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bounty44 -> RE: Hillary Probed (5/31/2016 4:12:55 PM)
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"New Hillary Camp Lie: If She'd Been Aware of an Email Problem, She'd Have Addressed It"
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Another day, another set of lies from Hillary Clinton's campaign about her national security-compromising and ongoing email scandal -- previous dissembling and dishonesty about which was exposed in last week's bombshell Inspector General report. Because mendacious assertions in earlier nothing-to-see-here memos have been blown to bits by the facts, Hillary's campaign chairman has been forced to roll out a fresh round of spin. As John Podesta attempts to telegraph some degree of contrition, two points stick out. First, he claims that if Hillary had been aware of any concerns about her email scheme, she would have nipped them in the bud:
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“Had Secretary Clinton known of any concerns about her email setup at the time, she would have taken steps to address them. She believed she was following the practices of other Secretaries and senior officials,”
...on the "if she'd known" portion of Podesta's distortion [the quote above], please direct your attention to this comprehensive Washington Post story chronicling the timeline of the scandal, which I summarized in a 12-point synopsis in late March. Clinton and her chief of staff were alerted to the security risks from the earliest days of her tenure at State, dating back to a February 17, 2009 meeting at which the issue "came to a head," according to the Post. The key passage:
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After the meeting on Feb. 17 with Mills, security officials in the department crafted a memo about the risks. And among themselves, they expressed concern that other department employees would follow the “bad example” and seek to use insecure BlackBerrys themselves, emails show. As they worked on the memo, they were aware of a speech delivered by Joel F. Brenner, then chief of counterintelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, on Feb. 24 at a hotel in Vienna, Va., a State Department document shows. Brenner urged his audience to consider what could have happened to them during a visit to the recent Beijing Olympics. “Your phone or BlackBerry could have been tagged, tracked, monitored and exploited between your disembarking the airplane and reaching the taxi stand at the airport,” Brenner said. “And when you emailed back home, some or all of the malware may have migrated to your home server. This is not hypothetical.” At the time, Clinton had just returned from an official trip that took her to China and elsewhere in Asia. She was embarking on another foray to the Middle East and Europe. She took her BlackBerry with her.
In early March, Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell delivered a memo with the subject line “Use of Blackberries in Mahogany Row.” “Our review reaffirms our belief that the vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries in the Mahogany Row [redacted] considerably outweigh the convenience their use can add,” the memo said. He emphasized: “Any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving e-mails, and exploiting calendars.” Nine days later, Clinton told Boswell that she had read his memo and “gets it,” according to an email sent by a senior diplomatic security official. “Her attention was drawn to the sentence that indicates (Diplomatic Security) have intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to Asia,” the email said. But Clinton kept using her private BlackBerry — and the basement server.
She was made explicitly aware of "the concerns." She personally acknowledged those concerns. Then she proceeded to deliberately ignore them and continue her reckless conduct for the next three-plus years, as she trafficked thousands of classified emails -- including many dozens that contained secret, top secret and beyond top secret material -- through her unsecure server.
quite a bit more at: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/05/31/new-hillary-camp-spin-if-shed-been-aware-of-an-email-problem-shed-have-addressed-it-n2171399
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