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Clinton's E-mails Revealed Names of Classified Intelligence Officials

Link: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...ed-names-of-classified-intelligence-officials

Written by C. Mitchell Shaw

Clinton's E-mails Revealed Names of Classified Intelligence Officials


Hillary Clinton has denied from the beginning of her e-mail scandal that she ever "sent or received any e-mail that was deemed classified, that was marked classified” over her private, unsecured server. She has continued to repeat that mantra even as — time and time again — it has been shown to be a lie. Now, federal records show that not only did she both send and receive classified information, some of that information included the names of U.S. intelligence officials that were supposed to be kept secret. Top secret.

As the FBI investigation continues, Clinton has pressed on with her campaign and — much as her former-president husband did in his day — has shown herself to be apparently made of Teflon. As The New American reported Wednesday, Clinton is the self-proclaimed winner of the Democratic nomination. Considering the gravity of the evidence of her crimes revealed by the newly uncovered federal records, the FBI may, at long last, have indisputable reason to bring charges against her, her pending nomination notwithstanding.

As Breitbart reported last week:

Numerous names cited in Clinton’s emails have been redacted in State Department email releases with the classification code “B3 CIA PERS/ORG,” a highly specialized classification that means the information, if released, would violate the Central Intelligence Act of 1949.

The State Department produced a document to Judicial Watch in April 2014 that identifies different types of “(b)(3)” redactions, including “CIA PERS/ORG,” which it defines as information “Specifically exempted from disclosure by statute ... Central Intelligence Act of 1949.”

“That’s what it suggests,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Breitbart News, referring to the indication that Clinton disclosed the names of CIA-protected intelligence sources, based on the B3 redactions.

The CIA justifies “(b)(3)” redactions with this description: “(b)(3) Applies to the Director’s statutory obligations to protect from disclosure intelligence sources and methods, as well as the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency, in accord with the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949, respectively.”

Of course Clinton and her supporters will say that the information was not classified when it was sent and received. That is, of course, true. It is also completely irrelevant. It is not the e-mail itself that would need to be classified; that would happen after the fact. In fact, that has happened. That’s why the names that then-secretary Clinton carelessly exposed in unsecured e-mails were redacted when those same e-mails were released by the State Department.

It is the information in the e-mails that was and is classified. Perhaps an example would would help clarify this. Suppose Clinton had written an e-mail about the location of a secret missile silo in the Nevada dessert and had included the location of that silo, as well as the launch codes. Obviously the message (which did not exist before she wrote it) would not be “marked” classified, unless Clinton herself marked it as such. But the information contained in it and conveyed by it would be. That is no different than what she did by naming secret intelligence officials in an e-mail. They were, after all, secret.

The State Department is treating the e-mails with exactly the opposite care with which they were treated by Clinton. When Breitbart asked about them, the State Department refused to comment except to say, “Per the colleague who handles this issue, we are not speaking to the content of emails.” Let that marinate for a while. The State Department will not even discuss the content of the e-mails that Hillary Clinton sent and received on her private e-mail server because the information in them is protected by the CIA Act of 1949.

Here is an example of what was contained in one of those messages. In late 2011, Douglas Kmiec, who was the former U.S. ambassador to Malta, sent an e-mail to Clinton associate Cheryl Mills about Clinton’s upcoming trip to Malta. In that e-mail, Kmiec named a top defense attaché in Malta. Mills forwarded the e-mail to Clinton’s private e-mail account.

An important point needs to be made at this juncture: The former U.S. ambassador may have violated the chain of custody regarding classified information, the CIA Act of 1949, and several other federal laws that deal with the dissemination of classified intelligence by sending that e-mail. I say “may have,” because his e-mail address is redacted in the released version of the e-mail. He may have used some approved, secured account to send his message or he may not have. That information is not available.

But then Mills forwarded the e-mail to Clinton’s unsecured, private account. At that point, Mills certainly violated the chain of custody regarding classified information, the CIA Act of 1949, and several other federal laws that deal with the dissemination of classified intelligence.

Clinton — as secretary of state — had the legal responsibility to report that crime. Instead, she replied to Mills and copied the message to Huma Abedin. So, by first receiving and not reporting and then by sending that classified intelligence over her unsecured, private account, which was then stored on her unsecured, private e-mail server, Clinton violated those same laws. Having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in her first days as secretary of state, Clinton was well aware of her responsibility to both protect that information and to report Mills for sending it through unsecured channels.

As The New American reported previously about those NDAs:

The NDA signed by Mrs. Clinton on her second day as secretary of state spells out — in language so clear that the meaning of the word "is" is quite unambiguous — her responsibility in handling the sensitive information to which she would have access in her new job. One part reads, "I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI [Sensitive Compartmented Information] by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation." The agreement goes on to address how Secretary Clinton could be sure she was abiding by the letter and the spirit of the agreement. "I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department ... in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control ... might be SCI," the NDA says.

And yet, while the ink of her signature was still wet, Hillary made the decision to re-purpose Bill's old e-mail server into her own server to be used for official government business. She and her campaign have made much of the fact that she was permitted, by State policy, to operate a private server. Par for the course, though, the fact is conveniently left out that her server was not authorized to contain, store, transmit, or receive classified information.

This is why she denies that she ever "sent or received any e-mail that was deemed classified, that was marked classified." Because to Hillary it was only classified if it was marked classified and if it was marked so when she sent or received it. The NDA she signed does not accept that elastic definition. Remember, she signed a document agreeing that "I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department ... in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control ... might be SCI." If the only information she had to worry about was that which was marked, there would be no need for Secretary Clinton to "consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department ... in order to ensure that [she knew] whether information or material within [her] knowledge or control ... might be SCI."

By including the names of secret intelligence officials in her unsecured e-mails, Clinton removed those names from secured channels and communicated them over unsecured channels. It would be the same thing as taking photographs of classified documents and walking out of the federal archives with them on her camera. And she knew it at the time.

Also from that previous report:

In fact, inherent to her job was the understanding that certain intelligence is "born classified." In other words, certain information is considered classified by its very nature and the nature of its inception. If she then communicated that information to someone who lacked the appropriate clearance, she would be guilty of violating federal law.

J. William Leonard was the director of the U.S. Information Security Oversight Office from 2002 to 2008. The Washington Free Beacon quotes him — in an interview with Reuters in August — saying, "If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it's in U.S. channels and U.S. possession." So whether or not it was "marked classified," any such information that Hillary sent or received over her unsecured, unauthorized, private e-mail server would have been a violation of federal law.

Considering that there is now evidence to the fact that she did exactly what Leonard used as an example, it will be interesting to watch Clinton and her supporters try to spin this. Perhaps the FBI will include this tidbit in the list of questions Clinton will be asked. The upcoming presidential race may be historic. One of the candidates may be both a contender and a defendant.
 
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Clinton's State Dept. Disabled Server Security, Risked National Security

Written by C. Mitchell Shaw

Link: http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/...bled-server-security-risked-national-security

Recently released e-mails show that Hillary Clinton's decision to use her own e-mail server directly threatened national security. During a period of multiple weeks in 2010, technical problems with Clinton's server — and her unwillingness to stop using it — led to State Department IT staff disabling security features on government computer systems.

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Judicial Watch received the e-mails Wednesday as part of a court order after the conservative legal watchdog group sued over access to public records related to Clinton's time as secretary of state. The e-mails show that in late 2010, Clinton's decision to use the unsecured, private e-mail server caused problems with the State Department's system when Clinton and Huma Abedin — who also used Clinton's server — sent messages to anyone on the government system. Because of the lack of security in place on Clinton's server, messages from her server to the government system were sometimes blocked by the security measures put in place to prevent hackers from penetrating those government systems.

While the easiest — and best — solution would have been for Clinton to simply use an official e-mail address hosted on government servers, Clinton demanded that IT personnel find a work-around. An e-mail dated December 17, 2010 from Ken LaVolpe, a senior official with the State Department, to IT employees, said finding that work-around “should trump all other activities.” Within days, an e-mail from Thomas W. Lawrence, another senior official at State, stressed that Huma Abedin — who at the time was deputy chief of staff — was asking for an update on the issue.

As pressure mounted, the work-around that was implemented was to temporarily disable some security features on the State Department's system, which Lawrence warned in an e-mail was “a Band-Aid,” adding that the IT department “fear it's not 100 percent fully effective."

In reality, such a “solution” is far from “100 percent fully effective." It is like solving the “problem” of having to unlock your front door when your hands are full of groceries by deciding to just leave the door unlocked before you go shopping. If you do that, don't be surprised to come home and find your flat-screen television, laptop computer, and stereo missing. The difference here, though, is that when digital theft happens, you still have your files. But so does the thief.

As the AP reported:

Clinton has repeatedly denied there is any evidence her private email server ever was breached. Her campaign did not immediately provide comment Wednesday.

Days after the technical crisis, on Jan. 9, 2011, an IT worker was forced to shut down Clinton's server because he believed "someone was trying to hack us." Later that day, he wrote, "We were attacked again so I shut (the server) down for a few min." It was one of several occasions when email access to Clinton's BlackBerry smartphone was disrupted because her private server was down, according to the documents.

So the former secretary of state who wants to be president risked national security on not only her own private, unsecured server, but also on the official State Department's servers as well. Denying that her server was breached in the face of evidence to the contrary is par for the course for Clinton, but it does not make her denial any more credible or any more true.

Remember that the Office of Personnel Management was hacked last year, giving hackers access to the personal information of millions of Americans. And those servers, though not properly secured, at least had much more security in place than did Clinton's personal server. Considering the evidence, it would be hard indeed to believe that her server was not breached. And rather than face the facts and give up the use of that server when it proved to be a security problem, she instead had State Department IT personnel lower the shields on official government servers so they could play nice with her security-nightmare-waiting-to-happen private server.

As the AP also reported:

In a blistering audit released last month, the State Department's inspector general concluded that Clinton and her team ignored clear internal guidance that her email setup broke federal standards and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. Her aides twice brushed aside concerns, in one case telling technical staff "the matter was not to be discussed further," the report said.

One can only imagine the havoc Clinton's narcissistic selfishness will wreak on national security if she manages to avoid indictment and get elected to the White House. A Clinton 2.0 presidency would likely be a heyday for hackers — both individual and state-sponsored. What data those hackers could not get from penetrating systems under Secretary Clinton's control, they would likely find readily accessible from systems under President Clinton's control.
 
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Hillary Was More Interested In Hiding Her Own Secrets Than Protecting U.S. Secrets

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann on June 30, 2016

Link: http://www.dickmorris.com/hillary-interested-hiding-secrets-protecting-u-s-secrets/

In sworn testimony given in a deposition by Judicial Watch, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin revealed that she and Hillary used the private server for some government business, especially while traveling abroad.

Both Hillary and Huma knew that they were not permitted to use their devices outside the U.S. Hillary admitted that she and her aides was explicitly warned by State Dept. security experts that her phone could easily be hacked in foreign countries. In her book Hard Choices, she describes the specific instructions to refrain from using her personal Blackberry, laptops, and any other electronic devices in foreign countries.

But she completely ignored them. She was more interested in protecting her own secrets than the U.S. government secrets.

Now Huma has confirmed that she — and her staff — arrogantly ignored those serious warnings.

In Hard Choices, Hillary recalls that:

“When we traveled to sensitive places, like Russia, we often received warnings from Department security officers to leave our Blackberrys, laptops, anything that communicated with the outside world — on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligent services from compromising them. Even in friendly settings, we conducted business under strict security protections, taking care where and how we read secret material and used our technology.”

So there’s no question that she knew what she was supposed to do. She just chose to disregard it.

Emails show what Huma has now confirmed that despite the acknowledged and understood warnings, Hillary and her top aides routinely — and carelessly — used their Blackberrys all over the world.

She refused to use a government issued Blackberry, even though Eric Boswell, the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security at the time, issued another strong warning about the dangers of using an unclassified Blackberry:

“I cannot stress too strongly, however, that any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving emails, and exploiting calendars.”

But Hillary and her aides continued to use her unsecured Blackberry that was connected to her private server housed in the basement of her Chappaqua home.

Hillary used her “berry” as she called it, all over the world, including in unfriendly places like China, Russia.

On March 17, 2010, at a stopover in Shannon, Ireland, en route to Russia, Hillary indicated to Cheryl Mills that when was in Shannon and would be available on her Blackberry:

Although Clinton denies that her Blackberry was ever hacked, The Daily Caller has reported on a March 5, 2009 email that suggests otherwise. The email appears to be from Boswell, but is heavily redacted:

“Her attention was drawn to the sentence that indicates that we (Diplomatic Security) have intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent trip to China.”

So what was the intelligence they had regarding the “vulnerability” of Hillary’s unsecured Blackberry? Most likely that other intelligence sources found that her “berry” had been hacked.

Now Huma has testified that it was a regular practice for her, as well as Hillary, to use the basement private server in foreign countries for State Department business.

Hillary knew about the risks, was warned about the dangers and ignored those warnings. She did what she wanted — putting U.S. secrets in jeopardy. But she made sure that her private dealings were well protected.

So where’s the FBI?

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An Act Of Treason - How Bill Clinton Sold Our Missile Targeting Technology To China For Campaign Cash

Link: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/roger-stone/clinton-corruption/

By Roger Stone
July 12, 2016

In 1996 President Bill Clinton, at a fundraising dinner in New York City said this: “There are no more nuclear missiles pointed at any children in the United States. I’m proud of that.” But by 1998, the CIA’s National Intelligence Daily stated that “thirteen of China’s 18 long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles are targeted on the United States.” How could such a discrepancy occur? When did Clinton know and what did he do to prevent this dangerous situation? These are valid questions and in light of Clinton’s involvement in Russia’s nuclear weapons advancements, I shudder to think that this too was a result of Clinton’s business dealings.

CNN reported how China has been stealing our most sensitive nuclear secrets in an article dated May 25, 1999, and posted on their website. The article was called: China stole U.S. nuke secrets to ‘fulfill international agenda.’ The article reveals that China has been stealing the most sensitive nuclear secrets for several decades and despite high-level knowledge of the thefts, security at U.S. nuclear labs still “does not meet even minimal standards.” The CNN article goes on to state that President Clinton had known since 1995 and yet little was done about it. In April 1998 Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) disclosed detailed information that U.S. aerospace companies had helped China improve its strategic nuclear missiles as part of a major ICBM modernization effort. The named companies were listed as Loral Space & Communications Ltd., Hughes Electronics, and Motorola as supplying the Chinese with space launch technology which China used to improve its nuclear missiles.

Congressman Rohrabacher went on to say: “There is ample evidence that American technology was transferred to this hostile potential enemy of the United States… (providing) the Communist Chinese the guidance needed to upgrade and perfect highly sophisticated weapons systems, increasing the reliability and capability of Communist Chinese rockets… This has given, what anyone has to admit is at least a potential enemy of the United States, a better ability to deliver nuclear warheads to our country, to American cities, to incinerate millions of our people.” Was there a connection between Bill Clinton and any of the three corporations named as supplying China with materials that improved the lethality of their missiles? I’m glad I asked that question.

The chairman of Loral Space &Communications was a heavy financial donor to Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party in general. His name is Bernard Schwartz and in a six-year period between 1992 and 1998, he donated over $1.1 million to Clinton and the party. To show his appreciation, President Clinton allowed Schwartz to travel to China with U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Clinton loosened export controls which enabled Schwartz to purchase Chinese booster rockets for use in launching Loral’s satellites. The relaxing of controls was a two-way street and gave the Chinese an avenue with which to import hi-tech materials from Loral and other U.S. corporations that dealt in sophisticated electronics.

Hughes Electronics was also named in Rohrabacher’s report. Its CEO, C. Michael Armstrong lobbied Clinton to relax the export controls of sensitive technology. An internal White House memo dated December 8, 1993, and originating from the National Security Council, detailed how Armstrong pressured the administration into easing the trade restrictions with China. Armstrong had threatened to launch a major publicity campaign against the administration’s sanctions if the controls were not relaxed. In 1996, a Chinese rocket (missile) carrying a $200 million Loral satellite exploded on its launch pad. Loral and Hughes put together a team of scientists to investigate the problem. The problem(s) were identified and the information was given to the Chinese consortium Great Wall Industry, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Corporation. Armed with the information supplied by Hughes and Loral, the Chinese were able to upgrade their nuclear ICBM’s.

Why did President Clinton allow this? Well, it was determined that the Chinese were secretly funneling large donations to the Clinton campaign. Federal investigators found that China Aerospace Corporation had given $300,000 to Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung for Clinton’s election. In 1993, it was discovered that China was selling missile technology to Pakistan. Under tremendous pressure from Congress, Clinton banned U.S. space industry from using Chinese rockets to launch their satellites. The ban didn’t last long and in October 1994, Clinton lifted the ban. Despite reports that China had continued to sell nuclear technology to Pakistan and missiles to Iran, Clinton signed waivers for four U.S. satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets. Clinton did this over strong objections from the State and Defense Departments. Johnny Chung and Loral’s Schwartz donated another $100,000 each to Clinton. The fact that Clinton personally issued the waivers to allow shipments of U.S. technology that greatly improved the accuracy and reliability of Communist China’s missiles is grounds for impeachment, regardless of whether or not there was any quid pro quo for those decisions.

President Bill Clinton did more to damage U.S. national security than anyone else in American history. He is a traitor to our interests and he is guilty of espionage. He should have been arrested, impeached and convicted. The question is, how did this story escape mass media attention?

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I would ld like to credit these sources from which I have acquired information.

Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security by Bill Gertz, Regenery Publishing Inc. 1999The Phyllis Schlafly Report:

The Phyllis Schlafly Report

Report: China Stole U.S nuke secrets to fulfill international agenda

Clinton’s Damage to U.S. Foreign Policy
 
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FBI Agent Caught Spying For China Draws Comparisons to Hillary

China gave millions in "speaking fees" to Clinton Foundation

Clifford Cunningham | Infowars.com - August 2, 2016 90 Comments

Link: http://www.infowars.com/fbi-agent-caught-spying-for-china-draws-comparisons-to-hillary/


An FBI employee pled guilty in court for passing along sensitive information to the Communist Chinese government even as known Chinese agent Hillary Clinton is allowed to continue running for president.

Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Guangdong, China, was accused of collecting highly sensitive information from his post as an electronic technician at the FBI’s Manhattan Field Office and transmitting it to Chinese businesses and government officials.

According to prosecutors, Chun used his work computer to downloaded an FBI organizational chart in 2013, which he provided to the Chinese. In addition, Chun took photographs of documents that provided details about “multiple surveillance technologies used by the FBI” and forwarded them to a Chinese government official.

While the exact cause of their initial suspicion remains unclear, an FBI agent posing as a Chinese-born American citizen contracted with the Defense Department approached Chun and expressed interest in passing sensitive information to the Chinese government.

Chun reportedly told the undercover agent that his handler in China provided him prostitutes and had sent money to his parents in return for information. During a meeting in Hungary, Chun told the undercover agent that he knew the Chinese government was actively involved in recruiting people who could assist with espionage activities in return for assistance with immigration benefits and other compensation.

Officials at the Justice Department claimed that Chun and some of his relatives had maintained relationships with several Chinese businessmen affiliated with the technology manufacturing company Zhuhai Kolion, as well as with at least one government official. Beginning around 2006, Chun reportedly performed research and consulted on Kolion’s behalf in return for foreign travel.

The idea that a relatively low-level FBI employee would be arrested for providing sensitive information to the Communist Chinese government while a high-ranking Chinese agent like Hillary Clinton is allowed to continue running for President of the United States is not surprising.

Hillary Clinton reportedly met Chinese billionaire Wang Wenliang during a fundraiser at her Washington D.C. home in September 2013. Barely a month later, Wenliang made a $500,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation; ultimately, he would give a total of $2 million to the foundation.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s running mate and a former director on the Clinton Global Initiative, was running for office himself when he invited Wenliang to that fundraiser with Clinton. The fundraiser was held three weeks after one of Wang’s companies, West Legend Corp., donated $60,000 to McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign (McAuliffe received a total of $120,000 in contributions from the company).
 
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