[Free Beacon] The U.S. intelligence community declined to conduct a required assessment of the damage to national security caused by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton sending and receiving secrets on a private email server.
"ODNI is not leading an [intelligence community]-wide damage assessment and is not aware of any individual IC element conducting such formal assessments," Joel D. Melstad, a spokesman for the of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said.
The most sensitive classified information leaked and possibly obtained by foreign intelligence services included ultra-secret information on U.S. drone strikes, according to American intelligence officials.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, agreed with security officials who argued against the need to carry out the damage assessment. Intelligence officials argued in internal discussions that since many details of the drone missile program targeting terrorists were disclosed in earlier leaks unrelated to Clinton’s use of a personal email server, gauging the damage done by her conduct would be difficult, and possibly unnecessary.
Melstad, the DNI spokesman, declined further comment when asked the reasons behind Clapper’s decision not to launch the damage assessment.
Other officials said Clapper’s decision appeared based on political considerations and was an effort to avoid embroiling American intelligence agencies in charges they were attempting to influence the outcome of Clinton’s bid for the White House.
#2
Well, of course! It's a mathematical impossibility! Look -
Total damage = damage from others + damage from Hilly.
See? More complicated than Fermat's Last Theorem! Trickier than Rubik's cube!
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/14/2016 12:43 Comments ||
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#3
That's ridiculously naive, Bobby.
ODNI is in a tough position. Setting aside accusations of political impact, revealing such an assessment tells everyone else loads about means and methods. By assessing they reveal just where they have penetrated systems of hostile groups - and where they haven't.
#4
Keep in mind that after Snowden, it's virtually impossible to tell what effects the Clinton emails had vs the effect of his treason, both to Russia and to China.
The only way you could tell for certain is when a very specific use of very contemporary information was made in an unambiguous way. Putin uses cutout groups of every kind, including Wikileaks but also various underground info flows.
#5
And as former NSA counterintel guy John Schindler notes, it's quite likely NSA has an active Russian mole.
That agency is heavily divided with firewalls all over the place between people/programs. To do the assessment would require breaching those firewalls big time. Not something you want to do in any case but especially not if you suspect you've been compromised somewhere inside.
#6
Doesn't matter- Hillary must withdraw first. I do remember the good ol days of the USSR where, high ranking officials would routinely come down with something out of the blue and give up the ghost in a matter of weeks. Just sayin'..
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
09/14/2016 13:08 Comments ||
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#7
Are we really that close to being a banana republic???
#11
The advantage Michelle has is she has 0 on her resume. Hillary has failures as Secretary of State and her vote for the war in Iraq that the Bernies hate her for.
If they were smart they'd do a Sanders/Michelle Obama ticket (with Sanders on top). They'd get the loony left and the African Americans and probably hold them together long enough to win.
It would be interesting to watch the #NeverTrump crowd in such a scenario.
#14
Let's keep it in the family. What about Chelsea?
Seriously folks, Hillary may be so many things, but she certainly isn't going away.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/14/2016 19:41 Comments ||
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#15
I don't usually pay attention to twitter, but have been following #hillarysthealth (you don't need to join). Comments overwhelmingly negative and Trump has joined in.
IMO she will be dumped prior to the election, using her health as the excuse.
#16
Hey! She "overheated", has "pneumonia", "Walking pneumonia, but not infectious", "flu", "healthy". Sounds pretty unhealthy if you took all teh lies and pronouncements at face value....
or perhaps she's a sick bitch and they're lying. I'm going with that
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/14/2016 20:18 Comments ||
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#17
"Seriously folks, Hillary may be so many things, but she certainly isn't going away."
h/t Instapundit
A Democratic megadonor told Colin Powell that Hillary Clinton "HATES" President Obama for beating her for the 2008 nomination, and she dismissively referred to him as "that man," according to emails hacked from the general’s account.
Corporate financier Jeffrey Leeds depicted Clinton as a sore loser set on revenge in the emails, which were obtained by The Intercept, and claimed Clinton is terrified she might lose again.
[The American Mirror] Barack Obama was out stumping for the ailing Hillary Clinton today, but that didn't stop him from talking about himself. A lot.
The president rallied with Clinton supporters in Philadelphia and when doing so, managed to mention himself 137 times. At one point, after running down a list of what he considered accomplishments of his presidency, someone in the audience shouted out about lower gas prices.
"Thank you for reminding me," he replied. "Thanks, Obama," he said to himself.
He later took the opportunity to "vent" about the way the media is covering the campaign.
He ended, "The time has come for me to pass the baton on but I know Hillary is going to take it and she’s going to run that race and she will finish that race and that’s why I’m with her.
"That’s why I’m fired up. That’s why I’m ready to go. And I need you to join me," he continued. "I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me. I need you to knock on doors. I need you to make phone calls."
After all the talk about himself, it was hard to determine whether he really wants Hillary to win, or if he would see her victory as a cornerstone in his own legacy.
#2
Me, myself, and I,
I am such a grand and swell guy,
I can float a grand lie, magnify, falsify, be your gadfly and even be a Muslim or rabbi with few old school ties,
Why look for a Hillary replacement?
I am the one who defines amazement,
All I require is that you worship and deify, me, myself, and I.
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