2016 Postmortem
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FOX News has a (totally justified) reputation of being a right wing propaganda machine, and that means most reasonable lefties don't pay attention to what they say.
HOWEVER, they are currently running reports from two reporters that are actually (*gasp*) ACTUAL VERIFIABLE NEWS. The two have been getting scoops left and right about this email business. I am going to share some of their stories which can be VERIFIED and briefly explain why anyone actually paying attention to this email business is thinking things aren't looking good for Hillary Clinton. If even the thought of FOX being right about anything makes you vomit a little, just trash the thread now.
1) She lied about her (first 30,000) emails not containing classified information. The PDF from the (independent) Inspector General letter to Congress is available below (so you can decide whether to believe Hillary, or your lying eyes).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/19/inspector-general-clinton-emails-had-intel-from-most-secretive-classified-programs.html
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 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 candidates handling of the governments 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, secret, and top secret/sap levels, said the IG letter to lawmakers with oversight of the intelligence community and State Department. According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified IC element sources.
(more at link)
2) The FBI is already working with the DOJ on a *criminal* investigation into the email situation. The Attorney General of the United States testified about this to Congress in February.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/25/lynch-confirms-career-justice-department-attorneys-involved-in-clinton-email-probe.html
Attorney General Loretta Lynch confirmed to Congress Wednesday that career Justice Department attorneys are working with FBI agents on the criminal investigation of Hillary Clintons email practices and the handling of classified material.
(snip)
Lynch replied, "...that matter is being handled by career independent law enforcement agents, FBI agents as well as the career independent attorneys in the Department of Justice. They follow the evidence, they look at the law and they'll make a recommendation to me when the time is appropriate," She confirmed that the FBI criminal investigation is ongoing, and no recommendation or referral on possible charges had been made to her.
(more at link)
The AG's testimony can be viewed here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?405232-1/attorney-general-loretta-lynch-testimony-fiscal-year-2017-budget but I don't see the word "criminal" in it, so bear that in mind.
3) One of the issues is HOW things that didn't belong on email got there - these two got a mini-scoop there, too.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/03/fbi-investigating-if-clinton-aides-shared-passwords-to-access-classified-info.html
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating whether computer passwords were shared among Hillary Clinton's close aides to determine how sensitive intelligence "jumped the gap" between the classified systems and Clinton's unsecured personal server, according to an intelligence source familiar with the probe.
The source emphasized to Fox News that if (Clinton) was allowing other people to use her passwords, that is a big problem. The Foreign Service Officers Manual prohibits the sharing of passwords.
(snip)
Most of these scenarios would require a password. And all of these practices would be strictly prohibited under non-disclosure agreements signed by Clinton and others, and federal law.
(more at link)
4) But have no fear - the guy who might have the answers has already been given immunity (which usually doesn't happen unless a grand jury has been convened).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/11/source-clinton-it-specialist-revealing-server-details-to-fbi-devastating-witness.html
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.
The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary of states 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 intelligence source said.
The source, who is not authorized to speak on the record due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, said Pagliano has provided information allowing investigators to knit together the emails with other evidence, including images of Clinton on the road as secretary of state.
(more at link)
Let that sink in - they are using PICTURES OF HER USING HER BLACKBERRY WHILE ON TRIPS TO GET EMAIL as evidence she wasn't "being cautious" about classified stuff. (That's what a date-and-time stamp will do to you - yikes!)
5) Reporters have to build relationships, and these ladies have been doing it for a while. I actually trust the FBI about this stuff, and this story from January (which I missed because I wasn't paying attention back then) details out why that seems like a good idea:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/26/fbi-going-right-to-source-in-clinton-email-probe-interviewing-intel-agencies.html
The FBI is going straight to the source in its investigation of classified emails that crossed Hillary Clintons personal server, speaking with the intelligence agencies and in some cases, the individuals that generated the information, two intelligence sources familiar with the probe told Fox News.
Investigators are meeting with the agencies and individuals to determine the classification level in the emails. The step speaks to the diligence with which the bureau is handling the investigation, despite the former secretary of states claims that the matter boils down to a mere interagency dispute.
"This is not merely a difference of opinion between the State Department and the Department of Justice," one intelligence source, who is not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News, referring to comments on the Sunday talk shows and by the Clinton campaign downplaying the FBI's investigation. "The bureau will go directly to depose specific individuals in agencies who generated the highly classified materials."
The source added, "At the end of the day it will be a paper case. Emails never disappear because computers never forget.
(more at link)
The way I understand it, there are actually THREE issues with "Hillary's Email" (and none of them are good):
1) improper handling of government records, including those classified (keeping them in your personal basement is basically "criminally stupid" ;
2) FOIA issues and possible perjury/attempted destruction of government records (she deleted half of them claiming they were "personal" but turned out they were backed up "on the cloud"/the FBI has them and shockingly she didn't just delete personal stuff); and
3) the CONTENT which includes not reporting lobbying by a foreign interest (Blumenthal), not reporting security "breaches" by Blumenthal and communication between Clinton Foundation "donors" that looks like "pay to play" for some of their clients -- which is probably where the "public corruption" stuff is coming from.
But I am *totally* willing to wait for the FBI summary of their YEAR LONG INVESTIGATION.
Most people don't know this, but the FBI usually doesn't spend time investigating "things that aren't crimes". The DOJ has stated they don't want to release any of the "newly discovered" emails because
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-rejects-dojs-classified-court-filing-on-clinton-emails/article/2589096
The agency has maintained that releasing any new information could harm its investigation.
and they (the lawyers from the DOJ) have until April 26, 2016 to either "start releasing" or convince a judge with a "better" brief, so hopefully this whole episode will be resolved soon.
Yeah, I know: FOX News. "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". Etc. Whatever. Sometimes "news" is actually that - NEWS.
But it seems VERY STRANGE to be using that term with "FOX!"
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-hillary-clinton-commit-crime-based-today/story?id=36626499
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-prosecute-hillary-clinton/story?id=38168118
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosecution-past-cases-221744
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/21/clinton-email-state-server-column/32042775/
angrychair
(8,700 posts)2 of them are from last year. 2 others are opinion pieces. And one is at least frank about being an opinion piece and doesn't necessarily make the case you might expect.
In other words, nothing you produced clears HRC beyond a reasonable doubt based on information in the public domain.
The best thing to do is wait until The FBI and Justice have completed their investigation. Then we will know , one way or the other.
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-hillary-clinton-commit-crime-based-today/story?id=36626499
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-prosecute-hillary-clinton/story?id=38168118
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosecution-past-cases-221744
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/21/clinton-email-state-server-column/32042775/
angrychair
(8,700 posts)2 of them are from last year. 2 others are opinion pieces. And one is at least frank about being an opinion piece and doesn't necessarily make the case you might expect.
In other words, nothing you produced clears HRC beyond a reasonable doubt based on information in the public domain.
The best thing to do is wait until The FBI and Justice have completed their investigation. Then we will know , one way or the other.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Response to IdaBriggs (Original post)
CompanyFirstSergeant This message was self-deleted by its author.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)from any point of view, and can/will switch sides at the drop of a paycheck.
Plus, NONE OF US KNOW what the FBI is actually investigating, so any "analysis" is simply "paid speculation" by a certain class.
I prefer journalists who "present data" and let the reader draw a reasonable conclusion. (That is why I *specifically* called the FOX folks out for using the word "criminal" when the Attorney General didn't say that - she said "investigation" but they translated it to "criminal investigation".)
I believe the Inspector General, not Hillary.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)... the mental makeup of Hillary supported will completely melt down and they will disolve into puddles of goo. Or they'll just say they always knew something was wrong and this confirms their belief.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)mindwalker_i
Worry about your own mental makeup, okay?
Love,
DSB
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)-mindwalker_i
Sounds like a broad based character attack on an entire group.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)You're playing the persecution card, which is kind of the default for Hillary and her supporters when confronted with anything that interferes with your pocket universe where Hillary is awesome. Probably your best option is to call me a BernieBro (tm) and go about your happy life.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)However I do have the power of divination.
-mindwalker_i
You strike me as the type of person who would "completely melt down and ... disolve (sic) into puddles of goo" if you got a parking violation.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)However, you mentioned that I was making a broad brush attack, which is part of the whole persecution complex of Hillary supporters. So is calling everything against her sexist, which is why I asked. The persecution complex of Hillary supporters would make a Christian blush. I realize that you probably don't actually feel persecuted and just use it as a way to shut down conversation that isn't positive to Hillary.
You strike me as the type of person who would "completely melt down and ... disolve (sic) into puddles of goo" if you got a parking violation
On what do you base this hypothesis? Do you have any instance where I "melted down" at something, or specifically, something trivial? It seems like you're desperately looking for something to attack with, so I'm trying to understand whether you have a specific reason for this comment or whether it came from your backside.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)You said the "mental makeup of Hillary supported (sic) " makes them susceptible" to "melt down" and " disolve (sic) into puddles of goo..."
I was kind enough to return the favor.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I had a reason for what I said and tried to make that clear. What you said was that you had the feeling I would break down at a parking ticket, and if you had that feeling, there should be a reason why you had it. Unless, of course, it was the equivalent of, "I know you are but what am I?" If that's the case - and you seem to indicate so above with the comment that you were "returning the favor" - then this is a case of "I know you are but what am I". In other words, it did, indeed, come from your backside.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The only reason you had to suggest that Clinton supporters are fragile flowers who will dissolve into goo at the first sight of adversity:
is your intense animus for them which is no valid reason at all.
Buddyblazon
(3,014 posts)Just sayin.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)... first sign of adversity." What I did say is that you have build an entire reality around Hillary being the end-all, wonderful candidate who could never possibly have anything wrong with her, and that if the FBI investivgation did find otherwise, it would be a blow to your manufactured reality. Given how hard and visciously you all respond to people bringing up negative things about Hillary - questioning her wonderfulness and infallability - there is objective evidence to support this statement.
Your response saying that you thought I would dissolve at something like a parking ticket was the equivalent of, "I know you are but what am I," and in fact you even said so, as I pointed out above. When someone has to resort to that kind of "retort," it's another strong indication that their "reality" is fabricated - it not be defended with arguments that contain logic.
Watching people have to face the dissolution of their "reality" in, in general, unpleasant.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The difference is Hillary supporters realize she is all too human and Sanders supporters think he is a deity.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Sanders supporters believe it's way past time for government to work for the people, not just the rich and the corporations. We know getting stuff passed will be hard, but the conversation has to change direction before anything can be done. Hillary is not about changing the direction at all but rather perpetuating the damage being done.
Your claim that you just see her as human is an excuse for things she has done that are bad. But it's not that she made a mistake, it's that she knew what she was doing when she did it and will continue to do things that are damaging. And you will find more reasons not to blame her.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)You seem to be verging on apoplexia .I almost feel like stopping before you melt down into a "puddle of goo."
Maybe if you invoke the name of your deity and click your heels three times I will turn into a "puddle of goo."
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)is a sign of my mental instability? That's quite a stretch. It's the equivalent of, "Are you gonna cry?"
It's pretty clear that you're using this to avoid the points I made about how you use the idea of "she's just human" to excuse all of Hillary's bad decisions. That's kind of normal for Hillary supporters - if you can't argue on the merits, deflect. I guess I headed off the claims of sexism and persecution early on.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)You're losing it, my friend.
MELTDOWN
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)You've been so far from reality for so long, you shouldn't be talking about other people losing it. If you do, someone might give you a parking ticket.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Repeat to yourself "it's just a message board."
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Are you feeling more relaxed?
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I started out saying you (Hillary supporters) were creating your own reality where Hillary would wonderful and everybody would love her. Now, you're creating this reality where I'm about to crack (I am, but not because of you). There seems to be a consistent theme here.
Thing is, the rest of the country doesn't share your adulation of Hillary. There is so much wrong with her - she is so flawed - that the attack ads write themselves. That warp-bubble you're in will eventually come in contact with the greater universe. But I think I see the way out for you: to blame all us BernieBros for coming up with the material that the Republicans will use against her, and you'll be able to keep on avoiding reality.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I wanted to check in and see if you calmed down yet.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)how someone had to bring civility to DU. Must have been a site malfunction that let two people get the same user names.
You're really showing yourself to be quite an ass. And also proving yourself wrong about Hillary supporters vs. Bernie supporters.
.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)how someone had to bring civility to DU.
-cui bono
"I have become what I beheld and I am convinced I have done right."
-cui bono
(C)ui bono- who benefits from such unduly hash invective, cui bono, I say. Your vituperative language is reflecting poorly on our online community. No one benefits. I humbly request you peer into your conscience, heed your better angels, and eschew such hateful language.
Thank you in advance.
DemocratSinceBirth
cui bono
(19,926 posts)DU Hillary fans do not disappoint.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)Its a hoot
Every response will get more and more persecuted.
I had him dancing for 3 days once
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)My attacks are mean and I'm a bit of an ass, but I defend the reasoning as to WHY I'm an ass. Seriously, if this FBI thing with Hillary comes down, it's going to be really hard on the people who follow her. It shows that support for Hillary is more of a belief than anything that has been reasoned through. "Believing in" things, whether it's a political candidate or a deity blinds one to problems or facts that contradict their belief.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I have not seen anything close to what you stated at all. Quite the opposite.
.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts).
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I try to argue with reason and logic - I might say mean things, like someone is mentally unstable (I know a lot about that ). but I (try to) defend it logically, rather than just fling poo indiscriminately.
Buddyblazon
(3,014 posts)in The Holy Grail:
"HELP! HELP! IM BEING REPRESSED!"
Lol
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Whiny bunch, aren't they?
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)No kidding. You have my sincere admiration.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Sometimes I'm incredibly stupid, but other times I see things that most people miss.
Marr
(20,317 posts)They'll just deny there's anything to it. They'll say the indictment is just another right-wing conspiracy, that they're making a mountain out of a molehill to sabotage the first female President, they'll map out bizarre connections between various FBI officials and the GOP, and then they'll point the finger at everyone who doesn't buy it, and say we're to blame.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It reads like something at Free Republic. That is the simple truth. Fact is, I will be hidden while your spreading of "we report, you decide" propaganda will stand.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-hillary-clinton-commit-crime-based-today/story?id=36626499
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-prosecute-hillary-clinton/story?id=38168118
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosecution-past-cases-221744
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/21/clinton-email-state-server-column/32042775/
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Fox news and Judicial Watch are go-to sources for some here. Pretty sad what has happened here since Paul dropped out.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Some people hate the ACLU, but when they submit an FOIA request, I *expect* it will be honored. The PRECEDENT of "hiding government records so you don't have to turn them over in a FOIA request" is BEYOND UNACCEPTABLE.
The fact I have to explain this to a DEMOCRAT is unbelievably SAD.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Agree. The fact you are trying to explain why Judicial Watch and Fox News are solid sources to a DEMOCRAT is unbelievably SAD.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I share you sadness...Because your interlocutor's candidate is losing her sadness has turned to madness.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... where am I again? Is this Flee Republic?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Hiding records from FOIA is ILLEGAL.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Transparency laws apply to everyone. Democratic politicians are required to be transparant as Republicans. RW groups are as entitled to FOIA requests as Democrats.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)angrychair
(8,700 posts)2 of them are from last year. 2 others are opinion pieces. And one is at least frank about being an opinion piece and doesn't necessarily make the case you might expect.
In other words, nothing you produced clears HRC beyond a reasonable doubt based on information in the public domain.
The best thing to do is wait until The FBI and Justice have completed their investigation. Then we will know , one way or the other.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)You can go and rely on the legal analysis of a random internet poster and I will rely on the analyses of accomplished lawyers and former prosecutors and we will see who is right.
Indictment wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)An opinion formed from an incomplete picture.
It's like attempting to describe the form and function of a cell when you have never seen it through a microscope.
It's very possible to get the broad strokes and generalities right but miss all the details that matter completely.
I have been very fair from the beginning on this. I think what she did shows stunningly poor judgment, at least one of your own links says as much. Is it illegal? That isn't for me to decide. As I have said many times, I will wait for the determination of the FBI and Justice and will live with their determination, one way or the other as far as it being criminal or not.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)What part of I choose to accept the expert opinion of several accomplished lawyers and former prosecutors and not the opinion of a random internet poster don't you understand ?
An indictment of Hillary Clinton is a chimera.
I like that last sentence.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)I'll wait for the only "opinion" that matters, that of the FBI and Justice Department.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Some sage said if you write out an indictment and put it under your pillow you will wake up, turn on the television in the morning, and see Secretary Clinton in an orange jump suit.
The same sage who said a Clinton indictment is a chimera.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)This has devolved into you spouting nonsense.
Bye Bye
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)posts on this site that get praised
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Nobody forced her to use a basement server to block FOIA requests. No one forced her to stall handing over emails for 2 years. No one forced her to exchange classified information with non-clearances people.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)seriously you desperately needing something other than the will of the MAJORITY people to help get Bernie into Office. Email is not an issue, except in the mind of RW outlets you feel are appropriate to post here on DU.
Oh, never mind, I though you said "Thrash this Thread."
amborin
(16,631 posts)although the Obama White House believed Blumenthal had spread false rumors about Obama during the 2008 campaign, and although Obama had banned Blumenthal from any State Dept business, SOS Clinton kept up a steady and solicited correspondence with Blumenthal behind Obama's back:
And despite ample evidence on the public record for months that Clinton repeatedly asked Blumenthal to keep sending her updates on Libya and other matters, she repeated previous assertions that his advice was unsolicited.
"I did not ask him to send me the information that he sent me," Clinton said.
"You wrote to him, 'Another keeper, thanks' and 'Please keep them coming....Greetings from Kabul and thanks for keeping this stuff coming,'" Gowdy shot back.
Clinton then shifted slightly, conceding that she urged Blumenthal to keep up the flow. "They started out unsolicited and, as I said, some were of interest," she said.
snip
.....You said they were -- you said they were unsolicited," the chairman said.
While Clinton minimized the significance of what Blumenthal sent along, she did not dismiss it entirely, and she defended forwarding the information to aides who sometimes scrambled to respond to the unusual dispatches.
"Some of it I found interesting....
snip
....Allegations relating to Blumenthal's role in that campaign are what kept him from joining the State Department in 2009. Obama aides were convinced that Blumenthal spread false personal and policy rumors about Obama during the battle between Clinton and Obama for the Democratic nomination. While Clinton had more authority to name State Department personnel than any other Obama Cabinet member, Blumenthal was blacklisted--effectively banished by the White House.
When Gowdy asked about Blumenthal's rejection, Clinton didn't dispute it, but said she couldn't remember or didn't know who at the White House put the kibosh on her regular correspondent.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sidney-blumenthal-emails-benghazi-hearings-215083#ixzz42cF2UM5y
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sidney-blumenthal-emails-benghazi-hearings-215083#ixzz42cEb3aOA
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Hillary was taking State Dept Advice from Blumenthal and others with Business interests in Libya:
Plus, all the while, Blumenthal was working for the Clinton Foundation:
International New York Times May 20, 2015 Wednesday
Clinton friend's memos on Libya draw scrutiny to politics and business
NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles:
speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer. ..Now, as Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks on her second presidential bid, Mr. Blumenthal's service to the Clintons is again under the spotlight.
.. a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal - who was not an employee of the State Department - wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal's advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal's assessments were often unreliable.
But an examination by The Times suggests that Mr. Blumenthal's involvement was more wide-ranging and more complicated than previously known, embodying the blurry lines between business, politics and philanthropy that have enriched and vexed the Clintons.
While advising Mrs. Clinton on Libya, Mr. Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was also employed by her family's philanthropy, the Clinton Foundation, to help with research, ''message guidance'' and the planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials. During the same period, he also worked for organizations that helped lay the groundwork for Mrs. Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government.
The venture, which was ultimately unsuccessful, involved other Clinton friends, a private military contractor and one former C.I.A. spy seeking to get in on the ground floor of the new Libyan economy.
The projects ..would have required State Department permits, but foundered before the business partners could seek official approval.
The Libya venture came together in 2011 when David L. Grange, a retired Army general, joined with a new New York firm, Constellations Group, to pursue business leads in Libya. Constellations Group, led by a professional fund-raiser and philanthropist named Bill White, was to provide the leads
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)...cant you just paraphrase, I get really bored reading the same old crap that doesn't have any legs.
amborin
(16,631 posts)it
dinkytron
(568 posts)I don't think Bernie is going away.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)#WhichHillary blatantly lied.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Or are you still in denial about that link to Vermont's SOS site I gave you.
So you're saying the FBI is a right wing outlet? Interesting.
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Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)World war 3 would have erupted. The hypocrisy here is sparkly.
So let's clear things up...I was referring to the source of the info. You can twist it it into what ever you want.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)So have you accepted that in Vermont one does not register to a party or is the Vermont SOS page still a questionable source for you?
I ask because you never acknowledged this fact before so I need to know if you are still of the mindset where even when something is proven to you beyond doubt you still deny it. Because if that is still true we can stop right here. No point discussing anything with someone who denies reality.
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randome
(34,845 posts)You are neither doing him any good nor his cause. Perhaps that doesn't matter to you.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Please stop conflating the two of them.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)And whatever the hell Fox News says is irrelevant. Your 'revolution' is going out, not with a bang nor a whimper, but a solid whine. Holding Fox News as worthy of mention is a sure-fire way to drown the 'revolution' in nonsense and get people to tune out. Forever.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
grasswire
(50,130 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
All in it together
(275 posts)Bernie is not involved, don't blame him. Democrats should care about this issue as it might affect our nominee if it's Hillary. It's always someone else's fault.
artislife
(9,497 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)the server. It was an account on her server that she then purged. I still have not clue if any rules were broken, but on your own server and deleting emails does not look great. The others used personal email address as did she, but they did not do the other things.
"It's a lot different from what the rest of us were doing and what Mrs. Clinton is doing," said the former secretary of state, a longtime Republican who endorsed President Obama.
"Should she have had a private server?... Did she use it for classified information? I don't know and I don't want to know," Powell said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rice-aides-powell-also-got-classified-info-personal-emails-n511181
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)security clearance take care of it for her. They put *everything* on a cloud backup system. The Hillary folk "double checked " that they destroyed the backups, but somebody forgot to check the box for "bill for the cloud" so the FBI was able to retrieve the 30,000 "personal" emails (that we know aren't "just personal" because other people have already turned them in). Big Oops.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I had not even heard that part.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)That no one knows how Sidney Blumenthal got his hands on since he had no clearance and was working for the Clinton Foundation.
And that was just the *first* 30,000 - no one has released the stuff she erased (except for the hacker who just got extradited here earlier this month who got some of it from Blumenthal's computer and posted it on the net).
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)...is that they began to understand that HRC was engaged in a coverup and thought they needed to protect themselves.
As far as Clinton knew, the data was being automatically deleted. But Platte River preserved it deliberately.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)nothing
angrychair
(8,700 posts)That somehow, somewhere, it was decided by someone in the DNC that it is "ok" to use the incredible, staggering lapses in judgment by Rice and Powell as the measuring stick for acceptable behavior for a SoS.
I keep expecting their to be a punchline but it never comes.
To associate your performance and conduct in office to the likes of such monumental failures in judgement such as these, as well as that of Kissinger, shows a stunning lack of sound judgment and an even poorer understanding of what the person in that position should be doing.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)They also have nothing to do with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or even Mickey Mouse.
Have a nice day.
randome
(34,845 posts)This is not some objective viewpoint you've posted. IT'S FOX NEWS!! Why would anyone desperately look to Fox News for information if not to try and sully Clinton? Which makes it about Sanders.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
-none
(1,884 posts)That is more important than the "source". You keep harping on "It's FOX" and ignoring any information contained in the posting, or the links.
The OP has nothing at all to do with Sanders. He is not involved in Hillary's private E-mail scandal.
mythology
(9,527 posts)I generally don't waste my time on them. Once credibility is lost, it's hard to regain.
-none
(1,884 posts)You know the private one in her bathroom closet, she used for commingling of her personal money making business with the Secretary of State's official business? I do think it is important. How can she be trusted with security matters as President?
druidity33
(6,446 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)And I didn't believe it for a long time. Until I HAD to believe it.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)How? Because he is running against her? There is no link between Hillary and Bernie. It's FOX sullying Clinton, not Bernie. They aren't speaking right now, if you didn't notice.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)That is some of the most ridiculous "logic" I've ever seen. It's not logical at all. You're just grasping at something to use as deflection, just grasping to bring Bernie into it somehow and take some heat off of Hillary. Not sure how that would even accomplish that but you must have a plan.
You should ask the FBI if this is about Bernie. They would know.
sheshe2
(83,789 posts)Your source, Fox News.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)Based on your comments over the last couple of months, you give zero fucks about Sanders name or his "mission", whatever that means.
frylock
(34,825 posts)angrychair
(8,700 posts)I was almost faux impressed
Merryland
(1,134 posts)As the calls for Bernie to step aside continue, so does the scrutiny of Clinton's careless, reckless, and possibly criminal treatment of secret government emails. Let them minimize all they want. This is going somewhere soon.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Clearing a seat on the bus? No, that doesn't sound poignant enough. I'll give it some thought.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Tarc
(10,476 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)This really does give credence to the Horseshoe Theory of extreme political wings being closer to one another than those who are not as extreme.
It's disgusting that this primary season has devolved so much that Bernie supporters are reduced to calling on Faux News to amplify their misguided self-righteousness.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)Profile Information Nolawarlock
Member since: Wed Mar 16, 2016, 11:02 PM
Number of posts: 404
Probably one of those paid people from Hillary's campaign
haikugal
(6,476 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Vince Foster? Ron Brown's plane?
Next thing they'll be saying she caused 9/11.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The most bandied around number is 12.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)It is the usual Clinton right wing attack dogs ...now getting help from Bernie supporters. Terrible thing to help the GOP.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)Bernie gonna try and get our old party back though!!
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)I wonder if they can be retrieved?
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)and the FBI got them ALL last October. They have been Very Busy ever since....
grasswire
(50,130 posts)...and realized that HRC was likely engaged in a coverup. They preserved the data that HRC thought was being deleted regularly, for their own protection.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)"Just one of our many service offerings, because we *care* about your data!"
Smart people to realize they were being used -- and they said they were excited at first to get a "big contract" before they realized they were being used as goats.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Platte River bought a device from Datto to store what was on Hillary's private server. No one really knows why they did this, even Platte is puzzled by it, but Datto did it and monitored the Cloud storage for quite some time.
What is really important to note with Platte, the Clinton people told Platte to keep emails for 30 days. Anything older than 30 days was to be deleted and so they did delete most of what was on Hillary's server.
That's when Platte employees became leery of what was going on and referred to it as "shady shit." This was also done at the same time FOIA's were being filed for Clinton's emails as well as the Benghazi committee asking for copies.
The possibility of obstruction looms, on just this issue alone.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)the Platte River people are American heroes. The company founder had a very old tie to Bill Clinton. Some say Platte was chosen specifically because it was so obscure and remote.
We are lucky they kept the backup.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)hmm, wait and see now.
frylock
(34,825 posts)You'll find that only Hillary Supporter ever mentions him.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)"Even vince got dug up" while expecting us to ignore the shovel they are holding.
artislife
(9,497 posts)Guiliani is jealous.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Thank you for this compilation, Ida.
It's a bizzarro world when we Democrats must rely on the right wing for critical information about a candidate seeking our nomination.
What a laughingstock our party will be if we do not prepare for the worst case here.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)We have good people in the party - why did we have to go to an INDEPENDENT SENATOR before someone was actually able to stand up to her? At a certain level, I get the attraction of the money she and Bill bring to the party, but how did we lose an entire generation of political leaders and end up with someone who actually looks like she committed CRIMES?
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)Sanders is at end of his career. He no longer has to worry about pay back like most of the other people would. I can understand why they would not want to run. Look what Clinton and her drones have done to one most honest men in congress. They where able to paint him as a sexist and racist. And people bought it. Look at what happened to the principle in Chicago because he dared support Sanders. They fired him.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)A younger politician has to worry about pay back. Plus Bernie has a lot of experience to draw on and I really hope that he is working closely with some younger Democrats showing them the ropes. I am pretty sure he is, but I have no way to verify that.
840high
(17,196 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:37 PM - Edit history (1)
is your friend! The few that are left on not on that list...are just about "ready to go."
And, that's sad, because I usually like to read opposing opinions if they seem valid. I imagine they have hit the equal opportunity IGNORE on me...but That's Life!
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IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)willful ignorance. The freight train of justice is coming down the track. Someone in the Democratic Party needs to be brave enough to throw the switch. There is no remedy aside from Hillary bowing out.
anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)Am I to understand you expect people to take this seriously?
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)There are legitimate concerns about sources, etc. But Hillary supporters are completely and totally incapable of even considering that something - anything - that Hillary did or is doing could be, in any way, wrong or unethical, let alone less than legal. As such, their "analysis" or reasoning is completely worthless. It can not incorporate anything that goes against their complete and utter faith that Hillary is God.
But the majority of the country is not so completely enthralled. They will see the allegations and look at the evidence, and not casually dismiss it out of hand. That will be a serious problem for the election (general). Most of the country sees her as a liar. When she said she was always for a $15/hour minimum wage when there was video evidence of her saying quite different, anyone watching without absolute faith and adoration had that view cemented into their brains. And it will be shown a billion times before the general.
"Deeply flawed" doesn't even come close to covering it.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)But enough has been reported in the New York TImes and the Washington Post to look damning to anyone with a halfway decent background in IT and the handling of classified information. The concern is legitimate. The FBI is investigating. They are interviewing Hillary and some senior staffers. They wouldn't still be doing that if there was obviously nothing worth investigating.
Fox may be bloviating about the timeframe of the investigation, suggesting it will be over sooner than it actually will be, but they're not overinflating its seriousness. Anyone who thinks Hillary will be cleared is kidding themselves. The best she can hope for is "not enough evidence to prosecute" and I doubt the FBI would have sought an interview if that was where things are headed.
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)So to answer
1) I don't hope for Hillary's legal troubles to worsen. I wish she had never gotten herself in trouble to begin with. But, OTOH it's her propensity for trouble and her lack of judgement that is driving me to support Bernie and not her.
2) Of course I want Bernie nominated. We need someone to be in the race should Hillary end up indicted. And Hillary has really bad ideas like starting a war with Russia.
3) I don't watch FOX or get information from sources that repeat FOX. Sometimes conservative sources besides FOX are the only ones that will report on hinky behavior done by Democrats. I think that journalists have lost their integrity if they don't follow up on stories even if those are stories that were covered by a conservative media outlet. Conservatives slant the news in ways I don't find acceptable. Liberal outlets seem to ignore news that make Democrats look bad I don't find that acceptable either.
frylock
(34,825 posts)I may actually tune in!
grasswire
(50,130 posts)He was sputtering, sputtering, sputtering and Jeff Weaver was running circles around him.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)are constantly trashing Tad Devine and Jeff Weaver when those two have a Candidate that has "Caught Fire" against All Odds and the job they've done for him has been exceptional given how late Bernie came into this Campaign as an "unknown" to average Americans with a former popular President and his Wife (who was Senator and SOS) having the position of the "Chosen Ones...The Incumbents" to carry on Obama's Legacy.
Those two are AMAZING! And, that is why the Hillary Campaign Ops, Brocks Online Disinformationists and the US MSM want to go after them and trash them.
Hey...it's Just Politics....Right.....
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)I've been reading this site during election seasons since the 2008 elections and have visited every so often much longer than that. This implication that I'm somehow a sock account is getting old, but whatever. The admins know I'm not.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)and I am calling you out on it. I've been a member here since 2004, I helped get the state of New Hampshire recounted while investigating election fraud, and your snotty insulting attitude is not appreciated.
I do NOT tell lies.
Agree with me, disagree with me - this is a discussion board. Repeating nonsense to increase your post count looks bad to me.
Have a different opinion? EXPLAIN IT.
For example, do you think the Inspector General SUBORNED PERJURY AND LIED TO CONGRESS?
I find it infuriating that any discussion of these LEGITIMATE CONCERNS is immediately dismissed by the "she can do no evil" crowd.
The last time a Clinton told us not to worry about their legal trouble (Bill was being sued for sexual harassment when he was running for office), we ended up with a crippled presidency and impeachment - some of us want to avoid that happening again.
And before you say, "well, the Republicans would do that to any Democrat" I'd like to point out that OBAMA hasn't been impeached, and they hate his guts.
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Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Moreover: "poisoning the well." Look it up...
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)If anything is poisoning the well, it's holding up Rupert Murdoch as a source for credible journalism. But nice try at trying to derail my point.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Don't try to use words and phrases you don't actually know the meaning of. Oh, and that's not a deflection from your point. It's exactly about your point...which if you knew what the phrase meant, you'd have known.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)And yes, I know what the term means, but since you want a quote, here's Wikipedia for you, with my inserted text to show relevance in bold parenthesis:
"adverse information (from Fox News) about a target is preemptively presented to an audience (such as the people reading this post), with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person (posting on this thread) is about to say"
Care to go on?
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anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)I went through the same nonsense when I was arguing for Obama back in 2008. Amusingly enough most of the poo-flinging is coming from the same people as it was then.
artislife
(9,497 posts)it will scamper away.
amborin
(16,631 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)I wish more people could see how compromised Sanders actually is.
amborin
(16,631 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Saying he's compromised? Isn't that what you just said? I was agreeing with you. LOL
amborin
(16,631 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 22, 2016, 04:33 PM - Edit history (1)
So there's that...
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... I don't believe Hillary is a criminal. All those things said about her for all these years and they can't make anything stick? Sounds more to me like it's not a case of her being criminal. It's a case of her being correct and they just can't stand it.
And as for "laying," I'll assume you meant "lying." I take my opinion on that from television.
"Everybody lies. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what."
Doctor Gregory House
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... because the brackets don't show up and made the language clearer for the cheap seats. But far be it from me to peel the tinfoil away from your head.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I meant thanks for catching my typo.
But since you couldn't resist appending a vacuous insult to your latest comment, then off to Ignore with you. I've neither time not patience for your ilk.
Bye, Felicia...
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)After the first few days and a couple (now-removed) ignores, I very quickly decided not to use that feature on this site.
1) Why would I ever want to give up the opportunity to have the last word. Remember, darling, since you're so fond of the rules of debate, you may want to ponder the fact that debate is about changing the minds of the audience, not the person you're debating with.
2) I cannot seem to fathom why anyone would say they're about to ignore someone
-- a) it comes across as flouncing and stammering
-- b) why would you want to tell someone you're about to ignore them? Let them keep wasting their time thinking they might have a chance of convincing you if they don't actually realize that the real target of the point is the audience watching (see point 1)
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)The most baseless thing on this post is the op itself. Fox News. Really? Really???
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)I used to really respect Bernie...now I can't stand him.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)You're gonna get burned if you don't do some independent thinking. Putting all your "trust" apples in one basket isn't smart. Check out the post by looking for more evidence rather than reject out of hand. That is not smart either.
As someone smart once said, keep your friends close but your enemies closer. You might be surprised what they know that you don't.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... in the sense that it didn't follow protocol and probably made the IT people's jobs that much more difficult. And I don't think she should have kept a private server. However, like Mr. Sanders made clear in debate, this is such a tempest in a teacup. If the Republicans didn't jump up and down so much about it, I don't think it would have been an issue and I still don't think it will be. My opinions on this issue have been pretty much settled when it was first announced and I believe the only people making it an issue are doing so for other agendas. I find it incredulous that anyone actually cares about this beyond its use as a political football.
But beyond the specific issue, Fox News is among the most biased, the most disingenuous, and the most vicious news sources on the planet. They aren't interested truth. They're interested in negative spin. Rupert Murdoch is the tabloid king. Is that really the kind of journalistic baseline we want to set?
I'm sure the Free Republic folks lurking (and posting) on this site are gonna have a field day with the fact that we're now paying homage to their temple of journalistic sludge.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Your response tells me that you haven't watched it - just like I used to not watch it EVER! It was anathema to me. But, MSNBC is more in the tank for Hillary than Fox News is for any candidate including those on the right. I've moved to CNN generally. But someday try to watch Wallace. You'll be making faces for a while esp. when it's Rove and Krauthammer and the worst is Bret Hume. But you know what? You don't see Bret Hume much anymore. Fox News Sunday (Wallace) has taken on a much more honest reflection of politics. And Chris Wallace is such a good host. I wish you'd watch just so you know what you're talking about now.
I've voted twice Green and once Nader (not 2000!) so I'm no rightwinger. But I check out the competition now and then and I was quite surprised to find some good shows. Namely, Fox News Sunday with Wallace, Media Buzz with Kurtz (hardly political at all) and Shep Smith at noon - also hardly political. MSNBC and CNN have no comparisons to these three shows. MTP might have been watchable at one time but I can't watch Chuck Todd anymore. You really hear more substance from Wallace than you do Toad. Wallace in my mind compares to Stephanopoulos on ABC.
Anyway, I'm not trying to sell ads for Fox but they have some very good programming now. And you get a different perspective on politics which is always a good thing. You choose what to believe.
BTW, their afternoon "legs" panels are the worst.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Rupert Murdoch has "evolved." Glad to get the memo.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Of course, you do. Birds of a feather.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Blatantly taking it out of context is not cool.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)People can gain a pretty non-biased context from there and make their own decision.
panader0
(25,816 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)But I don't speak in clicks and whistles.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)"I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing. I have also been informed that she has in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body."
I should make a sig pic.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 25, 2016, 12:56 PM - Edit history (1)
I am amused by the Sanders supporters and republicans praying for an indictment http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/waiting-clinton-indictment-dont-hold-your-breath
The examination, which included cases spanning the past two decades, found some with parallels to Clintons use of a private server for her emails, but in nearly all instances that were prosecuted aggravating circumstances that dont appear to be present in Clintons case.
The relatively few cases that drew prosecution almost always involved a deliberate intent to violate classification rules as well as some add-on element: An FBI agent who took home highly sensitive agency records while having an affair with a Chinese agent; a Boeing engineer who brought home 2000 classified documents and whose travel to Israel raised suspicions; a National Security Agency official who removed boxes of classified documents and also lied on a job application form.
Politicos examination seems to have only been able to find one person who sincerely believes Clinton will face prosecution: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), who was a prosecutor and a Justice Department official before his partisan antics made him something of a clownish joke.
Among more objective observers, the idea of Clinton facing an indictment seems, at best, implausible. This is very much in line with a recent American Prospect examination, which reached the same conclusion.
TPMs Josh Marshall published a related piece in February, after speaking to a variety of law professors and former federal prosecutors about the Clinton story. To a person, Josh wrote, they agreed the idea of a Clinton indictment is very far-fetched.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Where have I heard that name before? The Progressive Institute? If you don't know, someone else help me here.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I hate FOX and all they stand for, but this information is very interesting. Aren't we going to be amazed when the rest of the media catches up with them on this? There are things about this that have really shook me up...the biggest being the IT guy getting IMMUNITY. I think that is a big deal.
I applaud you for having the guts to post this.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)The vitriol from the Hillary people is ...
I don't work for the FBI. I don't work for the DOJ. I wasn't even paying attention to this stuff until last month - I was just thinking "man, that's a lot of emails - she was working hard!"
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)can't trust just those who preach to your beliefs. It becomes propaganda. Think MSNBC.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)always in DENIAL
angrychair
(8,700 posts)All news sources should be screened with a discerning eye but intelligent sourcing denotes what is news and what is opinion and what is spin.
I truly hate the "kill the messenger " line of attack. Direct quotes from testimony or comments that were actually sourced from AP or other source and somehow it's still horrible.
Don't let them get you down Ida.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)And as one poster showed it is old, opinion and BS...and if you hate Fox your would not post it...you are not a Dem.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)So I watch and listen to learn what I can't learn on MSNBC. I use CNN most. But I do not trash Fox anymore. Wallace is so much better than Toad. Hannity, O'Reilly, the old guard still around and their silly afternoon panels otherwise known as "legs" - pure trash. But Shep, Kurtz and Wallace can be very interesting.
This email thing. Who knows. I'm starting to wonder... It is going on and on and on under a democratic administration. I don't know what to think.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)None of us know, even those who always say this is nothing. I don't know if it is or not, neither do they. Maybe some of the FBI agents know, or the career Justice Department lawyers, but they aren't talking yet. Maybe they don't even know yet.
One thing I know for sure, if there is something to it, we are screwed in November with Hillary.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)According to the FBI's own words, they have completed the investigation. They only have to interview Hillary's aids and Hillary.
The FBI has an electronic trail of everything that happened and what she did. They have Hillary's server. They have the 30,000 emails that she deleted. They granted immunity to the IT professional who built her server.
The interviews are basically to lay out the case against her and to put the information they have gleaned, into proper context. And to see if the interviewees are willing to commit perjury.
I would not be surprised if all interviews are completed and we have final word before end of May.
Al Jezeera broke the story, at the end of March, that the FBI would be conducting these interviews, "in the coming days and weeks." Not months.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)back to Jan and Feb to dig them up, though.
Haven't they put out more recent attacks, since these fell flat?
I wonder why you didn't at least point out that that Inspector General is a Republican who has every reason to write that letter for political reasons. But non-partisan experts who have examined the case say there is little likelihood she will be prosecuted for any of the spurious reasons Faux news suggests.
For example, Prof Richard Lempert, who wrote the book on classification procedures when he was with Homeland Security:
http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
Why Hillary Won't Be Indicted and Shouldn't Be: An Objective Legal Analysis
There is no reason to think that Clinton committed any crimes with respect to the use of her email server.
Richard O. Lempert
March 20, 2016
News reports suggest that the FBI is nearing the end of its inquiry into the legal issues surrounding Hillary Clintons use of a personal server for government emails and into the legal ramifications of classified information found in messages to and from her. Most of the reportingand virtually all political discussionreads as if reporters and pundits know little about the rules regarding the classification of information and what they imply not just for the likelihood of a Clinton indictment but also for whether she violated other rules regarding the proper handling of classified information, whether or not the violations constitute crimes.
What follows reflects the knowledge and experience I have gained from working at the Department of Homeland Security from 2008 until 2011. While there, I took the lead in drafting a security classification manual for one of the divisions of the DHS science and technology directorate. In this discussion, I offer answers to questions about the former secretary of states email that have not been frequently asked, but should be.
SNIP
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-hillary-clinton-commit-crime-based-today/story?id=36626499
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-prosecute-hillary-clinton/story?id=38168118
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosecution-past-cases-221744
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/21/clinton-email-state-server-column/32042775/
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Be patient. Rather than calling out Fox and then maybe eating crow later, wait and see. Ida brought us information. Okay. I'll wait and see what happens. I have no opinion about the emails because I am no expert and it has gone on so long, I will now wait for the outcome. My opinion means nothing when it comes to emails nor does anyone elses. Justice Dept. has the final answer. It's an Obama Justice Dept. So, I'm waiting...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)They are.
http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-hillary-clinton-commit-crime-based-today/story?id=36626499
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-prosecute-hillary-clinton/story?id=38168118
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosecution-past-cases-221744
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/21/clinton-email-state-server-column/32042775/
You're welcome.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)You have my inbox. Shoot me a message to remind me I was wrong when she is indicted. I suspect I have a greater chance of growing wings .
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)I'll wait for the verdict or evidence that pertains to the outcome. I've had it with so much opinion about everything. Seems to me that's the difference between HRC and Bernie supporters although I agree we all defer to common sense as well. I do not expect her to be indicted. But I'm not relying on external analyses to decide for me. They are all interesting I'm sure, but I'll wait for the outcome. There's only so much time to keep up with it all and honestly, I'm not that interested nor am I basing my votes on the email thing. I haven't once used the email meme against Clinton.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)With the exception of Shep Smith, their job is to catapult GOP propaganda.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Now you are defending Fox...really. Go to Free Republic...you will fit right in.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 22, 2016, 11:58 PM - Edit history (1)
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Oh, and check out Shep, Kurtz and Wallace. Then go back to Toad if you wish. But you'll be better informed when you do. Funny, I didn't know being broad-minded was a Republican trait.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)CNN is more objective. Truth? That is dependent on one's perspective. It is factual that Hillary spent $1M on trolls. It is factual that Bernie did not. It is factual that Fox is a right-wing talking machine. It is factual that MSNBC is a left-wing talking machine. You choose MSNBC's "truth" and I choose to listen to all three. I prefer "truth" from multiple sources then I make up my own mind.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)So, I'll pass on your order, if you don't mind.
As for your OP, well...
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)of those who find such things infuriating.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Writing deadlines do though.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Thank you for the (I'm sure unintended) call-out!
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)But, wait...I'm still writing, even when I'm here. I seem to never stop writing. I can't count how many keyboards I've worn out since 1984, when I got my first PC. Before that, I wore out several IBM Selectric type balls.
Uff da...
GreenPartyVoter
(72,378 posts)Thanks!
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)Liberal media is protecting Clinton. So there's only one place left to go to get any information of note.
Hard to believe, but our side is wrong now and then
Joob
(1,065 posts)They're building a strong case.
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)because if she doesn't get charged the Republicans are going to accuse them of covering up. Endless hearings will be held and every time an agent made coffee that will be questioned.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)we will LOSE.
dchill
(38,503 posts)And it went right over their heads.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)It was not her intent to violate national security she is a patriot. (Paraphrase) Other politicians have been destroyed by much less and this will be in a realm of verifiable facts not politics. I do think the Democratic Party borders on lost judgement at levels encountered in the Republican Party. Even a hand slapping which I expect will be fatal to Hillary's trip to the Whitehouse.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)Full of sound and fury....signifying nothing.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)If info comes off a secure server, and then is immediately reworded and sent over a non-secured one, then that that is something the FBI would likely want to look at.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)then it should be an acceptable source on issues regarding the Clintons.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/17/the-fox-news-connection-to-clinton-foundation-d/203674
<But the non-profit arm of Fox News' then-parent company donated to the Clinton Foundation. The News Corp. Foundation, the charitable arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which at the time was the parent company of Fox News, donated between $500,001 to $1,000,000 to the foundation. James R. Murdoch, the co-chief operating officer of Fox News' current parent company, 21st Century Fox, and son of Rupert Murdoch, donated between $1,000,001 to $5,000,000.>
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%241%2C000%2C001%20to%20%245%2C000%2C000&page=1
James Murdoch is listed as a donor of between $1 million and $5 million on the page of the Clinton Foundation website at the link above, right next to NewsMax. So NewsMax should also be an acceptable source for information on the Clintons.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)you will understand whatever is said is only words, when people go to jail for deeds done then is then we will start heeding more of the words you say. Before that, it is all mostly just a bunch of B.S.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)her clearance, fired her and she'd probably already be under indictment.
When you don't know anything at all you are free to make up your own concepts, but once you start getting informed, you have to take FACTS into account.
Be fact free if you choose.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)to keep us busy. Keep us busy while they reach around with the other hand and steal us blind.
The concept i see is most of the present fiasco we find our country in happened the day POTUS Kennedy was assassinated. A large mix of people wanted him dead and there is lot of evidence to conclude that it was carried out with many collaborators.
Yea, it was like fifty years ago but many things can be traced back to that point. The facts are when we think others will be or should be the heroes instead of having a immutable system in place, we will always end up the fools and be bound for failure. We have been conditioned to think there was one special person who was going to take charge repair our woes. It isn't going to happen, we have to band together and take it for ourselves
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)You got to be kidding http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-new-top-secret-clinton-emails-innocuous-n500586
The classified material included in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails flagged by an internal watchdog involved discussions of CIA drone strikes, which are among the worst kept secrets in Washington, senior U.S. officials briefed on the matter tell NBC News.
The officials say the emails included relatively "innocuous" conversations by State Department officials about the CIA drone program, which technically is considered a "Special Access Program" because officials are briefed on it only if they have a "need to know."
As a legal matter, the U.S. government does not acknowledge that the CIA kills militants with drones. The fact that the CIA conducts drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, however, has long been known. Senior officials, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former CIA Director Leon Panetta, have publicly discussed CIA drones.
In 2009, Feinstein disclosed during a public hearing that the U.S. was flying Predator drones out of a base in Pakistan. Also that year, Panetta called drone strikes in Pakistan "the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the al Qaeda leadership." Various public web sites continue to keep track of each CIA drone strike.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)The latest round of claims are based on very old information that is being recycled
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-217985
Just days ago, State released an email showing Clinton asking top policy staffer Jake Sullivan to send information that was slated to be transmitted on a secure fax machine over an unsecured fax because the secured machine was apparently broken. Republicans seized on the message, saying it suggested Clinton was playing fast and loose with classified contents.
It is unclear, however, if the content of the information slated to be faxed that day was indeed classified. And State later said they had no indication that the content in question was ever sent via non-secure means.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-217985#ixzz3xpPI273W
frylock
(34,825 posts)A whole lot has happened regarding this issue since.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)This attack is really sad and bogus http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-had-emails-on-server-more-classified-than-top-secret/
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, had a similar response, calling the story "nothing new."
"None of the emails that are alleged to contain classified information were written by Secretary Clinton. The question of whether she received emails with classified information has nothing to do with any action taken by Secretary Clinton," she said. "Additionally, none of the emails that were sent to Secretary Clinton were marked as including classified information, a requirement when such information is transmitted."
Feinstein said the inspector general was being used for "baldly partisan attacks."
frylock
(34,825 posts)You're right about nothing new here.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Here is a good explanation of the issue that even some laypersons should be able to understand http://www.vox.com/2016/1/29/10873106/hillary-clinton-email-top-secret
Not necessarily. A large proportion of documents that our government classifies are not actually that sensitive more on that below. So the key thing now is to try to figure out: Were these emails classified because they contain highly sensitive information that Clinton never should have emailed in the first place, or because they were largely banal but got scooped up in America's often absurd classify-everything practices?
Obviously we can't know the answer to that for sure unless we read the emails. But one good way to make an informed guess is by asking whether the emails were classified at the moment they were sent or whether they were classified only later.
The reason this matters is that if they were immediately classified top secret, then that is a good sign that they contained information that is known as "born classified" that it was information in itself obtained by classified channels or because it was generated internally by classified means. For example, if Clinton were emailing the secret US bombing plans for Libya, or sharing something that the French ambassador told her in confidence, that would be "born classified."
But if the information were classified only later, then that would indicate it was more banal, or that it was not classified for any reasons particular to the emails themselves. Again, see below on how a boring email could become marked as top secret.
According to a statement by the State Department, "These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent."
In other words, they do not contain information that was "born classified," but rather fall into the vast gray area of things that do not seem obviously secret at the time but are later deemed that way not always for good reason.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)If an e-mail was not marked classified, then Clinton is in the clear under federal law http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
These standards make it difficult to conclude that Clinton violated any law regarding the disclosure of classified information. As indicated by the word may, which I italicized, the regulations do not require that any information, no matter how sensitive, be classified. They also indicate that when in doubt information should not be classified or should be classified at the lowest level consistent with national security. Not only was Secretary Clinton the ultimate authority within the State Department to determine whether State Department information should be classified, but she was also the ultimate authority in determining whether classified information should be declassified. Moreover, declassification when done at the highest level appears to require no formal procedure. Indeed, we have a history of high-level officials engaging in instant declassification, most notably by leaking classified information to the press for political or strategic advantage. Since the leakers are typically speaking off the record or on deep background, some disclosures may have been made by people lacking the authority to declassify information, instantly or otherwise. No such leaker has been criminally prosecuted, and so long as the authorization to reveal classified information was approved at the cabinet level, it is unlikely that anyone could be.....
There are elaborate rules for marking and protecting information, depending on its level of classification. For example, a letter containing confidential information can be sent by ordinary mail. If it contained secret information it would have to be sent by certified mail, and if it contained top-secret information, except in special circumstances, a courier would have to deliver it rather than the U.S. mail.
Secretary Clinton has claimed, so far without leaked contradiction, that no message she received or sent was marked so as to indicate that it was classified.
Similarly, the government has specially secure, and different, computer systems for transmitting or discussing secret or top-secret information, and high security locales, called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities or SCIFs, where secret and top-secret discussions can be held, and where an agencys employees can access its secure computer systems. The key to knowing whether information is classified and at what level are markings to be attached to documents, whether paper or electronic. Secretary Clinton has claimed, so far without leaked contradiction, that no message she received or sent was marked so as to indicate that it was classified.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Articles in the New York Times are not SAP http://www.npr.org/2016/01/20/463730125/-top-secret-email-revelation-changes-nothing-clinton-says?live=1
Clinton added, "I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department, because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified."
She said "the best we can determine" is that the emails in question were a forward of a New York Times article on a classified drone program and that they had likely been retroactively classified.
"How a New York Times public article that goes around the world could be in any way viewed as classified, or the fact that it would be sent to other people off of the New York Times site, I think, is one of the difficulties that people have in understanding what this is about," Clinton said.
Though the drone program was classified at the time, it was being written about publicly, which Clinton said, "strikes me as somewhat strange that there would be a an effort by those who are leaking this and obviously that's what's happening to try to raise concerns and doubts about information in the public sector."
She added, "But even if they have retroactive concerns and doubts, that doesn't change the fact that these were not marked classified at the time they were sent or received."
You can not make it illegal to read the NYT or to discuss an article from the NYT
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)I don't use this often, but I can't think of a better reply.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)These charges are really funny. The so call beyond top secret information is material in news reports http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-217985
The information in the emails was not obtained through a classified product, but is considered per se classified because it pertains to drones, the official added. The U.S. treats drone operations conducted by the CIA as classified, even though in a 2012 internet chat Presidential Barack Obama acknowledged U.S.-directed drone strikes in Pakistan.
The source noted that the intelligence community considers information about classified operations to be classified even if it appears in news reports or is apparent to eyewitnesses on the ground. For example, U.S. officials with security clearances have been warned not to access classified information leaked to WikiLeaks and published in the New York Times.
Even though things are in the public domain, they still retain their classification level, the official said. The ICIG maintains its position that its still codeword classified.
The State Department is likely to persist in its contention that some information the intelligence community claimed was top secret because it related to North Korean nuclear tests was actually the product of parallel reporting that did not rely on classified intelligence products and so should not be treated as highly classified, the official said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-217985#ixzz3xvQpGCwW
E-mails discussing material in the Washington Post are not top secret or SAP.
Thank you for the laughs
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I read the Vermont independent is spending like a drunken sailor in Pennsylvania. He also did so in New York and got clobbered, so it's a good omen.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)"However, the emails now deemed to contain top secret, special access program information are in addition to the messages previously disputed between State and the Director of National Intelligence, according to a spokesperson for McCullough. The official said the intelligence community review group is wrapping up its look into the documents and is putting these documents in the SAP category."
More background on the review of these (usually stated as two) SAP documents:
"An intelligence official familiar with the matter told NBC News that the special access program in question was so sensitive that McCullough (that's Charles McCullough, Inspector General for the Intelligence Services) and some of his aides had to receive clearance to be read in on it before viewing the sworn declaration about the Clinton emails.
Clinton's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hillary-clinton-emails-contained-info-above-top-secret-ig-n499886
Doubtful that this SAP issue had to do with nothing but drones. Cover stories abound, but that doesn't make them true. Until the FBI puts its cards on the table, Hillary Clinton is not cleared. And an objective reading of what's been written about this makes it highly unlikely that she will be cleared. I wouldn't bet on it, but anyone else can go ahead and do that.
Bear in mind that the biggest part of the email problem though, is NOT the emails themselves but the SERVER. The server was blatantly gross negligence and it is provable. (And no, contrary to her lies, no other official EVER set up their own server, and there was NEVER "permission" given to her to do so.) Bye, bye Hillary.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)The so-called "Top Secret" emails were all about NYT stories concerning drones and were in the public domain http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/yep-top-secret-emails-were-all-about-drones
Some of the nations intelligence agencies raised alarms last spring as the State Department began releasing emails from Hillary Clintons private server, saying that a number of the messages contained information that should be classified top secret.
The diplomats saw things differently and pushed back at the spies. In the months since, a battle has played out between the State Department and the intelligence agencies.
....Several officials said that at least one of the emails contained oblique references to C.I.A. operatives. One of the messages has been given a designation of HCS-O indicating that the information was derived from human intelligence sources...The government officials said that discussions in an email thread about a New York Times article the officials did not say which article contained sensitive information about the intelligence surrounding the C.I.A.s drone activities, particularly in Pakistan.
The whole piece is worth reading for the details, but the bottom line is pretty simple: there's no there there. At most, there's a minuscule amount of slightly questionable reporting that was sent via emaila common practice since pretty much forever. Mostly, though, it seems to be a case of the CIA trying to bully State and win some kind of obscure pissing contest over whether they're sufficiently careful with the nation's secrets.
It is not against the law to read and talk about articles in NYT
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Seeinghope
(786 posts)To FOX to hear ANY truth about Hillary Clinton
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)I read it all the way through and will do so again, and bookmark.
I have a Notepad full of links that I started saving as of about a month ago, which is a mess because it is growing much faster than I expected. It isn't just Fox reporting this, there isn't a major source that is left out of the links I've collected. And that is just links that I happen to see, and links from those stories, etc., not in-depth research on my part.
So I can appreciate the great work you did here, in putting together the main points so clearly and logically, because I can estimate what it would take to organize the messy Notepad I have that well.
I'll be matching what you have here with my "collection". Some of the links I recognize, and some I probably missed and will add. That you! for the great job you did on this, and I hope a lot of people who haven't been paying attention to this will take the time to follow the info you provided here.
My opinion on the whole thing is this: there are an abundance of criminal charges that can be brought against HRC, most of which she has admitted to doing. She insists that it was fine, but no, it really wasn't. She's going entirely on bluff about this, just bulling through on blatant lies. Highly credible people, like former heads of the agencies involved, have said that what she did was criminal, along with numerous less serious legal issues.
Whenever the FBI releases its findings, her goose is cooked in my opinion. Because no matter what happens after that, the court of public opinion WILL believe the FBI and whichever Repub is running WILL harp on their findings 24/7, and her career will be DONE at that point, regardless of any charges to come out of it later. And the 38 civil suits will not be going away either. She won't be able to raise any other subject and no one will vote for her.
There can be nothing more insane the Dem party could do, than nominating her. But I think the people who are scoffing it off now will understand how real this is when the FBI checks in. When they do though, there might not be enough time to salvage this election for the Dem party.
And wouldn't it be absurd for one of those idiot Repubs to win, in a year when that should be impossible, simply because the Dems insisted on backing to the end someone they should never in a million years even consider allowing to run -- someone under active FBI investigation. It is gobsmackingly stupid.
Excellent job, IdaBriggs.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)I mean if she really did screen out work related emails later found that may be bad.
On the other hand it could all be bullshit and innuendo like so much of the stuff about Clinton always has been.
You'd think with so much of the emails being forwarded to her thru other people maybe if anybody IS prosecuted it will sort of be her underlings not her, much like Oliver North took the hit for Reagan and no problems for Hillary even if there is something.
The one dude already has immunity so he could go full Oliver North and say he was responsible for all of it and take the fall. He'd be rewarded later on I'm sure, cause they have the Clinton Foundation to give friends jobs and stuff.
However given that Edwards was going full steam ahead with a potential killer secret I hope Sanders stays in the race to the very end just in case.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Congratulations.
You're really feeling the Bern!
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)I have seen it just as much here on the left. People FREAK at the mention of Fox. But they've been going a good job of reporting the facts which you hear NOTHING about on the left. You don't have to accept their conclusions or their analysis but they do report facts.
The latest that I appreciate is when Obama went on Fox with Wallace and said, "there is classified and there is classified." (or something like that) and he basically gave the impression that what Hillary did was no big deal.
But there were at least 22 emails which were the top level (SAP) of the highest classification (top secret) and the State Department (and probably Obama's state department is not part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" , State Department said there are 22 emails that would cause "exceptionally grave damage to America's national security."
That doesn't sound like "ho-hum" to me. And I don't believe just because it was from a RW source means it is a lie. It was reported.
Get out of denial.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Get out of media boxes and then you'll really be informed because you'll be contrasting different points of view and you'll be gaining information you won't get from only one or two sources. Wallace beats Toad every time.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)A RW news source reporting facts?
Or a Democratic or MSM news source trying desperately to bury a real story?
smiley
(1,432 posts)and less than 40 are visible.
Thanks for the info. I never would've watched Fox news to hear any of this. But I'm sure you made some heads explode though!
grasswire
(50,130 posts)and looky look at all the critters squirming in it.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)Something may stop her yet.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)The one where HRC is the tech savvy politico totally down with the Millennials in the age of Twitter
Or the one where she's all "Wiped? Like with a cloth?" in full "I don' know nuthing 'bout deleting no email" mode.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)when she was SoS was that they might be used as evidence to show her un-secured device communicating. May be far fetched because how could you know if it was SoS business but it points out one of the problems.
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)They deserve what happens next.
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)The others will continue to whistle in the wind no matter what you say.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I noticed the change in print, not tv yet, a while ago.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Ailes and James have maintained a distant, if frosty relationship. James is an environmentalist who led News Corp's campaign to be a carbon-neutral company. His wife once worked for the Clinton Foundation. Ailes, a fierce climate change denier, openly badmouthed James to friends and colleagues. He's called him a "fucking dope" and "Fredo," according to sources.
So, if I read this correctly, Ailes just got demoted and his new boss is the guy he hates?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And even in the local coverage you can see it. My local affiliate is far more down the middle and balanced than the NBC, CBS and ABC stations. Don't get me started with KUSY.
The other day they ALMOST had the words climate change cross their lips. I was honestly rooting for them... YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
But this is way too much inside media baseball, My guess is that the sons are going for a few pullitzers. They find themselves in the same situation the WAPO was in the summer of 1972 if you get my drift.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)all those years of his Administration.
In the end: There really WAS a BLUE DRESS...with stains of the President on it. And, we had been convinced it was all a lie from Monica Lewinsky.
Depends on how long one has been around as to how they feel about Hillary. But, Bill is running for his Third Term (actively campaigning for Hillary all over the country) and he will be in the White House which is unprecedented in American History. We need to think carefully and reflect on both Hillary and Bill and ask ourselves--if they represent the ideals of Democratic Party going forward given that one was impeached and the other is now under FBI Investigation.
I expected more from Bill and Hillary when I voted for Bill twice. I lost friends defending Bill through the scandals. I now know more about what Bill's policies in tandem with Wall Street and DLC's Deregulation Policies did to dismantle good Federal programs for the people that had in place since FDR's New Deal for workers rights and other issues that most here are aware of.
There's no way I can accept Bill and Hillary given the cloud over Hillary with the E-Mail Server issue hanging over her and Bill who not only behaved badly enough sexually in the White House but pals around with the same Wall Street crowd that influenced his Deregulation that helped lead to the 2008 Crash or Hillary's War policies which led to Libya and the spread of ISIS.
We need Real change...not, a rehashing of the Clinton's and their Policies and their Personal problems. They will have a fine life with their Foundation if Bernie wins the Election. They have had their time in the Sun and profited from it. Time to Move On.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)and Bill Clinton gave his Eulogy when he died! How about that?
That's what bothers so many of us Dems who thought he was our Salvation when we voted for him Twice!
frylock
(34,825 posts)Everyone down your drink.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)using her Blackberry on a plane) turns out to be evidence.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)I do not understand how the mods have not already locked down this threat. For shame doing heavy lifting for the GOP...Bernie is not going to be the candidate...he knows it...so you slime the democratic candidate. I long for the day this primary is called and it should not be in June either, and you are tossed out for your treachery.
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tblue37
(65,403 posts)is in brackets in the original, because on DU those brackets will make the word disappear when you paste it into the DU message box.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Much appreciated! I think I stared at it too long while putting it together!
tblue37
(65,403 posts)that comment. Here is the passage:
I saw whose name was mentioned because I went to the article to find out. (I hate not knowing stuff.) I didn't say the name in my post, though, because most people would read the OP but not my post way, way down, and not the article either, so I figured you would want to fix the OP.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Faux is right when they trash Hillary but not when they trash anyone else
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I know there is an end to it, but considering we have gone this far, I think we should go all the way now.
To the convention, that is.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)out in massive numbers. I am volunteering Sat and Sun in Indiana for the Bernie campaign, and may well fly to California as well (remains to be seen). We CANNOT go down the Hillary road.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)Thank you for your involvement.
CFS
KoKo
(84,711 posts)We are all doing what we can and thanks for sharing. Need all support we can get!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)wing, you might consider that your hatred is blinding you enough to become an "useful idiot".
Just sayin.... something to consider even though you didn't want anyone to come into this thread and take you to task for posting a couple of right wing links and driving revenue to those sites.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Do you believe the (independent) Inspector General of the Intelligence Community suborned perjury and documented this in a written statement to Congress?
If the answer is "no", then be aware Hillary Clinton has been publicly lying because his statement directly contradicts hers that "there were no classified documents on her server".
The PDF of the document I reference was "exclusively leaked" and can be viewed at the FOX News link I have provided in the first part of my original post.
If you answered "yes", I don't even know what to say to you.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)You got a lot of thinking going about messengers as opposed to messages. The days of Ailes per a poster above are over. Fox has changed. But those so loyal to one source and so angry at another source can never see when change happens. And it has happened. You look where others do not. I do as well. We are the more informed.
Before I shoot the messenger, I read the message and then I verify. Well, most of the time. You've attracted the best and the worst on this thread. Impressive.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)Thank you!
pacalo
(24,721 posts)No sense in apologizing any longer about Fox News -- MSNBC is no longer on the high ground. It is just as biased & contrived in its reporting as Fixed News.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)Yeah... You'll believe Fox and the Washington Examiner, but not the Democratic Party.
Not that the rightwing has anything to do with it, I'm sure.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)That probably explains our differences. Clinton is the party and Bernie is an outsider who wants the party and democracy to be better. You "trust" the party and I trust my own informed self. Notice I said "informed" because that is what makes the difference. Honestly, get out of the MSNBC box. It is more propaganda than Fox. You should go back to the comments and read what Brez wrote about Roger Ailes and the Murdoch kids - you might be surprised. If you don't check out all sources, you'll be limiting yourself to the choir.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Excellent compilation Ida. It's a shame that so many here will ignore it because of the messenger. Fox, not you.
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)Its with you. She did say no E-mails were classified when this first broke but she quickly changed that to no E-mails were MARKED classified. So far, that is still uncontroverted.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Saying the emails weren't marked classified doesn't mean they weren't classified. If anything, retreating from "not classified" to "not marked classified" sounds like an evasion.
It's known that classified material was found in some of the emails, although we don't know the nature of that material. I see multiple possibilities:
1) Material was classified at the time. If it was marked classified, that's a blatant violation. If it wasn't marked, but a reasonably competent Secretary of State should have known it should be classified, her behavior was either criminal or incompetent, neither of which would recommend her for the role of President. If said material came from Blumenthal, who wasn't cleared for that info, and she failed to report it, she's toast.
2) Material wasn't classified at the time. If it's something that a reasonable person wouldn't have considered sensitive info (example, some tidbit about a country that only in retrospect became a piece of red-hot intel), she's in the clear. If not, and she didn't classify it, or question what it wasn't classified, she's again in trouble.
Worst of all, they switched servers and the work was done by a company without a security clearance. There's no way that shit's gonna fly.
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)She didn't.
Whether the information was marked makes a big difference. The main law they are saying she's in jeopardy from defines classified information as information that had been declared classified by an agency. If it wasn't declared, it doesn't fall under the law.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Google up some of levymg's stuff. Not all of the things she could be dinged for rely on intent, and there are problems with not properly classifying things, too.
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)A target letter is a letter one would receive from a United States Attorney stating that you are the "target" of a federal criminal investigation; that you are the subject of a criminal investigation.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)that only applies if one is being asked to testify in front of a grand jury.
http://www.edmecka.com/articles/federal-target-of-investigation-letter.html
She is not being asked to testify in front of a grand jury. She and her top staff are going to be interviewed by the FBI after a year long investigation. Hillary will be bringing her criminal attorney with her for legal counsel.
Numerous sources have stated on the record that FBI does not have to notify people they are being investigated for criminal stuff (which makes sense, because then they would run around destroying evidence).
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)"copy/paste" so he can send her information via email that is too classified to be faxed.
It's on Wikileaks, and the PDF is on DU already.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)but we cant blame them for posting this bullshit here. That was you.
Unicorn
(424 posts)I'd say it IS a rw propaganda machine.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Members of The Club can do anything they like.
pampango
(24,692 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)From the Indictment Fairy to Fox News to O'Keefe-associates and now the Transcript Fairy. Let it go. Do something useful with your time on DU.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Keep your chin up. When you wake up next Wednesday morning we will be enjoying the fruits of our well deserved victory which will be all but complete and our nemeses will be waking up to a breakfast of poisoned fare and the wailing of their allies.
Onward. Victory is ours as victory is the province of the just .
still_one
(92,219 posts)on that somehow it will propel their candidate to the nomination.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)and re-evaluate.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)she was above the law, or decided the law.
jimmy_crack_corn
(79 posts)If I plagiarize you take it as a complement, but I needed to copy this in a place where it can not be removed by HRC folks. I like to keep track of info.
Besides, I am not an Ostrich keeping my head in the sand I want to know what the GOP might do to win and Fox is a good source for understanding their possible attack strategy.