yeah, corruption at DOJ by a sitting Pres for political purposes...Pales in comparison to the temerity of Hillary.
Hillary Clinton caught lying in email scandal
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According to a former White House official, Karl Rove used RNC-hosted addresses for roughly "95 percent" of his email. Rove provided email from his kr@georgewbush.com address in exhibits to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary
So because it happened at the end of the second term it doesn't matter?
We don't what was discussed because those e-mails were deleted. These were very senior government officials.
[MENTION=14199]brightmoon[/MENTION] what I am saying is that this stuff doesn't really matter in the context of this discussion because Rove and company are not running for president. The sad thing about Hillary supporters is that no one has anything really great to say about her, only that her stench is no worse than other (Republican) politicians.
[MENTION=13730]PintoBean[/MENTION] I'm not truly a Hillary supporter. I have never been a fan of the Clintons and their triangulation policies. What I don't like is double standards. While its true that its hard to find good things to say about her, I cannot abide by the hyperbole I have heard about her on this board and other places. The reality is America survived 8 years, of Dubya stammering his way through the Presidency, and he did far worse things than Hillary ever thought of. Then there's Trump, the alternative, openly advocating war crimes and proposing things like making Muslims wear identity badges. As bad as she may be, she's nothing compared to those two.
What has happened to many “friends” of the Clintons.
1- James McDougal — Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.
2 — Mary Mahoney — A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public w:th her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
3 — Vince Foster — Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.
4 — Ron Brown — Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown’s skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller commited suicide.
5 — C. Victor Raiser, II — Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.
6 — Paul Tulley — Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a “dear friend and trusted advisor”.
7 — Ed Willey — Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
8 — Jerry Parks — Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
9 — James Bunch — Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a “Black Book” of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas
10 — James Wilson — Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..
11 — Kathy Ferguson — Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
12 — Bill Shelton — Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.
13 — Gandy Baugh — Attorney for Clinton’s friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.
14 — Florence Martin — Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.
15 — Suzanne Coleman — Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
16 — Paula Grober — Clinton’s speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
17 — Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating MenaAirport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.
18 — Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at MenaAirport with Casolaro and the 1980 “October Surprise” was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his WashingtonDC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
19 — Jon Parnell Walker — Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.
20 — Barbara Wise — Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
21 — Charles Meissner — Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
22 — Dr. Stanley Heard — Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton ‘s advisory council personally treated Clinton’s mother, stepfather and brother.
23 — Barry Seal — Drug running TWA pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no accident.
24 — Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. — Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
25 — Stanley Huggins — Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.
26 — Hershell Friday — Attorney and Clinton fundraiser died March 1, 1994, when his plane exploded.
27 — Kevin Ives & Don Henry — Known as “The boys on the track” case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
28 — Keith Coney — Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.
29 — Keith McMaskle — Died, stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988
30 — Gregory Collins — Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
31 — Jeff Rhodes — He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.
32 — James Milan — Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to natural causes”.
33 — Jordan Kettleson — Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
34 — Richard Winters — A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD
35 — Major William S. Barkley, Jr.
36 — Captain Scott J . Reynolds
37 — Sgt. Brian Hanley
38 — Sgt. Tim Sabel
39 — Major General William Robertson
40 — Col. William Densberger
41 — Col. Robert Kelly
42 — Spec. Gary Rhodes
43 — Steve Willis
44 — Robert Williams
45 — Conway LeBleu
46 — Todd McKeehan
1- James McDougal — Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.
2 — Mary Mahoney — A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public w:th her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
3 — Vince Foster — Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.
4 — Ron Brown — Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown’s skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller commited suicide.
5 — C. Victor Raiser, II — Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.
6 — Paul Tulley — Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a “dear friend and trusted advisor”.
7 — Ed Willey — Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
8 — Jerry Parks — Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
9 — James Bunch — Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a “Black Book” of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas
10 — James Wilson — Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..
11 — Kathy Ferguson — Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
12 — Bill Shelton — Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.
13 — Gandy Baugh — Attorney for Clinton’s friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.
14 — Florence Martin — Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.
15 — Suzanne Coleman — Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
16 — Paula Grober — Clinton’s speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
17 — Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating MenaAirport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.
18 — Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at MenaAirport with Casolaro and the 1980 “October Surprise” was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his WashingtonDC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
19 — Jon Parnell Walker — Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.
20 — Barbara Wise — Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
21 — Charles Meissner — Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
22 — Dr. Stanley Heard — Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton ‘s advisory council personally treated Clinton’s mother, stepfather and brother.
23 — Barry Seal — Drug running TWA pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no accident.
24 — Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. — Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
25 — Stanley Huggins — Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.
26 — Hershell Friday — Attorney and Clinton fundraiser died March 1, 1994, when his plane exploded.
27 — Kevin Ives & Don Henry — Known as “The boys on the track” case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
28 — Keith Coney — Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.
29 — Keith McMaskle — Died, stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988
30 — Gregory Collins — Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
31 — Jeff Rhodes — He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.
32 — James Milan — Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to natural causes”.
33 — Jordan Kettleson — Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
34 — Richard Winters — A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD
35 — Major William S. Barkley, Jr.
36 — Captain Scott J . Reynolds
37 — Sgt. Brian Hanley
38 — Sgt. Tim Sabel
39 — Major General William Robertson
40 — Col. William Densberger
41 — Col. Robert Kelly
42 — Spec. Gary Rhodes
43 — Steve Willis
44 — Robert Williams
45 — Conway LeBleu
46 — Todd McKeehan
Do you guys know about this?
******Hillary Disappears from Event Calendar for Ten Days Surrounding California Primary?
Those of us who have been paying attention to the event schedules of the candidates ( and apparently have no lives of our own ) have been scratching our heads the last couple of days trying to figure something out. What we have been trying to deduce is the reason for the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to pull a disappearing act for at least ten days with the uber-important, delegate heavy California primary right in the middle.
According to the Clinton Campaign's event calendar, only Hillary's surrogates are scheduled for events from June 2nd until June 12th. The California primary, the largest and most important state contest left( delegate wise ) in the 2016 primaries, is scheduled for June 7th. Hillary actually does not reappear on her campaigns event calendar after June 2nd, the event calendar ends June 12th.
This is really, really odd. No fundraisers, no speeches, not even an event planned for the night of the June 7th California primary. And I mean NO event planned in California on the night of the California primary, not even one by Hillary's surrogates. Bill Clinton and Chelsea are scheduled for an event in the state of New Jersey at Passaic County Community College, but still no sign of the former Secretary of State.
The reason why this is so strange is because surrogates and corporate-media allies of the Clinton Campaign have been touting for some time that Hillary will cross the delegate count needed to put the democratic primary "in the bag" any day now. They've been insisting ( with false math that includes Super-Delegates and designed to mislead voters ) that Bernie's coach and four will turn back into a pumpkin and the wishful-thinkers that support the Senator from Vermont need to fall in line behind Hillary. So why would their candidate pull a major Houdini right when the Clinton Campaign could get the most spin out of the message they've been broadcasting for some weeks now? What's going on? What's taking up at least 10 days worth of the democratic front-runners time? What could be so massively important that the state with the largest delegate count left doesn't even merit a visit the night of it's primary? Has Hillary figured out that in an FBI investigation it's usually the last person to be "interviewed" that ends up being the one that gets indicted?
Perhaps recent events might point to the reason why Hillary disappears from her own campaign beginning in early June. Not quite two weeks ago the FBI questioned five of Hillary's advisors at the State Department, four of which hold significant positions inside the Clinton Campaign. One of the advisors walked out of the FBI interview rather than answer questions in the investigation of Hillary's private email server while she was Secretary of State. Recently the FBI learned that the Russian Intelligence Service may have as many as 20,000 emails lifted from former Sec. Clinton's private server, the result of suspected foreign agencies hacking the server.
Also, Vice President Joe Biden has been slipping back into the picture the last several days, sparking speculation from many, including The Young Turk's Cenk Uygur, that something MAJOR is coming down the pipe with Hillary in regards to the FBI investigation. Cenk Uygur points to the Clinton Campaign's "Cleaner" Sid Blumenthal making the rounds discussing the investigation as a "security inquiry" in an effort to downplay a possible coming indictment. Sid's the guy the Clinton Campaign sends out to clean up the mess and handle political fall-out, so why is Blumenthal trying to downplay the FBI investigation if there's nothing to it? Uygur also points to the comments by Vice President Biden on his stated choice of VP as Sen. Elizabeth Warren should he have run and how Biden commented that he believes he would have made the best choice for President as further evidence that something is a-foot. Vice President Biden's appearance at a Debbie Wasserman Shultz fund-raiser and his sudden pivot from pro-Bernie comments to pro-Hillary has also raised more than a few eyebrows.
The most likely of plausible reasons for Biden appearances out of no-where is that the DNC will try to pivot to Biden at the top of the ticket in case Hillary's campaign implodes following the possible federal indictment she may face. A situation which, if it happens, would further enrage a progressive base that's already ticked-off at an apparently rigged primary season designed to nominate Hillary Clinton and ONLY Hillary Clinton... In any case, it will be interesting to find out why Hillary has decided to disappear from her own campaign after June the 2nd.
http://weedledeeds.wix.com/mysite#!...ifornia-Primary/cjds/573739120cf2d5f002c17448
[MENTION=8603]Eventhorizon[/MENTION]
******Hillary Disappears from Event Calendar for Ten Days Surrounding California Primary?
Those of us who have been paying attention to the event schedules of the candidates ( and apparently have no lives of our own ) have been scratching our heads the last couple of days trying to figure something out. What we have been trying to deduce is the reason for the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to pull a disappearing act for at least ten days with the uber-important, delegate heavy California primary right in the middle.
According to the Clinton Campaign's event calendar, only Hillary's surrogates are scheduled for events from June 2nd until June 12th. The California primary, the largest and most important state contest left( delegate wise ) in the 2016 primaries, is scheduled for June 7th. Hillary actually does not reappear on her campaigns event calendar after June 2nd, the event calendar ends June 12th.
This is really, really odd. No fundraisers, no speeches, not even an event planned for the night of the June 7th California primary. And I mean NO event planned in California on the night of the California primary, not even one by Hillary's surrogates. Bill Clinton and Chelsea are scheduled for an event in the state of New Jersey at Passaic County Community College, but still no sign of the former Secretary of State.
The reason why this is so strange is because surrogates and corporate-media allies of the Clinton Campaign have been touting for some time that Hillary will cross the delegate count needed to put the democratic primary "in the bag" any day now. They've been insisting ( with false math that includes Super-Delegates and designed to mislead voters ) that Bernie's coach and four will turn back into a pumpkin and the wishful-thinkers that support the Senator from Vermont need to fall in line behind Hillary. So why would their candidate pull a major Houdini right when the Clinton Campaign could get the most spin out of the message they've been broadcasting for some weeks now? What's going on? What's taking up at least 10 days worth of the democratic front-runners time? What could be so massively important that the state with the largest delegate count left doesn't even merit a visit the night of it's primary? Has Hillary figured out that in an FBI investigation it's usually the last person to be "interviewed" that ends up being the one that gets indicted?
Perhaps recent events might point to the reason why Hillary disappears from her own campaign beginning in early June. Not quite two weeks ago the FBI questioned five of Hillary's advisors at the State Department, four of which hold significant positions inside the Clinton Campaign. One of the advisors walked out of the FBI interview rather than answer questions in the investigation of Hillary's private email server while she was Secretary of State. Recently the FBI learned that the Russian Intelligence Service may have as many as 20,000 emails lifted from former Sec. Clinton's private server, the result of suspected foreign agencies hacking the server.
Also, Vice President Joe Biden has been slipping back into the picture the last several days, sparking speculation from many, including The Young Turk's Cenk Uygur, that something MAJOR is coming down the pipe with Hillary in regards to the FBI investigation. Cenk Uygur points to the Clinton Campaign's "Cleaner" Sid Blumenthal making the rounds discussing the investigation as a "security inquiry" in an effort to downplay a possible coming indictment. Sid's the guy the Clinton Campaign sends out to clean up the mess and handle political fall-out, so why is Blumenthal trying to downplay the FBI investigation if there's nothing to it? Uygur also points to the comments by Vice President Biden on his stated choice of VP as Sen. Elizabeth Warren should he have run and how Biden commented that he believes he would have made the best choice for President as further evidence that something is a-foot. Vice President Biden's appearance at a Debbie Wasserman Shultz fund-raiser and his sudden pivot from pro-Bernie comments to pro-Hillary has also raised more than a few eyebrows.
The most likely of plausible reasons for Biden appearances out of no-where is that the DNC will try to pivot to Biden at the top of the ticket in case Hillary's campaign implodes following the possible federal indictment she may face. A situation which, if it happens, would further enrage a progressive base that's already ticked-off at an apparently rigged primary season designed to nominate Hillary Clinton and ONLY Hillary Clinton... In any case, it will be interesting to find out why Hillary has decided to disappear from her own campaign after June the 2nd.
http://weedledeeds.wix.com/mysite#!...ifornia-Primary/cjds/573739120cf2d5f002c17448
[MENTION=8603]Eventhorizon[/MENTION]
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This sent chills down my spine. Please can you post the source for the above. Thx
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I was interested to know the source you used as the content/layout was presented neatly and concisely (perhaps it was a cut and past job). No problem, Eventhorizon.
It was cut and paste. If you care to research it just put something like deaths surrounding the Clintons into a search engine. You can check out snopes which tries to discredit it. I now know them to be bias.
All hail Queen Hillary! For it is her divine birth/marriage right as a Clinton to rule this land!
This has been all over the news: Hillary Clinton says Democratic primary race is over: ‘I will be the nominee’
Which just reminds me of this Onion article: Hillary Clinton To Nation: ‘Do Not Fuck This Up For Me’
Yep. She's a bought and paid for hired agent for the Elite...and she knows the game is rigged in her favor because they want her to win. Sometimes I think the Donald is actually acting out the way he is to push people in to voting for her....cause he's bought and paid for too.
Although...some of us were hoping she'd been called for an inquiry by the FBI during those days.
Napolitano: Hillary Clinton's no good, very bad week
The bad legal news for Hillary Clinton continued to cascade upon her presidential hopes during the past week in what has amounted to a perfect storm of legal misery. Here is what happened.
Last week, Mrs. Clinton’s five closest advisers when she was Secretary of State, four of whom remain close to her and have significant positions in her presidential campaign, were interrogated by the FBI. These interrogations were voluntary, not under oath, and done in the presence of the same legal team which represented all five aides.
The atmosphere was confrontational, as the purpose of the interrogations is to enable federal prosecutors and investigators to determine whether these five are targets or witnesses. Stated differently, the feds need to decide if they should charge any of these folks as part of a plan to commit espionage, or if they will be witnesses on behalf of the government should there be such a prosecution; or witnesses for Mrs. Clinton.
In the same week, a federal judge ordered the same five persons to give videotaped testimony in a civil lawsuit against the State Department which once employed them in order to determine if there was a “conspiracy” -- that’s the word used by the judge -- in Mrs. Clinton’s office to evade federal transparency laws. Stated differently, the purpose of these interrogations is to seek evidence of an agreement to avoid the Freedom of Information Act requirements of storage and transparency of records, and whether such an agreement, if it existed, was also an agreement to commit espionage -- the removal of state secrets from a secure place to a non-secure place.
Also earlier this week, the State Department revealed that it cannot find the emails of Bryan Pagliano for the four years that he was employed there. Who is Bryan Pagliano? He is the former information technology expert, employed by the State Department to problem shoot Mrs. Clinton’s entail issues.
Pagliano was also personally employed by Mrs. Clinton. She paid him $5,000 to migrate her regular State Department email account and her secret State Department email account from their secure State Department servers to her personal, secret, non-secure server in her home in Chappaqua, New York. That was undoubtedly a criminal act. Pagliano either received a promise of non-prosecution or an actual order of immunity from a federal judge. He is now the government’s chief witness against Mrs. Clinton.
It is almost inconceivable that all of his emails have been lost. Surely this will intrigue the FBI, which has reportedly been able to retrieve the emails Mrs. Clinton attempted to wipe from her server.
While all of this has been going on, intelligence community sources have reported about a below the radar screen, yet largely known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Intelligence Services. They are trying to come to a meeting of the minds to determine whether the Russian government should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that it obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal.
As if all this wasn’t enough bad news for Mrs. Clinton in one week, the FBI learned last week from the convicted international hacker, who calls himself Guccifer, that he knows how the Russians came to possess Mrs. Clinton’s emails; and it is because she stored, received and sent them from her personal, secret, non-secure server.
Mrs. Clinton has not been confronted publicly and asked for an explanation of her thoughts about the confluence of these events, but she has been asked if the FBI has reached out to her. It may seem counter-intuitive, but in white collar criminal cases, the FBI gives the targets of its investigations an opportunity to come in and explain why the target should not be indicted.
This is treacherous ground for any target, even a smart lawyer like Mrs. Clinton. She does not know what the feds know about her. She faces a damned-if-she-does and damned-if-she-doesn’t choice here.
Any lie and any materially misleading statement -- and she is prone to both -- made to the FBI can form the basis for an independent criminal charge against her. This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart. Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients.
But Mrs. Clinton is no ordinary client. She is running for president. She lies frequently. We know this because, when asked if the FBI has reached out to her for an interview, she told reporters that neither she nor her campaign had heard from the FBI; but she couldn’t wait to talk to the agents.
That is a mouthful, and the FBI knows it. First, the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her. The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers -- and that has already been done, and Mrs. Clinton knows it. So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleading, and the FBI knows that.
Mrs. Clinton’s folks are preparing for the worst. They have leaked nonsense from “U.S. officials” that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton. Too bad these officials -- political appointees, no doubt -- skipped or failed Criminal Law 101. The government need not prove intent for either espionage or for lying to federal agents.
And it prosecutes both crimes very vigorously.
Andrew P. Napolitano
The bad legal news for Hillary Clinton continued to cascade upon her presidential hopes during the past week in what has amounted to a perfect storm of legal misery. Here is what happened.
Last week, Mrs. Clinton’s five closest advisers when she was Secretary of State, four of whom remain close to her and have significant positions in her presidential campaign, were interrogated by the FBI. These interrogations were voluntary, not under oath, and done in the presence of the same legal team which represented all five aides.
The atmosphere was confrontational, as the purpose of the interrogations is to enable federal prosecutors and investigators to determine whether these five are targets or witnesses. Stated differently, the feds need to decide if they should charge any of these folks as part of a plan to commit espionage, or if they will be witnesses on behalf of the government should there be such a prosecution; or witnesses for Mrs. Clinton.
In the same week, a federal judge ordered the same five persons to give videotaped testimony in a civil lawsuit against the State Department which once employed them in order to determine if there was a “conspiracy” -- that’s the word used by the judge -- in Mrs. Clinton’s office to evade federal transparency laws. Stated differently, the purpose of these interrogations is to seek evidence of an agreement to avoid the Freedom of Information Act requirements of storage and transparency of records, and whether such an agreement, if it existed, was also an agreement to commit espionage -- the removal of state secrets from a secure place to a non-secure place.
Also earlier this week, the State Department revealed that it cannot find the emails of Bryan Pagliano for the four years that he was employed there. Who is Bryan Pagliano? He is the former information technology expert, employed by the State Department to problem shoot Mrs. Clinton’s entail issues.
Pagliano was also personally employed by Mrs. Clinton. She paid him $5,000 to migrate her regular State Department email account and her secret State Department email account from their secure State Department servers to her personal, secret, non-secure server in her home in Chappaqua, New York. That was undoubtedly a criminal act. Pagliano either received a promise of non-prosecution or an actual order of immunity from a federal judge. He is now the government’s chief witness against Mrs. Clinton.
It is almost inconceivable that all of his emails have been lost. Surely this will intrigue the FBI, which has reportedly been able to retrieve the emails Mrs. Clinton attempted to wipe from her server.
While all of this has been going on, intelligence community sources have reported about a below the radar screen, yet largely known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Intelligence Services. They are trying to come to a meeting of the minds to determine whether the Russian government should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that it obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal.
As if all this wasn’t enough bad news for Mrs. Clinton in one week, the FBI learned last week from the convicted international hacker, who calls himself Guccifer, that he knows how the Russians came to possess Mrs. Clinton’s emails; and it is because she stored, received and sent them from her personal, secret, non-secure server.
Mrs. Clinton has not been confronted publicly and asked for an explanation of her thoughts about the confluence of these events, but she has been asked if the FBI has reached out to her. It may seem counter-intuitive, but in white collar criminal cases, the FBI gives the targets of its investigations an opportunity to come in and explain why the target should not be indicted.
This is treacherous ground for any target, even a smart lawyer like Mrs. Clinton. She does not know what the feds know about her. She faces a damned-if-she-does and damned-if-she-doesn’t choice here.
Any lie and any materially misleading statement -- and she is prone to both -- made to the FBI can form the basis for an independent criminal charge against her. This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart. Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients.
But Mrs. Clinton is no ordinary client. She is running for president. She lies frequently. We know this because, when asked if the FBI has reached out to her for an interview, she told reporters that neither she nor her campaign had heard from the FBI; but she couldn’t wait to talk to the agents.
That is a mouthful, and the FBI knows it. First, the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her. The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers -- and that has already been done, and Mrs. Clinton knows it. So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleading, and the FBI knows that.
Mrs. Clinton’s folks are preparing for the worst. They have leaked nonsense from “U.S. officials” that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton. Too bad these officials -- political appointees, no doubt -- skipped or failed Criminal Law 101. The government need not prove intent for either espionage or for lying to federal agents.
And it prosecutes both crimes very vigorously.
Andrew P. Napolitano