90 Miles From Tyranny

Monday, October 3, 2016

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email

The Takeaways

The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:

The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted.

Even though the FBI did not have a complete record of Hillary Clinton’s emails on three unclassified personal servers, it found:

2,093 emails State Dept. currently classifies as Confidential or Secret. (State Dept. did not address what their classification was at the time they were sent.)193 emails (81 separate email conversations) that were classified at the time they were sent, ranging from “Confidential” to “Top Secret/Special Access Program.”68 of the 81 email chains remain classified today.8 were Top Secret.37 were Secret.36 were Confidential.7 were Special Access Program.3 were Sensitive Compartmentalized Information.36 were Not Releasing to Foreign Governments.2 were Releasable Only to Five Allied Partners.12 of the suspect email chains were not provided by Hillary’s attorneys. The FBI found them other ways.The email chains contained classified information from 5 other agencies: CIA, DOD, FBI, NGA and NSA.

The Players (as they surface in timeline)

Justin Cooper: President Bill Clinton aideBryan Pagliano: Computer technician from Hillary Clinton ‘08 campaignHuma Abedin: Hillary Clinton aideEric Boswell: State Dept. Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic SecurityJohn Bentel: State Dept. Information Technology official who handled Hillary Clinton’s issuesJake Sullivan: Hillary Clinton aideCheryl Mills: Hillary Clinton chief of staff and attorneyRaymond Maxwell: Former State Dept. Deputy Assistant SecretaryMonica Hanley: Hillary Clinton aideSid Blumenthal: Hillary Clinton friend and adviserHeather Samuelson: Hillary Clinton campaign worker and attorneyDavid Kendall of Williams & Connolly: Hillary Clinton attorney
3 Known Clinton Private Servers: Apple, “Pagliano,” and Platte River Networks (PRN)

The Timeline

2007: Hillary Clinton announces run for President. Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper buys an Apple server for a new email system to be located in the Clintons’ Chappaqua, NY residence.
June 2008: Hillary drops out of Presidential race. Cooper sets up the Apple server.
Fall 2008: Hillary aide Huma Abedin contacts....

NEW YORK CITY, New York — In a lengthy speech on Saturday night in Manheim, Pennsylvania, Republican nominee for president Donald J. Trump lambasted his opponent Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton for a secret tape recording of her bashing supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont—and even called for Clinton to be placed in prison and questioned as to whether she has been loyal to her husband former President Bill Clinton.

Trump said in the speech on Saturday night:

A new audio tape that has surfaced just yesterday from another one of Hillary’s high roller fundraisers shows her demeaning and mocking Bernie Sanders and all of his supporters. You know, and I’ll tell you something we have a much bigger movement that Bernie Sanders ever had. We have much bigger crowds than Sanders ever had. And we have a more important movement than Bernie Sanders ever had because we’re going to save our country, okay? We’re going to save our country. But I can tell you Bernie Sanders would have left a great, great legacy had he not made the deal with the devil. He would have really left a great legacy. Now he shows up and 120 people come in to hear him talk. Bernie Sanders would have left a great legacy had he not made the deal, had he held his head high and walked away. Now he’s on the other side perhaps from us and we want to get along with everybody and we will—we’re going to unite the country—but what Bernie Sanders did to his supporters was very, very unfair. And they’re really not his supporters any longer and they’re not going to support Hillary Clinton. I really believe a lot of those people are coming over and largely because of trade, college education, lots of other things—but largely because of trade, they’re coming over to our side—you watch, you watch. Especially after Hillary mocks him and mocks all of those people by attacking him and his supporters as ‘living in their parents’ basements,’ and trapped in...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The United States is moving hundreds of employees from the Guantanamo naval base ahead of powerful Hurricane Matthew, which is expected to bring 150-mph winds and up to 40 inches of rain in Jamaica and Cuba on Monday.

The Category 4 hurricane is slowly making its way to those island nations as the most powerful storm to form in the Caribbean since 2007, NBC News reported.

Haiti is also evacuating residents by boat from its outlying islands.

The storm is expected to hit Kingston Jamaica on the island's southern coast where its only oil refinery is located. Matthew is also forecast to beat up on Haiti, threatening landslides and flooding in both locations. Perilous weather could begin Sunday, CNN reported.

Haiti Interior Ministry spokesman Albert Moulion said voluntary evacuations of residents of small, exposed sandy islands in the south as a precaution has already begun.

"We have already started evacuations," he said. "The national center of emergency operations has been activated."

Matthew is due to hit eastern Cuba by early Tuesday.

While those islands are under a hurricane warning, the Cuban province of Camaguey and the southern Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands are under a Hurricane Watch, according to an advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 8 a.m. Sunday.

A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Dominican Republic from Barahona west to its border with Haiti.

Preparations by the U.S. Navy include moving 700 spouses and children from Guantanamo to Florida to wait out the storm.

"The remaining military and civilian personnel will shelter in place and be able to support recovery efforts once safe to do so following the storm's passage," the Navy said in a statement. The Navy operates a base and a military prison at Guantanamo.

"Tropical storm conditions are expected to first reach these areas by late Sunday, making outside preparations difficult or dangerous," the National Hurricane Center said. Preparations on these island nations need to be finished quickly, it said.

South Florida has a bit more time to prepare, said Rick Knabb, director of the hurricane center in Miami. Still, he is urging people in Florida to stock up on hurricane supplies and prepare now.

"It is too soon to rule out possible hurricane impacts from Matthew in Florida," the agency said.

Matthew is the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season.

A small group of White Lives Matter activists protested outside of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) office in southwest Houston on Saturday where they were met by Black Lives Matter counter-protesters and a heavy police presence.

Holding placards and signs while shouting "White Lives Matter!” the group gathered in front of the Jewish non-governmental organization after ADL allegedly accused the activists of being racist.

“They labeled us a hate group, they didn’t label the Black Lives Matter a hate group. That’s why we are here today, to protest the Anti-Defamation League,” Scott Lacy told local CBS affiliate KHOU news.

Meanwhile, counter-protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement also gathered outside the ADL, a group that is known for its work against anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.

“Honestly, we just came here to drown them out, protesting andcounter protesting is a show of force, showing who can outlast who, when one side is spewing hate, the other side is showing love to each other,” Ashton Woods, from the Black Lives Matter camp told KHOU.

Police had to use metal barricades to keep the two groups separate as tensions ran high at two opposing rallies, and things became personal.

John E. Rebel, from the White Lives Matter group, told Ruptly that“they’re calling Black Lives Matter a civil rights group while they target random white people for acts of violence at their rallies, while they burn cities down and loot, and...