BLUF: [Patriot News] Another witness told agents he and another Clinton aide with IT training built the server system "at the recommendation of Huma Abedin," who first suggested an off-the-grid email server as early as the "fall of 2008." And, the FBI noted "the only person at the Department of State to receive an email account on "clintonemail.com" was HumaAbedin!
Thus Huma Abedin, whose email account as "huma@clintonemail.com," was the only State Department aide whose emails were hosted by the private Clinton server she claimed she didn’t know existed until she heard about it in the news and claimed she "did not recall" the email exchanges. Making false statements to a federal agent is a felony. A lot of Clinton has rubbed off on Huma.
Several State Department people told the FBI they felt emailing Huma Abedin was "the equivalent of e-mailing Clinton." Abedin, routinely forwarded State government emails, including ones containing classified information, from her "state.gov" account to either her "clintonemail.com" or her Yahoo.com account "so that she could print them" at her home! Which brings us to, "Then what?" given her Muslim faith and family’s Saudi background. Another Clinton aide told the FBI, "Abedin may have kept emails that Clinton did not," which is also consistent with someone in espionage as something unimportant to Hillary may have had significance to Huma’s clients.
By forwarding classified emails to her personal email account, Abedin violated a Classified Information Non-Disclosure Agreement she signed at the State Department on Jan. 30, 2009, in which she agreed to keep all classified material under the control of the US government.
Even so, the FBI did not search Abedin’s laptop or Yahoo email account in their year-long "investigation" into the mishandling of classified information and espionage. Nor did the bureau call Abedin for additional questioning, despite documentary evidence, as well as statements from other witnesses, that clearly contradicted her own statements. Emphasis added.
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Everything cool until NY FBI Field office investigating Carlos Danger stumbles upon motherload of emails. Comey then forced to act.
The tell-tale before and after. If the documents in question were printed, classification markings removed, then scanned and re-transmitted, very bad juju.
If the FBI or US Intelligence had/has knowledge of Huma foreign intelligence contacts, the "Then What?" question may have been answered.
Yes, a great deal of conjecture, but something is afoot. It's not for nothing Comey did a complete 180. Added to that is the current PNG (personal non grata) status of HUMA on the Clinton team.
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Seems to me if classified markings were removed from an image that the area would be replaced by a square of uniform RGB white, and that may be detectable, especially on a scanned document.
[Wash Times] Donald Trump is learning at long last that when your opponent is destroying himself -- or herself -- you should get out of his way. The opponent deserves ample room to do the deed. The Donald is taking the high road past Hillary Clinton’s hell week.
He first praised James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, for his "courage" in reopening his investigation of Hillary’s vast email enterprise, and has so far devoted himself, without unnecessary bluster and bombast, to reminding everyone to listen and read the latest developments. No hyperbole needed. "Just the facts, ma’am," is enough to keep the bombshell on everyone’s mind.
Hillary and the Democrats have worked hard to keep alive the notion that her email enterprise is complicated but not really worthy of anyone’s attention. The computer era irritates everyone, and only wonks and nerds understand modern miscommunications. Bernard Sanders imagined he was speaking for everyone when he declared, in debate with Hillary, that "I’m tired of hearing about Hillary’s damned emails." If Bernie had listened a little closer and paid only a little attention to the issue, and acted accordingly, he would be the Democratic nominee today (unless Joe Biden beat him to it). Hillary would be in the counting house, her favorite place, nuzzling and cuddling the family gold.
Events since have even changed everything, even pulled some of the sleepyhead journalists who confuse being fatuous with being famous out of Hillary’s tank. Mr. Comey’s resurrection of his botched investigation has persuaded some of the famous and fatuous that maybe there’s a story here, after all. Pulitzers beckon.
For all the Donald’s rough vulgarity and his disrespect of women in an era defined by feminist vulgarity and coarse gaucherie, it’s nevertheless Hillary Clinton as the liar that no one trusts and who has become the abiding issue in the final hours of a bizarre campaign. Hillary is still the way to bet, but those who insist on betting on elections should get long odds.
If she wins she will of course be a historic first, the first women to be elected president of the United States, but she’ll be more than that -- the first president elected under credible threat of impeachment and conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors. The American public is sometimes generous and tolerant to a fault, but enough may soon be enough even for a Congress of the weak and compliant. Con't.
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Donald Trump is learning at long last that when your opponent is destroying himself -- or herself -- you should get out of his way. The opponent deserves ample room to do the deed.
Nah. He was just playing rope-a-dope with the entire Clinton gang. ;-)
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Hillary and the Democrats have worked hard to keep alive the notion that her real estate dealscommodities trading email enterprise is complicated but not really worthy of anyone’s attention.
h/t Instapundit
FBI Director James Comey’s decision to resume the Bureau’s never-quite-closed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s criminal mishandling of classified information hasn’t sent her to prison--yet--but it has crippled her campaign.
Hillary’s lashing and thrashing counter-attacks on Comey and the FBI confirm the deep damage. Her responses are convulsions, not actions. In the debates Hillary tried to sell herself as cool and collected. Comey’s one-eighty shattered her mask of composure. Her panic is the tortured panic of a guilty soul.
...Team Hillary certainly plotted the 2016 election, and plotted it down to commas and periods. For example, Hillary made the final ruling on having a troll Donald Duck haunt Trump rallies.
...According to Clinton operative Nerra Tanden, (as quoted in a hacked Wikileaks email) Hillary set up her illegal server system because she thought she could evade Freedom of Information Act laws and manage to get away with it.
...In a Greek tragedy trying to "get away" with an overt ethical violation is an act of hubris.
Watch out pitiful human. Commit hubris and you insult the gods. Once you insult the gods, to hell with a logical plot. When you insult the gods you’ve entered quantum territory where the cat’s simultaneously dead and alive and the gods themselves may destroy you. Now anything can happen, from the subtle to the surreal. Why, the committer of hubris might do something depraved like unknowingly marry his mother (ask Oedipus) or, like, she might have her national security crimes exposed by a sexting pervert after she thought her political-media machine and The Clinton Foundation had managed to control or corrupt every potential threat to your presidential coronation--even the FBI.
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