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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