What DC REALLY thinks of the Clintons

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Those are not kind thoughts going through Powell’s head about now. Note his obviously closed body language, leaning away from Hillary Clinton.

If you’re not familiar with the German term schadenfreude, you should be. Look it up. I’ll wait. With that in mind, please read the following breaking story, from TheIntercept.com:

Colin Powell Urged Hillary Clinton’s Team Not to Scapegoat Him for Her Private Server, Leaked Emails Reveal

by Lee Fang and Naomi LaChance

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell attempted to discourage Hillary Clinton and her team from using him as a scapegoat for her private email server problems, according to newly leaked emails from Powell’s Gmail account.

“Sad thing,” Powell wrote to one confidant, “HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it.”

“I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton’s [sic] party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these ‘character’ minefields,” Powell lamented. He noted that he had tried to settle the matter by meeting with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in August.

If you recall, Hillary Clinton and her camp did indeed “try to blame it on the black man” as I detailed here. It was Colin Powell who told her it was fine to have her private server. According to Hillary and her minions.

Powell’s private messages were leaked by DCLeaks.com, an anonymously managed website that shares hacked emails from U.S. military and political figures. DCLeaks has a relationship with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence. DCLeaks provided access to Powell’s emails to a number of reporters on Tuesday.

The emails show Powell regularly corresponding with reporters and friends about the Clinton email server scandal, explaining that his situation was different. When Powell arrived at the State Department, the information technology system was badly dated, he argued. And unlike Clinton, Powell never set up a private server. Instead, he used his personal AOL account, on a server maintained by AOL, and used a government computer for classified communications.

By now, I hope you’re seeing the difference between the two persons. One cheats, the other doesn’t. I should tell you up front that, unlike Hillary, Powell’s retinue did not disclaim the emails but, instead, owned up. Those were Colin Powell’s, they said. And Powell did not have a private server as Hillary initially alleged.

Now here’s where things get good.

“They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine,” Powell wrote last year to his business partner Jeffrey Leeds. “As long as the stuff is unclassified. I had a secure State.gov machine. Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

Friends, I love that line: “Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.” Hubris indeed — with gobs of conceit, arrogance, narcissism and pomposity mixed in for good measure.

Powell spared no truth when he also observed:

“I told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn’t any [sic] fees for awhile. I should send her a bill.”

What? A Clinton overcharge for a speech? Powell surely must be prevaricating.

What’s perhaps even more interesting is the spin the American Media Maggots are putting on the Powell’s hacked emails.

  • NBC News headline: “Colin Powell calls Trump a national disgrace.”
  • USA Today: “Colin Powell calls Trump national disgrace in hacked emails.”
  • NY Times: “Colin Powell, in hacked email, calls Trump national disgrace.”

But I find this hacked email particularly illuminating:

I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year-old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home.

I also love this as well:

The July 26, 2014, email came just days after The Post, which Powell appears to cite, reported: “Bill Clinton reportedly has a buxom blond mistress who visits so often when Hillary Clinton isn’t home in Chappaqua that the former president’s Secret Service detail have given her an unofficial code name: Energizer.”

This is also interesting:

Peter, I am back from the Bohemian Grove. Surprise, surprise, I sat next to Stephen Harper a couple of times and had a nice discussion.  Grove attendees know that Trump is a disaster. Most will vote against, but quite a few will not vote for Hillary and will vote for a third party candidate. Strange doings down here. Otherwise all is well with the Powells. We’ll sneak away for a few days in August. Of course I’d love to see you. Let me know your dates.  I told Stephen that you seemed quite content in your new place in life.

All the best, Colin

It’s no shock that Powell dislikes Trump; that’s to be expected. But many will not vote for Hillary? That, indeed, is good news.

Hillary Clinton’s recent incidents, particularly her own forced focus on health, are already creating negative waves on the Demorat side. One Clinton ally said she is a “self-inflicted fucking nightmare.”  Even David Axelrod, long-time hod carrier for the Dems, said on Twitter: “Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?”

Don’t forget, Hillary wants it both ways: If she blamed her email memory issue on a neurological condition — “I can’t recall” 39 times to the FBI — then doesn’t that make the health of Hillary Clinton quite a legitimate issue, having opened the door herself?

Ah yes. Wonderful to see the Clintons are loved, admired and respected in DC.

BZ

 

Hillary outed the NSA

Hillary Clinton LawsFrom the Observer.com:

EmailGate and the Mystery of the Missing GAMMA

by John R. Schindler

Hillary Clinton’s ‘unclassified’ email included highly classified NSA information—why didn’t the FBI mention this fact?

Why?  In my opinion FBI Director James Comey surrendered his veracity, his honesty and his oath when he recommended no indictment against Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Truthfully, I can only hope that Comey sleeps but only a few hours every night, if even those.  Go here for my opinion on Comey’s resultant Hillary protectivism.

Last week’s Federal Bureau of Investigation release of materials relating to their investigation of Hillary Clinton has reignited the political firestorm surrounding EmailGate. How the Democratic nominee mishandled her emails while she was secretary of state is again front-page news, which is bad news for Hillary. Particularly because the FBI’s data dump demonstrates clearly that Clinton is either dumb or dishonest—and perhaps both.

I say: both.

Hillary’s professed inability to even recognize classified information, thinking the “C” (for Confidential) meant alphabetical order, will now enter the pantheon of laughable Clinton infamy, alongside her husband’s debating the meaning of “is” while under oath.

Right along with wiping her server, “like with a cloth or something.”

The FBI examined 81 Clinton email chains, determining that they included classified information relating to the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, NSA, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency or NGA. In other words, Hillary compromised classified materials representing the full range of American espionage: human intelligence or HUMINT from CIA, signals intelligence or SIGINT from NSA, and imagery intelligence or IMINT from NGA.

Of those 81 classified email chains, the FBI assessed that 37 of them included Secret information while eight included Top Secret information. Worse, seven email chains included Special Access Program or SAP information, which is tightly protected by the Intelligence Community and shared on a restricted, need-to-know basis only.

Now again, with that in mind, remember that Comey recommended no indictment for Hillary Rodham Clinton though a navy sailor will be spending a year in prison for taking six photos inside the submarine USS Alexandria in 2009 when it was in Groton, Connecticut.  The photos were on a phone that was found at a waste transfer station in Connecticut.  One year in prison.

Keep reading.  It gets better.

Three more email chains contained Sensitive Compartmented Information or SCI, which was almost certainly SIGINT from NSA. SCI always requires special protection and handling. In fact, you’re only allowed to access it inside a specially-built Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a SCIF (pronounced “skiff”) in spy-speak. Any exposure of SCI brings severe penalties—at least if you’re not named Clinton.

It’s nice to see the FBI finally confirm just how much highly classified information got exposed here, but I reported this many months ago from Intelligence Community sources, including that Hillary’s “unclassified” emails included Top Secret SAP information from CIA and Top Secret SCI information from NSA.

John Schindler then makes the point.

Which leads to a troubling matter: What the FBI did not mention in its big data dump on EmailGate.

This then brings up the question of Sidney Blumenthal and his email to Secretary of State Hillary regarding Sudan in 2011

Not to mention that, in terms of verbiage and format, Blumenthal’s email read exactly like classified NSA reporting, as anybody acquainted with our SIGINT would immediately recognize. As one veteran agency official told me back in January, Blumenthal’s email was NSA information with “at least 90 percent confidence.”

So: information acquired from the NSA was encapsulated in that email to Clinton.  The NSA even said Blumenthal’s Sudan email contained information from four different agency SIGINT reports, all classified Top Secret/SCI.

At least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which Clinton compromised in another series of her “unclassified” emails.

All on Hillary’s server.  A private server funded by you and me, the American Taxpayer.  A server which existed to keep Hillary’s machinations secret and therefore avoiding scrutiny, FOIA requests, responsibility and accountability.  A server through which she could also quietly run Clinton Foundation information and dealings.

“It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” an agency official of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret/SCI. To add to the mystery, Sid emailed Hillary his “personal” assessment on Sudan only hours after some of those classified NSA reports were issued.

So, there is unequivocally no doubt that NSA information was run through emails to Hillary’s server.  Then Schindler again hits it out of the ball park:

Somehow Sid Blumenthal—who in 2011 was not working for the U.S. government in any capacity and had not held security clearances in a decade—was reading above-top-secret NSA reports just hours after they appeared in tightly restricted GAMMA channels.

Emails sent to Hillary’s private server — information of which was hacked by Guccifer and others, likely sent to Russia and China — by a non-government person with no vetting for any form of security whatsoever.

The term GAMMA never appears in the paperwork the Bureau released last week.

Why not?  Schindler writes:

Not admitting that above-top-secret NSA information was compromised only furthers the Clintonian cover-up at this point.

The American Taxpayer needs to know, and needs to realize there’s an excellent chance that Blumenthal will be in the Hillary White House if she wins.

Here’s one other thing we know: the NSA itself was hacked.  Likely by Russians.

Are these two events connected?

Did one yield the other?

BZ

 

Hillary wanted to abrogate security rules from the start

Hillary Clinton DELETESFirst, from FoxNews.com:

Clinton tried to change rules to use BlackBerry in secure facility for classified information

by Catherine Herridge & Pamela K. Browne

Less than a month after becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for government business, Hillary Clinton’s team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

What that means is: the Hillary Clinton lawbreaking started early.

Hilary Clinton ELECT MEBecause it’s all about the convenience for Hillary Clinton.  Rules and regulations regarding classified information and materials, well, those rules are for little people, not for Clintons.  Clintons are above everyone else.  They piss on regular rules and regulations with contempt.

As Peggy Noonan once said, Bill Clinton is a “low-rent oaf with his squat and grasping wife.”

Squat and grasping wife indeed.  I can see that vision in my head as can most sensible people thinking with their heads and not their amygdala.

“Anyone who has any appreciation at all of security, you don’t ask a question like that,” cybersecurity analyst Morgan Wright told Fox News.  “It is contempt for the system, contempt for the rules that are designed to protect the exact kind of information that was exposed through this email set up. “

Clinton has claimed she used the personal account and BlackBerry for convenience. 

But the kicker?

In January 2009, Clinton signed at least two non-disclosure agreements in which she promised to protect classified information. Since then, more than 2,100 emails containing classified information have been identified, as well as 22 Top Secret that are too damaging to national security to release.

Most people say Hillary Clinton will remain unscathed.

I am not so convinced.

The year is still young.

BZ