In a major development on the Clinton email scandal, the New York Times is reporting that the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence community have asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into whether there was mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton using a personal email account while secretary of state. While the newspaper referred to the action as a criminal referral, the Administration quickly moved to counter the story and insist that it is not technically a criminal referral. We have previously discussed this story and the insistence of Clinton that she did nothing wrong in maintaining a private email system and that none of the emails were classified. I disagreed with both premises as well as expressed great skepticism over Clinton’s insistence that she was really not trying to control her emails and insulate them from review but rather simply did not want to carry around two phones. According to the New York Times, investigators believe that Clinton’s email archive contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails.” Nevertheless, the Justice Department appears to be moving to counter any expectation of a criminal investigation against the former Secretary of State under Obama. We have previously discussed the special treatment historically given powerful figures in violating national security rules or practices.
That is if anything a conservative estimate. As I discussed earlier, virtually anything coming out of the office of the Secretary of State would be considered classified as a matter of course. I have had a TS/SCI clearance since Reagan due to my national security work and have lived under the restrictions imposed on email and other systems. The defense is that this material was not technically classified at the time that it was sent. Thus it was not “classified” information. The problem is that it was not reviewed and classified because it was kept out of the State Department system. Moreover, most high-level communications are treated as classified and only individually marked as classified when there is a request for disclosure. You do not generate material as the Secretary of State and assume that it is unclassified. You are supposed to assume and treat it as presumptively classified. Otherwise, there would be massive exposure of classified material and willful blindness as to the implications of the actions of persons disregarding precautions. For example, there is not a person standing next to the President with a classification stamp in the Oval Office. However, those communications are deemed as presumptively classified and are not disclosed absent review. Under the same logic, the President could use a personal email system because his text messages by definition are not marked as classified. This is the whole reason that Clinton and others were told to use the protected email system run by the State Department. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to secure such systems.
The Justice Department has confirmed that it has a request for an inquiry and I fail to see any basis upon which it would not open an investigation. This is a major escalation and will make it more difficult for Clinton to maintain the past spin on the scandal as a purely political hatchet job.
It will also make Clinton’s order to destroy thousands of emails even more problematic. Those emails might now be considered to be potential evidence of a crime like destroying classified papers that you improperly brought home and than insisting that you judged them to be unclassified. The investigation could also expose her aides to criminal questioning under the threat of 18 U.S.C. 1001. That could lead to disclosure of what they were told and what they saw in the emails. It also means that the continued refusal of Clinton to turn over the server will be increasingly difficult to maintain.
As impressive as this exclusive statement is for the Times, there is a controversy over changes made at the request of the Clinton campaign that were not disclosed. Politico is reporting that the Clinton campaign insisted on a change of a line that read that the inspector generals asked for an investigation “into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state.” That was changed to “into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state.” The headline was also changed from “Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email” to “Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account.” Both changes are obviously designed to give Clinton a little deniability as to her own role and accountability. However, she has never denied being fully aware that she was electing to circumvent the State Department account for her communications. Indeed, she has indicated that it was a conscious decision based on her earlier views of convenience and multiple phones. Her repeatedly claim that she was never subject to a subpoena has been described as false by media like CNN after it was disclosed that she had indeed been given a subpoena for the emails.
If there is an investigation, this means that Clinton will have to continue much of her campaign facing a possible criminal indictment and subject to questioning from investigators. It will also mean that media will be hard pressed to ignore the story or accept the past soundbites on convenience or political motivations. It also means that, while Clinton has described the release of the emails as “kind of fun,” it is about to get a lot less fun.
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“Off topic, mea Culpa mea Culpa, please forgive me. The shooter in Lafayette theater shootings seems to be a right wing nut. A member of the Tea Party. An angry man.”
Did you anxiously blog about these DEMOCRATS below too?
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https://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louisiana-gunman-was-a-confederate-flag-flying-tea-party-kook-who-hated-obama-and-admired-hitler/
Oh and he apparently liked Hitler.
“Houser was evicted last year from a rental property on 32nd Street, where his estranged wife owns a home that can be seen flying a Confederate flag on a Google maps search. It’s not clear whether he lived at the home when the photo was taken.
Posts on other forums reveal Houser’s belief that the U.S. was racist against white people, sterilization should be mandatory for welfare recipients and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was a more historically significant figure than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hitler accomplished far more than any other through ‘pragmatically forming,’” Houser posted in January 2015.
He wrote something of a manifesto in March 2013, when he asked for help channeling his anger and frustration as a white Christian man living under President Barack Obama.
1 Recognize a lost cause.It is too late.The US is oozing the puss of foolishness and perversion.
2 Find a positive way to exert your energies.I recommend laughing as often as possible.Here is something that is truly funny: since I accepted this it came to me that the president is doing exactly what Tim McVeigh did,only the president is much more effective.The way I see it,the faster he wrecks this nation, which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned,the faster working people with morals may re-assume command.ie I was for his re-election. I like his spending habits.etc……Truth and death always go hand in hand, and in our brave moments we can laugh. Whatever truth requires, I will accept.
3 Encourage whatever takes us forward. Right now, down is forward.
4 For the few who will understand this, it is my hope that you will see to one preparation for the coming downfall, which will be worse than a Mad Max scenario. That preparation is not storing up canned goods, munitions,etc, but to gather what will be necessary to put in your families food to insure a painless and certain death should the need arise.,if there are no cell phones,no TV,no power,gas,no stores,no police,etc.
5 If you are male, fight until the end, and enjoy it.People are good at what they enjoy, and your Maker would want it that way.”
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This guy sounds like some of the commenter’s here, now that is frightening.
The Progressive Grand Inquisitor thinks it is endearing how US subjects cling to to the idea that there is a “rule of law” and that Dear Leader must follow it.
Rules only apply to Enemies of the State, and as such are capricious.
http://news.yahoo.com/john-russell-houser–what-we-know-about-louisiana-movie-theater-shooting-suspect-134806223.html
Off topic, mea Culpa mea Culpa, please forgive me. The shooter in Lafayette theater shootings seems to be a right wing nut. A member of the Tea Party. An angry man.
“Progressives are responsible for things like the 8 hr work day, paid vacations, anti-child labor laws, universal secondary public education, unions, ending slavery”
LMAO! Try again!
Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered black teachers.
Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, was a well-known and proud and accomplished “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage ….. other staunch opponents and uber-racist/disgraceful participants included Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr.,and none other than LBJ and JFK.
Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Lincoln and King were murdered by Democrats.
January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
May 6, 1960
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV)
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
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Democrats opposed and/or filibustered:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Freeman Bureau
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United States Civil Rights Commission
“I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a ni**er or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a ni**er from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.”
-Democrat Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess
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“I am a former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.”
— Former Klansman and US Senator (D) Robert Byrd (1946)
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“These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means.”
— Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama
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LBJ explained his real motives to two governors aboard Air Force One as chronicled in Ronald Kessler’s “Inside The White House”: “[If we pass a voter-rights bill] I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years!”
— Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)
Donald Trump was very supportive of Democratic policies and even voted for Obama, in 2008. He’s a businessman and will support those who support him, but the Liberal and Democratic policies have completely turned him off and he’s against them now. He has seen how this country is being turned into a toilet for all to defecate in.
I like Trump and Cruz.
Now that’s a bombshell, especially as it is coming from the agencies and therefore cannot be dismissed as partisan. Is it intended to erase questions by concluding before the race is really underway? Or is it a legitimate inquiry? Interesting to watch.
“Any released emails deemed classified by the administration have been done so after the fact, and not at the time they were transmitted,” it read.
To follow up on JT’s criticism this standard would effectively allow anyone to disclose anything, since nothing can be classified before a review. This is in keeping with the Clintonian parsing tradition such as claiming there is no evidence the Clintons altered policy in exchange for contributions to their foundation.
Who wants to carry two cell phones? Most of us have trouble keeping track of one.
http://youtu.be/cTBroyoYXA0
“I gave money to Hillary, Reid, Pelosy …”
Donald Trump says he identifies as a Democrat.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/
“(CNN)Before Donald Trump was a front-running Republican presidential candidate, the real estate mogul believed that the nation’s economy ran better when Democrats were in control and that Hillary Clinton would be a strong negotiator with foreign nations.
“In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat,” Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview. “It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn’t be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. …But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we’ve had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans.”
“Hillary’s always surrounded herself with very good people. I think Hillary would do a good job,” Trump said in another interview with Blitzer.”
Progressives are responsible for things like the 8 hr work day, paid vacations, anti-child labor laws, universal secondary public education, unions, ending slavery, extending the protections of the Constitution to individuals in the states. anti-trust legislation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc…
Maybe somebody can cite what conservatives have done, apart from building Hoover Dam.
randyjet wrote: “Progressives are responsible for things like the 8 hr work day, paid vacations, anti-child labor laws, universal secondary public education, unions, ending slavery, extending the protections of the Constitution to individuals in the states. anti-trust legislation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc…”
Although there are serious factual blunders in some of what you claim here, notably in regards to the claim of ending slavery, what you don’t get is that millions of people disagree with these policies. If people want to work longer than 8 hours, let them. I personally work 14 to 16 hour days. Young people need to learn a work ethic, but the liberals have destroyed that. It is against the law for businesses to hire children and young teenagers. The schools should be hiring children to sweep the floors and clean the bathrooms. If a business hires 16 and 17 year olds, they have to disrupt the business by providing them extra breaks, so many restaurants choose not to hire under 18 so everyone gets breaks at the same time. The labor laws that liberals have pushed have destroyed our economy and it causes a taker mentality among workers that is destroying us from the inside out. Thanks to progressive liberals, I am not even allowed to let my employees clock out for any kind of break less than 20 minutes unless I pay them. I’m even forced to pay them to smoke cigarettes. I am basically buying them their cigarettes for them if they take less than 20 minutes on a smoke break. The non-smokers, in contrast, are actually working for their pay rather than loafing on smoke breaks. I am more than happy to pay for gym membership for my employees, but I have conscience problems being forced to pay them to support their smoking habit. All the labor laws promote an adversarial relationship between business management and the work force. Management is forced to create a structured environment to comply with the laws that actually results in less breaks to their employees and worse working conditions. The labor laws also force many businesses to move their workforce to other countries in order to be competitive.
Even my own children cannot be raised to have a good work ethic because the progressives are constantly teaching them that their parents abuse them if they make them work. They are constantly taught in public education that society and their parents owe them everything. There is no teaching to the child about his or her duty and obligation toward their family and society. As for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, again, it destroys this country because people do not learn to work for what they get. It is all about how to manipulate the system to take from others. The programs are bankrupting the nation, and we just borrow more money from China to prop them up. If these are your accomplishments, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Clinton sent a lot of emails from her personal, not government server.
Clinton sent classified, or what should have been classified information
Clinton, when caught destroyed the emails that she sent.
HOWEVER, you can’t destroy emails that were sent, because somebody received them and unless everyone who was a recipient of the communications or who forwarded them on to others…..ALL destroyed the emails and removed them from their servers as well.. Those emails still exist.
Somebody has this information. Probably a LOT of somebodies have this information.
Hillary is as dumb as a post when it comes to many things. Technology is obviously is one of those things.
Lisa,
VP Biden is a frisky dude. Did he hook up with guy called Bill Cosby?
What is a “liberal”? George Bush was quite liberal when he invaded the wrong Eye country– Iraq not Iran. Liberals live in places like Kennybunkport. Nixon was a liberal when he bombed Hanoi. Ike was a liberal when he warned us about the Military Industrial Complex the last day he was in office. Hillary is not a liberal. Ask Donald Trump who the liberals are.
If you want to criticize Hillary then criticize her for not hitting Monica over the head with a frying pan.
I am on the plane at the airport in DC with my cell phone and I say to my daughter: I will be home in a week. Take out the trash early and often.
Classified huh?
This BS is old BS. It does not even stink.
“In the end what matters is an intelligent progressive President. Two in a row might just do some good. A Republican President would set this country back a generation. Ah, the good old days.”
The word “Progressive” is also used in description of Cancer that kills people. Perfect word to use for a Liberal, I’d say.
Dan
The communications lies in state of presumptive classification as they circulate thru the government email system on supposedly secure servers. Before any release to the public, as for a FOIA request, an actual review is made. The normal course of such communications do not run thru the public.
LOL! Lisa w/ the Biden knockout!
Dan,
If that’s what you want to believe, that’s your prerogative.