FPP <
fred...@gmail.com> wrote in news:n20kkj$fag$
1...@dont-email.me:
> On 2015-11-11 22:57:08 +0000, clairbear <
clai...@msn.com> said:
>
>> FPP <
fred...@gmail.com> wrote in news:n1ugd3$h14$
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>>
>>> On 2015-11-10 21:51:48 -0500, clairbear <
clai...@msn.com> said:
>>>
>>>> FPP <
fred...@gmail.com> wrote in news:n1u611$qqt$
1...@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>> Again, idiots without facts, or knowledge, lie some more.
>>>>
>>>> We all know you Hillary and Obama are lying idiots tell us
>>>> something we don't know
>>>
>>> The Earth is round.
>>>
>>> 2 + 2 = 4
>>>
>>> Water is wet.
>>>
>>> Shall I go on?
>>
>> And that proof of what, that you have a fisrt grade education?
>
> It was in response to your request that I tell you something you don't
> know...
>
> Judging by your razor sharp grasp of the facts, I figured you could
> use the help.
The FBI is reportedly expanding its investigation into Hillary Clinton's
private email server
The FBI has reportedly expanded its probe into Hillary Clinton's private
email server to examine whether "materially false statements" were ever
provided to agents throughout the course of the case, Fox News reported
on Thursday.
At the center of the new inquiry, according to Fox News, is US Code 18,
Section 1001, which pertains to the willful falsification of material
facts, statements, and documents during a federal investigation. The
code is meant to penalize individuals who knowingly make false or
misleading statements that waste federal agents' time and resources.
"This is a broad, brush statute that punishes individuals who are not
direct and fulsome in their answers," former FBI agent Timothy Gill told
Fox. "It is a cover-all. The problem for a defendant is when their
statements cause the bureau to expend more time, energy, resources to
deconflict their statements with the evidence."
Facing criticism earlier this year for exclusively using a private
server during her time as US secretary of state, Clinton handed over
about 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public
in March. She deleted about 31,000 more emails she says were personal in
nature.
At the time, a US House of Representatives committee requested access to
Clinton's server to ensure that she had not deleted any work-related
emails. But her lawyer, David Kendall, told the committee that Clinton
aides had changed the server's settings so that only emails she sent and
received in the previous 60 days would be saved.
Bloomberg reported in late September that agents had been able to
recover at least some of the 30,000 "private" emails Clinton deleted.
Intriguingly, agents handed some of them over to investigators —
indicating that they are relevant in at least some way to the FBI's
ongoing probe.
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'A flawed process'
In August, Clinton handed her server over to the FBI, which has been
looking into whether any classified information ever passed onto the
server while she served as secretary of state.
As such, the probe has been centered around 18 US Code 793, a section of
the Espionage Act related to gathering and transmitting national-defense
information.
A couple of weeks into the investigation, Charles McCullough, the
intelligence community inspector general, said that two emails had been
found on Clinton's server from 2009 and 2011 that contained information
regarded as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," one of the
highest levels of classification.
But the intelligence community has since walked back on that claim.
"The initial determination was based on a flawed process," a source
familiar with the probe told Politico's Josh Gerstein. "There was an
intelligence product people thought [one of the emails] was based on,
but that actually postdated the email in question."
After months of negative headlines that battered her campaign, the
Democratic presidential front-runner apologized in September for her
email arrangement. But she has insisted that she didn't violate protocol
or pass along material marked classified.
Clinton's use of the server was allowed under State Department
regulations, and, so far, her claim that she never sent nor received
information marked classified has held up under scrutiny. Though some of
her emails did contain classified or "top secret" information, they were
only marked as such after they passed through her server.
Investigators are also examining what measures Clinton and her team took
to secure the server, since there are rules governing how it should be
configured so it is not vulnerable to cyberattacks.
So far, reports that hackers in China, South Korea, Germany, and Russia
tried to break into her server — which was monitored by a relatively
unknown tech firm with no security clearance — have not helped the 2016
presidential candidate wave away concerns.
"The fact that Clinton chose to use her personal email instead of a .gov
account shows that she obviously doesn't understand security," Joe
Loomis, CEO of CyberSponse, a software company, told Business Insider
last month. "What she did is like inviting spies over to dinner — every
device connected to the internet is an opportunity for them to collect
intelligence."
'A foul taste in the FBI's mouth'
In an interview with "60 Minutes" in October, US President Barack Obama
said that though it was probably a "mistake" for Clinton to use a
private email server during her time as secretary of state, it "is not a
situation in which America's national security was endangered."
His comments reportedly angered the FBI, which perceived Obama's
comments as an attempt to influence the outcome of their probe, The New
York Times reported last month.
"Injecting politics into what is supposed to be a fact-finding inquiry
leaves a foul taste in the F.B.I.'s mouth and makes them fear that no
matter what they find, the Justice Department will take the president's
signal and not bring a case," Ron Hosko, a former senior FBI official
who retired in 2014, told The Times.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Clinton's top rival for the
Democratic nomination, had made a similar effort to write off concerns
surrounding Clinton's emails a week prior to Obama's "60 Minutes"
appearance.
During a Democratic presidential debate, Sanders said that he and the
American public were "sick and tired of hearing about your damn
emails!" Sanders has since backed off such strong language, saying last
week, "There is an investigation. The FBI is doing what it's doing."
But investigators are annoyed that the president and others passed
judgment about whether Clinton's email setup endangered national
security when officials have yet to determine whether her server was
compromised by foreign adversaries.
Alex McGeorge, a cybersecurity expert at Immunity, believes that
continued concern over Clinton's email setup is warranted.
"Clearly there's a problem with folks in Washington not taking cyber
security seriously and it has serious consequences," McGeorge told
Business Insider in an email.
He added: "So I think there is a benefit to riding this out until the
bitter end with the hope that every other politician who witnesses the
pain Clinton now has to go to will reflect on that prior to making
security decisions."