Tuesday, July 5, 2016

FBI: Everything Hillary Said About Emails Was a Lie. But No Prosecution



FBI: Everything Hillary Said About Emails Was a Lie. But No Prosecution
by Joel B. Pollak 5 Jul 2016
FBI director James Comey announced on Tuesday morning that he would not be recommending that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be prosecuted for mis-handling classified information. But in the course of his presentation, he demonstrated that literally everything she and her campaign had told America about her email servers was a complete lie.

1. FALSE: Hillary Clinton never sent any classified information, or emails containing information marked “classified.” Comey concluded that “a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.” He also noted: “even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.” And he noted:

From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. 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. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

2. FALSE: Hillary Clinton turned over all work-related emails to the State Department. Comey: “The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014.” He added that Clinton’s lawyers left those out because they “did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails.” And he added that : “three of those [deleted e-mails] were classified at the time they were sent or received.”

3. FALSE: Hillary Clinton was allowed to use a private e-mail server. Comey noted 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” some of the information she was sharing. And he concluded that she was “extremely careless” with classified information, though he would not recommend prosecution.

4. FALSE: Hillary Clinton’s server was not hacked by foreign adversaries. Clinton claimed it was impossible that her server was hacked. But Comey said: “She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.”

5. FALSE: Hillary Clinton had only used a single mobile device for email.
Comey noted the use of multiple e-mail devices, and multiple servers: “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 e-mail on that personal domain.”

6. FALSE: Hillary Clinton’s lawyers had read every single one of her emails before deleting the “personal” ones. As Time notes:

Clinton press secretary Nick Merrill previously told TIME that her attorneys had individually read every email to determine if it was a government document or personal correspondence. “Every one of the more than 60,000 emails were read. Period,” Merrill wrote in one email to a TIME reporter dated March 14, 2015.

The FBI concluded that this claim was false.

If anything demonstrates intent, it is surely Clinton’s repeated evasion of the law, and her constant lies and cover-ups.

But the Department of Justice will certainly decline to prosecute, meaning that only the voters can keep Hillary Clinton out of office.

This post has been updated with new information — specifically, items #4, #5, and #6.

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton was a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and is the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Note: Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Human Rights Watch.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.  
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
John J. Studzinski is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the Human Rights Watch, and was a co-head of investment banking at HSBC Holdings plc.
HSBC Holdings plc was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
James B. Comey was a director at HSBC Holdings plc, a deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the director for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Robert S. Mueller III was a director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an acting deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Howard M. Shapiro was a general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Cameron F. Kerry was an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, John F. Kerry’s brother, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
John F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s brother, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is married to John F. Kerry, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Thomas R. Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), was the under secretary at the U.S. Department of State, and a chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013.
John J. Studzinski is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the Human Rights Watch, and was a co-head of investment banking at HSBC Holdings plc.
HSBC Holdings plc was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
James B. Comey was a director at HSBC Holdings plc, a deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the director for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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