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State Dept. posts Clinton aide's documents found on Weiner's laptop
The State Department on Friday released portions of 2,800 emails and other documents belonging to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were recovered by the FBI last year on Abedin's estranged husband Anthony Weiner's computer last year.
While the newly released emails have been seized on by conservative activists who have long been critical of Clinton's treatment of classified emails as secretary of State, the FBI already said in 2016 that a review of the emails didn't change the bureau's opinion that Clinton shouldn't face charges over email handling.
The Friday release came after a 2015 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch against the State Department seeking the release of emails containing "official State Department business" sent or received from Abedin from January 2009 to February 2013 using a non-State Department email address.
Also at Judicial Watch and CNN.
(Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Tuesday January 02 2018, @04:49AM (3 children)
Simplify. Classified information was emailed to a system not under the control of the United States government, that had not been certified for handling classified information, had no hardening, was in point of fact a goddamned Microsoft Exchange Server, including information marked such that it was illegal for any but a U.S. national with a clearance to view it. Show me a hosting company, other than one explicitly created for secure government work, that has no foreigners working for it. So information so secret it would require paperwork and debate within our government before disclosing it to the British Prime Minister was sitting on a machine any H1B had access to. Mrs. Clinton had been in and out and around government and classified information for most of her adult life so she can make no claim of ignorance. She knowingly, and with malice in her black heart, created the clintonmail.com domain while in the process of confirmation for Secretary of State.
Now pile on. She allowed all or most of her work related email to find its way to the laptop of a pervert. Do you think it likely a porn site's malware got onto a bog standard Windows PC with no special protection while a pervert was browsing on it? Again, this probably would not have happened had she been using a state.gov address. This makes her criminally liable for the consequence of her first crime. It also means Huma should be in jail btw, especially if the unconfirmed rumor that these mails were in a folder named "life insurance" are true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:12PM (1 child)
That is some weak shit, but hey 1+ year later you still have nothing better to distract away from Trump's massive failure. You are #sad.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @09:15PM
It's not weak shit. Many have been prosecuted and served jail time for the same kind of mishandling of classified information. Hillary and Huma did it, so why aren't they being prosecuted for it? I said the same thing when Karl Rove did the same thing, running government business off personal email accounts, and he too skated. But at least in that case Scooter Libby went to jail for it.
Either we have the rule of law, which applies equally to all, or we don't. If we don't, then why are any of us still paying taxes or toeing the line to further such a system?
If you ask me, Hillary ran her own email server because she wanted to control the narrative about her time in State as she was preparing to run for president again. Nevertheless, it does not matter what her intent was. She broke the law. She must go to jail.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @09:47PM
This would be all well and good if the practice of home servers stopped when it was deemed bad.
However, now the members of the administration that got voted in based on the failure of their opponent to use the proper server, are themselves making the same failure.