In an interesting development in the US election campaign, a state department report, released today, shows Clinton’s Use of Private Emails Created ‘Security Risks’.
Hillary Clinton created “security risks” by using a personal email account and private email server when she was secretary of state, according to a sharply critical report by the state department that could haunt her in the tightening presidential election campaign.
The department’s inspector general, an internal watchdog, said Mrs Clinton had not sought legal approval to conduct official business on the server she installed in her New York home. It also said security officials would not have sanctioned the practice had they been informed.
Although the controversy surrounding Mrs Clinton’s emails has raged for months, the state department finding is the first official government agency to conclude its investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still conducting its own inquiry into the issue, which could ultimately lead to criminal charges.
In recent weeks, the FBI has interviewed top Clinton aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, but has yet to interview Mrs Clinton. The Clinton campaign did not comment on the IG report.
A recent CBS-New York Times poll found that two-thirds of voters do not believe Mrs Clinton is “honest and trustworthy” — though a similar number said the same thing about Mr Trump.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the report proved that Mrs Clinton “hasn’t been telling the truth since day one”.
While previous secretaries of state, including Colin Powell, used personal email for business on occasion, Mrs Clinton was unique in relying on a private server. The IG said she should have turned over her work-related emails when she stepped down in 2013. She did not provide them until 2014 following intense public pressure.
Even if the justice department determines there is no case for prosecution based on the FBI findings, Mrs Clinton still faces probes on other fronts, including one by the inspector-general of the US intelligence community, and another by the state department’s bureau of diplomatic security. The Clinton campaign is hoping that all of the probes will be wrapped up ahead of the election to dampen the attacks from Mr Trump.
Earlier this year, a US district judge appointed by Bill Clinton ruled that aides to Mrs Clinton should be questioned under oath about the email server to determine if they had tried to skirt open records laws. Ms Abedin and Cheryl Mills, former chief of staff to Mrs Clinton, are expected to be deposed, while the judge said he believed it “may be necessary” for Mrs Clinton to be deposed as well.
Picture of the Day
Hillary Clinton Needs Help!
Words of the Day
- Dishonest
- Untrustworthy
Those words apply to politicians, EU bureaucrats, the IMF, and thousands of public officials.
Those words are appropriate words “eight days a week”.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
She is part of the ‘Untouchables’ so when they even consider questioning her it means she has done something really wrong…
Personally, I really detest her. And her husband…both corrupt to the core.
It is rather amazing that in the land as big as the good ol’ US of America is no better and more fresh alternatives than worn out Mrs. Clinton (the same old same old) and Mr. Trump that sounds like used car salesman with the occasional dirty joke.
I see them both as unfit to the presidential seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BuPgrBwHU
says it all
… and that idiot that’s ‘in charge”.
Nothing will come of these probes of the Hyman Roth of politics
Hillary and Bill are about to be placed in protective custody….and no they will not have access to a lawyer.
apologies for the long list, but i thought this a good one. can’t wait for the expose of the shoe being on the other foot:
TRUMP AND HILLARY IN A BAR
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face says, “The media are really tearing you apart for that scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to hide my activities?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies,
and taking bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without
the benefit of the law?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it
Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity deals?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The IRS targeting conservatives?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Turning Libya into chaos?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Turning our backs on Israel?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The joke Iran Nuke deal? ”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos? ”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance executives?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving our cronies in Solyndra $500 million dollars and 3 Months
later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware and China when Bill left Office?”
Trump: “That’s it! I almost forgot about that one” – See more at: http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-and-donald-walk-i…
I find the timing of this announcement and the guccifer trial very interesting. This entire thing may come to a head before The democratic convention. This may be a prelude to dumping Clinton. This is paving the way for an fbi report followed by ag indictment. I know it is unlikely but everyone can read the polls and know Clinton is toast.
Bets are on a Hillary indictment after the primaries; maybe after the convention – so the wee folk won’t have a say in selecting the Dem candidate. (Hey! Just ask Bernie!)
I think you might have nailed it, though it’s early enough that they can persuade her to quit now and hand it to the Commie. I actually think the Commie has a better chance of beating Trump than the broom-rider.
Joe Biden is waiting in the wings (assuming he hasn’t stumbled off the stage in the meantime.) I’m sure that reassures everyone (sarcasm, in case you didn’t realize it.)
Saw a newspaper article and I can’t remember who wrote it but a government official said the penalties are geared to government employees still in the employ of the government. She will avoid most penalties now. I wonder if we can then go after her if she becomes president?
Hellery has ZERO CHANCE of being elected President, and her key job now is to keep from getting 10+ years in the BIG HOUSE.
When two completely un-electable candidates run for office will one of them still win?
The one who is less un-electable?
Donald Trump is VERY ELECTABLE and will be our next President and will do a wonderful job working to make America great again.
Hi Mish,
If the hyperlinks don’t come through, I’ve also posted this at maddogslair.com
National Security Risk found in the Department of State!
Clinton’s use of private emails created ‘security risks’, report finds – FT.com
Oh, never mind, it’s just Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton created “security risks” by using a personal email account and private email server when she was secretary of state, according to a sharply critical report by the state department that could haunt her in the tightening presidential election campaign.
The department’s inspector general, an internal watchdog, said Mrs Clinton had not sought legal approval to conduct official business on the server she installed in her New York home. It also said security officials would not have sanctioned the practice had they been informed.”
This should be expected from the politicians at the end of the progressive era. Political movements, like mass movements have an understandable form, a beginning, a growth/middle, and a slow decline marked by decay and corruption.
The beginning occurs because a small cadre of people who deeply believe in the project come together and zealously seek to create and build the project. This is followed by the growth/middle when the project slowly becomes more bureaucratic, and regulatory. The people during this phase are a blend of softer true believers, and other workers one group interested in relatively easy, secure jobs for life, and the other interested in political fiefdom building. The final stage is the decline, fall, and ultimately the replacement. During this phase nearly all the true believes have become disgusted with the projects hijacking by the fiefdom builders, and they, and the security hounds are all that is left. The fiefdom builders are constantly being replaced by a rapacious group of political pillagers, like Hillary Clinton. They are only tangentially interested in the fiefdom, and nearly solely interested in personal gain.
The fall happens because it becomes increasingly difficult to hide the dysfunctionality of the project, and the rapaciousness of the administrators.
So, what is Trump in this analysis. He isn’t. Trump is one of the many outliers which comes into play as the project begins to collapse. Sometimes this individual can be a Cincinnatus, but this time it the politics of NO.
Walter Russell Mead, elaborates:
“But this apparent weakness and vulnerability conceals a strength: Trump is an unconventional candidate whose proposition to the electorate isn’t about particular policy stands, experience, credentials or even personal and political honesty. Trump is the purest expression of the politics of ‘NO!’ that I personally can recall. He’s the candidate for people who think the conventional wisdom of the American establishment is hopelessly out of touch with the real world. He’s the little boy saying that the emperor, or in this case, the aspiring empress, has no clothes. What energizes the Trump phenomenon is the very power of rejection: people who think the train is about to head off a cliff want to pull the emergency cord that stops the train even if they don’t know what happens next. To many of Trump supporters, Hillary Clinton looks like Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: the enforcer of a fatally flawed status quo and the personification of bureaucratic power in a system gone rogue.”
The Meaning of Mr. Trump
Read the whole thing, Mead is always worth the read, and here particularly so.
Hillary is acting as she and most of the remaining progressives will act in this final act of the progressive project. The cure is not to fight these actions, but to simply move on from the now completely failed progressive movement, and begin the hard work of building the replacement socioeconomic model.
Mish nails the words of the day.
This seems an easy choice. Choose wisely.
She’s said “everybody did it.” She will now need to explain that as well.
Or did all the money for the F-35 fighter jet disappear by magic?
She’s too important to the nation’s future to be held accountable to the law, ya gotta look at the big picture.If she gets charged then trump will probably be elected and do mean things like enforce immigration laws, keep out muslims including embedded terrorists etc. What kind of nation would we become if that happens?
Hillary Clinton and senior officials of both parties are above the law. This is not your parent’s America anymore.
No, they most certainly are NOT “above the law” at all.
If a CFO of a large corporation routed corporate accounts to pass through her own checking account, and she went to great trouble to secretly set it up that way, then insisted she never took any money but won’t turn over the books, would you believe her?
Just more media hoopla to boost viewer/reader numbers and reap more money from advertisers (rates set by number of viewers). Really, much ado about nothing in terms of email content; nothing that the world intelligence agencies did not already know. Another waste of time persecution of the Clintons. Nixon was persecuted in the same way, and no doubt they will come up with something on Trump to pump up the media viewership and ad sales. “News” is now part of the network entertainment business, and the email server story makes for great news melodrama: “Will or won’t she be indicted. Stay tuned for the next episode. Same time, same channel.”
Yes, Hilary showed bad judgment in not realizing how this personal server business would look when it became public. That dimwittedness alone is reason to not vote for her. Beyond that, this whole government secrecy issue is just designed to boost the status of the NSA, CIA and the whole case for government being a secret fortress.
Bigger issues of Hilary’s poor judgment in handling of Libya and her neo-Con views on Syria, Russia and Iran go unchallenged.
Times sure have changed. Those old enough to remember Nixon recall how the system took him down. And he was a sitting President. That’s not to say it was undeserved. But Hillary put the security of the nation in grave danger. Much worse, in my opinion, than Nixon’s transgressions. And the authoritays let her slide.
I’ve lost a great deal of confidence in our great Nation over the years. I used to laugh at Mexico. Not anymore.
Hillary Clinton clobbered by State Department audit: Report finds she kept hacker attacks on her server SECRET, failed to hand over emails – and she and aides stonewalled inspector general
Hillary never sought approval for her private email setup from senior information officers – who would have refused the request because of security risks, an inspector general report says. The IG also found no evidence that lawyers had reviewed Clinton’s document-retention procedures to make sure the law was followed. Clinton, along with her top deputies Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin, all refused to meet with investigators, the report’s authors complained. Worse for Clinton as she weathers new pressures on her presidential campaign, the audit found evidence of several hacking attempts on her private email server – and determined that she never reported them to the State Department’s cybersecurity experts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3608941/State-Dept-audit-faults-Clinton-emails.html
The FBI has STILL not questioned Hillary about her emails
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3609452/FBI-not-questioned-Hillary-emails.html
State Dept Watchdog: Clinton violated email rules…
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-inspector-general-report-223553
To the Clintons “Justice” is “JUST US”
Hellery is championing her bold sweeping new policy on crime:
DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL
Holder Hosts ‘Lawyers for Hillary’ as FBI Investigation Goes On…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2002405
Obama Admin brands criminals ‘justice-involved individuals’…
http://nypost.com/2016/05/14/owellian-administration-brands-criminals-justice-involved-individuals/
FBI – No Deadline Or ‘Special Rules’ In Clinton Email Probe
https://www.rt.com/usa/342848-fbi-no-deadline-clinton/
Clinton Likely To End Presidential Bid Over Emails
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/05/12/465284/Clinton-presidential-race-email-scandal
‘Call me on my home phone’: New emails reveal Hillary chose not to use a secure line to speak to her chief-of-staff
The Democratic nominee did not use a secure phone line during her terms as Secretary of State, documents obtained by the US watchdog Judicial Watch have revealed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3588578/Call-home-phone-New-emails-reveal-Hillary-chose-not-use-secure-line-speak-chief-staff.html
FBI ON HELLERY: Criminal Investigation NOT ‘Security Inquiry’…
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-investigation-fbi-james-comey-223071
Cheryl Mills leaves FBI interview after asked about emails…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-aide-leaves-interview-once-the-fbi-broaches-an-off-limits-topic/2016/05/10/cce5e0e8-161c-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html
Emails From Hillary Clinton’s IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing
The State Department said today it can’t find Bryan Pagliano’s emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior information technology staffer during her tenure there.
Pagliano would have been required to turn over any official communications from his work account before he left the government. State Department officials say he had an official email account, but that they can’t find any of those records he would have turned over and continue to search for them.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emails-found-hillary-clintons-senior-staffer-state-department/story?id=38989504
Perhaps a pack of very hungry dogs inside the State Department ate them…
Hey, Hellery, better practice really hard on your LIES…
“The trick for Clinton, he said, will be to make sure that her story lines up with the testimony provided by her aides.”
As to Hellery, when she LIES LIKE A RUG, how would she know which side is ever up?
HUMA: HILLARY ‘OFTEN CONFUSED’…
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-email-reveals-top-aide-huma-abedin-warning-state-department-staffer-that-hillary-clinton-is-often-confused/
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Billary goes to jail for violating security regs, with ALL the violations Billary has committed.
The GREAT video interview below, the best I’ve ever seen, details the server/email scandal including an angle too rarely heard – her intentional avoidance of FOIA transparency through the use of a private server and the ability to selectively delete emails, things she could not have done on a gov’t server. The State Department could truthfully say “we have nothing on that” related to FOIA requests of Clinton materials but, at the same time, they could not possibly have avoided detecting that they had NOTHING of hers to find which should have sent up alarm bells. Why didn’t it?
C-Span Washington Journal
MARCH 18, 2016
http://www.c-span.org/video/?406228-4/washington-journal-joseph-digenova-hillary-clintons-emails
Investigation Into Hillary Clinton’s Emails – Former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph diGenova talks about the investigation into emails sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s personal email server during her time as Secretary of State.
I suspect Sanders continues to run because of her risk of indictment and her campaign wants so desperately for Sanders to drop out so she can become an even more politically sensitive target for indictment as the only Dem running for prez.
excellent article
I would find it laughable that Trump gets indicted for tax evasion and he ends up sharing a cell with Hillary.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/exclusive-donald-trump-signed-off-deal-designed-to-deprive-us-of/
1. Every business has a legal obligation to avoid paying taxes not owed.
2. Real Estate business gives the greatest latitude to legally avoid taxes.
3. Trump is an ace Real Estate businessman.
4. Trump likely never owed taxes at any time during his career.
5. The law is the law.
Of course we serfs will never ever know the details of what is truly happening behind the curtain. Yet, it looks like a gradual derailment is in process to put an end to HRC’s bid for the presidency. I guess that one could posit that those who are behind it are invisible.
The Dem may want to throw Hillary under the bus because she can’t close the deal, BS won’t go away and Trump is beginning to hammer her. This report maybe their opening gambit. It avoids a full indictment which could have blowback that they can’t control.
Now that the State Department has tossed darling Shillery under the bus it appears that the houndpack is closing in on her. This was a major event that was downplayed by the media. I can only imagine the backroom chatter going on at her campaign HQ’s. I could be totally wrong but my instincts tell me that prior to the convention she announces the suspension of her campaign “in the best interests of the Party”. Trump has already surpassed her in a few credible polls. And for her it only gets worse. As of today I believe Shillery is done. It was stupid for the dems to promote her as their leading candidate in the first place. Way too much baggage. The DNC was conned into believing Shillery had a right of passage to the White House. Looks like Wasserman is about to get tossed under the bus too! ha.
Bernie claims that he can beat Trump. Pure fantasy. As a dyed in the wool utopian socialist he doesn’t have a prayer. Trump will chew him up and spit him out.
If I were Trump I would tell the wife to go curtain shopping for the Oval Office.
The real question is did Trump break any law like Hillary did. The real tax forms have yet to be released. Quite honestly I do not care about taxes someone pays or does not pay. The system is set up by our government and if Trump legally did not pay any taxes thank your government for this. GE made more then 10 Billion in profit and paid one billion in taxes more then Trump is worth.
Hillary broke the law and there is the difference. But the Dems who by the way helped to set this system up now cry foul? Shame on them. If they want Trump or anyone else for that matter to pay more taxes change the darn laws. Most farmers do not pay taxes either. Buffett is still fighting his 2 billion owed to the government but it is not covered in the media.
I could go on and on but honestly it does not matter if your super rich or just a plebe like me we all do our best to pay the lowest amount we can in taxes. Many even lie. I do not as audits suck.
What really does piss me off is someone like Warren bitching about it but she is another rich person doing the same thing as are all of us and she is apart of the problem and has not introduced anything to change the tax code unless you make 250k or more then your now considered rich LOL!!!