Clinton Directed Housekeeper to Print Classified Emails
Staff is staff, little people are interchangeable, eh, Marina? Security clearance be damned!
New York Post broke this story this morning:
Clinton directed her maid to print out classified materials
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government e-mails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, e-mails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material.
In fact, Marina Santos was called on so frequently to receive e-mails that she may hold the secrets to E-mailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would subpoena her and the equipment she used.
(snip)
Clinton would first receive highly sensitive e-mails from top aides at the State Department and then request that they, in turn, forward the messages and any attached documents to Santos to print out for her at the home. Among other things, Clinton requested Santos print out drafts of her speeches, confidential memos and “call sheets” — background information and talking points prepared for the secretary of state in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state.
Mind you this reporting is not from going through Wikileak-ed emails, this is from the pile just released Friday by the State Department in response to one of the Judicial Watch suits. It's worth clicking over to the article to see the handful of instances of references to having Marina print things out or go get information from the secure-line SCIF in the Clinton home.
Santos has not been interviewed by the FBI and the laptop and other machines she uses have not been searched, either.
Nope, I'm sure there's zero 'intent' here to mishandle information. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Here's the Fox News coverage of this story:
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I can already hear the denial from Camp Clinton
Despite their obsession with being politically correct, they'll claim that Marina couldn't read English, or if that doesn't fly, that she printed the e-mails and compiled lists without reading anything. If neither of those work, they'll ask why you hate women.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
And yet, this person is likely to be the next president.
What a world!
I see stiff drinks in our future.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Stiff drinks
We're going to a results-watch party on Tuesday. There will be an orange(-haired) cocktail, a red-(pantsuited) cocktail, and an "other" -- a classic dry martini. That'll be my beverage of choice.
Wonder how many I can handle before faceplanting?
Ugh...
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Holy Cow!
Hillary was sharing State Department business with everyone!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Clinton's version of transparency n/m
Not me, but then I am not on the need to know list like Chelsea
From Clinton Forwarded Daughter Email Chain Most Likely About Climate Talks (whitewashed headline):
Too bad the DNC can't see that (referring to the last paragraph).
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
The way the article reads to me,
people sending her emails knew somebody besides Clinton would be printing out the documents.
When are the countries around the world say, in unison, "The USA is too stupid and dangerous for us to befriend."
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That's not an interpretation - it's exactly what that says
Hard to get the brain around this level of hubris and idiocy and I don't even know what else to call it.
And it's not going to change the outcome of the election.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Uh oh...
I predict a dead maid in the not too distant future.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Not from anything SHE has done
If the bodies piled up out there ARE actually not coincidental, I believe what they tend to have in common is that they set out to cause harm to the Clintons. Santos has served loyally - not her fault her name got out. I suspect the attorneys will work hard to keep her sequestered and pre-empt testimony and inspection of her machines.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
I'm not saying it is...
I am saying is that it is reasonable to assume that the Clinton crime organization has a 'no witnesses' policy. : )
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
The most surprising aspect of this story is that it appears that
the FBI knew all about this. The maid was going into the secure area to pick up secure faxes! Directing someone you know who does not have a clearance to go get that info sure seems like "intent" to me. She's (HRC) directing a chain of events where an uncleared person doesn't just have theoretical access, like all the countless IT people, but has actual access to the physical classified product.
But this was fine with Comey? This doesn't reach the level of gross negligence? I honestly thought nothing about this fiasco could astonish me any further.
Aside from this - how is it that the most qualified, prepared, experienced future Leader of The Free World in history does not know how to print a document?
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
This is absolutely the worst security violation and the biggest
news in this story. Unbelievable that people in the both the FBI and State Department turn a blind eye to it.
This is simply astounding that this maid with not security clearance of any kind could have access to that room. One has to ask, what other types of highly secure communications equipment is in that room? That this maid could have access to the Presidential Daily Brief is mind boggling.
I can hear the maid in the morning.
Maid: Good morning Mrs. Clinton, here's your coffee. I checked the secure fax this morning and I think you'll want to read this Presidential Daily Breif.
Clinton: I don't have time to read that stupid report just tell me what it says!
Maid: It says some people in Bengazi were killed last night.
Clinton: Where's my breakfast?
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
But it doesn't matter
Putin's puppet (!), FBI Director Comey said so.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
But a couple days ago
Comey was Putin's puppet! I can't keep up!
All of r belong to Putin?
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Oh Jeeves! Just put this in the pumpkin in the garden, will you?
There's a good chap.
I think this might be the story that breaks through. The carelessness and negligence and hubris is beyond the pale.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
No telling
to whom the maid might have been sending copies, possibly without knowing she was doing so. Just saying.
Mary Bennett
I'm sure
the maid will be indicted. The FBI is on it!
Oh? Did I not read that
the FBI had been on it for weeks now?
Mary Bennett
what a farce
In normal times this person would face a long prison sentence. In our times, she is on the door step of the Presidency.
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
I sure hope Chaffetz and Gowdy have read this story!
I saw this last night right before I went to bed and figured this would be a big story when I got up this morning. I'm a bit surprised that every news agency in the country doesn't have this on their front page.
One has to ask, if this SCIF room contained a secure fax machine, what other communications equipment was in the room? One has to believe there is also a terminal or device that connects to the State Departments secure computer system so Hillary could communicate via secure means with the State Department. One would also believe that this room had some form of security access in the form of a bio-metric scan or at a minimum at least a freaking 10-key pad that required a code to be entered to access the room and a method of tracking entry and exit. Did Hillary give here access code to the maid? Or did the maid have her own? Did she have the access code to the secure device so she could print messages from the secure system. Did Clinton give her that access code?
Obviously, the maid had access to that room when Hillary wasn't there. She could have been sitting in there spending hours reading information on the secure terminal.
The most astounding part of this story is that it appears the FBI, nor anyone else, has interviewed the maid or asked to see her computer equipment to determine what information is on her devices. This is simply unbelievable!
If I were Chaffetz or Gowdy the next subpoena I issued would be addressed to one, Marina Santos with a notation at the top that reads, "You have some explaining to do!"
With the announcement by Comey that he won't be further investigating the email issues, I'm left to believe that the Department of Obstruction and Injustice has shut down this investigation with the full backing, if not orders, from Obama himself. Is it too late to impeach Obama for obstruction of justice?
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
I realized driving this afternoon that the FBI
had these emails before they went to State. So they knew about it first, and apparently are A-OK with it. Nothing to see.
It's never too late to impeach, I believe, but they're going to have to catch him in the act, and that's especially hard with a sitting president.
I'm betting Ms. Santos has been whisked out of the country, btw.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Exactly! The emails that prove this didn't come from Wikileaks
These are from the ones the State Department had. Huma Abedin talks about her retrieving and printing emails, secure faxes and who knows what else as if it is nothing unusual. Can you just imagine what would happen to someone not named Clinton in a case like this?
If I were Marina Santos I'd be contacting Chaffetz and Gowdy and asking if there is any way they can help protect her. I am truly stunned over this revelation!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
I just had to do a google search to see who was reporting this
Aside from Fox news and other right wing sites, it's being covered by no one in the US. But interestingly, there is an article from VNExpress, a Vietnam news site in Vietnamese and another in Spanish in Bolivia, and I only looked at the first page of results. Seems other parts of the world see this as a big story, but in the US, not so much. Apparently there are just some things the American public should not know!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush