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
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s claim that “everyone” she communicated with in the government knew about her private email server rings false, according to a February 2010 email exchange.
by Patrick Howley9 Sep 2015, 6:10 AM PST0
The New York Times decided to publish some campaign propaganda from Clinton strategists — a managed “leak” of Clinton’s scheduled plan to mimic spontaneity
by John Hayward8 Sep 2015, 6:33 AM PST0
The New York Times reports that a second intelligence-community review endorses the Inspector General’s findings, and confirmed the presence of classified material on Hillary Clinton’s off-the-books email server, including multiple “Top Secret” documents.
by John Hayward8 Sep 2015, 5:35 AM PST0
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden held forth on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday.
by John Hayward4 Sep 2015, 1:08 PM PST0
With a long line of debunked lies, shredded excuses, and abandoned spin attempts behind her, Hillary Clinton finally decided it was time to “apologize” for her email scandal. Of course, her idea of an “apology” basically amounts to: I’m sorry you Little People are too stupid to understand what I was up against, as a historic female Secretary of State.
by John Hayward4 Sep 2015, 12:00 PM PST0
Was Hillary Clinton’s private email server hacked? The FBI is trying to answer that question as part of its investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
by John Sexton3 Sep 2015, 5:23 PM PST0
Clinton’s tech-guru Bryan Pagliano has announced he will ‘Take the Fifth’ as the FBI and Congress investigates his boss’ shady email system. So her allies are moaning about the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and screaming at the top of their lungs that Hillary hasn’t been indicted for any crimes, ad are pretending that none of this is happening.
by John Hayward3 Sep 2015, 12:46 PM PST0
The Hillary Clinton era was a time of much “consternation” for State Department technical staff and security experts, to borrow a word used in today’s Politico article about Clinton aides pushing for the ability to view secret and top-secret material on their personal electronic devices. Just imagine what’s in the 30,000-plus emails Clinton deleted before investigators, Congress, and the American people could see them, if the stuff she eventually decided to hand over is this alarming and embarrassing.
by John Hayward2 Sep 2015, 1:58 PM PST0
Hillary Clinton originated at least six emails containing classified information, contrary to her spin that she was just a helpless unwitting recipient of material others should be blamed for compromising. Many of the messages contained information that was “born classified” – indisputably classified at the time Hillary sent or received them, under a 2009 executive order signed by President Obama, contrary to Clinton’s repeated false claims that none of her emails included information that was marked classified at the time she handled it. Some of these emails had to be redacted in their entirety before they could be released to the public.
by John Hayward2 Sep 2015, 7:21 AM PST0
As the scandal surrounding the Clinton emails continues to grow, private criticism of British politicians by the Democratic Party establishment has been revealed. A close ideological ally of Hillary Clinton described Prime Minister David Cameron as snobbish, his deputy Nick Clegg
by Sarkis Zeronian1 Sep 2015, 6:02 AM PST0
Ed Henry of Fox News reported that the number of Hillary Clinton emails in the new release has increased to 7,000, while the number of messages that had to be redacted to protect classified material is more than double what was expected. (The report is slightly confusing on this point, because Henry later suggests there are 150 more classified emails in addition to 63 that were already expected.)
by John Hayward31 Aug 2015, 2:57 PM PST0
A new video ad diagnoses America with “Clinton fatigue” by hilariously highlighting how exhausting Hillary Clinton’s many, many scandals really are for voters.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Aug 2015, 9:40 PM PST0
Another one of Hillary Clinton’s false talking points collapses, as Reuters examines what it describes as “dozens” of her emails and finds they contain information that was classified from the moment the information was generated… meaning that, despite Clinton’s repeated statements to the contrary, they were “born classified” — classified on the day she received them.
by John Hayward21 Aug 2015, 6:38 AM PST0
A spokesman for Platte River Networks, the company which handled Hillary Clinton’s email server after she left the State Department, says the company turned the server over last week at the FBI’s request.
by John Sexton20 Aug 2015, 10:08 PM PST0
Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) had some harsh words of criticism in response to Hillary Clinton’s joking and continued stonewalling on Tuesday about the ongoing investigations into the personal email server she used for State Department communications while she was Secretary of State.
by Sarah Rumpf19 Aug 2015, 6:46 PM PST0
The State Department believes Mills and Abedin were issued phones, but they haven’t found them lying around the office anywhere, so let’s just run through what the standard procedures would have been to satisfy the judge. For good measure, our almighty mega-government does not believe it ever gave a secure BlackBerry to Secretary Clinton herself… which is funny, because she ostentatiously had herself photographed using one.
by John Hayward19 Aug 2015, 12:36 PM PST0
Presidential candidates usually take pains to avoid becoming punch lines. When you’re running for the highest office in the land, you don’t want to look like an out-of-touch boob who doesn’t understand the basics of the computer technology integral to modern American life. Not so with Hillary Clinton.
by John Hayward19 Aug 2015, 7:23 AM PST0
It wouldn’t take much recovered data to take this story to a whole new level. Service logs could easily demonstrate further violations of classified and Top Secret protocol by users who were not cleared to see such information. Anything that proves Hillary Clinton omitted documents from her submission to the State Department, or deleted vital documents along with her yoga workout routines and cookie recipes, would be as much of a game-changer as the discovery of Top Secret material on her server was.
by John Hayward18 Aug 2015, 4:10 PM PST0
Former employees point out that Platte River did nothing wrong by accepting the work from Clinton, which they tried to keep quiet, and handled to the best of their ability. It was Hillary Clinton’s legal responsibility to ensure that classified information was properly handled; given that she’s been lying about it for so long to everyone else, it’s quite possible that she never told Platte River about it.
by John Hayward18 Aug 2015, 10:31 AM PST0
Senator Grassley asks a few less obvious, but very interesting, questions beyond the basics. For example, he asks a straightforward question that the Administration has thus far been reluctant to answer: does Hillary Clinton still have an active security clearance?
by John Hayward18 Aug 2015, 7:05 AM PST0
Judicial Watch has had remarkable success in using the court process to obtain answers on the burgeoning Hillary Clinton email scandal, including from the former Secretary of State Hillary herself.
by Tom Fitton18 Aug 2015, 5:22 AM PST0
As the Hillary Clinton email scandal turns into a mushroom cloud, with new names popping into the chain of custody for her electronic communications every day, one of the lingering questions is whether any of these people were actually cleared to handle the sensitive, classified, and Top Secret information Clinton recklessly exposed.
by John Hayward17 Aug 2015, 11:47 AM PST0
The State Department just admitted it doesn’t actually have control over all the email Abedin and Mills generated as State Department employees. Not only because they had accounts on Hillary Clinton’s infamous homebrew server, but because they were also using “personal email accounts located on commercial servers at times for government business.”
by John Hayward17 Aug 2015, 7:13 AM PST0
