[VIDEO] Clinton Email Search Warrant Unsealed; Little New Revealed
Posted: December 20, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2004 United States election voting controversies, Clinton Emails, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party (United States), Email, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Judge, Fox News, Free Beacon, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton email controversy, James Comey, media, news, Search warrant, The New York Times, Twitter, Unsealed, video Leave a comment
A newly unsealed search-warrant application confirms the Federal Bureau of Investigation found thousands of emails potentially linked to Hillary Clinton on a laptop used by former congressman Anthony Weiner, who was then married to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
“Mr. Weiner has been under investigation into whether he sent sexually explicit material to an underage girl. The investigation into Mr. Weiner continues, and he hasn’t been charged with any crimes.”
The search warrant application doesn’t offer any new revelations or insight—if anything, it repeats and reaffirms past assertions by officials about the case regarding how and why they decided to search the laptop in the final days of a heated presidential campaign.
[Read the full story here, at WSJ]
The search-warrant paperwork was unsealed Tuesday—with some redactions—after a California lawyer convinced a New York judge to make public the court document used in an email search that upended the final days of the 2016 race for the White House.
The search warrant was executed in late October on a laptop computer that agents believed was used by both Mr. Weiner and his now-estranged wife, Ms. Abedin. Ms. Abedin is a longtime aide to Mrs. Clinton, including when Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state.
On Capitol Hill, Directors James Comey of the F.B.I., John O. Brennan of the C.I.A. and James R. Clapper Jr. of national intelligence. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images
That probe was unrelated to the politically charged investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state. In July, FBI Director James Comey announced the end of the email probe, saying no reasonable prosecutor would file charges, though he criticized “extremely careless’’ behavior at the State Department in handling Mrs. Clinton’s emails, some of which included classified information.
Then, 11 days before the election, Mr. Comey made a surprise announcement, in the form of a letter to Congress, saying federal agents were examining newly discovered emails that might shed new light on the email case. Since the election, Mrs. Clinton and many Democrats have blamed Mr. Comey’s announcement, along with alleged Russian hacking of her campaign’s internal discussions, for her defeat. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] ‘You Are Hereby Served’: Representative Jason Chaffetz Grills Panel on Hillary’s Classified Emails, September 12, 2016
Posted: September 13, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 113th Congress, Classified, Congress, Email, FBI, Hillary Clinton, Investigation, Oversight Leave a comment
New Huma Abedin E-mail Address Discovered ahead of Benghazi Committee Appearance
Posted: October 15, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Email, FBI, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Investigation, Personal Server, The Pantsuit Report 1 Comment
It’s Real: Hillary Clinton is Collapsing
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Benghazi, Democratic Party, Desperation, Email, Global Panic, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Joe Trippi, John Kerry, propaganda, Pundit, Spin, The Pantsuit Report 1 Comment
Has Joe Trippi Lost His Mind?
Source: LA Times
Full Letter from Inspectors General Relating to Clinton’s Email Revelations
Posted: August 11, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Charles McCullough, Email, Hillary Clinton, Inspectors General, Intelligence Community, media, news, Noah Rothman, Private Server, Twitter, U.S. Department of State 1 Comment
THE PANTSUIT REPORT: Michael Wolraich’s Confession: ‘I Sorted Hillary Clinton’s Email’
Posted: March 19, 2015 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Associated Press, Email, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Mayo Clinic, Michael Wolraich, New York, Nobel Peace Prize, Rochester, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy, The Pantsuit Report, Vice President of the United States, Walter Mondale Leave a comment
Natural language — the way people ordinarily speak and write — is notoriously difficult to parse
Michael Wolraich writes: When Hillary Clinton released emails from her personal account last week, many assumed that her attorneys had personally reviewed the messages before sending them to the State Department, but that’s not what
happened. As detailed in her press statement, the review team used keyword searches to automatically filter over 60,000 messages, flagging about half as work related.
“I have absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department,” Clinton declared.
I’m afraid that I don’t share her confidence, and I speak from experience. Twenty years ago, I used the same method to sort the Clinton administration’s email communications, including those of First Lady Hillary Clinton. It failed miserably.
Email did not exist when Congress established the Freedom of Information Act in 1967, and government officials did not originally consider electronic communications to be public records that they had to preserve and disseminate. On the last day of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, a group of organizations representing archivists and libraries sued the White House to prevent 
the administration from deleting email relating to the Iran-Contra scandal. A temporary injunction was issued, and the case wound its way through the courts until 1993, when a federal judge ordered President Bill Clinton to preserve all electronic communication under the Freedom of Information Act.
“Even after significant tweaking, I don’t recall achieving more than a 70 percent success rate, which is particularly poor when you consider that random sorting would yield 50 percent if the distribution were even.”
In 1994, I was 22 years old, fresh out of college and working as a computer programmer for a company called Information Management Consultants. IMC was one of many three-letter-acronym corporations that ring Washington’s famous beltway and feed off government contracts. I dressed in a gray J.C. Penney suit and programmed three-letter-acronym computer languages (SQL, 4GL) for three-letter-acronym federal agencies (IRS, OPM, DOI, OMB, DOD). It was dull work, made duller by my company’s decision to block employee access to the “World Wide Web” so that we would not be distracted from our work.
“Those were heady days for a young government IT contractor. We had a special office in Arlington, Virginia, where we were could dress casually while pursuing important, groundbreaking work for the President of the United States!”
One day a colleague invited me to join a mysterious new project for the Executive Office of the President (EOP). The White House had hired IMC to archive its email after the court ordered it to preserve electronic records. Few people had multiple email accounts back then and many federal employees used their work accounts for personal communication, so we had to figure out some way to distinguish work email from personal correspondence.
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Those were heady days for a young government IT contractor. We had a special office in Arlington, Virginia, where we were could dress casually while pursuing important, groundbreaking work for the President of the United States! We lounged around the conference table in our khakis and scrawled deep thoughts on the big whiteboard. Mostly, we wrote words: president, federal, treasury, treaty, China, Serbia, ambassador, military, classified, and so on. These were the keywords with which we hoped to flag all the work-related messages, or at least the vast majority. We included the names of federal officials, common misspellings, and, of course, numerous three-letter acronyms. Since I had a philosophy degree, the team leader asked me to design logic to make the search smarter, e.g., “white AND house.”
“To make sense of natural language, it’s not sufficient to recognize the words; you also need to understand grammar, appreciate nuance, interpret metaphors, grasp allusions…”
To test our algorithm, the administration gave us a batch of sample messages. They included official business, such as a debate about a public scandal in which an official traveled by federal helicopter to play golf, and less official business, such as a private love note between two staff members. We ran our algorithm and crossed our fingers. Read the rest of this entry »
John Boehner to Hillary Clinton: Hand It Over
Posted: March 17, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Clinton Foundation, Email, Hillary Clinton, House Speaker, John Boehner, Server, State Department 1 Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton must turn over her computer server to a neutral third party.
The Ohio Republican told reporters on Tuesday that Clinton surrender all of her emails so an independent party can decide what was personal and what was government-related.
Boehner said there are no changes in the House investigations. A special select committee is investigating the deadly 2012 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. The panel’s chairman says he wants Clinton, a potential presidential candidate, to testify twice. Read the rest of this entry »
‘SABOTAGE: Obama Staff Leaked Hillary Email Details’ New York Post March 15th, 2015
Posted: March 16, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Email, Hillary Clinton, media, New York, New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYC, Obama, Tabloid, Valerie Jarret 1 Comment
New York Times: No Classified Emails by Clinton? Some Experts Are Skeptical
Posted: March 11, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Politics, White House | Tags: Email, Hillary Clinton, Information Security Oversight Office, National security, New York Times, State Department, United Nations 1 Comment
WASHINGTON — Anyone who has tried to pry information from the federal government may have been surprised on Tuesday by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s assertion that in all her emails in four years as secretary of state she never strayed into the classified realm.
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
After all, a consensus of both Republicans and Democrats for many years has been that the government routinely 
overclassifies information, reflexively stamping “secret” on mountains of documents with marginally sensitive content. The government classified more than 80 million documents in 2013, according to the Information Security Oversight Office, which publishes an annual count.
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference on Tuesday at the United Nations. “I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.” Read the rest of this entry »
‘DELETER OF THE FREE WORLD’ New York Post Front Page for Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Posted: March 11, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Email, Hillary Clinton, New York, New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYC, Tabloid Leave a comment
[VIDEO] EXCLUSIVE: Preview of Hillary Clinton’s Address to the Nation
Posted: March 10, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Email, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Richard Nixon, satire, scandal, State Department, United States Department of State 2 Comments
‘Hillary Email Story About to Metasticize’: Clinton Ran Own Computer System
Posted: March 4, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Ali Rowghani, Alibaba Group, Apple Inc, Barack Obama, Email, Google, Hacking, Hillary Clinton, IBM, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, scandal, Secrecy, State Department, Transparency 2 Comments
The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives
WASHINGTON (AP) – Jack Gillum and Ted Bridis report: The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton’s emails – on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state – traced back to an Internet service registered to her family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.
“In November 2012, without explanation, Clinton’s private email account was reconfigured to use Google’s servers as a backup in case her own personal email server failed, according to Internet records. That is significant because Clinton publicly supported Google’s accusations in June 2011 that China’s government had tried to break into the Google mail accounts of senior U.S. government officials.”
The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton’s secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
Most Internet users rely on professional outside companies, such as Google Inc. or their own employers, for the behind-the-scenes complexities of managing their email communications. Government employees generally use servers run by federal agencies where they work.
“The AP has waited more than a year under the open records law for the State Department to turn over some emails covering Clinton’s tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, although the agency has never suggested that it didn’t possess all her emails.”
In most cases, individuals who operate their own email servers are technical experts or users so concerned about issues of privacy and surveillance they take matters into their own hands. It was not immediately clear exactly where Clinton ran that computer system.
“Operating her own server would have afforded Clinton additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails.”
Clinton has not described her motivation for using a private email account – hdr22@clintonemail.com, which traced back to her own private email server registered under an apparent pseudonym – for official State Department business.
Operating her own server would have afforded Clinton additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails. And since the Secret Service was guarding Clinton’s home, an email server there would have been well protected from theft or a physical hacking.
“It was unclear whom Clinton hired to set up or maintain her private email server, which the AP traced to a mysterious identity, Eric Hoteham. That name does not appear in public records databases, campaign contribution records or Internet background searches.”
But homemade email servers are generally not as reliable, secure from hackers or protected from fires or floods as those in commercial data centers. Those professional facilities provide monitoring for viruses or hacking attempts, regulated temperatures, off-site backups, generators in case of power outages, fire-suppression systems and redundant communications lines.
Hillary email story about to metasticize..SHE RAN HER OWN SERVER. Looks VERY premeditated to thwart the law. http://t.co/Uo7zS8XLmb
— Paul Equale (@paulequale) March 4, 2015
A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to requests seeking comment from the AP on Tuesday. Clinton ignored the issue during a speech Tuesday night at the 30th anniversary gala of EMILY’s List, which works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights.
It was unclear whom Clinton hired to set up or maintain her private email server, which the AP traced to a mysterious identity, Eric Hoteham. That name does not appear in public records databases, campaign contribution records or Internet background searches. Hoteham was listed as the customer at Clinton’s $1.7 million home on Old House Lane in Chappaqua in records registering the Internet address for her email server since August 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
