
The term of art for how the State Department handled information requests pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s email is “inaccurate and incomplete response,” but that means lying in plain old English. As the Washington Post reports, the State Department Inspector General found at least four cases
by John Hayward7 Jan 2016, 9:19 AM PST0

It’s a good thing laws only apply to the little people in Obama’s America, or Hillary Clinton and her State Department colleagues would be in a lot of trouble.
by John Hayward31 Dec 2015, 10:49 AM PST0

FBI Director James Comey is one of the most intriguing figures in Washington today: a key official who evidently gives little thought to White House narratives before speaking his mind. Comey has always insisted his agency will handle the Hillary Clinton email case in a tough and fair manner, famously asserting that his people “don’t give a rip about politics.” He has expressed a particular dedication for taking the protection of classified material seriously.
by John Hayward1 Dec 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

A McClatchy-Marist poll finds that 68 percent of Americans think Hillary Clinton did something either illegal or unethical in setting up a private email system to handle her government correspondence.
by John Hayward12 Nov 2015, 12:28 PM PST0

Fox News reports word from sources within the intelligence community that the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server is expanding again, and will now include the investigation of “materially false” statements, under a statute that also covers pressuring third parties to participate in cover-ups. If the Bureau is talking about indicting people for false statements this quickly after moving from preliminary inquiries into a full-blown investigation, it probably isn’t good news for ClintonWorld.
by John Hayward12 Nov 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

A new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s server contradict the official media narrative that Hillary Clinton did a great job in her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee, answering an assortment of questions regarding reckless sharing of classified information.
by John Hayward3 Nov 2015, 7:07 PM PST0

Consumers of political news should understand that the biases of debate moderators are highly relevant. It doesn’t mean moderators with strong views are incapable of running a good debate, but the networks really ought to make portfolios of their moderators’ political history available for easy public consumption. It is fair to ask what sort of perspective these CNBC moderators bring to the presidential contest.
by John Hayward27 Oct 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

If we weren’t so numb to lawlessness and politicized bureaucracy from seven years of Obama scandals, this would be a national outrage. The President just tried to influence the outcome of a criminal investigation, on behalf of a powerful Democrat politician. Of course, he loves to insert himself into politically useful criminal matters, while having nothing to say about politically damaging ones, such as sanctuary-city murders by illegal aliens.
by John Hayward16 Oct 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

The Associated Press is exposing the security flaws in Hillary Clinton’s email setup, and it’s devastating. Some of the details they amassed have been known or suspected since early in the scandal, but seeing them all together, with some new details, paints a picture of hair-raising reckless vulnerability.
by John Hayward13 Oct 2015, 6:24 AM PST0

The title given to Michael Isikoff’s piece is “Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails,” but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs: Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private mail server.
by John Hayward9 Oct 2015, 11:44 AM PST0

“With the consent of our client and their end user, and consistent with our policies regarding data privacy, yesterday, Tuesday, October 6, Datto delivered a hardware device to the FBI containing all backed up data related to Platte Rivers Networks’ client known to be in its possession,” said the company. The “end user” would presumably be either Hillary Clinton or an entity under her control, such as the “Clinton Executive Service Corporation,” which pops up in many stories about how Platte River Networks was contracted to take care of the email server.
by John Hayward8 Oct 2015, 7:19 AM PST0

Not only has Datto surrendered equipment to the FBI, but they’ve also stated that they warned Hillary Clinton’s computer company, Platte River Networks, that her server was vulnerable to hackers… and they say their warnings were disregarded, because FBI investigators ordered that the system should not be altered in any way.
by John Hayward8 Oct 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

Hillary Clinton’s lawyers have agreed to hand over online backups of her emails made through an Internet “cloud” storage system to the FBI, and the Senate Homeland Security committee has also asked to see these files.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 7:38 AM PST0

The FBI seized four servers from the State Department building a few weeks ago as part of the investigation into classified material improperly stored on Hillary Clinton’s secret email server, particularly the Top Secret documents that have been discovered in her email trove.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

Many of the documents in this new release were “born classified,” under a presidential order that treats all foreign government information as confidential by default – a protocol Hillary Clinton was thoroughly instructed on, and would have been re-briefed on several times during her tenure as Secretary of State. One very good reason for the “born classified” rule is that the U.S. government doesn’t want foreign officials to be reluctant to share such information.
by John Hayward1 Oct 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

WASHINGTON–At least 400 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or received through her private computer server while secretary of state contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update Wednesday from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails.
by Breitbart News30 Sep 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

This is a remarkable interview for several reasons. It ought to be a bombshell moment for Albright, a figure of considerable reverence in the Democrat pantheon as a trailblazing woman, to pronounce Hillary Clinton’s email arrangement unacceptable. Are Clinton dead-enders going to start insisting Madeline Albright doesn’t know what she’s talking about?
by John Hayward28 Sep 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

In a preview of a portion of an interview between former President Bill Clinton and CNN’s Fareed Zakari set to air Sunday, Clinton commented on his wife Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, saying he is “amazed that she’s borne up” under the political fire
by Trent Baker27 Sep 2015, 3:03 AM PST0

Hillary Clinton didn’t just “claim” she turned over all of her work-related emails. She signed a sworn statement to that effect in August, under penalty of perjury, and submitted it to a federal court. It’s the same statement her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills refused to sign. Many observers thought the proverbial Other Shoe would drop on Clinton when the FBI started recovering deleted emails from the server she thought was wiped clean, but it doesn’t sound like we’ve even gotten to that closet full of Other Shoes yet.
by John Hayward25 Sep 2015, 1:11 PM PST0

On one of the rare occasions the enigmatic Hillary Clinton decided to sit down for an interview a few weeks ago, she was asked about criticism of the very, very, very special work arrangement for her top aide, Huma Abedin. Abedin was allowed to collect paychecks from the government and two additional private concerns linked to the Clintons… under a rule normally invoked to get top scientists and industrial geniuses to work for Uncle Sam without giving up lucrative private jobs.
by John Hayward25 Sep 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

NSA Chief: Hillary’s Private Email Server ‘Top Priority’ For Foreign Spies
by John Hayward25 Sep 2015, 10:07 AM PST0

The State Department admits that Hillary Clinton turned over nothing voluntarily to the federal government, despite her legal duty to provide copies of her official emails once she left office. The agency now says it got some emails back from her only after it sent a letter demanding her emails.
by John Hayward23 Sep 2015, 7:45 AM PST0

Far too many people who should have blown the whistle on Clinton kept quiet. Finding someone truly impartial to improve transparency, in an Administration with a penchant for obfuscation, stonewalling, and secret communications networks, is not easy.
by John Hayward14 Sep 2015, 9:34 AM PST0

The MSM eagerly leaks editorial comments and analysis into stories it wants to blend into some larger, politically useful Narrative, but with Clinton most of those little contextual nuggets have consisted of breezy assurances that she’s still heavily favored to win both the Democrat primary and 2016 presidential election. The Narrative says that she had a rough summer, but her campaign will finish analyzing her “challenges” and re-inventing her to perfection any day now.
by John Hayward14 Sep 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

Czars are often dropped as distractions, like a fighter jet ejecting flares to avoid heat-seeking missiles. The appointment of a powerful new position with great fanfare is the ultimate Washington way of pretending to Do Something and mollify an angry public. And so, there comes unto the State Department a new “transparency czar,” officially to be known as the Transparency Coordinator.
by John Hayward9 Sep 2015, 8:45 AM PST0