He later had his press secretary state that he did recognize her use of a nongovernmental email address, but did not know it was unlawful or unsecured until last week.
Wait, wait, so ignorance of the law is a valid excuse now?
Hillary Clinton has added yet another Hamptons fundraiser to her late August vacation in the well-heeled beach enclave — this one catered by former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s brother...
Many have long held the belief that Trump jumped in there to fuck everything up so Scott Walker (the Koch Bros. errand boy) would get the nomination instead.
Thanks Banzai7 for calling it like you see it! A total farce of upic proportion! We all know it will be Clinton/Bush and Hitlery will win. God save us all!
i was curious that maybe Trump was just in it to throw his support to Bush (which is a good question to ask him) the reason Trump has some real appeal as President and not just a guy shooting off his mouth until the oligarchs appoint someone new, is that he knows his limits, if he doesnt understand something hes not likely to get involved ( and many of you are saying, whats left?, but thats a good thing) pat buchanan says his lead is sufficient at this point to make him the real deal, but pat was always running in those early primaries and winning, but he never had any stick. as a candidate Trump has already said plenty of stupid or politically incorrect things and he just keeps going, in some ways hes like Reagan, though Reagan was personally likable and Trump, well if Trump gets the nomination he should pick Judge Judy for his VP.
...I have not seen Mrs. Clinton’s signature on any documents, but standard government procedure is for her to have signed an agreement under oath when she began her work at the State Department requiring her to safeguard classified records, and another agreement under oath when she ended her work that she had returned all records to the government.
She violated both agreements, and she violated numerous federal laws.
By using her personal email address — @clintonemail.com — she kept her work documents from the government. Concealing governmentdocuments from the government when you work for it is a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison and permanent disqualification from holding public office.
Failing to secure classified secrets in a government-approved facility or moving them to a non-secure facility outside the government’s control is a misdemeanor, punishable by a hefty fine and a year in jail. Using a false email address that gives the clear impression that the user is not using a government server when she is, or one that creates the false impression that the emailer is using a government server when she is not, is also a felony.
The legal issues in Mrs. Clinton’s case are all the more curious when one hears Mr. Obama’s tepid reaction to this latest scandal. Asked by Bill Plante of CBS News last weekend when he first learned of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a personal email server instead of the government‘s, the president told Mr. Plante he learned of it from the media, last week, when the rest of us did. He later had his press secretary state that he did recognize her use of a nongovernmental email address, but did not know it was unlawful or unsecured until last week.
Does the White House not know where the president’s emails are coming from and where they are going?
I wish Mr. Plante had followed up with that question and more: Mr. President, are you not troubled that your secretary of state had a non-secure email account and used it for all of her work? Are you not troubled that she might have kept classified secrets on a server in her barn on her estate in Chappaqua, New York, that the Secret Service might or might not have known about, or at a computer company in Texas that the Secret Service was unable to protect?
Does it not trouble you, Mr. President, that foreign intelligence services likely would have had a far easier time hacking into the emails of your secretary of state because of all this? Mr. President, will your Department of Justice prosecute Mrs. Clinton for retaining 48 months of classified records on her personal server after she left office, as it did Gen. David Petraeus, who kept 15 months of classified records in a desk drawer in his home after he left office?
Mr. President, the premise of the law regulating government records is that the government owns them all, and when a high-ranking government official leaves office, the ex-official may ask the governmentfor copies of her personal emails, and the government decides which ones it will give her. Mr. President, don’t you realize that Mrs. Clintonturned the law on its head by keeping all of her emails from thegovernment?
Thus, rather than the government deciding which emails were personal,Mrs. Clinton decided which emails were governmental, and she turned those over to the government. How does the government know what is contained in the emails she kept? Mr. President, this is a privilege that even you don’t have, and it is the very behavior that the laws you have sworn to uphold were written to prevent.
Mr. President, did you cut a deal with Mrs. Clinton’s husband that permits her to get away with this type of behavior? Mr. President, is it true that there are standards of behavior for Bill and Hillary Clinton and their friends and other standards for the rest of us?
Mr. President, do you remember that crackpot Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton’s national security adviser from 1997 to 2001, and Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy adviser when she ran against you in 2008, and who stole documents from the National Archives in 2003 by hiding them under an on-site construction trailer? Do you know that Bill got Sandy a no-jail-time deal, including the return of his security clearance, and he got Sandy’s prosecutor a federal judgeship?
Mr. President, when you ran against Hillary Clinton, you promised themost transparent government in history. Do you honestly think you have given us that?
OPSEC Calls for the Immediate Suspension of Any Security Clearances Held by Former Secretary Hillary Clinton and Three Other Former State Department Officials
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scott Taylor, President of SPECIAL OPERATIONS EDUCATION FUND (OPSEC), announced today that OPSEC is formally calling upon Secretary of State John Kerry to immediately suspend any and all security clearances presently held by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; her former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills; her former Deputy Chief of Staff, Jake Sullivan and her advisor Huma Abedin until final adjudication of any violations of national security regulations or laws.http://opsecteam.org/download/080315_Letter.pdf
It is obvious that the four individuals we have identified engaged in a pattern of activities that clearly violated numerous State Department directives and Title 18 USC to include at least the following:
Unlawful removal and storage of classified information “without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location.” Tile 18 USC 1924
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 5, Subchapter 480 (5 FAM 480) – Classifying and Declassifying National Security Information – Executive Order 13256
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 5, Subchapter 750 (5 FAM 750) – Electronic Mail (Email) Policy
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 12, Subchapter 530 (12 FAM 530) – Storing and Safeguarding Classified Material
Taylor said, “Administrative suspension in these circumstances is entirely consistent with established security policies, procedures and practices. We note previous administrative security actions undertaken with regard to General Petraeus, Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration, Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren, Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, among others.”
“The American people must be assured that the Departments of State and Justice and the relevant Congressional oversight committees are committed to ensuring that the laws and policies governing handling of classified materials are efficiently and consistently enforced to protect the national security of this country and its citizens. Hence, we call on Secretary Kerry to take immediately the first and essential step in fulfilling that obligation.”
OPSEC is a non-partisan grassroots advocacy organization of former members of Special Operations Forces and the Intelligence Community. OPSEC is focused on protecting U.S. Special Operations Forces and national intelligence assets from political exploitation, misguided policies, and intentional misuse of classified information, all of which expose them and their families to greater risk and reduce their ability to keep Americans safe.More information about OPSEC can be found at www.OpSecTeam.org.
A federal judge is being asked to seize the USB flash drive that holds copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private emails.
Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman on Wednesday filed a motion to have a judge take control of the flash drive, which is being held by David Kendall, Clinton’s lawyer, as part of his ongoing racketeering lawsuit against the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
“This court has a responsibility to preserve evidence and must do so to avoid its destruction,” Klayman wrote in the new motion. “Importantly, plaintiff has not requested to see the documents, hard and thumb drives at this time, but simply asked that this court take them into its custody for safekeeping.”
Klayman has claimed that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act by deleting emails and covering up her communications to avoid responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. The missing emails would show how Clinton used waivers and sold her influence in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation, he has alleged.
Wait, wait, so ignorance of the law is a valid excuse now?
This is going to be one fun weekend!
You'll either get a billionaire in the White House or a billionaire financed proxy. Not really sure which is worse.
i don't think it much matters anymore. The snake is eating itself.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/08/05/hillary-to-study-the-plight-of-work...
Hillary Clinton has added yet another Hamptons fundraiser to her late August vacation in the well-heeled beach enclave — this one catered by former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s brother...
Many have long held the belief that Trump jumped in there to fuck everything up so Scott Walker (the Koch Bros. errand boy) would get the nomination instead.
Thanks Banzai7 for calling it like you see it! A total farce of upic proportion! We all know it will be Clinton/Bush and Hitlery will win. God save us all!
i was curious that maybe Trump was just in it to throw his support to Bush (which is a good question to ask him) the reason Trump has some real appeal as President and not just a guy shooting off his mouth until the oligarchs appoint someone new, is that he knows his limits, if he doesnt understand something hes not likely to get involved ( and many of you are saying, whats left?, but thats a good thing) pat buchanan says his lead is sufficient at this point to make him the real deal, but pat was always running in those early primaries and winning, but he never had any stick. as a candidate Trump has already said plenty of stupid or politically incorrect things and he just keeps going, in some ways hes like Reagan, though Reagan was personally likable and Trump, well if Trump gets the nomination he should pick Judge Judy for his VP.
Certainly Judge Judy for Attorney General.
Are there special standards of behavior for Hillary?
By Andrew P. Napolitano - -
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/11/andrew-napolitano-do-hil...
...I have not seen Mrs. Clinton’s signature on any documents, but standard government procedure is for her to have signed an agreement under oath when she began her work at the State Department requiring her to safeguard classified records, and another agreement under oath when she ended her work that she had returned all records to the government.
She violated both agreements, and she violated numerous federal laws.
By using her personal email address — @clintonemail.com — she kept her work documents from the government. Concealing governmentdocuments from the government when you work for it is a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison and permanent disqualification from holding public office.
Failing to secure classified secrets in a government-approved facility or moving them to a non-secure facility outside the government’s control is a misdemeanor, punishable by a hefty fine and a year in jail. Using a false email address that gives the clear impression that the user is not using a government server when she is, or one that creates the false impression that the emailer is using a government server when she is not, is also a felony.
The legal issues in Mrs. Clinton’s case are all the more curious when one hears Mr. Obama’s tepid reaction to this latest scandal. Asked by Bill Plante of CBS News last weekend when he first learned of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a personal email server instead of the government‘s, the president told Mr. Plante he learned of it from the media, last week, when the rest of us did. He later had his press secretary state that he did recognize her use of a nongovernmental email address, but did not know it was unlawful or unsecured until last week.
Does the White House not know where the president’s emails are coming from and where they are going?
I wish Mr. Plante had followed up with that question and more: Mr. President, are you not troubled that your secretary of state had a non-secure email account and used it for all of her work? Are you not troubled that she might have kept classified secrets on a server in her barn on her estate in Chappaqua, New York, that the Secret Service might or might not have known about, or at a computer company in Texas that the Secret Service was unable to protect?
Does it not trouble you, Mr. President, that foreign intelligence services likely would have had a far easier time hacking into the emails of your secretary of state because of all this? Mr. President, will your Department of Justice prosecute Mrs. Clinton for retaining 48 months of classified records on her personal server after she left office, as it did Gen. David Petraeus, who kept 15 months of classified records in a desk drawer in his home after he left office?
Mr. President, the premise of the law regulating government records is that the government owns them all, and when a high-ranking government official leaves office, the ex-official may ask the governmentfor copies of her personal emails, and the government decides which ones it will give her. Mr. President, don’t you realize that Mrs. Clintonturned the law on its head by keeping all of her emails from thegovernment?
Thus, rather than the government deciding which emails were personal,Mrs. Clinton decided which emails were governmental, and she turned those over to the government. How does the government know what is contained in the emails she kept? Mr. President, this is a privilege that even you don’t have, and it is the very behavior that the laws you have sworn to uphold were written to prevent.
Mr. President, did you cut a deal with Mrs. Clinton’s husband that permits her to get away with this type of behavior? Mr. President, is it true that there are standards of behavior for Bill and Hillary Clinton and their friends and other standards for the rest of us?
Mr. President, do you remember that crackpot Sandy Berger, who was Bill Clinton’s national security adviser from 1997 to 2001, and Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy adviser when she ran against you in 2008, and who stole documents from the National Archives in 2003 by hiding them under an on-site construction trailer? Do you know that Bill got Sandy a no-jail-time deal, including the return of his security clearance, and he got Sandy’s prosecutor a federal judgeship?
Mr. President, when you ran against Hillary Clinton, you promised themost transparent government in history. Do you honestly think you have given us that?
official song for pollytootians and their gullible flock of followers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150805006189/en/OPSEC-Calls-Susp...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scott Taylor, President of SPECIAL OPERATIONS EDUCATION FUND (OPSEC), announced today that OPSEC is formally calling upon Secretary of State John Kerry to immediately suspend any and all security clearances presently held by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; her former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills; her former Deputy Chief of Staff, Jake Sullivan and her advisor Huma Abedin until final adjudication of any violations of national security regulations or laws.http://opsecteam.org/download/080315_Letter.pdf
It is obvious that the four individuals we have identified engaged in a pattern of activities that clearly violated numerous State Department directives and Title 18 USC to include at least the following:
Taylor said, “Administrative suspension in these circumstances is entirely consistent with established security policies, procedures and practices. We note previous administrative security actions undertaken with regard to General Petraeus, Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration, Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren, Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, among others.”
“The American people must be assured that the Departments of State and Justice and the relevant Congressional oversight committees are committed to ensuring that the laws and policies governing handling of classified materials are efficiently and consistently enforced to protect the national security of this country and its citizens. Hence, we call on Secretary Kerry to take immediately the first and essential step in fulfilling that obligation.”
OPSEC is a non-partisan grassroots advocacy organization of former members of Special Operations Forces and the Intelligence Community. OPSEC is focused on protecting U.S. Special Operations Forces and national intelligence assets from political exploitation, misguided policies, and intentional misuse of classified information, all of which expose them and their families to greater risk and reduce their ability to keep Americans safe. More information about OPSEC can be found at www.OpSecTeam.org.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/250400-judge-asked-to-seize-...
A federal judge is being asked to seize the USB flash drive that holds copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private emails.
Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman on Wednesday filed a motion to have a judge take control of the flash drive, which is being held by David Kendall, Clinton’s lawyer, as part of his ongoing racketeering lawsuit against the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
“This court has a responsibility to preserve evidence and must do so to avoid its destruction,” Klayman wrote in the new motion. “Importantly, plaintiff has not requested to see the documents, hard and thumb drives at this time, but simply asked that this court take them into its custody for safekeeping.”
Klayman has claimed that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act by deleting emails and covering up her communications to avoid responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. The missing emails would show how Clinton used waivers and sold her influence in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation, he has alleged.
I'd take Trump over Bush in a heartbeat.
Anybody but Jeb (or Hillary)......
Trush or Jillary
This one is truly the stuff that nightmares are made of.
"Great liars are also great magicians." -A.H.
What asshole downvoted this? Crawl out from the sewer and let's play!
pussy down-voter is still lurking and isn't a person enough to state any objection.