Except when you said the Tea Party was finished in 2011 (there are now more Tea Party members of Congress than when you made that statement)
Except when you said there were road blocks preventing blacks from voting in Florida in 2000 (no such thing happened)
Except when you said Bush deregulated something and the economy collapsed (but remember, government doesn't make your life better or worse)
You're a laughable fucking idiot and liar.
No, what's hysterical is you chasing steam and calling them your own plays.
Don't even think about denying this. The vast majority of your posted games in MLB have been tailing big line moves - FACT.
I never bothered checking your football plays (after getting your ass handed to you the previous season courtesy JDeuce), but I will be from now on.
You are so desperate. I can only laugh at how stupid you are. Please post these steam plays.
So my football plays THIS YEAR( 60-47 btw) were steam moves? The ones I posted on Friday when the games were Saturday?
face the facts....I WIN and you pay a line service for losers. Those are the undisputed facts. It kills you that I'm a winner and cash all year and you are dead broke.
"Steam plays". Lmao.
EXCLUSIVE: Sea views, sweeping lawns, and a private beach - how Hillary Clinton plans to spend break from campaigning among 'ordinary Americans' in $50,000-a-week Hamptons home
- Four-bedroom home is being rented by the former and would-be first family for break from Hillary's campaign
- It is owned by Republican donors and boasts extensive grounds, entertaining space and private access to sea
- Bill Clinton is already there and Hillary will join him, then Chelsea, her husband and their new granddaughter
- $100,000 total for two week vacation is more than twice the national average wage
PUBLISHED: 07:03 EST, 19 August 2015 | UPDATED: 10:00 EST, 19 August 2015
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Her campaign has centered on her claim that she will be the champion of the middle class if she is elected to the White House.
So the average person will no doubt find it easy to relate to the beachfront mansion that Hillary Clinton is renting for her summer vacation in The Hamptons.
Exclusive pictures obtained by Daily Mail Online show what exactly the Democratic Presidential candidate is getting for her $100,000 - which covers just a two week rental.
She will be able to relax in the 50ft pool, stroll the lush manicured lawns and sit on the easy chairs that overlook the gently curving beach, to which it has private access.
She can also take advantage of the huge, airy lounge with a fireplace and patio or take a walk through the gardens.
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Magnificent: The home the Clintons are renting is one of the best available for rentals in the Hamptons, with its own grounds, four bedrooms and space for entertaining
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Green: The property boasts manicured lawns rolling down to the sea, as well as a hedged-off swimming pool to the rear
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Discreet: The large home is close to the Atlantic and has access to the beach behind it. It has extensive woodland around it for discretion
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Maintained: The Clintons' holiday rental has a swimming pool surrounded by groomed lawns for relaxation outside
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Majestic: The property has a porticoed entrance and the grounds have clear views out to sea
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Relaxed: The interior has access to sundecks and is decorated in an understated Hamptons style, with white and light brown color scheme
Bill is already at the property in Amagansett, New York, and Mrs Clinton will be joining him later this week.
They rented the four-bedroom home from Republican donor and art collector Andre Nasser and his real estate guru wife, Lois - the same mansion they rented last year.
The Clintons' daughter Chelsea will reportedly join them later this month, as will her husband Marc Mezvinsky and their baby daughter Charlotte.
The house will give Mrs Clinton a chance to escape the tough campaign trail and regroup ahead of next year's Presidential poll.
The property comes with a modern kitchen that has a breakfast table in the center with six chairs should the Clintons decide to dine in.
There is also a separate dining table in the living room, a side area with windows and a lounge for relaxing and a circular drive that leads up to the three-story property, which has Romanesque columns on the portico.
The views give Mrs Clinton an unobstructed gaze over the Atlantic on one of the most exclusive parts of real estate in the US.
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Hamptons fans: The Clintons rented the same home last year where they enjoyed walks on the beach with friends and their pets
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Sun-lovers: The Clintons enjoyed exercising their dogs on the beach last year. This year they will be joined by their new granddaughter
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Discreet presence: The Secret Service was maintaining a guard after former president Clinton arrived. His wife is campaigning in Nevada and will join him later in the week
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In need of a break: Clinton insisted on Tuesday that she would have known if she had sent or received classified information because it would have been marked 'classified'.
When she is in The Hamptons Mrs Clinton reportedly has a full schedule meeting supporters and wealthy donors.
The day after her arrival she will go to a fundraiser at the home of Brooklyn Nets co-owner Artie Rabin in nearby Water Mill.
On August 30 she will reportedly attend a pancake breakfast at the home of venture capitalist Alan Patricof, who founded Apax partners and is worth more than $150 million.
That day there will also be a lunch hosted by fashion designed Tory Burch in Southampton followed by an event in the evening called 'Full Moon on the Farm with Hillary Rodham Clinton'.
The barbecue will take place in East Hampton at the home of Hilary Leff and entertainment lawyer Elliot Groffman.
Mrs Clinton may also make brief returns to the campaign trail but The Hamptons will be her base for the next few weeks.
What she will want to avoid is being seen sipping glasses of champagne with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg who are regulars in The Hamptons in the warmer months.
Pictures of such gatherings would not chime well with voters at a time when Mrs Clinton is desperate to appear normal.
But the $100,000 rental fee is for from average; in fact it is more than double the national average wage of $44,888 meaning that Mrs Clinton spends more on her mansion in a week than most people earn in a year.
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Stylish arrivals: Access to the house is through the porticoed front door, which opens onto the circular drive
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Sea view: The rear of the house's rooms have views over the woodlands towards the Atlantic, while the lawns are surrounded by well-kept shrubbery, merging into woodland
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Patio: The rear of the house opens onto the extensive lawns, which are ideal for large-scale entertaining, and boast open sea views
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Plenty of room: The main living area is also furnished in the Hamptons style, and has space for plenty of guests.
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Informal: The upper living room has a slightly nautical theme with white-painted walls, and wicker furnishings
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Eat-in kitchen: The large kitchen is designed to allow entertaining to take place easily, with a breakfast bar for more intimate meals
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Formal dining: The Clintons will have room to entertain friends and - if they want to - potential donors in the house's extensive main room
The Clinton summer breakis an annual tradition which dates back to when Mr Clinton was in office when they would vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
During the 2000s they decided to move their annual vacation to The Hamptons and have stayed there since.
At that time Mrs Clinton was a New York senator so The Hamptons meant she could remain on home turf, plus she met some of her wealthiest backers while they were on vacation there.
In 2011 and 2012 they stayed in the eight-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot East Hampton home of developer Elie Hirschfield that goes for $200,000 a month.
They did not come back after he kept a chunk of their deposit because household expenses were higher than expected.
In 2013 after Mrs Clinton stepped down as Secretary of State she and Mr Clinton rented an $11 million property with 3.5 acres in Sagaponack.
It came with six bedrooms, four fireplaces, ocean views and a private path to the beach.
During that time Mrs Clinton worked on her memoir: 'Hard Choices' and decided whether or not she would run for President.
Mrs Clinton's choice of vacation home is not her first faux pas when it comes to money.
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Open plan: The reception area opens out onto the lawns and is ideal for receptions - which could include the Clintons welcoming donors
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Relax and enjoy the view: Benches and seats are scattered around the grounds for guests to enjoy with clear views of the ocean
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Bay view: The house overlooks a sandy beach which opens on to the sea. The Clintons previously walked their dogs on the beach
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Private beach: The sand immediately in front of the property is a private beach for the Clintons' use
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Perfect swimming weather: A lone swimmer was enjoying the water today as the ex-president arrived at his summer home
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Her longstanding ties to Wall St aside, she claimed in an interview last June that she and her husband were 'dead broke' after he left office in 2001 following two terms in the White House.
That may have been true in some sense of the word - though they did have their $1.7m home in upstate New York - but soon after the money began to roll in.
Since January last year alone the couple have earned more than $25 million in speaking fees from 104 appearances, an average of $240,000 per speech.
A Wall Street Journal analysis has showed that Mrs Clinton and her husband raised more than $1 billion from US companies and industry donors over the past 20 years, most of which went to their Clinton Global Initiative.
Nevertheless Mrs Clinton staked her claim to the middle class last month in a speech on the economy in which she claimed the economy was 'stacked for those at the top'.
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Playing a round: Ex-president Bill Clinton has been relaxing at Martha's Vineyard with his successor Barack Obama, playing at the Farm Neck Golf Club on the island last weekend
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Fair way to go: Former President Clinton seen on the course at Farm Neck Golf Club. President Obama invited the Clintons to join him in Martha's Vineyard last weekend
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Summer of love: The Clintons were recorded dancing at an 60th birthday party for their former aide Vernon Jordan last week
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Vacation warm-up: Chelsea Clinton and her husband Mark Mezvinsky have been away already, relaxing in Sardinia with billionaire Barry Diller and his wife Diane von Furstenberg
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Relaxing: Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky relaxed on Monday as they went boating with friends - including billionaire Barry Diller and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg - off the shore of Sardinia
Mrs Clinton's story stands in contrast to some of her Republican presidential rivals, especially Marco Rubio.
Mr Rubio has often referred to his hardscrabble upbringing; he was raised by Cuban immigrants and owed $150,000 in student debt that it took him 16 years to pay off.
Even in 2013 when he was in Congress the Florida Senator still owed money from his education.
Other Republicans however are dealing with accusations they are too rich to understand ordinary voters like former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who is worth up to $22 million.
The Clintons have already relaxed at Martha's Vineyard this month as guests of the Obamas. The current and former president played golf together last Saturday. And the couple have were also seen dancing together at an 80th birthday party for their former aide Vernon Jordan.
Liar. I lost 20 some units after 11weeks.
Last year nfl, college football, college hoops, NBA.....all major winning seasons. And huge winning season in baseball again for me.
Chasing steam is your latest excuse. People who think line reading and betting steam are winning formulas.....are idiots. That's why you buy line service like sports insights. You actually think that wins money.
[h=1]State Department: Mills and Abedin official BlackBerrys likely gone[/h]By JOSH GERSTEIN
8/19/15 1:31 PM EDT
BlackBerry devices the State Department issued to former Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off as surplus, a State official said in a court filing Wednesday.
The secretary of state's information technology office "believes that Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin were each issued BlackBerry devices," State Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in a declaration submitted to a federal court in Washington (and posted here). The office, referred to as S/ES-IRM in agency parlance, "has not located any such device at the department" and "standard procedure upon return of such devices is to perform a factory reset (which removes any user settings or configurations) and then to reissue the device to another employee, to destroy it, or to excess it," he added.
"Because the devices issued to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed. As stated above, the state.gov email accounts themselves are generally housed on the Department's servers," Macmanus said.
The official also said former Secretary of State Clinton appeared never to have had a BlackBerry from her agency or any other official gadget. "S/ES-IRM does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not located any such device at the Department," Macmanus wrote.
The filing came in a lawsuit where the conservative group Judicial Watch is seeking records relating to Abedin's employment arrangements, including a period after she left a full-time post as deputy chief of staff and took a part-time position while also working for a New York-based firm run by a former aide to President Bill Clinton.
In recent weeks, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has expressed increasing concern that the State Department was not making an adequate effort to recover all records about the matter, including emails Clinton or the other aides may have had on private accounts or took with them when they left the department.
Earlier this month, Sullivan ordered the State Department to ask Clinton, Mills and Abedin to preserve all official records they had responsive to Judicial Watch's request and to execute a declaration under penalty of perjury about their use of private email or devices to store such records. Clinton submitted such a declaration. Abedin and Mills did not submit personal declarations, but lawyers for the aides said they had returned or were in the process of returning any official records to State and would preserve any such records in their possession.
8/19/15 1:31 PM EDT
BlackBerry devices the State Department issued to former Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off as surplus, a State official said in a court filing Wednesday.
The secretary of state's information technology office "believes that Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin were each issued BlackBerry devices," State Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in a declaration submitted to a federal court in Washington (and posted here). The office, referred to as S/ES-IRM in agency parlance, "has not located any such device at the department" and "standard procedure upon return of such devices is to perform a factory reset (which removes any user settings or configurations) and then to reissue the device to another employee, to destroy it, or to excess it," he added.
"Because the devices issued to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed. As stated above, the state.gov email accounts themselves are generally housed on the Department's servers," Macmanus said.
The official also said former Secretary of State Clinton appeared never to have had a BlackBerry from her agency or any other official gadget. "S/ES-IRM does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not located any such device at the Department," Macmanus wrote.
The filing came in a lawsuit where the conservative group Judicial Watch is seeking records relating to Abedin's employment arrangements, including a period after she left a full-time post as deputy chief of staff and took a part-time position while also working for a New York-based firm run by a former aide to President Bill Clinton.
In recent weeks, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has expressed increasing concern that the State Department was not making an adequate effort to recover all records about the matter, including emails Clinton or the other aides may have had on private accounts or took with them when they left the department.
Earlier this month, Sullivan ordered the State Department to ask Clinton, Mills and Abedin to preserve all official records they had responsive to Judicial Watch's request and to execute a declaration under penalty of perjury about their use of private email or devices to store such records. Clinton submitted such a declaration. Abedin and Mills did not submit personal declarations, but lawyers for the aides said they had returned or were in the process of returning any official records to State and would preserve any such records in their possession.
[h=2]Five Hillary Clinton Gestures That Will Redeem Your Faith In Humanity[/h]BY: Andrew Stiles
August 19, 2015 1:28 pm
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There’s a reason Hillary Clinton is known in some quarters as “America’s grandmother.” That charming, carefree laugh. That calm, attentive nod. She carries herself with a grace that defies the harsh reality of the human condition. Her smile is like a dollop of warm love melted over golden buns. Her voice is the pure harmonic bong of freedom’s bell. Her jingle-jangle spirit jolts the spine and soothes the cynic’s soul.
Here are five defining Hillary Clinton gestures that will fill your heart with joy.
1. The Triple Threat (Nod / Sip / Eye Contact)
2. The Pantsuit/Dancesuit
3. The Double Threat Death Stare
4. The Server Shrug
5. The ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Revolution
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- [h=2]Five Hillary Clinton Gestures That Will Redeem Your Faith In Humanity[/h]Andrew Stiles • August 19, 1:28 pm
Hillary spokesman: She was a “passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified”
OOPSIE
This is at the OIG Web site.
These people do nothing but lie and lie again.
OOPSIE
This is at the OIG Web site.
These people do nothing but lie and lie again.
By JAN CRAWFORD CBS NEWS August 19, 2015, 7:12 PM
Hillary Clinton's communications problem may go beyond email
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton continues to be dogged by questions about her use of a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state.
CBS News identified two e-mails on her server Wednesday which the intelligence community says contained classified information.
The messages were uncovered during an investigation of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.
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Hillary Clinton defends private email server
The first email, from April 2011, was forwarded to Clinton by aide Huma Abedin. It cited intelligence reports from the U.S. Africa Command on Libyan troop strength and movements.
The second, forwarded by aide Jacob Sullivan in November 2012, outlined reports of possible arrests in connection with the Benghazi attack.
The emails are among the some 30,000 Clinton turned over to the State Department from her private server. On Monday, the State Department said it had flagged 305 emails, out of the 20 percent it has reviewed, as potentially containing classified information.
Clinton has insisted there was no classified information on her server.
"But whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is," Clinton said Tuesday.
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But it is not just Clinton's private server that may have contained classified information. The State Department filed court papers Wednesday afternoon saying it "does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department" to Clinton.
"Anytime you're bringing your own equipment and using it for work purposes, it's not as secure as something that's actually issued by the company," CNET senior editor Dan Ackerman explained. "Because they take those laptops, for example, and they pre-configure them, they put their own software on them, tracking software, update software, and they distribute them."
That raises the question, how secure were her personal devices, like her BlackBerry, since they weren't issued by the State Department?
As for the server, Clinton's attorney confirmed it was wiped clean of all data before she turned it over to the FBI. But the FBI is hopeful that some material maybe recovered -- or a backup server located.
Hillary Clinton's communications problem may go beyond email
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton continues to be dogged by questions about her use of a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state.
CBS News identified two e-mails on her server Wednesday which the intelligence community says contained classified information.
The messages were uncovered during an investigation of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.
Play VIDEOHillary Clinton defends private email server
The first email, from April 2011, was forwarded to Clinton by aide Huma Abedin. It cited intelligence reports from the U.S. Africa Command on Libyan troop strength and movements.
The second, forwarded by aide Jacob Sullivan in November 2012, outlined reports of possible arrests in connection with the Benghazi attack.
The emails are among the some 30,000 Clinton turned over to the State Department from her private server. On Monday, the State Department said it had flagged 305 emails, out of the 20 percent it has reviewed, as potentially containing classified information.
Clinton has insisted there was no classified information on her server.
"But whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is," Clinton said Tuesday.
Play VIDEOCan Hillary Clinton weather the email controversy?
But it is not just Clinton's private server that may have contained classified information. The State Department filed court papers Wednesday afternoon saying it "does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department" to Clinton.
"Anytime you're bringing your own equipment and using it for work purposes, it's not as secure as something that's actually issued by the company," CNET senior editor Dan Ackerman explained. "Because they take those laptops, for example, and they pre-configure them, they put their own software on them, tracking software, update software, and they distribute them."
That raises the question, how secure were her personal devices, like her BlackBerry, since they weren't issued by the State Department?
As for the server, Clinton's attorney confirmed it was wiped clean of all data before she turned it over to the FBI. But the FBI is hopeful that some material maybe recovered -- or a backup server located.
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[h=2]Watchdog: Two National Security Laws Appear Broken in Clinton Email Scandal[/h]Hillary aides refused judge’s order on returning documents
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BY: Bill Gertz
August 20, 2015 5:00 am
Hillary Clinton and two aides appear to have violated two national security laws by sending classified information on a private email server, according to a former Army counterintelligence agent and investigator for a public interest law group.
Additionally, the two Clinton aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, disregarded a federal judge’s order this month requiring both to make sworn statements to the court that all government documents in their possession will be returned to federal officials, said Chris Farrell, director of investigations for Judicial Watch, the law group.
“What we have is a secretary of state, the only cabinet official in our history, who established her own private email server … in an effort to avoid the normal protocols for unclassified and classified communications. It’s an end run,” he said.
Farrell, in a briefing on the Clinton email affair at the Judicial Watch offices, said supporters of Clinton have sought to portray the use of the private email system to send classified information as a minor administrative matter.
“It is not,” he said. “It is a national security crime, and should be a national security crime investigation,” he said, noting that Clinton created the private email server a week before she took up her duties at Foggy Bottom, indicating that she planned to avoid using official email that must be stored under federal rules.
Two laws apply to the mishandling of classified data on unsecure networks, Farrell said.
The first is 18 USC Sec. 1924, which outlaws the unauthorized removal and storage of classified information. Penalties can include fines and imprisonment for up to one year.
That statute was used to prosecute retired Army General David Petraeus, a former CIA director who provided classified documents to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $40,000 fine as part of a plea deal in March.
A second federal statute that prosecutors could use to charge Clinton and her aides is 18 USC Sec. 793, a more serious felony statute Farrell described as a “hammer.”
That law covers national defense information and people who misuse it to injure the United States or benefit a foreign power.
Those convicted of violating that law face fines and up to 10 years in prison.
Farrell said he that as an Army counterintelligence officer, he has conducted investigations in the past that are similar to the Clinton email probe. He also worked at a special security officer who was in charge of SCIFs—special facilities used for handling sensitive intelligence.
“When it comes the law on these, intent doesn’t matter,” Farrell said. Mishandling top-secret information should bring down the full weight of the law on violators, he said.
The Clinton email matter is a “serious national security crime issue,” Farrell said. “It’s not two agencies fighting over classification after the fact.”
Judicial Watch currently has 18 lawsuits pending against the State Department seeking access to records under the Freedom of Information Act.
The State Department disclosed to Judicial Watch earlier this year that it had discovered an “another universe” of information sought by the group under FOIA on Clinton’s emails involving several cases that had been closed earlier. The data followed discovery of the private email server used by Clinton.
A hearing on one of the lawsuits is set for Thursday before Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who recently ordered Clinton, Abedin, and Mills to make the sworn statements regarding federal documents in their possession.
According to Farrell, only Clinton supplied the sworn statement that promised to return all government data and not destroy any records involved in the case. Abedin and Mills, however, did not and instead supplied the court with statements from their lawyers.
Thursday’s court hearing will be the latest turn in an unfolding security scandal involving the former secretary of state that has the potential to undermine her bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton is the leading Democratic candidate, and earlier was dogged by reports that she used the non-profit Clinton Foundation for questionable fundraising.
The email scandal burst into public view earlier this month after the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community revealed that some of the thousands of private emails held by Clinton, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, contained top-secret information, including data labeled “special intelligence” and “TK” for Talent Keyhole, a code word for communications or imagery intelligence derived from satellites.
The FBI has seized Clinton’s email server that once held more than 60,000 emails. Additionally, a thumb drive was from Clinton’s lawyer taken into FBI custody. The bureau is known to have strong capabilities for restoring erased electronic data from storage media.
Some 305 emails from the server were identified as containing classified information.
Clinton told reporters jokingly this week when asked whether she had wiped clean the server, “What, like with a cloth or something?”
Farrell said he has not seen evidence that anyone associated with the former secretary of state removed classified documents from secure networks and then rewrote the classified information into the private email account, or removed classification markings from secret material.
However, he said he believes that the FBI will be investigating that possibility.
“What I have seen is the excerpting and maybe verbatim copying” of classified information, he said, adding that the nature of the information describes is “clearly SCI material.”
Farrell said his investigation of the matter indicates that Clinton aides likely read classified documents and then digested and excerpted the material into the unclassified email system.
Clinton has said she never sent any classified information on the email server and did not receive any classified information that was marked as such.
“So she’s relying on the idea that somehow her deputies, Huma Abedin and Jay Sullivan, would excerpt the pertinent points out of a classified cable,” Farrell said. “They would pull those nuggets out of the classified version and restate it in an regular, unclassified conventional email on her server. And that’s what we’ve come across now.”
The Clinton campaign did not return an email seeking comment.
Said Farrell: “Here’s the bottom line: The secretary of state in an extraordinary and unprecedented move, set up a private email server to circumvent the conventional government classified and unclassified networks. Her aides and assistants excerpted code-word material from various classified message traffic and then took those excerpts and then sent them to her over an unclassified email server.”
A Romanian hacker named Gucifer hacked into the email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton associate, and was able to discern parts of conversations between Blumenthal and Clinton.
“If the Romanian hacker Gucifer got to her email via Sidney Blumenthal, which did happen, imagine what a national intelligence asset, the national intelligence services of the Russians or the Chinese could do?” Farrell asked.
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BY: Bill Gertz
August 20, 2015 5:00 am
Hillary Clinton and two aides appear to have violated two national security laws by sending classified information on a private email server, according to a former Army counterintelligence agent and investigator for a public interest law group.
Additionally, the two Clinton aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, disregarded a federal judge’s order this month requiring both to make sworn statements to the court that all government documents in their possession will be returned to federal officials, said Chris Farrell, director of investigations for Judicial Watch, the law group.
“What we have is a secretary of state, the only cabinet official in our history, who established her own private email server … in an effort to avoid the normal protocols for unclassified and classified communications. It’s an end run,” he said.
Farrell, in a briefing on the Clinton email affair at the Judicial Watch offices, said supporters of Clinton have sought to portray the use of the private email system to send classified information as a minor administrative matter.
“It is not,” he said. “It is a national security crime, and should be a national security crime investigation,” he said, noting that Clinton created the private email server a week before she took up her duties at Foggy Bottom, indicating that she planned to avoid using official email that must be stored under federal rules.
Two laws apply to the mishandling of classified data on unsecure networks, Farrell said.
The first is 18 USC Sec. 1924, which outlaws the unauthorized removal and storage of classified information. Penalties can include fines and imprisonment for up to one year.
That statute was used to prosecute retired Army General David Petraeus, a former CIA director who provided classified documents to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $40,000 fine as part of a plea deal in March.
A second federal statute that prosecutors could use to charge Clinton and her aides is 18 USC Sec. 793, a more serious felony statute Farrell described as a “hammer.”
That law covers national defense information and people who misuse it to injure the United States or benefit a foreign power.
Those convicted of violating that law face fines and up to 10 years in prison.
Farrell said he that as an Army counterintelligence officer, he has conducted investigations in the past that are similar to the Clinton email probe. He also worked at a special security officer who was in charge of SCIFs—special facilities used for handling sensitive intelligence.
“When it comes the law on these, intent doesn’t matter,” Farrell said. Mishandling top-secret information should bring down the full weight of the law on violators, he said.
The Clinton email matter is a “serious national security crime issue,” Farrell said. “It’s not two agencies fighting over classification after the fact.”
Judicial Watch currently has 18 lawsuits pending against the State Department seeking access to records under the Freedom of Information Act.
The State Department disclosed to Judicial Watch earlier this year that it had discovered an “another universe” of information sought by the group under FOIA on Clinton’s emails involving several cases that had been closed earlier. The data followed discovery of the private email server used by Clinton.
A hearing on one of the lawsuits is set for Thursday before Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who recently ordered Clinton, Abedin, and Mills to make the sworn statements regarding federal documents in their possession.
According to Farrell, only Clinton supplied the sworn statement that promised to return all government data and not destroy any records involved in the case. Abedin and Mills, however, did not and instead supplied the court with statements from their lawyers.
Thursday’s court hearing will be the latest turn in an unfolding security scandal involving the former secretary of state that has the potential to undermine her bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton is the leading Democratic candidate, and earlier was dogged by reports that she used the non-profit Clinton Foundation for questionable fundraising.
The email scandal burst into public view earlier this month after the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community revealed that some of the thousands of private emails held by Clinton, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, contained top-secret information, including data labeled “special intelligence” and “TK” for Talent Keyhole, a code word for communications or imagery intelligence derived from satellites.
The FBI has seized Clinton’s email server that once held more than 60,000 emails. Additionally, a thumb drive was from Clinton’s lawyer taken into FBI custody. The bureau is known to have strong capabilities for restoring erased electronic data from storage media.
Some 305 emails from the server were identified as containing classified information.
Clinton told reporters jokingly this week when asked whether she had wiped clean the server, “What, like with a cloth or something?”
Farrell said he has not seen evidence that anyone associated with the former secretary of state removed classified documents from secure networks and then rewrote the classified information into the private email account, or removed classification markings from secret material.
However, he said he believes that the FBI will be investigating that possibility.
“What I have seen is the excerpting and maybe verbatim copying” of classified information, he said, adding that the nature of the information describes is “clearly SCI material.”
Farrell said his investigation of the matter indicates that Clinton aides likely read classified documents and then digested and excerpted the material into the unclassified email system.
Clinton has said she never sent any classified information on the email server and did not receive any classified information that was marked as such.
“So she’s relying on the idea that somehow her deputies, Huma Abedin and Jay Sullivan, would excerpt the pertinent points out of a classified cable,” Farrell said. “They would pull those nuggets out of the classified version and restate it in an regular, unclassified conventional email on her server. And that’s what we’ve come across now.”
The Clinton campaign did not return an email seeking comment.
Said Farrell: “Here’s the bottom line: The secretary of state in an extraordinary and unprecedented move, set up a private email server to circumvent the conventional government classified and unclassified networks. Her aides and assistants excerpted code-word material from various classified message traffic and then took those excerpts and then sent them to her over an unclassified email server.”
A Romanian hacker named Gucifer hacked into the email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton associate, and was able to discern parts of conversations between Blumenthal and Clinton.
“If the Romanian hacker Gucifer got to her email via Sidney Blumenthal, which did happen, imagine what a national intelligence asset, the national intelligence services of the Russians or the Chinese could do?” Farrell asked.
[h=1]MORRIS: HILLARY BELIEVES OBAMA ‘ORCHESTRATING’ EMAIL SCANDAL LEAKS[/h]
by PAM KEY19 Aug 2015819
Monday on Newmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” political commentator and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris said it was a held belief within the Clinton camp that President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and the president’s chief adviser Valarie Jarrett were behind the email scandal leaks.
Morris said, “From the Clinton point of view this is all a set up by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett, the three of them. Barack hates Bill and Valerie and Michelle hate Hillary. And they are determined not to let Hillary be the next president. This is the gospel according to Clinton. Because they are worried they will compromise the accomplishments, they will triangulate like Bill and I did. I think they believe, and they are basically right, that in the world of Washington you can not have leak after leak after leak from the executive branch in a Democratic administration without the president letting it happen. And you don’t see any big investigation “oh we are naming a special prosecutor to see who leaked the facts the inspector general has.”
He added, “I think Obama is orchestrating this, not necessarily Barack Obama, but Michelle and Valerie and maybe Barack, but certainly with Barack’s knowledge. And that’s why Biden is going to announce in September—because they are determined to have Biden as the Democratic nominee because they are confident he will be the rubber stamp they want to succeed Barack. Now you know Biden could never beat Hillary, but Hillary could beat Hillary.”
by PAM KEY19 Aug 2015819
Monday on Newmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” political commentator and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris said it was a held belief within the Clinton camp that President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and the president’s chief adviser Valarie Jarrett were behind the email scandal leaks.
Morris said, “From the Clinton point of view this is all a set up by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett, the three of them. Barack hates Bill and Valerie and Michelle hate Hillary. And they are determined not to let Hillary be the next president. This is the gospel according to Clinton. Because they are worried they will compromise the accomplishments, they will triangulate like Bill and I did. I think they believe, and they are basically right, that in the world of Washington you can not have leak after leak after leak from the executive branch in a Democratic administration without the president letting it happen. And you don’t see any big investigation “oh we are naming a special prosecutor to see who leaked the facts the inspector general has.”
He added, “I think Obama is orchestrating this, not necessarily Barack Obama, but Michelle and Valerie and maybe Barack, but certainly with Barack’s knowledge. And that’s why Biden is going to announce in September—because they are determined to have Biden as the Democratic nominee because they are confident he will be the rubber stamp they want to succeed Barack. Now you know Biden could never beat Hillary, but Hillary could beat Hillary.”
