Hillary Clinton's stonewalling of Congress and FOIA requests, aided by the State Department, in regards to the debacle at Benghazi, Libya are almost outdone by her outright lies in regards to her personal, private email server. Hillary's claims that she has turned over all her work related emails have been proven to be lies and her claims that there was no classified information on her homebrew server have also been proven to be flalse . What can top so many lies ? Continuing to pretend to not know what "wiping" the email server means.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's stonewalling, coverups and lies that began with Benghazi and continue with her personal email server contents are now hard to ignore, even for the most loyal Democratic party and Hillary Clinton supporter. Information on Hillary Clinton's unencrypted homebrew email server that is 'born classified' was transmitted and stored in violation of the rules and regulations of the State Department and 18 U.S. Code § 793 of Federal Law.
Will the Democrats and the Obama administration hold one of their own accountable for their actions and to the rules of the BIG government that they adore? Obviously not. Does progressive mean sheer hypocrisy, blatantly dishonest and above the law ? Of course it does. The failure to appoint a special prosecutor or independent counsel and to bring Hillary Clinton before a grand jury means there is no Justice in Obama's Justice Department and this Administration truly is lawless.
Remember when Hillary Clinton lied and said there was no classified information on her private email server? The homebrew email server and its contents the State Dept. helped Hillary Clinton hide from the oversight of Congress and numerous FOIA requests?
"Here's my personal email," Hillary Clinton wrote to U.S. special envoy George Mitchell on a summer Sunday in 2010 as he telephoned one European official after another in an effort to keep peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians on track.
"Pls use this for reply," Clinton wrote in her email, sent from the clintonemail.com account she set up on an unsecured, private server in her New York home for her work as secretary of state.
Over the following hours, Mitchell wrote back to Clinton with summaries of his conversations, including one with Spain's foreign minister, who had briefed him on discussions with Palestinian leaders. The State Department has redacted the summary of the minister's thoughts, saying it is classified information.
The exchange is among dozens in a new batch of Clinton's emails released this week that shed further light on how Clinton handled information while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton, front-runner to be the Democratic candidate in the November 2016 presidential election, has faced steady criticism from political opponents since it emerged in March that she used a private set-up rather than a government-issued state.gov email address.
Clinton has maintained she did nothing wrong. She says she sent no information via email that was classified at the time, and received no material marked that way.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining Clinton's server to see whether information was mishandled. No evidence has emerged suggesting Clinton's email practices harmed national security.
A review last month by Reuters of previously released Clinton emails found 30 email threads that the State Department has marked to show they include information shared in confidence by foreign government officials, from prime ministers to spy chiefs.
U.S. government regulations examined by Reuters say this sort of information, whether written or spoken, must be classified from the start, and handled through secure, government-controlled channels.
The Clinton-Mitchell correspondence is one of 57 email threads found by Reuters in the latest batch of emails released on Monday that the State Department has marked as including the same type of information.
In all the 87 email threads examined by Reuters, the State Department has blanked out the confidential information in the public copies, adding the classification code "1.4(B)", denoting foreign government information.
Hillary Clinton's denials are pathetic. A classic example was when she denied being subpoenaed.
The State Department and Hillary Clinton have stonewalled and lied about Benghazi from the beginning and the fact that the State Department and Hillary Clinton concealed her use of a homebrew email server for years were more than suspicious. Deleting tens of thousands of emails and wiping the server while under investigation and subpoena aren't criminal ? The ever-changing story of the classification of emails and the wordplay around "marked classified" aren't credible when the information that Hillary Clinton finally turned over shows that the information was "born classified".
Hillary Clinton isn't capable of transparency or truth-telling. Then again, Obama's Justice Department isn't capable of neutrality or seeking real justice. From TheHIll.com:
Hillary Clinton will turn over her private email server and a backup thumb drive to the Justice Department, her spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
The news comes just hours after the Intelligence Community Inspector General told Congress that her email server contained emails that have now been classified “top secret.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released two pages of the memo sent to a handful of members of Congress that confirmed the finding.
“This information revealed by the inspector general makes it even more important that the FBI and the State Department secure these documents,” he said.
“To date, the two agencies most critical to securing this information have failed to assure the American people that they are taking the necessary steps to protect America’s national security interests.”
The State Department is also looking into Clinton’s top aides to learn whether any other unclassified information is unaccounted for, McClatchy reported.
“We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and associates, as appropriate,” said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the State Department’s inspector general.
A little bit more about the emails as excerpted from McClatchyDC:
As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as “Top Secret.”
The inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four classified emails discovered on the server Clinton maintained at her New York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest security classifications - more sensitive than previously known.
The notice came as the State Department inspector general’s office acknowledged that it is reviewing the use of “personal communications hardware and software” by Clinton’s former top aides after requests from Congress.
“We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and associates, as appropriate,” said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the State Department’s inspector general.
Continued:
But it’s not clear that’s being done.
Welty initially said the Intelligence Community inspector general, which had already been looking into the issue of whether classified information has been improperly shared with or by Clinton, has taken responsibility for deciding which emails to review, from whom and determining their classification.
However, Andrea Williams, a spokeswoman for the Intelligence Community Inspector General, said that office “never had access to any emails other than those provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article30714762.html#storylink=cp
Denials, delays and disinformation are just standard operating procedure for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. A great effort was made to obscure or obfuscate the truth of Benghazi. The obstruction of justice was an end result.
