The Clinton email scandal continues to get worse by the day with State Department officials directly contradicting the long-standing account given by Hillary Clinton. Clinton has long maintained that she turned over a portion of her emails (those not deleted as “personal”) after receiving a letter that went to her and three of her predecessors: Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice as a routine inquiry. The gist is that there was nothing alarming about her exclusive use of a server under her control rather than the secured State Department system. State Department officials now confirm that the request was specifically related to the discovery that Clinton was using a personal email system as her exclusive means of communication. This revelation occurs the same week that the FBI has announced that it has already retrieved some of the emails and that the Clinton staffers who “wiped” the system did a poor job that left the material easily accessible — deepening the earlier concerns over the presence of what is now confirmed to be classified material on Clinton’s unsecured server. The FBI sources described Clinton’s IT person as “not very good.”
The Washington Post also reported this week that the State Department first contacted Clinton about turning over the emails at least three months before the letter referenced by Clinton. The suggestion is that Clinton latched on the later letter to reinforce her insistence that there was nothing improper or irregular in her use of a personal server under her control as her exclusive means of email communications. Clinton has repeatedly stated that “When we were asked to help the State Department make sure they had everything from other secretaries of state, not just me, I’m the one who said, ‘Okay, great, I will go through them again.'”
However, State Department spokesman John Kirby told the Post that officials first asked Clinton to provide her emails in the summer of 2014 in response to document requests from the House select committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Kirby also noted that the later letter was actually prompted by the disclosure after the State Department was surprised to learn that it “did not have extensive email records from prior Secretaries of State and therefore included them when we requested their records in October 2014.”
Clinton was asked this week about the latest contradiction in her account but responded that “I don’t know that. I can’t answer that. All I know is that they sent the same letter to everybody. That’s my understanding.” The Des Moines Register said that Clinton repeatedly said “You’re telling me something I don’t know. All I know is what I have said. What I have said is it was allowed. The State Department has confirmed that. The same letter went to, as far as I know, my predecessors, and I’m the one who said, ‘Hey, I’ll be glad to help.'”
The bigger legal and political threat may be those retrieved emails. Clinton has insisted that none of the emails were “marked” classified — a fine distinction that I have previously questioned. As a federal court recently reaffirmed, she was clearly not in compliance with the standards set by the State Department. More importantly, much of her communications are considered presumptively classified and there is no one in her office actively stamping every email as classified in the discussion of State Department business. The retrieval of the emails raises the original question of the criteria used by Clinton’s aides in deleting thousands of emails. Clinton refused (until recently) to turn over the servers and insisted that it was left to her to unilaterally filter the emails. If some of those emails are found to be related to her office, it will magnify the controversy over the effort to first control her communications and then delete so many of the emails.
There is also a lingering danger of criminal charges both in the mishandling of classified information as well as potential violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001 for false statements for people involved in this controversy. These contradictions certainly do not help politically but they can also complicate an already precarious legal position.
“There’s a cancer growing on the Presidency.”
Whom did Hillary work for?
Who’s bidding did Hillary do?
Who was Hillary’s supervisor?
Who directed Hillary?
Did Hillary go rogue?
Where does the buck stop?
Dictators are tyrants dave…God is not a tyrant…He loves us and made us in His image…He loves us so much he allowed His Son to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind! ( yours and mine dave)!…thereby reversing the terminal effects of sin, that were an outgrowth of man’s initial transgression in the Garden of Eden…
JT: Just tell us who you want to be President. I guess Jeb or Trumpster. Molly Parton?
This article today gets Worst Of The Year! Award.
But if you are in the Russian Embassy in Iraq or some other hard place and you want to bitch about the toilets then go ahead and use the private email.
If people practiced monogamy, in a married state, we would have no use for condoms…which allow people to sin, by eradicating the fear of pregnancy and venereal disease…any of this sinkin’ in dave?
If you want to tell Putin something then write the message on paper, put it in the Diplomatic Pouch, fly it to Moscow, and have the Ambassador give it to him. When Putin talks then send the message back in a pouch on a plane to DC. So what if it takes a day and not a mini second.
Issac said it all correctly at his comment above at 1:17.
I will add one thing. “New revelations”?
What is a “revelation”?
What does the word “new” mean?
Pots calling kettle blacks. Next they will be saying “all pots matter”.
Actually I’m wasting my time with you…phantasmagoric?…LOL!…seriously, the only person you are impressing with your over the top verbosity is you my friend…your contempt for religion and Catholicism as a whole is quite striking…methinks you hate it because you are aware of it’s truths…AB Fulton Sheen said, the truth is still the truth if the whole world save one rejects it…and falsehoods are still false if the entire world embraces it, save one…do you grasp the implication dave…I have presented plenty of material to discuss dave…prove me wrong…
Preaching nonsense to children consequently reduces their potential to think critically and to see reality as it is (are we biological creatures with deep ancestry dating back billions of years or was the first woman born from a bone fragment! in a phantasmagoric garden); engaging in a kind of genocide by preaching the wickedness of condoms; and so forth. Maybe empathy is lacking on your end, Bart. Not very Christ-like.
Ah more of the same. A bigot, a phony, and a hater. Powerful retorts, Bart. Might lend yourself some credibility though if instead you argue substance. Pathetically labeling has little to do with the topic.
(I know, I know, I’m wasting my time with him.)
The Flying Spaghetti Monster will not be pleased with you, Bart.
(Yikes.)
Dave despises Catholicism…but not it’s adherents?…what did Catholicism ever do to negatively impact your life or livelihood Dave?…sound’s like a bigot to me…a phony…you’re not being intellectually honest Dave…you’re a hater bud!
Let’s see now, she set up a personal server system and used it. Previous SOSs used Google openly. She sent and received hundreds of thousands of emails. She is not a tech wizard. She designed a system that would give her authority over what she was doing and privacy. She bobbed and weaved, slipped and slid, and tried to avoid as much bad press as possible. When the entire affair had been pretty much deflated, she admitted it was not the correct thing to do-good political move, very smart. She has been tarred and feathered yet lazy attorneys keep piling it on at every sorry article that comes out. She said this and someone, after digging deeper, has found out that she made a mistake. OK she is a slime ball politician that places herself above the crowd. But she is the best slime ball politician that places herself above the crowd for the job.
Ya got yer slime ball Trump.
Ya got yer slime ball Carson.
Ya got yer slime ball Christie.
Ya got yer slime ball Fiorina.
An so on.
Come on JT, move on.
Confucius was a man…nothing more…Jesus is God, the Second Person of the Trinity…Jesus rose from the dead, on His own power, people saw Him crucified and saw Him leave the tomb…He ascended into Heaven and people witnessed this as well. Zeus is fake, so is Neptune, Isis and all other man made deities. Confucius may have been a clever philosopher, but this is where his skills and talents end, as he is a mere mortal…Jesus is the King of the Universe…The book of Genesis says…”Let Us go down and make man in Our image…even in the Old Testament God refers to himself in the Plural…one God, three Divine Persons…
Rick, be specific.
Paul: That’s her challenge thanks to a legal team, yes, but she doesn’t strike me as someone trying to sculpt a better society through the challenging of policy; she’s more like, er, a bigoted religious loon who can’t keep it to herself and just reacted to something she personally dislikes — and used her office to push her own views through.
And Bart: I’m not bigoted toward Catholics; I despise Catholicism — there’s a difference — and all versions of totalitarian religious hooey. Someone who claims to know things they clearly do not, is a charlatan. Which is why in science we often hear “I don’t know” — and it’s an honesty that builds trust, particularly when there exist real results. Conversely, the religious *know* not only that there’s a sky-dictator but also that it’s a specific one. (Not Zeus though. How silly that would be.)
And I do love all this Golden Rule murmuring. As if Jesus was the first to say it. (Confucius uttered it centuries before the literal invention of Christianity…)
Dave
“It is America’s shame that we have royalty like Hillary Clinton to whom the laws do not apply in the same way that they do to the common folk.”
What, like Hobby Lobby, Kim Davis, et al.?
It’s quite interesting Dave uses this example to point out others’ hypocrisy without recognizing it also highlights his own.
Rick wrote: “What, like Hobby Lobby, Kim Davis, et al.?”
Yes, those are excellent examples of the common folk who have been oppressed by government entanglement.
Rick wrote: “It’s quite interesting Dave uses this example to point out others’ hypocrisy without recognizing it also highlights his own.”
Your comparison doesn’t work. Hillary Clinton wasn’t put in jail for her convictions. She can do whatever she wants, even break federal law, and nobody charges her with anything. Hobby Lobby and Kim Davis, however, are drug into court after court.
The Pope should have quoted AB Fulton J. Sheen and Social Justice advocate St. Thomas More…and he should be more vociferous in the condemnation of abortion and same sex marriage…both are gravely sinful and both sins are so grave, “they cry to heaven for vengeance”…sodomy along with defrauding a man of his just wage, are sins that “cry to heaven for vengeance” as does murder, which is what abortion is…pure and simple…hard to put a pink ribbon on abortion…a horrific, reprehensible act…
Much Ado About Nuttin. Nuttn new either. So do not use your emails on anything private. Like yakking on this blog even. So JT, you said before that you had “clearance” or some crap. Do you have a government email server? Do you only use that?
Those who write on shithouse walls and all that.
This Hillary story needs some meat on the bones. All I have seen today is stink on a cigar story.
I met dave…not knave…my bad