Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2018-07-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-
The FBI's Lack Of Curiosity About A Foreign Power Getting 30K Hillary Clinton Emails Is Astounding
[Red State] Earlier in the week, former FBI deputy assistant director for counterintelligence and known adulterer Peter Strzok testified before a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.

Skipping to the BLUF:

The thing that has always struck me about the whole Hillary Clinton email fiasco is the studious lack of curiosity by the US government over how TS/SCI documents were removed from a SCIF and transmitted via garden variety email and stored on a server that had no cyber or physical security. No curiosity was expressed about a document that appeared to have been produced via signals intelligence sources being sent by the half-assed "intelligence" group headed by Sid Blumenthal and the fortunately deceased Tyler Drumheller to Clinton (see here | here). The lack of curiosity extended so far as to give immunity from prosecution to the guy managing it. McCabe was totally incurious about what was on Huma Abedin’s laptop inasmuch as it included Clinton’s emails. And when told by the ICIG that Hillary Clinton’s emails had been auto-forwarded to a foreign power...no interest whatsoever.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 The thing that has always struck me about the whole Hillary Clinton email fiasco is the studious lack of curiosity by the US government over how TS/SCI documents were removed from a SCIF and transmitted via garden variety email and stored on a server that had no cyber or physical security.

"Astounding" to some possibly. How can an effective disinformation or 'leaks' campaign be run if the target audience is unable to access the data ?

She had a JOB to do! How else could she operate a 'homebrew' system and continue to conduct gov't business? She had to read or be briefed on the daily classified traffic.

The hacking surrender of 30K Clinton Emails (and who knows what else, attachments, etc.) was a well planned and coordinated event. The recipients got something, the gov't or DNC (or both) got something. Nothing is free. Everybody got something. Who knows, perhaps a Russian hacking scandal could one day assist in the invalidation of a national election.

One could call it the "Yellowstone Paradox." Hungry bears don't generally approach the roads for purposes of navigation.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 01:31||   2018-07-15 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Plots within plots? More like plausible deniability when faced with demands for official records search of communications. Think modus operandi of the perps rather than rationalize some elaborate plot of intrigue.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-15 08:04||   2018-07-15 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 @2 Wow, enjoyed your turn of phrase.
Posted by Dale 2018-07-15 08:24||   2018-07-15 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 At some point the hierarchy of the FBI went from a crime clean-up org. to a crime cover-up agency much to the detriment of the American people.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-15 10:18||   2018-07-15 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Hitlery was secretly involved in a false flag op to disseminate fake (ink, wink) e-mails full of false (wink, wink) information to the gullible Russkies. Now, let zir get on with zir crusade against those drooling, mouth breathers that infest the between states.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-07-15 11:10||   2018-07-15 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #2 Plots within Plots ...More like plausible deniability when faced with demands for official records search of communications.

Reluctance or refusal in reference to 'demans for official records search of coms. Alright, I'll buy that, but 'refusal' for what reasons ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 11:35||   2018-07-15 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 but 'refusal' for what reasons?

Hubris
Didn't want to expose sensitive channels and assets?
Didn't know how to find them?
Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-15 14:46||   2018-07-15 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 My dad's cousin had this happen under Carter. (I assume his whole life is redacted. He told me his wildest stories when he was dying of cancer)
Under Carter his GS rating was too high to fire so they made him the acting DEA drug czar. Something he wanted nothing to do with
First day on the job it took two hours of security to get to his office. 15 mins later the mob walked in and demanded he leave their shipments alone or his family would be killed.
He was like fine... I am a cold warrior not a drug warrior I will leave you alone.
6 months later he was back in State.
Posted by 3dc 2018-07-15 17:30||   2018-07-15 17:30|| Front Page Top

09:43 Mullah Richard
09:27 Warthog
09:11 Mercutio
09:07 AlmostAnonymous5839
08:52 Matt
08:24 Matt
08:20 SteveS
07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com