[Reuters] Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told federal investigators that former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested she use a personal email account, the New York Times reported late on Thursday.
Clinton has for over a year been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account while she was the nation's top diplomat.
The newspaper said the information came from notes the Federal Bureau of Investigation delivered to Congress on Tuesday, which contained details from a more than three hour interview the agency conducted with Clinton over her private email use.
The Times also cited an upcoming book that described a dinner conversation where Powell told Clinton to use her own email except for classified information. The newspaper also reported that Clinton asked Powell in a 2009 email exchange about his use of email while serving under former president George W. Bush.
Just for the record (emphasis added): The Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (abbreviated as "NIPRNet," but commonly written "NIPRNET"), is a private IP network used to exchange unclassified information, including information subject to controls on distribution, among the private network's users. The NIPRNet also provides its users access to the Internet. NIPRNet is composed of Internet Protocol routers owned by the United States Department of Defense (DOD). It was created in the 1980s and managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to supersede the earlier MILNET. NIPRNET is the largest private network in the world. Wiki
Unclassified NIPR address for State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security office of Public Affairs: e-mail: DSPublicAffairs@state.gov
[WND] NEW YORK - A prominent lawyer and a top government watchdog in the nation’s capital are calling for the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation to be shut down as a Wall Street analyst prepares to issue a second report documenting what he believes is systematic financial fraud warranting a criminal investigation.
Wall Street analyst and investor Charles Ortel, in his first report of his in-depth probe of the Clinton Foundation, found what he characterizes as an elaborate system devised by the Clintons to enrich themselves through schemes such as skimming tens of millions of dollars from U.N. levies imposed on airline travelers.
His second report, some 300 pages of analysis set for release Monday on his website, documents what he calls material irregularities, errors and omissions in financial regulatory reporting since the foundation’s inception.
Ortel believes that once his findings have been studied, state and local law enforcement authorities will initiate multiple criminal investigations and charge the Clintons with "private inurement," the crime of enriching themselves through a nonprofit organization. The 'Foundation' is likely already being shut down, or transferred elsewhere under a different name. Look for the financial records to be misplaced in transit.
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Shut it down? I hope that means prosecute to the full extent of the law (or what's left of it after the DOJ guttings of the law). Maybe, a few honest prosecutors, courts, and judges remain.
[Breitbart London] NEUSTRELITZ, Germany (Reuters) ‐ Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practised in a way that respected the constitution.
More than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere arrived in Germany last year. The mood towards them has soured after a spate of attacks on civilians last month, including three carried out by migrants.
Two of those attacks were claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
"The phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, of IS, is not a phenomenon that came to us with the refugees," Merkel said at an election campaign event for her Christian Democrats in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ahead of a regional vote on Sept. 4. The political leveraging of the Islamic ideology has some very deep roots.
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Why does Islam belong in Germany? Even during the great Crusading days the Germans went north and got nowhere near the Holy Land. During the imperialist era the Germans avoided the Islamic world. The only connection I can think of is through the Ottomans and Turkey and that was an allianced based on crappy politics not on religion. Merkel is a fool.
It appears Hillary Clinton is getting help from the inside... AGAIN.
Clinton's emails demanded by House Republicans, which are marked by the FBI as "Unclassified/For Official Use," are mysteriously being kept away in a secure room on Capitol Hill typically reserved for the nation's most closely guarded secrets, Congressional aides told The Associated Press. The staffers spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to speak publicly about the security precautions.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says the FBI is improperly restricting access to unclassified materials from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Senate’s security director, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley asked that unclassified portions of the FBI documents be provided to his staff.
"As I have expressed to the FBI in the past, it is inappropriate to unnecessarily mingle classified and unclassified information," Grassley wrote Wednesday to Senate Security Director Michael DiSilvestro. "Accordingly, as you have done on similar occasions in the past, please provide the Judiciary Committee with a copy of the unclassified FBI documents from the production."
Grassley said it was "regrettable that the FBI has imposed the burden of this task on your office by improperly comingling so much unclassified material with classified material."
The FBI on Tuesday provided Congress portions of its file from the agency's yearlong investigation into whether then-Secretary of State Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her New York home. FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but described Clinton's actions as "extremely careless."
Republicans point out that Clinton clearly lied to Congress about her handling of emails when she testified last October before a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The GOP is pressing the Justice Department to open a new investigation into whether Clinton committed perjury and sought the FBI documents.
Democrats are worried that Republicans are likely to leak portions of the FBI file which would reveal Clinton's wrongdoings and therefore do political damage to her campaign.
"These materials are nonpublic and contain classified and other sensitive material," FBI Acting Assistant Director Jason Herring wrote. "For that reason, these materials may not be further disseminated or disclosed, in part or in full, without obtaining the FBI's concurrence."
The FBI documents are being kept in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, known within the intelligence community as a SCIF.
Access to the guarded room is restricted to members of the oversight, judiciary and intelligence committees and their staffs. Those without sufficient security clearances can read only redacted versions of the files and are forbidden from making copies or taking notes.
Steven Aftergood, who directs the government secrecy project at the Federation of American Scientists, said the documents were provided to Congress as a matter of FBI discretion and the bureau is in a position to impose conditions on any further disclosures. He said if all the documents were unclassified, then it would be surprising -- though not prohibited -- for them to be stored in a SCIF.
"Since it includes both classified and unclassified material, it makes sense that the collection as a whole would be stored in a secure environment, such as a SCIF," he said. "The alternative would be to break up the materials into separate classified and unclassified parts and preserve them in separate locations, which might be awkward or inconvenient." Set up a 'T-SCIF' (temporary SCIF) for the purpose of viewing and discussing. Guards, controlled access, inspections.... not that big a deal.
But what he's ignoring is the inconvenience imposed on Republicans requesting to access this unclassified information which they are lawfully entitled to. The Rhino's in congress say 'they don't have the tickets (clearances)' for viewing, but the Russians and the entire rest of the world have easy access. Strange logic, that.
He said if members of Congress release some of the unclassified documents, that would not violate any law, but any such unauthorized disclosure would make it less likely that the FBI would voluntarily share information with Congress in the future.
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That photo is a shock this a.m. but I've always had sneaking suspicions. Can't scrub such images from the brain. The DOJ can not be trusted to uphold the law; instead they have become law breakers. The meeting on the tarmac exposed the ugly truth.
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So to mix the unclass stuff with the classified in the same report deems all material at the higher classification. This really hurts her more than it helps. Even her unclassified materials are so classified, by proxy, that they too can not be released.
As for them not getting out, I'm sure Wiki will get tired of this falderal and just release the ones they still have.
Lastly, the FBI guys on this need to be put on suicide watch ASAP...
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They really need to go after some of these folks (in the FBI, State Department, and other places) for obstructing justice.
[New York Post] The State Department admitted Thursday that the US would not hand over $400 million in cash to Iran until it released four American hostages -- two weeks after President Obama insisted the payment was not a "ransom." Unlike his recent news conference and admission, this photo depicts Kirby looking straight into the camera.
State Department spokesman John Kirby was asked at Thursday’s press briefing: "In basic English, you’re saying you wouldn’t give them $400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct?"
"That’s correct," Kirby replied.
In an Aug. 4 press conference, President Obama said the opposite.
"We do not pay ransom. We didn’t here, and we won’t in the future," the president told reporters, speaking of the Jan. 17 payment and hostage release.
Families "know we have a policy that we don’t pay ransom. And the notion that we would somehow start now, in this high-profile way, and announce it to the world, even as we’re looking in the faces of other hostage families whose loved ones are being held hostage, and saying to them ’We don’t pay ransom,’ defies logic," Obama added at the time.
He lectured the press for even raising the issue.
"It’s been interesting to watch this story surface. Some of you may recall, we announced these payments in January. Many months ago. There wasn’t a secret. We announced them to all of you. [Press secretary Josh Earnest] did a briefing on them. This wasn’t some nefarious deal," the president said. "It wasn’t a secret. We were completely open with everybody about it and it is interesting to me how suddenly this became a story again."
Bad enough that ransom was paid. Worse, however, the State Department and the President of the United States lied about it.
Even worse is that everyone knew it was a lie, and could prove it was a lie, and that State had to know that they'd be forced to backtrack. And worse than that, Champ is out golfing and doesn't care.
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Government and politics suddenly elevated to the level of professional wrestling. Well, not so suddenly then.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WND] NEW YORK - A prominent lawyer and a top government watchdog in the nation’s capital are calling for the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation to be shut down as a Wall Street analyst prepares to issue a second report documenting what he believes is systematic financial fraud warranting a criminal investigation.
[Breitbart London] NEUSTRELITZ, Germany (Reuters) ‐ Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practised in a way that respected the constitution.
It appears Hillary Clinton is getting help from the inside... AGAIN.
Government and politics suddenly elevated to the level of professional wrestling. Well, not so suddenly then. 
