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Was Hillary running a Secret Intel Network?

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Uh oh.....looks like Hillary just got herself all caught up. Now, how does she get out of this one? This could be what causes Hillary to decide not to run. She might as well forgetaboutIt. What say ye?



If the motives to wipe the hard drive on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server weren’t already crystal clear, a new development last night put it in Ultra HD. Gawker’s Jeff Girth and Sam Biddle uncovered a secret, private intelligence network run by Sidney Blumenthal for Hillary’s benefit, apart from the State Department’s own Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Hackers got e-mails that went through Hillary’s private server between her and Blumenthal, e-mails that show her own private intel group was also warning her that Libya was collapsing in the weeks and months prior to the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi:

It also seems that Hillary’s private intelligence operation penetrated other intel groups, including those of allies. On one level, one could be impressed with the organization of such an effort — if it had led to better choices. Instead, the hacked e-mail trail here has Hillary’s own network warning her of a string of terrorist attacks in Benghazi three weeks before the attack on our consulate. By that time, of course, the US facility had already been hit by a bomb attack two months prior to these warnings, yet Hillary and Patrick Kennedy did nothing to boost security or get American personnel out of harms’ way. Why, with these warnings ringing in her ears, did she allow US Ambassador Chris Stevens to come to Benghazi at all? By the way, the e-mails also speak to the “YouTube video” cover story, and makes it clear that Hillary’s own private network had discounted the claim 48 hours after the attack:

This goes beyond cover stories, though. What was a Secretary of State doing in running her own private intelligence service — and providing so little security for its communications? It’s getting very obvious why 32,000 e-mails got deleted from a four-year period, something like 21 e-mails every day in every year. It wasn’t just notes to Bill or discussions of Chelsea’s wedding plans that got wiped, but the records of Clintons’ clandestine network of operatives......snip~

Was Hillary running a secret intel network? « Hot Air
 
Unless this private intelligence organization was accessing or using classified information in its' reports or assessments, there is nothing wrong with Clinton using them to advise her decisions.


It might very well be part of why she chose to destroy government documents rather than submit them to State Department review, as the law required of her (they could be embarrassing), but there is nothing wrong with OSINT or the organizations that do it.
 
Uh oh.....looks like Hillary just got herself all caught up. Now, how does she get out of this one? This could be what causes Hillary to decide not to run. She might as well forgetaboutIt. What say ye?



If the motives to wipe the hard drive on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server weren’t already crystal clear, a new development last night put it in Ultra HD. Gawker’s Jeff Girth and Sam Biddle uncovered a secret, private intelligence network run by Sidney Blumenthal for Hillary’s benefit, apart from the State Department’s own Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Hackers got e-mails that went through Hillary’s private server between her and Blumenthal, e-mails that show her own private intel group was also warning her that Libya was collapsing in the weeks and months prior to the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi:

It also seems that Hillary’s private intelligence operation penetrated other intel groups, including those of allies. On one level, one could be impressed with the organization of such an effort — if it had led to better choices. Instead, the hacked e-mail trail here has Hillary’s own network warning her of a string of terrorist attacks in Benghazi three weeks before the attack on our consulate. By that time, of course, the US facility had already been hit by a bomb attack two months prior to these warnings, yet Hillary and Patrick Kennedy did nothing to boost security or get American personnel out of harms’ way. Why, with these warnings ringing in her ears, did she allow US Ambassador Chris Stevens to come to Benghazi at all? By the way, the e-mails also speak to the “YouTube video” cover story, and makes it clear that Hillary’s own private network had discounted the claim 48 hours after the attack:

This goes beyond cover stories, though. What was a Secretary of State doing in running her own private intelligence service — and providing so little security for its communications? It’s getting very obvious why 32,000 e-mails got deleted from a four-year period, something like 21 e-mails every day in every year. It wasn’t just notes to Bill or discussions of Chelsea’s wedding plans that got wiped, but the records of Clintons’ clandestine network of operatives......snip~

Was Hillary running a secret intel network? « Hot Air

What good was a private intelligence group, if you don't burglarize Republican headquarters?
;)
 
Unless this private intelligence organization was accessing or using classified information in its' reports or assessments, there is nothing wrong with Clinton using them to advise her decisions.


It might very well be part of why she chose to destroy government documents rather than submit them to State Department review, as the law required of her (they could be embarrassing), but there is nothing wrong with OSINT or the organizations that do it.


I think they got her.....and Blumenthal I expect will be called before Gowdy. Here is the Gawker piece. Looks like Gawker will be the one to take her down.



Leaked Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide's Secret Spy Network......

Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal's account. The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya's civil war raged in 2011.

Blumenthal's emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal's account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators,

In one exchange in March 2013, Blumenthal emailed Drumheller, "Thanks. Can you send Libya report." Drumheller replied, "Here it is, pls do not share it with Cody. I don't want moin speculating on sources. It is on the Maghreb and Libya." Cody is Cody Shearer, a longtime Clinton family operative—his brother was an ambassador under Bill Clinton and his now-deceased sister was married to Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott—who was in close contact with Blumenthal. While it's not entirely clear from the documents, "Moin" may refer to the nickname of Mohamed Mansour El Kikhia, a member of the Kikhia family, a prominent Libyan clan with ties to the Libyan National Transition Council. (An email address in Blumenthal's address book, which was also leaked, was associated with his Facebook page.).....snip~

Leaked Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide's Secret Spy Network
 
Unless this private intelligence organization was accessing or using classified information in its' reports or assessments, there is nothing wrong with Clinton using them to advise her decisions.


It might very well be part of why she chose to destroy government documents rather than submit them to State Department review, as the law required of her (they could be embarrassing), but there is nothing wrong with OSINT or the organizations that do it.

Doesn't every intelligence operation have 'burn bags'? Guess this is Hillary's digital equivalent.

Yeah, there's something there all right. But who would hav ethought that Hillary would be M?

More Obama administration misdeeds that Obama can read in the papers to find out.
 
Doesn't every intelligence operation have 'burn bags'? Guess this is Hillary's digital equivalent.

Yeah, there's something there all right. But who would hav ethought that Hillary would be M?



You know that saying when it rain it Pours, EB? As this all came out last week. Even Chuck Todd of NBC and Meet the press was shaking his head and saying this isn't good and nothing surprises him with Sidney Blumenthal.

One thing is for sure.....Hillary isn't dancing in the rain. She is being Waterboarded! :lol:



Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist?


Last week, Gawker and ProPublica revealed that Hillary Clinton ran a private intelligence network while Secretary of State, with longtime Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal at its top, e-mailing her updates through her private server. They have also uncovered evidence that Blumenthal acted as a lobbyist for foreign interests during the same period. And since Blumenthal never registered as a lobbyist, that would be illegal, if true:

As one attorney explained to Gawker and ProPublica, even one instance of lobbying makes one a lobbyist. Just as there’s no such thing as a little bit pregnant, there’s no such thing as a little bit lobbyist. The single e-mail — and that’s just what’s known at the moment, thanks to the Scouring of the Server in Clintonland — would have required both Blumenthal and Kornblum to register as lobbyists for foreign governments. In fact, they’d have to do so at least ten days prior to lobbying a government official on policy, as was done in this instance, under The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938. The penalty for violating FARA runs as high as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The US can certainly pursue those two for illegally lobbying a Secretary of State, and there’s not much Hillary can do about it — or would probably want to do about it, with all of the attention being shone on her activities now. Will Blumenthal and Kornblum face those consequences, though? The question now goes to the Department of Justice under Barack Obama, whose aides have to be cringing with each new revelation that comes from the e-mail scandal. If they pursue it, they can try to make themselves look clean but risk uncovering even more embarrassing information. If they ignore it, the next administration might well pursue it — and probe why their administration did not. The smart move would be to open a probe but slow-walk it, especially since Congress is almost certain to investigate Blumenthal’s activities now. That’s the only way the Obama administration can control what comes out, at least for the next 22 months......snip~

Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist? « Hot Air
 
You know that saying when it rain it Pours, EB? As this all came out last week. Even Chuck Todd of NBC and Meet the press was shaking his head and saying this isn't good and nothing surprises him with Sidney Blumenthal.

One thing is for sure.....Hillary isn't dancing in the rain. She is being Waterboarded! :lol:



Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist?


Last week, Gawker and ProPublica revealed that Hillary Clinton ran a private intelligence network while Secretary of State, with longtime Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal at its top, e-mailing her updates through her private server. They have also uncovered evidence that Blumenthal acted as a lobbyist for foreign interests during the same period. And since Blumenthal never registered as a lobbyist, that would be illegal, if true:

As one attorney explained to Gawker and ProPublica, even one instance of lobbying makes one a lobbyist. Just as there’s no such thing as a little bit pregnant, there’s no such thing as a little bit lobbyist. The single e-mail — and that’s just what’s known at the moment, thanks to the Scouring of the Server in Clintonland — would have required both Blumenthal and Kornblum to register as lobbyists for foreign governments. In fact, they’d have to do so at least ten days prior to lobbying a government official on policy, as was done in this instance, under The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938. The penalty for violating FARA runs as high as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The US can certainly pursue those two for illegally lobbying a Secretary of State, and there’s not much Hillary can do about it — or would probably want to do about it, with all of the attention being shone on her activities now. Will Blumenthal and Kornblum face those consequences, though? The question now goes to the Department of Justice under Barack Obama, whose aides have to be cringing with each new revelation that comes from the e-mail scandal. If they pursue it, they can try to make themselves look clean but risk uncovering even more embarrassing information. If they ignore it, the next administration might well pursue it — and probe why their administration did not. The smart move would be to open a probe but slow-walk it, especially since Congress is almost certain to investigate Blumenthal’s activities now. That’s the only way the Obama administration can control what comes out, at least for the next 22 months......snip~

Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist? « Hot Air

This absolutely deserves closer scrutiny.
 
This absolutely deserves closer scrutiny.

They got her.....the Romanian hacker sent snapshots of the Blumenthal emails to Russian and Chinese News Agencies.


Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.

While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton's correspondence while secretary of state. The messages came from and were sent to her private email address, hosted on a server at her property in Chappaqua, New York, as opposed to a government-run email account.....snip~

Surprise: Hillary Clinton Lied About Using Only One Device For Email - Katie Pavlich
 
What good was a private intelligence group, if you don't burglarize Republican headquarters?
;)
Hey... Nixon at least didn't try to destroy the evidence.
 
They got her.....the Romanian hacker sent snapshots of the Blumenthal emails to Russian and Chinese News Agencies.


Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.

While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton's correspondence while secretary of state. The messages came from and were sent to her private email address, hosted on a server at her property in Chappaqua, New York, as opposed to a government-run email account.....snip~

Surprise: Hillary Clinton Lied About Using Only One Device For Email - Katie Pavlich

That was always one of the threats of her having her own private server-it or its associated accounts could be hacked and exploited by hackers or foreign govts.
 
That was always one of the threats of her having her own private server-it or its associated accounts could be hacked and exploited by hackers or foreign govts.

Here is the Russian news with the emails.....they were even discussing the Hostage Situation in Algeria. She has no out now!


On the back of widespread public interest RT has decided to publish in their entirety a series of memos which were allegedly sent from a one-time White House aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The emails, which were allegedly sent by former political adviser Sidney Blumenthal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were forwarded to RT by a hacker using the alias “Guccifer.”

The purported memos appear to contain sensitive information regarding the September 11, 2012 attacks on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, as well the January 2013 hostage crisis in In Amenas, Algeria......snip~

Hillary Clinton's 'hacked' Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE ? RT USA
 
Just one nitpick with the OP. I highly doubt the AMB would have cleared his trip with the SECSTATE.

That said, this whole thing is a cluster. I really hope she decides not to run. Just enjoy your retirement already. Legal or not, all these actions are beyond the pale when it comes to the appearance of impropriety.
 
Just one nitpick with the OP. I highly doubt the AMB would have cleared his trip with the SECSTATE.

That said, this whole thing is a cluster. I really hope she decides not to run. Just enjoy your retirement already. Legal or not, all these actions are beyond the pale when it comes to the appearance of impropriety.



On 911? Some one had him go to Benghazi to meet a Turk Envoy. Now we know the Turks didn't have an Embassy in Libya as they closed and pulled out with the move on Gadhafi.
 
On 911? Some one had him go to Benghazi to meet a Turk Envoy. Now we know the Turks didn't have an Embassy in Libya as they closed and pulled out with the move on Gadhafi.

I'm not saying he didn't coordinate with STATE, I just doubt Hillary ever signed off on it, though I am not 100% certain. I worked at several embassies and when it came to in-country travel ambassadors really didn't answer to anyone, even on 9-11. Though I am sure after Benghazi that has changed.

Please note, I am not condoning how it was handled.
 
You know that saying when it rain it Pours, EB? As this all came out last week. Even Chuck Todd of NBC and Meet the press was shaking his head and saying this isn't good and nothing surprises him with Sidney Blumenthal.

One thing is for sure.....Hillary isn't dancing in the rain. She is being Waterboarded! :lol:



Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist?


Last week, Gawker and ProPublica revealed that Hillary Clinton ran a private intelligence network while Secretary of State, with longtime Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal at its top, e-mailing her updates through her private server. They have also uncovered evidence that Blumenthal acted as a lobbyist for foreign interests during the same period. And since Blumenthal never registered as a lobbyist, that would be illegal, if true:

As one attorney explained to Gawker and ProPublica, even one instance of lobbying makes one a lobbyist. Just as there’s no such thing as a little bit pregnant, there’s no such thing as a little bit lobbyist. The single e-mail — and that’s just what’s known at the moment, thanks to the Scouring of the Server in Clintonland — would have required both Blumenthal and Kornblum to register as lobbyists for foreign governments. In fact, they’d have to do so at least ten days prior to lobbying a government official on policy, as was done in this instance, under The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938. The penalty for violating FARA runs as high as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The US can certainly pursue those two for illegally lobbying a Secretary of State, and there’s not much Hillary can do about it — or would probably want to do about it, with all of the attention being shone on her activities now. Will Blumenthal and Kornblum face those consequences, though? The question now goes to the Department of Justice under Barack Obama, whose aides have to be cringing with each new revelation that comes from the e-mail scandal. If they pursue it, they can try to make themselves look clean but risk uncovering even more embarrassing information. If they ignore it, the next administration might well pursue it — and probe why their administration did not. The smart move would be to open a probe but slow-walk it, especially since Congress is almost certain to investigate Blumenthal’s activities now. That’s the only way the Obama administration can control what comes out, at least for the next 22 months......snip~

Hillary’s private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist? « Hot Air

This is why Hillary wants to be President, so she can easily sweep ever single scandal going back through the 90's under the rug. That's why she needs to be defeated, and constantly and relentlessy persured up til Nov 2016. Gowdy needs to never quit. Republican need a stronger hold on Congress, by shoving more Dems from the Senate. They need enough to impeach if Hillary gets elected.
 
I'm not saying he didn't coordinate with STATE, I just doubt Hillary ever signed off on it, though I am not 100% certain. I worked at several embassies and when it came to in-country travel ambassadors really didn't answer to anyone, even on 9-11. Though I am sure after Benghazi that has changed.

Please note, I am not condoning how it was handled.



Mornin BrewerB. :2wave: You may be Right with her not signing off on it. But then who could tell Stevens to go to Benghazi and meet the Turk for the set up, of transferring weapons from Libya to Syria? I thought the only way the CIA could do so is if they had a Letter stamped with the Executive Order. (telling a US Ambassador what he will do)
 
This is why Hillary wants to be President, so she can easily sweep ever single scandal going back through the 90's under the rug. That's why she needs to be defeated, and constantly and relentlessy persured up til Nov 2016. Gowdy needs to never quit. Republican need a stronger hold on Congress, by shoving more Dems from the Senate. They need enough to impeach if Hillary gets elected.

Mornin American. :2wave: She is going to be hammered and not even the MS media and the left with all their deflectors will change that. People need to stay on top of the issue of her placing others at Risk in US Government. Also that she placed BO peep at risk.

Hammer that home......and watch how the BO bots start dumping on her knowing she has to take the fall.
 
Mornin American. :2wave: She is going to be hammered and not even the MS media and the left with all their deflectors will change that. People need to stay on top of the issue of her placing others at Risk in US Government. Also that she placed BO peep at risk.

Hammer that home......and watch how the BO bots start dumping on her knowing she has to take the fall.

They will jump ship like its cool. They just haven't got their marching orders yet.
 
They will jump ship like its cool. They just haven't got their marching orders yet.

FBI and the CIA are going to want to know what Blumenthal was doing discussing Classified information with Hillary. That's even if the State Dept doesn't want to.

Gowdy should subpenoa him in ASAP.
 
Everyone involved, including the agencies investigating the hack, are refusing comment. Both publications reported that Drumheller’s business partner admitted that the former “worked” with Blumenthal, but stopped commenting from there. The FBI refused to comment, with Shearer saying he would heed to the advice of the Bureau and not talk about it.

Yet, the article also noted a Blumenthal memo on August 23, 2012 that detailed a series of kidnappings of foreign workers and diplomats in the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Tripoli, and Misrata, along with bombings that highlight a security situation devolving into chaos. Again, we do not know if Clinton read or replied to these correspondences, but if she did; it leaves her wide open to scrutiny, especially since she said no U.S. intelligence officials had “advance knowledge of the threat.” Granted, while the memo cited an increasingly hostile environment, it did not specifically say that U.S. foreign workers were at risk. Though, I doubt anyone will see it that way.

Who was paying for all this intelligence and analysis that wound up on Secretary Clinton's desk? Was this an expensive favor from someone? Did she bankroll it from her personal fortune? Was it hidden somewhere in the State Department's budget? The public deserves a true explanation, whatever it is, before they consider entrusting the presidency to her. So far, she is content to let voters wonder......snip~

Ex-Clinton Aide Had Secret Intelligence Network, Raises Questions If Hillary Used This 'Undisclosed Back Channel


Funny how 6 Billion came up missing while Hillary was at State.....especially with all of this going on.
 
Yep its like I said.....Now they will call in Blumenthal. This is going to get real interesting now. Gowdy sent word to Hillary's attorney and told her she will have to come in to testify by May 1st. Note they are also going to call any others who had emails and in connection to Hillary.



The House Select Committee on Benghazi will talk to longtime Clinton insider Sidney Blumenthal about his emails with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a committee member said Wednesday. Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo confirmed the panel’s interest in talking to Blumenthal in an interview with talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “The committee will also speak with Mr. Blumenthal,” Pompeo said. “We’ve got other folks who we’re still pursuing who may well have also had personal email accounts.”

Gowdy said that Clinton must appear before May 1 to clear up the status of the emails and server. After that, Gowdy plans to call her to testify in front of the committee about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Gawker also reported that Blumenthal lobbied Clinton on behalf of John Kornblum, a former Clinton White House aide who became ambassador of Germany. Kornblum was promoting Georgian politician Bidzina Ivanishvili, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In working in such a way on behalf of a foreign interest, Blumenthal may have violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act.....snip~

Benghazi Committee Wants To Interview Clinton Insider Sidney Blumenthal
 
They got her.....the Romanian hacker sent snapshots of the Blumenthal emails to Russian and Chinese News Agencies.


Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.

While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton's correspondence while secretary of state. The messages came from and were sent to her private email address, hosted on a server at her property in Chappaqua, New York, as opposed to a government-run email account.....snip~

Surprise: Hillary Clinton Lied About Using Only One Device For Email - Katie Pavlich

Sorry, but the iPad was not available until a year after she took office, it became available in 2010. Besides who would want to carry an iPad around.
 
Sorry, but the iPad was not available until a year after she took office, it became available in 2010. Besides who would want to carry an iPad around.

That doesn't matter now, and it still don't change the fact of when they caught her using it.


Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs.....snip~

Busted: Hillary Excuses on Secret Email 'Crumble at Her Feet' - Guy Benson
 
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