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I think this illustrates the problem of co-mingling private and SoS emails. NO, I am not suggesting she did anything illegal. I do think that such accounts she be maintained on separate servers.
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 Blumenthals 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 Libyas civil war raged in 2011.
Blumenthals 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 Blumenthals 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 contents of that account are now being sought by a congressional inquiry into the Benghazi attacks. Clinton has handed over more than 30,000 pages of her emails to the State Department, after unilaterally deciding which ones involved government business; the State Department has so far handed almost 900 pages of those over to the committee. A Clinton spokesman told Gawker and ProPublica (which are collaborating on this story) that she has turned over all the emails Blumenthal sent to Clinton.
The dispatches from Blumenthal to Clintons private email address were posted online after Blumenthals account was hacked in 2013 by Romanian hacker Marcel-Lehel Lazar, who went by the name Guccifer. Lazar also broke into accounts belonging to George W. Bushs sister, Colin Powell, and others. Hes now serving a seven-year sentence in his home country and was charged in a U.S. indictment last year.
The contents of the memos, which have recently become the subject of speculation in the right-wing media, raise new questions about how Clinton used her private email account and whether she tapped into an undisclosed back channel for information on Libyas crisis and other foreign policy matters.
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http://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-spy-network
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Hope Trey Gowdy keeps trying though.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Somebody somewhere will be reading it.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)ha!
Plus reading the entire article... it sounds like it was a good thing that the State department had the Blumenthal help.
It's good to read all of the linked article before a "hair-on-fire" response.
cali
(114,904 posts)It's just flat dumb- and so easily avoided.
in the end, that is really the issue: poor judgment, and, as you said, so easily avoided.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)thought it was a big deal since that was done before.
It's only a problem now because some are making it a big deal. Those are Republicans and Dem detractors who want to smear her.
cali
(114,904 posts)it's a problem because it was poor judgment- and so easily avoided.
she's a fucking train wreck of a candidate. Yeah, she'll be the nominee. And unless she gets really lucky, she'll lose us the Presidency.
I suppose the one good thing about that is that we'll be done with the Hillary show.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_bush_vs_clinton-3827.html
I know you will point out that you believe the polls are meaningless but they are more convincing than this or that person's totally subjective analysis that some unknown candidate can actually perform better...
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)people over and over. Of course, just like with Obama, there will be the whiners and the knee-jerkers.
It's the same group.
ttfn
emulatorloo
(44,187 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)have been turned over to the government when she turned the rest over - they are not her private emails because they are about her job as SOS. Does anyone know if these were among the info she did turn over?