[The Post] When the story first broke about an unsecured email server being used by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton almost a year ago, we outlined the probable areas of damage in our article entitled Former Intelligence Officer: The Utter Stupidity of Hillary's Actions. At that point we made the specific point that operatives from Al Quaida were certainly reading the emails from her, in fact it is almost axiomatic.
On September 11, 2012 Ambassabor Chris Stevens and others were killed in a terrorist attack on the Consulate in Benghazi. We speculated if Mrs. Clinton had talked about details of the movements of the people on the ground in Benghazi in her unsecure email system, the terrorists would have used this for targeting and may have enabled the terrorist to bring about their attack.
While we do not yet have access to all of her emails, Breitbart has published some excerpts from emails regarding the movements of Christopher Stevens.
This was devastating. Let me explain:
Put yourself in the shoes of a terrorist who is planning an attack. The usual things, weapons, logistics, etc. are already taken care of, since you are operating on home turf. To complete the plan you need information about where the target will be, when and for how long he will be there, and what are his security arrangements. Thanks to Hillary's emails, you now have access. Make your plan, execute your plan, your targets are dead, all your people are alive and free. Yes, the right intelligence is that valuable.
If Consulate security is run competently, terrorist attacks and/or ambushes are very difficult, because the target (in this case Ambassador Stevens) moves quickly, vulnerabilities are hardened and security assets have the advantage of knowing their methods and where they are going, and the terrorists do shris.
The emails provided advanced information on where the Ambassador would be and his plans and intentions. Not only does this provide specific targeting information in the short term, but it also enables the terrorists to watch security arrangements being made before the Ambassador arrives, to study the security preparations and to devise attacks to circumvent them.
Equally important, it allows terrorist surveillance to be more secure. It is a huge advantage for terrorist team to dig in and establish static surveillance before security is in place. Static surveillance (i.e. an observation post so well camouflaged it can't be detected) ahead of time means security assets arriving on the scene and looking for movement or suspicious activity will not see it.
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To complete the plan you need information about where the target will be, when and for how long he will be there, and what are his security arrangements.
'Security arrangements'....to include timely notification of inbound or cancelled in-extremis rescue force.
Any confirmation from NSA or the Cyber Warfare Command? No. Any confirmation anticipated in the future? No, why do you ask ?
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Clinton Foundation receives Russian cash.
Uranium goes to Russia.
Uranium goes to Iran.
Russian/Iran do not like arms going to Team Not-Assad.
Hit takes place during unexpected protest of an unknown video.
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Clinton Foundation receives Russian cash.
Uranium goes to Russia.
Uranium goes to Iran.
Russian/Iran do not like arms going to Team Not-Assad. Hit takes place during unexpected protest of an unknown video.
Stopping there before qualifying for an Al hat.
Wear the Al hat with pride. I suspect you've pieced together the correct events string.
"National Security: The Washington Post, of all places, found that not only did Hillary Clinton send and receive classified material on her unsecured email server as Secretary of State, she wrote dozens of classified emails herself."
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Hillary in the case of Whitewater, Vince Foster's curiously hampered death investigation, travelgate abuses, the vile Clinton Global Foundation masquerade as a charity while functioning as a political patronage and shakedown for access program, and now the entire email fiasco, coupled with the Obama abandonment of investigations of Bergdahl, the ATF, IRS, ICE, and the wholesale failure to enforce a myriad of laws pertain to immigration, the cooked books on the economy, unemployment, voter registration fraud, have made it clear: the powerful are exempt from the rules that they use to govern us, and ignore or circumvent those that are not politically advantageous. The pap that is offer by Goebbles surrogates like Josh Ernest (the name always makes me laugh)is meant to pacify the shallow thinkers on the left and the timid on the right. P2K is right, the Republic is gone, and the Imperium is beginning. The importation of 60 million immigrants, most with their hands out, confirms it and when they are registered to vote, the descent into civil unrest awaits. I thought we were exempt from the forces of entropy, but I was wrong.
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The scary question is:
If Team Assad put a hit on Benghazi, would they have had to hack the server?
Posted by swksvolFF
"Had to hack the server"? No, but nothing wrong with a little nod from Russian or Chinese hackers for insurance.
I'll never believe Clinton was not a HVT (High Value Target) cyber target.
If armchair blog sleuths reading open source traffic can piece together a plausible scenario [I say again plausible] regarding Benghazi, the stand-down, high level email hacking, etc, think what HPSCI and SSCI staffers, the intelligence community, and other insiders must know. My guess is a number of someone's are hiding the ugly details, but that's just a guess.
I wonder how retired Congressman and former HPSCI Chairman Mike Rogers is getting on these days. Not much interest in Trey Gowdy's pesky Benghazi inquiries I would assume. But then again, he never did have much time for the Benghazi business as I recall.
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One thing I really don't understand: Why does nobody ask Hillary that simple question: WHY did you do it? Why did you conduct government business - classified or not - on a private server? What was the purpose?
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According to KimDotCom, Julian Assange (wikileaks) has the goods on Clinton.
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EC, someone did ask her that question, though not quite in that form. Her answer was that she was too technically challenged to use two different devices.
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The Post’s latest revelations, however, are particularly damning. It found that three-quarters of the classified emails she sent were written by Clinton herself.
Is Obama going to through her under the bus? Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department must impanel a grand jury before criminal charges can be brought according to the following article: Grand jury must be impaneled by the DOJ.
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@Rambler, yes I heard that, too, but didn't think that this came even close to an explanation, let alone an excuse.
Of course someone should ask State why they allowed it.
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IMO the greater issue remains the Bammer's role in Benghazi as well as the "Fast-N-Furious" Schemes, OR LACK OF IT, + WHY!?
Again, Hillary is NOT the Prez nor CIC nor SecDef, hence could not had ordered any final Mil or Mil-led relief for Benghazi even iff she wanted to. As SecState, USDOD Local + Regional Commanders would NOT had listened to any orders she gave no matter the merits.
From a loony, moonbat writer so unhinged even the leftist Boston Globe punished him for a column that was too extreme... by Charles P. Pierce
FLINT, MICHIGAN--This is something that He, Trump said on Saturday night. I mention it because I think it marks a severe downturn in He, Trump's campaign. He prospered as a vulgar talking yam. Then, he became the most boring person on earth--the endless bore in the clubhouse bar who talks you through his entire round. Sounds like the voice of experience
"I hit a ball 280 yards. Stand up! Do I hit good? Do I hit it long? Is Trump strong? I simply held up the hands. They're fairly large, actually."
First of all, I don't believe He, Trump can hit it 280 without a howitzer in his bag, unless of course he's playing with the late Kim Jong-Il at Prevarication Hills in Pyongyang. (That distance, by the way, would place him no worse than seventh place in the PGA's driving distance standings this year.) But listening to him brag about it on the podium last night reminded me of nothing more that Dan Jenkins's classic rejoinder to some classic example of the type: "Hoss, if I have to go all 18 with you, I'm going to need caddy fees."
In truth, he might just have been a little unnerved. Suddenly, it is obvious that the only real competition he has is Tailgunner Ted Cruz, and that puts He, Trump, a charlatan who only recently became a kind of monster, in a head-to-head brawl with someone who has been raised since birth to be one. Trump is an opportunist who saw a chance and half-ran, half-stumbled toward it. Cruz is someone who's had his eyes on the prize since before Princeton and Harvard Law loosed him upon the world. Trump is a man of grandiose, hopelessly vague promises. Cruz is dead-serious about hauling the country into retrograde theocracy and Gilded Age economics. Trump places his faith in Two Corinthians, which I believe is a pizza and sandwich joint on Staten Island. Cruz considers himself to be both a vehicle for political extremism and the instrument of the living God. You decide which frightens you more. "Tailgunner Ted", the moniker attached to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Very clever. What frightens me the most most about the writer is how TFG mischaracterizes what Cruz is about.
Here is something about the hotel in which I am staying in this poisoned city. When you make your reservation online, the property makes a point to tell you that the water for the facility comes from the Genesee County water system, so feel free to take a shower without worrying that your nose will fall off, or that, somewhere between the shampoo and the conditioner, your IQ will drop 50 points. Those concerns are for the people who live here, in the Other parts of the city. What has happened here is a perfect bell-jar specimen of the principles of conservative Republican governance that Ted Cruz seeks to bring to the entire nation. My IQ drops 50 points just reading Charles P. Pierce's prose. It should be noted that this "poisoned city" has been run by the Democrats/left for nearly two generations.
Here in Michigan, the attention paid to the misfeasance and malfeasance of the administration of Governor Rick Snyder is causing even the elite political media to notice that Snyder is hardly an outlier among his fellow Republican governors. They've noticed that the lab rat is dying in Kansas, where Ted Cruz won overwhelmingly among Republican voters on Saturday. They've noticed the catastrophe left behind in Louisiana by former presidential candidate "Bobby" Jindal. They've noticed how far along are the efforts of former presidential candidate Scott Walker to turn Wisconsin into a banana republic. And, if you roll all of these disasters up in a big ball--Sam Brownback's batshit economics in Kansas, Jindal's legacy of corporate sycophancy in Louisiana, Snyder's disinclination to respond to an emergency that does not affect his donor class, and Walker's greed for political power--you get the platform of presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who would like you to know that he welcomes all of their support.
All you need for confirmation of this is to look at what happened in Washington at the end of this week. A proposal for federal aid to the embattled citizens of Flint came before the Senate. This was a bipartisan effort, with Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan being joined in the effort by, of all people, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. Alas, they did not reckon with Mike Lee, the konztitooshunal skolar from the state of Utah. Lee refused unanimous consent on the measure, effectively jamming it up.
"Michigan has an enormous budget surplus this year and a large rainy-day fund," Lee said. "Relief and repair efforts are already in the works. The people and policymakers of Michigan right now have all the government resources they need to fix the problem. ... The only thing Congress is contributing to the Flint recovery is political grandstanding." Lee's sentiments sound reasonable and fiscally responsible to me...
In addition to demonstrating that Lee is very close to being a completely unfeeling bastard, this statement is a clear and unequivocal declaration of faith in the kind of devolution of federal responsibilities to the states in which both Cruz and Lee believe--an example of pure and undistilled Tentherism. This is the Articles of Confederation in action. Both men believe that the proper role of the federal government is to defer to the authority of people like Snyder, Jindal, Brownback, and Walker, and the pet legislatures that enabled them. (And that's not even to mention that, since the Flint story broke, Snyder has had the local government jumping through hoops.) Ted Cruz imbibed this faith early in life and he has never wavered in his fealty to it. It is important at this point to mention that Mike Lee is perhaps the only friend Ted Cruz has made since being elected to the Senate. However, Lee backed Cruz's futile government shutdown and saw his polling back home fall into a ravine. This probably accounts for why Lee hasn't yet formally endorsed his running buddy. As I recall, Cruz didn't shut down the government. Obama did. And secondly, the government went chugging right along on printed money, neither stopping nor taking the smallest of breathers.
On Sunday night, the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates will debate in this broken and wounded place. They will do so in the shadow of a Republican campaign that has come down to a choice between a bizarre political freak show with overtones of Mussolini and a cool, calculated attempt to turn American government back into the kind of fearsome Darwinian experiment in laissez-faire neglect that has failed time and again through history. That is what has come out of Saturday's results, and there is nothing funny about it. With close to $19 trillion in debt and still growing, little choice remains as to the cure. Pierce thinks money, and those working to have it taxed by these profligate governments are simply something to harvest, like picking berries from a bush.
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This is proof that people afflicted with rabies can still be published in spite of the damage to their brains. Esquire, thank you for hiring the handicapped.
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To me the really scary thing are the millennial manscaped "everybody gets a trophy fools" that read and believe this drivel. The wife once ordered a free subscription of Esquire for me as part of a rewards program. I had to actually write the publisher to stop delivery--the pages aren't big enough for my birdcage.
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Yes, BP. A lot of the venom that the Left spews is projection. How can you engage in virtue signalling if the other guys isn't as distasteful or repugnant as yourself?
#7
Can't get through it all. This writer has a severe case of the jitters.
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...and a cool, calculated attempt to turn American government back into the kind of fearsome Darwinian experiment in laissez-faire neglect that has failed time and again through history.
[Free Beacon] A Conservative Member of Parliament lambasted John Kerry, who recently argued that the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union, as "no friend of Britain" and "a sympathizer with terrorists" last week on the floor of the House of Commons.
"The person representing the United States government who has called for us to stay is John Kerry, a former senator, who in the 1980s showed himself to be no friend of the United Kingdom but a sympathiser with the IRA, when he held up a treaty allowing for the deportation of IRA activists from the United States to the United Kingdom, saying that the justice system in Northern Ireland didn’t work effectively," said the Right Hon. Jacob Rees-Mogg, who represents North East Somerset in Parliament.
Rees-Mogg, the son of the late Lord Rees-Mogg, a long-time editor of The Times known for his skeptical attitude towards the European Union, is no stranger to candor. Last week he confessed his ignorance of twerking and Kanye West to an interviewer: "I don’t even know if that is a man or a woman," he said of the rapper. He also claimed not to understand the acronym "WTF."
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Last week he confessed his ignorance of twerking and Kanye West to an interviewer: "I don’t even know if that is a man or a woman," he said of the rapper. He also claimed not to understand the acronym "WTF."
[The Jewish Press] Nearly 1000 Jews were surprised to find themselves listening to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls Monday night at the top Jewish event of the season in France.
Valls replaced President Francois Hollande as keynote speaker at the 31st annual political dinner of the CRIF, the Council of Jewish Institutions of France. The switch came after Hollande realized he could not leave Brussels during the European Union-Turkey summit on the migration crisis.
Perhaps it was for the best. Valls was blunt in his remarks about the rising anti-Semitism in France, and the government’s outrage over the attacks.
"Yes, the Jews of France are too often afraid. To wear a kippah, to go to the synagogue, to go shopping in the kosher shops, send their children to public school. We don’t accept this reality,’’ Valls said.
They're free not to accept reality -- that's the premise of socialism, after all. Accepted or not, reality goes forward...
Hillary Clinton is the only Secretary of State to delete 31,830 emails, from her own private server and without government oversight. Thus, we haven't seen all her emails yet. In fact, there are over 30,000 emails that the FBI or Bryan Pagliano might have been able to access, but none of us will see these emails. Tim Black offers a brilliant analysis of the Pagliano breakthrough, from an IT perspective, in this segment of Tim Black TV.
So, when you read those wonderfully titled articles about what we've learned from 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails, remember that over 30,000 were deleted; without government or third-party oversight.
Thankfully, Democrats have one person named Bernie Sanders who can type, and save an email, using government networks and without an FBI investigation.
As the only Secretary of State never to use an @state.gov email address, Hillary Clinton is also the only Secretary of State to use a private server exclusively. As Yahoo states, "Clinton acknowledged in March that she exclusively used a private email account and private server from 2009 to 2013 while secretary of state, opting against a government account despite official recommendations." Strangely, this article is too long even for me to post the whole thing. Rest at link.
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The comment section is hillarious. The few Clinton supporters that actually answered the author's fundemental question as to why she needed a private server said they believed privacy was the motivation - not the official explanation - convenience. One can only speculate that those commenters don't quite understand the whole obstruction of justice thing.
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Hillary Clinton is the only Secretary of State to delete 31,830 emails, from her own private server and without government oversight.
Oversight is only for the little people as Leona Hemsley might say. Even Leona Hemsley went to prison but for tax evasion. Maybe the government should look into Hillary's tax forms as well.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton is the only Secretary of State to delete 31,830 emails, from her own private server and without government oversight. Thus, we haven't seen all her emails yet. In fact, there are over 30,000 emails that the FBI or Bryan Pagliano might have been able to access, but none of us will see these emails. Tim Black offers a brilliant analysis of the Pagliano breakthrough, from an IT perspective, in this segment of Tim Black TV. 
