The 14 most damaging things said about Clinton’s emails at the FBI press briefing
By Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow)
FBI Director James Comey has recommended no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to conduct official government business. And while Clinton is nearly guaranteed to face no criminal indictment now, there was a lot in Comey’s press statement that was damaging to the former secretary of state and should be used against her in the general elections.
1. Clinton lied about using just one device for emails
In March 2015, Clinton said she used the personal email account out of “convenience,” because she “thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” We already knew she lied about this, but now we have the FBI director saying so.
“Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send email on that personal domain,” Comey said.
2. Clinton lied about no classified information being sent from her private server
The obvious first question to this is: Then how did the secretary of state send classified information?
But more to the point, Clinton said just this past Sunday that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified,” but we now have FBI confirmation that that was not true.
“From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received,” Comey said.
“Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification.”
In addition, another 2,000 emails were “up-classified” to make them confidential.
3. There were work emails not turned over by Clinton
Comey didn’t believe there was anything purposeful about this, merely that Clinton, her aides and her lawyers weren’t that great at sorting her emails, because they didn’t read the content and instead “relied on header information and used search terms” to find work-related emails.
But the FBI found thousands of additional work-related emails on her servers, and of those, three “were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the secret level and two at the confidential level.”
4. Her lawyers took steps to ensure additional emails wouldn’t be found
Comey said: “It is also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.”
Why were those emails deleted this way while the investigation was ongoing?
5. The FBI director called Clinton ‘extremely careless’
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey said.
And this is a woman that should be elected to the nation’s highest office? How can she be trusted with anything at this point, given how recklessly she and her team handled emails during her time at the State Department?
6. Clinton ‘should have known’ her system was unsafe
“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” Comey said.
This goes back to the “extremely careless” comment. Clinton was sending and receiving emails regarding classified information on a private server. She should have considered all of her work communications to be more in need of security than could be provided by a home-brew server.
7. The level of incompetence/carelessness was astounding
“None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at departments and agencies of the U.S. government — or even with a commercial service like Gmail,” Comey said.
Great, a woman in charge of national security matters was using an email server less secure than what I use to send cat videos to my mom.
8. Clinton should have known her subject matter was classified
Even information that was not marked as “classified” should have been handled better, Comey said.
“Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” he said. “But even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
Clinton and her team willfully disregarded national security while she was secretary of state, as her treatment of email shows.
9. Security culture at State under Clinton was ‘generally lacking’
Beyond her emails, the entire “security culture” of the State Department with regard to using unclassified emails was “generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government,” Comey said.
Again, and I can’t stress this enough, this is a woman Democrats want to be in charge of the country and its secrets?
10. People who emailed with Clinton had their email accounts hacked
Did you email Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state? Bad news, “hostile actors” now have access to your email accounts.
11. It ‘is possible’ that Clinton’s email servers were hacked
Comey said they did not find “direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.” He added, however, that “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.”
Was there indirect evidence that her emails may have been hacked? If the email accounts of those she emailed with were hacked, it stands to reason that anything she sent over the server was also hacked.
Comey said as much when he noted that Clinton “used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.” He added that “it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”
12. Clinton potentially violated federal law, even if the FBI recommended no charges
Comey laid it all out: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
So, basically, she probably violated the law but let’s just let her go. And why would “no reasonable prosecutor” bring this case? Let me put on my tin foil hat for a moment and suggest it’s because of a fear of retribution from people named Clinton.
13. People in similar situations would face sanctions
So Clinton won’t be indicted, but Comey suggested a similarly situated person would be “often subject to security or administrative sanctions.”
It’s unlikely Clinton will receive such sanctions, and it seems like that’s simply because she is a Clinton. Some of those sanctions include losing security clearance. We face a potential president who wouldn’t have access to classified information because of her own negligence/incompetence.
14. Clinton didn’t intentionally do this, she was just that stupid
I don’t actually buy that there was no intent behind Clinton’s actions, since she and her team clearly set up the servers and continuously replaced them throughout her tenure. That’s pretty clear “intentional and willful mishandling of classified information,” even if Comey says it’s not.
But from what I gather from Comey’s statement, Clinton will get away with this because there wasn’t some insidious intent to give away classified information. She and her team were just so reckless and incompetent that they did so by accident.
Suddenly, everyone who has ever been charged with negligence has a reason to question their conviction. “Oh you broke the law? Well, you didn’t mean to, so you’re off the hook.” Yeah, that doesn’t happen. But it does if your last name is Clinton.
For sure, somebody has all the emails. My guess: China, Russia and Israel plus a possible free lancer or two. Any possibility the could be purchased ny an interested party? What would the major powers gain from the possession of this info? Blackmail potential which would eliminate the need for bribery. The Chinese know her and Bill from long ago, things are cosy there. Israel knows it will always come out ahead no matter what crises or “black swain” appears no problem. Russia is there any chance Shillery Clinton will blunder into a Wesley Clark type showdown hoping to humilate Putin and back him down?
For sure, somebody has all the emails. My guess: China, Russia and Israel plus a possible free lancer or two. Any possibility the could be purchased by an interested party? Inquiering minds want to know. What would these major powers gain from the possession of this info? Blackmail potential which would eliminate the need for bribery. The Chinese know her and Bill from long ago, things are cosy there. Israel knows it will always come out ahead no matter what crises or “black swain” appears no problem ever. Russia? is there any chance Shillery will blunder into a Wesley Clark type showdown hoping to humilate Putin and back him down? Would Putin like a new cold war? Why be coy? Release it and help us try to get free.
Yes Mr. Q, precisely what Madame Deficit (aka Marie Antoinette) believed right up until the blade was unleashed on October 16 1793.
And here we are just eight days away from the 227th anniversary of the French people saying “enough is enough” and storming the Bastille. Gov. Bernard-Rene De Launay, protector of the Bastille, had his head removed, placed on a stick and paraded through the city by the fed up mob. Now I’m not suggesting anything, but……….When is enough enough? The elite’s treatment of the citizenry in our ersatz Republic is nothing short of disgraceful, despicable and disgusting.
Rise Up
July 6, 2016 1:32 pm
I hope that video doesn’t become a Trump campaign ad, because the goofy background music takes away the seriousness of this whole sordid affair.
Anonymous
July 6, 2016 2:09 pm
Does the brown on his mouth mean he and Hillary are going steady?Move over Huma!
Anonymous
July 6, 2016 2:10 pm
Just a sneak peak at why they want peasants right to arms abolished.
Many in the EU wish they had the right to own guns. They know the Islam scum will bring in illegal weapons and bring death and fear to the Europeans (white). The police will do nothing.
Anonymous
July 6, 2016 5:36 pm
Maybe Comey’s just smart enough to realize going against the Clinton’s has a tendency to be fatal.
Suzanna
July 7, 2016 12:40 am
Just absurd, and, and, almost beyond comprehension.
FBI says she broke the law but she didn’t intend to break
the law. Furthermore, why do all her jackets look like Walmart Rugs?
The 14 most damaging things said about Clinton’s emails at the FBI press briefing
By Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow)
FBI Director James Comey has recommended no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to conduct official government business. And while Clinton is nearly guaranteed to face no criminal indictment now, there was a lot in Comey’s press statement that was damaging to the former secretary of state and should be used against her in the general elections.
1. Clinton lied about using just one device for emails
In March 2015, Clinton said she used the personal email account out of “convenience,” because she “thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” We already knew she lied about this, but now we have the FBI director saying so.
“Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send email on that personal domain,” Comey said.
2. Clinton lied about no classified information being sent from her private server
The obvious first question to this is: Then how did the secretary of state send classified information?
But more to the point, Clinton said just this past Sunday that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified,” but we now have FBI confirmation that that was not true.
“From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received,” Comey said.
“Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification.”
In addition, another 2,000 emails were “up-classified” to make them confidential.
3. There were work emails not turned over by Clinton
Comey didn’t believe there was anything purposeful about this, merely that Clinton, her aides and her lawyers weren’t that great at sorting her emails, because they didn’t read the content and instead “relied on header information and used search terms” to find work-related emails.
But the FBI found thousands of additional work-related emails on her servers, and of those, three “were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the secret level and two at the confidential level.”
4. Her lawyers took steps to ensure additional emails wouldn’t be found
Comey said: “It is also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.”
Why were those emails deleted this way while the investigation was ongoing?
5. The FBI director called Clinton ‘extremely careless’
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey said.
And this is a woman that should be elected to the nation’s highest office? How can she be trusted with anything at this point, given how recklessly she and her team handled emails during her time at the State Department?
6. Clinton ‘should have known’ her system was unsafe
“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” Comey said.
This goes back to the “extremely careless” comment. Clinton was sending and receiving emails regarding classified information on a private server. She should have considered all of her work communications to be more in need of security than could be provided by a home-brew server.
7. The level of incompetence/carelessness was astounding
“None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at departments and agencies of the U.S. government — or even with a commercial service like Gmail,” Comey said.
Great, a woman in charge of national security matters was using an email server less secure than what I use to send cat videos to my mom.
8. Clinton should have known her subject matter was classified
Even information that was not marked as “classified” should have been handled better, Comey said.
“Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” he said. “But even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
Clinton and her team willfully disregarded national security while she was secretary of state, as her treatment of email shows.
9. Security culture at State under Clinton was ‘generally lacking’
Beyond her emails, the entire “security culture” of the State Department with regard to using unclassified emails was “generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government,” Comey said.
Again, and I can’t stress this enough, this is a woman Democrats want to be in charge of the country and its secrets?
10. People who emailed with Clinton had their email accounts hacked
Did you email Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state? Bad news, “hostile actors” now have access to your email accounts.
11. It ‘is possible’ that Clinton’s email servers were hacked
Comey said they did not find “direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.” He added, however, that “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.”
Was there indirect evidence that her emails may have been hacked? If the email accounts of those she emailed with were hacked, it stands to reason that anything she sent over the server was also hacked.
Comey said as much when he noted that Clinton “used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.” He added that “it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”
12. Clinton potentially violated federal law, even if the FBI recommended no charges
Comey laid it all out: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
So, basically, she probably violated the law but let’s just let her go. And why would “no reasonable prosecutor” bring this case? Let me put on my tin foil hat for a moment and suggest it’s because of a fear of retribution from people named Clinton.
13. People in similar situations would face sanctions
So Clinton won’t be indicted, but Comey suggested a similarly situated person would be “often subject to security or administrative sanctions.”
It’s unlikely Clinton will receive such sanctions, and it seems like that’s simply because she is a Clinton. Some of those sanctions include losing security clearance. We face a potential president who wouldn’t have access to classified information because of her own negligence/incompetence.
14. Clinton didn’t intentionally do this, she was just that stupid
I don’t actually buy that there was no intent behind Clinton’s actions, since she and her team clearly set up the servers and continuously replaced them throughout her tenure. That’s pretty clear “intentional and willful mishandling of classified information,” even if Comey says it’s not.
But from what I gather from Comey’s statement, Clinton will get away with this because there wasn’t some insidious intent to give away classified information. She and her team were just so reckless and incompetent that they did so by accident.
Suddenly, everyone who has ever been charged with negligence has a reason to question their conviction. “Oh you broke the law? Well, you didn’t mean to, so you’re off the hook.” Yeah, that doesn’t happen. But it does if your last name is Clinton.
For sure, somebody has all the emails. My guess: China, Russia and Israel plus a possible free lancer or two. Any possibility the could be purchased ny an interested party? What would the major powers gain from the possession of this info? Blackmail potential which would eliminate the need for bribery. The Chinese know her and Bill from long ago, things are cosy there. Israel knows it will always come out ahead no matter what crises or “black swain” appears no problem. Russia is there any chance Shillery Clinton will blunder into a Wesley Clark type showdown hoping to humilate Putin and back him down?
For sure, somebody has all the emails. My guess: China, Russia and Israel plus a possible free lancer or two. Any possibility the could be purchased by an interested party? Inquiering minds want to know. What would these major powers gain from the possession of this info? Blackmail potential which would eliminate the need for bribery. The Chinese know her and Bill from long ago, things are cosy there. Israel knows it will always come out ahead no matter what crises or “black swain” appears no problem ever. Russia? is there any chance Shillery will blunder into a Wesley Clark type showdown hoping to humilate Putin and back him down? Would Putin like a new cold war? Why be coy? Release it and help us try to get free.
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Yes Mr. Q, precisely what Madame Deficit (aka Marie Antoinette) believed right up until the blade was unleashed on October 16 1793.
And here we are just eight days away from the 227th anniversary of the French people saying “enough is enough” and storming the Bastille. Gov. Bernard-Rene De Launay, protector of the Bastille, had his head removed, placed on a stick and paraded through the city by the fed up mob. Now I’m not suggesting anything, but……….When is enough enough? The elite’s treatment of the citizenry in our ersatz Republic is nothing short of disgraceful, despicable and disgusting.
I hope that video doesn’t become a Trump campaign ad, because the goofy background music takes away the seriousness of this whole sordid affair.
Does the brown on his mouth mean he and Hillary are going steady?Move over Huma!
Just a sneak peak at why they want peasants right to arms abolished.
Many in the EU wish they had the right to own guns. They know the Islam scum will bring in illegal weapons and bring death and fear to the Europeans (white). The police will do nothing.
Maybe Comey’s just smart enough to realize going against the Clinton’s has a tendency to be fatal.
Just absurd, and, and, almost beyond comprehension.
FBI says she broke the law but she didn’t intend to break
the law. Furthermore, why do all her jackets look like Walmart Rugs?