Hillary's Crimes: More on Pagliano

A new link, just for added details:  in-clinton-email-investigation-justice-department-grants-immunity-to-former-state-department-staffer

And its from the Washington Post!

My Hero: Milton Friedman

I spent some time today watching my hero, Milton Friedman.  I needed the reinforcement of principle.

This one video is a good review for today’s situations, taped in 1999.   Milton about Clinton, Social Security, etc.

I suggest you Google "Milton Friedman" and then just start watching as many of the short videos you find.  There are many topics, all still relevant today.

Best Quote:  “What do you mean Give Back?”  when talking about reducing taxes.

Too bad Milton misses it on the prediction for government size in 2009.

Economics 101:  A series of videos:  Economics 101 Videos

On The Fed:  The Federal Reserve causes the Great Depression:  The Great Depression and the Fed

On Social Security:  Social Security Myth

Have fun.

I also like the Hoover Institution at Stanford University a lot.  They prepared this video.

Hillary' Crimes: Post Pagliano, FBI getting hotter

Catherine Herridge has some good reporting at Fox about the email scandal and the FBI investigations.  This article discusses the background to the latest developments about Pagliano and the servers he set up in Hillary's home(s).

See here:   source-clinton-it-specialist-revealing-server-details-to-fbi-devastating-witness

I especially like how Herridge describes the confusion around the word "classified."  The MSM has allowed this confusion to proliferate.  They have egregiously allowed Hillary to get away with using the prevarication that, "Nothing I sent or received was marked classified."  Of course, nothing is marked classified because it is not an official description of materials that have national security value.  Those things are marked Confidential, Secret, Top Secret or Top Secret SAP.  And as always, a marking on the document is not necessary for it to be any of those classifications.

Hillary's Crimes: DIA Chief Says Hillary Should Step Down

In a Daily Caller interview yesterday, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) said he thought the former Secretary of State should leave the Democratic presidential race: ”I think Hillary Clinton, for the good of the country, should step down and let this FBI investigation play out.”

Flynn is an Obama appointee and was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for two years.   He and other officials are concerned that the documents on Hillary's servers contained materials with SAP classification, which can jeopardize agents and US officers in the field.  He also said it is likely Russia, North Korea, Iran and other nations have that information now.

He maintaned that moving the documents off the official servers (which are so heavily protected that users must use separate secure rooms, called Special Compartmentalized Information Facilities or SCIFs, required a considerable amount of work and probably a conspiracy.  The 22+ documents with SAP classification can only be viewed by about 15 people in the country.  None of Hillary's staff had clearance and possibly Clinton herself did not.  At least one of the emails contain human intelligence.

The full Daily Caller report uses much more strident descriptions of the seriousness of this crime than the language that I have.  

Go here to see the report:  exclusive-former-obama-defense-intel-chief-says-hillary-should-step-down/

As I have said before, Hillary's crimes are multiple:  

1. Illegal, insecure server in her house
2. Willfully moving or causing to move classified materials to non-secure systems
3. Conspiracy to have her aides assist in transmitting secret documents, 
4. Felonies by her aides to handles secret documents
5. Failure to recognize classified information
6. Lying to federal agents about what was on her servers
7. Lying to Congressional investigations about what was on her servers
8.  Etc.

In addition to all of this, some are now conjecturing that Hillary felt able to do all of this because the President gave his blessing.   

Hillary's Crimes - FBI Confirms Investigation

Pursuant to recent FOIA lawsuits filed by Judicial Watch for releases of Clinton's emails, The Hill reports:

The FBI formally confirmed that its investigation connected to Hillary Clinton’s private email server remains ongoing in a letter released on Monday.

The letter from FBI general counsel James Baker comes one day before the New Hampshire primary.

The message does not offer new details about the probe, which the bureau has been reluctant to discuss. However, it represents the FBI’s formal notification to the State Department that it is investigating the issue.

Since last September, “in public statements and testimony, the Bureau has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server,” Baker wrote to the State Department. 

“The FBI has not, however, publicly acknowledged the specific focus, scope, or potential targets of any such proceedings.

“Thus … we remain unable [to] provide [details about the case] without adversely affecting on-going law enforcement efforts,” he concluded.

The letter was sent on Feb. 2 but released on Monday as part of an ongoing lawsuit related to the disclosure of Clinton’s emails from conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.

Hillary's...er...Kerry's Crimes #1001

Well, it seems that Hillary Clinton's vast experience at State rubbed of onto John Kerry so that he also flaunted Federal law and send classified emails hither and yon. 

The State Deptartment announced on February 2 that then Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry sent at least one email (now classified as "secret") from a "non-official account" on his ipod to Hillary's home email server.

So the question is: Does anyone in the Obama Administration have any knowledge of, or respect for, the laws on national secrets and protocols for using government email systems?

From AP:  kerry-used-private-email-send-clinton-now-classified-info

Hillary's Crimes #1005

Michael Mukasey, the US Attorney General from 2007-2009, produced an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Jan 22, 2016 about Hillary's email mess.  The title is "Clinton's Emails: A Criminal Charge is Justified."

Mukasey discusses the email scandal and concludes that Hillary knew enough about the material she handled to support a conviction for at least mishandling classified information.  That is the charge brought against General Petraeus.

Further, he suggests that more severe grades of bad acts may apply and attract a criminal charge: 

• Knowledge of what she was doing regarding mishandling classified information relating to national defense
• Gross negligence in the case of mishandling classified information relating to national defense
• Bad intent relating to actual or attempted destruction of email messages
• Corrupt intent relating to State Department business

He finishes by saying, " our public officials will do their job."

Crime # 1005:  Mukasey also mentions recent reporting by Catherine Herridge at Fox, where she says the FBI are now looking at "the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed."

Hillary's Crimes #1001 and 1002

There are so many Hillary crimes that I just arbitrarily started at 1000.  Close enough for government work.

1001:  So, this week we  learned that she had previously told the FBI that she started using her home email server for her personal email in March of 2009.  But now we find out the FBI has recovered emails to Gen. Petraeus that occurred before then.  Just another in the long line of Hillary perjuries...ah...what difference does it make!

1002:  Today Bill and Hill gave an interview about the email scandal on TV (Meet the Press?).  As I heard it, their campaign manager tweeted that the whole matter is now settled, or words to that effect.  At almost the same time, a manager in the Hillary Super PAC also tweeted the same message to her folks.  Same words, same commas! Sounds like coordination of at least cut and pasting a message sent to both.  So sad for them, that kind of coordination is a crime.  Campaigns and PACS cannot coordinate,  or plan together or even coomunicate.  (Think they'll get busted?  Nah, because the laws for ordinary people don't apply to her highness Hillary.)

Hillary's Email Scandal 3 - Or Should I Say Crime?

Here is an  interesting discussion with a former Federal Marshall about Hilliary's emails.  See video embedded in this Breitbart report about Hillary staff in Nevada conducting suspicious campaign voter registration actions, which Nevada's Attorney General in now investigating.

james-okeefe-video-hillary-campaign-workers-run-questions-election-law-violations/

Hillary's Email Scandal 2 - Staffers Participate in Email Coverup

How did Hillary actually set up an email server in her home?  Well, first she used the IT guy that was assigned as her tame computer expert.  Then she used her staff to manage her emails.

So, did all of these people know that they were doing something wrong and contrary to Federal Code (including 18USC798) and State Department rules?  Of course they did.  But, you don't disagree with Hillary and risk facing her mean and vindictive anger.  And, as far as I have seen, none of her staff held sufficient security clearances to handle her mail.

First:  More proof of criminal intent:  clinton-asked-diplomat-to-send-classified-intel-to-my-personal-email

IT Guy: Bryan Pagliano.  His State Dept. job was to be Hillary's IT expert.  He worked as her IT director during her 2008 campaign.  Then he was hired by State in May 2009 as special projects manager to the Chief Tech Officer.  He had responsibility for setup and maintenance of her personal servers.  The proof that he knew about the impropriety is that he has now invoked his 5th Amendment right to not self-incriminate himself after being subpoenaed by Trey Gowdy's House Select Committee on Benghazi.  In addition, he did not report on his taxes or ethics forms about the income.  He left this job when she finished as Secretary.  See here:  Former-staffer-who-maintained-hillary-clintons-private-email-server-to-plead-the-fifth

Staffer 1:  Huma Mahmood Abedin, wife of Anthony Wiener.  Close confidant.  Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton as a special government employee." At the same time, she was a consultant at the Teneo consulting firm and a paid consultant for the Clinton Foundation.  Can you say " Multiple allegiances?"  See Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_Abedin

Staffer 2:  Cheryl Mills - She helped to delete emails from the infamous 70,000.  No sufficient security clearance?  See here:  aides-hillary-clinton-testify-benghazi   She gave nine hours of closed testimony on September 3, 2015.

Lawyer:  David Kendall has known both Clintons since their days at Yale.  He defended Bill during his impeachment hearings.  Kendall is known to have held, in a safe delivered by the State Dept, thumb drive(s) containing copies of Hillary's email server data.  Kendall similarly does not hold sufficient security clearance to have these in his possession.

So, how many people are potentially in trouble for handling, modifying, passing on sensitive emails?  At the least we have Pagliano, Mills, Abedin, and Hillary's lawyer.  There must be many others in State and other groups.   Someone removed the "Secret" banners from several emails (felony).  Many must have selected emails for Hillary to manage the flow of traffic (misdemeanor or felony depending on classification).  Several at State obviously knew she had the personal servers and didn't report the offenses (felonies?).  And on and on...

See here:  Hillary-clintons-aides-could-face-prosecution-for-mishandling-classified-material

Hillary's Email Scandal 1

I haven't written much about Hillary's email scandal because the press, for once, is actually doing it's job fairly well.

Bottom Line:  Hillary set up a private email server at home and thereby broke the confidentiality rules of the State Department and US Code.  She should be prosecuted and, I believe, convicted.  She should go to jail.  The law is clear and the offenses are clear.

Side Line:  It is Hillary.  Damn it!  Why is she somehow special?  Why do the Clintons get away with so much illegality, so much lying, so much prevariacation, so much elitism?

Top Line:  A Special Proscecutor must be appointed.  It is time to end the Clinton tyranny.

Here is a good summary of the scandal, by my favorite judge:  justice-jeanine on Aug 16, 2015
And another:  justice-jeanine Why Hillary?

There has been lots of good reporting on the email scandal.  Here is one from Breitbart on August 31, 2015, that shows how they knew they were doing wrong:
hillarys-email-crashed-agency-didnt-know-the-account-was-hers

Hillary’s Email Crashed: Agency Didn’t Know The Account Was Hers!

Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty

by Patrick Howley1 Sep 2015671

Hillary Clinton’s secret email network crashed in 2010, and the email help-desk at the State Department dismissed the problem as unimportant because they didn’t know that she used a private email address to run the nation’s foreign policy.
Clinton’s private email went down in February 2010, causing confusion for her and her top aide Huma Abedin, according to a new set of highly-redacted Clinton emails released by the State Department Monday night.
Clinton received a routine message from a State Department computer staffer who clearly didn’t know that HDR22@clintonemail.com was the Secretary’s email address The message had told Clinton that some of the HDR22 messages were being flagged with “fatal errors.”
Clinton forwarded the message to Abedin, asking what was going on.
“Ur email must be back up!!,” Abedin said excitedly. “What happened is judith sent you an email. It bounced back. She called the email help desk at state (I guess assuming u had state email) and told them that. They had no idea it was YOU, just some random address so they emailed. Sorry about that. But regardless, means ur email must be back! R u getting other messages?”
“I’ve gotten some messages from yesterday – how about you?” Clinton replied.
“Nothing,” replied Abedin on her State Department account.
In another email from that same month, Clinton made sure to differentiate between Abedin’s State Department email account and her clintonemail.com account when figuring out how to reply to different people.
“[Please] give her Huma’s State email” Clinton told aide Cheryl Mills, referring to a staffer for British official Catherine Ashton.
The new emails show Clinton and her advisers cleverly manipulating transparency guidelines.
“Well, that is certainly worthy of being top secret,” Clinton told a staffer in February 2010, referring to a Tony Blair statement about an initiative to establish a two-state solution with regard to Israel and Palestine. An exchange between Clinton and Blair’s wife Cherie regarding a potential conversation with the Qatari royal family was marked “Confidential.”

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