Justice Department May Probe Alleged Bergdahl Ransom Payment
by Shane Harris
The department’s top watchdog is considering whether to review allegations that the U.S. paid for the soldier’s freedom, and what role the FBI played in his release.
The Justice Department’s top watchdog is considering whether to review the legality of any payments that the U.S. government may have made for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and what role the FBI played in efforts to free the soldier from captivity in Pakistan, The Daily Beast has learned.
The department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, wrote a letter to a member of Congress this month saying that he had opened a “preliminary inquiry” into the matter, which concerns allegations that the U.S. government paid a ransom for Bergdahl’s freedom, and that in February 2014 the FBI sent a representative to the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan expecting Bergdahl to be released.
Anyone besides me think this is insanity inside of insanity? The DOJ investigating the FBI for a “payoff” involving Bergdahl?
This is Kabuki Theatre writ large.
Ask yourself: WHY would this occur?
Answer: because the FBI is considering the recommendation of an indictment against Hillary Clinton.
A “preliminary investigation” of the FBI on this ridiculous issue is a proverbial “shot across the bow” to FBI Director James Comey. Because a source indicates the FBI is going to ask for a Hillary indictment.
The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says.
Read that again: “The State Department is lying,” and “because it (the State Department) never set up an agency email address for her (Hillary Clinton) in the first place.”
Meaning: the State Department already had knowledge that she was going it alone for email. And had no need for theirs.
“This was all planned in advance” to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008.
The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.
To me this is clearly indicative of planning aforethought. Purposeful planning.
Mr Krongard confirms my thoughts.
“That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without email?”
“How else was she supposed to do business without email?”
Krongard becomes even more focused in his rightful and informed accusations.
“It’s clear she did not want to be subject to internal investigations,” Krongard said. An email audit would have easily uncovered the secret information flowing from classified government networks to the private unprotected system she set up in her New York home.
Why no audit?
Would it surprise you to know that, during Mrs Clinton’s time as secretary of state, from 2009 to 2013, there was no internal Inspector General for the State Department? That was the longest period of time any federal department has gone without an IG.
Coincidence?
Read what Mr Krongard has to say about the appearance of classified information on her private server.
He (Krongard) says “the key” to the FBI’s investigation of Emailgate is determining how highly sensitive state secrets in the classified network, known as SIPRNet, ended up in Clinton’s personal emails.
“The starting point of the investigation is the material going through SIPRNet. She couldn’t function without the information coming over SIPRNet,” Krongard said. “How did she get it on her home server? It can’t just jump from one system to the other. Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?”
“Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?”
But first, Clinton insisted that the “homebrew” server was in her house in Chappaqua, New York, in some kind of closet, allegedly guarded by USSS agents. Her house, not the server.
Now, working with publicly available tools that map network connectivity, experts have established that the last “hop” before the mail server’s Internet Protocol, or IP, address (listed as 64.94.172.146) is Internap’s aggregator in Manhattan (listed as 216.52.95.10).
“This is a very strong indication that the clintonemail.com server is in Manhattan,” the source told Fox News.
According to an Ars Technica investigation, however, Clinton’s email server was located in Alabama at one point while she served as America’s chief diplomat. Moreover, its substandard security left it vulnerable to a series of common hacking techniques.
It defies logic to believe that a high value target like the secretary of state’s electronic communications were not probed by foreign intelligence services over the course of her tenure in the president’s Cabinet, and reports increasingly suggest that those agencies did not encounter many obstacles in their effort to compromise her communications.
One can only logically conclude that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a congenital liar and wouldn’t know the truth if it removed a beefy piece of cankle. Krongard also continues to blow Clinton’s stories out of the water.
Either way, there would be an audit trail for investigators to follow. The SIPRNet system maintains the identity of all users and their log-on and log-off times, among other activities.
“This totally eliminates the false premise that she got nothing marked classified,” Krongard said. “She’s hiding behind this defense. But they [emails] had to be classified, because otherwise [the information in them] wouldn’t be on the SIPRNet.”
Hillary Clinton herself said she went to her own private server for convenience.
Because she is a Clinton.
In truth, the answer to “why” is this: Hillary knew there would be no Inspector General for the Department of State. She knew she could keep that position unfilled in perpetuity during her tenure. Her comms were even more critical when she became involved in Benghazi.
With the Clintons, it’s all about control, secrecy and power. Clinton, knowing there was no IG oversight, realized she had carte blanche to run roughshod over whatever set of rules she wished. She is a Clinton. Rules are for little people, the unwashed, the proles, the serfs, the groundlings.
We also now know that Obama sent emails to her server. No one knows what kinds of communications transpired between the two, however. Yet.
FBI Director James Comey has had his agents working the Clinton server angle for some time, assembling everything necessary for a proper case. When he believes he has sufficient probable cause, he will submit the case to DOJ for an indictment and prosecution. That means the case will go to Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
And Barack Hussein Obama will be the ultimate arbeiter.
So what if there happens to be information of a compromising nature relating to Mr Obama on Hillary Clinton’s private server? Information he doesn’t wish made public?
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged that the Department of Justice will go after hate speech that might incite violence against the Muslim community, she told a crowd of Muslim-Americans and supporters Thursday night.
“Obviously this is a country that is based on free speech,” Lynch told the audience at the Muslim Advocates dinner in Arlington, VA. “But when that edges towards violence…we will take action.”
But let’s cast a statistical eye on this.
Let’s ask ourselves a very important question: just where is this blowback in the US? Where are the dead, broken, littered bodies of Muslims all across the United States?
As we all know, if the allegation were true, the American Media Maggots would be all over each and every one of those cases and cover them incessantly for hours and then weeks.
Are we seeing this on our media? Television? Cable? Newspapers? Internet?
We are not. Why? Because it doesn’t exist.
Even after 9/11 it doesn’t exist.
Here are 2014 religious hate crime statistics in the United States, from the FBI, from a total of 1,140 such crimes reported (in percentile):
Here is the truth: Obama is courting Muslims in the US and from around the world. He’d like to see their numbers grow in the US, clearly. He is now pushing Lynch to create this fear-based Straw Man for an idea that doesn’t exist — though both he and she would like to see the problem explode so that, politically, Obama can say “see, I told you it was an issue!”
Look at the stats. Jews in the United States are at a greater risk than Muslims, by a factor of three and-a-half times.
Where is Mr Obama regarding hate crimes against Jews? Where is Loretta Lynch regarding hate crimes against Jews?
Further, where is this tsunami of action against Muslims in America? There is suspicion, yes, as there should be considering events. But actions? Obama quite well knows what a “self-fulfilling prophecy” is, and is attempting to do his best to create one, having given his little instructions to AG Lynch, another Obama puppet blessed with the Perfect Melanin Count.
Let’s be frank. Obama himself is helping ISIS. Obama is being divisive. ISIS is saying “yes, you poor disenfranchised Muslims, everyone hates you, the US hates you, you’re different, come to us and wage war against the West and infidels.” Obama is emphasizing that Muslims — inaccurately — are being separated and disenfranchised when, in fact, Muslims assimilate much more (so far) in the US than they do in Europe.
It’s thought like that which helped to kill the people in San Bernardino. Yes, again, Obama has American blood on his hands. His administration, his DOJ, Leftists, Demorats, have created the culture permeating American neighborhoods that kept those surrounding the San Bernardino Jihadists from reporting the obvious.
Those persons have eyes and ears. They know, for example, that a Muslim kid brought what looks to any rational person like some kind of IED to school and, quite logically, found himself quite obviously questioned and was subsequently arrested. He’s now demanding $15 million dollars from the City of Irving, Texas, and its school district.
For fuck’s sake, a little white boy can’t crudely fashion a gun out of a Pop Tart without it hitting the national media, and clock boy is suing for millions of dollars.
Seems to me that lesson has been learned and is being learned.
First, the story from the DailyBeast.com:
Control. And secrecy.
