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For all this evidence to go unchallenged is in itself criminal but some people are above the law.
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Trey Gowdy GRILLS James Comey On Hillary Clinton Emails. Hillary Clinton Email Investigation FBI Director James Comey testified at a hearing on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers while serving as secretary of state, as well as the decision to not recommend criminal charges against her. Rep. Gowdy Q&A - Oversight of the State Department. At a congressional hearing Thursday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) grilled FBI director James Comey about several of Hillary Clinton‘s statements to the public, which the FBI investigation revealed to be untrue. For instance, Clinton had previously claimed that she had never received or sent classified information to or from her private email server; Comey conceded to Rep. Gowdy that that was not true. Another claim of Clinton’s, which the investigation revealed to be untrue, was that she had retained all work-related emails. Comey noted that they had uncovered “thousands” of work-related emails not returned to the State Department. “In the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon,” Gowdy concluded after running through a catalogue of Clinton’s claims, “I’m not going to go through any more of the false statements.” But Gowdy determined that “false exculpatory statements” can be used to determine intention and consciousness of guilt.
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Washington,
D.C.
FBI
National Press Office (202)
324-3691 July
5, 2016 Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the
Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System Remarks prepared for
delivery at press briefing.
Good morning.
I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary
Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of
State.
After a
tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its
investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a
prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things:
what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of
Justice.
This will be
an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include
more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the
American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest.
Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the
Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know
what I am about to say.
I want to
start by thanking the FBI employees who did remarkable work in this case. Once
you have a better sense of how much we have done, you will understand why I am
so grateful and proud of their efforts.
So, first,
what we have done:
The
investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community Inspector
General in connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail server
during her time as Secretary of State. The referral focused on whether
classified information was transmitted on that personal system.
Our
investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was
improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a
federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either
intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a
misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems
or storage facilities.
Consistent
with our counterintelligence responsibilities, we have also investigated to
determine whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in connection with
the personal e-mail server by any foreign power, or other hostile actors.
I have so far
used the singular term, “e-mail server,” in describing the referral that began
our investigation. It turns out to have been more complicated than that.
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those
servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile
devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain. As new servers and
equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and
decommissioned in various ways. Piecing all of that back together—to gain as
full an understanding as possible of the ways in which personal e-mail was used
for government work—has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of
hours of effort.
For example,
when one of Secretary Clinton’s original personal servers was decommissioned in
2013, the e-mail software was removed. Doing that didn’t remove the e-mail
content, but it was like removing the frame from a huge finished jigsaw puzzle
and dumping the pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of e-mail
fragments end up unsorted in the server’s unused—or “slack”—space. We searched
through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle could be
put back together.
FBI
investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided
by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where an e-mail
was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI referred
the e-mail to any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner” of
information in the e-mail, so that agency could make a determination as to
whether the e-mail contained classified information at the time it was sent or
received, or whether there was reason to classify the e-mail now, even if its
content was not classified at the time it was sent (that is the process
sometimes referred to as “up-classifying”).
From the group
of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail
chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified
information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains
contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains
contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential
information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those,
about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential;
the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were
sent.
The FBI also
discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of
30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those
additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years
and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the
private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government
e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as
Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people
with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.
This helped us
recover work-related e-mails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State.
Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of e-mail
fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013.
With respect
to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to
State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time
they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential
level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of
those we found have since been “up-classified.”
I should add
here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails
were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our assessment is
that, like many e-mail users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted e-mails or
e-mails were purged from the system when devices were changed. Because she was
not using a government account—or even a commercial account like Gmail—there
was no archiving at all of her e-mails, so it is not surprising that we
discovered e-mails that were not on Secretary Clinton’s system in 2014, when
she produced the 30,000 e-mails to the State Department.
It could also
be that some of the additional work-related e-mails we recovered were among
those deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers when they reviewed
and sorted her e-mails for production in 2014.
The lawyers
doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the
content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead,
they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all
work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails
remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is highly likely
their search terms missed some work-related e-mails, and that we later found
them, for example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of
a server.
It is also
likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to
State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they
deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their
devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
We have
conducted interviews and done technical examination to attempt to understand
how that sorting was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have complete
visibility because we are not able to fully reconstruct the electronic record
of that sorting, we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us
reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with
that sorting effort.
And, of
course, in addition to our technical work, we interviewed many people, from
those involved in setting up and maintaining the various iterations of
Secretary Clinton’s personal server, to staff members with whom she
corresponded on e-mail, to those involved in the e-mail production to State,
and finally, Secretary Clinton herself.
Last, we have
done extensive work to understand what indications there might be of compromise
by hostile actors in connection with the personal e-mail operation.
That’s what we
have done. Now let me tell you what we found:
Although we
did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended
to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is
evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive,
highly classified information.
For example, seven
e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special
Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved
Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving
e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a
conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in
the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding
about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place
for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we
also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S.
Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding
the later “up-classified” e-mails).
None of these
e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence
is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on
unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff,
like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even
with a commercial service like Gmail.
Separately, it
is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only
a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore
markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if
information is not marked “classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or
should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to
protect it.
While not the
focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the security
culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of
unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of
care for classified information found elsewhere in the government.
With respect
to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct
evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of
the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be
unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained
access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary
Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that
Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large
number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail
extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving
work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that
combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained
access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.
So that’s what
we found. Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the Department of
Justice:
In our system,
the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based
on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t normally make public
our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently make recommendations and
engage in productive conversations with prosecutors about what resolution may
be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given the importance of the
matter, I think unusual transparency is in order.
Although there
is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of
classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would
bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before
bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the
evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the
context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in
the past.
In looking
back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified
information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges
on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly
intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast
quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of
intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or
efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear,
this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in
this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals
are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what
we are deciding now.
As a result,
although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this,
we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this
case.
I know there
will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation, as there was
throughout this investigation. What I can assure the American people is that
this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently. No outside
influence of any kind was brought to bear.
I know there
were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the
investigation—including people in government—but none of that mattered to us.
Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our
investigation, because we did the investigation the right way. Only facts
matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional
way. I couldn’t be prouder to be part of this organization.
“If the truth is just my opinion then the truth will never be known.” ~ Norman E. Hooben "Massachusetts can survive an Elizabeth Warren. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made her their senator." ~ Norman E. Hooben "Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and before that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States." ~ Conrad Black To make clear that Islam is in fact a military movement rather than a religion, please consider that Islam does not ask one to emulate the humble, kind, peaceful, compassionate, loving Jesus but rather the arrogant, violent, brutal, lustful, savage military commander and beheading ruler Mohammed. It's all in the staging. ~ by Bernie
Our society chooses to pay for bastards and wonders why the number of bastards increases. Our society refuses to support poor families with married fathers in residence, and wonders why the number of single mothers increases. Our society pays for single motherhood, and wonders why we get it. Our society gives stipends to unemployed and/or homeless males, and wonders why we get more and more of them. — Bill Quick (More like this here) The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” ~ Author Unknown
The real goal of "health care" legislation, the real goal of "cap-and-trade," and the real goal of the "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to the government to control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves except in their ability to deliver power. They and will make matters much worse, for that is their design. ~ November 23, 2009 Cloward-Piven Government By James Simpson
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. - Winston Churchill
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George had the foresight to see the Clintons, CFR, New York Times, and Obama on the horizon.
" ... How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public... " [From George Washington's farewell address.]
Other Quotes:
"Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance and determination. The best motto for a long march is ' Don't grumble. Plug on.'....Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one of the finest attributes of manliness." Sir Frederick Treves
"...To be clear, the Constitution of the United States of America is the United States of America. They are one and the same. Any individual or agency which seeks to subvert the Constitution and wage political and/or rhetorical war on it, are self-declared enemies of the United States of America, as they are subverting and waging war on the United States of America." -Pat Dollard
The truth to the matter is that Obama lies but he does it with such finess that the easily fooled are easily fooled. ~ Norman E. Hooben
"Going for the grandest illusion of all, [Obama] ... told the New York Times: 'We've actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles.' Excuse me while I pick my jaw off the ground. Everyone knows -- or should know -- that putting more and more of the government in charge of more and more of the economy is entirely inconsistent with free-market principles. This means that the president's statement to the contrary is what is known as a big lie." --columnist Diana West
We the people…We the people now have a New World Order that we the people did not order. Norman E. Hooben
"We are now in a great civil war of words and you have the honor of participating as a true patriot. The battle has not been won but you will be there when we are victorious. The pen is mightier than the sword and you will inscribe your name in the book of freedom…and that, my friend is an honor." (Norman E. Hooben in response to a writer who complained of not having the honor of serving in the U.S. Military)
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -Winston Churchill
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. -Ronald Reagan
Back in the days of "The Lone Ranger" program, someone would ask, "Who is that masked man?" People need to start asking that question about Barack Obama. - Thomas Sowell
For those who promote a race they are called, "racists". For those that promote American they are called "American". For 'American' is a 'concept' and no racial tones are tolerated either in shades or sounds. -Norman E. Hooben(In reference to Lourdes Galvan of San Antonio, Texas racial bigotry regarding American military heroes.)
Note to NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA (Hola! I know you are watching): I'm not white, I'm not black, I'm not upper class, I'm not lower class, I'm not middle class, I'm not French, I'm not Irish, I'm not Asian, I'm not European, I'm not Hispanic, My children are not half Hispanic...They are and I am what I am, An American! And I'm not hyphenated! - N.E. Hooben
The Police State of Massachusetts is now imposing laws against nature. Massachusetts is by far the most un-Constitutional government of the State, by the State, and for the State than any among the the fifty that hold a star on the banner of freedom. It is run by Socialists and hypocritical so-called Christians…the worst among them are the Catholics who go to Church on Sunday and forget what they Prayed for on Monday. - Norman E. Hooben - "A proud Catholic proud of my Faith. A proud Catholic NOT so proud of my Church!" - July 16th 2008
Will Rogers never met Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. -N. E. Hooben, July 2008
Harvard University was once an all boys school...today they have no balls at all. - N. E. Hooben I will stand with the Constitution For The United States of America should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. – N. E. Hooben
Politicians are like vampires... Whether its blood or money they want to suck it out of you till you die. ~ N. E. Hooben
When a people are satisfied with receiving gifts paid with their own taxes as a way of life Anarchy is sure to follow. -Fred Boutin 2008
From the first time I heard about the boogey-man as a child to the first time I got shot at in Vietnam, nothing in my entire lifetime, THAT'S NOTHING! has put more fear into me than this man Obama. - Norman E. Hooben - July 2008
We are here for only a mini-second in the sands of time. Then we become the dust that makes the sand; and the Hand of God molds us anew. Take care my friend and may God Bless... - Norman E. Hooben on the death of our dearly beloved pet dog, Stirling
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." -- Josef Stalin --
When it comes to lying, prudent people are guided by a Higher Authority driven by ‘thou shall not’ written in stone. Whereas Bill Clinton has no Higher Authority to guide him, ‘thou shall not’ has no conscious objections; for without a conscience there is no guilt.” - Norman Hooben
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” - Adolph Hitler
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. - James Madison, the Federalists Papers
There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some Exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back And stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked,'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?' The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity. The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America.
The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time.
One should always remember 'There is no such thing as a free Lunch!' Also, 'You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
You apparently don't share a sense of patriotism, Americanism, freedomism, or whatever kind of 'ism' that true Americans believe in... You do however, display a bit of socialism, communism, marxism or whatever kind of 'ism' that you make excuses for... ~ Norman E. Hooben (in response to an Obama supporter's views about the ACS census)
Anation that knows not from where it came, knows not where it is going!Today, Americans know too little about the foundations of our nation.The result is a nation now in chaos, its people unable to discern what is wrong with the transformation (paradigm shift) of our society and form of government that, if left unchecked, will destroy every facet of freedom, liberty and justice.The price of freedom is vigilance; the price of vigilance is knowledge.Many of America's founding documents are now available on the web. ~
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