Hillary Clinton's post-convention bounce runs into a familiar wall: Emails

[ducks]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-emails-20160805-snap-story.html

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Meanwhile:

http://oi66.tinypic.com/33c3l03.jpg

[Splits]

Hillary Clinton's emails bounce into wall: ducks' post-run convention

[Reck]

Fuckkkkkkkkkk there goes the elections. Trump: flawless victory!

:cry

[boutons_deux]

For Those Who Don’t Get It, Here’s Hillary Clinton’s Imaginary Email Problem Explained

it's still going on months after the FBI concluded there was no evidence of intentional wrong-doing.

Almost all politicians in executive branch positions have an email scandal in their background (the House and Senate are not subject to FOIA laws).

Well, at least the Republicans who have run for President and VP in the last eight years.

Those stories the press ignored, largely because the public really doesn’t care.

Hillary Clinton was repeatedly the most admired woman politician in the world.

She was going to run for President in 2016 and Republicans had no one to run against her except Jeb Bush (branding problem) and no dirt on her, save for their other conspiracy theories they planted in the public’s mind when Bill Clinton was President.

So Republicans came up with a very effective idea to use their leadership in the House of Representatives to “investigate” Hillary Clinton’s emails for a year.

They turned up nothing embarrassing save for classified versus unclassified drama and missing emails (another thing Republicans can hardly claim is a real problem).

No worries, though, because the point was to investigate her again.

This was concurrent with years long Republican-led Benghazi investigations into Clinton that also went nowhere.

Sensing a political agenda yet?

Then the FBI delivered the fatal blow, coming from a Republican Director no less, that Hillary Clinton hadn’t done anything criminal.

She had been “careless”.

But she had also not deliberately deleted emails.

She also didn’t know the emails were classified (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/democratic-congressman-busts-fox-news-editing-video-clinton-email-comments.html).

There was NO THERE THERE.

Careless is nothing compared to Mitt Romney’s deliberate avoidance of FOIA laws (https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2011/11/17/before-leaving-governor-office-mitt-romney-staff-eliminated-mail-records/xIVEQd87zi0X0tl8KrXKYM/story.html) by taking the computer equipment with him and his staff, as “the Romney administration’s e-mails were all wiped from a server.” Furthermore, “‘The governor’s office has found no e-mails from 2002-2006 in our possession…

Before the current administration took office, the computers used during that time period were replaced and the server used during that time period was taken out of service, all files were removed from it, and it was also replaced.’”

Or Scott Walker’s private router (https://www.google.com/#q=scott+walker+private+email+server+county+execut ive)as county executive, that he used to mix campaign business with taxpayer funded county business for which two Walker aides were convicted of misconduct. “Two Walker aides who used the private router were later convicted of misconduct in office for doing political work while they were being paid by taxpayers.”

Or Jeb Bush’s two private email addresses scandal. (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/25/republican-emails-games-backfire-private-jeb-bush-email-account-uncovered.html)Republicans can’t even afford to have this conversation since there is evidence that several of them deliberately hid emails or had aides actually convicted (which is sort of like being investigated for years and coming up not guilty, but NOT), but that doesn’t stop their complete hypocrisy in alleging that Clinton has a problem with trust or being dishonest.

To those whose last hope rests upon the idea that she was “careless” and can’t be trusted with classified information, I give you Sarah Palin’s hacked Yahoo account upon which she conducted state business for Alaska, allegedly in charge of keeping Putin at bay over our airspace.

If it’s the designation of classified upon which some are hanging their last hopes, Former Sec. of State Colin Powell explained that the State Department retroactively classified some of his emails (http://state%20department%E2%80%99s%20bureaucratic%20retr oactive%20classification%20of%20emails/) and refused to release them to the public in their retroactive classifying binge.

Powell also admitted that he used a private email account for public business (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/08/republican-colin-powell-deals-death-blow-hillary-clinton-email-scandal.html)while holding the same office as Clinton.

According to Sen. Chuck Schumer, Clinton’s private email system was even based on the system that Powell used and they couldn’t find a majority of Powell’s emails.

I could go on and on with other politician’s email scandals, and Donald Trump who hasn’t even been in an office (any office) subjected to FOIA laws, stands accused of destroying email evidence in a lawsuit- so the odds that he would conduct himself on par with Clinton are low.

Chances are he would be worse than careless.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/hillary-clintons-non-existent-email-problem-explained.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Democratic Congressman Busts Fox News For Editing Video Of FBI Clinton Email Comments

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) took apart Fox News for editing video and leaving out key comments while trying to smear Hillary Clinton during an interview on Fox News Sunday.
It is not a coincidence that the media, especially Fox News and conservative-leaning outlets,became obsessed again with Hillary Clinton’s emails after a wave of polls showed Donald Trump tanking as the Republican nominee. (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/hillary-clintons-non-existent-email-problem-explained.html)

A favorite trick of Fox News is the deceptive video edit, and nowhere has the right been guilty of more deceptive editing and parsing that FBI Director’s comments about Hillary Clinton’s emails.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/democratic-congressman-busts-fox-news-editing-video-clinton-email-comments.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Fox Repug lie and slander network, O'Keefe vids, CMP vids, ALL TOTAL LIES. :lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

For Those Who Don’t Get It, Here’s Hillary Clinton’s Imaginary Email Problem Explained

it's still going on months after the FBI concluded there was no evidence of intentional wrong-doing.

Almost all politicians in executive branch positions have an email scandal in their background (the House and Senate are not subject to FOIA laws).

Well, at least the Republicans who have run for President and VP in the last eight years.

Those stories the press ignored, largely because the public really doesn’t care.

Hillary Clinton was repeatedly the most admired woman politician in the world.

She was going to run for President in 2016 and Republicans had no one to run against her except Jeb Bush (branding problem) and no dirt on her, save for their other conspiracy theories they planted in the public’s mind when Bill Clinton was President.

So Republicans came up with a very effective idea to use their leadership in the House of Representatives to “investigate” Hillary Clinton’s emails for a year.

They turned up nothing embarrassing save for classified versus unclassified drama and missing emails (another thing Republicans can hardly claim is a real problem).

No worries, though, because the point was to investigate her again.

This was concurrent with years long Republican-led Benghazi investigations into Clinton that also went nowhere.

Sensing a political agenda yet?

Then the FBI delivered the fatal blow, coming from a Republican Director no less, that Hillary Clinton hadn’t done anything criminal.

She had been “careless”.

But she had also not deliberately deleted emails.

She also didn’t know the emails were classified (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/democratic-congressman-busts-fox-news-editing-video-clinton-email-comments.html).

There was NO THERE THERE.

Careless is nothing compared to Mitt Romney’s deliberate avoidance of FOIA laws (https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2011/11/17/before-leaving-governor-office-mitt-romney-staff-eliminated-mail-records/xIVEQd87zi0X0tl8KrXKYM/story.html) by taking the computer equipment with him and his staff, as “the Romney administration’s e-mails were all wiped from a server.” Furthermore, “‘The governor’s office has found no e-mails from 2002-2006 in our possession…

Before the current administration took office, the computers used during that time period were replaced and the server used during that time period was taken out of service, all files were removed from it, and it was also replaced.’”

Or Scott Walker’s private router (https://www.google.com/#q=scott+walker+private+email+server+county+execut ive)as county executive, that he used to mix campaign business with taxpayer funded county business for which two Walker aides were convicted of misconduct. “Two Walker aides who used the private router were later convicted of misconduct in office for doing political work while they were being paid by taxpayers.”

Or Jeb Bush’s two private email addresses scandal. (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/25/republican-emails-games-backfire-private-jeb-bush-email-account-uncovered.html)Republicans can’t even afford to have this conversation since there is evidence that several of them deliberately hid emails or had aides actually convicted (which is sort of like being investigated for years and coming up not guilty, but NOT), but that doesn’t stop their complete hypocrisy in alleging that Clinton has a problem with trust or being dishonest.

To those whose last hope rests upon the idea that she was “careless” and can’t be trusted with classified information, I give you Sarah Palin’s hacked Yahoo account upon which she conducted state business for Alaska, allegedly in charge of keeping Putin at bay over our airspace.

If it’s the designation of classified upon which some are hanging their last hopes, Former Sec. of State Colin Powell explained that the State Department retroactively classified some of his emails (http://state%20department%E2%80%99s%20bureaucratic%20retr oactive%20classification%20of%20emails/) and refused to release them to the public in their retroactive classifying binge.

Powell also admitted that he used a private email account for public business (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/08/republican-colin-powell-deals-death-blow-hillary-clinton-email-scandal.html)while holding the same office as Clinton.

According to Sen. Chuck Schumer, Clinton’s private email system was even based on the system that Powell used and they couldn’t find a majority of Powell’s emails.

I could go on and on with other politician’s email scandals, and Donald Trump who hasn’t even been in an office (any office) subjected to FOIA laws, stands accused of destroying email evidence in a lawsuit- so the odds that he would conduct himself on par with Clinton are low.

Chances are he would be worse than careless.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/07/hillary-clintons-non-existent-email-problem-explained.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29


:lol imagined



During an extended exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Comey affirmed that the FBI's investigation found information marked classified on her server even after Clinton had said that she had neither sent nor received any items marked classified.
"That is not true," Comey said. "There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents."
Asked whether Clinton's testimony that she did not email "any classified material to anyone on my email" and "there is no classified material" was true, Comey responded, "No, there was classified material emailed."
"Secretary Clinton said she used one device. Was that true?" Gowdy asked, to which Comey answered, "She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state."
Gowdy then asked whether it was true that Clinton, as she said, returned all work-related emails to the State Department.
"No, we found work-related emails, thousands that were not returned," Comey said.
"Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work-related emails from her personal account. Was that true?" Gowdy asked.
"That's a harder one to answer," Comey responded. "We found traces of work-related emails in, on devices or in slack space. Whether they were deleted or whether when a server changed out something happened to them, there is no doubt that the work-related emails that were removed electronically from the email system."
Gowdy asked whether Clintons' lawyers read every one of her emails as she had said. Comey replied, "No."


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[boutons_deux]

Geraldo: Why Can’t GOP ‘Swallow Their Pride’ and Say They Were Wrong on Clinton Emails?

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera fought with O’Reilly Factor guest host Eric Bolling tonight over how over-the-top he thinks Republicans are taking their attacks againstHillary Clinton.


Rivera said that it’s really reaching for people like

Rudy Giuliani to say “these are crimes of intent, you have to intend to violate those securities laws, the intelligence laws.”

“Why don’t Republicans,” he asked, “just swallow their pride and say, ‘Okay, we were wrong about that, now let’s move onto something where there is probative value’?”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-why-cant-gop-swallow-their-pride-and-say-they-were-wrong-on-clinton-emails/

Repug pride? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Rep. Jason Chaffetz: Clinton Documents Are Federal Records, Not Emails

Chaffetz, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote a separate letter warning the Denver firm, which had hosted Clinton's server, that

one of the engineers who deleted her files could face federal criminal charges.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Jason-Chaffetz-Clinton-Documents-Federal-Records/2016/09/07/id/747037/

Repug grandstanding, witch hunting, harassment as "governance", what's not to ridicule! :lol

Bush's Brain (oxymoron) deleted Ms of WH emails to coverup the US Attorney scandal.

He's going to prison for a federal crime of deleting federal documents ?

or does that apply only to Clinton business?

[boutons_deux]

The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control

JUDGING BY the amount of time NBC’s Matt Lauer spent pressing Hillary Clinton on her emails during Wednesday’s national security presidential forum (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/the-first-hillary-clinton-vs-donald-trump-showdown-of-2016-annotated/), one would think that her homebrew server was one of the most important issues facing the country this election.

It is not. There are a thousand other substantive issues — from China’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea to National Security Agency intelligence-gathering to military spending — that would have revealed more about what the candidates know and how they would govern. Instead, these did not even get mentioned in the first of 5½ precious prime-time hours the two candidates will share before Election Day, while emails took up a third of Ms. Clinton’s time.

Sadly, Mr. Lauer’s widely panned handling of the candidate forum (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/09/08/daily-202-matt-lauer-s-widely-panned-performance-shows-the-perils-for-debate-moderators/57d0b6f1cd249a6fa9f82089/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_daily202-930a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory) was not an aberration. Judging by polls (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/_politics-zone-injection/trump-vs-clinton-presidential-polls-election-2016/) showing that voters trust Mr. Trump more than Ms. Clinton, as well as other evidence, :lol

it reflects a common shorthand for this election articulated by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick last week (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/28/colin-kaepernick-criticizes-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-says-he-will-keep-sitting-during-national-anthem/): “You have Donald Trump, who’s openly racist,” he said. Then, of Ms. Clinton: “I mean, we have a presidential candidate who’s deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn’t make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you’d be in prison.”

In fact, Ms. Clinton’s emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary person’s would have, and the criminal case against her was so thin that charging her would have been to treat her very differently.

Ironically, even as the email issue consumed so much precious airtime, several pieces of news reported Wednesday should have taken some steam out of the story.

First is a memo (http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/09/07/comey2.pdf) FBI Director James B. Comey sent to his staff explaining that the decision not to recommend charging Ms. Clinton was “not a cliff-hanger” and that people “chest-beating” and second-guessing the FBI do not know what they are talking about. Anyone who claims that Ms. Clinton should be in prison accuses, without evidence, the FBI of corruption or flagrant incompetence.

Second is the emergence of an email exchange (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/hillary-clinton-colin-powell-emails/) between Ms. Clinton and former secretary of state

Colin Powell in which he explained that he used a private computer and bypassed State Department servers while he ran the agency, even when communicating with foreign leaders and top officials.

Mr. Powell attempted (http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/colin-powell-rejects-clinton-email-defense/) last month to distance himself from Ms. Clinton’s practices, which is one of the many factors that made the email story look worse. Now, it seems, Mr. Powell engaged in similar behavior.

Last is a finding (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fbi-recovered-clinton-emails-contain-only-one-new-related-to-2012-benghazi-attacks/2016/09/07/80b3426a-7517-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html) that 30 Benghazi-related emails that were recovered during the FBI email investigation and recently attracted big headlines had nothing significant in them.

Only one, in fact, was previously undisclosed, and it contained nothing but a compliment from a diplomat. But the damage of the “30 deleted Benghazi emails” story has already been done.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-email-story-is-out-of-control/2016/09/08/692947d0-75fc-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?utm_term=.0ed646b86631&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

iow, Hillary's "email crime" and Chaffetz' "federal crime by engineer who destroyed the emails" are totally fabricated BULLSHIT.

Benghazi! :lol

And you rightwingnut bubbas, shitkickers FALL FOR THE REPUG/FOX/BREITBART LIES EVERY FUCKING TIME :lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control

JUDGING BY the amount of time NBC’s Matt Lauer spent pressing Hillary Clinton on her emails during Wednesday’s national security presidential forum (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/the-first-hillary-clinton-vs-donald-trump-showdown-of-2016-annotated/), one would think that her homebrew server was one of the most important issues facing the country this election.

It is not. There are a thousand other substantive issues — from China’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea to National Security Agency intelligence-gathering to military spending — that would have revealed more about what the candidates know and how they would govern. Instead, these did not even get mentioned in the first of 5½ precious prime-time hours the two candidates will share before Election Day, while emails took up a third of Ms. Clinton’s time.

Sadly, Mr. Lauer’s widely panned handling of the candidate forum (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/09/08/daily-202-matt-lauer-s-widely-panned-performance-shows-the-perils-for-debate-moderators/57d0b6f1cd249a6fa9f82089/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_daily202-930a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory) was not an aberration. Judging by polls (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/_politics-zone-injection/trump-vs-clinton-presidential-polls-election-2016/) showing that voters trust Mr. Trump more than Ms. Clinton, as well as other evidence, :lol

it reflects a common shorthand for this election articulated by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick last week (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/28/colin-kaepernick-criticizes-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-says-he-will-keep-sitting-during-national-anthem/): “You have Donald Trump, who’s openly racist,” he said. Then, of Ms. Clinton: “I mean, we have a presidential candidate who’s deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn’t make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you’d be in prison.”

In fact, Ms. Clinton’s emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary person’s would have, and the criminal case against her was so thin that charging her would have been to treat her very differently.

Ironically, even as the email issue consumed so much precious airtime, several pieces of news reported Wednesday should have taken some steam out of the story.

First is a memo (http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/09/07/comey2.pdf) FBI Director James B. Comey sent to his staff explaining that the decision not to recommend charging Ms. Clinton was “not a cliff-hanger” and that people “chest-beating” and second-guessing the FBI do not know what they are talking about. Anyone who claims that Ms. Clinton should be in prison accuses, without evidence, the FBI of corruption or flagrant incompetence.

Second is the emergence of an email exchange (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/hillary-clinton-colin-powell-emails/) between Ms. Clinton and former secretary of state

Colin Powell in which he explained that he used a private computer and bypassed State Department servers while he ran the agency, even when communicating with foreign leaders and top officials.

Mr. Powell attempted (http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/colin-powell-rejects-clinton-email-defense/) last month to distance himself from Ms. Clinton’s practices, which is one of the many factors that made the email story look worse. Now, it seems, Mr. Powell engaged in similar behavior.

Last is a finding (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fbi-recovered-clinton-emails-contain-only-one-new-related-to-2012-benghazi-attacks/2016/09/07/80b3426a-7517-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html) that 30 Benghazi-related emails that were recovered during the FBI email investigation and recently attracted big headlines had nothing significant in them.

Only one, in fact, was previously undisclosed, and it contained nothing but a compliment from a diplomat. But the damage of the “30 deleted Benghazi emails” story has already been done.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-email-story-is-out-of-control/2016/09/08/692947d0-75fc-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?utm_term=.0ed646b86631&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

iow, Hillary's "email crime" and Chaffetz' "federal crime by engineer who destroyed the emails" are totally fabricated BULLSHIT.

Benghazi! :lol

And you rightwingnut bubbas, shitkickers FALL FOR THE REPUG/FOX/BREITBART LIES EVERY FUCKING TIME :lol




More LIES from the far right CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/02/the-5-most-outrageous-things-hillary-clinton-said-in-her-fbi-interview-commentary.html

The 5 most outrageous things Hillary Clinton said in her FBI interview

Hillary Clinton (http://www.cnbc.com/hillary-clinton/) was already having a bad week as polls show Donald Trump (http://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/) closing the gap between them and, in a few polls, even pulling ahead. It got worse Friday after the FBI released Clinton's answers to investigators' questions (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/02/fbi-releases-documents-related-to-its-clinton-email-investigation.html) over her use of a private email server, revealing some pretty damaging responses from the former Secretary of State.


Here are five of the most outrageous statements Clinton made in that three-and-a-half hour FBI interview:
1. She cited her 2012 concussion as the reason that she cannot remember details of briefings during her "transition out of office."
2. She said she never even thought whether emails she exchanged on a future U.S. drone attack should be classified.
3. She said she thought the "C" before a paragraph indicated alphabetical order. The C actually stands for "classified."
4. She said no one ever raised concerns to her about her use of a private email server.
5. She said she could not recall any training on how to handle classified information.


What's more, Clinton aides told the FBI that the Secretary of State frequently replaced her Blackberry phone and the whereabouts of her old device would become "unknown." The FBI report suggests there were at least 13 different devices used.

You're going to hear on the mainstream media all weekend a lot of supposedly objective pundits insist the above revelations offer no "smoking gun." And that may be true from a legal standpoint, but we're in the middle of an election and these statements are poison for Clinton and cannon fodder for Donald Trump.


She conducted official State Department business while suffering from a concussion that may have impaired her memory? The report suggested she was only working for a few hours a day at the point based on doctor's orders but if it was that bad that she couldn't remember important briefings, she should have been on medical leave.



No. 2 stretches the limits of credulity. We're supposed to believe Clinton never even considered a discussion about a future drone attack should be kept secret? Saying "I never thought," basically sounds like a dodge on a charge of possible pre-meditation.
As for the claim that no one ever talked to her about any concerns about the private server, that's dangerous territory. Because it's probably not going to be hard to find someone at the State Department, or formerly at the State Department, to contradict this claim. In fact, there are many statements just now released from this FBI interview that are likely going to be refuted and in short order.


The "I could not recall" response to the question about prior training is a classic defendant's dodge. It works great because even if Clinton did get training, it can be argued that it doesn't matter because she doesn't remember it. But while it's a good legal dodge, it's potentially lethal in the midst of an election where you're trying to look like a competent and alert leader.


FBI Director James Comey may have decided not to indict Clinton, but the public revelation of this transcript today does a lot of damage. While you can expect most of the mainstream media pundits to pour cold water on the severity of the facts contained in them, the transcripts put the email scandal right back into the center of the news cycle. The last time that happened, Clinton's poll numbers wilted badly and it took a series of Trump missteps to reverse the decline.
She was already slipping in the polls — this could turn out to be very damaging for her and very good for Trump.

[boutons_deux]

Gun fellator, you're shooting blanks.

Benghazi! :lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

Gun fellator, you're shooting blanks.

Benghazi! :lol

Nice rebuttal. Even worked a Benghazi in there even tough the article has nothing to do with that.

[clambake]

I'm getting the idea that there is some talk about emails.

[Winehole23]

another cache will be released right before the election. hard to say whether the drip drip drip will erode HRC's credibility or merely desensitize the electorate.

the tedium factor is real.

[Winehole23]

outrage dulls, passion accedes to boredom and jadedness.

[boutons_deux]

FBI’s Clinton Email Findings Show That Fox Got Played By Running With Imprisoned Hacker’s Lie


Recently released FBI notes pertaining to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server reveal that

Fox News’ interview and subsequent hyping of claims made by imprisoned Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar were all based on a lie.

The FBI report states that “analysis” showed no “evidence that Lazar hacked the server,” and also notes that

Lazar “admitted to lying to FOX News.”

Fox’s willingness to report an imprisoned hacker’s claims as fact doesn’t represent the first time the network has been burned by sources in an attempt to scandalize Clinton’s use of a private email server.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/09/04/fbi-s-clinton-email-findings-show-fox-got-played-running-imprisoned-hacker-s-lie/212846?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Fresearch+%28Me dia+Matters+for+America+-+Research%29

[boutons_deux]

THE GEORGE W. BUSH WHITE HOUSE ‘LOST’ 22 MILLION EMAILS

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/full/public/2016/09/12/0909bushemails04.jpg


Clinton’s email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration.

Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House “lost” 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in America’s recent history,

when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and,

later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons.

Like Clinton, the Bush White House used a private email server—its was owned by the Republican National Committee.

And the Bush administration failed to store its emails, as required by law, and then refused to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking some of those emails. “

It’s about as amazing a double standard as you can get,” says Eric Boehlert, who works with the pro-Clinton group Media Matters. “If you look at the Bush emails, he was a sitting president, and 95 percent of his chief advisers’ emails were on a private email system set up by the RNC. Imagine if for the last year and a half we had been talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails set up on a private DNC server?”

Most troubling, researchers found a suspicious pattern in the White House email system blackouts, including periods when

there were no emails available from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

“That the vice president’s office, widely characterized as the most powerful vice president in history, should have no archived emails in its accounts for scores of days—especially days when there was discussion of whether to invade Iraq—beggared the imagination,” says Thomas Blanton, director of the Washington-based National Security Archive. The NSA (not to be confused with the National Security Agency, the federal surveillance organization) is a nonprofit devoted to obtaining and declassifying national security documents and is one of the key players in the effort to recover the supposedly lost Bush White House emails.

The media paid some attention to the Bush email chicanery but spent considerably less ink and airtime than has been devoted to Clinton’s digital communications in the past 18 months.

According to the Boston social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon (http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/), which ran a study forNewsweek, there have been 560,397 articles mentioning Clinton’s emails between March 2015 and September 1, 2016.

In 1978, Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which mandated that all presidential and vice presidential records created after January 20, 1981, be preserved and that the public, not the president, owned the records. The following year, the Reagan administration installed the White House’s rudimentary first email system.

Despite the PRA, neither the Reagan nor the George H.W. Bush administration maintained email records, even as the number of White House emails began growing exponentially.

Blanton, who edited a book on the Reagan-Bush email evasion, White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Messages the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destroy (https://www.amazon.com/White-House-Mail-Top-Secret-Caribbean/dp/1565842766).

in 2003, a whistleblower told the National Security Archive that the George W. Bush White House was no longer saving its emails.

The Archive and another watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (which had represented outed CIA agent Valerie Plame in her case against the Bush administration), refiled their original lawsuit.

The plaintiffs soon discovered that

Bush aides had simply shut down the Clinton automatic email archive, and they identified the start date of the lost emails as January 1, 2003.

The White House claimed it had switched to a new server and in the process was unable to maintain an archive—a claim that many found dubious.

Bush administration emails could have aided a special prosecutor’s investigation into a White House effort to discredit a diplomat who disagreed with the administration’s fabricated Iraq WMD evidence by outing his CIA agent wife, Plame. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who was brought in to investigate that case, said in 2006 that he believed some potentially relevant emails sent by aides in Cheney's office were in the administration's system but he couldn’t get them.

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