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Bob Woodward Compares Clinton Emails To Nixon Tapes, Warns "Answers Won't Be Pretty"
"Follow the trail here," veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC, as he compared Hillary Clinton's private email account to the Nixon tapes. As The Hill reports, Woodward concluded that the fight over Clinton’s emails wouldn’t end soon: "This has to go on a long, long time...and the answers are probably not going to be pretty."
Woodward as a younger reporter helped break the Watergate scandal that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. He noted the tapes Nixon kept documenting conversations in the Oval Office were eventually turned over.
Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate, turned over her server last week to the Justice Department amid a federal probe after questions about her private email haunted her on the campaign trail for months.
“You've got a massive amount of data. It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes: thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively his,” Woodward said.
“Follow the trail here,” Woodward said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” noting that emails erased from Clinton’s private server when she led the State Department were either sent or received by someone else, too.
And Woodward oiminously conludes,
“This has to go on a long, long time,” Woodward said Monday, “and the answers are probably not going to be pretty.”
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But but but Hillary did this on her own server system, not on a government system so it was OK
-Progressive excuse machine answer #1
Old hill is a criminal, but the thing that is like the Nixon Tapes is the IRS scandal where the president and his minions abused their political power by using the organs of government to gain political advantage and silence political opponents. The email thing is just a contravention of government policies regarding government communication, very very serious but not like the watergate tapes
Agreed, unless something similarly damaging comes out, although I'm guessing she wouldn't release anything unless it was manageable.
Woodward thinks everything is like watergate because then Woodward gets interviews on TV. Woodward hasn't done anything good since that era. He now basically writes dramatic fiction about the whitehouse.
Clinton is at best dangerously incompetent.
When Tony Blair was the PM of the UK (not that long ago), he never sent a single email, text message or any kind of electronic communication during his entire 10 years in office. Not even any private ones. Zero electronic comms.
Absolute deniability.
He didn't even take any notes, alll he did was dictate stuff and initial stuff. Slippery bastard.
Probably got some sound advice from his lawyer wife.
Didnt Hillary get fired from the Watergate investigation team for questionable ethics?
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2014-03-08/story/fact-check-wa...
Larry Flynt on Bob Woodward: http://www.larryflynt.com/bob-woodward-the-story-he-wont-tell/
yes, technically they opted to not renew her contract. lord i would love to find the quote --- the statement --- of the "old white male democrat" who cut her loose. it was blistering. i am certain google has temporarily misplaced it
Madam Secretary, the peasants are revolting!
Hillary: Tell me about it! They stink on ice!
A few different sources, mainly Jon Rappaport (great writer), gave the lowdown on Watergate.
Nixon was owned by the Rockefellers as is CFR Clinton and many others.
Nixon decided he was for tariffs and the Rockefellers decided to take him out. Remember that David R worked for the OSS in WW2. Ben Bradley at the Wash Post was See Eye Aye forever. Went to Cord Meyer's ex-wife apt after she was hit and murdered taking a walk. He was looking for her JFK diaries. Cord Meyer also ran the See Eye Aye's Operation Mockingbird while JFK was screwing his wife.
Anyway, the CIA was behind Watergate and the gave all the stuff to Ben Bradley at the Wash Post. Woodward and Bernstein were just flunkies. The Wash Post has always been See Eye Aye like the rest.
Too bad Hillary did not know about this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
She could have had a thumb in her pocket.
"She could had a thumb in her pocket"
Haha along with every other perverted device known to man while she "munched carpet" :)
"...probably not going to be pretty.”
Yeah, Hil is involved.
Yes. Now he has 37 homes and the parliamentary enquiry into Iraq lies and crimes is stalled after 6 years.....6 years! Tell Me that is not outright corruption. But the british already know what they think. Blair lied , bribed and coerced everyone involved to produce an erroneous assessment supporting his case for war.
If they believed in the WMD they were fools. If they did not, but supported the allegations anyway they were knaves.
He covered for Thatcher and Cameron will cover for him.
No, I think in this case Bob is bang on. Hillary is citing personal notary which was the same excuse Nixon used. In the Nixon impeachment it was not the content which forced Nixon's resignation but the public response to what was also found on the tapes + tampering with evidence. At the end of the day, what is damning to Hillary is not what was FWD: but the release of her personal opinions, which as ZH posted a few days ago is anything but congenial for a Mother of The Year.
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2014-03-08/story/fact-check-wa...
Dumbass.Its far worse.Selling your country for donations to a slush foundation is
high treason.Dirty tricks on fellow Americans is not in the same league.
Hitlary was on the staff that persecuted Nixon so her excuses don't wash.
Agreed.
Oh, by the way...wasn't she gassed off the staff because she was too extreme and wanted to make stuff up if it helped hang Dick?
Unethical conduct.She was lucky not to be disbared for life.
Still, managed to hang on and make a profit on pork bellies and disappear a lot of evidence at Rose...
And who knows what Vince Foster knew...
And if not for a tubby tart with a gravy stain...hubby Willie would have gotten by too...
Birds of a feather...
Buzzards this time IMO, her karma has caught up with her dogma.
Yeah, we'll see. A lot of presstitutes, political hacks and crony judges between here and karma...
Hope you are correct.
"I'm not a crook."
LOL...and with the comparisons to Watergate flying around, hubby Bill must be hoping for a new Deep Throat to emerge...
He's still shagging the "energizer" I believe.
http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/report-bill-clinton-still-has-a-mistr...
Lucky?
And Chelsea Manning sits in prison for far less. At least they know what he/she swiped. With the Clintoon, they still have no idea. However, I'll bet the NSA knows what was sent, who it was sent too and just how serious it is.
Leverage for later.
I am no huge fan of Nixon but he left office broke. LBJ, after he whacked JFK with MIC and others, became even richer of Vietnam. He was the second rcihest President to leave office. Geo Washington was a billionaire based on the large land holdings.
The Clinton slush fund is probably worth $500 million now. She and Bill should get the guilotine.
What really happened to Nixon? His tariff program pissed off the Rockefeller's who sicked the See Eye Aye on him and leaked everything to Ben Bradley (See Eye Aye stiige) at the Wash Post.
David Rockefeller was an officer at the OSS during WW2.
Those killed in Benghazi might disagree on the seriousness. No one died as a result of Watergate. Both instances were done to hide things that won't stand the light of day. Hillary was conducting business off the official grid for a reason.
as this e mail bs unfolds and damages Hilary, other issues will come under real scrutiny such as Benghazi.
If you listen to her speak on the campain trail about this, she makes light of all this while she says its a conspiracy against her.
but it too months to allow turnover of the server and then it was empty, th eoldest trick in the litigaation book.
If you have ever been in serious discovery mode on litigation you know the game--once you give up the info you are finished. So you keep going hoping for perpetual deferral. Its like
Extend and pretend
"You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account," Clinton said at the start of her 25-minute address. "I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves."
-HRC Aug 11th 2015
An interesting thing I read many, many years ago. Nixon wanted records of the Bay of Pigs invasion stolen from Watergate.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-Bay-of-Pigs-connection-to-Watergate-3112357.php
Not only did Nixon want to fry people for this, but this invasion had been planned and approved by him when he was VP under Eisenhower. Two sides of the story - Nixon wanted the Dems to eat shit for leaving the potential liberators of Cuba to get slaughtered on the beaches OR Nixon didn't want people to understand how he was part of the miltary industrial complex with Viet Nam still going on.
Wonder what wondeful secrets Hildebeest is trying to hide other than the more obvious ones? Like making money running guns to rebels in Syria? Her involvement with the pipeline?
Except the Hillary's state department was used to gain political advantage during her tenure. If emails (deleted or remaining) document the same then we know it wasn't accidental or done in ignorance (-Progressive excuse machine answer #2, #3).
It would be odd that so many departments and agencies just happened to act in unethical ways. If people started connecting the dots they might begin to ask uncomfortable questions.
How quickly we all forget. The irony is appalling. From PBS's bio of Hillary.
"In 1974, when Bill returned to Arkansas to pursue his political career, Hillary moved to Washington to work as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate investigation. When President Richard Nixon resigned later that year, it brought Hillary's job to an end, and she made the life-defining decision to move to Fayetteville, Arkansas to be with Bill. The next year they wed in a small ceremony at their home."
Looks like this enquiry will also bring her job to an end.
Was the wedding in a trailer park?
The only thing missing from the trailer park fiesta was a trailer. Read the details.
http://www.clintonhousemuseum.org/learn/clintons-timeline/132-marry-me
abused their political power by using the organs of government to gain political advantage
Imagine that! This is the nature of power, and it is why government must either be kept as small as possible or eliminated entirely.
WRONG! Hillary Clinton is looking at at least four felonies. This is FAR WORSE than the Nixon tapes.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230511
Nice try to cover for the old bitch though.....
Grimaldus
Just a contravention of government policies regarding government communications? Indeed! Ask Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden how serious contravening government policy regarding government communications is.
As to Bob Woodward, he's ONI and always has been. Nixon's ouster was a palace coup by the far right to punish Nixon for actually being president and not just another fascist partisan. It was the old China lobby's revenge.
Oh, but Nixon broke into the Democratic National Headquarters! Well, no he didn't. Wategate burglars broke into the DNC and some of them were Nixon political operatives. Nixon's "crime" was trying to cover up these operatives' association with him. There was noting in the DNC worth having. All stategic political material was housed at the Democratic candidate's headquarters. All the DNC headquarters did was to direct visiting firemen to the best whore houses in DC.
All of this is extremely well documented and makes a convincing counter-arguement to the officlal WaPo/NYT "Nixon's the one" official history. Perhaps a bit of serious research is in line, not just a recital of the party line.
I'm just shocked this is on MSNBS. Neg press on the insufferable cunt? Hmmm
I'm just shocked this is on MSNBS.
This fact tells me she has lost her support at high levels within TPTB. Translation . . . she's fucked.
Obama admin is behind this. I think they hate the Clintons and they are leaking the details slowly to keep her from getting any momentum
Yes. Specifically, Obama's handler, Valerie Jarrett, who despises the Clintons, has decided to engage in all out war to destroy them.
"There ain't nuthin uglier than an old white woman." Fred Sanford, Sanfort and Son
..... especially a lying, cheating, corrupt, money grubbing AR trailer trash one with a sexual predator spouse who hangs out with pedophiles...
The difference today is we are easily distracted by pop culture and most tune these things out, unlike in the Watergate era.
GOP's Kasich: ‘I don’t read a Bible to figure out what I think’
http://tinyurl.com/pt2dh7k
Is the Fat Lady Singing?
Fat Lady? Come on, that's rude. She's hardly a lady.
time to put Shackles on those Cackles
They are going to need an extra set of handcuffs...
The answers to 9/11 questions were not pretty but the Deep State and its corrupt, compliant media have deflected them all.
Hillary will be the Democratic nominee as Bernie Sanders has called Snowden a patriot and asked for leniency.
Likewise JFK.
"Likewise JFK."
It was Lee Harvey Oswald. Period.
"I did not have sexual relations with that server."
"I did not have sexual relations with that server."
LOL
It all depends on what the meaning of server is.
The original Watergate is such smalll potatoes compared with the Hillary crimes.
She needs to be violated by her own server in the worst way.
I don't think that's Bill...he is reported servicing the 'Energizer Bunny'...oops...
At the end of the day, it seems like the smartest woman in the world was rather ignorant of how email systems work.
Emails are either sent To SOMEONE or received from SOMEONE.
I suspect that at least SOMEONE in the federal investigatory apparatus understands this and will inspect the email servers (and backup servers) used by all of the smartest woman's email correspondents.
It might be tedious and labor intensive, but the sleuths should be able to recover a lot of the sensitive emails sent to or received from the smartest woman.
And if that doesn't yield results, the sleuths can always ask the NSA, the ChiComs, the Russkies, or Mossad what was in the emails.
And if that doesn't yield results, the sleuths can always ask the NSA, the ChiComs, the Russkies, or Mossad what was in the emails.
News Flash . . . . the NSA knew what was in the emails as soon as this incident came to light. They've just been sitting on the data until the time is right or when it becomes advantageous to "whomever" within the Deep State control apparatus.
Or maybe this is all for show and they do not really want to know. They can just say that the server was scrubbed clean and nothing more could be found. Then deflect and calls to chase down other unknown servers as being unrealistic.
I am unsure if they want her to get the job. They may just use this to push her out of the running, or if they do want her (in which case we will get her) this is just another blackmail device to keep her obedient. I think they see her as too unstable and too likely to make kneejerk responses in an attempt to protect her historical image.
Closing the door after the cows have left the barn:
They have said that before and it worked.
I have no faith in the US Department of Justice.
If the FBI helps the cover up, then may God damn you.
The USDOJ just like SCOTUS have been corrupt arms only interested in promulgating a bullshit progressive liberabl democrap agenda with compete disregard to the Constitution and rule of law.... they all need their skins sandpapered off, buried in salt and then thrown on the Burning Man bonfire.... fukemall...
Prayer is a powerful weapon.
Reword your diatribe and give it to God.
He'll take care of DOJ and the FBI.
And the fools on the hill.
Joe's getting ready to run in order to replace her.
sad part is the nsa and cia know all of this and yet here we are with the old fart woodworthless commenting on it
They know for sure but do and say nothing -- in this instance. If this were a government functionary he or she would be in the dungeons by now awaiting a life ruining sentence.
just confirms what we all know...they are political functionaries
See Eye Aye gave Ben Bradley (Wash Post) all the dirt on Nixon. Bradley was an owned See Aye Aye stooge. rockefellers were running that show. Nixon was their guy until he deicided he was gonna riase tariffs. David Rockefeller was an OSS officer in WW2.
Woodward and Bernstein were lackeys.
The question is why is MIC and Deep State possibly throwing the Clintons away now? Probably because they are old. Bill looks ill and they are outliving their usefulness.
My guess is Deep State has also decided it is a Bush's time. Every 8 years a different puppet from the Red Team or Blue Team gets to lead.
It will take heavy lifting to get Bush elected but the Rockefellers own the super delegates.
The best was when Reagan almost beat Ford/Rockefeller for the nomination. They even offered Reagan VP and he said no thanks.
What? Did you get this wrong?
Are you saying that "they" DIDN'T get "their" way?
Maybe they've been fibbing to you about how much control they have over things.
i love the smell of cooked bitch in the afternoon
PREDICTION! PREDICTION! PREDICTION!
TheBigUnit predicts that at the end of day (probably years down the road) the world will be shocked to realize how MANY people had hacked Hillary's email server and new everything about her yoga classes, Chelsea's wedding plans, and American foreign policy and national security.
Mullah Omar probably knew more about Benghazi in his cave in Afghanistan than John Boehner or Mitch McConnell.
I am NOT a crook!
(I'm just a criminal...HRC!) (if you want to get all technical and shit)
she will be burning out the dildos in a big way.....
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail."
Eliot Spitzer, 2005)
Deny. Deny Deny. If Bill can get a blowjob that is not sex, is it any wonder that Hitlery is unworried?
"Hillary" and "pretty" don't belong in the same sentence.
Hilary is pretty ugly and pretty evil.
"and the answers are probably not going to be pretty."
Does he mean the intimate details of Hillary's sex life?
When it comes to Deep Throat in the parking garage, this lady has been there, done that.
And when it comes to expleting the deletives, emails over tape, anytime.
Move on, people. Look, what's that over there? Is it a bird? No, it's a Krump.
Even if Hillary was charged and convicted and proven a liar in court, she would still be the democratic candidate.
A la Marion Barry
Straight Outta Clinton
Cuz the boyz in the hood are always hard
You come trashin' your email we'll pull your card
Knowin' nothin' in life about being legit'
Crooked ho, stupid server tricks ain't shit...
What a sexist! Who knew Bob Woodward was a part of the VRWC!
....anyone who votes for this asshole would have to have fetid pus for brains.
So America is a land that lives by the rule of law not the rule of man?
Why is Manning in prison? Why is Snowden in Russia? Why isn't Hillary not defending herself fulltime instead of running for president?
Doesn't sound like rule of law to me.
This is OK though for the idiot media since the Clintons and liberals in general get a pass. Trump will end up getting more heat from the media over the joking comment of being Batman than this twat will for this.
If anything, it's Bush's fault...
He has a good point about following the trail. Somebody else sent or received emails. So that makes her potentially vulnerable to extortion.
The Bamsters' chance golf outing with the Old Dawg was to arrange the "pardon".
meanwhile
in more serious news
Hillary shakes her booty at Vernon Jordan party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=33&v=4CWdB1AP5tg
I seriously doubt Hillary has implicated knowledge of any White House staffs involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Thus making comparison dubious.
Yes, but the difference between the two is, Nixon may have been (old school) a crook but he wasn't Demonic.
Like the Lois Lerner IRS emails on surveillance and undermining "patriot" or counter-Democratic Party operations, all these Clinton emails (TS/compartmentalized/unsecured) are all sitting on some NSA server with all the related meta-data.
One need only wander down to the vault, run a few lines of SQL and Presto!
Answers.
The problem is the issue is so widespread and points to the complete transfer/monitoring of US policy and operations to a certain foreign power and its agents that no government or media official wants "the truth."
Another skeleton for the Clinton closet.
Business as usual at this Twilight of the American Republic.
– literally ‘all things are presumed against the destroyer of evidence’
except the IRS.
Note, everyone is afraid to rate your post. Funny...
Well we could start a contest or pool to guess what the will be worst thing on the server that will be found..
bumping off a foreign head of state, for cash donations, EPA positions for sale to highest bidder, date with Bill for 90 year old head of donation committee members. Millitary general promotions or removals, the list could go on, I eagerly await the mud slinging.. and her resigning from the race of course..
neocons and obama are conspiring to make Obama a three term president,
read it on the interent so must be true see I can play this game too...
http://nypost.com/2015/03/14/obama-adviser-behind-leak-of-hillary-clinto...
joke or not i saw an ad for a talk show (dont remember) "...and tonite we will discuss Obamas strategy for a third term....." brrrr
Orange Pantsuit for Prison 2016.
Obama socialist agenda and Neoconservatives don't blend into the society mix, nice try. Oh, wait... what has Trump been telling you?
Dear the Hill editors. Keep using Adobe for your flash video choice. I just back out and find a new viewable source.
You're setting yourself up for a big network hack. But management never saw it coming. Adobe wants your subscription $$ to launch embedded video propaganda. The same goes for Financial Times. Good luck fuck knobs. The sheep will figure it out.
Bob Woodward Says Clinton Emails Remind Him ...
Is is possible Mrs Clinton was selling access to the US Government through her server?
Quid pro quo you know?
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We came , we saw, she died. Some hitman should take her head off.
>>> Will take oath as HDR
>>> Will take oath as HRC
January 20, 2017 is Inauguration Day.
Or, as Hillary calls it: Time to get even. With Bill. With Barack. With everybody.
we came we saw and he died...leaves an awesome trail.
I never hated Nixon's guts or wanted him dead.
well this mess is their own making, now everything is classified and they have no privacy, and they can do what they want on matters of policy without public awareness or debate) but they have no privacy other than behind the classified curtain. she sends a yahoo email to a friend saying i'll be in italy next week, RIINNNG goes the security bell. send everything through the government server and risk exactly the kind of scrutiny she is getting, personal and private. just flew to jamaica for a weekend with boy toy, RIIINNG, there goes the same security problem that busted Gen Petraeus
Woodward is wrong about this, he says these emails will help us understand who HC really is. that's not the purpose of this activity, to discern if classified info has leaked. wrong BOB. even pols have some right to privacy as well as you and I, and now that the wall is down for security reasons we cant go fishing for celebrity tibbits or were not journalists were paparazzi.
HCs problem is she set up her own server, if she had left her public emails on Yahoo, (and do you think someone would hack them?) then she would have been okay. but they would have leaked out.
hillary violated security protocol, thats not the issue woodward is taking. send a letter through the post office and they open it, send a private note by courier and they accuse you of bypassing security. same issue. but i am sure that if all those emails are made public she is political road kill
The server they turned over either didn't have a hard drive or has a new one just purchased from Best Buy. For sure the real drive was degaussed and shredded by March if not earlier. Perhaps they'll find a sophisticated "state actor" virus in the BIOS or something but since the FBI works for Obama they aren't going to find shit unless Obama wants her taken out.
Handing over the emails (that they didn't delete) in paper format was a solid fuck you to the people who are charged with figuring out what is in them. Her lawyer got an electronic copy. Even putting the safe in the lawyer's office is State bending over backwards to provide partisan protection to a political ally.
The server, obviously, would be a huge target, and thousands of people had her email address. Easy to imagine the Chinese and the Russians read every message. Since we know the Chinese hacked and exfiltrated the federal security clearance database, some bullshit unprotected IMAP server would be easy pickings. By the way, all email to and from that server was about for sure unencrypted. To do encrypted email requires managing security certificates that expire anually (slick move, NSA) on each device and on the server and whatnot. It's not easy and if she gave a shit she wouldn't have used a personal server anyway.
I hope Woodward is right and the email scandal has legs and stays in play for a long time with all sorts of new discoveries of lies and malfeasance of the Democratic frontrunner and her staff.
Right now we are still dealing with Hillary and plausible deniability. As Woodward says - the emails came and went from somewhere. Go get 'em Congress and FBI! Get all the State Department emails. Make the net bigger and you will catch some fish.
The US Federal Government has to assume that every privately owned computer, server, smart phone, tablet, etc., were compromised. Foreign intelligence operatives and / or traitors within Hillary's State Department could compromise any of those devices with as little as 120 seconds unimpeded access. Compromises to devices include:
• continuous audio and video recording, compression and transmission to hostile state and / or non-state actors on personal computers, smart phones and tablets;
• storage, compression and transmission of all emails and documents, including temporary files, to hostile state and / or non-state actors;
• loading malware or viruses onto devices that then contaminate internal, secure government networks; and
• much, much more.
This went on literally for YEARS! The potential penetration of government and military operations is incalculable. I wonder how many United States service personnel died because of Hillary' negligence, incompetence, felonious and traitorous actions?
Plus, when it comes to dirty politics the Clinton's are the Pigpen's of the political world. They are the filthiest, most disgusting, purely evil dirty shirts in the political arena. I'll say it again, the Clinton's are pure EVIL!
But, to obtain any kind of justice, the American People are going to have do it for themselves. The corruption in America is too deep-rooted to expect any kind of Law Enforcement Agency to investigate and for the Justice Department to prosecute. The Clinton's helped kill the rule of law and I fervently hope that they literally burn as a consequence!
So, to the two Piles Of Stinkin' Excrement Hillary and Bill, I literally hope you both burn baby burn. I'd volunteer to burn those two in latrine barrels!
Hah ha
Who expects her to be pretty?