Last March, the POTUS was asked when he learned about the Clintoon “private” email server.
His response? “The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”
Well, it looks like the man either is monumentally dense – or he shamelessly lied through his teeth “misspoke” here. Because here’s a quote from an email written by Cheryl Mills, a close Clintoon confident, late that night. The email was written after Mills had learned of the POTUS’s statement.
“We need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov.”
Oopsie.
Yeah, it certainly seems the POTUS lied. Again.
So . . . what else is new?
. . .
Let’s recap the Clintoon email matter. Here are my “Top 10 Hits” from the whole matter.
1. While SECSTATE, Clintoon used an unauthorized, “private” and abysmally-badly secured email server to conduct government business. This is against US government policy, and arguably violates Federal law.
2. As the second link above also shows, Clintoon had the State department change IT policy so she could use her “private” Blackberry and that unauthorized “private” email account from within secure DoS areas.
3. The POTUS received email from Clintoon originating at her “private”, unauthorized email address. Given Mills’ concern, obviously at least some of that email to the POTUS from Clintoon’s unauthorized “private” email server was both official business and was sent while Clintoon was SECSTATE.
4. The POTUS thus knew that Clintoon was using a private email address for official government business prior to 7 March 2015. (Well, either that or he’s a totally clueless fool – take your pick. A “.com” email address isn’t one provided by the US government.) But when asked point-blank when and how he learned Clintoon was using an unauthorized private address for government business, he publicly lied about when he learned that fact.
5. Multiple instances of highly classified material were later found to have been stored on Clintoon’s unauthorized, poorly-secured “private” server – including both SCI and Special Access Program material. Some of it was marked properly; much of the more sensitive material should have been blindingly obvious as classified to someone with Clintoon’s experience and security indoctrinations, whether marked or not.
6. None of those classified spills were reported by Clintoon (or anyone else) when discovered, as is required by Federal law. Intentional failure to report such unauthorized storage of classified information is a Federal felony.
7. Once the matter became public, Clintoon’s unauthorized, unsecured “private” email server was wiped. It appears to have been wiped well after the Federal government had begun investigating the matter. Sophisticated tools were used to wipe it. The administrator of Clintoon’s unauthorized “private” email server apparently also sought advice on how to sanitize “VIP identities” from email archives on Reddit – also after the Federal government had begun investigating the matter.
8. It’s a shoe-in that Clintoon’s p!ss-poorly secured server was penetrated by foreign intelligence services. It likely was penetrated by more than one such foreign intelligence service.
9. Material contained on that unsecured, unauthorized email server was sufficient to identify at least one US intelligence source. That source was later taken into custody and executed by the nation about which he was providing information to the US.
10. The FBI whitewashed the whole matter, and refused to prosecute clear and obvious violations of Federal law.
Those are just the national security-related “hits”. I haven’t even touched on the evidence of possible “pay-for-play” corruption, abuse of government resources, and unethical DNC-press collusion the Clintoon emails recovered or made public to date seem to show.
You or I would be in jail by now.
I guess it’s good to have serious “top cover”.
