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!

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: FBI Closing In - Pagliano Gets Immunity

Brian Pagliano, who set up Hillary's email servers in her home, seems willing to talk now.  Normally immunity isn't granted unless charges are imminent on someone, probably Pagliano.  He had to know that he was doing something not kosher by going around State Department rules on security and secure systems.

From the Washington Post:  "The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official."

See full article here:  in-clinton-email-investigation-justice-department-grants-immunity-to-former-state-department-staffer

This is actually a pretty good article with some background on the timeline of the crimes. 

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.   

Water Wars: Central Valley Farms Lose Again

What more do I need to say? Except that Sacramento fails again. And another source said 2.4 million acre-feet since December.

From:  http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2016/02/millions-of-gallons-of-wasted-storm-runoff-ignored/

Millions of Gallons of Wasted Storm Runoff Ignored 

By Assemblyman Jim Patterson

Assembly Member Jim Patterson represents the 23rd District, which includes portions of Fresno and Tulare counties.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

Last week the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Resources and Transportation heard testimony from several of the state’s water bureaucrats about how they are spending water bond funds. Surprising to me was that after all the back-patting, there was not one mention of all the water we are wasting.
According to the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, more than 208,000 acre feet of water was flushed out to the ocean during the month of January.
We should be pumping that water out of the Delta to refill and replenish the reservoirs we will rely on for our next dry season.
Fresno County Farmer Wayne Western has been crunching numbers to keep the public aware of all the water waste.  “The people of California have been conserving for a major drought for over three years.  We’ve also been paying for it by lost jobs, fallowed fields,” Western said. “It’s time for the government to end the man-made drought and start pumping and saving water.”
Unfortunately, pumping restrictions have drastically limited pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. I joined several of my legislative colleagues last week to call on the State Water Board to work with the necessary agencies to at least allow for some pumping after drenching winter storms.
If our voices are not heard and action is not taken we will lose millions of acre feet of water this year.
FAST FACTS ON WATER RELEASES

• During the month of January 208,000 acre feet was lost to the ocean
• That’s enough to supply 462,000 families for a year
• Resulting in 69,000 acres of fallowed farmland and 16,000 lost jobs

Follow Jim Patterson on Twitter @jimpatterson559

Hillary's Crimes - #1006

Okay, so maybe it is not a crime.  But certainly a gross failure to perform her duty.

Hillary went 5 years are the Secretary of State...and she failed to appoint a permanent Inspector General of the State Department.

And why should we care?  Because it is likely that having an IG would have prevented her email scandal, and she would not be in the "state" she is in now. 

So maybe her failure to appoint was a premeditated choice?   Hmmmm?

And why didn't President Obama exercise his duty and make her appoint an IG?  Now do we have a conspiracy?

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 #1003 and #1004

Continuing the miserable story of Hillary and her criminal email servers and mail forwarding.

#1003:  It is becoming more and more clear that Hillary transmitted top Confidential, Secret and Top Secret documents.  Many of them appear to have had the classification designations removed by her staff, who are thus also complicit.  In one discovered email. she instructs a staffer to convert from paper to "paperless" and send in the clear.

The FBI now says about 3000 emails are in this situation.  In addition, there are some 24 document that were in the four categories of Top Secret, including some in the SAP (Secure Access Programs) level of Top Secret.  These are documents that have information and often names of foreign operations and operatives and informers.

Yesterday, several generals were interviewed on TV and they were furious that she had not already been charged.  They also said it is 80% probable the SAP information is now in the hands of Iran and North Korea.  They claim Hillary's actions are much worse than what Edward Snowden did.

And what does Hillary say to all of this?  She is dismissive that it is a Republican plot and nothing bad happened.  She says that nothing marked "Classified" was transmitted.  This is a prevarication:  nothing is ever marked "Classified."

For instance, Top Secret information is that "...reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security..."

Classifications:  Wikipedia: Classified_information_in_the_United_States
Executive Order 13526:  Executive_Order_13526   Read Sec. 4.3 about Special Access Programs.

#1004:  Hillary will ruin careers if her transgressions are not moved forward.  There are about 100 to 150 FBI employees working on the Clinton Email Scandal.  The leaks and rumors are that there is more than enough evidence to indict Hillary.  Further, if the FBI Director James Comey does not recommend indictments, these staff people are angry enough to resign.  If he recommends and  Attorney General Loretta Lynch does not levee charges, the reaction will be widespread and nasty.

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.

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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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Big Government, 2016 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Tony Blair, Cheryl Mills

Fast & Furious: Another FNDD on Nov 18

FNDD = Friday Night Document Dump

Judicial Watch has finally received the documents referenced in the Vaughn Index from early in November -  see my post on November 5.

Judicial Watch Statement on Release of Enormous Trove of DOJ Fast and Furious Documents

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 18, 2014, a large production of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious. The documents were forced out of the Obama administration through a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:12-cv-01510)).

A total of 10,112 documents, comprised of approximately 42,000 pages, were disclosed to Judicial Watch in the new production.  The documents are being posted and most are now available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at http://www.judicialwatch.org/fast-furious-documents-released/.

Judicial Watch is asking people, in a crowdsourcing manner, to search for interesting things (read illegal) in these documents.

Also note that many of these documents just released by the "most transparent administration in history" are completely or almost completely redacted.

Also note that no one has yet seen any of these documents display a desire to get to the bottom of what happened in F&F.  It is all about CYA, attacks on Sharyl Atkisson, and attempts to justify the assertion of executive privilege, etc.

IRS Scandal - 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails "Discovered"

Who would have thought?  After all this time, that 30,000 of Lois Lerner's emails would suddenly be "discovered" on disaster recovery backup disk driver?

In a standard Friday Night Document Dump (FNDD), the IRS has released a new batch of Lerner emails, subsequent to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch.

"Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into how “lost and/or destroyed” IRS records may be retrieved." 

See here:  IRS admits to court it hasn't searched for missing lerner emails

This admission by IRS begs the reaction: Are you kidding me, this is computer operations 101?:  "IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency’s servers for missing emails because they decided that “the servers would not result in the recovery of any information.” They admitted they had failed to search the agency’s disaster recovery tapes because they had “no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering” the missing emails.  And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had “no reason to believe such a system … even exists.”"

Why are there so many Questions about Barry Soetoro?

Because there are so many questions!  And the answers are confusing, non-existent, or conflicting.

Here's some more stuff about Barry's mom, Stanley Ann Dunham and her passports.

the-smoking-gun-in-the-obama-eligibility-case-stanley-ann-dunham-passport/

Psuedo-Social Justice Has Harmed the People It Intended to Help

Draft:

http://eaglerising.com/8439/psuedo-social-justice-harmed-people-intended-help/

Scandal: Harry Reid Obstructs Congress Continuously

He's been doing it for years.  Yet the people of Las Vegas keep electing him because the casino union workers think he brings them bacon.  In reality, he brings bacon to his rich friends and government cronies.  In reality he has been impeding the work of the Senate and is the real reason very little is getting done in Washington. 

See here for a tally of the blocked bills:  The Unpatriotic Laziness of Harry Reid

The Unpatriotic Laziness of Harry Reid

By Onan Coca

More evidence of the lies and cover-ups coming from President Obama and Harry Reid. Check out the stats coming from Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) office…
At the weekly press conference with Republican leaders Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (KS-02) highlighted the 352 bills – 98% which passed with bipartisan support in the House – that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refuses to bring up for a vote. The numbers never lie…
The numbers never lie. Currently, 352 bills that passed the House are awaiting action on Harry Reid’s desk. Of these bills:

- 98% passed with bipartisan support
- Nearly 70% passed with 2/3rds support or more
- Over 50% passed with no opposition at all
- And 55 were introduced by Democrats
And still, Harry Reid refuses to bring them up for a vote.
Why does the media continue to allow the unpatriotic laziness from Harry Reid to continue? Perhaps if the media spent a little more time being a government watchdog and a little less time being cheerleaders for the Democrat Party… our Congress would be getting more done? (Specifically, maybe Harry Reid would be getting more done?)

Why Trey Gowdy Should be President

As you know, I like Trey Gowdy very much.

Here are some video excerpts that show why:

republican-superstar-gives-important-speech-years/


These five videos are compendiums of significant Trey Gowdy speeches or questioning of witnesses:

Part 1:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZkTSiLtu31o#t=307

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S_HIv3qDQ_s#t=4

Part 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w7v7e5bdYLA#t=4

Part 4:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pZ-1n9ePoAU#t=3

Part 5:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FethZnvrKR8#t=4

NLRB, Ms. Reynolds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MbNCYlZGs3A#t=13

Pitkin vs. Goliath - CO Road Closure

I think these videos tell the sad story for themselves.  The Forest Service, BLM and Parks are all trying to shut down the People's lands all over the country.

Pitkin v. Goliath Part 1

Pitkin v. Goliath Part 2 

Wow, the People win for once.

And then they win again:  citizen-activists-reopen-barricaded-blm-road-near-olathe/