Excerpt: [Daily Caller] The new revelation that Hillary Clinton's private server was made "blank" in June 2013 -- but nonetheless stored at a data center in New Jersey -- raises a slew of new questions about the former secretary of state's handling of her emails.
The attorney for Platte River Networks, the Denver-based cybersecurity company Clinton hired shortly after leaving office to handle the server, says that she does not know why the hardware would have been stored in a New Jersey data center if it was "blank." Platte River Networks 'lawyering up' are they? Hopefully the FBI will ask PRN for a copy of the Statement of Work, contract deliverables, identity of the Contracting Officer, etc. And yes, who picked up the tab [DoS, Clinton Foundation, OGA]. Small company with only 36 employees, they'll have that info available in no time.
"The server that was turned over to the FBI voluntarily yesterday to our knowledge has no information on it," the attorney, Barbara Wells, told The Daily Caller in a brief phone interview. Platt River Networks has a data center in NJ? Who knew? Open to the public? Visits and tours ?
On Wednesday, after Platte River Networks gave the server to the FBI, Wells told The Washington Post that the information from it "had been migrated over to a different server for purposes of transition" in June 2013. Appears to be a bit of a problem with the chronology of events.
From the PRN website under 'New IT Threat.' It just gets better and better. You simply couldn't make this stuff up:
1. Offsite Backups are key – and historical ones in case the current one is compromised. We recommend true business continuity so if the attack occurs you can be back up quick.
#3
She already lives in a bubble;
Let's all help her stay out of trouble --
Have straightjackets fitted
And Clinton committed
To dwell in the White House's double!
[Wash Examiner] It turns out that Hillary Clinton's email scandal could in fact get worse.
It was known already that Clinton had sent at least seven emails through her unsecured private system containing information that is classified or was at the time. (There could be many more still undiscovered.) But on Tuesday night, Senate investigators revealed that two of these contained information that is "Top Secret." The FBI is finally taking control of her server, and her candidacy is on the precipice.
Clinton, who previously maintained that she had sent no classified information at all by email, sent top-secret information that is classified as "Sensitive Compartmented" and "Talent Keyhole," meaning it had to do with top-secret satellite imagery. When government officials with the proper classification want to process, look at or even discuss materials like the ones Clinton sent through her insecure home-based email system, they must do so within special secure government facilities where phones and other possible recording devices are prohibited.
There is no way to spin this one: Clinton broke the law. Her campaign now absurdly tells everyone that the FBI is investigating her conduct, not her -- a distinction without a difference.
Her campaign released a panicky memo invoking nearly every possible excuse and pointing fingers in every direction except her own. It mentioned, for example, the completely irrelevant fact that Jeb Bush, as governor of Florida, had his own private email server.
More importantly, the memo argues that some of the information Clinton sent by email had not been marked "classified" at the time she sent it. This just won't wash. Any sensitive information obtained by the intelligence community is supposed to be treated as classified, whether or not it has been formally labeled as such, until determined otherwise. Clinton knew this.
The fact that Clinton exposed classified material at all indicates incompetence and carelessness, as we have previously noted. But the fact that some of this information has since been given such a highly secret classification suggests she really, really should have known better.
Surely, Clinton never wanted to become a national security threat, let alone a subject of an FBI criminal investigation. But she made the choice when she decided she was above the rules that apply to all other employees at the State Department.
Clinton chose to hide her emails from the department over which she presided, and from the public, for years after she wrote them. In the months since this fact was revealed, she and her campaign have told repeated falsehoods in an effort to defend that original bad decision. To cut through the lies is to find a systematic, flagrant violation of State Department rules and federal records laws and regulations, evincing dishonesty and a lack of transparency. But the leak of top secret information is worse than any of that.
Consider, on the one hand, the painstaking measures that Clinton took to keep her correspondence away from the prying eyes of her employers -- the public. Compare that to the reckless manner in which she treated the nation's secrets, with which she was entrusted. That should make her priorities quite clear.
#3
I'm sure at some point they'll connect this email server crime to the big Chinese and Russian hacks. Years worth of confidential stuff probably has more than enough clues for the clever and patient looking for ways to exploit security.
#1
I'm sorry this isn't some white cop or citizen (often defending himself) shooting. Move along, nothing to see here (24 hours a day for a week or two) from your Permanent Party Propaganda Machine aka MSM.
[PJ Media] Hillary Clinton's "unique email arrangement" -- as Trey Gowdy frequently describes it -- can no longer be described as political problem. When the FBI seized her email server, she lost control of the situation and now her problem has moved into the legal realm. It is no longer far-fetched to speculate that she could be charged with a crime. Of course it's not the Victoria & Alfred, but have a look at the view.
The latest revelations about the top-secret information found in Clinton's server can only reinforce such speculation.
Fox News is reporting that someone in her "inner circle" may have illegally stripped the classification markings. Or a group of "someones" laboring around the clock under the direction of the Beest.
"Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to supporters Wednesday.
But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton's emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.
"If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings," the official said. The originator I might add, is the only agency authorized to declassify such documents.
The official told Fox News that "somewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC's server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC's personal email."
"If that was part of a plan or a plot," Fox News's Judge Napolitano told Megyn Kelly last night, "that is a criminal conspiracy." I'm a busy person, I don't have time to visit a SCIF to examine Special Intelligence products. Here, scrub the document classification markings and see that I get this stuff via my Yahoo account. Don't worry about the embedded individual product classifications, no one will notice those.
#1
it was some tea party spy in the State dept who snuck into the Office of the Secretary at night and removed the markings or possibly some racist or sexist KKK or evangelical or something
yeah, that's the ticket
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#2
Hillary has been in "cover-up" mode her entire life. It's about time it has started catching up with her.
#5
Something in the story does not add up. To "strip" the TS/SI/TK/NOFORN markings from a document, you fist have to have received the document. Which one of Clinton's aides had the clearance necessary to even RECEIVE the material in the first place?
[AnNahar] Dubai police said Wednesday that a report of an Asian woman drowning after her father blocked lifeguards from rescuing her, which was widely discussed on social media, dated from nearly two decades ago.
The report, first published by the Dubai-based Emirates 24/7 news website and picked up by several media including Agence La Belle France Presse, quoted a police official as saying the father had blocked lifeguards from saving his daughter because it would "dishonor" her to be touched by strange men.
Responding to a question from AFP on Twitter, Dubai police said the incident was not new.
"This is an old incident that dates back to 1996," police said, without providing any further details about the case.
Emirates 24/7 published the story this week without providing the date of the incident. It generated widespread interest on social networks including accusations media were disseminating an old story.
The website later updated the story clarifying that the source of the information on the incident, the deputy director of Dubai police search and rescue department Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah, was "recounting some of the worst incidents he had encountered in his tenure".
[Ynet] The lawyer for convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning ...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Currently doing 35 years in Leavenworth and writing editorials for the New York Times.... says his her client faces charges for alleged prison infractions that carry a possible maximum sentence of indefinite solitary confinement.
Defense attorney Nancy Hollander said Wednesday an Aug. 18 hearing is set at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the transgender Army private is serving a 35-year sentence. The military had no immediate comment. The prison charges include possession of prohibited property, including the Vanity Fair issue with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover. He She also faces a charge of medicine misuse over an expired tube of toothpaste, and charges alleging disrespect and disorderly conduct. The former intelligence analyst was convicted in 2013 of espionage and other offenses for sending more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks while working in Iraq.
It sounds like Mr. Manning is not much liked by his guards.
She'll be pardoned soon and working in a ladies apparel shop at The Villages.
#2
For the skeptical, it is true, toothpaste DOES have an expiration date stamped right on the tube seam.
Also, the mechanically inept, Crest provides handy operating instructions: " for best results, squeeze tube from the bottom and flatten as you go up."
All this from a country that put men on the moon and brought them back; now we cannot even run a phuquing tube of (not expired) toothpaste.....
we are doomed.
#3
I generally squeeze it in the center and kind of mash it up towards the top as I need to. And I don't use much, so it's probably expired. Should I flee the gestappo before they find out? Also . . . Whoops, I'll have to finish later because I hear someone knocking at the door.
#4
with all the personalities and voices, he/she is not alone
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NB Bottled water has an expiration date. Technically, it's not for the water, but a CYA for the bottle manufacturer for 'leakage' of its chemical construction.
#1
Good one. Was finishing off some fine Glenlivet, now I'm just wiping it off my monitor. Could the Rangerettes be getting a second taste of "drone phase" in the near future. Just sign those LOM's ladies and it will all be over. Sua Sponte!!!
#2
And that justifies the killing of millions of babies who were not the product of rape but of their mothers not wanting to be bothered with contraceptives or condoms?
#4
No, g(r)omgoru. I want to destroy the "Pro Choice" mantra. A woman who doesn't want children has many means to not have them so abortion is not about "choice" it is about not wanting to bother. I remember a debate on TV, a woman had aborted six times, six, and quiet happy about it. She was not a teenager who in an instant, more exactly six of them, of passion forgot about the consequences of having sex but a thirty something experienced woman. She was not dim witted or ignorant: from the description of her jobs it looks like she had MBA. It was only that she found more convenient to have abortions than to use contraceptives.
#8
g(r)omgoru, I don't want the blood from your kind of evolution on my hands. I'm not God so I don't feel qualified for that kind of decision making. OTOH, I feel no requirement to support the bitch and her fatherless children. Let her live with the consequences of her own behavior. I want no part of any of it.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
The infantry fight at Belokamenka and at Novolaspa in western Donetsk ended last Monday, but infantry battles and artillery exchanges in western and southern Donetsk between Russian backed rebels and Ukrainian government forces appear to be on the rise, according to Russian language news accounts.
Reports from various unidentified sources at the VKontakte page of Russian Reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin indicate that not only has artillery exchanges between the combatants have increased, but also infantry direct fire engagements in areas which should have been decided, are on the upswing.
The battle at Belokemenka, which rebel media claim was a small counterattack and the battle at Novolaspa, which Ukrainian media claim was a failed rebel attack are once again the site of battle.
According to a report by the Russian blogger identified as iCorpus, Ukrainian forces have been reinforcing the areas around Belokamenka. Rebel media, in the form of official announcements by the Donetsk ministry of defense, said that Ukrainian forces are filtering into the Styla Starobeshevskiy area near Volnovaha, including the BM-21 rocket artillery vehicles. One report said that four launchers were moved into the area. As a result, artillery duels between the two combatants are on the increase. An infantry fight between the two combatants took place on Wednesday, elements of which included five Ukrainian vehicles and infantry, and, according to one report, Ukrainian forces were driven back, with rebels forces defending the area using BM-21 rocket artillery as well as small arms fire. Four of the vehicles were destroyed in the engagement. Further details on the encounter have not been released.
Rebels claim losses by Ukrainian forces at Belokamenka to be "heavy."
Rebel reports say elements of one Ukrainian mechanized and one motorized rifle brigade hold the area. Ukrainian report say that rebels hit their positions at Styla Starobeshevskiy using 152mm artillery.
Other areas reporting artillery exchanges including nearby Dokuchaevsk and Telmanovo. Some of the artillery landing reportedly come from artillery units based in the Sea of Azov coastal town of Mariupol and from nearby Granitnovo.
Shirokino and southern Donetsk
Rebel media says that Ukrainian tube and rocket artillery continues to hit rebel positions in Sahanka. Areas hit in Sahanka include ulitsas Gagarin Street and Central. Some of the artillery consists of 82mm mortar fire originating from an "Azov" Battalion 82mm mortar battery based in Shirokino. Some of the artillery also is said to have originated from Orlovsky, Talakovki and the outskirts of Mariupol. Ukrainian news accounts say that the rebels struck back with 120mm mortar fire.
Sahanka is the rebels' most forward position in southern Donetsk, along the coast of the Sea of Azov, occupied after their forces voluntarily abandoned Shirokino in a gesture of goodwill in favor of peace talks. Ukrainian forces have since moved forces into the town, including a naval infantry unit and now, apparently, elements of the Azov Battalion.
Donetsk and Gorlovka
According to data supplied by the Donetsk ministry of defense, Ukrainian artillery hit rebel positions in Kirovsky, Oktyabrsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of western Donetsk and the village of Staromihaylovka. Reported damage includes 10 residences.
One unidentified civilian was killed, and three others were wounded in the attack.
In Gorlovka, overnight shelling from August 12th to August 13th struck the suburb of Oksenovka, wounding an unidentified civilian man who lived in a residence on Ultisa 40 Years Since October.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
[Telegraph] The mayor of Calais has criticised David Cameron for being "mocking and contemptuous" as she reissued threats to open France's borders and allow thousands of migrants into Britain.
No, no, madame Mayor, it's the French who are mocking and contemptuous. Brits are amused and befuddled, and occasionally bloody-minded, which you'll discover if you open the border...
Natacha Bouchart accused the prime minister of "imposing his own laws" on the people of Calais and demanded that he meet her and the French president, Francois Hollande, for urgent talks in the region.
"David Cameron is mocking us, he holds our territory in contempt and he is imposing his own laws on Calais," she said. "The President of the Republic (Hollande) must thump the table, once and for all, on behalf of all of us, we must make this a diplomatic incident.
"If the British do not want to get around the table to discuss security, humanitarian issues and economic solidarity then we will have to open the borders," she added.
Ms Bouchart did not say which laws she was referring to specifically, but has previously called for the scrapping of the Le Touquet Treaty, which lays responsibility for border controls on the French side.
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#1
I wonder how they
a) Got into France
b) why they don't want to stay in the marxist paradise.
[DAWN] TAXILA: With the assistance of tehsil municipal administration, the food department on Thursday sealed three different food outlets including a famous hotel besides issuing notices to others as they failed to comply with food safety and hygiene laws.
In the ongoing drive against adulterated food items, the unhygienic food outlets were sealed in Jameelabad, Nawababad and Wah Garden.
The teams during inspection also confiscated filthy utensils and disposed them of on the spot.
Talking to newsmen, assistant commissioner Shahid Imran who led the raids said the owners of food outlets had been directed to ensure vaccination of workers, compliance of food safety, hygiene laws and quality of food items otherwise strict action would be taken against them.
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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
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[Wash Examiner] It turns out that Hillary Clinton's email scandal could in fact get worse.
[DAWN] TAXILA: With the assistance of tehsil municipal administration, the food department on Thursday sealed three different food outlets including a famous hotel besides issuing notices to others as they failed to comply with food safety and hygiene laws.
