perjury with her sworn statement that she turned over all of the official correspondence from her secret email server, and deleted only the yoga routines, cookie recipes, wedding reception plans, and so forth.

What the Associated Press reported on Friday afternoon sounds like the ?game over? moment Democrats have been fearing since the Clinton email scandal came to a boil:

    The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as secretary of state, officials said Friday, adding to the growing questions related to the Democratic presidential front-runner?s unusual usage of a private email account and server while in government.

    The messages were exchanged with retired Gen. David Petraeus when he headed the military?s U.S. Central Command, responsible for running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began before Clinton entered office and continued into her first days at the State Department. They largely pertained to personnel matters and don?t appear to deal with highly classified material, officials said, but their existence challenges Clinton?s claim that she has handed over the entirety of her work emails from the account.

Hillary Clinton didn?t just ?claim? she turned over all of her work-related emails. She signed a sworn statement to that effect in August, under penalty of perjury, and submitted it to a federal court. It?s the same statement her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills refused to sign.

Many observers thought the proverbial Other Shoe would drop on Clinton when the FBI started recovering deleted emails from the server she thought was wiped clean, but it doesn?t sound like we?ve even gotten to that closet full of Other Shoes yet. The AP report says this previously undisclosed string of Clinton emails was ?first discovered by the Defense Department and then passed to the State Department?s inspector general.?

A member of Hillary Clinton?s staff at the Department of State emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in 2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton?s chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation?s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on July 12, 2012.

The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records request, is partially redacted because it includes ?foreign government information? that has been classified as ?Confidential? by the State Department.

Although the information was not marked classified by the State Department until this past summer, intelligence sources tell the Free Beacon that it would have been classified at the time Mills sent it because ?foreign government information? is considered classified from inception.

The message could add to concerns from congressional and FBI investigators about whether former Secretary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while at the State Department.

The email, which discussed the relationship between the governments in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was originally drafted by Johnnie Carson, the State Department?s assistant secretary for African affairs, who sent it to Mills? State Department email address.

Mills later forwarded the full message to Desai along with ?talking points for Presient [sic] Clinton? shortly before Bill Clinton was scheduled to visit the region.

About half of the forwarded message was redacted due to its classified nature before the State Department released it to Citizens United last month. Although it is not clear what the redacted section includes, the State Department said in a court motion filed last week that it ?concerns both foreign government information and critical aspects of U.S. foreign relations, including U.S. foreign activities carried out by officials of the U.S. Government.?

With polls showing that a majority of Americans believe that she is lying, Hillary Clinton has been more aggressive in addressing questions about her private e-mail server. But with each new appearance, more questions are raised than answered. Her latest interview with Meet the Press?s Chuck Todd is no exception.

For months, Mrs. Clinton has insisted that she, and she alone, had the power to determine whether her e-mails were required to be preserved as federal records. In her initial press conference at the United Nations in March, she explained that ?for any government employee, it is that government employee?s responsibility to determine what?s personal and what?s work-related.? Her campaign website reinforces that contention, arguing that the ?Federal Records Act puts the obligation on the government official to determine what is and is not a federal record.? And the Department of Justice recently told a federal judge the same thing: ?Under policies issued both by the National Archives and Records Administration and the State Department, individual officers and employees are permitted and expected to exercise judgment to determine what constitutes a federal record.?

Despite months of consistent reliance on this defense, Hillary now admits that she never exercised any judgment to determine what constitutes a federal record. Instead, somewhat astonishingly, Hillary didn?t review a single e-mail to determine what she had to preserve and what she could delete. When asked by Todd whether she could say with 100 percent certainty that she didn?t delete anything that she was supposed to preserve, Mrs. Clinton responded: ?All I can tell you is that when my attorneys conducted this exhaustive process, I [did] not participate. . . . I didn?t look at them.?

More lies!  That is a surprise right?

I honestly believe she is incapable of being honest.  That makes  her pathological!  Criminal and a pathological liar. 

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin?s lawyer for the email investigation has a glaring conflict-of-interest in the case: he was an Obama administration ?point person? on Benghazi who dealt with classified information and exchanged redacted emails with Hillary Clinton.

Miguel Rodriguez of the Washington law firm Bryan Cave is part of Abedin?s big-money legal team and is already handling communications with the government on her behalf during the scandal.

But Rodriguez brings some personal baggage to his role as Abedin?s counsel, as first noted by blogger Ron Brynaert.

Before joining Bryan Cave, Rodriguez served as deputy assistant secretary at Hillary Clinton?s State Department; then he was President Obama?s legislative director, where he became a ?point person? on the administration?s Benghazi response.

(Washington, DC) ? Judicial Watch today announced that Judge Reggie B. Walton set a status conference tomorrow in litigation concerning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?s email issue.  The court is considering a request from Judicial Watch for a preservation order to protect all emails in the possession of Clinton, her lawyers and her former aides.  The issue arises in a lawsuit brought on by Judicial Watch against the U.S. Department of State.  Judicial Watch?s preservation order proposal would protect any emails Clinton and her lawyers unilaterally determined to be personal. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:12-cv-02034)).

    Date: Thursday, October 1
    Time: 10:30 am ET
    Location: U.S. District Court
    District of Columbia
    Courtroom 16

This lawsuit was reopened after the disclosure of new records from Clinton non-government email system, the first time in history a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit had ever been reopened.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit seeks documents regarding the State Department?s production and dissemination of an advertisement intended to air in Pakistan entitled ?A Message from the President of the United States Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.?  The advertisement was seen as an apology for the Internet video that President Obama, then-Secretary of State Clinton, and other administration officials falsely blamed for inspiring ?spontaneous demonstrations? resulting in the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya.

?Yes, there were. Yeah, absolutely,? Jarrett said when asked if the White House sent guidance to Cabinet secretaries about not using private email. ?Obviously we want to make sure that we preserve all government records, and so there was guidance given that government business should be done on government emails and that if you did use a private email that it should be turned over.?

?That?s what she?s doing, as you said as recently as a few minutes ago,? Jarrett added. ?And I think she has been asked about this multiple times, including by you Andrea. And I think she said, Look to do it again I probably made a mistake and I wouldn?t do it, and she?s working hard to comply with making sure that everything is pursuant to the Federal Records Act.?

    Clinton's response to Sidney Blumenthal's email about the US ordering diplomats to not tell the truth could backfire during her campaign
    Emails reveal the top aide wanted then Secretary of State Clinton to announce the 'successful strategy' used in Libya
    A year later, US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the consulate in the country
    The Democratic Presidential candidate has been followed by the Benghazi and email server scandals during her campaign
    She claims her emails were not given the top secret classification until after she sent or received them

What is the FBI doing?  Why has there not been an indictment of Hillary Clinton?  Why?

The State Department is planning to turn over documents related to Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin?s outside employment to a watchdog group next week, according to a court filing on Monday.

Judicial Watch sued the State Department earlier this year for records regarding Abedin?s position as a ?special government employee? under Clinton.

Abedin was granted SGE status at the State Department?which allowed her to hold outside roles at the Clinton Foundation and private companies?from 2012 until early 2013.

The new documents could shed light on whether Abedin?s dual roles at the State Department and outside companies posed a conflict of interest.

A judge recently ordered the department to submit an estimate of how many documents it had

The State Department has instructed former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton go back to her Internet companies and try to recover email messages from any personal email accounts that she used during her time in government, saying it appears she didn?t turn over all of her documents.

In a letter to Clinton lawyer David E. Kendall, the department said it has become aware of messages Mrs. Clinton sent to other government officials in her first few months in office, but which she did not turn over as part of the more than 30,000 emails she did relinquish last December.

Mrs. Clinton had previously said she used a personal email account ? the same one she kept as a senator ? to do government business during the first couple of months she was at the State Department. Her campaign said she no longer had access to those messages.

But after some of those messages were produced from the Defense Department, the State Department realized it had a problem.

?As a result, I ask that you confirm that, with regard to her tenure as secretary of state, former Secretary Clinton has provided the department with all federal records in her possession, regardless of their format or the domain on which they were stored or created, that may not otherwise be preserved in the department?s recordkeeping system,? Patrick F. Kennedy, under secretary of state for management, said in the letter, dated Oct. 2.

?To the extent her emails might be found on any internet service and email providers, we encourage you to contact them.? Mr. Kennedy wrote.

Mrs. Clinton?s email practices have become a major problem for her presidential aspirations.

Because if there was peace, they wouldn?t have been able to clear Qaddafi from Libya. That of course allowed for the greater rise of the Islamists in Libya, the stepping-off place to Europe that we see today.

Via Fox News:

    Exclusive ? New emails obtained by Fox News show that in March 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring revolution inside Libya, dictator Muammar Qaddafi?s son Saif was willing to talk peace from the ground in Libya ? but a source told Fox News the offer was rejected by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    In the years since Qaddafi was forced from power, Libya?s government has collapsed, and extremist groups including ISIS have exploited the power vacuum. While the Obama administration has promoted the use of ?soft power? and diplomacy, the documents suggest the option was not vigorously pursued here.

    One key email describing the offer of talks was dated March 18, 2011 and sent at 7:27 a.m. EST to three members of The Joint Staff. It states, ?Our contact will arrange a face-to-face meeting with Saif [Qaddafi], or a Skype/video-telecon [teleconference] to open communications if time does not permit ? A peaceful resolution is still possible that keeps Saif on our side without bloodshed in Benghazi.?

The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton?s email has now expanded to include obtaining data from a second tech company, which is fully cooperating with the FBI probe that has threatened Clinton?s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Fox News has learned.

A source familiar with the investigation told Fox that the FBI contacted Connecticut-based Datto, Inc. in September and asked them to preserve all data they had which may be connected to Clinton. Datto was hired to help back up data in May 2013 by Platte River Networks, the Colorado-based tech company that managed Clinton?s server and has already been cooperating with the FBI investigation.

The cooperation of a second tech company raises new questions about whether the FBI is now obtaining any of the emails that Clinton says she and her attorneys deemed to be personal and deleted, as Republican critics have demanded to know if any of those emails were really work-related emails that should have been turned over to the State Department along with other federal records.

he FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The four servers, which were located at the State Department?s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton?s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation.

State Department spokesman John Kirby referred questions about the computer servers to the FBI. An FBI spokeswoman, Carol Cratty, declined to comment.

A federal judge ordered the State Department Wednesday to request former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton not delete any government business emails she may still have, but said he doubts he can force her to do anything.

Judge Reggie B. Walton said since Mrs. Clinton used her own BlackBerry and computer devices, and kept her email server at her home, he doesn?t have authority over the records she created on those.

The ruling is a significant victory for Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration, which has argued it has already gone above and beyond its duties under the law in trying to recover its records from the former secretary and current presidential candidate.

SEE ALSO: State Department tells Hillary Clinton to search for more emails to fill ?gap?

?I just don?t see what my authority under FOIA would be,? said Judge Walton, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.

Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that is suing to try to get a look at the tens of thousands of emails Mrs. Clinton deemed personal, said getting the letter from the State Department is an important step

Clinton violates the law, well defined laws requiring her to adher to a set standard regarding communications, and a corrupt judge sides with her.  What she did was treason, and there is no way to put a band-aid on this wound.

Clinton must answer for her high crimes!

Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business when she served as secretary of state was "a mistake," but didn't endanger national security, President Barack Obama said during an interview airing Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

Obama said public officials have to be more sensitive about how they handle information and personal data. Yet he also said the criticism of Clinton has been "ginned up" because of politics.

"I think she'd be the first to acknowledge that maybe she could have handled the original decision better and the disclosures more quickly," Obama said.

Obama downplayed the threat to national security, and when it was pointed out that his administration has prosecuted people for having classified material on their private computers, the president said he didn't get the impression there was an intent to "hide something or to squirrel away information." He also said he was not initially aware of her use of the private email server.

There are still questions being raised about the security of that system.

Senate investigators recently discovered that Clinton's private server was subjected to unspecified hacking attempts in 2013 from China, South Korea and Germany. The FBI is still examining her system, and that review could reveal evidence, if any, of unauthorized intrusions into her server or any attempts to siphon off her data.

Clinton has yet to answer specific questions about the security protections in her unusual email setup, which ran out of her New York home and not in a professional data center during her time as secretary of state.

Obama also weighed in on the 2016 presidential elections.

The president called current GOP front-runner Donald Trump "the classic reality TV character" and a "great publicity seeker."

While everyone has been focusing on House Republicans and their inability to elect a speaker, the Hillary Clinton email scandal has been growing more troubling by the day.

A letter released by the House Benghazi Committee last week revealed that Clinton acted to promote the business interests of her ?old friend? Sidney Blumenthal, the longtime Clinton loyalist who sent her numerous ?unsolicited? memos while running a rogue intelligence operation and earning a hefty paycheck from the Clinton Foundation.

The letter, authored by committee chairman Trey Gowdy, makes the astonishing claim that ?nearly half of all emails sent to and from Secretary Clinton regarding Benghazi and Libya prior to the Benghazi terrorist attacks involved Sindey Blumenthal.? Those email include several message sent in July 2011 in which Blumenthal mentioned the firm Osprey Global Solutions, which was seeking private security contracts from Libyan forces opposed to Muammar Gaddafi. Blumenthal has acknowledged having a personal financial stake in the firm.

Blumenthal warned Clinton that French companies had visited Libya in an effort to secure security contracts, and suggested it would be in America?s interest if Osprey won the contracts. Emails show that Clinton promoted the idea of using private security firms to protect Libyan revolutionary leaders, and told State Department aide Jake Sullivan that ?the idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.?

The only item missing from the secret e-mail server run by Hillary Clinton appears to be the welcome mat for hackers. According to the Associated Press, the Clintons set up remote-control operations of its server without ever bothering to build in the normal security that would accompany those functions in a professional setting ? if one could even find a professional setting that would allow those functions to operate at all:

    Clinton?s server, which handled her personal and State Department correspondence, appeared to allow users to connect openly over the Internet to control it remotely, according to detailed records compiled in 2012. Experts said the Microsoft remote desktop service wasn?t intended for such use without additional protective measures, and was the subject of U.S. government and industry warnings at the time over attacks from even low-skilled intruders.

Just in case any hackers missed the ?Open House? sign on the unlocked front door, the Clintons left two back doors unlocked, too:

    Records show that Clinton additionally operated two more devices on her home network in Chappaqua, New York, that also were directly accessible from the Internet. One contained similar remote-control software that also has suffered from security vulnerabilities, known as Virtual Network Computing, and the other appeared to be configured to run websites.

No self-respecting network administrator would have allowed those openings to go without extraordinary security in place, or at least a VPN. In fact, the State Department had already banned the use of such remote access software on even its unclassified systems without a specific waiver allowing their use. They don?t even allow the waivers for overseas systems.

Needless to say, the experts aren?t impressed:

    ?That?s total amateur hour,? said Marc Maiffret, who has founded two cyber security companies. He said permitting remote-access connections directly over the Internet would be the result of someone choosing convenience over security or failing to understand the risks. ?Real enterprise-class security, with teams dedicated to these things, would not do this,? he said. ?

    The findings suggest Clinton?s server ?violates the most basic network-perimeter security tenets: Don?t expose insecure services to the Internet,? said Justin Harvey, the chief security officer for Fidelis Cybersecurity.

According to the AP, the original survey of these vulnerabilities was conducted by a hacker in Siberia. The Morning Joe panel can?t believe how this story keeps getting worse for Hillary Clinton, and no one on the panel buys her campaign?s spin that no one has proven a breach of the system (yet). The question at this point is whether or when criminal charges get filed, Willie Geist says. The question of Hillary?s incompetence has already been settled.

Johnson?s letter outlines the complicated arrangement between Hillary Clinton?s operating company, Clinton Executive Services Corp. and its computer-server subcontractor, Platte River Networks. The Platte River subcontractor used a email backup device operated by another firm, Datto.

Johnson writes:

?It also appears [Platte River Networks] employees were directed by [Clinton Executive Services Corp.] to reduce how much data would be stored in each backup. In August 2015, a PRN employee raised the prospect that the length of the backups was reduced at some point during PRN?s time managing the server. In an email to a colleague with the subject line ?CESC Datto,? the PRN employee asked if it is possible to use Mimecast, PRN?s email archiving system, to find an old email from CESC directing PRN to reduce the length of Datto?s backups. He wrote:

    Any chance you found an old email with their directive to cut the backup back in Oct-Feb. I know they had you cut it once in Oct-Nov., then again to 30days [sic] in Feb-ish. If we had that email, we are golden. Would Mimecast have archived it by chance? Wondering how we can sneak an email in now after the fact asking them when they told us to cut the backups and have them confirm it for our records. Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy sh*t?. I just think if we have it in writing that they told us to cut the backups, and that we can go public with our statement saying we have had backups since day one, then we were told to trim to 30days [sic], it would make us look a WHOLE LOT better.?

Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff reports that an e-mail Sidney Blumenthal sent Hillary Clinton while secretary of State revealed the name of a CIA operator, putting the spy?s life at risk. Appearing Monday on Morning Joe, Isikoff said the e-mail, which Clinton forwarded to one of her State Department colleagues, is ?evidence of a commission of a federal crime by somebody,? though not necessarily Clinton.

?This is maybe the single most problematic e-mail exchange we?ve seen with Hillary Clinton yet of all the e-mails that have been raised,? Isikoff said. ?What you have there is Blumenthal telling the secretary that somebody at the CIA gave the name of a sensitive human intelligence source to somebody who wasn?t at the CIA.?

?On its face, that is problematic. All we know at this point is that Secretary Clinton forwarded that e-mail to a colleague at the State Department,? Isikoff continued.

Former CIA counsel, John Rizzo, also appearing on Morning Joe, highlighted the severity of the security lapse: ?That?s the holiest of holies inside CIA ? the true identity of a secret source.?

?Even inside CIA, in e-mails, internal e-mails, or cables, or even conversations, you never mention, you never talk about the true name of the source,? Rizzo said. Failure to do so, he said, ?could be literary lethal.?

A previously unknown e-mail address used by Huma Abedin was discovered on Thursday, just hours before the top Hillary Clinton aide prepares to testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

Conservative watchdog group Citizens United discovered the address in an e-mail exchange that shows Clinton Foundation CEO Robert Harrison forwarding a speaking invitation for then-Secretary of State Clinton to both Abedin?s State Department account and an unfamiliar Abedin address on November 6, 2012. ?I tried to send this to your ?clintonemail.com? address, but it bounced back as undeliverable, so here it is again,? Harrison wrote.

The new address begins with ?humamabedin,? and appears to be a private e-mail account. The State Department redacted the account?s domain name, citing a personal-privacy exemption.

A spokesman for the Benghazi Committee did not immediately respond when asked if the committee was aware of the e-mail account, and if it is under investigation for possibly containing official or classified government information. In August, the State Department admitted to a federal judge that Abedin and others close to Clinton used private accounts to conduct government business, and that they were unable to search those accounts for official records.

#share#Technical issues seemed to plague Clinton?s private e-mail server at times, driving State Department aides and Clinton Foundation employees to use government or private accounts to reach Clinton and her top staff. ?Is your e-mail working?? Abedin wrote to Clinton Foundation executive director Stephanie Streett on October 10, 2012. ?Mine has b

Three months after Hillary Clinton?s use of a private email address and server while secretary of state was referred to the FBI, an intelligence source familiar with the investigation tells Fox News that the team is now focused on whether there were violations of an Espionage Act subsection pertaining to "gross negligence" in the safekeeping of national defense information.

Under 18 USC 793 subsection F, the information does not have to be classified to count as a violation. The intelligence source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the ongoing probe, said the subsection requires the "lawful possession" of national defense information by a security clearance holder who "through gross negligence," such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location.

Subsection F also requires the clearance holder "to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer. "A failure to do so "shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

WASHINGTON ? Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton?s personal email server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter.

?I don?t think it posed a national security problem,? Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS?s ?60 Minutes.? He said it was a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: ?This is not a situation in which America?s national security was endangered.?

Those statements angered F.B.I. agents who have been working for months to determine whether Ms. Clinton?s email setup had in fact put any of the nation?s secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
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    Hillary Rodham Clinton at a forum Thursday in Boston. Her private email server was hit by spam when she was secretary of state.


Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server had been compromised or whether to recommend charges, according to the law enforcement officials. But to investigators, it sounded as if Mr. Obama had already decided the answers to their questions and cleared anyone involved of wrongdoing.

The White House quickly backed off the president?s remarks and said Mr. Obama was not trying to influence the investigation. But his comments spread quickly, raising the ire of officials who saw an instance of the president trying to influence the outcome of a continuing investigation ? and not for the first time.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. But Ron Hosko, a former senior F.B.I. official who retired in 2014 and is now the president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, said it was inappropriate for the president to ?suggest what side of the investigation he is on? when the F.B.I. is still investigating.

?Injecting politics into what is supposed to be a fact-finding inquiry leaves a foul taste in the F.B.I.?s mouth and makes them fear that no matter what they find, the Justice Department will take the president?s signal and not bring a case,? said Mr. Hosko, who maintains close contact with current agents.


Several current and former law enforcement officials, including those close to the investigation, expressed similar sentiments in separate interviews over several days. Most, however, did so only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.

If Hillary Clinton and her supporters thought her email problems were behind them after the Democratic debate, those hopes could soon be dashed.

Fox News reported this week that the FBI is looking into whether there's been any violation of the Espionage Act as a result of her use of a private, unsecured email system while secretary of state.

When classified material started showing up in Clinton's emails, she argued that she'd done nothing wrong because none of the emails she sent or received was marked "classified" at the time.

But violating the Espionage Act doesn't require that the information come emblazoned with such markings. "Gross negligence" in handling "information relating to national defense" is all that's needed to be found guilty. And the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison .

Gross negligence could include, Fox reports, storing national defense information on "an unsecured computer network."

Given what we've learned in the past few weeks, it seems pretty obvious that Clinton's server was very much unsecured.

AP reported, while she was secretary of state, her server "was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable" to "even low-skilled intruders."

We also recently learned that Platte River Networks, which took control of Clinton's server in 2013, didn't have a cybersecurity system in place for months. Even then, Platte was later warned by another firm that Clinton's emails were "inadequately protected."

Fox also reports that investigators are looking into whether there was any obstruction of justice involved in how Clinton handled her emails and turned them over to the State Department.

Anyone who thinks the FBI isn't taking this case seriously should read Friday's New York Times. In a story headlined "Obama's Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With FBI Inquiry," the Times reports that FBI agents were "angered" after President Obama went on "60 Minutes" and tried to downplay the investigation by saying that "I don't think it" ? meaning Hillary's private email account ? "posed a national security problem."

Just after a townhall in Keene, New Hampshire, CNN?s Jake Tapper caught with Hillary Clinton where he asked her on who signed off on her use of a personal server during her time as secretary of state.

?It was allowed under the rules of the State Department,? Clinton said.

Politico reported that the State Department had a policy in place since 2005 that is against the use of personal email to conduct official business.

Tapper questioned if she was concerned about the secruity on the server while it was not housed in the State Department but in a bathroom in Colorado. Clinton said that she was not concerned.

When asked if the State Department gave her permission Clinton said no and that it was allowed. Clinton deflected and said that her predecessors had done the same thing and added that other high ranking members of the federal government used personal servers and personal emails.

Clinton blamed the attention and questions about her server were because the rules had been changed when she left the State Department.

Tapper asked Clinton if it ever occured to her if any of the emails she had received from Sid Blumenthal or others contained any sensitive information. Clinton brushed off the comment by saying Blumenthal was not a government employee.

I have yet to hear the question asked, but I want to know how many USA assets are dead or in prison because of Clinton's cavalier mindset on national security?  Rest assured, there are at a minimum numerous losses incurred thanks to this traitor.

A 2002 memo recently released as part of Hillary Clinton's trove of official State Department documents shows that former President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reached a deal to invade Iraq nearly a year before the war began.

The agreement included 1,700 British troops for the war that began on March 20, 2003, and toppled President Saddam Hussein, according to The Mail.

Bush declared the Iraq invasion complete on April 15, 2003.

The memo was written on March 28, 2002, by Clinton's predecessor at the State Department, Gen. Colin Powell, and was most likely obtained by the former first lady for background purposes, according to the Mail.

Powell's document, written a week before the pair met at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, shows that Blair gave unbridled support to the war despite claims that he was seeking a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis, the Mail reports.

Bush and Blair met on April 5-7 2002, 11 months before the war began.

"He [Blair] will present to you the strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for our common cause," Powell wrote, adding that the prime minister has the skills to "make a credible public case on current Iraqi threats to international peace."

A new email released on Friday by the State Department reveals that actor Ben Affleck had Hillary Clinton?s private email address while she was Secretary of State.

The ?Good Will Hunting? and ?Argo? star emailed the former secretary of State on April 16, 2012, about an initiative he was starting to provide security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Clinton acknowledged in a hearing last week that former U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, did not have her personal email address.

?I ? I do not believe that he had my personal mail,? she said in her testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

She said Stevens was ?in constant contact? with officials who could respond to his requests for additional security.



?He was in constant contact with people on my staff, other officials in the State Department, and I did have an opportunity to talk with him about the substance of the policy. But

A CNN reporter who was recently suspended for two weeks for violating the network?s editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department emails released on Tuesday in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide during the former secretary of state?s Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.

The emails, which were released to the website Gawker, show that Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter at CNN, took guidance from Clinton aide Philippe Reines by posting a tweet criticizing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for asking Clinton tough questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.

Labott also coordinated with Reines to post a favorable quote from Clinton?s testimony, which she gave just a week before she left office.

In the Reines emails, which are the subject of a Gawker lawsuit against the State Department, Labott appears to pick up on a previous conversation she was having with Reines during the Benghazi hearing, asking him: ?are you sure rand paul wasn?t at any hearings??

Five minutes after sending that email, Labott sent Reines another message sharing what she had tweeted about Paul.

    Sen Paul most critical on committee of Clinton, but a little late to the #Benghazi game.Not sure he was at many of the 30 previous briefings

    ? Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) January 23, 2013

Hours later, Labott and Reines were at it again.

?She was great. well done. I hope you are going to have a big drink tonight,? Labott wrote to Reines, complimenting Clinton?s performance.

Reines followed up that compliment by telling Labott that he had ?suggested a good Tweet.?

Labott said that she had not received an email concerning another tweet. Reines wrote back ?Pin,? an apparent reference to a private messaging system.

Labott wrote back ?will get back to you.? Eleven minutes later she sent an email reading, ?done.?

When presidential candidate and failed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned of the ?Chaos in Syria,? she promptly asked for directions to Washington D.C.?s ?premier gift and accessories retailer.?

As one does?

The woman hasn?t a clue.

    Amid chaos in Syria, Hillary Clinton asked for directions to ?Washington?s premier gift and accessories retailer? pic.twitter.com/uN4DyGLntT

    ? Tim Mak (@timkmak) November 30, 2015

Dalton Brody is a store that carries home and bathroom products, as well as leather goods and men?s and women?s accessories.

Great.

Not exactly presidential, now is it?

It?s as if Hillary blows off everything that is important, and remains content with clinging to things that should be deemed irrelevant.

This is a person most people wouldn?t trust to babysit their kids for a couple hours, but some people are fine with allowing her to run an entire country?

Maybe this is all just a ?vast right-wing conspiracy.?

On the other hand, it could be due to Clinton being ?often confused.?

The latest release of Hillary Clinton's private emails reveals how an aide approached American football officials for help deflecting criticism after she suffered a concussion in 2012 and how she needed help to navigate her cable TV box.

Most of the emails show her as secretary of state dealing with the complicated politics of the Arab Spring, fending off questions about her role in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks and attempting to navigate an intensifying conflict between Israel and Palestine.

But they also give a glimpse into the private side of one of the world's most public people. Mrs Clinton's notes show her searching for videos on how to do a "fishtail bun" hairstyle and struggling to find the TV drama Homeland. The roughly 7,800 pages of emails released Monday were part of a court-ordered disclosure of correspondence sent from the private server Mrs Clinton used while she was secretary of state.

The math is simple.

Roughly 200 nation states, Clinton in office as Secretary of State for approximately 1,430 days, and assume she received a conservative 100 Classified, Secret, or Top Secret emails each day.  And I emphasize conservative.

[200 nations,1 email per nation every other day]     


  1,430      x        100        =          143,000


So far, the State Department has released roughly 1,000 emails they have declared as one of the three CLASSIFIED categories, and remember, Clinton claims she never had a CLASSIFIED email.

So ask yourself, what is being covered up?  How many Assets are dead or imprisoned because of the cavalier mindset, criminal mindset of Clinton?  When will these questions be asked by the corrupt government and/or media?

As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.

The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

?I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],? reads the email, from Panetta?s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. ?After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.?

    " ... we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.?

    - Jeremy Bash, Pentagon chief of staff

The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers. 

Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.

WASHINGTON ? Busy as they were, Hillary Clinton?s aides found time to constantly compliment their boss? appearance, according to the latest batch of e-mails released by the State Department.

When a photo of Clinton on her Blackberry started lighting up the Internet in April 2012, an aide forwarded it to Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills under the subject line, ?Photo gone viral!?

Mills passed it along to Clinton, who wanted to know why it was so popular.

?You look cute,? responded Mills.

Undersecretary Judith McHale wrote her boss in May 2012 that she had seen an article mentioning how good Clinton?s hair looked.

?Fun seeing the great press you are getting on all things sartorial and hair related! Who would have thunk it in this stage of our lives,? McHale said.

And when a magazine featured Clinton on the cover, press aide Philippe Reines described the photo as ?spectacular.? Longtime aide Huma Abedin agreed, chiming in, ?It?s gorgeous.?

n email recently obtained by Judicial Watch shows that the Pentagon was demanding Hillary allow them to send help to Benghazi during the 2012 attack. This would completely contradict the claim from Hillary and Leon Panetta that no forces were available and within reach to provide help to the compound that was under siege.

From Fox News:

    As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.

    The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

    "I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]," reads the email, from Panetta's chief of staff Jeremy Bash. "After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak."

Ironically, Hillary Clinton and her minions were concerned with spinning the story instead of gearing up the military forces.

Here's the email:

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    The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers.

    Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.

State Department officials released roughly 2,900 pages of Hillary Clinton's private emails early Friday morning, several hours past their target of late Thursday evening.

State first set a broad target of somewhere between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday. But as the night wore on, that shifted to a 2 a.m. estimate. They were finally released right around 1 a.m.

The late release was on top of State's failure to release all the emails by New Year's Eve. Instead of releasing everything on Dec. 31, State said it needed another few days to finish the group of Clinton messages.

The new batch of records contains 45 classified messages, including one that was upgraded to "secret," a higher level of classification. Last week, the agency published a batch of emails that contained 275 classified records, raising further questions about Clinton's prior remarks that none of her emails included classified information ? she has said none were classified at the time the emails were sent.

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend of the Clintons, sent a memo in 2012 presenting a strategy for turning Hurricane Isaac to the Democrats? political advantage by contrasting it with President George W Bush?s handling of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

The missive emerged among 2,900 pages from the former secretary of state?s email account released by the State Department just after 1.30am on Friday.

Critics are likely to seize on the email to once more accuse the Democratic frontrunner?s camp of cold political scheming. Hurricane Isaac reportedly killed 24 people in Haiti, five in the Dominican Republic and five in the US itself, displaced thousands and caused billions of dollars of damage.

In a message with the jocular subject heading, ?H: FYI. In case you or Bill have use for this. Done quickly am in spirit of John Lennon. (?I read the news today, oh, boy?). Sid?, Blumenthal wrote to Clinton on 27 August 2012: ?The moment George W Bush?s popularity collapsed was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His decline was not the result of the Iraq War; instead, it was sudden, rapid and unrecoverable post-Katrina. Then and only then did his standing on every other issue disintegrate.?

With Hurricane Isaac set to hit the Gulf coast and possibly veer towards New Orleans, Blumenthal urged the administration to set up a command post and send Vice-President Joe Biden and the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to the scene.

The State Department waited until the middle of the night to execute its belated, court-ordered release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails -- the ones she and her attorneys didn't unilaterally delete with no oversight, that is. Fox News notices a significant exchange that may point to criminal conduct:

    The latest batch of emails released from Hillary Clinton's personal account from her tenure as secretary of state includes 66 messages deemed classified at some level, the State Department said early Friday. In one email, Clinton even seemed to coach a top adviser on how to send secure information outside secure channels. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has repeatedly maintained that she did not send or receive classified material on her personal account. The State Department claims none of the emails now marked classified were labled as such at the time they were sent. However, one email thread from June 2011 appears to include Clinton telling her top adviser Jake Sullivan to send secure information through insecure means. In response to Clinton's request for a set of since-redacted talking points, Sullivan writes, "They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it." Clinton responds "If they can't, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure." Ironically, an email thread from four months earlier shows Clinton saying she was "surprised" that a diplomatic oficer named John Godfrey used a personal email account to send a memo on Libya policy after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.


Where to begin?  Let's start with the least serious revelation, and work our way up:  (1) Hillary evinced surprise that a State Department underling had used his personal account to send an official email.  How rich.  Yes, the State Department had explicitly instructed employees to follow the rules and only use secure means to disseminate official information.  State sanctioned at least one top diplomat for disregarding those rules.  Mrs. Clinton may have been especially "surprised" at Godfrey's actions because they came after she'd been issued a dire warning that foreign entities were aggressively targeting State Department officials' personal, unsecure email accounts. But lest you need reminding, Hillary Clinton exclusively used such accounts to conduct all of her official business -- via an improper, unsecure, private server -- before and after this urgent red flag was brought to her attention.

(2) "Clinton...has repeatedly maintained that she did not send or receive classified material on her personal account."  This assertion has been disproven by the more than 1,000 classified emails discovered on her private server, including 66 additions from this batch alone.  Her myriad excuses for this have been debunked piece by piece.

(3) Her final justification -- which is legally irrelevant, as Hillary herself has personally attested -- is that none of the sensitive material that she wrongfully transmitted through her unsecure server was "marked classified" at the time.  Again, this is meaningless, especially when it comes to highly secret material that she was obligated to recognize and protect as soon as it was produced.  But the email chain referenced above includes an instruction from Hillary Clinton to a State Department aide (who now works on her campaign) to strip classified information -- it remains redacted to this day -- of its classified markings ["identifying heading"] and "send nonsecure."  Ed Morrissey, who posts a screen shot of the exchange, reviews the relevant criminal statute and thinks this looks like a smoking gun:

Hillary Clinton is responding to last week's bombshell by scrupulously adhering to her scandal playbook: Downplay, deflect, deny. An email released late last week appeared to show then-Secretary Clinton instructing a subordinate to transmit classified materials through non-secure means in 2011. When a secure fax system failed to work properly, an impatient Clinton requested that the materials she needed be turned "into non paper w no identifying heading and [sent] nonsecure." The State Department reacted to this apparently incriminating exchange by calling into question whether the information was ever actually sent (which isn't exactly exculpatory for Hillary), and suggesting that it may not necessarily have been classified in the first place. One problem with this explanation is that in light of Hillary's, shall we say, less than assiduous approach to handling classified data, the notion that she'd be a stickler about sending sensitive, but unclassified, information through non-secure means strains credulity. Plus, the talking points she was seeking at the time have since been redacted, as has the subject matter of those talking points -- albeit under the 'internal deliberations' FOIA exemption.  Are we to believe that their contents were not secret?  Also, why else would she ask for identifying markings be stripped away before being 'sent nonsecure'?  Appearing on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton regurgitated State's explanations and declared her actions "common practice" and a non-issue:

The Clintons have worked hard to camouflage their chronic criminal activity, and no one has taken them to task.  But that all stops with the FBI.

If Hillary is to be investigated, then shouldn't Bill and their daughter's role in this well constructed criminal enterprise be determined as well.  Of course it should.  All three should be indicted for their criminal behavior, not the least of it including high treason.

HILLARY FOR PRISON 2016!

The latest release of Hillary Clinton's emails raises new questions about her friend Sidney Blumenthal's "role" in the Clinton orbit, including whether he planned to work simultaneously at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

The latest release of Clinton's State Department emails includes a June 28, 2009 memo from Blumenthal to Clinton entitled "My role, Germany, Iran, etc." In it, Blumenthal revealed to Clinton that he had talked to Doug Band, a top aide to former President Bill Clinton and, at the time, an adviser at the Clinton Foundation.

"I spoke with Doug Band yesterday, discussed things with him, and we will go from there," Blumenthal wrote in his June memo. "It would be helpful if you and I speak soon to define parameters of what projects I should pursue."

What Blumenthal meant by "projects" is not made clear in the memo or any other correspondence between the longtime friends.

Clinton had sought to bring Blumenthal to the State Department. The journalist-turned-political operative had worked in the Bill Clinton White House and on then-Sen. Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. But Blumenthal's work on that campaign -- which involved him circulating discredited stories about Obama to his journalist contacts -- had made many enemies in the Obama White House. And so, according an Aug. 2009 New York Times report, Obama's chief of staff at the time, Rahm Emanuel, informed Clinton in July that Blumenthal could not work at the State Department.

The timeline of events -- if accurately reported -- suggests two possibilities for Blumenthal's job prospects at the time: that Clinton and company were considering him for two jobs, one at State and one at the Clinton Foundation, or that the Clintons were developing a back-up plan for Blumenthal in case the State Department gig fell through.

The latter scenario -- that the Clintons scrambled to place Blumenthal at the Foundation as a backup to the State Department job -- has one interesting implication. It grossly undermines Hillary Clinton's claims last year that Blumenthal was merely a friend who often sent her "unsolicited" emails.

Email traffic in June 2009 makes it clear that the Clintons desperately sought to include Blumenthal in their orbit, and circling as close as possible.

Blumenthal started working at the Clinton Foundation sometime in 2009, according to a Politico article published last year. He was reportedly paid $10,000 a month to help promote the Clinton nonprofit. But as Politico reported, Blumemthal's vague role angered some employees as his hire was seen as a favor from the Clintons

State Department officials will begin releasing thousands of emails provided by Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, starting in March.

The agency agreed to produce all 29,000 pages of Abedin's private emails by April 2017 in court documents filed late Monday evening. Using a more drawn-out timeline than the one applied to the high-profile monthly releases of Clinton's emails, the State Department will review and release roughly 400 pages of Abedin's emails each month between March 2016 and April of next year.

However, the agency will not be publishing all of Abedin's emails online, as it has done with the portion of the 30,000 Clinton emails it has released so far.

Instead, the rolling productions of the Abedin emails will go directly to Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog who sued the State Department over its Freedom of Information Act request for the Abedin records.

Why this drip release routine?

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.

Fox News exclusively obtained the text of the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP). 

That indicates a level of classification beyond even ?top secret,? the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate?s handling of the government?s closely held secrets.

?To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the confidential,

Some of Hillary Clinton?s emails on her private server contained information so secret that senior lawmakers who oversee the State Department cannot read them without fulfilling additional security requirements, Fox News has learned.

The emails in question, as Fox News first reported earlier this week, contained intelligence classified at a level beyond ?top secret.? Because of this designation, not all the lawmakers on key committees reviewing the case have high enough clearances.

A source with knowledge of the intelligence review told Fox News that senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, despite having high-level clearances, are among those not authorized to read the intelligence from so-called ?special access programs? without taking additional security steps -- like signing new non-disclosure agreements.

When it is all said and done, she will welcome the firing squad..

I know in my gut assets are dead because of this criminal.  She should be dealt with swiftly, and as harsh as our laws permit.  And Bill has to also answer for his treason!

At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton's private server contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as "HCS-O," which is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations, according to two sources not authorized to speak on the record.

Both sources are familiar with the intelligence community inspector general?s January 14 letter to Congress, advising the Oversight committees that intelligence beyond Top Secret -- known as Special Access Program (SAP) -- was identified in the Clinton emails, as well the supporting documents from the affected agencies that owned the information and have final say on classification.

According to a December 2013 policy document released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: ?The HSC-0 compartment (Operations) is used to protect exceptionally fragile and unique IC (intelligence community) clandestine HUMINT operations and methods that are not intended for dissemination outside of the originating agency.?

It is not publicly known whether the information contained in the Clinton emails also revealed who the human source was, their nationality or affiliation.

Dan Maguire, former Special Operations strategic planner for Africom, told Fox News the disclosure of sensitive material impacts national security and exposes U.S. sources.

"There are people?s lives at stake. Certainly in an intel SAP, if you?re talking about sources and methods, there may be one person in the world that would have access to the type of information contained in that SAP,? he said.

2008

December: President Obama nominates Hillary Clinton for secretary of state.
2009

Jan. 13: Reports say the clintonemail.com domain was established.

Jan. 21: Senate confirms Clinton as secretary of state.

March 18: Clinton will later name this as the date she began using a private server for government business.
2012

Sept. 11: Islamic extremists launch the terrorist attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

October: Clinton convenes Accountability Review Board (ARB) to investigate State Dept. actions surrounding Benghazi.

After the ARB and Congress call for Benghazi-related documents, top Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan are allegedly present at a document sorting session in the basement of the State Dept., according to Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, who later told me he witnessed the operation. No law enforcement body contacted or interviewed Maxwell.
Former Clinton Deputy Asst. Secretary of State says he witnessed Benghazi document-sorting session

Former Clinton Deputy Asst. Secretary of State says he witnessed Benghazi document-sorting session

Nov. 7: Judicial Watch files Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request with State Dept. for Benghazi-related emails and other information.

December: I (then at CBS News) file a Freedom of Information Act request with the State Dept. for Benghazi-related emails and other information.

Dec. 10, 2012: Clinton cancels a trip due North Africa and the mideast to ?illness? and a ?bug.? State Dept. does not disclose she has fallen and received a head injury.

Dec. 13, 2012: State Dept. discloses that Clinton had ?fallen? while suffering from a stomach virus sometime the previous week and gotten a ?concussion? that was ?not severe.? Bill Clinton would later say that her injury ?required six months of very serious work to get over.?

Clinton postpones imminent Congressional testimony which had been scheduled.

Dec. 18-19: Clinton writes Congress promising to implement ARB recommendations and ARB officials provide briefing on their findings.

Judicial Watch files another FOI request with State Dept.

Dec. 30: State Dept. discloses discovery of ?blood clot? in her head from the concussion.
2013

Jan. 7: Clinton returns to work after her concussion.

Jan. 23: Clinton testifies to Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee where she utters her infamous ?What difference, at this point, does it make?? comment.

Feb. 1: Clinton leaves State Dept.

Feb. 25: Judicial Watch files two lawsuits against State Dept. for failing to lawfully respond to FOI requests.

The FBI is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton?s inner circle ?cut and pasted? material from the government?s classified network so that it could be sent to her private email address, former State Department security officials say.

Clinton and her top aides had access to a Pentagon-run classified network that goes up to the Secret level, as well as a separate system used for Top Secret communications.

The two systems ? the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) ? are not connected to the unclassified system, known as the Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet). You cannot email from one system to the other, though you can use NIPRNet to send ?emails outside the government.

Somehow, highly classified information from SIPRNet, as well as even the super-secure JWICS, jumped from those closed systems to the open system and turned up in at least 1,340 of Clinton?s home emails ? including several the CIA earlier this month flagged as containing ultra-secret Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Programs, a subset of SCI.

SAP includes ?dark projects,? such as drone operations, while SCI protects intelligence sources and methods.

If it is revealed just one person died from her cavalier mindset, she and her whole rotten corrupt team should be indicted for murder, for they might as well pulled the trigger themselves.

Yes, that I know.  I am speaking about others dead from her email.  They are out there, I am certain.  The big question is whether the truth will come out.

The State Department is lying when it says it didn?t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business ? because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department?s former top watchdog says.

?This was all planned in advance? to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency?s inspector general from 2005 to 2008.

The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.

These latest comments by the Obama White House reportedly have FBI and Justice Department officials ?Super Pissed Off.?

Catherine Herridge reported:

    That statement by Josh Earnest has got the back up of our contacts at the FBI and Justice Department for two reasons? They are SUPER PISSED OFF to use a technical term. Number one, Josh Earnest has absolutely no clearance or visibility in the FBI investigation. Number two, they say it really seems part of a troubling pattern from the White House because the president earlier said he did not see any national security implications to the Clinton emails and then we found out he had never been briefed.

A member of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that he has ?never read anything that?s more sensitive? than the contents of the ?Top Secret? Hillary Clinton emails identified by the State Department last week.

Utah Rep. Chris Stewart also said during an interview with Fox New?s ?America?s Newsroom? that there are ?actually more? than 22 ?Top Secret emails,? which is the number reported by the State Department. In a separate interview with the Washington Examiner, Stewart said that another seven emails are being withheld in full because of their sensitive nature.

?I have never read anything that?s more sensitive than what these emails contain,? Stewart told Fox. ?They do reveal classified methods, they do reveal classified sources, and they do reveal human assets.?

?I can?t imagine how anyone could be familiar with these emails, whether they?re sending them or receiving them, and not realize that they?re highly classified,? the Republican continued.

Loretta Lynch is on the edge of the spotlight, about to be dragged to the center.

If the FBI finds sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton or one of her top aides for mishandling classified information, Lynch?s Justice Department will have to decide whether to press ahead.

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Even if no evidence of wrongdoing is found, Clinton?s many critics are unlikely to take the word of an appointee of President Obama?s and will doubt that justice has been served.

Already, top Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to be brought in and evaluate the situation.

No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn (Texas) took to the floor of the Senate last week to call for a special counsel to be appointed ?because of the conflict of interest by asking Attorney General Lynch to investigate and perhaps even prosecute somebody in the Obama administration.?

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) agrees that Lynch ought to consider a special counsel, a representative said, to reassure the country that decisions are made ?without regard to any political considerations.?

Just the thing to propel her into the New Hampshire primary tomorrow:

    In a letter disclosed Monday in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world?s worst-kept secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clinton?s use of a private email server.

    Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true?  Because in August in response to a judge?s direction, the State Department asked the FBI for information about what it was up to.  Sorry, the FBI said at the time, we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation.

    Now, in a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI?s general counsel, James Baker, notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI ?has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton?s use of a private email server.?

The chamber is being loaded.  Looking forward to the hammer coming down....sooner versus later. 

Clinton should face treason charges and a host of other felonies as well to lock her away for centuries!

EXCLUSIVE: At least a dozen email accounts handled the ?top secret? intelligence that was found on Hillary Clinton?s server and recently deemed too damaging for national security to release, a U.S. government official close to the review told Fox News. 

The official said the accounts include not only Clinton?s but those of top aides ? including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines ? as well as State Department Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy and others.  There is no public evidence they were authorized to receive the intelligence some of which was beyond Top Secret.

A second source not authorized to speak on the record said the number of accounts involved could be as high as 30 and reflects how the intelligence was broadly shared, replied to, and copied to individuals using the unsecured server.

?My contacts with former colleagues and current active duty personnel involved in sensitive programs reveal a universal feeling that the HRC issue is more serious than the general public realizes,?  Dan Maguire,  a former strategic  planner with Africom, and with 46 years combined service, told Fox.  ?Most opine they would already be behind bars if they had apparently compromised sensitive information as reported.?

he State Department on Saturday released 550 more Hillary Clinton emails from her period as secretary of state, including 84 that were marked as classified, the American political magazine Politico reported.

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Two of the emails, whose contents were marked ?secret,? concerned American policy toward Israel, including an August 2012 exchange between top US officials over a cross-border attack from the Sinai peninsula into Israel, and a September 2012 exchange between Clinton and senior Mideast adviser Dennis Ross.

But nearly every word in the emails is redacted in the publicly available copies released by the State Department, to the point that the content of the emails cannot be discerned.

The Ross email, which dealt with US-Israel tensions at the time, will be declassified in 2037. The other email, whose subject line was at one point ?Molho on Sinai tension,? a reference to top Netanyahu adviser Yitzhak Molcho, and was shared among officials including US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, will be declassified in 2032.

EXCLUSIVE: One of the classified email chains discovered on Hillary Clinton?s personal unsecured server discussed an Afghan national?s ties to the CIA and a report that he was on the agency?s payroll, a U.S. government official with knowledge of the document told Fox News.

The discussion of a foreign national working with the U.S. government raises security implications ? an executive order signed by President Obama said unauthorized disclosures are ?presumed to cause damage to the national security."

The U.S. government official said the Clinton email exchange, which referred to a New York Times report, was among 29 classified emails recently provided to congressional committees with specific clearances to review them. In that batch were 22 ?top secret? exchanges deemed too damaging to national security to release.

Confirmation that one of these exchanges concerned a reported CIA asset means the emails went beyond issues like the drone strike campaign. Democrats repeatedly have said some messages referred to this, reinforcing Clinton's position that the documents are over-classified.

An email containing the whereabouts and plans of murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens passed through Hillary Clinton?s private server, dispatches released Monday in the final group of messages from Clinton?s emails reveal.

The email was actually first released last May but was contained in Monday?s batch as well, serving as a reminder that numerous emails sent to Clinton?s private address betrayed Stevens? location while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for an American diplomat.

The email in question was written Sunday, April 10, 2011 by State employee Timmy Davis and sent to the State email addresses of other employees, including Clinton?s then-foreign policy aide, Jacob Sullivan and Clinton?s senior aide.

Abedin forwarded the message to Clinton. At the time, Stevens was the U.S. envoy to the Libyan rebels.

The dispatch read:

The situation in Ajdabiyah has worsened to the point where Stevens is considering departure from Benghazi. The envoy?s delegation is currently doing a phased checkout (paying the hotel bills, moving some comms to the boat, etc). He will monitor the situation to see if it deteriorates further, but no decision has been made on departure. He will wait 2-3 more hours, then revisit the decision on departure.

The email is one of several giving away Stevens? location and movements.

A March 27, 2011 email released last year was titled, ?Chris

Of the dozens of intelligence memos that Sidney Blumenthal sent to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state, 23 contained information classified as ?Confidential? or ?Secret,? a Daily Caller analysis shows.

Sending nearly two dozen sensitive emails makes Blumenthal, a former journalist and aide in the Bill Clinton White House, one of Clinton?s most prolific sharers of classified information. The Democratic presidential candidate herself sent 104 emails containing classified information, The Washington Post found.

[dcquiz] Some of Clinton?s State Department aides, such as chief of staff Cheryl Mills and deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, sent dozens of emails which contain now-classified information. Jake Sullivan, Clinton?s top foreign policy adviser, sent 215 now-classified messages.

But the Blumenthal memos are especially intriguing because the longtime Clinton ally did not work for the government. Instead, during the period that he sent Clinton memos, he was working for the Clinton Foundation as well as for several non-profit organizations with close ties to the Clintons. He also worked during some of that period as an editor for The Daily Beast.

Here is a complete list of Blumenthal?s classified memos and emails:

2009

June 23 email ? Blumenthal forwarded Clinton a nearly entirely redacted email with subject line ?N. Ireland/Shaun,? an apparent reference to Shaun Woodward, who then served as Northern Ireland?s secretary of state.

July 15 memo ? Blumenthal refers to information from William Drozdiak, who at the time was the president of the American Council on Germany. The non-redacted portion of the email refers to the ?disastrous nature? of an Obama diplomatic trip.

Sept. 23 email ? Entitled ?URGENT FOR NORTHERN IRELAND MEETINGS TOMORROW,? the Blumenthal memo refers to a Clinton Global Initiative event held days before to discuss ways to increase foreign investment in Northern Ireland.

Oct. 8 memo ? Blumenthal provided an update on developments in Northern Ireland.

Oct. 11 memo ? Blumenthal advised Clinton ahead of a speech she was set to give at Stormont Castle in Belfast in support of devolution, or the shifting of power from the U.K. parliament to the Northern Ireland national assembly.

Oct. 20 memo ? Blumenthal shared an email from Northern Ireland?s Sec. of State Shaun Woodward. Clinton was set to meet with UK Shadow Foreign Minister William Hague. ?This makes your meeting with Hague unexpectedly pressing,? Blumenthal wrote of Woodward?s email.

Nov. 28 memo ? Blumenthal sent yet another update about negotiations in Northern Ireland.

2010

Blumenthal sent Clinton more updates on negotiations in Northern Ireland, including a Jan. 25 memo, a Jan. 27 memo, a March 4 memo, a March 6 memo, and a March 8 memo.

April 8 memo ? Blumenthal forwarded Clinton an email from a source discussing internal politics in Kyrgyzstan, which was then in the midst of a revolution.

April 23 ?Secret? memo ? Blumenthal updated Clinton on the situation in Kyrgyzstan. The portion of the memo redacted for ?secret? classified information discussed a criminal investigation.

2011

March 5 memo ? Blumenthal forwarded Clinton an email from his longtime associate Cody Shearer, who has worked on behalf of the Clintons over the years. The memo, sent in the early days of the Libyan revolt, discussed the formation of the National Transitional Council, which replaced Muammar Gaddafi?s dictatorship.

March 18 memo ? Blumenthal discussed Gaddafi?s response to the UN?s decision to authorize the use of force in Libya.

June 20 memo ? Blumenthal?s memo, with the subject line ?Bahrain, Iranian intelligence,? is completely redacted.

Oct. 12 memo ?  A memo entitled ?Saudi Arabia/Iran/Turkey? relied on Blumenthal?s ?Sources with access to the highest levels of the Government of Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, as well as regional and Western Intelligence services.?

2012

May 30 memo ? Blumenthal sent Clinton two memos containing information on German policy on the Eurozone crisis, which had reached full steam at that point. The information in the memos was passed to Blumenthal by sources who had conversations with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble.

In the memo, Blumenthal cautioned Clinton that the information came from ?an extremely sensitive source? and ?should be handled with care.? He also insisted that the information must not be shared ?with anyone associated with the German government.

June 27 memo ? A memo entitled ?Internal pressures and potential schisms in German government over Euro-zone? is entirely redacted.

July 14 memo ? Blumenthal?s memo entitled ?Egypt internal politics? came from ?sources with access to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, and Western Intelligence and security services.?

Blumenthal characterized the sources as ?extremely sensitive? and cautioned that the information should be ?handled with care.?

Aug. 3 memo ? Blumenthal passed along a memo discussing European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and negotitions with Germany to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis. The memo is entirely redacted as classified and is b ased on ?sources with access to the highest levels of the Governments and institutions.?

Sept. 4 memo ? Blumenthal passed along another now-entirely redacted memo based on ?high-level sources.? The subject matter of the memo is not clear

All I see here is repeated felonies by Clinton and everyone tied to her.  When does she get indicted?

This is why it is essential for Trump to become president.  He is not I believe part of the NWO, and he just might indict one of the worst traitors in our history.

Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the case who called him a ?devastating witness.?

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The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary of state?s system ? as well as when ? and what devices were used, amounting to a roadmap for investigators.

"Bryan Pagliano is a devastating witness and, as the webmaster, knows exactly who had access to [Clinton's] computer and devices at specific times. His importance to this case cannot be over-emphasized," the intelli

If Clinton ends up the Dems candidate, and I do not believe she will be, the USA economy will implode.  What will happen will make what happened in Greece look tame.  We will have higher than 50% unemployment, declining healthcare, people dying from no healthcare coverage, a radical increase in illegal aliens invading the USA.

Bottomline:  a total lawless environment.  Crime goes through the roof.  Muslims continue to conquer one country after another, with no one standing in their way.  The world goes very dark with the USA going from lead from behind to sitting at the bottom of the pool.   DEAD!

(Washington, DC) ? Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained State Department documents revealing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly sought to obtain ?Blackberry-like communications,? but was rebuffed by the National Security Agency due to security and cost concerns. The National Security Agency?s Information Assurance Directorate response was ?shut up and color.?  The emails show that Clinton demanded Blackberry devices that could be used by her and her staff in her office?s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

The documents were obtained in response to a court order in an April 28, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00646), filed after the Department of State failed to comply with a March 10, 2015, FOIA request seeking following:

    Any and all records of requests by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or her staff to the State Department Office Security Technology seeking approval for the use of an iPad or iPhone for official government business; and

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is losing confidence in Hillary Clinton and her mishandling of a private email server, a New York Post columnist suggested on Sunday.

"FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private e-mail server," Charles Gasparino said career agents had told him.

Federal prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton?s private email server have begun the process of setting up formal interviews with some of her longtime and closest aides, according to two people familiar with the probe, an indication that the inquiry is moving into its final phases.

Those interviews and the final review of the case, however, could still take many weeks, all but guaranteeing that the investigation will continue to dog Clinton?s presidential campaign through most, if not all, of the remaining presidential primaries.

BREAKING: State Dept. Releases Phone Transcript of Hillary Admitting She Knew Benghazi Was Planned Attack

Jim Hoft Apr 15th, 2016 10:48 am Leave a Comment
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed an ?awful? internet video for the deaths of four Americans in the terror attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi.

Hillary made the comments just three days after the assault on the compound that killed Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

Hillary lied?
The State Department released a phone transcipt this week that proves Hillary Clinton knew the Benghazi massacre was a planned attack and not a protest.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents this week.
BizPac Review reported:

    The conservative political watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a transcript of telephone call between the then-secretary of state and then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil.

    ?We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film,? Clinton told Kandil. ?It was a planned attack ? not a protest.?

    Kandil agreed.

    ?You?re not kidding. Based on the information we saw today we believe that group that claimed responsibility for this is affiliated with al-Qaida.?

What?s going on with the FBI criminal investigation with Hillary Clinton?s illegal use of a home email server? The FBI has been quiet, but now we have learned it?s for good reason! As sources inform Fox News? Catherine Herridge (below), Hillary Clinton is about to be in serious trouble!

As Rep. Mike Pompeo, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News:

    ?I can assure you the intelligence committee is working on determining the scope of any breaches that may have resulted from the improper handling of classified information, and the damage assessments that go with them. I think we all understand that we had classified information in channels that weren?t secure on Secretary Clinton?s homebrew server and that risk was associated with that.?

Then, Herridge explains how her sources are focused on how ?federal regulations require damage assessments after classified information is outside secure government channels, such as a personal server.?

CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email server nears completion, U.S. officials briefed on the investigation tell CNN. The investigation is still ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law the U.S. officials say.
In recent weeks, multiple aides have been interviewed -- some more than once, the officials said. A date for an FBI interview of Clinton has not been set, these officials said, but is expected in the coming weeks. Abedin has cooperated with the probe, the officials said. Lawyers for Abedin declined to comment. The officials say the interviews of Clinton and her aides would be a routine part of an investigation like this.

The Clinton campaign said Thursday that they've cooperated with the Justice Department review since the beginning.

The Clinton spin machine went into high gear yesterday.  A series of leaks to the media cascaded out a day after Catherine Herridge of Fox News broke the story that Romanian hacker Guccifer told her that he had easily been able to hack into her private email server, and browse through the emails that we now know contained material of the highest classification.  Notably, NBC News had access to this information earlier, but sat on it for weeks, leaving the scoop to Fox News, which is bizarre behavior for a purported news organization.  But then again, other mainstream media largely have ignored the Fox scoop.

But they are not ignoring the leaks about Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton?s closest aide, being grilled by the FBI for two hours a month ago.  Other Clinton aides, reportedly, also have been interviewed.  Who is doing the leaking and why now are two important questions.  My gut tells me that we are being played, that it is the Clinton camp spinning the arrival of bad news via anonymous sources.

Dan Quentin Wilbur of the LA Times:

    Huma Abedin, a close aide to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, was questioned last month by FBI agents investigating whether classified material was mishandled on the private email server used by the former secretary of State and her aides, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

    Abedin was interviewed for about two hours at the FBI?s field office in Washington on April 5, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The spin began with the speed of light.

    Most legal experts, including a number of former federal prosecutors, believe that Clinton faces little risk of being prosecuted for using the private email system to conduct official business when she served as secretary of State.

    Using a private email system was not banned at the time, her supporters note, and other senior government officials also have used personal email to transact official business.

Hillary?s apologists in the DavidBrockosphere are mightily spinning.  The familiar and specious argument that there was no criminal intent prominently appears in many MSM accounts.  Matt Zapotosky of the Washington Post makes it his lede:

    Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton?s use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules, though they are still probing the case aggressively with an eye on interviewing Clinton herself, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

That is pure spin from the Clinton camp.  The relevant federal statute is based on gross negligence, a standard by which intent is irrelevant.  As Charles Cooke pointed out at NRO:

    18 USC 793(f)(1)-(2) holds that:

    Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,

REPORT: Hillary?s Emails Hacked by Russia ? Kremlin Deciding Whether to Release 20,000 Stolen Emails (VIDEO)

Jim Hoft May 10th, 2016 8:02 am Leave a Comment

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The Kremlin is debating whether to release the 20,000 emails they have hacked off of Hillary Clinton?s server.

According to a report from four days ago, beginning in 2011, the Russians began monitoring Romanian computer hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel (aka Guccifer) after he attempted, unsuccessfully, to break into the computer system of the Russian funded RT television network.

After monitoring Guccifer, the Russians were reportedly able to record (both physically and electronically) his actions which allowed the Russian intelligence analysts, in 2013, to not only detect his breaking into the private computer of Secretary Clinton, but also break in and copy all of its contents as well.

The report notes that shortly after Russia obtained Clinton?s emails, they released a limited amount to RT TV which were published in an article in March 2013, titled

Senior Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and her lawyer walked out of a recent interview with the FBI about Clinton's private email system after an investigator asked a question Mills believed to be off limits, according to a published report.

The Washington Post said that Mills and her lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, returned to the interview room after a brief absence. However, the Post reported that Mills and Wilkinson asked for breaks during the interview to confer more than once.

According to the paper, the FBI investigator's questions that caused Mills and Wilkinson to walk out were related to the procedure used to produce emails for possible public release by the State Department. Mills ultimately did not answer questions about it because her attorney and Justice Department prosecutors deemed it confidential under attorney-client privilege.

The FBI is currently investigating possible gross mishandling of classified information and Clinton's use of an unsecured personal account exclusively for government b

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday he feels "pressure" to complete the federal investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server competently and quickly.

However, Comey said the pressure is similar to other high-profile cases the bureau handles such as terrorism investigations.

"We want to do it well and we want to do it promptly. I feel pressure to do both of those things," Comey told reporters during a roundtable at FBI headquarters. "As between the two things, we will always choose 'well.'"

Comey indicated he's not taking into account political events, including the upcoming conventions or the fall election.

We want to do it well and we want to do it promptly. I feel pressure to do both of those things," Comey told reporters during a roundtable at FBI headquarters. "As between the two things, we will always choose 'well.'"

"I don't tether to any external deadline," the FBI chief said.

Comey also swatted away a series of questions about the status of the investigation, describing it only as pending. He did repeat that he is tracking the probe closely.

"I remain close to that investigation to make sure that it?s done well and has the resources that are needed...My goal in any investigation is to do it well and do it promptly, especially investigations of intense public interest. All of that remains true,? Comey said at the outset of the hour-long session. ?It remains under investigation.?

State Department Documents Reveal Clinton Political Operative Pushed the Hiring of Bryan Pagliano

This week we received Department of State emails showing that, during Hillary Clinton?s tenure as
secretary of state, Laura Pena, a top aide to Clinton, helped push through the political appointment of Bryan Pagliano, a former Hillary for President IT director, to a political position in the IT group at the State Department.

Yes, that?s a bit odd.

The newly released documents also show the involvement of Patrick Kennedy, under secretary for management, in Pagliano?s hiring.

The emails show that others in the State Department International Resource Management (IT division) in which Pagliano would work questioned why a political appointee was being placed in the office.  And the emails reveal that a political appointee could not even report directly to a superior in the International Resource Management division, raising further questions among Pagliano?s supervisors.

Before becoming Clinton?s State Department White House liaison, Pena served as the Hillary for President campaign?s Director of Hispanic Outreach and Deputy Director of Women?s Outreach, leaving that position to become the Deputy Political Director of Clinton?s Friends of Hillary PAC.  In January 2009, Pena joined Clinton at the State Department where she helped secure Pagliano?s political appointment one month later.

The significance of all this: While at the State Department, Pagliano allegedly provided tech support for Hillary Clinton?s non-State.gov email system.

The new documents were obtained in response to an April 8, 2016, federal court order directing the Department of State to begin delivering materials to Judicial Watch in response to a September 3, 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-01441)).  The lawsuit was filed after State failed to comply with an August 5, 2015 FOIA request seeking the following:

    All records concerning the hiring of Bryan Pagliano;

    All time sheets, calendars, or similar records of Bryan Pagliano;

    All records of travel to/from Chappaqua, NY.  Such records include, but are not limited to, expense reports, reimbursement forms, and travel logs;

    All records of Bryan Pagliano concerning, regarding, or relating to the maintenance of former Secretary Clinton?s email server.  Such records include, but are not limited to, expense reports, reimbursement forms, and maintenance logs; and

    All records of communications between Bryan Pagliano and any official, officer, or employee of the Office of the Secretary concerning former Secretary Clinton?s email server.

The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the political appointment of Pagliano was expedited after Clinton aide Pena sent an initial email to Patrick Kennedy on February 23, 2009:

    From: Pena, Laura

    Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:25 AM

    To: Patrick Kennedy

    Subject: Bryan Pagliano

    Hi Pat,

    Please let me know when you are ready to give Brian his assignment at IRM, I?d like to give him a heads up and a better idea of the position.

    Many thanks,

    Laura

     

    From: Kennedy, Patrick F.

    Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:48 AM

    To: Pena, Laura

    Subject: RE: Bryan Pagliano

    Laura,

    Susan Swart and Charlie Wisecarver are very interested in him and were calling him to talk.

    Will get you a read-out

    Regards

    Pat

     

    From: Kennedy, Patrick F.

    Sent: 5at Feb 28 11:48:55 2009

    To: Wisecarver, Charles D [Deputy, Bureau of Information Resource Management]

    Cc: Swart, Susan H [Director, Bureau of Information Resource Management]

    Subject: FW: Bryan Pagliano

    Charlie

    How did the conversation go and have you reached an agreement?

    Regards

    Pat

     

    From: Wisecarver, Charles D

    To Taglialatela, Linda S [then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Human Resources]

    Cc: Swart, Susan H; Fedak, Janice J

    Sent: Monday, Mar 09 06:54:07 2009

    Subject: Schedule C?

    Linda,

    Pat passed on resume of a young man who ran technology for the Clinton for President campaign. Janice and I met with him on Friday and see the value in bringing him on.

    CharlieAccording to a March 25, 2016,  article, despite Swart?s and Wisecarver?s compliance in moving through the Pagliano appointment, both were concerned because ?Schedule C hires usually work in agencies? executive offices, not in technical areas like an IT department.?

According to a March 25, 2016, Reuters article, despite Swart?s and Wisecarver?s compliance in moving through the Pagliano appointment, both were concerned because ?Schedule C hires usually work in agencies? executive offices, not in technical areas like an IT department.?

Reuters reported that a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) to Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy in mid-March addressed those concerns.  And the emails obtained by Judicial Watch revealed the extent of Swart?s and Wisecarver?s misgivings about the political nature of the Pagliano appointment:

    From: Raymos, Jeanne N [former Director, Executive Resources and Performance Management]

    Sent: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:08 PM

    To: Wiscarver, Charles D

    Subject: RE: Schedule C ? Bryan Pagliano

    Charlie, As a Schedule C, Bryan must report to a PAS [Presidential Appointee requiring Senate confirmation], and since Ms. Swart is not a PAS, the PD should identify U/S Kennedy as the supervisor.

     

    From: Wisecarver, Charles D

    To: Swart, Susan H

    Sent: Wed March 11 21:45:45 2009

    Subject: FW: Schedule C ? Bryan Pagliano

    Your not a PAS! What is a PAS? Is this a reference for a confirmed A/S?

     

    From: Swart, Susan H

    Sent: Wed March 11, 2009 9:53 PM

    To: Wisecarver, Charles D

    Subject: RE: Schedule C ? Bryan Pagliano

    I don?t know what a pas is. PFK [Patrick F. Kennedy] specifically said we didn?t need to be pol apptees but it sure sounds like we do. I am going to ask him. What a bunch a

On May 4, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted Judicial Watch ?discovery? in another FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)) in which Judicial Watch can take testimony from Pagliano and Kennedy.

These documents show that politics played a role in Clinton email witness Brian Pagliano?s hiring at the State Department.  Why place a political appointee in the IT department of the State Department?  It is no coincidence that this same controversial political hire helped Hillary Clinton with her illicit email system.

Meantime, we have learned that the State Department supposedly can?t find the main compute file containing Pagliano?s State Department?s email records.  According to Politico, the Obama State Department thinks we should be satisfied that some of his emails ended up in other employees? files.

This game is not surprising.  The State Department first gave only a few Pagliano documents, but we pushed back at the agency because the public record showed there were more documents. Sure enough, that led to this latest batch of records that were only found because we wouldn?t be fooled by the Obama gang.

We expect more records soon, and Mr. Pagliano?s testimony to Judicial Watch attorneys should happen over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, here, via Fox News, is a good summary of Clinton email developments featuring Judicial Watch.

Whitewater: Twelve Versions of Hillary Clinton Draft Indictment, 451 Pages, Withheld By National Archives

If federal prosecutors are drafting an indictment against Hillary Clinton, it wouldn?t be the first time.  New details continue to emerge from Judicial Watch?s Freedom of Information Act fight with the National Archives over the release of draft indictments of Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater case.

Our Chief Investigative Reporter, Micah Morrison, has the details in JW?s Investigative Bulletin:

    According to the Archives, release of the indictments?drafted by an independent counsel examining the Clintons? relationship to a corrupt Arkansas S&L and an alleged cover-up?would violate grand jury secrecy and Mrs. Clinton?s personal privacy. FOIA request denied.

    Judicial Watch declined to take ?no? for an answer, and so off to court we went. The case is now in the hands of a federal judge.

    In the course of litigation, new facts have come to light.  Under FOIA, the Archives must produce a ?Vaughn Index??a tantalizing and at times maddening document. A Vaughn Index is the government saying: we are not giving you the documents, but here is an ?index? of what we are not giving you, and why we are not giving it to you. Your tax dollars at work.

    In the National Archives Vaughn Index for the case, we learn that the government is sitting on at least twelve versions of the draft indictment of Mrs. Clinton, including one ?listing overt acts.? From the public record, we know that the Whitewater case centered around whether Mrs. Clinton, while First Lady, lied to federal investigators about her role in the corrupt Arkansas S&L, concealed documents (including material under federal subpoena), and took other steps to cover-up her involvement. Prosecutors ultimately decided not to indict Mrs. Clinton, concluding that they could not win the complicated, largely circumstantial case against such a high-profile figure.

    The draft indictments range from three to forty pages?the former likely excerpts or ?scraps? from longer documents, the Vaughn Index indicates. Some of the drafts doubtless are copies, but many clearly are not. A total of 451 pages of draft indictments are being withheld by the Archives.

    In its final brief in the case, Judicial Watch took a wrecking ball to the Archives? grand jury secrecy and personal privacy claims.  Judicial Watch noted ?the truly enormous quantities of grand jury material already made public? in the independent counsel?s final report.  Judicial Watch provided the court with a detailed list of grand jury and non-grand jury material that had already been made public.  If there ever was a valid claim to grand jury secrecy in this closely scrutinized case, it is long gone.

    The Judicial Watch brief noted that the Archives ?fails to identify a single, specific privacy interest Mrs. Clinton still has in the draft indictments? following publication of the independent counsel?s report and ?hundreds of pages of grand jury materials, non-grand jury materials, and independent counsel legal theories and analysis that are already in the public domain.?

The State Department watchdog, in an extensive and detailed report, accused Hillary Clinton of flouting federal records rules and cybersecurity guidelines with her exclusive use of personal email for government business while secretary of state.

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The forthcoming inspector general audit, a copy of which was obtained by FoxNews.com, faults Clinton and her predecessors for poorly managing email and other computer information.

The report says the department was "slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications." It cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications that started before Clinton's tenure.

But the report singles out Clinton?s failures as more serious. The report includes numerous revelations, including that her server was at one point ?attacked,? that Clinton declined to be interviewed for the audit and that Clinton never sought approval to use her personal account for government work.

An explosive new report reveals just what it is that the FBI is looking to: emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan with her cellphone.

From 2011 on, the State Department had a secret arrangement with the CIA, giving it a degree of say over whether or not a drone killing would take place.

The U.S. drone program has killed hundreds of civilians in Pakistan and other countries.

Under Sec. Clinton, State Department officials approved almost every single proposed CIA drone assassination. They only objected to one or two attacks.

The emails that are at the heart of the FBI?s criminal investigation are 2011 and 2012 messages between U.S. diplomats in Pakistan and their State Department superiors in D.C., in which the officials approved drone strikes.

Clinton?s aides forwarded some of these emails to her personal email account, on a private server in her home in suburban New York.

These are the revelations of a report by The Wall Street Journal, based on information provided by anonymous congressional and law-enforcement officials who were briefed on the FBI?s probe.

The State Department revealed in January that 22 of the emails that were on Clinton?s private server at her home contained top-secret information. These messages were not publicly released, and an investigation was eventually launched.

The White House acknowledged in a press briefing on Thursday that the FBI probe into Clinton?s handling of classified information is a ?criminal investigation.? President Obama endorsed Clinton for president on the same day.

Hundreds of civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and more have been killed by U.S. drones.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features that left the server more vulnerable to hackers, according to emails released Wednesday.

Just weeks later, according to previously disclosed emails, hackers attacked the server, forcing Clinton's staff to shut it down. The next day, one of Clinton's closest aides, Huma Abedin, wrote to other high ranking staff: "Don't email hrc (Clinton) anything sensitive. I can explain more in person."

The emails were released under court order Wednesday to the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch, which has sued the State Department over access to public records related to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's service as the nation's top diplomat between 2009 and 2013.

The emails, reviewed by The Associated Press, show that State Department technical staff disabled software intended to block phishing emails that could deliver dangerous viruses. They were trying urgently to resolve an apparent conflict between the server's built-in email delivery features with a version of "ScanMail for Exchange" security software from Trend Micro Inc. that had been installed on her server. Clinton has not previously described any security protections on her server.
 

"This should trump all other activities," a senior technical official, Ken LaVolpe, told IT employees in a Dec. 17, 2010, email. Another senior State Department official, Thomas W. Lawrence, wrote days later in an email that Abedin personally was asking for an update about the server repairs. Abedin and Clinton, who both used the private server, had complained that emails each sent to State Department employees were not being reliably received.

After technical staffers turned off some security features, Lawrence cautioned in an email, "We view this as a Band-Aid and fear it's not 100 percent fully effective."

Clinton has repeatedly denied there is any evidence her private email server ever was breached. Her campaign did not immediately provide comment Wednesday.

BREAKING ?  Hillary Clinton met Saturday morning with the FBI regarding the agency?s investigation into her use of a private email server for official correspondence while secretary of state.

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The voluntary meeting lasted about three-and-a-half hours and was conducted at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C, according to the Clinton campaign.

Clinton ?is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion? campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement. He also said Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will not make further comment about the interview.

Clinton?s use of the private server and email address -- particularly whether the setup was used for classified information and how secure they were -- has cast a shadow over her campaign from the start.

The FBI investigation is purportedly coming to a close, and the Clinton interview is considered among the final steps in the case.

...the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will not make further comment about the interview.

Hillary Clinton?s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state ? a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those public records.

Huma Abedin was deposed in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit into Clinton?s emails ? but her admission could be relevant to another lawsuit seeking Clinton?s schedules.

?If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, that . . . that certainly happened on . . . on more than one occasion,? Abedin told lawyers representing Judicial Watch, the conservative organization behind the emails lawsuit.

Abedin made the surprising admission in response to a question about document destruction at the Department of State. A lawyer for Judicial Watch asked: ?And during your tenure at the State Department, were you aware of your obligation not to delete

Does this mean we won't get a transcript of her repeating over and over again, "I don't remember"?

Huma Abedin admits that Clinton burned daily schedules

She got away with it. We knew this didn't we.

Yes, we did. I began to worry when all the usual suspects kept telling us how Comey was a stand up guy, highest integrity, and would do the right thing. Any time a public figure gets the kind of press he got, I get concerned. I loathe and distrust the MSM.

The second thing which prompted my skepticism that this would be a fair investigation was Lynch's announcement she would accept the FBI's decision. I felt sure she already knew what its findings would be and the fix was in. Perhaps it was this Lynch reassured Billy goat would happen during their ever so coincidental meeting in Phoenix.

So here we are once again. The Clintons walk away unscathed from obvious wrongdoing and we wind up with further evidence there are three levels of criminal prosecution in this country, one for the average citizen, another for the rich and powerful, and one for the Clintons.

nother 296 pages of Hillary Clinton?s emails were released Tuesday ? exposing key Clinton aides doing favors for billionaires and, on one occasion, leaving the then-secretary of state?s daily schedule in an unlocked hotel room.

The documents were released by Judicial Watch, which is suing to recover Clinton?s emails under Freedom of Information Act laws.

In an April 2009 email to Clinton?s State Department aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, President Clinton?s former body man, Doug Band, the founder of corporate consultant Teneo, urgently asked them to set up a meeting with an ambassador for a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.
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?We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance person re lebanon. As you know, he?s key guy there and to us and is loved in lebanon.?

?Its jeff feltman,? Abedin wrote back, referring to Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, America?s former top diplomat to Lebanon. ?I?m sure he knows him[.] Ill talk to jeff.?

Less than 20 minutes later, Band replied, ?Better if you call him. Now preferrable. This is very important.?

Chagoury is a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and a Clinton Foundation donor, giving somewhere between $1 million and $5 million.

The construction magnate has financial interests around the world and was convicted in Switzerland in 2000 for money laundering. He paid $66 million in a plea deal.

The emails also show Clinton?s closest aide, Abedin, left her boss?s daily schedule in an unlocked hotel room in Trinidad and Tobago, where the secretary of state was attending a conference.

?Hi Huma,? aide Melissa Lan wrote in an email to Abedin. ?Would it be possible to get one of the Secretary?s day book binders back for tomorrow?s product??

Abedin replied, ?Yes its [sic] on the bed in my room. U can take it. My door is open. I?m in lobby. Thx.?

Washington (CNN)Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 296 pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee, including 44 that Judicial Watch says were not previously handed over to the State Department by Clinton. The emails, many of which are heavily redacted, raise questions about the Clinton Foundation's influence on the State Department and its relations during her tenure.

In one instance, top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band lobbied Clinton aides for a job for someone else in the State Department. In the email, Band tells Hillary Clinton's former aides at the department -- Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin -- that it is "important to take care of (redacted)." Band is reassured by Abedin that "Personnel has been sending him options."
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The emails were obtained by the group through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the State Department in 2015. The group did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
The Trump campaign seized at the new batch of emails, citing them as evidence of Clinton being corrupt. The prolonged investigations into her use of a private email server while at the State Department has fueled public distrust of her and plagued her presidential bid. But the Justice Department declined to press charges against Clinton for her handling of classified information related to the server earlier this year, with FBI Director James Comey saying while she was "extremely careless," it was his judgment that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

A few months after Hillary Clinton took over as U.S. secretary of state in 2009, a longtime associate with connections to the Clinton Foundation insisted that her senior aides give a job to an unidentified male associate.

?Important to take care of [name redacted],? Douglas Band, President Bill Clinton?s former right-hand man, wrote to Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Nora Toiv in an April 22, 2009, email.

?We have all had him on our radar,? Abedin responded. ?Personnel has been sending him options.?

The subject line on the email read ?A favor??

The email exchanged was uncovered by government watchdog group Judicial Watch, and was the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. It?s the latest example of the kind of cronyism that was rife at the State Department under Hillary Clinton?s watch.

Band served as a top aide to former President Bill Clinton and assisted in creating the Clinton Global Initiative. He is also a founding partner of Teneo, a global consulting firm that obtained approval from the State Department for a paid consulting arrangement between Bill Clinton and Band.

Teneo is the same firm where Mrs. Clinton longtime right-hand woman Huma Abedin worked as a senior adviser. Abedin was advising Teneo while working as a senior Clinton aide at the State Department.

While she was secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also handpicked Teneo co-founder and CEO Declan Kelly as her economic envoy to Northern Ireland.

In a separate email exchange, Band emailed Abedin and Mills requesting help connecting Clinton Foundation mega-donor Gilbert Chagoury with the State Department?s ?substance person? on Lebanon affairs. Abedin later promised to contact the ?substance person? about the request.

?This is very important,? Band replied, noting the urgency of the request.

Chagoury, of course, is the wealthy Nigerian-Lebanese businessman and longtime friend of former President Bill Clinton, whose worldwide exploits were heavily documented in The New York Times bestselling book Clinton Cash, authored by Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.

In 2000, Switzerland convicted Chagoury of money-laundering and ?aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the [Sani] Abacha years? of military dictatorship, according to a PBS Frontline report. And despite Chagoury?s  being put on the federal terrorist no-fly list, the Clinton Foundation accepted a $1 to $5 million donation from the nefarious figure. Chagoury?s company pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009, the same year the Clinton Global Initiative awarded the Chagoury Group its annual prize for ?sustainab

State: Nearly 15,000 new Clinton emails gleaned in FBI probe
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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Scranton, Pa. The State Department said Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI's now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton's private home server. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The State Department is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI's now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton's private home server.

Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect that new messages sent or received by the Democratic presidential nominee could become public just before November's election.

Boasberg is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch.

Representing the State Department, Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson told the judge that officials do not yet know what portion of the emails is work-related, rather than personal.

Newly released emails suggest a senior Hillary Clinton aide stage-managed her first hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack by feeding specific topics Clinton wanted to address to Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who at the time was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

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"We wired it that Menendez would provide an opportunity to address two topics we needed to debunk (her actions/whereabouts on 9/11, and these email from Chris Stevens about moving locations,)" Clinton media gatekeeper Philippe Reines wrote to Chelsea Clinton the morning of the Jan. 23, 2013 hearing. 

Click here to read the emails

Right out of the gate, the first hearing question from Menendez that day covered both topics referenced by Reines.

Menendez asked for Clinton?s ?insights on the decision-making process regarding the location of the Mission.? The senator added, ?can you also in your response, you touched upon it in your opening statement, but what actions were you and your staff taking the night of September 11 and into September 12?"

They were very busy, removing classification markings from emails.

When Paul Combetta aka ?stonetear? woke up yesterday morning, it?s doubtful he would have suspected a two year old archive written under his Reddit pseudonym would have been on his mind.   Full Day One Discovery Thread HERE

However, someone must have alerted him asap because within hours of our story hitting the web (04:45am EDT) Combetta began furiously deleting his Reddit postings, user information, and various media forum histories.

In addition to secondarily confirming his real-life identity, in legal-speak such behavior is called: ?consciousness of guilt?.

Hillary Clinton?s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and two other staffers were granted immunity as part of the now-closed FBI probe into the former secretary of state?s email practices, according to a top House Republican who questioned whether the numerous deals hindered the bureau?s ability to build a case.

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"This is beyond explanation,? House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said in a statement Friday. ?The FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy. I've lost confidence in this investigation and I question the genuine effort in which it was carried out.?

The arrangements detailed by Chaffetz bring the total number of publicly known immunity deals in the Clinton case to five.

The FBI has zero credibility.  Their issuing immunity to so many appears to be a concerted effort to cover up the truth, not to find it.  There is a conspiracy going on here, and the FBI and Comey reek from the whole thing.