8th July 2016, 6:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 9th July 2016, 10:26 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Damn.... it...No, there is getting around it, and in my previous post I explain most of the discrepancy between the two sets of statements -- Hillary is going by State's standards, and Comey the FBI's. Please also see that link in my previous post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/us/hil....html?_r=0
This has been making the rounds, a direct comparison of Hillary's statements a year ago and the FBI's new report.
And... well she was lying. There's no getting around it, she was clearly lying about a LOT of things. Yes, all politicians lie, but that's not something we should just accept.
For instance:
Quote:here is no classified material.v
Quote:seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received.Note a few things here -- from previous articles, these issues which "concern matters that were classified" are most likely those emails about news reports about classified programs. That info's already out there, who cares if you classify your emails about it, FBI?
That is, Comey's description of what those were is long because it was not a situation of clear-cut classified emails on this system; classified information has a completely different system, and Hillary has said that she did not use email for that, she'd read printouts and whatnot.
Quote: And there were no security breaches.”v
Quote:We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.Clinton said that there were no security breaches on her private email server. Comey never provides the slightest shred of evidence against her assertion. What he says here is entirely unrelated to her statement.
Quote:I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled roughly 55,000 printed pages,v
Quote:MR. COMEY: “The F.B.I. also discovered several thousand work-related emails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014.Given that Hillary is not the most technically-inclined person, any emails forgotten on previous systems and not carried over to a new one surely are her tech peoples' fault and not her own. If what she said here was untrue, I highly doubt she knew that.
Quote:“A separate, closed system was used by the Department for the sole purpose of handling classified communicationsv
Quote: the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified informationAnd for this see my previous post, where I go over this issue in detail. Spies v. diplomats, discussion v. overdone secrecy, that linked article about diplomats in Pakistan, etc. Personally I am much more sympathetic to State than the FBI on this.
Now, I'm not saying everything Hillary said about the emails is completely true, but that there was no indictment, no proof of any foreign hacking of her server, and no clear-cut emails about things which should have been classified by State's standards says a LOT. Remember, Obama may have kept the guy on for some reason, but Comey is a Republican Bush appointee known to have donated to Republican candidates in the past! He surely wanted to indict if he could.