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| Will Hillary Clinton's Emails Burn the White House ? |
| 2015-09-04 |
| [Daily Beast] Counterintelligence specialists suspect that the former secretary of state wasn't the only member of the Obama administration emailing secrets around. Noooooooo! Please say it isn't so. Hillary Clinton's email problems are already causing headaches for her presidential campaign. But within American counterintelligence circles, there's a mounting sense that the former secretary of state may not be the only Obama administration official in trouble. This is a scandal that has the potential to spread to the White House, as well. The Federal Bureau of Investigation can be expected to be tight-lipped, especially because this highly sensitive case is being handled by counterintelligence experts from Bureau headquarters a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, not by the FBI's Washington Field Office. That will ensure this investigation gets the needed "big picture" view, since even senior FBI agents at any given field office may only have a partial look at complex counterintelligence cases. And this most certainly is a counterintelligence matter. There's a widely held belief among American counterspies that foreign intelligence agencies had to be reading the emails on Hillary's private server, particularly since it was wholly unencrypted for months. "I'd fire my staff if they weren't getting all this," explained one veteran Department of Defense counterintelligence official, adding: "I'd hate to be the guy in Moscow or Beijing right now who had to explain why they didn't have all of Hillary's email." Given the widespread hacking that has plagued the State Department, the Pentagon, and even the White House during Obama's presidency, senior counterintelligence officials are assuming the worst about what the Russians and Chinese know. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 If we are lucky, both will go down in flames. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-04 19:07 |
| #10 Hillibeast's next defense? It was all a disinformation campaign to mislead our |
| Posted by: Lonzo Ebbish3359 2015-09-04 16:24 |
| #9 If the counterintellegence people don't know the contents of her emails by now they aren't very good at their jobs. Our allies seem to know. Our enemies seem to know. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-09-04 14:51 |
| #8 Assange will be Hillary's worst nightmare. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-05-14/kim-dotcom-assange-will-be-hillary-s-worst-nightmare |
| Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad 2015-09-04 13:11 |
| #7 >senior counterintelligence officials are assuming the worst about what the Russians and Chinese know. If MI6 in the U.K. weren't peeking they should be sacked too! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-09-04 13:07 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-09-04 13:06 |
| #5 JQC if only I could share your optimistic outlook (what O intends to leave) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-04 13:04 |
| #4 One can only hope for what is a patriot in the ranks of the FBI if Champ tries to muzzle the truth about what this uncovers. How deep the I fear the rot goes scares me. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-09-04 12:04 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: 2015-09-04 10:06 |
| #2 Obama is moving the chess (or checkers) pieces around. I'll bet he senses the danger to himself from the Hillary investigation. He will try to control the investigation very closely but without his fingerprints on it. I look for Slow Joe to be put forth as the Donk candidate in 2016. That provides some safety down the road in case he has to pull and Nixon and seek a pardon from Biden. Purely speculation but who knows. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-04 09:55 |
| #1 Given the widespread hacking that has plagued the State Department, the Pentagon, and even the White House during Obama's presidency, senior counterintelligence officials are assuming the worst about what the Russians and Chinese know. "Assuming the worst" or examining worst case scenarios is SOP in this line of work. Attempts at remediation demand this approach. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-09-04 08:49 |