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Clinton Email Probe | Hillary's Aides Questioned by FBI - ABC News (Original Post) Donkees May 2016 OP
If some aides get indicted, is that a bad thing? Bob41213 May 2016 #1
If ANY of her aides get indicted, Clinton goes down in flames. in_cog_ni_to May 2016 #2
Do you consider Sid Blumenthal an aide of Clinton? HereSince1628 May 2016 #3
Nope. He wasn't an aide and it cannot be legal to discuss foreign policy with someone who didn't in_cog_ni_to May 2016 #4
So, I -DO- think he -WAS- an aide. But on the sly in a cover position at Clinton Foundation HereSince1628 May 2016 #5

Bob41213

(491 posts)
1. If some aides get indicted, is that a bad thing?
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:21 PM
May 2016

Just wondering what it means in the GE if a few of her aides fall under the bus but she emerges unscathed.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
3. Do you consider Sid Blumenthal an aide of Clinton?
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:15 PM
May 2016

Yes, this is sort of back to the meaning of is...but is Blumenthal an aide or did he just run espionage on the CIA on his own?

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
4. Nope. He wasn't an aide and it cannot be legal to discuss foreign policy with someone who didn't
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:48 PM
May 2016

have official clearance. He's probably one of the reasons she deleted her "private" emails.

She's going to be indicted. She broke so many laws, she couldn't possibly walk away from it. Just having the server in her basement, not encrypted, is reason enough to indict her.

The diplomatic security and technology officials at the department didn't even know about it! She was hiding something and I'm sure, by now, the FBI knows what it was.

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Clinton used her BlackBerry as the group continued looking for a solution. But unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials at the department, there was another looming communications vulnerability: Clinton’s Black­Berry was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y., documents and interviews show.

Those officials took no steps to protect the server against intruders and spies, because they apparently were not told about it.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
5. So, I -DO- think he -WAS- an aide. But on the sly in a cover position at Clinton Foundation
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:55 PM
May 2016

where even employees of CF questioned why he was there running his espionage operation on the CIA. Strange how his employment there so well matched HRC's time as SOS.

The whole language of the FBI about focusing on 'mishandling of classified information' is completely consistent with going after that 'plumbing problem'.

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