State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said.

As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The Washington Post.

State Department investigators began contacting the former officials about 18 months ago, after President Trump’s election, and then seemed to drop the effort before picking it up in August, officials said.

Senior State Department officials said that they are following standard protocol in an investigation that began during the latter days of the Obama administration and is nearing completion.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-dept-intensifies-email-probe-of-hillary-clintons-former-aides/2019/09/28/9f15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

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[riversedge]

1. My understanding is that State is gutted, yet they go after Hillary. my gawd. I feel

bad for Hillary. damn.

[still_one]

16. Hillary can deal with this abuse of power coming from this POS, on the other hand he is imploding

and like Pelosi said, trump will end up impeaching himself, and that process is well under way

[aquamarina]

2. Deflect, deflect, deflect

[iluvtennis]

21. Exactly.

[dchill]

32. Divert, distract, lie.

Another day in paradise. Another beer?

[yaesu]

3. the liddle hitler is striking out at everything, throwing a tantrum, giving his liddle hitler orders

[True Blue American]

51. And his liddle toadies

Are saying, Yes Sir, Yes Sir.

We knew from past experience that Barr was corrupt. I guess the Senate decided to forget.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Abuse of office, clearly another count on the indictment.

I wonder how many USG employers are tasked with 'making shit up'?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Why? What a waste of time.

HRC is a private citizen and out of political life. Leave her the fuck alone!

[certainot]

39. 1500 radio stations will blow this shit up again because dems continue to ignore the right's most

important weapon. and cannot claim they get her back

another eg of russian influence, just like ukraine - they feed 1500 radio stations, limbaugh blasts it out of 600 radio stations, half of which are endorsed by college and pro sports, and they all follow the same lead creating bullshit because liberals ignore talk radio

anita hill, clinton, blassey ford, next biden

all because liberals get a headache listening to it, and the dumfuck in the white house actually believes it

[SergeStorms]

41. And the Reagan administration......

got rid of the Fairness Doctrine so it could pave the way for right-wing propaganda 24/7. This is what that action wrought.

[certainot]

44. reagan destroyed the republican party!

democratic and progressive leadership helped by ignoring it, but it didn't have to happen this way. we've lost 30 years dealing with global warming and other major issues

[BootinUp]

6. Lame. Nt

[Hoyt]

7. That BS ain't gonna help trump. But they won't give up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Looky over there says Trump

That dead horse has to be pulp by now.

[DURHAM D]

9. Oh, didn't realize she is running for President again.

Actually, I think it is funny that they are wasting their time chasing her instead of planning their own defense.

Stupid works for me.

[monmouth4]

10. The thought of Hillary and Obama laughing at him is eating him up. He just won't have it!..n/t

[Stuart G]

11. Proof Trump is stupid....and stupid is what stupid is and Trump is indeed stupid!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Trump and the Republican party

[thenelm1]

42. Not just that, but....

From the lead:

"Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations."

Where in any court in the land (not polluted by Trump effluent) would charging someone with a crime for "retroactively classified" docs, i.e. classified after the fact, even be admissible? Total BS.

[jmowreader]

49. The term of art is "ex post facto"

[Optical.Catalyst]

43. This is a preemptive strike on Hilary's endorsement of our candidate

Hilary will naturally endorse who ever our nominee is, but in the mean time it looks like she may throw support to Warren. The Trump people are setting up to depreciate the value of Hillary's support.

[C Moon]

12. Probably because of what she said over the past couple days. She's probably smiling about now.

[SunSeeker]

13. They interviewed 130 people?! How many did they interview about Kavanaugh?

[rickyhall]

14. The bastard just can't let go, he knows she won the election

[Laurian]

15. Really?

JFC.

This after the shit that just came out?

Deflection and distraction, I guess. It seems to be their only strategy.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. They're STILL fucking that chicken, huh?

Wasting the taxpayers' money again.

[Maxheader]

18. So when does the next exodus take place?

As impeachment proceedings get started, I'm guessing at least half a dozen of cheetox's inner circle will hit the door,

running...

[central scrutinizer]

19. Time to focus on Obama's birth certificate again

And retroactively overturn the 2008 and 2012 elections

[Jim__]

20. Does he really plan on campaigning against Hillary's e-mails again?

Even his base has to be tired of that!

[a kennedy]

30. BECAUSE I AM SOOOOOOOOOO FAWKING TIRED OF THAT.....

[wishstar]

23. Some more excerpts from that article:

"A former senior U.S. official familiar with the email investigation described it as a way for Republicans “to keep the Clinton email issue alive.” The former official said the probe was “a way to tarnish a whole bunch of Democratic foreign policy people” and discourage if not prevent them from returning to government service.

The probe is being carried out by investigators from the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), have been pressing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to complete the review of classified information sent to Clinton’s private emails and report back to Congress.

State Department officials said they were bound by law to adjudicate any violations.

Former Obama administration officials, however, described the probe as a remarkably aggressive crackdown by an administration with its own troubled record of handling classified material. Trump has improperly disclosed classified information to foreign officials and used phones that national security officials warned were vulnerable to foreign surveillance, according to current and former officials."

[Me.]

26. Not To Mention HOw Javanka Have Handles EMails

[flibbitygiblets]

24. emails eh. Cool story Bro.

So. Much... Winning?

[ancianita]

25. It's called defense fabrication. It will never pass muster in courts.

[SCVDem]

27. If they have found nothing after years

of investigation and 10 hours of in-person testimony makes the repubs the most incompetant bunch of traitors or they are just making shit up..

I think both!

[Hal Zerozerozeronine]

28. Better we should reopen the Lincoln Assassination File

I mean, why would JWB throw away his acting career like that???

[Vinca]

29. Hillary is the ultimate distraction for the cult.

[paleotn]

31. Using the apparatus of the state against one's political enemies...

Highly illegal. But in for a penny, in for a pound I guess.

[cstanleytech]

33. I read someone higher up is pressuring the investigation to move faster but with the news over

Trump it makes sense now why as they are praying that there is something they can use to distract the public with.

[Rebl2]

34. Hopefully the

media is smart enough to realize what they are trying to do, but sad to say I have my doubts they are.

[mrsadm]

36. Washington Post has it on page 1 now

I am so disappointed they are contributing to the distraction!

State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton’s former aides -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-dept-intensifies-email-probe-of-hillary-clintons-former-aides/2019/09/28/9f15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

[DeminPennswoods]

35. Retroactively classified

What a joke.

[berni_mccoy]

37. WTF?! I thought they were all hot-n-bothered about Biden?

Now they’re going after Hillary instead?

Desperation.

[tclambert]

38. If Donald Trump were caught with his hand in the safe, wearing a black mask,

with the alarm bells ringing, he would say to the police surrounding him, "Why aren't you investigating Hillary's emails?"

[ffr]

40. This is awesome, as in awesomely stupid on behalf of tRump to once again use Fed. resources

for his own personal witch hunts.

He is the ring leader of the dumbest of keystone cops. Holy cow!

Add that one to the articles of impeachment. Would you like to go for a third?

[KPN]

45. How about doing something worthwhile ... like resigning you f'ing fat assed thug! That goes

for your ass kissers as well.

There -- I feel better.

[SWBTATTReg]

46. People are so sick and tired of emails and the like...I predict that this is a 'dead' issue by ...

the time it ever gets off the ground and something, if anything, ever comes out of this. These people are literally 10 years behind the times and have lost the media (rump trying to direct the media, instead, he's lost all control and I predict that efforts by repugs to redirect the media from rump and his illegal and ignorant and incompetent behaviors will fail miserably).

[Initech]

47. Oh go blow it out your ass, Trump. Your Clinton derangement syndrome is showing again.

[SpankMe]

48. This is, technically, an actual witch hunt

If you go through any subset of old, unclassified emails from DoD, State, DHS, CIA (or any other government department that handles classified information) and re-adjudicate each and every line in those unclass emails in the present day with a new set of eyes and with a tighter focus on the various applicable classification manuals in those areas, it is 100% certain that you'll find information that a new reviewer would judge as classified.

This will be the case with ANY set of emails, not just the ones that passed through Sec Clinton's inbox.

I'd like to see a randomly chosen set of a few thousand, three-year-old unclass emails reviewed from others who have nothing to do with Sec Clinton. The scope of "misclassification" will be about the same.

This focus on only emails that passed through Sec Clinton's inbox is nakedly selective.

[jmowreader]

50. I can read this two different ways

Most likely: Trump loves to be on the front page of the newspaper, but he really doesn’t like what’s being printed about him now. He needs to shift the narrative away from his criminality. A Hillary Email Probe has always worked before.

Less likely but still possible: Trump knows he’s going down. He’s going to try to put Hillary in prison as a parting shot to the Democratic majority.

[ramen]

52. oh, good, good..

this is obviously exactly what is needed right now, let's get to the bottom of this. it certainly can't be the saddest, weakest, most obsessive attempt to deflect from the garbage truck on fire that is the endless scandals and lawlessness of the current administration..