Sept 23, 2015 by Natasha Bertrand
The FBI has been able to recover deleted emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal server, a source close to the investigation told Bloomberg.
And intriguingly, agents sifting through the emails Clinton said were “personal” in nature have reportedly handed some over to investigators — indicating that they are relevant in at least some way to the FBI’s ongoing investigation.
“Once the emails have been extracted, a group of agents has been separating personal correspondence and passing along work-related messages to agents leading the investigation,” Bloomberg reported.
Facing criticism earlier this year for exclusively using a private server during her time as secretary of state, Clinton handed over about 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public. She deleted about 31,000 emails she says were personal.
At a press conference in March, Clinton claimed that the deleted correspondences had to do with yoga routines, family vacations, and plans for her daughter Chelsea’s wedding.
The FBI is investigating the configuration of that server as well as whether sensitive information ever passed through her private inbox while she served as secretary of state.
It is unclear how many deleted emails the FBI has been able to find. The IT firm Clinton hired to oversee the server after she left the State Department, Platte River Networks, said last month that it was “highly likely” a backup copy of the server was made. And an official speaking to The New York Times said the emails had not been difficult to recover.
Clinton handed over her server to FBI agents in August, five months after first acknowledging that she had exclusively used a private email server to send and receive work-related emails while serving as secretary of state.
At the time, a House committee requested access to Clinton’s server to ensure that she had not deleted any work-related emails. But her lawyer, David Kendall, told the committee that Clinton aides had changed the server’s settings so that only emails she sent and received in the previous 60 days would be saved.
‘These 2 things can’t both be true’
REUTERS/Brian C. FrankClinton during a speech in the gymnasium of Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday.
Clinton’s use of the server was allowed under State Department regulations, but there are rules governing how the server should be configured and protected so it is not vulnerable to cyberattacks.
It is still unclear which safeguards were taken to protect it. And cybersecurity experts have raised the point that if Clinton’s team wasn’t able to delete old emails properly, then it may not have known how to properly secure the server, either.
“Clinton’s private email server was secure. Clinton’s people didn’t know how to delete her old emails,” Christopher Soghoian, a technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union, tweeted on Wednesday.
“These two things can’t both be true.”
‘Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information’
The FBI investigation has reportedly centered on 18 US Code 793, a section of the Espionage Act related to gathering and transmitting national-defense information, and is being led by an FBI “A-team” out of its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
“Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau’s 56 field offices,” The New York Times reported last month.
“But given this inquiry’s importance, senior FBI officials have opted to keep it closely held in Washington in the agency’s counterintelligence section, which investigates how national security secrets are handled.”
The FBI’s headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in D.C.
Clinton has insisted she never sent or received any information marked “classified.” But last month a Reuters report detailed how some of the information Clinton shared with colleagues was inherently classified, even if it was not marked as such.
“Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information among themselves on unsecured networks several times a month, if the State Department’s markings are correct,” Reuters’ Jonathan Allen reported.
“Within the 30 email threads reviewed by Reuters, Clinton herself sent at least 17 emails that contained this sort of information.”
Anyone who inadvertently shared classified information with Clinton via email could face criminal charges and be prosecuted for “gross negligence,” Bloomberg reported.
It’s unknown how much classified information was consciously shared over the server. Clinton herself is not the subject of a criminal investigation, and she has since apologized for using a private server while she was at the State Department.
“That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” she said in an interview with ABC last month.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-recovered-clintons-deleted-emails-2015-9
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BREMMER: A senior administration official told me, ‘If I did what Hillary did, I think I’d be in jail’
Aug. 21, 2015 by Natasha Bertrand, Michael B Kelley and Brett LoGiurato
The scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as secretary of state has turned off some of her supporters in the White House, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer told Business Insider.
“Most of the senior administration officials I know think she’d be an extremely competent president but have a hard time squaring that with her believing she’s above the law,” Bremmer said, referring to the possibility that Clinton skirted the law by having classified information on her private server.
“The latest facts around this email scandal hits the bullseye on that issue, and it’s not going to go away,” Bremmer said in an email to Business Insider.
On Thursday, a federal judge opened the door for the FBI to try to recover any emails Clinton may have deleted from her private server, expanding the agency’s investigation into whether sensitive information ever passed through her private inbox while she served as secretary of state.
The judge said that Clinton did not comply with government policies surrounding the use of a private email server, which require that “federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system,” The New York Times reported.
Clinton reportedly sent emails to at least four of her aides on their private email accounts, according to The Times, meaning that any correspondence they had was not captured on government servers.
And a bombshell Reuters report on Friday detailed how some of the information Clinton shared with colleagues was inherently classified.
“Clinton and her senior staff routinely sent foreign government information among themselves on unsecured networks several times a month, if the State Department’s markings are correct,” Reuters’ Jonathan Allen reported. “Within the 30 email threads reviewed by Reuters, Clinton herself sent at least 17 emails that contained this sort of information.”
That could lead to trouble for Clinton’s team.
“Anybody who knowingly emailed classified material to Clinton or her top aides when she was secretary of state could face criminal prosecution, according to current and former U.S. national security officials,” Bloomberg reported. “Those who inadvertently send or receive classified data could be prosecuted for gross negligence.”
One administration official speaking to Bremmer recently put it succinctly: “If I did what Hillary did, I think I’d be in jail,” Bremmer said the official told him.
Clinton’s unusual email system was originally set up by a staffer during Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. It replaced another private server used by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
The new server was run by Bryan Pagliano, who had worked as the IT director on Hillary Clinton’s campaign before joining the State Department in May 2009. In 2013 — the same year she left the State Department — Clinton hired a small Denver-based IT firm named Platte River Networks to oversee the system.
Investigators also want to know if any sensitive information was stored on the server after she handed it over to Platte River, which is “not cleared” to have access to classified material.
Last week, Platte River’s attorney said the server was “blank” when it was transferred to federal agents, according to The Washington Post, but did not clarify how that process took place.
In any case, the FBI is reportedly confident it can recover at least some of the deleted files.
Shrugging it off
At a press conference in Nevada on Tuesday, Clinton shrugged off questions about her private server and whether or not she had deliberately wiped it clean.
“What — like with a cloth or something?” Clinton joked, before saying she didn’t “know how it works digitally at all.”
On Wednesday, Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign’s communication director, compared the controversy to the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate” scandal.
“This is like, everyone’s an expert on inflating footballs, and now everybody’s an expert on wiping servers. Like, I don’t know how that all works,” Palmieri said during an interview on Bloomberg’s “With All Due Respect.”
Palmieri did concede that Clinton “didn’t really think it through” when setting up the server.
Clinton has made an effort to downplay the scandal, shrugging it off as “usual” partisan politics that is being overblown by the media and her political rivals. She has joked twice about the controversy — saying she has “love” for Snapchat because of its disappearing messages last week, then quipping about wiping the server clean “with a cloth.”
But her ostensibly lackadaisical attitude toward the controversy has unnerved some watching from the White House.
“There’s definitely a widely held belief [among administration officials] that different rules apply to the Clintons,” Bremmer said. “This email issue, and the way she’s handled it/shrugged/laughed it off presses everybody’s buttons.”
Republicans have been quick to condemn the new developments. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) chided Clinton’s “jokes” about the controversy.
“She should just provide the information come clean with the American people and deal with it,” Bush said in Nevada on Thursday. “But instead it’s always a joke, or a vast right wing conspiracy, or someone else’s fault.”
Republicans were quick to condemn Clinton’s press conference, with a spokeswoman from the Republican National Committee openly wondering, “How long until Joe Biden announces?
Bremmer, too, thinks the scandal has influenced Biden’s outlook on a 2016 presidential run.
On balance, I now think Biden is going to enter the race,” Bremmer said. “And this is a big piece of the reason why.”
And Democrats have started to openly worry about the political ramifications for the presumed front-runner for their party’s nomination. Sen. Bill Nelson, of the key swing state of Florida, told The Associated Press on Friday that he doesn’t think her campaign has handled the controversy well.
“I think the advice to her of making a joke out of it — I think that was not good advice,” Nelson said.
Meanwhile, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) said in an interview with a local TV station that there is a chance that “this could upend her campaign.”
“I just never feel like I have a grasp of what the facts are,” Yarmuth said Wednesday. “Clearly she has handled it poorly from the first day. And there’s the appearance of dishonesty, if it’s not dishonest.”
There have been clear signs that Clinton’s standing is slipping, both with Democrats and the general electorate. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent running for the Democratic nomination, leads her in one poll in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.
And a Quinnipiac University poll of three key swing states — Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio — revealed abysmal scores for Clinton on favorability and on whether she is viewed as “honest and trustworthy.”
She polls about even with, or worse than, Biden in theoretical general-election matchups.
‘Born classified’
In March, Clinton turned over about 55,000 pages of work-related emails for the State Department to make public after facing criticism for exclusively using a private server during her time as secretary of state.
She deleted about 31,000 emails that she says were personal.
So far, investigators say they have found more than 60 emails containing classified information, not including two emails discovered by the intelligence community’s inspector general, Charles McCullough III. Those two emails allegedly contained information classified as “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” among the government’s highest levels of classification.
Investigators have flagged another 305 emails that may contain sensitive information for intelligence agencies to review further.
Clinton, for her part, insists she never broke the law by knowingly mishandling national-security secrets.
“I had not sent classified material, nor received anything marked classified,” she said at Tuesday’s press conference. “So I’m very comfortable that this will eventually get resolved, and the American people will have plenty of time to figure it out.”
The Reuters report notes that State Department stamps on some of the emails “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 US 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.”
In this way, former director of the US Information Security Oversight Office J. William Leonard told Reuters, the information is “born classified.”
“The State Department disputed Reuters’ analysis,” Reuters reported, “but declined requests to explain how it was incorrect.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-bremmer-obama-administration-officials-2015-8
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HUMA ABEDIN, Hillary Clinton’s closest confidante, must be a racist
September 23, 2015
By BI: Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s long time aide and advisor, has taken to Twitter for the first time, solely to malign a black American presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, for daring to expose the ugly truth about Islam being incompatible with the U.S. Constitution – unleashing a torrent of responses – pro and con.
“Couldn’t agree more…. Welcome to Twitter,” Hillary Clinton tweeted back.
NY Post Rival Carly Fiorina said Carson was “wrong” to say a Muslim shouldn’t be president. A Ben Carson super PAC reports that its fund-raising has spiked since his anti-Muslim comments.
A mainstay at Clinton’s side, Abedin is often seen in the background but rarely heard. She has been widely condemned in Congress for her deep, familial ties to the notoriously radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Her first jab at a GOP presidential candidate drew a feverish response — topping more than 2,700 retweets by Tuesday evening and 3,300 favorites.
While there were well-wishers who joined Clinton, there were also numerous critics.
“Sharia law is incompatible with American principles and values,” wrote @GayPatriot above a picture of men being hanged.
“Everything I know about muslims I learned on 9/11/01,” added @DissidentBiker.
http://shoebat.com/2015/09/23/huma-abedin-hillary-clintons-closest-confidante-must-be-a-racist/
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NBC’s Mitchell: FBI Is Now Determining Which Clinton Emails Are Personal Or Work Related
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MSNBC: Discrepancy arises in Clinton’s rhetoric about her email release
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Hillary Clinton What difference does it make?
I Am Sick And Tired – Hillary Clinton
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/23/fbi-reportedly-recovered-deleted-emails-from-clinton-server/
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-22/fbi-said-to-recover-personal-e-mails-from-hillary-clinton-server
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/us/politics/investigators-find-emails-hillary-clinton-said-were-erased.html?_r=2
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