This games of thrones is interesting in seeing who has already sold their souls. There is no principle other than power, its acquisition and its abuse.
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Some one is being set up to take the fall. Hillary will emerge un-scathed.
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#4
..maybe, but when you play games like this you tend to empower little people down in the bowels of the enterprise to make plays that can undermine your interests. See - Snowden.
[Bus Insider] The FBI is investigating Hillary Clinton's private email server out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C., in an "unusual move," The New York Times reported.
"Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau's 56 field offices," according to The Times.
"But given this inquiry's importance, senior F.B.I. officials have opted to keep it closely held in Washington in the agency's counterintelligence section, which investigates how national security secrets are handled."
Though Clinton's use of a private email address was not illegal and was permitted by State Department rules, the federal government has standards for how servers are built, how they are secured, and how their data is stored.
The FBI is looking into the configuration of the server that Clinton handed over to authorities.
#1
How are you supposed to suppress evidence unless you keep it close? Probably the same crack investigative team that they sent to Benghazi, with the same instructions. (They did so well last time and all...)
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#2
Are Hillary's Teflon pantsuits getting worn out?
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Because field agents may not be "discriminating" enough? Posted by g(r)omgoru
Yes, something about Boston Marathon bombing intelligence tippers from the Russians. Before that, field agents reporting aviation flight school irregularities prior to 9/11.
What if they find something that links to the Russian and Chinese hacks (gave enough info for them to be possible)? Fail already happened in such a case.
[Wash Examiner] A pair of classified emails on Hillary Clinton's private server that should have been marked "top secret" originated in the Central Intelligence Agency, raising questions as to why they had been stripped of their classification markings by the time they reached the secretary of state. Amy, Jeff, here's another one from the Chappaqua server. You're not going to believe this shi*. The emails included a discussion of U.S. drone policy, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Officials from the CIA, who reviewed the emails for sensitive material along with representatives from other intelligence agencies, recommended the emails be upgraded to top secret.
One of the emails involved a discussion about a news article that laid out drone policy in Pakistan. A Clinton aide responded to the story with classified details and alluded to top secret information.
I've already had a millenial at work complain about how they've badgered her. I pointed out she never followed the court orders so of course they've kept after her. You can't just ignore the law and then declare a time limit.
It's an effective game when it comes to the drive-by-voters sake.
[Wash Times] When State Department officials first discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal email account contained classified information, they did not seize the thumb drive containing her digitally archived inbox but rather provided her attorney a special safe to secure the device, according to interviews and documents. Photo is of a typical GSA Classified Storage container, not the safe in question.
The move allowed Mrs. Clinton's attorney to keep the device for several additional weeks while State officials reviewed paper copies of the emails for possible classified data. Officials were unconcerned that the thumb drive remained out of their possession because preservation orders from courts and Congress would ensure that her attorney would not destroy the evidence. The digital archive was turned over to the FBI for examination this month.
Throughout the review process, career State officials who normally handle the release of data under the Freedom of Information Act ran into disagreements with attorneys about which information in the emails was classified, The Washington Times has learned.
The disagreements are part of a complex, and at times tense, process in which career lawyers and career FOIA officials, along with a dozen intelligence review analysts from different agencies, are trying to identify and protect intelligence information contained in Mrs. Clinton's personal email account. State and FOIA lawyers normally work together on such requests, but this case has heightened tensions given Mrs. Clinton's status as the Democratic presidential front-runner.
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E B H3502 she doesn't work at it. It just comes natural to her.
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Who else has this information. This might even go to O. I think Hillery is about to take the fall again. Information meaning others doing the same thing she did. Rush has the reason she has held out so long.
I'm a big fan of timelines. They establish the forensic chain of events from which everything else hangs. Or in English - they're the "history." This one is culled from the link in a Burg article yesterday.
2008 – Hillary Clinton acquires a personal email server for her use in running for president, and has it installed in her Chappaqua, New York home
January 13, 2009 – Internet records show that the domain 'clintonemail.com' was created
January 21, 2009 – Clinton is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Obama's secretary of state
February 1, 2013 – Clinton leaves the State Department
March 20, 2013 – Clinton's private email address, hdr22@clintonemail.com, is made public when a Romanian hacker named 'Guccifer' (whose real name is Marcel Lazăr Lehel) hacks into longtime Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's AOL email account and leaks images of his inbox – including emails from Clinton
June 2013 – Hillary's team shifts control of the email domain to an outside IT contractor in Denver called Platte River Networks, and sends the original server hardware to a data center facility in New Jersey, where it is erased
August 11, 2014 – Following a congressional subpoena and more than a year of delays, the State Department hands over a small number of Clinton's private emails, 10 in all, to a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attack on a State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya – including some emails from the hdr22@clintonemail.com address
November 2014 – The Benghazi committee asks the State Department for a larger batch of Clinton's emails and receives about 300 that relate to the Libya saga, amounting to 850 printed pages
December 5, 2014 – Clinton's aides say that in response to a request from the State Department, they have handed over about 55,000 pages of her work-related emails, comprising 30,490 messages
February 13, 2015 – The State Department sends the Benghazi committee another 850 pages of Clinton's emails, including some from two different accounts on the private 'clintonemail.com' server
February 27, 2015 – State Department staffers tell Benghazi committee aides that Clinton had used her private address exclusively during her tenure at the agency, and that they don't have any of her emails other than those she provided voluntarily
March 4, 2015 – The Associated Press reports that it has traced Clinton's private email address back to a private server at her Chappaqua, New York home, and that the server was registered under a fake name
March 10, 2015 – In a contentious press conference following a speech at the United Nations, Clinton admits that she deleted more than 30,000 emails that she says were personal in nature, and says she turned over everything work-related to the State Department, while insisting that 'I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email; there is no classified material'
March 11, 2015 – The Associated Press sues the State Department to force the release of Clinton's emails and other documents that the agency has failed to turn over following a Freedom Of Information Act request
April 12, 2015 – Clinton launches her second presidential campaign with an online video and begins two months of low-key campaigning marked by a lack of interaction with reporters
May 22, 2015 – The first 300 of Clinton's emails are made public by the State Department, revealing a close relationship with Blumenthal in the weeks following the Benghazi terror attack; one of them has been retroactively classified by the FBI as 'secret' but Clinton insists it was 'handled appropriately'
May 27, 2015 – A federal judge orders the State Department to begin releasing all of Clinton's emails in installments every 30 days, setting monthly targets for the agency so the work is completed by January 29, 2016
July 23, 2015 – Charles McCullough, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community tells members of Congress in a letter that a random sampling of 40 Clinton emails turned up four that contained material classified as secret
July 24, 2015 – Andrea Williams, spokeswoman for the McCulloush, says that the emails 'were classified when they were sent and are classified now.'
July 25, 2015 – During a campaign appearance in Iowa, Clinton modifies her position and tells reporters in Iowa that 'I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received'
July 31, 2015 – The second State Department release of Clinton's emails, more than 1,300 in all, includes 41 that were marked 'classified' before they were made public
August 4, 2015 – Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill says in a statement that the candidate 'did not send nor receive any emails that were marked classified at the time'
August 11, 2015 – McCullough revises his statement to Congress, saying that two of the four emails in question should have been classified 'top secret' – but were not marked that way – and contained information from signal intercepts and keyhole satellite data; he adds that the other two emails are still being evaluated
August 11, 2015 – The FBI takes possession of Clinton's server hardware and three thumb drives in her lawyer's possession, which are said to contain copies of everything she turned over to the State Department
#4
The Drudge Report image of Clinton and Obama talking during golf does not look like a friendly chat. Bill is obviously upset.....wonder if the fix costs too much?
#2
When you see Britain, France, and Germany sharply up their own defense spending, maybe. Till, then military welfare for the 1st world has got to end.
U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump took a strong departure from his party's rejection of the Iran nuclear deal, saying he would not necessarily "rip up" the accord, in an interview aired Sunday.
"I would police that contract so tough that they don't have a chance," the bombastic real estate mogul said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," adding "it's very hard to say we're ripping up" the deal.
Several of Trump's fellow Republican contenders have publicly opposed the deal, with some vowing to abolish it if elected.
The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress is expected in September to vote against the deal, a landmark agreement that would roll back Iran's nuclear program in exchange for an easing of crippling economic sanctions.
But the Republicans are unlikely to have enough support to overturn a subsequent veto by President Barack Obama.
Trump made the comments even as he sounded a dismal note on the deal's eventual outcome and called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who worked to negotiate it, incompetent.
"Iran is going to be unbelievably powerful and unbelievably rich and Israel is in big trouble," Trump said.
"They are going to be such a wealthy, such a powerful nation, they're going to have nuclear weapons. They are going to take over parts of the world that you wouldn't believe and I think it's going to lead to nuclear holocaust," Trump said.
"The people that negotiated that deal, namely Kerry and his friends, are incompetent," he said.
The billionaire businessman added that as an entrepreneur, however, he was "good at looking at a contract and finding things in a contract even though they're bad."
"I've heard a lot of people say 'We're going to rip up the deal.' It's very tough to do when you say 'rip up a deal' because I'm a deal person," Trump said.
The money that could become available to Iran with the easing of sanctions could be as much as $150 billion, U.S. media has reported.
Asked specifically whether he would keep the deal alive as president, Trump responded: "The problem is by the time I got in there, they will have already received the $150 billion."
#4
Having the Ukraine enter NATO never was a good idea. They should have joined the EU but talking about a defense treaty that we aren't willing to risk everything for was just stupid. Putin called our bluff on that and made the admin look stupid(er).
#5
Having the Ukraine give up its nukes was obviously, by now, not a good idea. Which implies once Iran et al get them, they're not giving them up without literally having to fight them.
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