Hillary's Emailgate - The noose tightens...Hillary adviser urges her to hire Republican Criminal Defense Attorney

[maxparrish]

As Hillary tries to exploit the tragic deaths in Roseburg, and distract attention with futile demands to shu down the Benghazi Investigation, the legal noose tightens. The FBI Director, sometime ago, let it be known that he expects the investigation to be concluded by the end of December, and the recommendation to either indict or not will be made by mid-January.

As it is illegal to store, send, or receive classified material on a non-classified system, and there is a growing perception that Ms. Clinton has been obstructing justice by ignoring subpoenas and/or ordering email deletions to avoid FOIA and State department compliance, it would seem to be inevitable - to date, over 400 classified emails have been discovered and more evidence of obstruction of justice surfaces weekly.

News in the last two days...

The Washington Post reports that the FBI probe probe has expanded to include a second private technology company that provided a warm backup to Platte Rivers server, Datto, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account. The role of Datto became public when the Senate Homeland Security Committee sent the company a lengthy letter seeking information about the role it and other firms played in managing the Clinton e-mail system.

Some internal emails of Platte River have also surfaced, and in one exchange, a Platte River employee working on the Clinton account was worried and wondered if whether there was a written record of a “directive to cut the backup.” The Washington Post reports:

The context is not clear, but it suggests there was growing anxiety over how the system was managed and who would be held responsible. At about the time of that exchange, Platte River had been in discussions with Datto about the length of time Clinton e-mail data was preserved and whether copies were saved, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

“If we had that email we are golden,” the employee wrote.

“Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy [sic] shit,” the employee wrote.

Of course, the Platte River spokesperson said he had no idea what the coverup conversation among employees referred to.

Another development: "The State Department is leaning on former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to hand over any additional work-related emails sent or received using private accounts." Having noticed two months of missing emails, and the total absence of emails between Clinton and Petraeus that are known to exist, the letter "asked Clinton’s personal lawyer to once again affirm that all federal records in her possession have been provided to the agency."

And Yet Another development:

The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The four servers, which were located at the State Department’s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material was sent to Clinton’s private email by State Department aides during her tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, said two people familiar with the probe. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation.

And while the FBI continued to analyze the emails Hillary Rodham Clinton thought she deleted one of her advisers has pressed her to hire a Republican criminal defense attorney in Washington.

One of the Clintons’ oldest and most trusted legal advisers has urged Hillary to hire a criminal defense attorney to represent her in case she’s indicted for mishandling classified documents on her private email server and for lying under oath.
The adviser, who has been a Clinton confidant for more than 30 years, laid out his concerns about Hillary’s legal exposure in a wide-ranging interview.

“This email thing is spiraling out of control,” he said. “To paraphrase John Dean of Watergate fame, it’s a cancer on her candidacy.

“Frankly,” he continued, “I am used to my advice on legal matters being taken very seriously and acted upon by the Clintons. I’ve told them repeatedly that this FBI email investigation could go in a very dangerous direction very quickly.

“I think Bill takes the matter seriously. But Hillary is still acting as though it’s a political smear job by right-wing zealots.”

In separate phone conversations with Bill and Hillary, the adviser said he warned them that Justice Department prosecutors handling Hillary’s case expect the FBI probe to wrap up much sooner than expected — maybe as soon as the end of this year.

His advice to Hillary: Lawyer up now before it’s too late.“Hillary needs to secure the services of an expert legal counsel — preferably a big-league defense attorney from the Republican side of the aisle,” the adviser said. “She needs someone to find out whether the FBI and Justice Department are likely to conclude that she’s violated federal laws governing national security.”

It is almost certain (as I predicted) Biden will jump in, if not, Bernie will be set for a run. Unless Trump is nominated by the GOP, if she is nominated she is toast in the general election.

"Excellent" (to quote Mr. Burns).


http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...1769d2-6c5e-11e5-91eb-27ad15c2b723_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...94ba46-6c48-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html

http://nypost.com/2015/10/03/hillary-clintons-legal-adviser-warns-her-time-to-lawyer-up/

 

[Axulus]

More info emerges day by day:

Clinton email server target of cyberattacks from China, Korea and Germany

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's controversial private email server, which she used during her tenure as secretary of State, was the target of cyberattacks from around the globe and was inadequately protected against such attacks, according to media reports published Wednesday.

Attempted attacks on Clinton's server from China, Germany and South Korea occurred after she left office in early 2013, the Associated Press reports citing a "congressional document."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ton-email-server-cyberattack-target/73561252/

 

[maxparrish]

Can't wait till Trey Gowdy gets his turn to question her on Oct 22. I suspect she'll be getting a score of attorneys after that.

 

[Will Wiley]

As it is illegal to store, send, or receive classified material on a non-classified system,

Oh come on....we all know that doesn't apply to important people who follow the rules.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

More info emerges day by day:

Clinton email server target of cyberattacks from China, Korea and Germany

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's controversial private email server, which she used during her tenure as secretary of State, was the target of cyberattacks from around the globe and was inadequately protected against such attacks, according to media reports published Wednesday.

Attempted attacks on Clinton's server from China, Germany and South Korea occurred after she left office in early 2013, the Associated Press reports citing a "congressional document."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ton-email-server-cyberattack-target/73561252/

Aren't all computers on the Internet subject to cyber attacks?

 

[dismal]

More info emerges day by day:



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ton-email-server-cyberattack-target/73561252/

Aren't all computers on the Internet subject to cyber attacks?

Hey, maybe this is why they keep confidential government information on servers that aren't connected to the internet.

 

[untermensche]

My friends, this is all they got.

Email.

The last Republican president took a surplus and turned it into an insurmountable debt. He lied us into a major war that has now come back to bite us in the form of ISIS. He sat and did nothing as the housing market exploded wildly out of control for no rational reason.

But of course Hilliary had a few emails that people tried to read.

Let's of course go back to the success of Republicanism.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

My friends, this is all they got.

Email.

The last Republican president took a surplus and turned it into an insurmountable debt. He lied us into a major war that has now come back to bite us in the form of ISIS. He sat and did nothing as the housing market exploded wildly out of control for no rational reason.

But of course Hilliary had a few emails that people tried to read.

Let's of course go back to the success of Republicanism.

Well, to be fair, that was at least while he was president and not before he was. Before he was president I think all he had was a DUI?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, to be fair, that was at least while he was president and not before he was. Before he was president I think all he had was a DUI?

Ya, but what that ignores is that he also killed and ate a hitchhiker at the same time. The fact that he'd been drinking when he did this doesn't make it OK that his daddy got everything but the DUI swept under the rug.

 

[dismal]

Also, to be fair, don't most of the threads here operate on the premise that turning a surplus in to massive debt is the very mother's milk of prosperity?

 

[Harry Bosch]

My friends, this is all they got.

Email.

The last Republican president took a surplus and turned it into an insurmountable debt. He lied us into a major war that has now come back to bite us in the form of ISIS. He sat and did nothing as the housing market exploded wildly out of control for no rational reason.

But of course Hilliary had a few emails that people tried to read.

Let's of course go back to the success of Republicanism.

Well, Hillary is the greatest threat to republican total control of government. If she goes down, they will most likely control the house, senate, judiciary, and the Presidency. Certainly at least two more conservative judges will join the court. There will be more investigations to follow. Guarantied.

 

[ksen]

Also, to be fair, don't most of the threads here operate on the premise that turning a surplus in to massive debt is the very mother's milk of prosperity?

No, not really.

 

[untermensche]

Also, to be fair, don't most of the threads here operate on the premise that turning a surplus in to massive debt is the very mother's milk of prosperity?

I only remember that happening once in the last 35 years.

When GW, boy genius, did it.

 

[maxparrish]

Connecticut company, which backed up Hillary Clinton‘s emails at the request of a Colorado firm, apparently surprised her aides by storing the emails on a “cloud” storage system designed to optimize data recovery.

The firm, Datto Inc., said Wednesday that it turned over the contents of its storage to the FBI on Tuesday. …

Datto, based in Norwalk, Conn., became the second data storage firm to become entangled in the inquiry into Clinton’s unusual email arrangement, which has sparked a furor that has dogged her campaign. In August, Clinton and Colorado-based Platte River Networks, which had managed her primary server since June 2013, agreed to surrender it for examination by the FBI.

Datto and Platte River seemed at odds, however, over how Clinton’s emails wound up on Datto’s cloud storage, which may have resulted from a misunderstanding.

Platte River spokesman Andy Boian said the firm bought a device from Datto that constantly snaps images of a server’s contents and connected it to the Clinton server at a New Jersey data storage facility. Platte River never asked Datto to beam the images to an off-site cloud storage node and never was billed for that service, he said. Company officials were bewildered when they learned of the cloud storage, he said.

“We said, ‘You have a cloud? You were told not to have a cloud.’ We never received an invoice for any cloud for the Clintons.’”

...

His letter also cited internal emails recounting requests in late 2014 and early 2015 from Clinton representatives for Platte River Networks to direct Datto to reduce the amount of her emails it was backing up. These communications led a Platte River employee to air suspicions that “this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy (sic) shit,” according to an excerpt of an email cited by Johnson. …

Despite Boian’s statement that Platte River set up a 30-day revolving retention policy for Clinton’s emails, Johnson’s letter noted that Platte River employees were directed to reduce the amount of email data being stored with each backup. Late this summer, Johnson wrote, a Platte River employee took note of this change and inquired whether the company could search its archives for an email from Clinton Executive Service Corp. directing such a reduction in October or November 2014 and then again around February, advising Platte River to save only emails sent during the most recent 30 days.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article37968711.html

So the reductions and deletions would have occurred after State and FOIA requests? No wonder Hillary's email system manager, Brian Pagliano, took the 5th.

Oh dear.

 

[Derec]

Speaking of clouds, I really hope she had no Fappening type photos up there.

 

[maxparrish]

Speaking of clouds, I really hope she had no Fappening type photos up there.

Drat...I missed seeing Kirsten Dunst and McKayla Maroney nude? Like is not fair.

But Hillary Clinton nude? Time for red hot pokers in the eyes.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Did these hackers find out anything regarding Benghazi? You should look into holding a congressional inquiry into it because you might finally get the truth about Benghazi.

 

[ZiprHead]

The GOP's 15 other Benghazi talking points for Hillary Clinton

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/11/1429606/-The-GOP-s-15-other-Benghazi-talking-points-for-Hillary-Clinton#