[ April 24, 2024 ]
A new internal memo from the FBI shows that Hillary Clinton’s email account was accessed by “foreign actors,” ratcheting up accusations yet again the former secretary of state put America at a serious national security risk with her private, home-based server.
At least one of the emails was classifed “secret,” it seems.
And the corruption hits on Clinton keep on coming.
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Fox News has more:
“Foreign actors” obtained access to some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails — including at least one email classified as “secret” — according to a new memo from two GOP-led House committees and an internal FBI email.
Fox News obtained the memo prepared by the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, which lays out key interim findings ahead of next week’s hearing with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The IG, separately, is expected to release his highly anticipated report on the Clinton email case later Thursday.
The House committees, which conducted a joint probe into decisions made by the DOJ in 2016 and 2017, addressed a range of issues in their memo including Clinton’s email security.
“Documents provided to the Committees show foreign actors obtained access to some of Mrs. Clinton’s emails — including at least one email classified ‘Secret,'” the memo says, adding that foreign actors also accessed the private accounts of some Clinton staffers.
The memo does not say who the foreign actors are, or what material was obtained, but it notes that secret information is defined as information that, if disclosed, could “reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.”The committees say that no one appears to have been held accountable either criminally or administratively.
Relatedly, Fox News has obtained a May 2016 email from FBI investigator Peter Strzok — who also is criticized in the House memo for his anti-Trump texts with colleague Lisa Page. The email says that “we know foreign actors obtained access” to some Clinton emails, including at least one “secret” message “via compromises of the private email accounts” of Clinton staffers.
The question of whether foreign actors penetrated the Clinton email system has been a significant one ever since the private server was revealed. Then-FBI Director James Comey, in his July 2016 statement on the Clinton case, did not go as far as Strzok in his assessment of that possibility. At the time, he said only that, “We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.”
Fox News also reported in March that Strzok was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of Clinton’s server that suggested a possible breach, but there was no significant follow up, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
Clinton’s use of a private email server when she served as the nation’s top diplomat became a central issue of the 2016 campaign. After a lengthy investigation, Comey controversially announced in July 2016 that the agency would not recommend charges, but said that Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information.
He then announced he would revisit the probe just days before the election after the discovery of new emails, a move that the Clinton camp has blamed for her loss to President Trump.
Horowitz was due to release his long-awaited report into the FBI and DOJ’s actions on Thursday afternoon.
In the House memo, lawmakers questioned whether the DOJ and FBI properly analyzed and interpreted the law surrounding mishandling of classified information.
“Officials from both agencies have created a perception they misinterpreted the Espionage Act by stating Secretary Clinton lacked the requisite ‘intent’ for charges to be filed,” the memo says, before pointing to statements by Comey that indicated a belief that intent was required — which the memo says ignored “meaningful aspects” of the law.
The committees’ memo also says it appears the outcome of the investigation was “predetermined” in May, two months before Comey’s press conference and before multiple interviews had taken place.
It also accuses Comey of getting ahead of the DOJ on the final decision on whether to prosecute Clinton.“Mr. Comey, as the FBI Director, was the chief investigator, not the prosecutor. It was not up to him to determine what a ‘reasonable prosecutor’ would do with the evidence the FBI had collected,” the memo says.
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16 Comments
5 years ago
They all need to HANG !
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
Hillary apparently commented some time before the election, “If Trump wins, we’ll all hang”. See, she had some good ideas.
5 years ago
Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges not involved in the cases
to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
More detail:
FBI Email Reveals Foreign Actors Accessed Clinton’s Emails
http://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-email-reveals-foreign-actors-accessed-clintons-emails_2563406.html
Reference Jan 4 2018:
DOJ Reopens Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/begins-doj-reopens-hillary-clinton-email-investigation/
5 years ago
This is key because:
– if I leave the barn door open overnight and nothing happens
– then I may be reprimanded for carelessness
– but if I leave the barn door open overnight and the horses run away
– then I can expect to be fired
– the same logic applies to Hillary
– she not only used unsecured emails with classified info
– but other governments stole those emails and classified info
– and that will be seen as a bigger crime
5 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Agree. Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness
to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges not involved in the cases
to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Well, COMEY was extremely careless in his decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
5 years ago
Reply to
1984 George Orwellesque
According to what I have read in several different sources indicates he had intent. Lynch set him loose with the “authority” to recommend or not recommend prosecution (that’s her job); he changed the draft to lower the seriousness of Hillary’s actions – and there were other factors to indicate “intent”.
5 years ago
Reply to
Sunshine Kid
Hey! Joke. “Intent”, was his lame excue not to prosecute Hillary. When the law’s quite clear “intent” doesn’t matter and is irrelevant.
5 years ago
The Clinton Crime Family is ‘Teflon coated’ protected by the alt-left MSM fake news media but I live in hope to see them with new outfits- orange jump suits and placed with their beloved illegal immigrants in the shower room.
5 years ago
“Extremely careless” ruling by Comey has come to bite him for not indicting Hillary Clinton in his “extremely careless” resolution to drop the case.
5 years ago
Tell me something I didn’t know.
5 years ago
Oh, you know it. As the Clintions are deluded and deranged leftist from the time of their goddamn youth. They wanted power and control and they think everything is wrong with America.
Have they ever looked at themselves and wonder maybe EVERYTHING is wrong with them?? It looks like they MURDERED and CHEATED their way to the top, not to mention the RAPE of one lady we know of.
And he seemed to like to practice his oral sex in every goddamn office he took. The man is sick, the woman is sick. You have mentally-ill people ruling you with Demoncraps and some RINOS.
Again, this is quite Hillaryous, but tragic. Historians might be amused when they look back at US.
5 years ago
WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND VOTES, COME NOV USE YOUR POWER TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING, TREASONOUS, CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL THE CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
