Federal Officials Request DOJ To Open Criminal Investigation Into Hillary Clinton Emails
[guest post by Dana]
As a result of a federal review of Hillary Clinton’s private email account, the DOJ has been requested to begin a criminal investigation:
Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.
The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails.”
This in spite of Hillary’s claims made in March:
I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
The Justice Dept. has not said whether they will comply with the request.
And here is an interesting tidbit about the NYT:
The paper initially reported that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation “into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state.”
That clause, which cast Clinton as the target of the potential criminal probe, was later changed: the inspectors general now were asking for an inquiry “into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state.”
The Times also changed the headline of the story, from “Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email” to “Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account,” reflecting a similar recasting of Clinton’s possible role. The article’s URL was also changed to reflect the new headline.
As of early Friday morning, the Times article contained no update, notification, clarification or correction regarding the changes made to the article.
One of the reporters of the story, Michael Schmidt, explained early Friday that the Clinton campaign had complained about the story to the Times.
“It was a response to complaints we received from the Clinton camp that we thought were reasonable, and we made them,” Schmidt said.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, said in an email that Clinton always followed “appropriate practices.”
“Contrary to the initial story, which has already been significantly revised, she followed appropriate practices in dealing with classified materials. As has been reported on multiple occasions, any released emails deemed classified by the administration have been done so after the fact, and not at the time they were transmitted,” Merrill said.
–Dana
watch them do nothing…
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 7/24/2015 @ 8:48 amHillary! hired Carlos Danger to consult on how to rebuild your reputation, I guess she hired Sandy Berger to adviser her on “appropriate practices” for handling classified information.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:05 amYou know what’s an appropriate practice for handling classified information?
Keeping it within a government system.
Not putting it on a private system.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:08 amI’m with red. I fear this is about making sure Hillary has an official government report that says she did nothing wrong.
DRJ (1dff03) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:16 amDitto what Red and DRJ said. They will use this the way they used Holders “investigation” into the IRS Lerner criminal conspiracy. It is loathesome.
JD (afdf01) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:25 amChanging the URL is really going far.
I’m not sure about the legal basis for this — maybe there are some laws about dealing with secrets regardless of whether or not a communication is marked classified. We don’t seem to be getting the precise legal analysis.
Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:34 amI’m not even this cynical.
Those IGs requested a criminal investigation because by any objective standard Hillary! compromised national security.
They’re not inventing new categories of classified information. The administration classified those emails after the fact only because Hillary! refused to put the proper paragraph and page classification markings on them. They were classified at the time.
But I don’t expect this administration to hold her accountable. I expect they will simply refuse to investigate. They’ll declare that there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.
The Janet Reno standard. The only evidence of wrongdoing is a pre-existing criminal conviction. Unless Clinton has already been convicted of the crime, the allegation Clinton committed the crime doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. They say.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:43 amObama hasn’t had the best of relationships with IGs. I expect this request is not welcome.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:45 amI’m sure this will be handled with the same professionalism and respect that the administration offered DCI Petreus when he faced similar charges.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:46 amYes, Kevin. Those IGs are no doubt in deep trouble.
I hope they’re prepared for their IRS audits.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 10:06 amI don’t expect this to go anywhere unless Hillary tries to distance herself from Obama on, say, the Iran deal. Then we’ll see the FBI all over her.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 7/24/2015 @ 10:07 amhttp://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/24/two-igs-to-doj-we-need-a-criminal-probe-into-hillary-e-mail/
This is why the Obama DoJ, if Obama wants to let Hillary! off the hook, can not investigate her emails. Because if you parse the words carefully, she’s already convicted of unauthorized removal of classified material, and compromise can not be ruled out.
As I said, it isn’t as if the information was upgraded to classified. It isn’t as if State Department officials reviewed those emails and said, “We’ve never seen anything like this before, perhaps we should classify this information” or, “We’ve always treated information like this as unclassified before but maybe we should be more careful with it.” The information in those emails belonged to a category of information that had long been treated as classified. It is the two dozen emails that have been upgraded to classified because they contained information that was mishandled and improperly marked.
Not even a sham investigation will be able to hide the fact that Hillary! deliberately mishandled known classified information and removed it from government control, converted it to private use, in order to evade oversight.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 10:45 amNothing will happen until the DoJ is purged of Leftists, weasels, RINOs, and Democrats. Then, not only Hillary, but the whole Democrap party will be subject to a RICO investigation and Indictment.
PCD (39058b) — 7/24/2015 @ 11:25 amI have always assumed that most government emails between government officials is classified at some level … in other words its supposed to stay between the parties and neither party is supposed to release emails to the public …
Plus … how is it possible for the Secretary of State to do his / her job if nobody can email her anything that classified ? seems like the job involves looking at and talking about alot of classified information. So how did people get a classified document to Hillary since neither she nor most of her closest advisers were on ANY secured government email system ?
KaiserDerden (399734) — 7/24/2015 @ 11:30 amHmmm. The liberal media actually got this wrong, and in fact mis-reported that Clinton was being criminally investigated. Not that it matters, since everyone will remember the incorrect information that was first part of the story.
Please be sure to ignore this data point when you’re all complaining about the media’s bias against conservatives.
Jonny Scrum-half (f6a365) — 7/24/2015 @ 12:17 pmBy, “The liberal media actually got this wrong, and in fact mis-reported that Clinton was being criminally investigated” you mean they made the mistake of telling the truth instead of spinning it in her favor. Now they’ve reverted to full cover-up mode.
https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/624618240086446081
So, the evil witch gave the DoS, and consequently Congress, 55,000 printed pages of copies of her emails. So her email would not be searchable, and all the invaluable metadata would be stripped away.
Then gave her lawyer a thumb drive with all her email. Searchable, and with metadata.
She belongs in prison.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 1:14 pmSteve57 – You have a unique understanding of “innocent until proven guilty.”
Jonny Scrum-half (f6a365) — 7/24/2015 @ 1:18 pmScrotastic!
Investigate faster, please!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/24/2015 @ 1:47 pmNot really. Hillary! used a private email server to conduct all her business as SecState. That’s impossible to do without discussing classified material. She’d be coordinating with allies on trade and other international agreements, reviewing arms transfers, etc. These are the kind of cards you don’t show your adversaries. That’s why they’re classified. Not to mention the fact that the DoS Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is a member of the national Intelligence Community. She’d be privy to just practically of our intel and national defense information.
As a matter of fact, if you go back to the comments I made on threads when this first broke, I said if I was a foreign head of state I would stop sharing any information with the USG unless I they provided iron clad proof that they were safeguarding information in accordance with our *agreements.
Clearly Hillary! was not protecting any of that information. And the Obama administration’s claim that she violated no law or regulation was a disgrace. Which is why I’d be irate if I were a foreign head of state.
Upthread I mentioned Sandy Berger. His defense at the time was that although he secreted classified documents out of the national archives in his pants and socks and brought them home, he didn’t compromise any information.
Taking classified documents out of a secure environment and bringing them home is the definition of compromise!
And what Hillary! did was untold times worse. The investigation into her wrongdoing would just be a formality. It’s a foregone conclusion. I despise Mike Morell, Obama’s lackey at the CIA, but he is correct about one thing. We have to assume that whatever emails Hillary! sent or received are in the hands of the Russians, the Chinese, and lord knows who else.
*I have experience with bilateral intelligence sharing agreements and I know what kind of promises must be made.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 1:47 pmNobody got anything wrong. This is media bias in overdrive.
http://www.politico.com//blogs/media/2015/07/new-york-times-alters-clinton-email-story-211176.html
The Democratic party operatives with bylines wouldn’t change a story about a criminal inquiry into a Republican candidate’s mishandling of classified information at the Republican candidate’s request.
Steve57 (7aa1f2) — 7/24/2015 @ 1:56 pmAs I said @18, not really. When you see videos of the Boston bombing or the planes crashing into the WTC or ISIS beheading a hostage or throwing gays off a building or crucifying people do you have any doubt you are witnessing a crime in progress?
The North Hollywood bank shootout in 1997 was probably the most covered bank robbery in history. Because, come on. LA. Hollywood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1452yvw5RA
When these guys come out of the bank shooting, do you have any doubt you’re witnessing a crime in progress?
By the same token, just based upon what the Clinton Crime Camp has said in response to their accusers, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that A) the accusers are right and B) Hillary! was committing a crime in plain sight.
They’ve been playing word games. Perhaps it has confused you, Jonny. The classified information was not marked as classified. As of course it could not have been if the information had to be discussed on Hillary!’s unencrypted home brew server. But refusing to mark classified information and mishandling it is not the same thing as declassifying that information.
Hillary! accomplished nothing as SecState. Along with all the rest of the fail she produced, she failed to invent a new category of information, previously unknown, which after Hillary! produced it then had to be classified.
No. She dealt with standard types of information that other SecStates had dealt with, and it was well known what level of protection that information was supposed to be afforded. And she simply ignored those requirements.
So now this post is up at NRO:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hillary-clinton-email-classified-inspector-general-investigation-ian-tuttle
First the State Department lie.
Then the destruction of that lie.
This is what I’ve been saying since this story broke. It’s what anyone familiar with the subject would say, Jonny. Because there’s a history to refer to. So, like with the North Hollywood shooting I’m watching a criminal commit a crime in broad daylight, admit to the crime, and the only question remaining is just how many crimes did this criminal commit, and which specific statutes has this criminal violated?
Steve57 (0412d7) — 7/24/2015 @ 8:29 pmI saw the 5th Estate, a tale of Assuange by one of his closest associates who turned on him, in it they illustrate one instance of a Libyan official, who was burned by Assuange, and State strives to exfiltrate him out, at the time, I didn’t know Hillary was right outside the scrutiny of this investigation,
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/24/2015 @ 8:37 pmhttp://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/07/at-this-point-it-might-make-a-difference.php
Which is what I’ve been saying since the story broke.
Right. It’s not a criminal referral. And I have Pacific beach front property to sell you in Nebraska.
Again, precisely what I’ve been saying since the story broke.
Not even a fake investigation can bury the wrongdoing, it is so obvious.
So if the Obamunists want to bury this, they’ll have to claim these allegations don’t warrant an investigation.
That’s the only way they can weather this, with a compliant media.
Steve57 (0412d7) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:23 pmwell they will probably have to discredit the IG, like they did with the one investigating Americorps, of
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/24/2015 @ 9:27 pmcourse the target of that investigation, returned the favor in that fulsome jeremiad re Donald Sterling,
Speaking of investigations, all I can say to the results of this one is GOOD!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3171086/Ex-deputy-indicted-no-knock-raid-injured-child.html
No doubt because the prosecutors were perfectly happy going to the judge to get a search warrant with information they knew to be false in the past.
Nikki Autry needs to be held to account for her false statements. But she didn’t throw that flashbang into an infant’s crib. There are more reckless scofflaws who need to be held to account for this crime, and I’d start with the Sheriff who decided he needed an assault team just a few months prior to blowing this child apart.
I’ve commented on this before. I’ve called the stun grenade an incendiary device. Technically that’s not accurate. They are not designed to set things on fire. But I believe my characterization is justifiable as these grenades contain just enough of an explosive charge to set things on fire under certain conditions. Such as when set off near flammable liquids like gasoline. Or small children in their cribs or playpens.
They’re not toys. They are not non-lethal weapons, they are less-lethal weapons. A few more of these people need be indicted.
Steve57 (0412d7) — 7/24/2015 @ 10:07 pmSteve. Re the raid. I had heard that the couple’s request for financial assistance with
Richard Aubrey (f6d8de) — 7/25/2015 @ 5:00 amthe kids medical bills was met with “eff you” from the city. Is that correct?
Has anything changed? Another question, as with the Kathleen Johnson raid in NOLA where
the elderly lady was shot to death; What is the incentive to deliberately raid a place
known not to have drugs? I mean, that’s why you fake the info, right?
The cops think they will find drugs. But either 1) their information does not meet the reliability standards for issuing a search warrant under the Fourth Amendment or 2) they do not want to burn their informant by revealing information only he knows. Or both. So they concoct a fake scenario on the affidavit. “Cops lie” should be part of the swearing-in ceremony of every judge, in my opinion.
nk (dbc370) — 7/25/2015 @ 5:21 amAnd Kathryn Johnston was Atlanta, too.
The NOLA case was Danzinger Bridge where the cops killed a mentally disabled man, among others, and framed his brother for it, and the federal prosecutors who finally convicted them found themselves O’Keefed.
nk (dbc370) — 7/25/2015 @ 5:27 amNobody knew there were no drugs. There could have been drugs. Everybody was hoping there would be drugs. From the informant who wanted to keep getting paid to to the Sheriff who wanted to justify his federal grant applications for more hardware because, look! See how often his assault teems have to break into gangland meth labs.
Who knows? There could have been drugs. Go in looking for a meth lab, and the residents are recreational users of pot. A few grams of something is something. And not finding drugs doesn’t mearn ta he peopele living there were clean. They just got away with it. This time.
Meanwhile the cops almost never suffer for screwing up and raiding into the wrong place. The cops were livid up here in my corner of Texas when a court ruled that a homeowner was justified in shooting a cop during a no knock raid. That the homeowner had no way of knowing the home invaders who rudely woke him up during the early morning hours were cops.
That’s the rare exception. Normally it’s kind of like panning for gold. It doesn’t cost you anything to try, and every once in a while you hit pay dirt.
Steve57 (0412d7) — 7/25/2015 @ 6:06 amWell, I suppose that, when I provide more ID to get allergy meds than progressives want to qualify to vote, I could be said to have “drugs” in my home.
Richard Aubrey (f6d8de) — 7/25/2015 @ 7:23 amI’m thinking…if you could get a couple of Claymores and put them under the doorsills….
Just finished “Picking Cotton” which reads like a gripping novel until the end when they get into, justifiably, the science of memory.
Then there’s this http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/man-wrongly-accused-of-rape-finally-released-from-prison/article/2568687 I should really/really not be on a jury.
So, anyway, did the city pick up the kid’s medical expenses?
Congrats to the judge in your corner of Texas. Were it not for the climate, I’d think of moving there.
Hillary lies. It is inconceivable to me that while using her own personal e-mail server, she “never” sent classified information. With as much as we depended on messaging while I was in the service (years ago now), we had to be constantly aware of what we were sending out to ensure that the proper classification level was assigned to the communication. And that was on a secure system.
If Hillary truly never sent classified info, then she couldn’t have been doing her job properly. For gosh sake, she was the Secretary of State. She was (or should have been) up to her eyebrows in classified topics, discussions, conversation threads and planning. That is part and parcel of what the job is. This entire “personal e-mail server” setup was a disaster waiting to happen. When she says she never sent classified info, SHE IS LYING and she knows it. And anybody who believes her isn’t smart enough to cross the street by themselves.
Bill M (906260) — 7/26/2015 @ 12:32 amI think the Clintons have seen the writing on the wall:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-25/furious-coal-ceo-lets-it-all-out-obama-nations-great-destroyer
DNF (208255) — 7/26/2015 @ 7:19 amNo, not really.
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/tip-of-the-iceburg-for-clinton-and-emails–491774019764
If I see you slapping around some kid running a lemonade stand and running off with the piggy bank, am I required to assume nothing wrong just happened?
That wouldn’t be quite as blatant as the crime Hillary! has been committing in broad daylight.
The whole story about how “there is no classified” is blowing up in her face.
She’s a woman of zero accomplishments. She didn’t discover or invent some new and never before seen subset of classified information.
She did what countless other dumb@$$es have done. She simply discussed classified information in an unclassified environment. And a lot of times you can get away with that.
Anyhoo, I am amused the the Democratic party’s front runner is not actually a registered Democrat.
Steve57 (20f7d7) — 7/28/2015 @ 12:50 pmhttp://legalinsurrection.com/2015/07/why-hillarys-classified-email-spillage-is-a-major-problem/
Somehow I don’t see this turning out well for the “Lyin’ @$$” of Tuzla.
Now that the “there is no classified information” defense has gone t**s up, and the follow-on
“it wasn’t classified at the time” defense has taken a torpedo amidships, Team Hillary! is getting extra creative. You won’t believe it.
She’s resorting to the “stupider than a bag of hammers” defense.
I’ve never seen that work. Even when the person who mishandled the classified information was, in fact, a complete bonehead. So, yeah, you stick with that, Hillary!
In addition to the fact it never works, it’s breathtaking that a candidate for the presidency would resort to it.
She was getting flamed on twitter for saying this:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/politics/hillary-clinton-gender-merits/index.html
Even people who despise her has much as I do couldn’t believe she said that. They couldn’t believe anyone could be that stupid.
Believe it.
Hillary!’s mere existence makes me more convinced than ever that there must be a God, he has a sense of humor, he’s a conservative, and he enjoys watching liberals debase themselves.
Steve57 (20f7d7) — 7/28/2015 @ 3:50 pmClinton should get at least what Tom Brady got today. And all he did was destroy his cell phone.
AZ Bob (7d2a2c) — 7/29/2015 @ 9:26 am