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1As far as we can learn from history, the way Russia used the Watergate scandal can at least give us ideas as to how they think. It's often said active measures are meant, in part, to foment public distrust in the government, and that bears-out in Russia's targeting of anti-Vietnam war activists and their reporting on Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam, especially regarding documents like the Pentagon papers and the Huston plan (which helped tie all these together, among other things). But it's less often said how Russian intelligence make use of this distrust. Hersh's reporting shows, I think, a pretty clear effort to re-direct public outrage at the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon to the CIA. And this essentially gave people like Schlesinger, Colby, Angleton, Hersh, and Church cover to act in ways to pile-on the beat-down of the CIA: it gave an excuse for Schlesinger and Colby to collect the family jewels, Colby and Angleton a reason to act guilty and make the CIA look even worse, Hersh to continue reporting on the scandal for the public interest, Colby an excuse to confess to Church, the Pike Committee and its young "anti-war" staffers an excuse to attack U.S. intelligence agencies, and Colby and Congress an excuse to "lobotomize" the CIA. Manipulating public opinion by active measures can lead to policy changes that benefit Russian intelligence/hurt the U.S., in addition to (or enhancing) discrediting U.S. intelligence agencies and hiding their activities.
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3But maybe more important than that, the Watergate scandal and the ensuing U.S. intelligence scandals gave the KGB material to attempt to discredit the USIC for decades:
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6http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
7	...infowars.com ... globalresearch.ca ... consortiumnews.com ... opednews.com ... thirdworldtraveler.com ... lewrockwell.com ... washingtonsblog.com ... zerohedge.com...
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10https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President's_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States
11	The commission was created in response to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission issued a single report in 1975, touching upon certain CIA abuses including mail opening and surveillance of domestic dissident groups. It publicized Project MKUltra, a CIA mind control study.
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13	It also studied issues relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination, specifically the head snap as seen in the Zapruder film (first shown on television in 1975), and the possible presence of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis in Dallas, Texas.
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16http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/11/fake-news-cia-director-admitted-us-senate-400-agents-dictate-fake-news-manipulate-americans-rogue-state-empire-easily-documented-ongoing-corporate-media.html
17	...revealing 14-minute video, beginning with CIA Director Colby’s testimony to the US Senate for the 1975 Church Committee admitting the CIA directs corporate media how to lie to the American public
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19	...Fake News ‘covers’ crimes of US government assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin King
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21	3-minute video of Dan Rather’s fake news from November 25, 1963 to sell the lie that President Kennedy’s fatal head shot caused “violent forward motion” opposite to the fact his head was violently hit to cause backward motion (hat tip What Really Happened)
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23	...This is part of easily documented history of US rogue state assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy (and here) when he was poised to win the 1968 presidency, Martin King when he was poised to “Occupy DC” with a million people in the summer of ’68 until the Vietnam War was ended with those funds redirected to end domestic poverty, and ~100 other assassinations for political purposes. 
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26https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories
27	In 1977, the FBI released 40,000 files pertaining to the assassination of Kennedy, including an April 3, 1967 memorandum from Deputy Director Cartha DeLoach to Associate Director Clyde Tolson that was written less than a month after President Johnson learned from J. Edgar Hoover about CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro. The memorandum reads: "Marvin Watson [adviser to President Johnson] called me late last night and stated that the president had told him, in an off moment, that he was now convinced that there was a plot in connection with the [JFK] assassination. Watson stated the president felt that [the] CIA had had something to do with plot." Later, Cartha DeLoach testified to the Church Committee that he "felt this to be sheer speculation".
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30https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/jacob-hornberger/how-they-murdered-jfk-2/
31	The National-Security State’s Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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33	...Sure, we know how the feds treat people like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsey (Bradley) Manning, John Walker Lindh, and Edward Snowden. They arrest them, they torture them, they abuse them, they prosecute them, and they incarcerate them.
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35	And we also know how the CIA and the FBI viewed communist sympathizers during the Cold War, such as those in the U.S. Communist Party, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and, according to national-security state officials, even the American civil-rights movement. They spied on them, they harassed them, they prosecuted them, they blackmailed them, they incarcerated them, and they ruined them.
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37	But hey, Lee Harvey Oswald was different, right?
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39	...Neither the Warren Commission nor the Washington establishment considered Dulles’ appointment to be a conflict of interest because it never occurred to them that the CIA might have been the one who orchestrated and carried out the assassination. It wouldn’t be until the 1970s, during the Church Committee hearings and the House Select Committee hearings, that people would learn that the trust that the Warren Commission had placed in the CIA had been seriously misplaced.
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42http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-04/putin-hints-jfk-was-murdered-deep-state-which-now-after-trump-and-russia
43	Putin Hints JFK Was Murdered By The "Deep State" Which Is Now After Trump And Russia
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45	by Tyler Durden
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47	...But the most notable highlight of the interview was Putin's tongue in cheek hint that the Deep State - the same entity that may have been behind the Kennedy assassination according to the Russian president - is now behind the attempt to topple Trump and the ongoing push to sour ties with Russia:
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49		"There is a theory that Kennedy's assassination was arranged by the United States intelligence services. So if this theory is correct, and that can't be ruled out, then what could be easier in this day and age than using all the technical means at the disposal of the intelligence services and using those means to organize some attacks, and then pointing the finger at Russia." 
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52http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-14/putin-plays-soviet-classics-badly-tuned-piano-during-china-summit
53	Putin Plays Soviet Classics On Badly Tuned Piano During China Silk Road Summit
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55	by Tyler Durden
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57	...It was a departure for the president who, as the NYT put it, "has ridden shirtless on a horse in Siberia, piloted a hand glider with migratory birds, swum with dolphins, tossed judo opponents, and dived into the depths of Lake Baikal and the Black Sea." 
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60http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-31/buchanan-asks-putin-preeminent-statesman-our-times
61	Buchanan Asks "Is Putin The 'Preeminent Statesman' Of Our Times?"
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63	by Tyler Durden
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65	...Putin’s approval rating, after 17 years in power, exceeds that of any rival Western leader.
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68http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-10/how-putin-rolls
69	This Is How Putin Rolls
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71	by Tyler Durden
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74http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-27/quest-find-putins-billions
75	The Quest To Freeze "Putin's Billions"
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77	by Tyler Durden
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79	...Numbers are thrown around suggesting that Mr. Putin may control $40 billion or even $70 billion, in theory making him the richest head of state in world history.
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82http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-09-16/mega-putin-rich
83	Mega Putin Rich
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86http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-25/losers-malice-whats-behind-obamas-attacks-putin
87	A Loser's Malice: What's Behind Obama's Attacks On Putin
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89	by Tyler Durden
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91	...For Obama, it appears that everything has gotten personal. The US president often acts like a petulant adolescent, jealous of a high school rival.
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94http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book5/html/ChurchVol5_0004b.htm
95	Church Committee Reports
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97	Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President J.F.K.: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
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99	...In the days following the assassination of President Kennedy, nothing was more important to this country than to determine the facts of his death; no one single event has shaken the country more. Yet the evidence of the Committee has developed suggests that, for different reasons, both the CIA and the FBI failed in, or avoid carrying out, certain of their responsibilities in this matter.
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101	The Committee emphasizes that this Report's discussion of investigative deficiencies and the failure of American intelligence agencies to inform the Warren Commission of certain information does not lead to the conclusion that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
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104http://www.globalresearch.ca/jfk-at-100-kennedy-assassinated-by-a-conspiracy-between-the-cia-joint-chiefs-of-staff-and-secret-service/5592608
105	JFK at 100. “Kennedy Assassinated by a Conspiracy between the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service”
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107	...Researchers who spent years studying the evidence have concluded that President Kennedy was assassinated by a conspiracy between the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service. 
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110http://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-targeted-assassinations-by-induced-heart-attack-and-cancer/5326382
111	CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart Attack and Cancer
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113	The 1975 Church Committee hearings
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115	In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light.
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117	...There was little hesitancy in Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald in order to prevent him from talking, so there is no reason to suspect that any more consideration would have been shown Jack Ruby if he had posed a threat to people in the US government who had conspired to murder the president of the United States – John F Kennedy.
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119	...Mr. Charles Senseney, a CIA weapon developer at Fort Detrick, Maryland, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 1975 where he described an umbrella poison dart gun he had made. 
120	...Video footage of the assassination of John F Kennedy shows this umbrella gun being used in Dealey Plaza. 
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123https://www.infowars.com/cia-assassination-program-revealed-nothing-new-under-the-sun/
124	CIA Assassination Program Revealed: Nothing New Under the Sun
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126	...Mongoose operatives later worked with the CIA and the Mob to assassinate president John F. Kennedy.
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128	...As former CIA employee Ralph McGehee documents, the agency fine-tuned this mass murder program in Vietnam. Under Operation Phoenix, the U.S. “neutralized” 81,740 National Liberation Front of South Vietnam members, including the assassination of 26,369 people (a Church Committee Report in 1976 put the number killed at 20,000; see McGehee’s CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam)
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131http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Assassinations_page/The_Assassinations_JFK.html
132	The Church Committee also heard testimony from Smathers, who stated that once when it was brought up in his presence (presumably by the CIA-friendly Smathers), Kennedy got so mad he smashed a dinner plate and told him he did want to hear of such things again. (Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 124.) Smathers furthered this portrait later when he stated that:
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134		President Kennedy seemed "horrified" at the idea of political assassination. "I remember him saying that the CIA frequently did things he didn't know about, and he was unhappy about it. He complained that the CIA was almost autonomous. He told me he believed the CIA had arranged to have Diem and Trujillo bumped off. He was pretty well shocked about that. He thought it was a stupid thing to do, and he wanted to get control of what the CIA was doing." (The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond pp. 379-380)
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136	Such statements not only absolve Kennedy, they actually provide a motive for the CIA to get rid of him, which is probably why the media ignored them.
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139https://consortiumnews.com/tag/otis-pike?print=print-search
140	When the CIA’s Empire Struck Back
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142	Exclusive: In the mid-1970s, Rep. Otis Pike led a brave inquiry to rein in the excesses of the national security state. But the CIA and its defenders...
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145http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book5/html/ChurchVol5_0004b.htm
146	Church Committee Reports
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148	Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President J.F.K.: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
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150	...Findings
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152	The Committee emphasizes that it has not uncovered any evidence sufficient to justify a conclusion that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
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154	The Committee has, however, developed evidence which impeaches the process by which the intelligence agencies arrived at their own conclusions about the assassination, and by which they provided information to the Warren Commission. This evidence indicates that the investigation of the assassination was deficient and that facts which might have substantially affected the course or those individuals within the FBI and the CIA, as well as other agencies of Government, who were charged with investigating the assassination.
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156	The Committee has found that the FBI, the agency with primary responsibility in the matter, was ordered by Director Hoover and pressured by higher government officials, to conclude its investigation quickly.
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159https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/21/failed-investigations-of-jfks-murder/
160	“It must be said that the FBI generally exhausted its resources in confirming its case against Oswald as the lone assassin,” the HSCA concluded, “a case that Director J. Edgar Hoover, at least, seemed determined to make within 24 hours of the of the assassination.”
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162	In essence, the experienced investigators concluded that Hoover had divined the solution to the crime before starting the inquiry, and then his agents confirmed the boss’s epiphany. The intimidated Warren Commission went right along.
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164	...But they don’t tell that Hoover deployed one of his favorite dirty tricks to deal not only with support staffers, such as Willens and Mosk, but also with the commissioners themselves.
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166	...Thus, despite their clear misgivings, the Commissioners bowed to the imperious FBI chief rather than conduct a thorough investigation.
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169https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6h3cme/fbi_vault_drops_the_j_edgar_hoover_files_while/
170	FBI Vault drops the J. Edgar Hoover files while everyone is watching the Sessions testimony. Perhaps a hint that Comey knows all about the domestic spying?
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173https://vault.fbi.gov/j.-edgar-hoover-official-and-confidential-o-c-files
174	This posting consists of material that was previously posted on the FBI's original FOIA Reading Room web site and released in hard copy prior to that. It has been digitally enhanced to be more readable.
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177http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Who_Killed_JFK.html
178	Evidence of a cover-up
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180	The evidence that there was a cover-up is just as impressive as the evidence that there was a conspiracy in the first place. Here is a brief run-down, including a couple of points not mentioned above:
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182	...* Many more witnesses have died than would normally be expected, many in mysterious circumstances.
183	* Both the FBI and the CIA concealed important evidence from the Warren Commission....
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186 	...Who was involved?
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188	The Soviets
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190	Two related theories propose that Nikita Khrushchev, humiliated by the 1962 Missile Crisis, instigated the assassination.
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192	...But the Soviet theory raises more questions than it answers. Why would the USSR risk nuclear war to promote LBJ, a much more militant Cold Warrior than JFK? 
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195http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-14/will-cia-assassinate-trump-ron-paul-warns-more-powerful-shadow-government
196	Will The CIA Assassinate Trump? Ron Paul Warns Of "More Powerful, Shadow Government"
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198	...If President Trump takes his rogue populism too far, he will suffer the wrath of the same people who took out Kennedy… there are some things that are not tolerated by those who are really in charge.
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201https://www.infowars.com/33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/
202	33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know…
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204	...Kennedy Assassination – the 2nd Investigation by Congress Few People Know About, United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA): The HSCA was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA.
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206	...To this day, many conspiracy deniers are unaware that the Congressional investigation into JFK’s assassination concluded beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was a conspiracy.  What made them come to this conclusion?  Aside from reading the report, many witnesses (some of whom were CIA agents and station chiefs in Dallas that morning) were killed the night before testifying.  For example, George de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.  He also worked for the CIA.  He also blew his brains out the night before he was to testify to the committee. The committee also uncovered, among many things, that Oswald left the marines where he learned how to speak fluent Russian (at the height of the cold war).  He was given money by the State Department to travel to Russia where he stopped off in Japan at a top secret US Military facility.  The Warren Commission even mentioned this part.  What most people do not know is that he probably was working in the Cold War infiltrating the Russians as either a “dangle,” “double agent,” or “defector” of some kind. 
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209http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book5/html/ChurchVol5_0004b.htm
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212	Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President J.F.K.: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
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214	...The Committee has found that even with this narrow focus, the FBI investigation, as well as the CIA inquiry, was deficient on the specific question of the significance of Oswald's contacts with pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups for the many months before the assassination.
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217http://www.globalresearch.ca/william-pawley-the-kennedy-assassination-and-watergate-tilt-and-the-phase-three-story-of-clare-boothe-luce/5313486
218	And Carrozza speculates that the team of Cubans exfiltrated into Cuba for this purpose may have been the team that (according to a John Roselli story published by Jack Anderson) came “back to the United States as the team that killed President Kennedy and set up Oswald as the fall guy.”
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221https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/no_author/operation-mongoose-and-the-murder-of-jfk/
222	The JFK assassination, Cuba policy and Operation Mongoose
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224	...This period of US history proved to be toxic, with a poisonous legacy that is still felt today. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X followed. Race riots and the Vietnam War would lead to such civil unrest and turmoil that political leaders accelerated the passing of civil rights legislation and wound down the war. The era culminated in Watergate. The Church Committee, named after Senator Frank Church, would eventually be set up in order to investigate the actions of intelligence agencies and how events had spiralled so out of control. The revelations that followed of the FBI’s mass surveillance and wiretapping programme CountelPro and the CIA’s Executive Action programme (code-named ZR/RIFLE) were incendiary. The latter was the CIA’s assassination apparatus, which employed a strategy of plausible deniability in order that the executive could disavow responsibility in the event of exposure. It was directed against various foreign leaders. The Church Committee not only meticulously details the CIA’s failed plots on Castro’s life but also documents the involvement of the CIA with the Mafia in this common aim. The US public would never see their government institutions in the same way again. Faith in government began to crumble the moment those shots rang out in Dealey Plaza.
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226	Malcolm X was probably closer to the mark than he realized when he commented on the assassination that ‘the chickens had come home to roost’. He was referring to the climate of hate in the US at the time.
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229The Okhrana might figure that when it comes to informing the public of their clandestine activities, it will come down to their word (or the word of their plausibly deniable surrogates) versus the USIC's. Anything they can grab onto to convince the American public U.S. intelligence agencies can't be trusted is precious. The more Americans distrust their government, the more the Okhrana can get away with.
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231This is why, I think, the Okhrana has relied and will rely as much as possible on manipulating U.S. intelligence agencies into discrediting themselves. With the CIA Watergate scandals, Hersh did a lot to help, but it was arguably people within the U.S. Government and USIC that did most of the work: Schlesinger, Colby, Angleton, Pike, Church, and others (say, Kissinger). By the Okhrana's calculus, even "burning" a high-level mole to discredit and silence the USIC might be worth it: active measures relies on fooling an uninformed public, and hiding their own activities would be more useful to them overall than keeping tabs on others. And manufacturing a real scandal would have a lot more staying power than just badmouthing the CIA in tabloids and fake news sites.
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233So, returning to the original question of "what will they try this time?", I think for a few reasons they will once again try to use members of the intelligence community itself to drag U.S. intelligence agencies into another major scandal, although there are some major differences between now and Watergate. With Watergate, Russian propagandists tried to tie the USIC's activities to Vietnam, Nixon, and his unpopular policies (e.g. Hersh's reporting and the Huston plan made it look like the CIA was spying on activists for Nixon). Like Nixon, Trump distrusts U.S. intelligence agencies (and it looks like he reads Russian fake news and actually believes it):
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236http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article120497558.html
237	How dangerous is Trump’s rejection of daily intelligence briefings?
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239	President-elect Donald Trump’s weekend statement that he planned not to receive a daily intelligence briefing has exploded into controversy.
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241	Former U.S. intelligence officers, already feeling angst over some of Trump’s remarks disparaging their work, warned that skipping the daily briefing could leave Trump slow to recognize developing crises
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243	...Trump told Fox News in an interview aired Sunday that “very good people” are giving him periodic briefings but that he has delegated the daily briefing to Vice President-elect Mike Pence because he doesn’t need to hear “the same thing every day, every morning, same words.”
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245	...“You know, I’m like a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years,” Trump said.
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247	The remarks came two days after Trump’s office issued a blistering statement following news reports that the CIA had told legislators that Russian meddling before the Nov. 8 vote had been designed to sway the election in Trump’s favor.
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249	...Trump is not the first incoming U.S. leader in the past half century to back off from daily intelligence briefings. Richard Nixon, long hostile to the CIA, refused intelligence briefings during the transition following his 1968 election.
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252http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/president-elect_donald_trump_s_8.html
253	President-elect Donald Trump slams intelligence community over dossier, Hillary Clinton email probe
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255	President-elect Donald Trump continued to take aim at U.S. intelligence officials Friday, contending that they leaked an alleged Russian dossier and were "very nice" to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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257	...The president-elect reiterated his suggestion that the dossier was likely released by intelligence officials despite being unsubstantiated.
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259	"It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued ... Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS!" he tweeted. "Russia says nothing exists. Probably ... released by 'Intelligence' even knowing there is no proof, and never will be."
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262https://www.infowars.com/drudge-are-corrupt-us-intel-agencies-blackmailing-trump/
263	Drudge: “Are Corrupt US Intel Agencies Blackmailing Trump?”
264	Independent media kingpin thinks CIA may be using its 'own dirt'
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267https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/04/trump-retweet-drudge/
268	The President Of The United States Just Retweeted Drudge Report
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270		Donald J. Trump Retweeted	
271		DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT
272		RICE ORDERED SPY DOCS ON TRUMP?
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274		Former US Attorney: Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agen..
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276		'Tremendous abuse of the system'
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279	...President Donald Trump retweeted Drudge Report this morning, prompting mass triggering and hysteria on the left.
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282https://www.infowars.com/ex-cia-agent-evan-mcmullin-donald-trump-is-a-domestic-enemy/
283	Ex-CIA Agent Evan McMullin: Donald Trump is a “Domestic Enemy”
284	2016 presidential candidate sides with deep state coup
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287https://www.infowars.com/trump-tweets-infowars-liberals-go-into-meltdown/
288	Trump Tweets Infowars; Liberals Go Into Meltdown
289	Major butt-hurt after Republican frontrunner links to article about Muslims celebrating 9/11
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291		Donald J. Trump
292		@realdDonaldTrump
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294		I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY & @realDonaldTrump is RIGHT: MUSLIMS DID CELEBRATE ON 9/11 HERE! WE SAW IT! infowars.com/i-live-in-jers...
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297https://www.infowars.com/special-report-the-cia-threatens-trump/
298	Schumer Says Intel Agencies Could ‘Get Back At’ Trump Over Tweets
299	'You take on the intelligence community - they have 6 ways from Sunday at getting back at you'
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302https://www.infowars.com/cia-director-warns-trump-to-watch-what-he-says-be-careful-on-russia/
303	CIA director warns Trump to watch what he says, be careful on Russia
304	"What I do find outrageous is equating intelligence community with Nazi Germany"
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306	CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday had a stern parting message for Republican Donald Trump days before he assumes the U.S. presidency, cautioning him against loosening sanctions on Russia and warning him to watch what he says.
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309https://www.infowars.com/trump-asks-twitter-followers-if-outgoing-cia-boss-john-brennan-was-behind-russian-dirty-dossier-leak/
310	Trump Asks Twitter followers if outgoing CIA boss John Brennan was behind Russian dirty dossier leak
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312		Donald J. Trump
313		@realDonaldTrump
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315		@FoxNews "Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brenan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand." Oh really, couldn't do much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine, and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?
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318https://www.infowars.com/trump-fbi-is-totally-unable-to-stop-the-national-security-leakers/
319	Trump: “FBI Is Totally Unable to Stop the National Security Leakers”
320	President rips subversives in failing national security agency
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322		The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even……
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324		— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
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326		find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW
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328    		— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
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331https://www.infowars.com/report-trump-set-to-overhaul-politicized-intelligence-agencies/
332	Report: Trump Set To Overhaul ‘Politicized’ Intelligence Agencies
333	"They all need to be slimmed down"
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336http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334272-trump-told-russians-firing-nut-job-comey-eased-pressure-on-him-report
337	"I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to a report based on a summary of the meeting obtained by the Times. 
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340https://www.infowars.com/breaking-trump-has-been-planning-his-whole-life-to-take-down-nwo/
341	BREAKING: Trump Has Been Planning His Whole Life To Take Down [New World Order]
342	POTUS has been preparing for this battle for decades
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345But this time, it is widely reported that U.S. intelligence and President Trump are at odds. It wouldn't make sense to discredit the USIC by tying their activities to Trump's policies. Actually, Russia's propaganda plays-up the fight between the USIC and Trump, and often paints U.S. intelligence as some kind of rouge, all-powerful, all-evil global shadow network that ignores the American public and elected officials:
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348https://www.infowars.com/cnns-bash-admits-comey-memo-is-deep-state-revenge-against-trump/
349	CNN’s Bash Admits Comey Memo is “Deep State” Revenge Against Trump
350	They "know how to get back, even if you're the president"
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353https://www.infowars.com/breaking-deep-state-wants-war-with-russia-to-stop-trump/
354	Breaking: Deep State Wants War With Russia To Stop Trump
355	Global elite plan on causing worldwide mayhem defeat Trump
356
357	The deep state is pushing war with Russia seeing it as their only option to keep Donald Trump from reviving America.
358
359
360http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-19/deep-state-operatives-attempt-coup-detat-donald-trump
361	Deep State Operatives Attempt A Coup D'Etat Of Donald Trump
362
363	Presidential historian and author Doug Wead claims that the deep state, which has successfully overthrown the governments of foreign countries, is going to continue to actively seek a coup d’etat of the duly elected president of the United States.
364
365	If there was ever a time in history to be concerned about another rise in communism, now is that time. Wead says that the deep state is determined to overthrow Donald Trump. The presidential historian refused to mince words, saying:
366
367    		We have very skilled, talented professionals. They’ve overthrown governments in Vietnam and the Philippines, in Iraq and Iran, in Egypt, in the Ukraine. Duly elected democratic governments.
368
369    		They created what they called 'popular uprisings'...
370
371		Here we go, let's try this is America...
372
373		There's no going back."
374
375	Of course, we should expect nothing less from shadow governments. The very same people who work in the State Department, some of them in intelligence, and some of them in the media, have successfully caused uprisings in several other countries.
376
377
378http://observer.com/2016/08/did-nsa-try-to-destroy-hillary-clinton/
379	Did NSA Try to Destroy Hillary Clinton?
380
381	Allegations are circulating that the National Security Agency may be behind the massive hack of Hillary Clinton and her party
382
383	By John R. Schindler 
384
385	...However, possible NSA culpability has been floated by a far more reputable source recently, and it’s making waves.
386
387	In a recent radio interview, William Binney, a former NSA senior mathematician, stated that disgruntled American spies could be behind the hack of the DNC, adding that NSA is in possession of all of Hillary Clinton’s emails, including the more than 30,000 deleted by the Democratic presidential nominee and her staff in the EmailGate scandal. Let’s be clear: Bill Binney is no flake. ... He became a genuine whistleblower, attempting to raise Congressional awareness of what he viewed as disastrous decisions by NSA leadership. Binney paid a steep price for this, including having his security clearances revoked, causing substantial lost income, while his home was raided by the FBI—which ultimately found no wrongdoing.
388
389	This experience seems to have soured Binney, and since Snowden defected to Moscow in mid-2013, he’s gotten close to the Snowden-Wikileaks axis, which is under Vladimir Putin’s control. He’s not as measured as he used to be in his public comments about NSA...
390
391
392https://sputniknews.com/us/201605311040567328-loud-clear-binney-nsa/
393	William Binney: NSA Surveillance Takes a Page From Nazi Germany
394
395
396https://sputniknews.com/interviews/201602261035360348-fbi-defrauding-us-public-in-apple-feud/
397	Binney accused the government of “a power grab. It is the same fearmongering they did after 9/11 and with cybersecurity and so on. Make people afraid so that you can manipulate them any way you want and they’ll let you do anything that you tell them that you need to do in order to keep them safe.”
398
399
400https://www.rt.com/op-edge/370465-russia-hacking-claims-nsa-binney/
401	Binney said he thinks the accusation is political motivated. One argument has been a neo-con drive towards sustaining military budgets as the country moves from a “war on terror” toward a “new Cold War.”
402
403	“Certainly, that’s behind some of it. Hillary Clinton and a number of people were going that way, and certainly the military intelligence complex fosters that because that means for a “new Cold War” trillions of dollars going into the coffers of those people, they would certainly be advocates for this thing. There is a lot of vested interest to keep this kind of thing going,” Binney added.
404
405	Binney said Julian Assange has already said publicly it was not the Russians, but “a leaker inside.”
406
407	“If the CIA is alleging a different story, they need to produce the evidence like they did on the Chinese hack,” Binney said. “There is no reason to withhold this kind of information, especially if they can prove it and so far as I can see they won’t even brief the House Intelligence Committee on the evidence they are using to make this statement. That tells me that what they are saying is a pack of crap.”
408
409	“That are just concocting these things to support the existing administration and to also support the move toward a new Cold War.”
410
411
412http://www.globalresearch.ca/intelligence-officer-who-personally-met-the-democratic-email-leaker-confirms-leaker-is-with-american-intelligence-service-not-russia/5562153
413	We’ve repeatedly shown that it’s much more likely that American insiders – not Russian hackers – leaked the Clinton emails.
414
415	...Binney has previously explained to us that a Russian hack would have looked very different, and that he thought the hack may have been conducted by an NSA employee who was upset at Clinton’s careless handling of America’s most sensitive intelligence.
416
417	The former intelligence analyst, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and chancellor of the University of Dundee (Craig Murray) – who is close friends with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange – said he knows with 100% certainty that the Russians aren’t behind the leaks.
418
419
420http://observer.com/2016/08/did-nsa-try-to-destroy-hillary-clinton/
421	...It’s not difficult to determine why NSA might want to put a halt to Clinton’s presidential ambitions. The agency has viewed her with distaste for years, beginning with her antics as the newly appointed Secretary of State in early 2009, when her demands to disregard basic security regulations about her Blackberry raised the ire of the agency’s information assurance experts. Some at NSA saw the disaster of EmailGate developing, and were powerless to stop it.
422
423	...Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.
424
425
426http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-24/forget-new-world-order-heres-who-really-runs-world?page=1
427	Forget The New World Order, Here's Who Really Runs The World
428
429	For decades, extreme ideologies on both the left and the right have clashed over the conspiratorial concept of a shadowy secret government pulling the strings on the world’s heads of state and captains of industry.
430
431	The phrase New World Order is largely derided as a sophomoric conspiracy theory entertained by minds that lack the sophistication necessary to understand the nuances of geopolitics. But it turns out the core idea — one of deep and overarching collusion between Wall Street and government with a globalist agenda — is operational in what a number of insiders call the “Deep State.”
432
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434http://beforeitsnews.com/self-sufficiency/2015/11/new-world-order-2016-the-elites-nwo-agenda-is-almost-complete-martial-law-in-u-s-nov-2015-2497348.html
435	The CIA, NSA, DIA, and other much more secret entities within the national intelligence community both possess and have access to the most advanced monitoring technologies in the world. Since most of their employees are agents of Deep State first, and answerable to the American people second, they think nothing of “bugging” the POTUS.
436
437	...Key Point: The British Empire had various incentives for establishing its own Deep State with the chartering of the East India Company in 1600.  Likewise, so did all the other empires that came before to include the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire and Pharaonic dynasties of Egypt.  What is less known is that with each successive empire, the Deep State became considerably deeper and broader.  Given the US-UK Empire that currently stretches across the planet, it can be said that Deep State has never been so deep and pervasive, as it is highly proficient in the art of spying and science of surveillance.
438
439
440I believe this "fight" between the USIC and Trump and the idea of U.S. intelligence agencies going "rouge" would be a key part of any forthcoming plan to discredit the USIC. With Trump (and arguably the current U.S. Congress), the UISC faces a dilemma: how do they protect the American people from elected officials acting on behalf of the hostile foreign power (wittingly or otherwise) while respecting the principles of democracy, limited government, and the law? Our intelligences agencies have to walk a tight-rope: if they do too little, they fail to protect us from a major threat. If they screw up or do too much, it raises questions of our intelligences agencies overstepping their bounds.
441
442This question has been raised essentially in the Congressional hearings on Russia's activities, where some members of Congress skip talking about Russia to focus on leaks to the press from the intelligence community:
443
444
445https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/20/full-transcript-fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-on-russian-interference-in-2016-election/
446	GOWDY: ...FISA and other similar related counterterrorism programs have been described, even this morning, as vital, critical and indispensable to our national security. And many of us on both sides of the aisle believe FISA and similar counterterrorism programs prevent terrorist attacks and save American lives.
447
448	But FISA and other surveillance programs are intentionally designed to preserve the privacy of U.S. citizens. They are intentionally designed to ensure the information is collected and used only for legitimate national security and criminal investigative purposes.
449
450	...The way I view it, Director Comey, the American people have an agreement with their government. We are going to give you the tools to keep us safe, even if it infringes on our privacy Psalm (ph). We're going to give you the tools. And government in return promises to safeguard the privacy of U.S. citizens. And when that deal is broken, it jeopardizes American trust in the surveillance program.
451
452	So let me ask you, do you agree FISA is critical to our national security?
453
454	COMEY: I do.
455
456	GOWDY: Do you agree programs like FISA were intentionally designed to safeguard the identity of U.S. persons?
457
458	COMEY: Yes, there are other -- other important elements of it but that's a primary goal, I believe.
459
460	GOWDY: It wasn't an afterthought, it wasn't an accident. These are intentional safeguards that we put in place to protect U.S. citizens, is that correct?
461
462	COMEY: Correct.
463
464	GOWDY: Do you agree much of what is learned from these programs is classified or otherwise legally protected?
465
466	COMEY: All FISA applications review by the court collection by us pursuant to our FISA authority is classified.
467
468	GOWDY: The dissemination of which is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison?
469
470	COMEY: Sure, dissemination -- unauthorized dissemination. GOWDY: Unauthorized dissemination of classified or otherwise legally protected material punishable by a felony up to 10 years in federal prison.
471
472	COMEY: Yes. Yes, as it should be.
473
474	GOWDY: All right.
475
476	In January of this year, the Washington Post reported, according to a senior U.S. government official, a named U.S. citizen -- and I will not use the name -- a named U.S. citizen phoned the Russian ambassador several times on December 29.
477
478	In February of this year, the Washington Post reported nine, nine current and former officials who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the call, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters and that officials began pouring over intelligence reports, intercepted communications, and diplomatic cables.
479
480	In February of this year, the New York Times reported a U.S. citizen, whose name I will not use, discusses sanctions with the Russian ambassador in a phone call according to officials who have seen a transcript of the wiretapped conversation. And again in February of this year, the New York Times reported on a phone call involving a U.S. citizen including significant discussions of phone records, intercepted calls, intercepted communications, and reported the NSA captured calls and then asked the FBI to collect as much information as possible.
481
482	My time is up so I will say this for this round. I thought it was against the law to disseminate classified information. Is it?
483
484	COMEY: Yes, sir. It's a serious crime. I'm not going to comment on those particular articles because I don't want to, in any circumstance, compound a criminal act by confirming that it was classified information but in general, yes, it's a serious crime and it should be for the reasons you said.
485
486	GOWDY: We'll take it back up next round, Mr. Chairman.
487
488
489http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/24/gowdy-surveillance-programs-wont-be-reauthorized-until-unmasking-questions-answered
490	Gowdy: Surveillance Programs Won't Be Renewed Until 'Unmasking' Questions Answered
491
492	Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said this morning that key surveillance programs won't be reauthorized by Congress until questions about intelligence "unmasking" are answered. 
493
494
495(Also FWIW, Gowdy is suspicious for a lot of reasons, which could be the subject of their own write-up...
496
497
498https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/why-calls-impeachment-obama-are-inevitable/315338/
499	Why Calls for Impeachment of Obama Are Inevitable
500
501	Could what happened in Benghazi lead to an impeachment of the president?
502
503	John McCain, asked about the issue on ABC yesterday, said he didn't know "what level of scandal, unquote, this rises to," but that a "select committee" was needed to interview those involved.
504
505
506https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/doesnt-obama-owe-us-answers/2012/10/29/965da2fa-21d2-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_blog.html
507	SCHIEFFER: Well, I was just going to say, senator, you have called for declassifying the drone pictures. Apparently there were drone pictures. Why — have you seen those pictures, senator?
508
509	MCCAIN: No, I have not. But what I do know is, that those in the surveillance records from inside and around the consulate will show that there was no demonstration. The Turkish ambassador left his — the consulate and said good-bye to Chris Stevens at 8:30 at night. There was no demonstration.
510
511	So for literally days and days, they told the American people something that had no basis in fact whatsoever. And that is the president of the United States. And so, also, by the way, he said he immediately ordered action to be taken. Well, no action was taken over seven hours. Now we find out the secretary of Defense decided not to take any action.
512
513	You know, somebody the other day said to me this is as bad as Watergate. Well, nobody died in Watergate. But this is either a massive cover-up or incompetence that is not acceptable service to the American people.
514
515
516https:/www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
517	POMPEO: There was an e-mail that was from Mr. Blumenthal and (inaudible) before that, also discussing the same situation. Do you know who Mark Turrey (ph) is?
518
519	CLINTON: No, I don't recall that I know who that is.
520
521	POMPEO: He was a private trafficker in weapons. He was working with Mr. Stevens and attempting to develop an authorization with the State Department so that he could in fact deliver those weapons into Libya. Does that -- any of that ring a bell to you?
522
523	CLINTON: No, it does not.
524
525	POMPEO: So you never saw the e-mail that was from Mr. Stevens to -- I think it went to Mr. Sullivan, where he says to Mr. Turrey (ph), this is Mr. Stevens now, says to Mr. Turrey (ph): "Thank you for this information" -- this information about his attempts to get authority to ship arms into Libya. He says, "Thank you for this information. I'll keep it in mind and share it with my colleagues in Washington. Regards, Chris." Actually, "regards, Chris Stevens."
526
527	CLINTON: I -- I don't know anything about that specifically. 
528
529
530http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/marc-turi-libyan-rebels-hillary-clinton-229115
531	Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan weapons
532
533	Arms dealer had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qadhafi rebels.
534
535	The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.
536
537	Lawyers for the Justice Department on Monday filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi, whose lawyers also signed the motion.
538
539	The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.
540
541	...Representatives of the Justice Department, the White House and Clinton’s presidential campaign either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment on the case or the settlement.
542
543	Turi was indicted in 2014 on four felony counts: two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying to the State Department in official applications. The charges accused Turi of claiming that the weapons involved were destined for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, when the arms were actually intended to reach Libya.
544
545
546http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-house-benghazi-20141123-story.html
547	GOP panel on Benghazi finds no Obama administration wrongdoing 
548
549	...After the attacks, Republicans criticized the Obama administration and its then-secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016.
550
551
552https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/28/house-benghazi-report-reveals-little-new-information-about-hillary-clinton/
553	Rep. Trey Gowdy on Tuesday defended his committee’s lengthy and expansive Benghazi probe, saying that it was intended to reveal the facts and not to torpedo Hillary Clinton’s presidential chances.
554
555	The South Carolina Republican, a former federal prosecutor, insisted that former House speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and current speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) never “asked me to do anything about presidential politics” on the panel, which was formed in May 2014.
556
557	“My job is to report facts,” Gowdy told reporters. “You can draw whatever conclusions you want to draw.”
558
559	...Gowdy has said the email server was never a focus of his investigation, but the discovery has sparked several probes and dogged Clinton’s presidential bid.
560
561
562https://www.infowars.com/trey-gowdy-says-no-to-impeachment-have-you-met-joe-biden/
563	Trey Gowdy says no to impeachment: ‘Have you met Joe Biden?’
564	Cited a number of reasons why impeachment would be folly
565
566	Republican bulldog Rep. Trey Gowdy put the kibosh on the idea of impeaching President Obama during a nationally television Fox News interview, telling his broadcast audience that booting the commander-in-chief from his office would open the doors to something even worse —the ascension of Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
567
568
569http://www.nbcnews.com/id/37982175/ns/us_news-security/t/spy-case-us-russia-play-down-fallout/
570	The scandal over an alleged Russian spy ring erupted at an awkward time for a White House that has staked its foreign policy record on improved cooperation with Moscow, but it appeared unlikely to do lasting damage to U.S.-Russian relations.
571
572	The administration sought to dampen tensions, while the Russian government offered the conciliatory hope Tuesday that U.S. authorities would "show proper understanding, taking into account the positive character of the current stage of development of Russian-American relations."
573
574	The White House response was notably restrained following the dramatic announcement that 11 people assigned a decade or more to illegally infiltrate American society had been arrested. They are accused of using fake names and claims of U.S. citizenship to burrow into U.S. society and ferret out intelligence as Russian "illegals" — spies operating without diplomatic cover.
575
576	White House spokesman Robert Gibbs labored to show that the arrests were a law enforcement matter — one not driven by the president, even though President Barack Obama was informed — and played down any political consequences.
577
578	Obama was asked about the matter by reporters twice Tuesday. He declined to comment both times. 
579
580
581https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/three-white-house-officials-tied-to-files-shared-with-house-intelligence-chairman/2017/03/30/de4b8c30-1589-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html
582	The interview took place after the New York Times reported that the Obama White House, fearing the new administration would sweep it under the rug, had spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election. Farkas said, “I was urging my former colleagues and . . . the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”
583
584	“That’s why there were so many leaks,” said Farkas, now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
585
586	...Farkas, in an interview with The Post, said she “didn’t give anybody anything except advice,” was not a source for any stories and had nothing to leak. Noting that she left government in October 2015, she said, “I was just watching like anybody else, like a regular spectator” as initial reports of Russia contacts began to surface after the election.
587
588	As a former staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a former Defense official involved with Russian affairs, she said she “got worried” that the Obama White House was not briefing Congress on what it knew. “I know how the Russians operate,” she said, and called former colleagues to make sure Congress was being informed.
589
590
591http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/305065-obama-on-election-the-sun-will-rise-in-the-morning
592	Obama on election: 'The sun will rise in the morning'
593
594
595http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/16/technology/obama-us-vulnerable-to-hacking/
596	US more vulnerable to hacking than Russia, Obama says
597
598
599http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636
600	CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
601
602	Vice President Joe Biden told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd on Friday that “we’re sending a message” to Putin and that “it will be at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact.” 
603
604
605https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXUgqzXMvyQ
606	VP Joe Biden Says Russians Should have taken Rush Limbaugh in Spy Swap
607
608
609http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/23/house-oversight-no-russia-investigation-trey-gowdy-239904
610	Gowdy: Oversight panel won't pursue Russia, obstruction probes
611
612	His approach differs sharply from that of outgoing Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who is resigning at the end of June
613
614	Newly-elected House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy does not plan to investigate Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election or questions of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.)
615
616
617This is why the appearance of "fake Trump scandals" like Trump leaking the classified name of a city or Kushner wanting a Russian back-channel are important. Leaking classified information is illegal, no matter how important that information is for the public to know. But the American system is designed to stifle tyranny--if the President has abused his power, and that information is classified, leaking that information is in line with the spirit of the law, if not the letter of the law.
618
619But what if U.S. intelligence agencies leaked evidence of Presidential abuse of power that is misleading, even falsified? What if that information lead to the President's impeachment? The scandal would be spectacular--as would the stain on the intelligence community.
620
621This is what I believe Russian intelligence is planning next: creating a massive and mostly fake scandal, ostensibly to take down Trump, that will instead take down the mainstream media and U.S. intelligence agencies.
622
623Much of why I suspect this comes from taking a closer look at the actions of former FBI Director Comey. Recently, a lot of people have been pushing the idea that Trump should be impeached specifically for firing Comey. But an impeachment featuring Trump's word versus Comey's would be, to put it lightly, a political minefield.
624
625Part of this comes from Comey's strange affinity for the aforementioned dirty dossier, featured in his recent testimony. But maybe the biggest mine in the minefield is Comey's double-standard in his handling of Clinton's email case and Trump's obstruction of justice case. The gist of it is that Comey has set up himself and his word to be the linchpin of an impeachment case against Trump, while simultaneously setting up himself to be easily discredited in a highly politicized way, taking the case--and potentially the credibility of the USIC and mainstream media--down with him.
626
627On March 10, 2015, Secretary Clinton made the following pubic statements about her use of a private email server for State Department business:
628
629
630https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
631
632	Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that "it would have been probably smarter" to use two e-mail accounts during her time as secretary of state. Here is a complete transcript of her remarks.
633
634	...Now, I would be pleased to talk more about this important matter, but I know there have been questions about my email, so I want to address that directly, and then I will take a few questions from you.
635
636	There are four things I want the public to know.
637
638	First, when I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.
639
640	Looking back, it would've been better if I'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem like an issue.
641
642	Second, the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.
643
644	Third, after I left office, the State Department asked former secretaries of state for our assistance in providing copies of work- related emails from our personal accounts. I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totalled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them. We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work- related emails and deliver them to the State Department. At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails -- emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes.
645
646	No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.
647
648	Fourth, I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
649
650	I am very proud of the work that I and my colleagues and our public servants at the department did during my four years as secretary of state, and I look forward to people being able to see that for themselves.
651
652	Again, looking back, it would've been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts. I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously, it hasn't worked out that way.
653
654
655And also:
656
657
658https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
659	...I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.
660
661
662As it turns out, Clinton's statements were less than truthful. Lying to the public isn't illegal, but a person's lies can be used in court to show intent or guilt. When Comey declined to indict Clinton and later testified about his decision, he did a pretty bad job of taking that into account. Related to this, Comey also made some unusual decisions and statements about the case, which are illuminating as to his character and possible intentions. It's worth looking at in detail.
663
664
665Claim #1: Clinton never sent or received anything classified:
666
667
668https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
669	 March 10, 2015
670
671	QUESTION: Were you ever -- were you ever specifically briefed on the security implications of using -- using your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?
672
673	CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.
674
675	So I'm certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
676
677
678https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/us/politics/inquiry-is-sought-in-hillary-clinton-email-account.html
679	Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email
680
681	JULY 23, 2015
682
683	Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open an 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.
684
685	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.”
686
687
688http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-sen-bernie-sanders-gov-bobby-jindal/story?id=33383476
689	July 26, 2015 
690
691	CLINTON: I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
692
693
694http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hillary-clinton-emails-contained-info-above-top-secret-ig-n499886
695 	Jan 19 2016, 5:31 pm ET
696	Hillary Clinton Emails Held Info Beyond Top Secret: IG
697
698	Emails from Hillary Clinton’s home server contained information classified at levels higher than previously known, including a level meant to protect some of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence
699
700
701http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-top-secret-classification-218030
702	Clinton: Email classification changes 'nothing'
703	01/20/2016 
704
705	Hillary Clinton’s “top secret” email classification changes “nothing,” the former secretary of state said Wednesday.
706
707	“I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department, because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified”
708
709
710https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
711	JORDAN: And that first statement in March was not accurate. In March, you said no classified information was sent or received on your personal accounts. You later revised your statement and said no information marked classified was sent or received on your personal account.
712
713	And once again, your revised statement was after the inspector general for the intelligence community had examined your e-mails and determined that, yes, some indeed were classified.
714
715	CLINTON: There was nothing marked classified on my e-mails, either sent or received. And I want to respond...
716
717	JORDAN: You used the write term there. Used "marked". That's the one -- that's what you -- you used the revised statement there.
718
719	CLINTON: ...well -- but that's -- well, Congressman, there was a lot of confusion because many -- many Americans have no idea how the classification process works.
720
721
722https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
723	FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
724	
725	...CLINTON could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling of classified information.
726
727
728https://careers.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/What-Every-New-Employee-Needs-to-Know.pdf
729	THE ABC’S: What Every New Employee Needs to Know
730	June 2011
731
732	...Before new State Department employees (including PSC, WAE and new hire contract employees) can be issued a building pass indicating they hold a security clearance, they are required to attend a security briefing that reviews Department of State procedures for handling classified information.
733
734
735https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRC_NDAS/1/DOC_0C05833708/C05833708.pdf
736	CLASSIFIED INFORMATION NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
737
738	AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN	Hillary Rodham Clinton	AND THE UNITED STATES
739
740	...I hereby acknowledge that I have received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of classified information
741
742	...As used in this Agreement, classified information is marked or unmarked classified information
743
744	...I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of classified information by me could cause damage or irreparable injury to the United States
745
746	...I have been advised that any unauthorized disclosure of classified information by me may constitute a violation, or violations, of United States criminal laws, including the provisions of Sections 641, 793, 798, *952 and 1924, Title 18...
747
748	SIGNATURE: H R Clinton	DATE: 22-01-2009
749
750
751http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
752	DESANTIS: And of that top secret information you found, would somebody who is sophisticated in those matters, should it have been obvious to them that was sensitive information?
753
754	COMEY: Yes.
755
756	DESANTIS: So I guess my issue about knowledge of what you’re doing is, in order for Secretary Clinton to have access to top secret, SCI FBI information, didn’t she have to sign a form with the State Department acknowledging her duties and responsibilities under the law to safeguard this information?
757
758	COMEY: Yes. Anybody who gets access to SCI, Sensitive Compartmented Information would sign a read-in form that lays that out. I’m sure members of Congress have seen the same thing.
759
760	DESANTIS: And it stresses in that document and other training people would get, that there are certain requirements to handling certain levels of information. For example, a top secret document, that can’t even be on your secret system at the FBI, correct?
761
762	COMEY: Correct.
763
764	DESANTIS: So you have to follow certain guidelines. And I guess my question is, is she’s very sophisticated person, she did execute that document, correct?
765
766	COMEY: Yes.
767
768
769http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/22/hillary-clinton-appears-lecture-state-department-colleagues-cyber-security-email-server
770	A new video has surfaced that appears to show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recording a video warning her colleagues about the dangers of insufficient cyber security.
771
772	"Protecting our cyber infrastructure and digital networks has to be a matter of national security," Clinton says in the video.
773
774	"I think this is a responsibility we all share as Americans, but as state department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information."
775
776
777https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
778	CLINTON: ...And therefore I wanted to make it clear that there is a system within our government, certainly within the State Department...
779
780	JORDAN: (inaudible) one more question (inaudible).
781
782	CLINTON: ...where material that is thought to be classified is marked such, so that people have the opportunity to know how they are supposed to be handling those materials...
783
784	
785https://fam.state.gov/fam/05fam/05fam0480.html
786	Each portion of a document containing classified information, ordinarily a paragraph but including the subject line, headers, summaries, tables or graphics, must be marked to indicate its classification level, or that it is unclassified, by placing one of the parenthetical symbols listed below immediately preceding the portion to which it applies.  Subject line and header portion markings may appear after the text.
787
788	MARKING SYMBOLS
789	(TS) = Top Secret       (S) = Secret
790	(C) = Confidential     (SBU) = Sensitive But Unclassified     (U) = Unclassified
791
792	...Information marked with a classification level under this or predecessor orders should be considered classified at that level of classification despite the omission of other required markings.
793
794
795https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
796	JORDAN: I got -- I got one second.
797
798	CLINTON: ...and that's why it became clearer, I believe, to say that nothing was marked classified at the time I sent or received it.
799
800
801https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
802	After reviewing an email dated April 9, 2012, with subject line "Call to President Banda," CLINTON stated she did not remember the email specifically. When asked what the parenthetical "C" meant before a paragraph within the captioned email, CLINTON stated she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical documents.
803
804
805https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan29thWeb/O-2015-08637HCE10/DOC_0C05796118/C05796118.pdf
806	To: H
807	Cc: Huma Abedin
808	Subject: Call to President Banda
809
810	I'm sorry for the late email but we just received a call sheet for Malawi President Banda.
811
812	Are you open to taking this at 7:30am tomorrow? If so, we can reach out overnight. Otherwise, we will find other widows that work tomorrow for you.
813
814	This did not make it with the pouch but we can ask Marina to print this and her bio for you if a 7:30am call works for both you and President Banda.
815
816	The Secretary's Call Sheet for Malawi President Joyce Banda
817
818	(C) Purpose of Call: To offer condolences on the passing of President Mutharika and congratulate President Banda on her recent swearing in.
819
820	[REDACTED]
821
822
823https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
824	After reviewing an email dated [REDACTED] with subject line [REDACTED], CLINTON stated she did not remember the email specifically. ...CLINTON relayed State did the best they could while considering the "constant barrage of press" trying to confirm drone strikes. CLINTON stated [REDACTED] must have believed this email was "SBU" because that was how he marked it. CLINTON understood SBU to mean Sensitive But Unclassified.
825
826
827https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_NovWeb/267/DOC_0C05791537/C05791537.pdf
828	To: H
829
830	...(C) Purpose of Call: Join Special Envoy (JSE) Kofi Annan has requested...
831
832	- (SBU) Appreciation for Annan's role, Continued Support for U.N...
833
834	- (SBU) Solicit Annan's Views: [REDACTED]
835
836	- (SBU) (IF RAISED) UNSMIS Update: I was concerned to hear about the July 30 attack against a UNSMIS convoy, and...
837
838	- (SBU) Background: Kofi Annan was appointed UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy...
839
840
841http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
842	MEADOWS: So a reasonable person who has been a Senator, a Secretary of State, a First Lady, wouldn’t a reasonable person know that that was a classified marking? As a secretary of state, a reasonable person? That’s all I’m asking.
843
844	COMEY: Before this investigation, I probably would have said, yes. I’m not so sure. I don’t find it incredibly…
845
846	MEADOWS: Director Comey, come on.
847
848	I mean, I have only been here a few years and I understand the importance of those markings. So you’re suggesting that a long length of time that she had no idea what a classified marking would be? That’s your sworn testimony today?
849
850	COMEY: No, no, not that she would have no idea what a classified marking would be, but it’s an interesting question as to — the question about sophistication came up earlier — whether she was sophisticated enough to understand what a “c” means.
851
852	MEADOWS: So you’re saying the former Secretary of State is not sophisticated enough to understand a classified marking?
853
854	COMEY: That’s not what I said.
855
856	MEADOWS: That’s a huge statement.
857
858	COMEY: That’s not what I said. You asked me did I assume someone would know. Probably before the investigation, I would have, I’m not so sure of that answer any longer. I think it’s possible — possible that she didn’t understand what a “c” meant when she saw it in the body of the e-mail like that.
859
860	MEADOWS: After years in the Senate and Secretary of State, I mean, that’s hard for me and the American people to believe, Director Comey. And I’m not questioning your analysis of it, but wouldn’t a reasonable person think that someone who has the highest job of handling classified information would understand that?
861
862	COMEY: I think that’s the conclusion a reasonable person would draw. It may not be accurate…
863
864
865https://wikileaks.org/plusd/?qproject[]=cg&q=&s=%22-C-%22&qforigin=Secretary+of+State&qsort=tdesc#result
866	Date			Subject						From
867	Sun, 28 Feb 2010	(C) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON AFGHANISTAN'S E...	Secretary of State
868	Sun, 28 Feb 2010	SUBJECT: (U) KUDOS FOR UZBEKISTAN REPORTIN...	Secretary of State
869	Sun, 28 Feb 2010	(U) SUDAN: OIL AND WEALTH SHARING (C-AL9-0...	Secretary of State
870	Sun, 28 Feb 2010	(U) VIETNAM: KUDOS FOR TO HUY RUA REPORT (...	Secretary of State
871	Fri, 19 Feb 2010	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TR...	Secretary of State
872	Tue, 16 Feb 2010	(U) SUDAN AND REGIONAL ACTORS (C-AL9-02504...	Secretary of State
873	Tue, 16 Feb 2010	(U) KUDOS AND FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS FOR REPO...	Secretary of State
874	Tue, 16 Feb 2010	(C) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON NEW RUSSIAN AMB...	Secretary of State
875	Tue, 16 Feb 2010	(U) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: AZERBAIJANI L...	Secretary of State
876	Fri, 29 Jan 2010	(S/REL UK) ARGENTINE REACTION TO POTENTIAL...	Secretary of State
877	Fri, 29 Jan 2010	(U) CHINA: POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY GR...	Secretary of State
878	Fri, 29 Jan 2010	(C) CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN (C-...	Secretary of State
879	Thu, 28 Jan 2010	(U) COSTA RICA FEBRUARY 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ...	Secretary of State
880	Thu, 28 Jan 2010	(SBU) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON MALTA LEA...	Secretary of State
881	Thu, 28 Jan 2010	(SBU) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PORTUGAL'...	Secretary of State
882	Thu, 28 Jan 2010	(C) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON ITALY-RUSSI...	Secretary of State
883	Thu, 28 Jan 2010	(C) CHINA: RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN (C-A...	Secretary of State
884	Fri, 22 Jan 2010	(C) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON TURKISH DEP...	Secretary of State
885	Fri, 22 Jan 2010	(C) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON THE POLITIC...	Secretary of State
886	Fri, 22 Jan 2010	(C/NF) KUDOS AND FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS FOR B...	Secretary of State
887
888
889http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
890	BUCK: And there is no doubt about those two elements. Now I don’t know whether the next element is one element or two, but it talks about knowingly removed such materials without authority and with the intent to retain such material at an unauthorized location.
891
892	So I’m going to treat those as two separate parts of the intent element. First of all, do you see the word “willfully” anywhere in this statute?
893
894	COMEY: I don’t.
895
896	BUCK: And that would indicate to you that there is a lower threshold for intent?
897
898	COMEY: No, it wouldn’t.
899
900	BUCK: Why?
901
902	COMEY: Because we often — as I understand, the Justice Department’s practice and judicial practice will impute to any criminal statute at that level with a knowingly also requirement that you know that you’re involved in criminal activity of some sort. A general mens rea requirement.
903
904
905https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
906	BROOKS: ...so then when your compound took a second attack on June 6th, when a bomb blew a wall through the compound then, no e-mails, no e-mails at all. But I am interested in knowing who were you meeting with, who were you huddling with, how were you informed about those things? Because there is nothing in the e-mails that talks about two significant attacks on our compounds in 2012. There was a lot of information in 2011 about issues and security posture and yet nothing in 2012.
907
908	CLINTON: Well, I'd be happy to explain. Every morning when I arrived at the State Department, usually between 8:00 and 8:30, I had a personal one-on-one briefing from the representative of the Central Intelligence Agency who shared with me the highest level of classified information that I was to be aware of on a daily basis.
909
910	...During the day, I received hundreds of pages of memos, many of them classified, some of them so top secret they were brought into my office in a locked briefcase that I had to read and immediately return to the courier. 
911
912
913https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
914	CLINTON did not have any conversations regarding procedures if any potentially classified information was discovered during the review of her emails because she had no reason to believe classified information would be found in her email account.
915
916
917https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan29thWeb/O-2015-08640HCE10/DOC_0C05794417/C05794417.pdf
918	From: Sullivan, Jacob J [mailto:SullivanJJ@state.gov]
919	To: H
920
921	This is pretty interesting. This is CSCC proving its mettle.
922
923
924	From: H <hrod17@clintonemail.com>
925	To: 'sullivanjj@state.gov'
926	Cc: 'reinesp@state.gov'
927
928	If not classified or otherwise inappropriate, can you send to the NYTimes reporters who interviewed me today? Copying Philippe.
929
930
931https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
932	pg 20
933
934	When asked of her knowledge regarding TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFIDENTIAL classification levels of USG information, Clinton responded that she did not pay attention to the "level" of classification and took all classified information seriously.
935
936
937https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
938	After reviewing an email dated June 17, 2011, with subject line [REDACTED], CLINTON stated she did not remember the email specifically. CLINTON stated a "nonpaper" was a document with no official heading, or identifying marks of any kind, that can not be attributed to the US Government. ...When viewing the displayed email, CLINTON believed she was asking SULLIVAN to remove the State letterhead and provide unclassified talking points. CLINTON stated she had no intention to remove classification markings. CLINTON had no recollection of actually receiving a "nonpaper" or a secure fax in this instance. [REDACTED] talking points are typically classified, but CLINTON did not recall in this instance.
939
940
941https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_SeptemberWeb/O-2015-08632-172/DOC_0C05781205/C05781205.pdf
942	Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:49 AM
943	To: H
944	
945	...Also, we got word that Lavrov is travelling tomorrow and hasn't indicated whether or not he will be able to talk tomorrow morning. And still no work from Al-Faisal. Ops is still trying on both--and I'll keep you apprised of any updates.
946
947
948https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan7thWeb/O-2015-08635-JAN7-2/DOC_0C05787519/C05787519.pdf
949	From: Sullivan, Jacob J [mailto:SullivanJJ@state.gov]
950	Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 05:51 PM
951	To: H
952	Subject: Fw: [REDACTED]
953
954	You'll get the tps this eve. They're coming together.
955
956
957https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_OctWeb/220/DOC_0C05787515/C05787515.pdf
958	Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 08:50 PM
959	To: H
960	Subject: Calls
961
962	Ms-
963	Huma asked me to set up these 2 calls for you tomorrow morning (after your 730 am saakashvilli call)
964
965	...Also, we've been unable to lock in lavrov and al-faisal. Will keep you posted on any developments there, too (although it seems unlikely for tomorrow morning).
966
967
968https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_OctWeb/220/DOC_0C05787515/C05787515.pdf
969	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 06:02 AM
970	To: H
971	Subject: Re: Calls
972
973	Lavrov is locked in for 8am this morning. Still waiting for an update on the 2 sudan calls. Will keep you posted.
974
975
976https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_DecWeb/O-2015-08632-DEC/DOC_0C05781255/C05781255.pdf	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 7:36 AM
977	To: H
978	Subject: Lavrov additional points
979
980	Alice asked that I pass along to you these additional points for lavrov:
981	A couple of updates regarding the Lavrov call:
982
983	- Libya: Russian Special Envoy Margelov was in Tripoli yesterday, where he met senior officials (but not Qadhafi), who confirmed that Qadhafi insists on remaining in the country. PM Mahmudi, in a two-hour press conference with journalists, said Qadhafi's departure was a "red-line" for the regime.
984	1267: In NY yesterday, our teams reached agreement on a text, [REDACTED]...
985
986
987https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan7thWeb/O-2015-08635-JAN7-2/DOC_0C05787519/C05787519.pdf
988	From: H [mailto:HDR22@clintonemail.com]
989	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 07:52 AM
990	To: Sullivan, Jacob J
991	Subject: Re: [REDACTED]
992
993	I didn't get the TPs yet.
994
995
996	From: Sullivan, Jacob J
997	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 08:00 PM
998	To: 'HDR22@clintonemail.com' <HDR22@clintonemail.com>
999	Subject: Re: [REDACTED]
1000
1001	?!!! Checking
1002
1003	
1004	From: Sullivan Jacob J [mailto:SullivanJJ@state.gov]
1005	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 08:17 AM
1006	To: H
1007	Subject Re: [REDACTED]
1008
1009	They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it.
1010
1011
1012	From: H <hrod17@clintonemail.com>
1013	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 08:21 AM
1014	To: 'sullivanjj@state.gov' 
1015	Subject: Re: [REDACTED]
1016
1017	If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.
1018
1019
1020https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_DecWeb/O-2015-08635-DEC/DOC_0C05787582/C05787582.pdf
1021	From: H <hrod17@clintonemail.com>
1022	Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:14 PM
1023	To: 'sullivanjj@state.gov'
1024
1025	Cardin said he'd be happy to see Phil and Mike as soon as possible and was pleased to hear both we and, to a limited extent, Russia had taken some actions as I described from the tps.
1026
1027
1028http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1029	CHAFFETZ: So Hillary Clinton sends to Jake Sullivan, Jake — well let me go back, Jake Sullivan says they say they had issues sending secure fax, they’re working on it. Hillary Clinton sends to Jake Sullivan, if they can’t, turn into non-paper with no identifying heading and send non-secure. So you’re telling me it’s a classified piece of information, she’s taking off the header and she’s instructing them to send it in a non-secure format. Is that not intent?
1030
1031	COMEY: Well that actually caught my attention when I first saw it and what she explained to us in her interview was, and other witnesses too as well, is what she meant by that is make it into a non-classified document, that’s what a non-paper is in their world, and send it to us because I don’t need the classified stuff I just need the…
1032
1033	CHAFFETZ: Then why take off the heading if it’s going to be turned into a non-classified document, why take off the heading?
1034
1035	COMEY: I assume because it would be non-classified anymore so you wouldn’t have a classified header on it. Because what she said during her interview…
1036
1037
1038http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1039	MEADOWS: All right.
1040
1041	So let me in the last little portion of this, in your three and a half-hour interview on Saturday, did she contradict some of these public statements in private? Because you said she didn’t lie to the FBI, but it’s apparent that she lied to the American people. So did she change her statements in that sworn testimony with you last Saturday?
1042
1043	COMEY: I haven’t gone through that to parse that…
1044
1045
1046http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1047	MICA: ...I have questions about how this came down. Did you personally interview the secretary on Saturday morning?
1048
1049	COMEY: I didn’t personally, no.
1050
1051	MICA: How many agents did?
1052
1053	COMEY: I think we had five or six.
1054
1055	MICA: Did you talk to all of those agents after the interview?
1056
1057	COMEY: I did not speak to all of them, no.
1058
1059	...MICA: ...But all of the agents, did they meet with you and then is that the group that said that we all vote to not recommend prosecution?
1060
1061	COMEY: I did not meet with all of the agents. I’ve met with — I guess I’ve — I’ve met with all of them…
1062
1063
1064http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1065	DESJARLAIS: OK. Do you know, in reading the review or the summary, did they ask Hillary Clinton about her comment that she had never sent or received classified information over private e-mail?
1066
1067	COMEY: I think so, but I can’t — I can’t remember specifically.
1068
1069	DESJARLAIS: OK.
1070
1071	COMEY: It’s a very long, 302. I’d have to check and then get back to you.
1072
1073	DESJARLAIS: OK. And we’ll get access to that.
1074
1075	Do you know if they asked her when she said that there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails sent or received?
1076
1077	COMEY: Same answer. I’m not sure.
1078
1079
1080http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1081	MULVANEY: Thank you gentleman. Director Comey, earlier today you heard a long list of statements that Ms. Clinton has made previously, both to the public and to Congress that were not factually accurate.
1082
1083	I think you went down the whole long list. When she met with you folks on Saturday last week, I take it she didn’t say the same things at that interview?
1084
1085	COMEY: I’m not equipped sitting here without the 302 in front of me to answer in that broad…
1086
1087	MULVANEY: But it’s your — it’s your testimony…
1088
1089
1090http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1091	...CHAFFETZ: Because she wanted to be technically correct, is that what you’re saying, that you’re…
1092
1093	COMEY: No, I think what she said during the interview is I was telling him in essence, send the unclassified document, take the header off, turn it into a non-paper, which is a term I had never heard before but I’m told by people I credit that in diplomatic circles something we can pass to another government…
1094
1095	CHAFFETZ: You are very generous in your accepting of that.
1096
1097
1098http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1099	GOWDY: Thank you Doctor Gosar. Director Comey, I want to go back to the issue of intent for just a second. We could disagree on whether or not it’s an element of the offense, let’s assume for the sake of argument, that you’re right and I’m wrong and that it is an element of the offense.
1100
1101	Secretary Clinton said that she was, “Well aware of classification requirements”. Those are her words, not mine and not yours. So if she were, “Well aware of classification requirements”, how did that impact your analysis of her intent? Because I’ve heard you this morning, describe her as being less than sophisticated. She disagrees with that.
1102
1103	COMEY: Well, I was talking about technical sophistication. The question is, I would hope everybody who works in the Government is aware of classification requirements...
1104
1105
1106https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
1107	CLINTON was aware she was an Original Classification Authority (OCA) at State. CLINTON could not recall how often she used this authority 
1108
1109
1110http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1111	 ...[COMEY:] The question then is, if you mishandle classified information, when you did that thing, did you know you were doing something that was unlawful? That’s the intent question.
1112
1113
1114http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/15/source-fbi-probe-clinton-email-focused-on-gross-negligence-provision.html
1115	Source: FBI probe of Clinton email focused on ‘gross negligence’ provision
1116
1117	...Under 18 USC 793 subsection F...
1118
1119
1120https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
1121	18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
1122
1123	...(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody...
1124
1125
1126https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
1127	POMPEO: ...One -- you talked earlier about Mr. Katala (ph), who is sitting in a prison cell not too far from where you and I are sitting here this evening. I, too, share your view that I'm glad that we've pulled one of the terrorists who murdered -- was involved in the murder of U.S. government people on that night.
1128
1129	When that attack took place, Mr. Katala (ph), according to the indictment from the Justice Department, Mr. Katala (ph) and his folks removed documents from the temporary mission facility. Were you aware of that?
1130
1131	CLINTON: Yes, we later became aware that documents had been removed, but there was no classified documents at Benghazi.
1132
1133	POMPEO: And how do you know that?
1134
1135	CLINTON: We know it through our own investigation about what documents were at Benghazi, and there were no classified materials, to the best of our information.
1136
1137	POMPEO: Yes, ma'am. Do you know if there was sensitive information?
1138
1139	CLINTON: I suppose it depends on what one thinks of as sensitive information. There was information there and some of it was burnt, either wholly or partially. Some of it was looted. And some of it was recovered eventually.
1140
1141	POMPEO: Madam Secretary, do you know where that material that was looted went? Do you know into whose hands it fell? And do you know the nature and contents of that material? You seem very confident it wasn't classified. I don't share your confidence. But nonetheless, do you know where that material went?
1142
1143	CLINTON: I think that it -- it is very difficult to know where it ended up. But I want to just reiterate the point that I made. This was not a facility that had the capacity to handle classified material. And there was, to the best of our information, Congressman, no classified material at the Benghazi facility.
1144
1145	POMPEO: Ma'am, the fact that it wasn't capable of handling classified material doesn't mean that there wasn't any classified material there. Is that correct?
1146
1147	CLINTON: Well, the procedure is not to have classified material at such a facility. And again, to the best of our knowledge, there was not any there.
1148
1149	POMPEO: Yes, ma'am. You're not supposed to have classified e- mail on your private server either.
1150
1151	CLINTON: And I did not, Congressman.
1152
1153
1154http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1155	WALKER: ...can you help me understand why didn’t it rise to your investigation or someone bringing that to your knowledge as far as saying this is a problem, here she is, again, Secretary Clinton lying under oath specifically about our investigation?
1156
1157	COMEY: We out of respect for the legislative branch being a separate branch, we do not commence investigations that focus on activities before Congress without Congress asking us...
1158
1159	...CHAFFETZ: You did not look at testimony that Hillary Clinton gave in the United State Congress, both the House and the Senate.
1160
1161	COMEY: To see whether it was precarious in some respect?
1162
1163	CHAFFETZ: Yes.
1164
1165	COMEY: No we did not.
1166
1167	CHAFFETZ: Did you review and look at those transcripts as to the intent of your recommendation.
1168
1169	COMEY: I’m sure my folks did. I did not.
1170
1171
1172http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1173	GOWDY: False exculpatory statements, they are used for what?
1174
1175	COMEY: Either for the — a substantive prosecution or for evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.
1176
1177	GOWDY: Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right? Is that right?
1178
1179	COMEY: Right.
1180
1181
1182http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/18/sotu.01.html
1183	TAPPER: The inspector general of the intelligence community said some of this stuff contained classified information when it was generated whether or not it was marked classify.
1184
1185	CLINTON: Well, that is just a very strong difference of opinion. The State Department does not agree with that. And it is almost an impossible standard because we had two separate systems.
1186
1187	We had the unclassified systems, so anybody who was on the unclassified system with the State Department would only be able to tell if something were classified if it were marked classified. We dealt with classified information on a totally different system. Nobody had access to that from an unclassified device. So, I think a lot of this is being a public display of the very common arguments that go on between different agencies and our government. This happens every time there is a Freedom of Information Act request. If something is going to be made public that was not classified at the time, maybe something has happened years later that there's a case and so now it's sensitive information. That's what's going on here. 
1188
1189
1190https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1191	pg 20
1192
1193	FBI and USIC classification reviews identified 81 e-mail chains containing approximately 193 individual e-mail exchanges that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the e-emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton's personal server. Of the 81 e-mail chains classified at the time of transmittal, 68 remain classified.
1194
1195	...The 81 classified e-mail chains contained 8-email chains classified TOP SECRET, 37 e-mail chains classified SECRET ...7 e-mail chains contained information associated with a Special Access Program (SAP) and 3 e-mail chains contained Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
1196
1197
1198http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1199	DAVID MUIR: But North Korea's nuclear program? Wouldn't that be classified?
1200
1201	HILLARY CLINTON: There's a lot of public information about their nuclear program. I don't know the specifics about the one that they are claiming is classified. I can only repeat what happens to be the case-- that I did not send nor receive information that was marked classified at the time that it was sent or received. 
1202
1203
1204https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1205	pg 123
1206
1207	[REDACTED] was asked to review an email [REDACTED] with subject line [REDACTED]. Upon reviewing the email, [REDACTED] commented "wow... I don't recall this email chain... I'm surprised to see it and prefer not to comment."
1208
1209	[REDACTED] was subsequently asked to review several other emails. ...Upon reviewing each document, [REDACTED] again indicated that he did not want to comment.
1210
1211	...While being escorted to the elevator by SA [REDACTED], [REDACTED] stated he recently read a news article about the investigation into Secretary CLINTON's personal email server that opined that most of the classified documents were over classified. However, [REDACTED] stated that after seeing the above referenced documents, he now understood why people were concerned about this matter.
1212
1213
1214http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/06/cnr.01.html
1215	MITCHELL: Any indication that your private server was hacked by foreign hackers?
1216
1217	CLINTON: No, not at all. 
1218
1219
1220https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_OctWeb/223/DOC_0C05787240/C05787240.pdf
1221	From: Neera Tanden
1222	Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 02:55 PM
1223	To: H
1224	Subject: Exclusively For You
1225
1226	Look what I've found http://snipurl.com/1szq63 Here is a very nice offer. Enjoy!
1227
1228
1229	From: H  <hrod17@clintonemail.com>
1230	Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:37 PM
1231	Subject Fw: Exclusively For You
1232
1233	Neera-did you send me this? If not, I think your email address book has been hacked. If so, Why? Anyway, hope you're well.
1234
1235
1236https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1237	pg 31
1238
1239	Abedin sent an e-mail to [REDACTED] indicating Clinton was worried "someone [was] hacking into her email"
1240
1241
1242https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1243	pg 29
1244
1245	On January 9, 2011, Cooper sent Abedin an e-mail stating someone was attempting to "hack" the server, prompting him to shut it down. Copper sent Abedin another e-mail later the same day stating he had to reboot the server again.
1246
1247
1248https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1249	QUESTION: ...This wasn't Gmail or Yahoo or something. This was a server that you owned. Is that appropriate? Is it -- was there any precedent for it?
1250
1251	CLINTON: Well, the system we used was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.
1252
1253
1254http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1255	BLUM: Director Comey, are you implying in that statement that the private e-mail servers of Secretary Clinton’s were perhaps less secure than a Gmail account that is used for free by a billion people around this planet?
1256
1257	COMEY: Yes.
1258
1259
1260https://apnews.com/467ff78858bf4dde8db21677deeff101/only-ap-clinton-server-ran-software-risked-hacking
1261	AP Exclusive: Clinton email server setup risked intrusions
1262
1263	The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers while using software that could have been exploited
1264
1265	...wasn’t intended for such use without additional protective measures
1266
1267	...subject of U.S. government and industry warnings at the time over attacks from even low-skilled intruders
1268
1269
1270http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1271	WATSON COLEMAN: Thank you, Mr. Director.
1272
1273	Can you tell me based upon your information has there been and is there any evidence that our national security has been breached or at risk as a result of these e-mails and their being on this server? Is there any evidence?
1274
1275	COMEY: There’s no direct evidence of an intrusion.
1276
1277
1278https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1279	...one appears to have resulted in a successful compromise of an e-mail account on the server. Forensic analysis noted that on January 5, 2013, three IP addresses matching known Tor exit nodes ...FBI investigation indicated the Tor user logged in to [REDACTED] e-mail account and browsed e-mail folders and attachments.
1280
1281
1282https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1283	...on March 11, 2011, the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security sent a memorandum on cybersecurity threats directly to Secretary Clinton. A portion of the unclassified version of this memorandum states:
1284
1285		Threat analysis by the DS cyber security team and related incident reports indicate a dramatic increase since January 2011 in attempts by [redacted] cyber actors to compromise the private home e-mail accounts of senior Department officials . ... Although the targets are unclassified, personal e-mail accounts, the likely objective is to compromise user accounts and thereby gain access to policy documents and personal information that could enable technical surveillance and possible blackmail.
1286
1287
1288https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1289	...Open source information indicated, if opened, the targeted user's device may have been infected, and information would have been sent to at least three computers overseas, including one in Russia.
1290
1291	...Pagliano recalled finding "a virus," but could provide no additional details, other than that it was nothing of great concern.
1292
1293
1294http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/state-department-hack-worst-ever/index.html
1295	Sources: State Dept. hack the 'worst ever'
1296
1297	Overlooked in the controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, is the fact that suspected Russian hackers have bedeviled State Department's email system for much of the past year
1298
1299
1300http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/michael-morrell-foreign-governments-have-hillarys-email-118007
1301	Michael Morell: Foreign governments have Hillary's email
1302
1303	Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell said that he believes some foreign intelligence agencies possess the contents of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
1304
1305	“I think that foreign intelligence services, the good ones, have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses,” Morell said Friday in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
1306
1307	“I don’t think that was a very good judgment,” he added of Clinton’s decision to use the private server for official State Department business.
1308
1309
1310https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
1311	pg 64
1312
1313	[REDACTED] was interviewed by Special Agent (SA) [REDACTED] at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
1314
1315	...Agents showed [REDACTED] one last email dated [REDACTED] and titled [REDACTED]. After reviewing the email, [REDACTED] exclaimed "[REDACTED] is an idiot." [REDACTED] further explained that he believed the email was "problematic."
1316
1317	...[REDACTED] expressed his opinion that DoS was not very careful
1318
1319
1320http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-emails-in-probe-dealt-with-planned-drone-strikes-1465509863
1321	Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt With Planned Drone Strikes
1322
1323	...Under strict US classification rules, US officials have been barred from discussing strikes publicly and even privately outside of secure communications systems.
1324
1325
1326https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
1327	CLINTON believed information should be classified in the case of covert military action, the use of sensitive sources and where sensitive deliberations took place. When asked whether CLINTON believed information should be classified if it is unauthorized release would cause damage to national security, she responded, "yes, that is the understanding." 
1328
1329
1330http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-emails-held-indirect-references-undercover-cia-officers-n510741
1331	Clinton Emails Held Indirect References to Undercover CIA Officers
1332
1333	State Department and other officials attempted to make veiled references to intelligence officers in the emails — references that were deemed classified when the messages were being reviewed years later for public release.
1334
1335	...In one case, an official said, an undercover CIA officer was referred to as a State Department official with the word "State," in quotes, as if to suggest the emailer knew the officer was not actually a diplomat. In another case, an email refers to "OGA" for "other government agency," a common reference to the CIA.
1336
1337
1338https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
1339	pg 66
1340
1341	...After reading the email, [REDACTED] expressed concerns over the detail contained in the email. [REDACTED] stated that the email was "very specific"...
1342
1343
1344http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/clinton-emails-routine-practice.html
1345	...Those emails have not been released, even with redactions, because they include material classified at the highest levels, known as “top secret/SAP,” according to a letter from the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence agencies
1346
1347	...That designation refers to “special access programs,” which are among the nation’s most guarded secrets 
1348
1349	In 18 emails, for example, information has been classified on the grounds that it identifies C.I.A. officials
1350
1351
1352https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/agencies-battle-over-what-is-top-secret-in-hillary-clintons-emails.html
1353	One of the messages has been given a designation of “HCS-O” — indicating that the information was derived from human intelligence sources
1354
1355
1356http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hillary-clinton-campaign-22-top-secret-emails-over-classification-run-amok-2016-01-31
1357	“This appears to be over-classification run amok,” Clinton’s campaign said in a statement released Friday. 
1358
1359
1360https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1361	pg 174
1362
1363	[REDACTED] was interviewed by Special Agent (SA) [REDACTED] and SA [REDACTED] at the Central Intelligence Agency
1364
1365	...After reviewing the email he provided that the email should be classified but that he was not surprised that DOS had sent it on an unclassified channel. [REDACTED] further noted that the DOS unclassified email system had previously been penetrated by a foreign adversary.
1366
1367	...[REDACTED] was shown a copy of an email... After reviewing the email, [REDACTED] stated that his true name, and that of [REDACTED] should not have been included in an unclassified email.
1368
1369	...[REDACTED] continued to say that the personnel at DOS were experienced and knew that this information was classified. However, the did it anyways and their actions hurt the CIA and other agencies whose equities were conveyed in the emails.
1370
1371
1372http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-email-terrorism-sloppy-communications-463605
1373	A retired senior State Department military adviser claims that Hillary Clinton’s “sloppy communications with her senior staff” when she was secretary of state may have compromised at least two counterterrorism operations.
1374
1375	...Bill Johnson, who was the State Department’s political adviser to the special operations section of the U.S. Pacific Command, or PACOM, in 2010 and 2011, says secret plans to eliminate the leader of a Filipino Islamist separatist group and intercept Chinese-made weapons components being smuggled into Iraq were repeatedly foiled.
1376
1377	...“We had good intel. We knew where he was,” ... “He would be gone three hours before, sometimes as little as a half-hour before” the counterterrorism teams moved in. “We knew he was getting tipped off somehow. We just didn’t know why.”
1378
1379	...As a dramatic solution, the Special Operations Command stopped giving advance warning to senior State Department officials about raids, Johnson says. Whatever the cause, the leaks stopped. In February 2012, Dr. Abu and two other senior militants were eventually killed in what was described as “a U.S.-backed airstrike.”
1380
1381
1382http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1383	HILLARY CLINTON: ...But I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier.
1384
1385	I really didn't perhaps appreciate the need to do that. What I had done was allowed, it was above board. But in retrospect, certainly, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should've used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails.
1386
1387	That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility. ...
1388
1389	 DAVID MUIR: You have said you would apologize for the confusion but not say, "I'm sorry." But I did hear a word in there just a moment ago and I'm curious. Would you acknowledge that you made a mistake here? Because you wrote in your own memoir last year just how important using the word mistake is in politics. You, you wrote, "In our political culture, saying you made a mistake is often taken as weakness when in fact it can be a sign of strength and growth." And so as you sit here, millions watching tonight, did you make a mistake?
1390
1391	HILLARY CLINTON: I did. I did. As I said, it was allowed and there was no hiding it. It was totally above board. ...But I'm sorry that it has, you know, raised all of these questions. I do take responsibility for having made what is clearly not the best decision. And I want people to know that I am trying to be as transparent as possible...
1392
1393
1394
1395All this brings up some questions, like:
1396
1397
1398- Why did Clinton change her story from "there is no classified information" to "I never sent anything classified at the time it was sent or received" to "nothing was marked classified" after media reports on her server? She told Congress she changed her story to clear up "confusion" about "how the classification process works," but all she did is confuse the public more--classified information is classified even if it's unmarked. Americans are supposed to be able to trust their officials to recognize classified and keep it safe, and Clinton's job as an original classification authority was to recognize when information is classified and mark it if necessary. Clinton wrote several emails classified at the Special Access Program (SAP) level, which is classified that way if its release would do grave damage to national security, but she didn't mark them. Clinton confused the public in a way that makes her seem less guilty (regarding confusion, read a few articles here 
1399https://www.google.com/search?q=information+marked+classified+confusion&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A3%2F1%2F2015%2Ccd_max%3A11%2F8%2F2016 and you'll see what I mean).
1400
1401
1402- How is it that, after lecturing the American public on classification markings, Clinton knows what "(SBU)" means, but when the FBI asks here what but "(C)" means she tells them it's referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order? There was no "(A)" or "(B)" in the short email they showed her, and it was even marked Confidential in headers on the top and bottom. Clinton has seen emails that mix both "(SBU)" and "(C)" markings (apparently, the alphabet goes "C, SBU, SBU, SBU...") and she's written thousands of cables that use both.
1403
1404
1405- Why did Comey go along with Clinton's "(C) is just a letter in the alphabet" story? He told (or implied) to Congress he's "not sure" if Clinton knew "(C)" means "Confidential," but when the question of Clinton's sophistication came up later in his testimony, Comey said "Well, I was talking about technical sophistication," as if to change his story. Comey testified that Clinton signed-off on being briefed on the handling of classified information and "executed that document." So, is she sophisticated in handling classified information or not? Comey's testimony is unnecessarily vague.
1406
1407
1408- Clinton told the FBI she had "no reason to believe" there was classified information in her account, but earlier she asked Jake Sullivan to forward an email "if not classified or otherwise inappropriate," indicating that she had reason to believe there was classified information on her account. Was she lying to the FBI?
1409
1410
1411- Clinton asked Jake Sullivan to send her classified talking points over unsecure fax, apparently for a meeting that was starting in 8 minutes (Clinton says "I didn't get the TPs yet." Sullivan says "?!!! Checking"). The problem was Clinton told him to remove the classification headers and send nonsecure, but when confronted about it in her FBI interview gave them a red herring about "non-paper" documents at the State department. Why did Comey repeat her misleading explanation to Congress?
1412
1413
1414http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1415	CHAFFETZ: ...How did the Department of Justice, or how did the FBI view the incident in which Hillary Clinton instructed Jake Sullivan to take the markings off of a document that was to be sent to her?
1416
1417	COMEY: Yes, we looked at that pretty closely. There was some problem with their secure fax machine and there was an e-mail in which she says in substance, take the headers off of it and send it as a non- paper and as we’ve dug into that more deeply, we’ve come to learn that at least this one view of it that is reasonable, that a non-paper in State Department parlance (ph) means a document that contains things we could pass to another government. So essentially take out anything that’s classified and send it to me. 
1418
1419
1420https://fam.state.gov/fam/05fah01/05fah010610.html
1421	Use this section to provide instructions on any written material to be left with the host government official(s).  Such material could take the form of an aide-memoire, a letter, or a “non-paper” that provides a written version of the verbal presentation (i.e., the talking points as delivered).  Unless otherwise instructed, post should normally provide an aide-memoire or non-paper at the conclusion of a demarche.  Classified aide-memoire or non-paper must be appropriately marked
1422
1423
1424- Why did Comey remember that part of Clinton's FBI interview in detail, but was forgetful when asked to compare Clinton's public statements to her statements to the FBI? ("did she change her statements in that sworn testimony with you last Saturday? ...I haven’t gone through that to parse that…", "It’s a very long, 302. I’d have to check and then get back to you.", "COMEY: I’m not equipped sitting here without the 302 in front of me to answer in that broad…  MULVANEY: But it’s your — it’s your testimony…") He made it sound like he's her defense lawyer.
1425
1426
1427- Comey testified there was "no direct evidence of an intrusion," but the FBI's report says there "appears" to have been "a successful compromise of an e-mail account on the server." Was Comey contradicting his own FBI?
1428
1429
1430- Comey inserted an "intent" requirement (a "general mens rea requirement" as he puts it) into the law that only requires "gross negligence" to prosecute someone for mishandling classified information. Comey testified that false exculpatory statements show a guilty conscience and intent, but Clinton made several such statements to Congress and the public. She gave one to Jake Tapper in an interview ("maybe something has happened years later that there's a case and so now it's sensitive information. That's what's going on here.") and one to Pompeo in her testimony ("POMPEO: Yes, ma'am. You're not supposed to have classified e- mail on your private server either. CLINTON: And I did not, Congressman."). Her statement to Pomeo came shortly after she was informed there was classified information on her server and immediately after agreeing (if at least implicitly) that classified information should not be stored in unauthorized locations. If Clinton is sophisticated in handling classified info, as Comey seems to have testified, then she knows her statements were false. Knowledge of classified information on her server can also be inferred by some of her statements in her emails ("If not classified or otherwise inappropriate...") and her statements to the FBI ("When asked whether CLINTON believed information should be classified if it is unauthorized release would cause damage to national security, she responded, 'yes, that is the understanding.'").
1431
1432
1433Claim #2: Clinton's private server was allowed, and she set it up for "convenience:"
1434
1435
1436https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1437
1438	...when I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.
1439
1440	Looking back, it would've been better if I'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem like an issue.
1441
1442
1443https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1444	QUESTION: And also, the president of the United States said that he was unaware that you had this unusual email arrangement. The White House counsel's office says that you never approved this arrangement through them.
1445
1446	Why did you not do that? Why did you -- why have you apparently caught the White House by surprise?
1447
1448	And then just one last political question, if I -- I might. Does all of this make -- affect your decision in any way on whether or not to run for president?
1449
1450	CLINTON: Well, let me try to unpack your multiple questions.
1451
1452	First, the laws and regulations in effect when I was secretary of state allowed me to use my email for work. That is undisputed.
1453
1454
1455http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/31/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-her-email-pra/
1456	Since the news of Clinton’s email came to light in 2015, she has argued that she "complied with every rule" and that the practice was "allowed." We haven’t yet put the issue on the Truth-O-Meter because there were too many unknowns.
1457
1458	But the inspector general’s report has clarified some of those unknowns and demonstrated that Clinton’s exclusive use of personal email was, in fact, not allowed.
1459
1460
1461https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
1462	“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, ... former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
1463
1464
1465http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1466	FARENTHOLD: All right. I want to go back to the question of intent real quick, for just a second.
1467
1468	I’m a recovering attorney. It’s been decades since I actually practiced law. But you kept referring to she had to know it was illegal to have the requisite criminal intent. I was always taught in law school, and I don’t know where this changed, that ignorance of the law was no excuse. If I’m driving a long at 45 miles and hour and didn’t see the 35 mile and hour speed limit, I was still intentionally speeding, even though I didn’t know it.
1469
1470	Now, I might not have had the requisite criminal intent if maybe my accelerator were jammed or something like that, but even though I didn’t know the law was 35, I was driving 45, I’m going to get a ticket. And I’m probably going to be prosecuted for that.
1471
1472	So, how can you say ignorance of the law is an excuse in Ms. Clinton’s case?
1473
1474	COMEY: Well, the comparison to petty offenses, I don’t think is — you spoke about the question of — ignorance of the law is no excuse, but here’s the distinction. You have to have general criminal intent. You don’t need to know what particular statute you’re violating, but you must be aware of the generally wrongful nature of your conduct…
1475
1476
1477https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
1478	pg 90
1479
1480	CLINTON sent out an all-staff cable that personal email should not be used day-to-day for business purposes and that personal email is not secure, so do not use them for business purposes. To best of [REDACTED]'s recollection, CLINTON sent that cable out in 2009. 
1481
1482
1483http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1484	 DAVID MUIR: You mentioned everybody in the government knew that you were using this private server. It-- did fellow members of the cabinet know? Did the president know?
1485
1486	HILLARY CLINTON: Everyone I emailed with, and I'm not going to go into names, but let me say I emailed with many people in the White House and the rest of the government, of course, across the State Department, knew that I was emailing from a personal account. 
1487
1488
1489https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1490	pg 166
1491
1492	...[REDACTED] did not recall seeing CLINTON's actual email address. Rather, when [REDACTED] received or responded to emails from CLINTON, she recalled seeing a single initial. ...[REDACTED] noted that although she is no longer at DoS, she still maintains email contact with CLINTON and now receives emails from CLINTON where the name of the sender is "H." [REDACTED] had no knowledge CLINTON was using her own private server until it was reported in the media.
1493
1494
1495http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1496	HILLARY CLINTON: ...As I said, it was allowed and there was no hiding it. It was totally above board.
1497
1498
1499https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1500	pg 166
1501	
1502	[REDACTED] was not initially provided CLINTON's email address, so when she wanted to send or forward a message to CLINTON, she would route it through HUMA ABEDIN. At some point in the first six to eight months of employment at DoS, [REDACTED] recalled CLINTON responding to one of the messages she forwarded directly. At this point, [REDACTED] asked ABEDIN if it was okay to go direct with CLINTON, and was granted the "privilege." [REDACTED] explained the privilege of emailing CLINTON direct was not a privilege she used lightly. While [REDACTED] did not have a history of Government Service, she thought it was normal for someone in CLINTON's position to have a "gatekeeper system" in place.
1503
1504
1505https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1506	Two staff in S/ES-IRM reported to OIG that, in late 2010, they each discussed their concerns about Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email account ...one staff member raised concerns that information sent and received on Secretary Clinton’s account could contain Federal records that needed to be preserved in order to satisfy Federal recordkeeping requirements. According to the staff member, the Director stated that the Secretary’s personal system had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff and that the matter was not to be discussed any further. ...the Director stated that the mission of S/ES-IRM is to support the Secretary and instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again. 
1507
1508
1509http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/31/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-her-email-pra/
1510	Fallon pointed PolitiFact to a May 26 CNN interview where Clinton said that at the time she made the decision to use a private server, she "thought it was allowed."
1511
1512
1513http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/18/sotu.01.html
1514	TAPPER: Right. And you said it was allowed, too.
1515
1516	CLINTON: Yes, it was.
1517
1518	TAPPER: Who allowed it?
1519
1520	CLINTON: It was allowed under the rules of the State Department. And again --
1521
1522	TAPPER: So nobody signed off on it?
1523
1524	CLINTON: No, no. It was allowed.
1525
1526
1527https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1528	Throughout Secretary Clinton’s tenure, the FAM stated that normal day-to-day operations should be conducted on an authorized AIS, yet OIG found no evidence that the Secretary requested or obtained guidance or approval to conduct official business via a personal email account on her private server. ...Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs. However, according to these officials, DS and IRM did not—and would not—approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions in the FAM and the security risks in doing so. 
1529
1530	...DS and IRM reported to OIG that Secretary Clinton never demonstrated to them that her private server or mobile device met minimum information security requirements specified by FISMA and the FAM.
1531
1532
1533http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1534	HILLARY CLINTON: ...Everybody in the government I communicated with -- and that was a lot of people--
1535
1536
1537https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1538	pg 117
1539
1540	[REDACTED] sent a weekly report directly to the Secretary of State when it was widely known "you don't go direct" with the Secretary.
1541
1542
1543http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
1544	HILLARY CLINTON: --knew I was using a personal e-mail.
1545
1546
1547https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1548	...OIG interviewed other senior Department officials with relevant knowledge who served under Secretary Clinton, including the Under Secretary for Management ... ; current and former Executive Secretaries ; and attorneys within the Office of the Legal Adviser. These officials all stated that they were not asked to approve or otherwise review the use of Secretary Clinton’s server and that they had no knowledge of approval or review by other Department staff. These officials also stated that they were unaware of the scope or extent of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email account, though many of them sent emails to the Secretary on this account. Secretary Clinton’s Chief of Staff also testified before the House Select Committee on Benghazi that she was unaware of anyone being consulted about the Secretary’s exclusive use of a personal email address.
1549
1550
1551http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1552	DUNCAN: Do you — we talk about gross negligence here and you said that Secretary Clinton was extremely careless with this classified material and how dangerous it could be, how threatening to — even to people’s lives that it could be to disclose classified material.
1553
1554	Do you agree that there is a very thin line between gross negligence and extreme carelessness? And would you explain to me what you consider to be that difference?
1555
1556	COMEY: Sure, judge — Congressman. As a former judge, you know there isn’t actually a great definition in the law of gross negligence. Some courts interpret it as close to willful, which means you know you’re doing something wrong.
1557
1558
1559https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1560	In March 2009, after unsuccessful efforts to supply Secretary Clinton with a secure government smartphone, DS was informed that Secretary Clinton’s staff had been asking to use BlackBerry devices inside classified areas. The Assistant Secretary of DS then sent a classified memorandum to Secretary Clinton’s Chief of Staff that described the vulnerabilities associated with the use of BlackBerry devices and also noted the prohibition on the use of Blackberry devices in sensitive areas. 
1561
1562
1563https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1564	pg 78
1565
1566	Agents asked BOSWELL to review a redacted memo titled "Use of Blackberries in Mahogany Row." ...After reviewing the memo, BOSWELL stated the memo was drafted early in the Administration and shortly after CLINTON began her tenure at DoS.
1567
1568
1569https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1570	OIG discovered in Secretary Clinton’s retired paper files a copy of the classified presentation used during the briefing.
1571
1572
1573http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/boswell-bberry-memo.pdf
1574	INFORMATION MEMO FOR CHERYL D. MILLS--S
1575	FROM:	DS--Eric J. Boswell
1576	SUBJECT: Use of Blackberries in Mahogany Row
1577
1578	We have worked closely [REDACTED] to review all options that would allow Secretary Clinton, you, and a small number of staff to use Blackberries [REDACTED]
1579
1580	...Our review reaffirms our belief that the vulnerabilities and risks associated with the use of Blackberries in the Mahogany Row [REDACTED] considerably outweigh the convenience their use can add to staff that have access to the unclassified OpenNet system on their desktops.
1581
1582	...We also worry about the example that using Blackberries in Mahogany row might set as we strive to promote crucial security practices and enforce important security standards among State Department staff.
1583
1584	...I cannot stress too strongly, however, that any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving e-mails, and exploiting calendars. I am attaching reports from DS's Office of Computer Security's Cyber Threat & Analysis Division that give further background on those risks.
1585
1586	...Attachments: ..."Your Cell and Your Berry: Tools for the Enemy"
1587
1588
1589https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1590	According to a DS official, shortly after the memorandum was delivered, Secretary Clinton approached the Assistant Secretary and told him she “gets it.”
1591
1592
1593https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
1594	pg 43
1595
1596	...no cell phones are allowed inside the SCIF and DS agents, officers, and staff are required to leave their cell phones outside the door in secure lockers. CLINTON refused to abide by this security requirement and brought her cell phone, believed to be a Blackberry, inside the SCIF where a DS agent assigned to Post 1 was required to guard it. DS agents were indignant that they were required to follow security policy but CLINTON made herself exempt from the same regulations.
1597
1598
1599https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/politics/hillary-clintonwas-asked-about-email-2-years-ago.html
1600	WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.
1601
1602	But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State Department answered in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, it ignored the question and provided no response.
1603
1604
1605https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1606	QUESTION: Why did you wait two months? Why -- why did you wait two months to turn those emails over? The rules say you have to turn them over...
1607
1608	(CROSSTALK) CLINTON: I don't think -- I'd be happy to have somebody talk to you about the rules. I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by.
1609
1610
1611https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
1612	[REDACTED] was previously an agent of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS). ...[REDACTED] served briefly on former Secretary CLINTON's protective detail in 2009. From her own experience, and information obtained through [REDACTED] and other agents, [REDACTED] described a "stark difference" between RICE and CLINTON with regard to obedience to security and diplomatic protocols while CLINTON frequently and "blatantly" disregarded them. For example ...It is seen as diplomatic protocl for the Secretary of State to arrive at foreign diplomatic functions with the local ambassador; however, CLINTON refused to do so, instead choosing to be accompanied in the limousine by her Chief of Staff, HUMA ABEDIN. This frequently resulted in complaints by ambassadors who were insulted and embarrassed by this breach of protocol. [REDACTED] explained that CLINTON'S protocol breaches were well known throughout Diplomatic Security and were "abundant."
1613
1614	...On a trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, in early 2009, CLINTON requested to visit an area of Jakarta that presented security and safety challenges. This visit was reportedly for a photo opportunity regarding CLINTON's "clean cooking stoves" initiative. The DS advance team recommended against traveling to this area because the route could not be secured and was lined with dangerous circumstances and individuals. As such, the DS advance team recommended in writing that this excursion be stricken from the schedule but were told by DS management that it was going to happen because "she wanted it." DS agents felt this excursion into potentially hostile areas placed CLINTON, her staff, the media, and her security detail in unnecessary danger in order to conduct a photo opportunity for "her election campaign." DS agents had the perception that CLINTON was using her position as Secretary of State to campaign for President of the United States. 
1615
1616	...On one occasion while traveling to Palestine, CLINTON ordered the limousine driver, believed to be [REDACTED], to open the window while in "occupied territory", referring to a dangerous area of the West Bank. [REDACTED] initially declined to respond to CLINTON's request; however, repeated demands by CLINTON forced him to open his window despite the danger to himself and the occupants.
1617
1618	...Early in CLINTON's tenure as Secretary of State, she and her staff were observed removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, D.C. [REDACTED] does not know whether these items were ever returned to the government upon CLINTON's departure from the State Department.
1619
1620	...[REDACTED] explained that CLINTON's treatment of DS agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere. Prior to CLINTON's tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State's protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON's tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her.
1621
1622
1623http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/boswell-bberry-memo.pdf
1624	Use of Blackberries in Mahogany Row
1625
1626	...As an alternative, we suggested that DS work with S/ES-IRM to make access to the Secretary's OpenNet account on her desktop workstation as easy and convenient as possible. For example, we are happy to work with IRM to lengthen or even eliminate the time-out function to allow the Secretary's Special Assistant to log-in to review her emails and schedules.	
1627
1628	...If, after considering the vulnerabilities that I describe above and the alternatives that I propose
1629
1630
1631https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1632	...in response to Secretary Clinton’s desire to take her BlackBerry device into secure areas, her Chief of Staff discussed with senior officials in S/ES and with the Under Secretary for Management alternative solutions, such as setting up a separate stand-alone computer connected to the Internet for Secretary Clinton “to enable her to check her emails from her desk.” The Under Secretary’s response was “the stand-alone separate network PC is [a] great idea” and that it is “the best solution.” According to the Department, no such computer was ever set up. 
1633
1634
1635https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
1636	CLINTON: ...If you were to be in my office in the State Department, I didn't have a computer...
1637
1638
1639https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1640	pg 12
1641
1642	Investigators determined Clinton did not have a computer in her State office, which was located in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) on the seventh floor of State headquarters, in an area often referred to as "Mahogany Row." State Diplomatic Security Service (DS) instructed Clinton that because her office was in a SCIF, the use of mobile devices in her office was prohibited.
1643
1644
1645https://careers.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/What-Every-New-Employee-Needs-to-Know.pdf
1646	THE ABC’S
1647
1648	What Every New Employee Needs to Know
1649
1650	...Government and personally owned cellular telephones are permitted for use inside DOS facilities only where classified information is not discussed or processed. 
1651
1652
1653https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1654	According to Abedin, Clinton primarily used her personal BlackBerry or personal iPad for checking e-mails, and she left the SCIF to do so, often visiting State's eight floor balcony. 
1655
1656
1657https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_NovWeb/273/DOC_0C05794192/C05794192.pdf
1658	From: H
1659	Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 08:51 PM
1660	To: Diane Reynolds
1661	Subject: I'm in my office
1662
1663	Because of attacks on our embassy in Cairo and our office in Benghazi so email when you can talk.
1664
1665
1666https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1667	pg 14
1668
1669	FBI investigation and the State OIG report determined that State issued regular notices to staff during Clinton's tenure highlighting cybersecurity threats and advising that mobile devices must be configured to State security guidelines. Clinton and her immediate staff were notified of foreign travel risks and were warned that digital threats began immediately upon landing in a foreign country...
1670
1671
1672https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
1673	Beginning in 2009, the Cyber Threat Analysis Division (CTAD) in DS issued regular notices...According to an article posted by CTAD, digital threats begin immediately after landing in a foreign country. A primary threat is traced to the traveler’s mobile device (BlackBerry or other smart device) which is necessarily connected to the local cellular tower. This connection gives foreign entities the opportunity to intercept voice and email transmissions immediately after the traveler arrives overseas.
1674
1675
1676https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1677	...Investigations determined that of the e-mails provided by ... Clinton's production to the FBI, approximately [REDACTED] emails were sent or received by Clinton on her personal e-mail accounts while she was travelling outside the continental United States (OCONUS) on official State business.
1678
1679
1680https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1681	QUESTION: Were you ever -- were you ever specifically briefed on the security implications of using -- using your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?
1682
1683	CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.
1684
1685
1686https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1687	...FBI investigation determined that hundreds of e-mails classified CONFIDENTIAL during the State FOIA process were sent or received by Clinton while she was OCONUS.
1688
1689	...On [REDACTED] occasions while OCONUS, Clinton had direct e-mail contact with an e-mail address for President Barack Obama.
1690
1691
1692https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
1693	After reviewing an email dated July 1, 2012 with subject line "Fw: Congratulations!," CLINTON stated she received no particular guidance as to how she should use the President's email address [REDACTED]@who.eop.gov. Since the foregoing email was sent from Russia, CLINTON stated she must have sent it from the plane.
1694
1695
1696http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/20/wikileaks-releases-first-batch-president-obamas-emails/
1697	WikiLeaks Releases First Batch Of Barack Obama’s Emails
1698
1699
1700https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1701	QUESTION: ...Madam Secretary, why did you opt out not using two devices at the time? Obviously, if this didn't come out, you wouldn't -- probably wouldn't become an issue.
1702
1703	QUESTION: And my -- my second follow-up question is, if you were a man today, would all this fuss being made be made?
1704
1705	Thank you.
1706
1707	CLINTON: Well, I will -- I will leave that to others to answer.
1708
1709	But as I -- as I said, I saw it as a matter of convenience, and it was allowed. Others had done it. According to the State Department, which recently said Secretary Kerry was the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a state.gov e-mail account.
1710
1711
1712https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
1713	pg 60
1714
1715	Secretary Clinton, however, was the first Secretary to use a privately maintained email server
1716
1717
1718https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1719	CLINTON: ...And when I got there, I wanted to just use one device for both personal and work e-mails, instead of two. It was allowed. And as I said, it was for convenience.
1720
1721
1722https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/05/revisiting-clintons-claim-she-used-personal-email-out-of-convenience-and-it-was-allowed-by-state-department/
1723	‘Convenience’
1724
1725	A batch of emails released last month chronicles technical issues that Clinton and her top aides were facing with her private clintonemail.com account in late 2010. This led to communications issues between Clinton and her staff, and Clinton’s emails were being blocked by the State Department’s server. In a November 2010 email, Clinton wrote to her longtime aide, Huma Abedin: “This is not a good system.”
1726
1727	Abedin responded: “We should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam. It’s not the phone message system, it’s the device delay.”
1728
1729	“Let’s get separate address or device, but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” Clinton wrote.
1730
1731	This email became a recurring line of questioning in Abedin’s deposition, the transcript of which was released last week by Judicial Watch. When asked about that last response line by Clinton, Abedin explained:
1732
1733	“I read that line exactly the way she wrote it, which is, let’s get a separate address. There was no resistance to getting a separate email address, as I’m reading it in this document. And not wanting her personal emails to be accessible to the public. ...”
1734
1735	Abedin’s answer shows that Clinton was open to having a second device or email address — which calls into question whether the “convenience” concern was relevant or applicable after she became secretary of state. Yet Clinton did not mention these issues when she explained she chose the system out of convenience.
1736
1737
1738
1739Comey testified that for Clinton to be guilty, she'd need to be "generally aware of the wrongful nature" of her conduct and know she was "doing something wrong:"
1740
1741
1742http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1743	FARENTHOLD: ...you kept referring to she had to know it was illegal to have the requisite criminal intent. I was always taught in law school, and I don’t know where this changed, that ignorance of the law was no excuse. If I’m driving a long at 45 miles and hour and didn’t see the 35 mile and hour speed limit, I was still intentionally speeding, even though I didn’t know it.
1744
1745	Now, I might not have had the requisite criminal intent if maybe my accelerator were jammed or something like that, but even though I didn’t know the law was 35, I was driving 45, I’m going to get a ticket. And I’m probably going to be prosecuted for that.
1746
1747	So, how can you say ignorance of the law is an excuse in Ms. Clinton’s case?
1748
1749	COMEY: Well, the comparison to petty offenses, I don’t think is — you spoke about the question of — ignorance of the law is no excuse, but here’s the distinction. You have to have general criminal intent. You don’t need to know what particular statute you’re violating, but you must be aware of the generally wrongful nature of your conduct…
1750
1751
1752https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
1753	18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
1754
1755	...(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, ... or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody...
1756
1757
1758https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system
1759	Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
1760
1761	...Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
1762
1763
1764http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1765	DUNCAN: ...Do you agree that there is a very thin line between gross negligence and extreme carelessness? And would you explain to me what you consider to be that difference?
1766
1767	COMEY: Sure, judge — Congressman. As a former judge, you know there isn’t actually a great definition in the law of gross negligence. Some courts interpret it as close to willful, which means you know you’re doing something wrong.
1768
1769	Others drop it lower. My term (ph) extremely careless is trying to be kind of an ordinary person. That’s a common-sense way of describing it; it sure looks real careless to me.
1770
1771	The question of whether that amounts to gross negligence frankly is really not at the center of this because when I look at the history of the prosecutions and see, it’s been one case brought on a gross negligence theory.
1772
1773	I know from 30 years there’s no way anybody from the Department Of Justice is bringing a case against John Doe or Hillary Clinton for the second time in 100 years based on those facts.
1774
1775	DUNCAN: You ended your statement to Congressman Cooper a while ago saying no — saying once again that no reasonable prosecutor could have brought this case, yet you also mentioned earlier today that you had seen several of your friends and other prosecutors who have said publicly, many across this country, they would have been glad to prosecute this case.
1776
1777	COMEY: I smile because they’re friends and I haven’t talked to them I want to say, guys, so where were ya over the last 40 years?
1778
1779	Where were these cases? They just have not been brought for reasons that I said earlier. It’s a good thing the Department Of Justice worries about prosecuting people for being careless. I don’t like it.
1780
1781	As a citizen, I want people to show they knew they were breaking the law and then we’ll put you in jail.
1782
1783
1784
1785For whatever reason, Comey keeps switching throughout his testimony between saying you have to "know you were doing something wrong" or "know you were breaking the law" to be prosecuted for gross negligence. Since the idea that you have to "know you were breaking the law" to be guilty of breaking the law is absurd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat), we'll assume Comey meant you have to "know you were doing something wrong" to break the law, e.g. "consciousness of guilt" (which is also absurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_homicide, but anyway...). Even still, Comey's defense of Clinton doesn't hold up.
1786
1787From her public statements, it looks like Clinton really wants people to know her private server was "allowed," "totally above board," and "for convenience:"
1788
1789	...when I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department
1790
1791	...First, the laws and regulations in effect when I was secretary of state allowed me to use my email for work. That is undisputed.
1792
1793	...And when I got there, I wanted to just use one device for both personal and work e-mails, instead of two. It was allowed. And as I said, it was for convenience.
1794
1795	...As I said, it was allowed and there was no hiding it. It was totally above board.
1796
1797
1798	...TAPPER: Right. And you said it was allowed, too.
1799
1800	CLINTON: Yes, it was.
1801
1802	TAPPER: Who allowed it?
1803
1804	CLINTON: It was allowed under the rules of the State Department. And again --
1805
1806	TAPPER: So nobody signed off on it?
1807
1808	CLINTON: No, no. It was allowed.
1809
1810
1811	...But as I -- as I said, I saw it as a matter of convenience, and it was allowed. 
1812
1813
1814But the FBI found that Clinton sent an "all-staff cable" telling her State Department employees that "personal email should not be used day-to-day for business purposes and that personal email is not secure, so do not use them for business purposes." Clinton had an "obligation" to clear her personal server with the State department and dodged the question when asked if anybody "signed off" on her personal server. The State Department OIG found "no evidence" Clinton sought approval for her private server, and "would not" have approved it due to the "security risks." The FBI and State OIG found multiple State department employees, including high-level officials, were unaware Clinton used a private email server for State business. Clinton told David Muir "everybody in the government I communicated with ... knew I was using a personal e-mail," but the FBI found that multiple people in direct email contact with Clinton who didn't know she used a personal server. Clinton's server was configured in a way to hide her address. Clinton's assistant Huma Abedin told Clinton "We should talk about ... releasing your email address to the department," suggesting the State Department didn't know Clinton's email address.
1815
1816Clinton's conduct at the State Department was also reckless. Clinton really wanted to use her Blackberry from her office, located in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Regarding use of unsecure Blackberry's in SCIFs, Clinton was given a memo saying "I cannot stress too strongly, however, that any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving e-mails, and exploiting calendars," and a copy of a memo saying as much was found in her papers. Clinton said she "gets it."
1817
1818But Clinton really wanted to use her Blackberry in her office. Security offered to "make access to the Secretary's OpenNet account on her desktop workstation as easy and convenient as possible," but Clinton never set up a computer in her office. Clinton sent thousands of emails from her blackberry while working from her office, including one titled "I'm in my office."
1819
1820The FBI found that although Clinton was warned multiple times not to use her Blackberry in foreign counties, ("A primary threat is traced to the traveler’s mobile device [BlackBerry or other smart device] which is necessarily connected to the local cellular tower."), she sent hundreds of classified emails from foreign countries, including emails to the President of the United States. When asked if she was briefed on the "security implications" of emailing the President from another country, Clinton dodged the question:
1821
1822
1823https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1824	QUESTION: Were you ever -- were you ever specifically briefed on the security implications of using -- using your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?
1825
1826	CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.
1827
1828
1829When the FBI confronted Clinton in a similar way about emailing Obama from Russia, Clinton told the FBI she "must have sent it from the plane," indicating she knew she she wasn't supposed to be emailing Obama from Russia. Even if Clinton's emails didn't help Obama's emails get on Wikileaks (Russian intelligence could insert malware into her emails in transit, for example), her actions complicate any investigation into the leak of Obama's emails.
1830
1831Clinton told the public her email setup was allowed while telling the State Department it wasn't allowed. She said she "fully complied with every rule that [she] was governed by" after knowingly breaking the rules in a way that risked national security. It really, really, looks like Clinton was trying to hide something, which suggests she knew she was doing something wrong. Comey didn't explain why this wasn't good enough for his "intent" requirement.
1832
1833Clinton's explanation that her email setup was for "convenience" doesn't hold up either--when her server was plagued with technical issues and blocked by the State Department, she told Abedin “This is not a good system.” When Abedin offered to get her a State Department email, Clinton said “Let’s get separate address or device, but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.” (Clinton never used an official .gov email during her tenure at the State Department). This also speaks to Clinton's intent: it looks like she was trying to hide her personal emails.
1834
1835
1836Claim #3: Clinton provided all work-related emails:
1837
1838
1839https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1840	...the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.
1841
1842	...after I left office, the State Department asked former secretaries of state for our assistance in providing copies of work- related emails from our personal accounts. I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totalled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them. We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work- related emails and deliver them to the State Department. At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails -- emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes.
1843
1844	No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.
1845
1846	Fourth, I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
1847
1848	I am very proud of the work that I and my colleagues and our public servants at the department did during my four years as secretary of state, and I look forward to people being able to see that for themselves.
1849
1850
1851https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1852	CLINTON: Yes?
1853
1854	QUESTION: Did you or any of your aides delete any government- related e-mails from your personal account? And what lengths are you willing to go to to prove that you didn't?
1855
1856	Some people, including supporters of yours, have suggested having an independent arbiter look at your server, for instance.
1857
1858	CLINTON: We did not. In fact, my direction to conduct the thorough investigation was to err on the side of providing anything that could be possibly viewed as work related.
1859
1860	That doesn't mean they will be by the State Department once the State Department goes through them, but out of an abundance of caution and care, you know, we wanted to send that message unequivocally.
1861
1862	That is the responsibility of the individual and I have fulfilled that responsibility, and I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done. When the search was conducted, we were asking that any email be identified and preserved that could potentially be federal records, and that's exactly what we did.
1863
1864
1865https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
1866	pg 19
1867
1868	To date, the FBI has recovered from additional data sources and reviewed approximately 17,448 unique work-related and personal e-mails from Clinton's tenure containing Clinton's hdr22@clintonemail.com aaa e-mail address that were not provided by Williams & Connolly as part of Clinton's production to the FBI
1869	
1870	...Twelve of the e-mail chains, classified by State as SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL, were not among the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by State and the FBI by Williams & Connolly.
1871
1872
1873https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/transcript-clinton-testifies-before-house-committee-on-benghazi/
1874	JORDAN: We -- we know the National Archive has -- Secretary Clinton, we know the National Archive has said 1,250 were clearly personal. No way we should have -- no way you should have sent them to the State Department.
1875
1876	And then we also know that 15, you missed, because we got those from Mr. Blumenthal when he came in -- was -- was -- for his deposition.
1877
1878	CLINTON: Thank you.
1879
1880	JORDAN: So if you -- you missed 15 you should have given us, and you gave us 1,250 that -- not we say, but the national archivist says -- you never should have turned over. You erred on both sides. So again, that's why we want to know the terms. Because if you've made a mistake both ways, you may to made -- might have made more mistakes. We don't know.
1881
1882	CLINTON: Well, first of all, you had nine hours with one of my attorneys. And since I think the Democrats just finally released the transcript, I haven't had a chance...
1883
1884	JORDAN: And I -- and I specifically asked Ms. Mills. I did.
1885
1886	CLINTON: ...well...
1887
1888	JORDAN: I did. I asked her about this and she gave me the -- basically the same kind of answer you're giving me.
1889
1890	CLINTON: Well, she'll be happy to supplement the record if (inaudible).
1891
1892	JORDAN: But she's not on the witness stand today. You are, and I'm asking you.
1893
1894	CLINTON: Well, but I -- I asked my attorneys to do it. I thought that was the appropriate way to proceed.
1895
1896	...GOWDY: You think our first request, there were only eight emails responsive to our first request?
1897
1898	CLINTON: I can't speak to it. I believe your first request was for Benghazi. And I believe that the State Department did a diligent search. Then I believe you expanded it to Libya and weapons and maybe a few other terms. And I believe they conducted a diligent...
1899
1900	GOWDY: Well, our jurisdiction hasn't grown, Madam Secretary. Our jurisdiction is the same thing it was.
1901
1902	Let me ask you this. You say that you turned over everything. I don't get a chance to watch you a lot on television, but when I see you are interviewed, you make a point of saying, I turned over everything.
1903
1904	CLINTON: All my work related emails, yes.
1905
1906	GOWDY: How do you know that?
1907
1908	CLINTON: I know that because there was an exhaustive search done under the supervision of my attorneys, and that is exactly the outcome. We turned over every work related email, in fact, as somebody referred to earlier, we turned over too many.
1909
1910	The State Department and the National Archives said there are 1,246 out of the 30,000-plus that they have already determined did not need to be turned over.
1911
1912	GOWDY: And you have a really...
1913
1914	SANCHEZ: Regular order, Mr. Chairman.
1915
1916	GOWDY: ... good group of attorneys, which makes me wonder...
1917
1918	SANCHEZ: Chairman, regular order.
1919
1920	GOWDY: ... how they missed 15 of them.
1921
1922	CLINTON: Well if you are talking about Mr. Blumenthal, which I assume you are, he had some that I didn't have, and I had some that he didn't have. And he -- I was under no obligation to make any of his emails available unless I decided they were work related.
1923
1924	And the ones that I decided that were work related I forwarded to the state.gov accounts of the people with whom I worked.
1925
1926
1927http://images.politico.com/global/2015/08/10/clintonjwatchdec080815.pdf
1928	I, Hillary Rodham Clinton, declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct:
1929
1930	1) While I do not know what information may be "responsive" for purposes of this law suit, I have directed that all my e-mails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.
1931
1932	2) As a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 pages of these e-mails were produced to the Department on December 5, 2014
1933
1934	3) Cheryl Mills did not have an account on clintonemail.com. Huma Abedin did have such an account which was used at times for government business.
1935
1936
1937https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2006%20of%2010/view
1938	pg 53
1939
1940	The instant communication documents an analysis conducted by the author regarding the Department of State (DoS) tenure e-mail correspondence between the personal accounts of HILLARY CLINTON (hdr22@clintonemail.com) and HUMA ABEDIN (huma@clintonemail.com). The author analyzed e-mail correspondence across the various datasets acquired by the FBI during the course of its investigation. Ultimately, the author identified approximately 1,539 direct e-mails between hdr22@clinconemail.com and huma@clintonemail.com (i.e., no other email address was party to the e-mail communication) which were not provided to DOS by Clinton in December in 2014, but were assessed by the FBI to be work-related.
1941
1942
1943http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-fbi-pulls-deleted-emails-from-hillary-clintons-server/
1944	The FBI has salvaged work and personal emails thought to have been deleted from the private server Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state, Bloomberg first reported Tuesday night.
1945
1946
1947https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2006%20of%2010/view
1948	...the process used by CLINTON's legal team to determine which of CLINTON's DoS tenure emails were work-related was possibly flawed in its handling of email correspondence between CLINTON and ABEDIN's huma@clintonemail.com address.
1949
1950
1951https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2010%20of%2010/view
1952	pg 6
1953
1954	Key Findings
1955
1956	- Analysis of two datasets in the FBI's possession revealed approximately 1,539 unique work-related e-emails involving only two parties: hdr22@clintonemail.com and huma@clintonemail.com (hereafter, referred to as "CA party e-mails"). Hillary Clinton's legal team only turned over 32 CA party emails to the State Department on December 2014.
1957
1958	- When conducing their review of the ~60,000 emails, Hillary Clinton's legal team possibly failed to assess the entirety of huma@clintonemail.com (hereafter, "Huma CE") e-mail correspondence with Clinton determine which were work-related. All Huma CE e-mails in the 30,524 e-mail dataset contained another search term used in the legal team review process (e.g., names and emails of key individuals, "Libya," "Benghazi"), indicating Huma CE and Abedin's name were possibly not used as their own search terms to identify those emails for production.	
1959
1960
1961http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
1962	GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said neither she nor anyone else deleted work related e-mails from her personal account. Was that true?
1963
1964	COMEY: That’s a harder one to answer. We found traces of work- related e-mails in — on devices or in slack space. Whether they were deleted or whether when the server was changed out something happened to them. There’s no doubt that the work-related e-mails that were removed electronically from the e-mail system.
1965
1966
1967https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2006%20of%2010/view
1968	...the analysis detailed in this communication does not represent the entirety of the work-related e-mails recovered by the FBI.
1969
1970
1971http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/19/judge-orders-release-fbi-search-warrant-huma-abedi/
1972	A federal judge on Monday ordered the administration to release the search warrant that the FBI used to probe Huma Abedin’s emails in the waning days of the presidential election...
1973
1974
1975http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/12/20/weinerwarrant.pdf
1976	UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
1977
1978	In matter of the Search of ... A Laptop Computer
1979
1980	...The FBI's investigation determined that [REDACTED], using [REDACTED] various email accounts, typically communicated with Clinton's @clintonemail.com email account on a daily basis. Analysis of emails in the FBI's possession revealed more than 4,000 work-related emails between [REDACTED] and Clinton from 2009 to 2013.
1981
1982	...Given the information indicated that there are thousands of [REDACTED] emails located on the Subject laptop ... including from [REDACTED] account as well as a [REDACTED] account appearing to belong to [REDACTED]--and the regular email correspondence between [REDACTED] and Clinton, there is probable cause to believe that the Subject laptop contains correspondence between [REDACTED] and Clinton...
1983
1984
1985https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/28/a-british-tabloid-story-is-the-reason-for-hillary-clintons-new-fbi-nightmare/
1986	The tabloid story that led to Anthony Weiner’s guilty plea — and Hillary Clinton’s nightmare
1987
1988	...In the course of investigating Weiner, the FBI discovered on his laptop emails from Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife and a top Clinton aide. The agency deemed the emails relevant to a separate (previously closed) investigation of Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, and notified Congress that it was reopening the Clinton probe...
1989
1990
1991https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
1992	QUESTION: Madam Secretary?
1993
1994	CLINTON: Hi.
1995
1996	QUESTION: How could the public be assured that when you deleted emails that were personal in nature, that you didn't also delete emails that were professional, but possibly unflattering?
1997
1998	And what do you think about this Republican idea of having an independent third party come in an examine your emails?
1999
2000	CLINTON: Well first of all, you have to ask that question to every single federal employee, because the way the system works, the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.
2001
2002	So, even if you have a work-related device with a work-related .gov account, you choose what goes on that. That is the way our system works. And so we trust and count on the judgment of thousands, maybe millions of people to make those decisions.
2003
2004	And I feel that I did that and even more, that I went above and beyond what I was requested to do. And again, those will be out in the public domain, and people will be able to judge for themselves.
2005
2006
2007http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/hillary-clinton-colin-powell-emails/index.html
2008	The FBI's report on Clinton's email use includes information about Powell's warning to Clinton that using a government email meant her messages would become public.
2009
2010	In the email exchange Powell wrote "there is a real danger."
2011
2012	"Government or not, to do business, it may become an official record and subject to the law," he said.
2013
2014	He added: "Be very careful ... I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data."
2015
2016
2017http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2018	DUNCAN: Right. And it also is accurate that, quote, “Clinton’s lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.”
2019
2020	COMEY: Correct.
2021
2022	...JORDAN: Did Secretary Clinton know that her lawyers cleaned devices in such a way to preclude forensic recovery?
2023
2024	COMEY: I don’t believe she did.
2025
2026
2027http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/best-of-clinton-fbi-report-227692
2028	1. The ‘oh shit’ moment
2029
2030	After Clinton’s staff members completed their response to the State Department for her email records in December 2014, Clinton said she told staff that she did not need them anymore.
2031
2032	“In or around this same timeframe the retention policy for her email was changed as part of her move to a new personal office account,” the FBI stated in notes from Clinton’s interview.
2033
2034	Former chief of staff Cheryl Mills said that Clinton in December 2014 decided she did not need access to any of her emails older than 60 days. But, according to a redacted source, another redacted entity did not modify the retention policy on Clinton’s clintonemail.com account until March 2015.
2035
2036
2037https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
2038	pg 18
2039
2040	On March 2, 2015, The New York Times (NYT) published an article titled "Hillary Clinton used Personal Email Account at State Dept, Possibly Breaking Rules"
2041
2042	...On March 3, 2015, the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi provided a letter to Williams & Connolly requesting preservation
2043
2044	...In the days following the publication of the NYT article, Mills requested that PRN conduct a complete inventory of all equipment related to the Pagliano server.
2045
2046	...on March 25, 2015, PRN held a conference call with President Clinton's staff. In his interview with the FBI, [REDACTED] indicated that sometime between March 25-31, 2015, he realized he did not make the e-mail retention policy changes to Clinton's clintonemail.com e-mail account that Mills had requested in December 2014. In his FBI interview on February 18, 2016, [REDACTED] indicated that he did not recall conducting deletions based upon this realization. In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016, [REDACTED] indicated he believed he had an "oh shit" moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's e-mails. Investigation found evidence of these deletions and determined the Datto backups of the PRN Server were also manually deleted during this timeframe. Investigation identified a PRN work ticketed, which referenced a conference call among PRN, Kendall, and Mills on March 31, 2015. PRN's attorney advised [REDACTED] not to comment on the conversation with Kendall based upon the assertion of the attorney-client privilege.
2047
2048	...[REDACTED] advised during his February 18, 2016 interview that he did not recall seeing the preservation request ...During his May 3, 2016 interview, [REDACTED] indicated that, at the time he made the deletions in March 2015, he was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's e-mail data on the PRN Server.
2049
2050	...Mills stated she was unaware that [REDACTED] had conducted these deletions and modifications in March 2015. Clinton stated she was also unaware of the March 2015 e-mail deletions by PRN.
2051
2052
2053https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
2054	[REDACTED] was asked to delete approximately two emails related to the public release of Secretary CLINTON's emails. The request was in relation to cleaning unclassified State systems, however, due to an FBI preservation request, [REDACTED] had not deleted any communications. He recalled one of the emails being from an Ambassador and began with a phrase similar to "My classnet is down, so I'll start here..."
2055
2056
2057http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2058	Now, that seems to me to provide some context to what took place here. Did Secretary Clinton’s legal team — excuse me, let me ask it this way. Did Secretary Clinton know her legal team deleted those e- mails that they kept from us?
2059
2060	COMEY: I don’t believe so.
2061
2062	JORDAN: Did Secretary Clinton approve those e-mails being deleted?
2063
2064	COMEY: I don’t think there was any specific instruction or conversation between the Secretary and her lawyers about that.
2065
2066
2067https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
2068	pg 18
2069
2070	Clinton told the FBI that, after her staff completed her e-mail production to State in December 2014, she was asked what she wanted to do with her remaining personal e-mails, Clinton instructed her staff she no longer needed the e-mails. Clinton stated she never deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her e-mails to avoid complying with FOIA, State or FBI requests for information. 
2071
2072
2073https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2074	CLINTON: ...At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails -- emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations
2075
2076
2077https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
2078	pg 49
2079
2080	[REDACTED] did not interact with CLINTON nor MILLS via email, but sometimes he would receive a forwarded email with their accounts listed on the chain. [REDACTED] remembered receiving email chains that contained Clintonfoundation.org accounts
2081
2082
2083https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/emails-reveal-how-foundation-donors-got-access-to-clinton-and-her-close-aides-at-state-dept/2016/08/22/345b5200-6882-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc_story.html
2084	Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Dept. 
2085
2086	...In each case, according to emails released Monday from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, the requests were directed to Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and confidante, Huma Abedin
2087
2088
2089https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2010/view
2090	The following day, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued a subpoena to Clinton to produce e-mails from hdr22@clintonemail.com, hrod17@clintonemail.com, and other e-mail addresses used by CLinton, pursuant to the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi.
2091
2092
2093https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
2094	pg 51
2095
2096	Before IPS conducted their review of the Benghazi request, [REDACTED] Attorney, Office of the Legal Adviser performed their own, independent review of the 296 Benghazi-related emails. [REDACTED] review team used different [points of contact (POC)] at other agencies to review the 296 emails for a classification determination. [REDACTED] did not know why: 1) [REDACTED] team did a review, as that was IPS' purview; 2) why [REDACTED] team used different POCs than the regular POCs IPS used; 3) what review criteria and/or parameters [REDACTED] team used during their review; and 4) why [REDACTED] team reviewed and produced the 296 emails to the House Committee prior to IPS conducting their formal review.
2097
2098	pg 54
2099
2100	...IPS felt the 7th floor, or leading leading STATE officials, had their own ideas on how to formally review the 296 emails. KENNEDY's initial idea for how to review...
2101
2102	...IPS felt immense pressure to complete the review quickly and to not label anything as classified.
2103
2104
2105http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37683119
2106	Clinton emails: 'Quid pro quo' bid to bury Benghazi message
2107
2108	A State Department official offered a "quid pro quo" deal if the FBI would change the classification of a Hillary Clinton email, FBI documents indicate.
2109
2110	Patrick Kennedy, an undersecretary of state, had asked the email be downgraded to a lower category.
2111
2112	In exchange, an FBI agent said, Mr Kennedy offered to accept an FBI request for extra agents at foreign diplomatic posts. 
2113
2114
2115http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/fbi-state-department-clinton-email-229880
2116	Kennedy was also involved in ... "The Shadow Government"
2117
2118
2119http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/fbi-releases-100-new-pages-on-clinton-email-probe.html
2120	"There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as 'The 7th Floor Group' or 'The Shadow Government.' This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries," the FBI's interview summary said. 
2121
2122
2123https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2124	QUESTION: Can you explain how you decided which of the personal e-mails to get rid of, how you got rid of them and when? And how you'll respond to questions about you being the arbiter of what you release? 
2125
2126	CLINTON: ...In going through the e-mails, there were over 60,000 in total, sent and received. About half were work-related and went to the State Department and about half were personal that were not in any way related to my work. I had no reason to save them, but that was my decision because the federal guidelines are clear and the State Department request was clear.
2127
2128	For any government employee, it is that government employee's responsibility to determine what's personal and what's work-related. I am very confident of the process that we conducted and the e-mails that were produced. 
2129
2130
2131https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
2132	...CLINTON expected her team to provide any work-related or arguably work-related emails to State; however, she did not participate in the development of the specific process to be used or discussions of the locations where her emails might exist. Additionally, CLINTON was not consulted on specific emails as to their content being work-related or not.
2133
2134
2135https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2136	JORDAN: And what were the date parameters? What -- what date did you start, what was the end date, and the e-mails in between that we're going to look at?
2137
2138	CLINTON: Well, Congressman, I asked my attorneys to oversee the process. I did not look over their shoulder. I did not dictate how they would do it. I did not ask what they were doing and how they made their determinations (ph).
2139
2140	JORDAN: So you don't know? You don't know what terms they used to determine which ones were your e-mails and which ones the State Department got, and therefore we might get?
2141
2142	CLINTON: You know, The State Department had between 90 and 95 percent of all the ones that were work related. They were already on the system. In fact, this committee got e-mails...
2143
2144
2145http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2146	CHAFFETZ: And did they see any classified information? Did Hillary Clinton’s attorneys, without security clearances, see classified information?
2147
2148	COMEY: As (ph) I sit here, I don’t know the answer to that.
2149
2150	CHAFFETZ: It has to be yes Director, you came across 110 and they said they went through all of them.
2151
2152	COMEY: Well, they didn’t read them all they just looked at headings (ph)…
2153
2154	CHAFFETZ: So their excuse is we saw the e-mails but we didn’t read them?
2155
2156
2157https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
2158	pg 39
2159
2160	On August 17, 2015, KATHERINE M. TURNER, Partner at the law offices of Williams & Connolly LLP ... met at her place of employment with agents of the FBI to discuss voluntarily turning over six (6) laptop computers known to contain Top Secret classified information.
2161
2162	...TURNER acknowledged that these laptops contain Top Secret email communications
2163
2164	...[REDACTED] admitted that the computer in his possession has been connected to the Internet on numerous occasions subsequent to being loaded with the classified email communications of HILLARY CLINTON.
2165
2166	...Both [REDACTED] and TURNER admitted that the emails contained on these laptops had been viewed by attorneys who did not have a security clearance at the time they reviewed the material.
2167
2168
2169http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2170	COMEY: You know I think I said this in my statement on Tuesday, they sorted the e-mails by using headers and search terms to try and find work related e-mails, we read them all.
2171
2172	CHAFFETZ: I know that you read them all. Do you think it’s reasonable or unreasonable to think that her attorneys, under her director, did or did not read those e-mails? Because there were — let me go back to this, yes or no, were there or were there not classified e-mails that her — that Hillary Clinton’s attorneys read?
2173
2174	COMEY: I don’t know whether they read them at the time.
2175
2176	CHAFFETZ: They — did Hillary Clinton give non-cleared people access to classified information?
2177
2178	COMEY: Yes. Yes.
2179
2180	CHAFFETZ: What do you think her intent was?
2181
2182	COMEY: I think then was to get good legal representation and to make the production to the State Department. That can be a very tall order, in that circumstance (ph) I don’t see the evidence there to make a case that she was acting with criminal intent in her engagement with her lawyers.
2183
2184	CHAFFETZ: And I’d just — I guess I read criminal intent as the idea that you allow somebody without a security clearance access to classified information. Everybody knows that Director, everybody knows that.
2185
2186
2187https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2188	JORDAN: I appreciate -- let -- and let's get into that.
2189
2190	Those 55,000 pages, there were 62,00 e-mails -- total e-mails, on your system. You have stated that you used a multi-step process to determine which ones were private, which ones were public, which ones belonged to you and your family, which ones belonged to the taxpayer.
2191
2192	Who oversaw this multi-step process in making that determination which ones we might get and which ones that were personal?
2193
2194	CLINTON: That was overseen by my attorneys and they conducted a rigorous review of my e-mails and...
2195
2196	JORDAN: These are the folks sitting behind you there, Mr. Kendall, Ms. Mills...
2197
2198	CLINTON: Yes, that's right.
2199
2200	JORDAN: ...Ms. Danielsen (ph)? All right.
2201
2202	And you said rigorous. What does that mean?
2203
2204	CLINTON: It means that they were asked to provide anything that could be possibly construed as work related. In fact, in my opinion -- and that's been confirmed by both the State Department...
2205
2206	JORDAN: But I'm asking how -- I'm asking how it was done. Was -- did someone physically look at the 62,000 e-mails, or did you use search terms, date parameters? I want to know the specifics.
2207
2208	CLINTON: They did all of that, and I did not look over their shoulders, because I thought it would be appropriate for them to conduct that search, and they did.
2209
2210	JORDAN: Will you provide this committee -- or can you answer today, what were the search terms? 	
2211	CLINTON: The search terms were everything you could imagine that might be related to anything
2212
2213
2214https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2006%20of%2010/view
2215	pg 54
2216
2217	...each of the 32 e-mails contained references to either "Benghazi," "Libya," or "Tripoli." Consequently, the 32 e-mails possibly were provided to DOS because they hit on those search terms
2218
2219
2220http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/293837-fbi-recovers-30-clinton-emails-involving-benghazi-attack
2221	FBI recovers 30 deleted Clinton emails involving Benghazi attack
2222
2223
2224https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2225	CLINTON: ...but they also went through every single e-mail.
2226
2227
2228https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
2229	After reviewing an email dated November 26, 2010 with the subject line "Mbz Call - 7:15am," CLINTON stated she recalled the time period of the WikiLeaks disclosures because it was a difficult time for State. She spent long hours on the phone with foreign diplomats addressing the WikiLeaks disclosures and ensuring no one was in danger as a result of the disclosures. Regarding the specific email, CLINTON did not know why it was not in the approximately 30,000 emails produced to State, and, based on its content, would expect it to be considered work-related.
2230
2231
2232https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/
2233	GOWDY: Madam Secretary, is there any question that the 15 that James Cole turned over to us were work related? There's no ambiguity about that. They were work related.
2234
2235	CLINTON: No. They were from a personal friend, not any official government -- not any government official. And they were, I determined on the basis of looking at them, what I thought was work related and what wasn't. And some I didn't even have time to read, Mr. Chairman. 
2236
2237	...GOWDY: The 15 -- my question to you, on the 15, did your lawyers find them and decide that they were not work related or did they not find them?
2238
2239	CLINTON: Well, I don't know why he had emails I didn't. And I don't know why, apparently, I had emails he didn't. And all I can tell you is that I turned over every work related email in my possession.
2240
2241
2242http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/290906-deleted-clinton-emails-might-remain-secret-until-after-election
2243	The FBI says it found “several thousand” work-related emails Clinton deleted, but the State Department has not committed to a schedule for their release
2244
2245
2246http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2247	CONNOLLY: Was she evasive?
2248
2249	COMEY: I don’t think the agents assessed she was evasive.
2250
2251
2252https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
2253	CLINTON had no knowledge regarding the following topics:
2254
2255	- The creation, storage, transfer, or access to an archive of her email created by MONICA HANLEY in the Spring of 2013
2256
2257	- The specific process and procedures used by CLINTON's legal team and PRN to separate her work and personal email
2258
2259	- Discussions of federal records related to the Apple, Pagliano, or PRN servers
2260
2261	- The existence of any copies of her clintonemail.com emails, other than what has been provided to the FBI and State
2262
2263	- March 2015 deletions by PRN
2264
2265
2266https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
2267	...CLINTON did not have any conversations with regard to using the server to avoid the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and specifically denied using the server to avoid Federal Records Act (FRA) requirements. Based on her practice of emailing staff on their state.gov accounts, CLINTON assumed her communications were captured by State systems. CLINTON was not aware of State employee [REDACTED] expressing concerns CLINTON's email server was not compliant with the FRA.
2268
2269
2270https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/02/the-many-things-hillary-clinton-couldnt-recall-in-her-fbi-interview/
2271 	Hillary Clinton told the FBI she couldn’t recall something more than three dozen times 
2272
2273
2274http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2275	GROTHMAN: Do you think Mrs. Clinton knew that the technical people were erasing these e-mails so that even your top technical experts could recover them?
2276
2277	COMEY: Based on my sense now for technical sophistication, I — I — I don’t think so.
2278
2279
2280http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-hillary-clintons-email-saga/story?id=29442707
2281	Hillary Clinton was recorded telling a donor that she didn't like using email.
2282
2283	Home video footage from 2000, shot at a fundraiser by a donor, Peter Paul, showed then-Sen. Clinton talking about how she had chosen to avoid email for fear of leaving a paper trail.
2284
2285	"As much as I’ve been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I? -- I don’t even want -- Why would I ever want to do e-mail?" Clinton said.
2286
2287	"Can you imagine?" she asked.
2288
2289
2290
2291Clinton testified to Congress that she all emails she "decided that were work related [she] forwarded to the state.gov accounts of the people with whom [she] worked," and Clinton swore under penalty of perjury that 1. She turned over all work related emails to the State Department and 2. She knew Huma Abedin used an account on Clinton's private server to conduct government business. But the FBI found "1,539 direct e-mails between hdr22@clinconemail.com and huma@clintonemail.com," saying this is only a subset of the work-related emails between Clinton and Abedin on her personal server (an FBI warrant suggests 4,000). It is inconceivable that Clinton knew Abedin was using an account on her server for work, sent her work-related emails 1,539 to 4,000 times, yet forgot to turn these emails over to the State Department.
2292
2293This means Clinton either lied under oath to Congress, or really thinks those 1,539 to 4,000 emails weren't work-related (it sounds like at least 2 of them were classified: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2017/images/05/09/2017-05-09.fbi.to.ceg.-.comey.testimony.supplement.pdf). Lying under oath about her failure to turn over her work-related emails to the Government would be evidence that Clinton was trying to hide something and knew what she was doing was wrong. Still, for whatever reason, Comey didn't review Clinton's statements to Congress before his recommendation not to indict. 
2294
2295Clinton's statements to the press also suggest she knew she was doing something wrong. She told the public it was her responsibility to decide which of her emails are work-related:
2296
2297	QUESTION: How could the public be assured that when you deleted emails that were personal in nature, that you didn't also delete emails that were professional, but possibly unflattering? ...
2298
2299	CLINTON: Well first of all, you have to ask that question to every single federal employee, because the way the system works, the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.
2300
2301	...CLINTON: ...For any government employee, it is that government employee's responsibility to determine what's personal and what's work-related. 
2302
2303
2304But she told the FBI she left that entirely to her lawyers:
2305
2306
2307https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2002%20of%2010/view
2308	...CLINTON expected her team to provide any work-related or arguably work-related emails to State; however, she did not participate in the development of the specific process to be used or discussions of the locations where her emails might exist. Additionally, CLINTON was not consulted on specific emails as to their content being work-related or not.
2309
2310
2311This would open-up the opportunity for Clinton to abuse attorney-client privilege and direct her lawyers to delete federal records she wouldn't want made public (although there is one relevant exception http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-reid/the-crime-fraud-exception_b_8806598.html). Clinton's lawyers at least seemed to have attorney-client privilege in mind:
2312
2313
2314https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
2315	pg 39
2316
2317	TURNER acknowledged that these laptops contain Top Secret email communications and attorney/client privileged communications. TURNER sought to turn over the laptops as soon as possible but wished to ensure that privileged communications on the laptops would remain confidential. TURNER declined to provide consent to search the laptops
2318
2319	...According to [REDACTED] SAMUELSON deleted CLINTON's personal emails from the original 60,000 resulting in the 30,490 emails eventually turned over to the FBI.
2320
2321
2322Clinton's lawyers told the FBI they deleted Clinton's "personal" emails--thousands of which were later found to be work-related--but Comey had trouble relaying that to Congress:
2323
2324
2325http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2326	GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said neither she nor anyone else deleted work related e-mails from her personal account. Was that true?
2327
2328	COMEY: That’s a harder one to answer. We found traces of work- related e-mails in — on devices or in slack space. Whether they were deleted or whether when the server was changed out something happened to them. There’s no doubt that the work-related e-mails that were removed electronically from the e-mail system.
2329
2330
2331Comey also said Clinton's lawyers "didn't read" all of Clinton's emails and "just looked at the headings," then when pressed changes his story to "I don’t know whether they read them at the time:"
2332
2333
2334http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2335	CHAFFETZ: I asked you at the very beginning, does Hillary Clinton, is there a reasonable expectation that Hillary Clinton would send and receive if not day — hourly if not daily, classified information. That’s reasonable to think that the Secretary of State would get classified information every moment. She’s not the head of Fish and Wildlife so the idea that she would turn over her e-mails, her system, her server to, what it sounds like, up to ten people without security clearances and there’s no consequence. So why not do it again?
2336
2337	COMEY: That’s a question I don’t think you should put to me, you’re asking — I’m talking about my criminal investigation.
2338
2339	CHAFFETZ: But how can that — there’s no intent there, does she not understand that these people don’t have security clearances?
2340
2341	COMEY: Surely she understands at least some of them don’t have security clearances.
2342
2343	CHAFFETZ: So she understands they don’t have security clearances and it’s reasonable to think she’s going to be in (ph) classified information. Is that not intent to provide a non-cleared person access to classified information?
2344
2345	COMEY: You’re mixing it up though. I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume — mixing me up, sorry, not your fault — that someone who is maintaining your server is reading your e-mails, in fact I don’t think that’s the case here. There’s a separate thing which is when she is engaging counsel (ph) to comply with the State Department’s request, are her lawyers then exposed information that may be on there that’s classified, so…
2346
2347	CHAFFETZ: And did they see any classified information? Did Hillary Clinton’s attorneys, without security clearances, see classified information?
2348
2349	COMEY: As (ph) I sit here, I don’t know the answer to that.
2350
2351	CHAFFETZ: It has to be yes Director, you came across 110 and they said they went through all of them.
2352
2353	COMEY: Well, they didn’t read them all they just looked at headings (ph)…
2354
2355	CHAFFETZ: So their excuse is we saw the e-mails but we didn’t read them?
2356
2357	COMEY: You know I think I said this in my statement on Tuesday, they sorted the e-mails by using headers and search terms to try and find work related e-mails, we read them all.
2358
2359	CHAFFETZ: I know that you read them all. Do you think it’s reasonable or unreasonable to think that her attorneys, under her director, did or did not read those e-mails? Because there were — let me go back to this, yes or no, were there or were there not classified e-mails that her — that Hillary Clinton’s attorneys read?
2360
2361	COMEY: I don’t know whether they read them at the time.
2362
2363	CHAFFETZ: They — did Hillary Clinton give non-cleared people access to classified information?
2364
2365	COMEY: Yes. Yes.
2366
2367	CHAFFETZ: What do you think her intent was?
2368
2369	COMEY: I think then was to get good legal representation and to make the production to the State Department. That can be a very tall order, in that circumstance (ph) I don’t see the evidence there to make a case that she was acting with criminal intent in her engagement with her lawyers.
2370
2371	CHAFFETZ: And I’d just — I guess I read criminal intent as the idea that you allow somebody without a security clearance access to classified information. Everybody knows that Director, everybody knows that. 
2372
2373
2374But Clinton's lawyers told the FBI that they read some of the emails individually, didn't have security clearances, and that they knew they were in possession of Top Secret classified information:
2375
2376
2377https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2010/view
2378	pg 39
2379
2380	On August 17, 2015, KATHERINE M. TURNER, Partner at the law offices of Williams & Connolly LLP ... met at her place of employment with agents of the FBI to discuss voluntarily turning over six (6) laptop computers known to contain Top Secret classified information.
2381
2382	...TURNER acknowledged that these laptops contain Top Secret email communications
2383
2384	...[REDACTED] admitted that the computer in his possession has been connected to the Internet on numerous occasions subsequent to being loaded with the classified email communications of HILLARY CLINTON.
2385
2386	...Both [REDACTED] and TURNER admitted that the emails contained on these laptops had been viewed by attorneys who did not have a security clearance at the time they reviewed the material. TURNER said the emails did not contain classification markers and thus they were not aware that they were classified at the time.
2387
2388
2389Clinton had reason to believe there was classified information on her server. Even still, she gave people without a security clearance access to this information (and with an expectation that they would access this information), which is a felony. Comey said this is OK because Clinton's "intent" was "to get good legal representation and to make the production to the State Department," which "can be a very tall order, in that circumstance."
2390
2391That Clinton chose to use a convoluted, legally risky, and ultimately inadequate method for turning over her work-related emails could also be used to argue that Clinton intended to hide federal records on her email server from the public. There are other reasons to suspect this was Clinton's intent.
2392
2393The Clinton Foundation had come under scrutiny for some unusual patterns in its donations and lapses in transparency. Clinton had stepped down from her foundation, but her husband had not. When confronted with this, Clinton dodged the question and defended her foundation's conduct.
2394
2395
2396Claim #4: The Clinton Foundation had "overwhelming disclosure:"
2397
2398
2399http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/08/acd.01.html
2400	COOPER: ...The foundation has obviously, raised huge sums of money for worthy causes. It's always not been transparent though. Tens of millions come from a Canadian partnership whose donors remain secret. There was a large donation from Algeria that wasn't submitted to State Department for approval. If you're president, will your husband divest himself of any association with the foundation? 
2401
2402	CLINTON: Well, Anderson, we'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it, but let me try to set the record straight. We had absolutely overwhelming disclosure. Were there one or two instances that slipped through the cracks, yes. But was the overwhelming amount of anything that anybody gave the foundation disclosed, absolutely. 
2403
2404
2405http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/memorandum_of_understanding_clinton.pdf
2406	WHEREAS, the Parties also seek to ensure that the activities of the Foundation, however beneficial, do not create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as Secretary of State.
2407
2408	WHEREAS the Parties have agreed to a set of protocols that would apply to the Foundation's activities to supplement any existing State Department protocols for managing conflicts of interests, and the appearance of conflicts of interest, as determined by the State Department's designated agency ethics official
2409
2410	WHEREAS, the Parties seek to memorialize the mutually agreeable protocols related to the activities of the Foundation during the period in which Senator Hillary Clinton Serves in the Obama Administration.
2411
2412	NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby agreed as follows: 
2413
2414	...Publication of Foundation Contributors. In anticipation of Senator Clinton's nomination and confirmation as Secretary of State, the Foundation will publish its contributors this year. During any service by Senator Clinton as Secretary of State, the Foundation will publish annually the names of new contributors. 
2415
2416
2417http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-clinton-donations-idUSKBN0MF2FQ20150319
2418	Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors
2419
2420 	In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence.
2421
2422	At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than 200,000 donors and has continued to update it. But in a breach of the pledge, the charity's flagship health program, which spends more than all of the other foundation initiatives put together, stopped making the annual disclosure in 2010, Reuters has found.
2423
2424	In response to questions from Reuters, officials at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the foundation confirmed no complete list of donors to the Clintons' charities has been published since 2010. CHAI was spun off as a separate legal entity that year, but the officials acknowledged it still remains subject to the same disclosure agreement as the foundation.  
2425
2426	The finding could renew scrutiny of Clinton's promises of transparency as she prepares to launch her widely expected bid for the White House in the coming weeks.
2427
2428	...The State Department said it was unable to cite any instances of its officials reviewing or approving new money from any foreign governments. Daley confirmed that none of the seven government donations had been submitted to the State Department for review.
2429
2430
2431http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/293507-seven-ways-the-clinton-foundation-failed-to-meet-its-transparency-promises
2432	Seven ways the Clinton Foundation failed to meet its transparency promises
2433
2434
2435https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html
2436	In one instance, foundation officials acknowledged they should have sought approval in 2010 from the State Department ethics office, as required by the agreement for new government donors, before accepting a $500,000 donation from the Algerian government.
2437
2438	The money was given to assist with earthquake relief in Haiti, the foundation said. At the time, Algeria, which has sought a closer relationship with Washington, was spending heavily to lobby the State Department on human rights issues.
2439
2440	While the foundation has disclosed foreign-government donors for years, it has not previously detailed the donations that were accepted during Clinton’s four-year stint at the State Department.
2441
2442
2443http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/19/407981227/after-a-month-the-7-questions-hillary-clinton-answered-from-the-media
2444	"Secretary Clinton, do you regret the way that the Clinton foundation handled foreign donations when you were secretary of state? And your opponents say that the foreign donations and private emails are examples of the Clintons having one set of rules for themselves and one for everyone else. Do they have a point?"
2445
2446	Clinton: "I am so proud of the foundation. I'm proud of the work that it has done and it is doing. It attracted donations from people, organizations from around the world and I think that just goes to show that people are very supportive of the lifesaving and life-changing work it's done here at home and elsewhere.
2447
2448	"And I'll let the American people make their own judgments about that."
2449
2450
2451http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foundation-idUSKBN12Z2SL
2452	Clinton's charity confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept
2453
2454	Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family's globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.
2455
2456	If a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to "increase materially" its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department's ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns.
2457
2458	Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation.
2459
2460	...Foundation officials told Reuters last year that they did not always comply with central provisions of the agreement with President Barack Obama's administration, blaming oversights in some cases.
2461
2462	At least eight other countries besides Qatar gave new or increased funding to the foundation, in most cases to fund its health project, without the State Department being informed, according to foundation and agency records. They include Algeria, which gave for the first time in 2010, and the United Kingdom, which nearly tripled its support for the foundation's health project to $11.2 million between 2009 and 2012.
2463
2464
2465http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-taxes-exclusive-idUSKBN0NE0CA20150423
2466	Hillary Clinton's family's charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case of other errors.
2467
2468	...The charities' errors generally take the form of under-reporting or over-reporting, by millions of dollars, donations from foreign governments, or in other instances omitting to break out government donations entirely when reporting revenue, the charities confirmed to Reuters.
2469
2470	...The unsettled numbers on the tax returns are not evidence of wrongdoing but tend to undermine the 990s role as a form of public accountability, experts in charity law and transparency advocates told Reuters.
2471
2472
2473http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
2474	CLINTON: ...My husband doesn't take a salary. He has no financial interests in any of this. I don't take a salary. I have no financial interests. So out of that abundance of caution and a desire to avoid even the appearance, the president-elect's transition team began working with the foundation to try to craft an agreement that would avoid the appearance of a conflict but would also ensure that the foundation can continue its work.
2475
2476
2477https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/27/memo-shows-bill-clintons-wealth-tied-clinton-foundation/92842822/
2478	Doug Band, a long-time aide to Bill Clinton, wrote the 2011 memo as part of an internal audit at the Clinton Foundation. In trying to explain his role in the Foundation, Band also brought up a series of instances he and his consulting company, Teneo Holdings, helped Bill Clinton secure for-profit contracts.
2479
2480	The memo, which was being circulated to some in Clinton's inner circle including Podesta, reinforces Republican criticisms of the blurred lines between the foundation and professional interests of the Clintons and their associates.
2481
2482	“Independent of our fundraising and decision-making activities on behalf of the Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to helping the President secure and engage in for-profit activities — including speeches, books, and advisory service engagements," Band wrote. "In that context, we have in effect served as agents, lawyers, managers and implementers to secure speaking, business and advisory service deals. In support of the President’s for-profit activity, we also have solicited and obtained, as appropriate, in-kind services for the President and his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”
2483
2484	At one point, Band even referred to the former president’s money-making enterprises as “Bill Clinton, Inc.”
2485
2486
2487http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
2488	Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
2489
2490	Before Mrs. Clinton could assume her post as secretary of state, the White House demanded that she sign a memorandum of understanding placing limits on the activities of her husband’s foundation. To avoid the perception of conflicts of interest, beyond the ban on foreign government donations, the foundation was required to publicly disclose all contributors.
2491
2492	To judge from those disclosures — which list the contributions in ranges rather than precise amounts — the only Uranium One official to give to the Clinton Foundation was Mr. Telfer, the chairman, and the amount was relatively small: no more than $250,000, and that was in 2007, before talk of a Rosatom deal began percolating.
2493
2494	But a review of tax records in Canada, where Mr. Telfer has a family charity called the Fernwood Foundation, shows that he donated millions of dollars more, during and after the critical time when the foreign investment committee was reviewing his deal with the Russians. With the Russians offering a special dividend, shareholders like Mr. Telfer stood to profit.
2495
2496
2497http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-republicans-talking/story?id=30455226
2498	Q: Secretary Clinton your reaction please to these book allegations--did foreign entities receive any special treatment from making any kind of donations to the Clinton Foundation or your husband?
2499
2500	CLINTON: Well, we're back into the political season, and therefore we will be subjected to all kinds of distractions and attacks, and I'm ready for that. I know that that comes, unfortunately, with the territory. It is, um, I think worth noting that uh, the Republicans seem to be, uh, talking only about me. I don't know what they'd talk about if I weren't in the race
2501
2502
2503http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
2504	...And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
2505
2506
2507http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
2508	CLINTON:  ...In this particular case, the Office of Government Ethics and the career ethics officials at the State Department have looked at the rules and concluded there is not an inherent conflict of interest in any of my husband's work at all.
2509
2510	However, the foundation and the president-elect decided to go beyond what the law and the ethics rules call for to address even the appearance of conflict and that is why they signed a memorandum of understanding, which outlines the voluntary steps that the foundation is taking to address potential concerns that might come up down the road.
2511
2512
2513http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
2514	...Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. 
2515	
2516	...Still, the company’s story was hardly front-page news in the United States — until early 2008, in the midst of Mrs. Clinton’s failed presidential campaign, when The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.
2517
2518	...When ARMZ, an arm of Rosatom, took its first 17 percent stake in Uranium One in 2009, the two parties signed an agreement, found in securities filings, to seek the foreign investment committee’s review. But it was the 2010 deal, giving the Russians a controlling 51 percent stake, that set off alarm bells. 
2519
2520	...Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, where Uranium One’s largest American operation was, wrote to President Obama, saying the deal “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.”
2521
2522	...Uranium One’s shareholders were also alarmed, and were “afraid of Rosatom as a Russian state giant”
2523
2524	...Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatively smooth process.
2525
2526
2527http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/08/acd.01.html
2528	COOPER: But some big donors clearly want the association with you or your husband that they linked to the foundation gives them. As president, obviously, it's vital that you and your husband not to appear to be in any way compromised. So I guess have you considered the idea of him stepping down?
2529
2530	CLINTON: Again, I'm not going to consider anything until we see what the circumstances are. But let me just point out that people give lots of money to presidential campaigns, don't they?
2531
2532	...COOPER: Out on the campaign trail, one of the things you said several weeks ago is your husband might be put in charge of revitalizing the economy. Is that something you're seriously looking at, a position for him in that regard?
2533
2534	CLINTON: Well, I'm looking for his good advice and his extraordinary understanding of what we've got to do to help distressed communities...
2535
2536	...So he has a wealth of experience and I'm looking forward to tapping into that and finding out what we can do...
2537
2538
2539http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bill-clinton-sought-state-department-paid-speeches-related/story?id=33369277
2540	Bill Clinton Sought State Department OK For Paid Speeches Related to North Korea, Congo, New E-mails Show
2541
2542 	...The catch? The dictators of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo would both be attending -- and required photos with Bill Clinton. The speaking fee? A whopping $650,000. 
2543
2544
2545http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends/story?id=42615379
2546	'FOBs': How Hillary's State Dept. Gave Special Attention to 'Friends of Bill' After Haiti Quake
2547
2548 	In a series of candid email exchanges with top Clinton Foundation officials during the hours after the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, a senior aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly gave special attention to those identified by the abbreviations “FOB” (friends of Bill Clinton) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).
2549
2550	“Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC,” wrote Caitlin Klevorick, then a senior State Department official who was juggling incoming offers of assistance being funneled to the State Department by the Clinton Foundation. “Most I can probably ID but not all.” 
2551
2552 	“Is this a FOB!” Klevorick writes later, when a Clinton Foundation aide forwards a woman’s offer of medical supplies. “If not, she should go to cidi.org,” she adds, directing the person deemed not to be a Clinton friend to a general government website. 
2553
2554	...However noble the motives of the officials working to get supplies into Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, numerous messages show a senior aide to then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton coordinating with a Clinton Foundation official to identify FOBs. The Clintons have said repeatedly that the State Department never gave favorable treatment to foundation supporters in Haiti or anywhere else.
2555
2556	“Nothing was ever done for anybody because they were contributors to the foundation,” Bill Clinton told CBS News’ Charlie Rose in September. “Nothing.” 
2557
2558
2559https://apnews.com/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f625/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state
2560	Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State
2561
2562	More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
2563
2564	At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
2565
2566	Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
2567
2568	The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.
2569
2570
2571http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
2572	CLINTON: Well, again, this is an agreement that has been worked out between all of the parties and the fact is that the concerns that were raised in the discussions between the foundation and the president-elect's team were thoroughly discussed and they believe, and I agree, that the transparency and disclosure that is needed, which, as you said yourself, it goes beyond any kind of legal or ethical consideration.
2573
2574	And not only that, there will be ongoing -- there will be ongoing reviews by anything that is brought to the attention of the career professionals.
2575
2576	But I just have to go back, Senator, and try to set the record straight. [Clinton Global Initiative] is not in the memorandum of understanding because they already have a practice of disclosing all of their contributions. There is no need to require it.
2577
2578	I will certainly state here that they're going to continue the practice which they've already done.
2579
2580
2581https://apnews.com/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f625/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state
2582	...American affiliates of his nonprofit Grameen Bank had been working with the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative programs as early as 2005, pledging millions of dollars in microloans for the poor. Grameen America, the bank’s nonprofit U.S. flagship, which Yunus chairs, has given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the foundation
2583
2584	...“Please see if the issues of Grameen Bank can be raised in a friendly way,” he asked Verveer. Yunus sent “regards to H” and cited an upcoming Clinton Global Initiative event he planned to attend.
2585
2586	...Clinton ordered an aide: “Give to EAP rep,” referring the problem to the agency’s top east Asia expert.
2587
2588	...In another case, Clinton was host at a September 2009 breakfast meeting at the New York Stock Exchange that listed Blackstone Group chairman Stephen Schwarzman as one of the attendees. Schwarzman’s firm is a major Clinton Foundation donor, but he personally donates heavily to GOP candidates and causes. One day after the breakfast, according to Clinton emails, the State Department was working on a visa issue at Schwarzman’s request. In December that same year, Schwarzman’s wife, Christine, sat at Clinton’s table during the Kennedy Center Honors. Clinton also introduced Schwarzman, then chairman of the Kennedy Center, before he spoke.
2589
2590
2591https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2003%20of%2010/view
2592	pg 174
2593
2594	[REDACTED] was interviewed by Special Agent (SA) [REDACTED] and SA [REDACTED] at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
2595
2596	...[REDACTED] concluded the interview by stating that DOS has shown an increased tendency to communicate via email. He believed that they did this for simplicity, to avoid unauthorized disclosures such as Wikileaks, and to prevent other USG partners from seeing their "back channel" discussions.
2597
2598
2599https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/opinion/cutting-ties-to-the-clinton-foundation.html
2600	Cutting Ties to the Clinton Foundation
2601
2602	When Mrs. Clinton became secretary of state, the Obama administration tried to draw a line between the foundation, particularly its foreign-government sponsors, and her role. The new emails underscore that this effort was at best partly successful. “Pay-to-play” charges by Donald Trump have not been proved. But the emails and previous reporting suggest Mr. Trump has reason to say that while Mrs. Clinton was secretary, it was hard to tell where the foundation ended and the State Department began.
2603
2604	Mrs. Clinton became involved in State Department deals and negotiations that also involved foundation donors or board members. She prompted multiple investigations with an arrangement that allowed Huma Abedin, her deputy chief of staff at the State Department and now vice chairwoman of her campaign, to be paid simultaneously by the State Department, the foundation and Teneo, a consulting firm run by Doug Band, the former adviser to Mr. Clinton who helped create the foundation — and who sent emails to Ms. Abedin seeking favors for foundation donors.
2605
2606	The newly disclosed emails show that some foundation donors and friends, like Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin al-Khalifa of Bahrain, used foundation channels to seek access to Mrs. Clinton. 
2607
2608
2609https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/us/politics/emails-raise-new-questions-about-clinton-foundation-ties-to-state-dept.html
2610	Emails Raise New Questions About Clinton Foundation Ties to State Dept.
2611
2612	WASHINGTON — A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton in 2009, according to emails released Thursday, raising new questions about whether people tied to the Clinton Foundation received special access at the department.
2613
2614	The exchange about the passport, between Mr. Band and Huma Abedin, who was then a top State Department aide to Mrs. Clinton, was included in a set of more than 500 pages of emails made public by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that sued for their release.
2615
2616	“Need get me/justy and jd dip passports,” Mr. Band wrote to Ms. Abedin on July 27, 2009, referring to passports for himself and two other aides to Mr. Clinton, Justin Cooper and John Davidson.
2617
2618	“We had them years ago but they lapsed and we didn’t bother getting them,” Mr. Band wrote.
2619
2620	Ms. Abedin emailed back six minutes later to say, “OK will figure it out.”
2621
2622	Mr. Band did not explain in the email exchange why he and the others needed the diplomatic passports, and Ms. Abedin did not ask.
2623
2624
2625http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/politics/hillary-clinton-state-department-citizens-united/index.html
2626	Group: Emails show Clinton, aides mixed State Department, foundation business
2627
2628
2629http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-emails-state-foundation-226897
2630 	Ethicists: Clinton team violated ‘spirit’ of pledge 
2631
2632	The emails, which Clinton failed to include in the “work-related” cache she turned over to the State Department, show open lines of communication between the old Clinton hands running the family’s multimillion-dollar charity and those who’d moved on to help her run the State Department. The State Department was forced to turn over the emails to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, in a Freedom of Information Act case. 
2633
2634
2635https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-porous-ethical-wall-between-the-clinton-foundation-and-the-state-department/2016/08/14/f068899e-60b8-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html
2636	A porous ethical wall between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department
2637
2638
2639http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article99388232.html
2640	Ethics wall between State, Clinton Foundation didn’t extend to staff
2641
2642	An official at the Clinton Global Initiative sent top State Department aide Melanne Verveer a 63-page list of individuals, groups and companies that had pledged money to its programs.
2643
2644	An employee at another Clinton Foundation offshoot emailed Verveer looking for a job for a former colleague.
2645
2646	Yet another asked whether Verveer could persuade Myanmar’s internationally acclaimed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to attend an event.
2647
2648	Verveer, a longtime Hillary Clinton confidante who served as her chief of staff at the White House before becoming ambassador at large for global women’s issues, was in regular contact with Clinton Foundation officials during her four years at the State Department, according to dozens of emails.
2649
2650	...While Clinton had signed an ethics agreement to largely remove herself from issues involving her family’s foundation after she became the nation’s top diplomat in 2009, the document did not apply to her aides at the State Department.
2651
2652	...“I'm . . . scratching my head about why people inside the State Department didn't think it was a good idea to insulate senior officials and their staff from any Clinton Foundation activities,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. “Restrictions applied to Hillary, but those restrictions should have applied to other officials too.”
2653
2654	...The emails show the close, friendly relations between State Department and Clinton Foundation officials, providing a level of access that other groups undoubtedly wished they had with the administration.
2655
2656
2657http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/hillary-clinton-cgi-cheryl-mills/index.html
2658	A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department traveled to New York to interview job candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, a CNN investigation has found.
2659
2660	The fact that the aide, Cheryl Mills, was taking part in such a high level task for the Clinton foundation while also working as chief of staff for the secretary of state raises new questions about the blurred lines that have dogged the Clintons in recent years.
2661
2662	...E-mails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and released by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch this week raise new questions about the intermingling of Clinton Foundation business, its donors and employees under Hillary Clinton's control as a public servant. They suggest Foundation officials had no problem trying to curry favor for jobs by emailing top Clinton aides like Mills and Huma Abedin, who is now a senior adviser to Clinton's presidential campaign.
2663
2664
2665http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-teneo-idUSKCN0SV05M20151106
2666	The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee has been investigating since 2013 whether Teneo had improper access to the highest levels of U.S. government while Clinton, the favorite to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, was secretary of state. 
2667
2668	...Founders and other workers at Teneo have also worked for the Clintons, the State Department, the Clinton Foundation or a combination of the three. Teneo describes itself as "a global advisory firm that partners exclusively with the CEOs and senior leaders of many of the world’s largest and most complex companies and organizations."
2669
2670	...For a time in 2012 through early 2013, Abedin simultaneously had four overlapping sources of income: the State Department, Teneo, the Clinton Foundation and Clinton's private office.
2671
2672	...Clinton has said she was not directly involved in getting Abedin the waiver, known as special government employee status, which loosens some ethics restrictions that bind full-time government employees.
2673
2674	The special status was created in the 1960s to allow the government to temporarily bring in expertise from the private sector.
2675
2676
2677http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/mills-immunity-228580
2678	Top Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills received an immunity deal from the Justice Department in the FBI’s investigation into the former secretary of state’s private email server, records shown to Congress revealed Friday, re-injecting the email controversy into the presidential campaign just days before her first debate with Donald Trump.
2679
2680
2681https://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957
2682
2683https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-in-internal-feud-over-clinton-probe/ar-AAjCtQu
2684	FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe
2685
2686	New details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of the Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling cross-country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the matter, told agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation began more than a year ago to determine whether financial crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the charity. 
2687
2688	Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI leadership as uninterested in probing the charity, these people said. Others involved disagreed sharply, defending FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe in particular was caught between an increasingly acrimonious fight for control between the Justice Department and FBI agents pursuing the Clinton Foundation case.
2689
2690	It isn’t unusual for field agents to favor a more aggressive approach than supervisors and prosecutors think is merited. But the internal debates about the Clinton Foundation show the high stakes when such disagreements occur surrounding someone who is running for president.
2691
2692	The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Mr. McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, received $467,500 in campaign funds in late 2015 from the political-action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of the Clintons and, until he was elected governor in November 2013, a Clinton Foundation board member.
2693
2694	...other Clinton-related investigations were under way within the FBI, and they have been the subject of internal debate for months, according to people familiar with the matter.
2695
2696	Early this year, four FBI field offices—New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little Rock, Ark.—were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling, according to people familiar with the matter.
2697
2698	...In February, FBI officials made a presentation to the Justice Department, according to these people. By all accounts, the meeting didn’t go well.
2699
2700	Some said that is because the FBI didn’t present compelling evidence to justify more aggressive pursuit of the Clinton Foundation, and that the career anticorruption prosecutors in the room simply believed it wasn’t a very strong case. Others said that from the start, the Justice Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case.
2701
2702	“That was one of the weirdest meetings I’ve ever been to,” one participant told others afterward, according to people familiar with the matter.
2703
2704	Anticorruption prosecutors at the Justice Department told the FBI at the meeting they wouldn’t authorize more aggressive investigative techniques, such as subpoenas, formal witness interviews, or grand-jury activity. But the FBI officials believed they were well within their authority to pursue the leads and methods already under way, these people said.
2705
2706	...Others, particularly Justice Department anticorruption prosecutors, felt that both probes were weak, based largely on publicly available information, and had found little that would merit expanded investigative authority.
2707
2708	...In September, agents on the foundation case asked to see the emails contained on nongovernment laptops that had been searched as part of the Clinton email case, but that request was rejected by prosecutors at the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. Those emails were given to the FBI based on grants of partial immunity and limited-use agreements, meaning agents could only use them for the purpose of investigating possible mishandling of classified information.
2709
2710
2711https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/114-91_22125.pdf
2712	Mr. MARINO. ...was there additional immunity for Ms. Mills stating that anything on that computer cannot be used against her?
2713
2714	Mr. COMEY. As I recall it, Congressman, the act-of-production immunity for Ms. Mills was: You give us this computer; we will not use—we, the Justice Department—anything we find on the computer directly against you in connection with investigation or prosecution for mishandling of classified information. I think that is how they defined it.
2715
2716	Mr. MARINO. But that goes beyond act of production. Doesn’t act of production simply state that I am the agent, I can’t get on the stand and say that belongs to that individual because they simply gave it to me? It sounds like more, additional immunity was given that says: And what is on this we cannot hold against you.
2717
2718	Mr. COMEY. Well, I think of it as—I still think of it as an act- of-production immunity. From my experience, that is what I would characterize that agreement.
2719
2720	...Mr. MARINO. ...Why not empanel and investigative grand jury whereby you have reasonable suspicion that a crime may have been committed, and then you have the ability to get warrants, subpoenas, get this information, subpoena witnesses before the grand jury under oath ...wouldn't that have been much simpler and more effective than the way this has gone about? ...
2721
2722	Mr. COMEY. Yeah. No, it is a reasonable  question. And I don’t want to talk about grand jury in connection with this case or any other case—— 
2723
2724	...Mr.MARINO. I understand that clearly. Why did you not decide to go to an investigative grand jury? It would have been cleaner, it would have been much simpler, and you would have had more authority to make these witnesses testify—not the target, but the witness testify. That seems the way to go, Director. We have done it thousands of times. This just was too convoluted. 
2725
2726	Mr .COMEY. Yeah, again, I need to steer clear of talking about grand jury use in a particular matter. In general, in my experience, you can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you are interacting with lawyers. In this particular investigation, the investigative team really wanted to get access to the laptops that were used to sort these emails. 
2727
2728	Mr.MARINO. Okay. When was—— 
2729
2730	Mr. COMEY. Those are lawyers’ laptops. That is a very complicated thing. I think they were able to navigate it pretty well to get us access. 
2731
2732
2733https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/114-91_22125.pdf
2734	Ms. JACKSONLEE. ...I understand that the FBI does not make the final call on immunity agreements. That was the DOJ. You made that clear. ...But did you consult closely with DOJ before these immunity agreements were concluded by giving—by having facts?
2735
2736	Mr. COMEY. Right. Our job is to tell them what facts we would like to get access to. The prosecutor’s job is figure out how to do that. And so they negotiate—I think there were five limited immunity agreements of different kinds that they negotiated.
2737
2738	Ms. JACKSONLEE. Did you or anyone at the FBI ever object to these decisions to grant immunity? Did you think they made sense?
2739
2740	Mr. COMEY. No. It was fairly ordinary stuff.
2741
2742	Ms. JACKSONLEE. Was the FBI or DOJ handing out immunity agreements like candy?
2743
2744	Mr. COMEY. That is not how I saw it. I didn’t see it—— 
2745
2746
2747https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-in-internal-feud-over-clinton-probe/ar-AAjCtQu
2748	Some FBI agents were dissatisfied with that answer, and asked for permission to make a similar request to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. McCabe, these people said, told them no and added that they couldn’t “go prosecutor-shopping.”
2749
2750	Not long after that discussion, FBI agents informed the bureau’s leaders about the Weiner laptop, prompting Mr. Comey’s disclosure to Congress and setting off the furor that promises to consume the final days of a tumultuous campaign.
2751
2752
2753https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-22/clinton-foundation-said-to-be-breached-by-russian-hackers
2754	Clinton Foundation Said to Be Breached by Russian Hackers
2755
2756
2757http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
2758	LUGAR: ...President Clinton is deservedly proud of the Clinton Foundation's good work in addressing HIV/AIDS, global poverty, climate change, and other pressing problems.
2759
2760	But the Clinton Foundation exists as a temptation for any foreign entity or government that believes it could curry favor through a donation. It also sets up potential perception problems with any action taken by the secretary of state in relation to foreign givers or their countries.
2761
2762	The nature of the secretary of state post makes recusal from specific policy decisions almost impossible, since even localized U.S. foreign policy activities can ripple across countries and continents. Every new foreign donation that is accepted by the foundation comes with the risk it will be connected in the global media to a proximate State Department policy or decision.
2763
2764	Foreign perceptions are incredibly important to United States foreign policy, and mistaken impressions or suspicions can deeply affect the actions of foreign governments toward the United States. Moreover, we do not want our own government's deliberations distracted by avoidable controversies played out in the media.
2765
2766	The bottom line is that even well-intentioned foreign donations carry risks for United States foreign policy. The only certain way to eliminate this risk going forward is for the Clinton foundation to forswear new foreign contributions when Senator Clinton becomes secretary of state.
2767
2768	...CLINTON: ...I can absolutely guarantee you that I will keep a very close look on how this is being implemented. I will certainly do everything in my power to make sure that the good work of the foundation continues without there being any untoward effects on me and my service and be very conscious of any questions that are raised.
2769
2770	But I think that the way that this has been hammered out is probably as close as we can get to doing something that is so unprecedented that there is no formula for it. And we've tried to do the very best we could.
2771
2772	LUGAR: Well, my time is concluded. But let me just say that the situation is unprecedented when a first lady and her distinguished husband and a foundation come together with a State Department hearing of this sort.
2773
2774	I am hopeful that, as we go through the history of this, that people will not say, well, Senator Lugar, Senator Kerry, and others were pressing it. They saw the problems. And we'll get full credit, but that will not be helpful to our foreign policy, to you, to your husband, to the foundation.
2775
2776	This is why I plea for you, really, to give even more consideration -- it may not be a decision made today because I appreciate the negotiations have been sizeable. And you are a good negotiator and so is your husband. So are those who have worked for you. I admire that. It's a good things for a State Department official and, particularly, the secretary of state.
2777
2778	But this seems to me to be so important at the outset. This is why I've dwelled upon it, trying your patience and that of the committee, because I think it is very important. And I think you understand that.
2779
2780	CLINTON: I do. And I respect you so much, Senator. And I can, you know, certainly guarantee to you that I will remain very sensitive to this and I will work with you and the chairman as we go forward.
2781
2782	LUGAR: Thank you.
2783
2784	CLINTON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
2785
2786
2787Before she was sworn-in, Clinton was sternly warned of the risks involved in accepting foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation as Secretary of State. To address this, Clinton signed a memorandum of understanding with the Obama Administration promising to disclose foreign donations to the State Department and avoid conflicts of interest or "the appearance of conflicts of interest."
2788
2789Clinton failed to disclose foreign donations multiple times. There is a pattern of Clinton giving preferential treatment at the State Department to donors to her foundation, "friends" of her Husband, and foreign governments who paid her husband exorbitant speaking fees. Clinton failed to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. She broke her promise to the Senate, the Obama administration, and the public.
2790
2791Clinton promised "overwhelming disclosure" for the Clinton Foundation, but if the Clinton Foundation was subject to overwhelming disclosure, it was only because of FOIA requests of Clinton's work-related emails (http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Abedin-Complaint-File-Stamped.pdf). Clinton's state department and foundation overlapped in employees, communications, and business, and it has been said it was "hard to tell where the foundation ended and the State Department began."
2792
2793Because some of the federal records on Clinton's private server gave the appearance of a conflict of interest and a violation of Clinton's agreement with the Obama administration, Clinton had an incentive to conceal these records. Reportedly, the conduct at the Clinton Foundation was enough to open an FBI investigation into the foundation, further adding to the incentive to conceal. In her public statements, Clinton said her foundation went "beyond what the law and the ethics rules call for to address even the appearance of conflict," but it is inconceivable that Clinton did not recognize the emails she wrote as Secretary of State and the business she conducted as director of the Clinton Foundation created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
2794
2795But, apparently, Comey did not take this into account either when he decided there was insufficient "evidence of intent" to indict Clinton:
2796
2797
2798http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2799	CHAFFETZ: Was the Clinton Foundation tied into this investigation?
2800
2801	COMEY: Yeah I’m not going to answer that.
2802
2803
2804Reportedly, the unusual immunity agreements granted by the Justice Department during the Clinton email investigation hindered the FBI's investigation of the Clinton Foundation. It is unclear why Comey defended these immunity agreements and dodged the question when asked to testify why he didn't instead empanel a grand jury.
2805
2806
2807Ultimately, even if Comey's intent requirement is to be followed, there is evidence that Clinton had a guilty conscience, especially from her public statements. But Comey says he didn't review Clinton's statements before his recommendation to not indict:
2808
2809
2810http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2811	WALKER: ...can you help me understand why didn’t it rise to your investigation or someone bringing that to your knowledge as far as saying this is a problem, here she is, again, Secretary Clinton lying under oath specifically about our investigation?
2812
2813	COMEY: We out of respect for the legislative branch being a separate branch, we do not commence investigations that focus on activities before Congress without Congress asking us...
2814
2815	...CHAFFETZ: You did not look at testimony that Hillary Clinton gave in the United State Congress, both the House and the Senate.
2816
2817	...Did you review and look at those transcripts as to the intent of your recommendation.
2818
2819	COMEY: I’m sure my folks did. I did not.
2820
2821
2822Comey said his "folks" reviewed her statements, but he didn't meet with all of his agents before his recommendation: 
2823
2824
2825http://www.thompsontimeline.com/congressional-testimony-of-fbi-director-james-comey/
2826	MICA: ...But all of the agents, did they meet with you and then is that the group that said that we all vote to not recommend prosecution?
2827
2828	COMEY: I did not meet with all of the agents. I’ve met with — I guess I’ve — I’ve met with all of them…
2829
2830
2831But isn't this irresponsible? It sounds like Comey went off on his own with his recommendation without reviewing all the facts important to the case.
2832
2833In addition to being trained and experienced in the identification and handling of classified information, Clinton is a trained and experienced lawyer. It looks like she was using the "idiot defense" in her public statements and FBI interview:
2834
2835
2836https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_defense
2837	The idiot defense is a satirical term for a legal strategy where a defendant claims innocence by virtue of having been ignorant of facts of which the defendant would normally be expected to be aware. Other terms used for this tactic include "dumb CEO defense", "dummy defense", "ostrich defense", "Ken Lay defense", and "Sergeant Schultz defense".
2838
2839	The term was popularized as a result of a number of high-profile corporate accounting scandal defendants claiming that all wrongdoing was performed by others, without the defendant's knowledge or consent. Attorneys for these defendants claimed that their skill was in valuation and deal-making, and that they lacked the training to recognize fraudulent accounting practices they claimed that they would have needed. However, in many cases the defendants' subordinates testified that the defendants ordered them to falsify the accounts.
2840
2841	No major instances of the idiot defense being successful in criminal proceedings have been reported in American jurism to date.
2842
2843
2844When she told the FBI that "(C)" is just marking paragraphs in alphabetical order, she destroyed her own defense by making it obvious she was playing dumb (among other ways). But Comey went along with her defense in his testimony to Congress, even inserting an "intent" requirement that appears to be necessary for her defense to work in the first place. Someone who's trusted with single-handedly making a major decision about Clinton's prosecution shouldn't sound like her defense. On top of that, Comey didn't review  Clinton's public statements or confer with all of his agents before his recommendation not to indict. Comey was extremely careless in making his decision.
2845
2846
2847Comey's decision shaped the 2016 election in a lot of ways--most of which helped Russia. As far as learning and/or guessing how Russia's active measures worked then and could work in the near future, it's worth looking into.
2848
2849Maybe the biggest impact was how Comey helped validate Russia and Trump's "the system is rigged" narrative (see: https://www.google.com/search?q=system+rigged+site%3Aallnewspipeline.com+OR+site%3Aantiwar.com+OR+site%3Abeforeitsnews.com+OR+site%3Aconsortiumnews.com+OR+site%3Acounterpunch.org+OR+site%3Aglobalresearch.ca+OR+site%3Ainfowars.com+OR+site%3Alewrockwell.com+OR+site%3Amintpressnews.com+OR+site%3Aopednews.com+OR+site%3Aprisonplanet.com+OR+site%3Aronpaulinstitute.org+OR+site%3Athirdworldtraveler.com+OR+site%3Atruth-out.org+OR+site%3Awashingtonsblog.com+OR+site%3Azerohedge.com).
2850
2851Comey's July 5th statement made Clinton look guilty (especially to those on the right), with some scratching their heads at what exactly the difference between "extreme carelessness" (as Comey put it) and "gross negligence" is. It created the perception--which some in the media inflamed--that the Justice System was letting Hillary off without a trial:
2852
2853
2854https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-system-is-rigged-argument-is-working/
2855	Apr. 23, 2016 at 10:30 AM
2856	Trump’s ‘System Is Rigged’ Argument Is Working
2857	He’s gaining in the polls, and the media is playing along.
2858
2859
2860http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/05/gregg-jarrett-fbi-director-calls-clinton-careless-his-recommendations-make-no-sense.html
2861	Gregg Jarrett: FBI Director calls Clinton ‘careless’. His recommendations make no sense
2862
2863	It makes no legal sense. I suspect attorneys across America are scratching their heads.           
2864	James Comey, Director of the FBI, declared Tuesday that Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of very sensitive and highly classified information on her unauthorized and unsecured email server while serving as Secretary of State.
2865
2866	Those words, “extremely careless” mean something important in the law.  Consider the relevant federal criminal statute which reads: 
2867
2868		“Whoever, being entrusted with… any document relating to the national defense… through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody… shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”  (18 U.S.C., section 793-f) 
2869
2870	The key phrase is “gross negligence”. What does it mean?  Every lawyer and judge in America knows its meaning. It is defined in standard jury instructions and just about every legal treatise that exists.
2871
2872	It means extremely careless. 
2873
2874	Black’s Law Dictionary is the legal bible upon which attorneys rely. Check it out. You’ll find that gross negligence is described and defined as extreme carelessness.  At least, my edition does.
2875
2876	...Since Comey, by his own words, all but declared that Clinton broke a criminal law, how could he then say he would not recommend criminal prosecution? Again, it makes no sense. 
2877
2878	Comey is a former U.S. Attorney. Yet, he exhibited an astonishing ignorance of the law. He laid out a case of gross negligence constituting a crime, defined it with the words “extremely careless” and then promptly proceeded to ignore the law. 
2879
2880
2881http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/07/05/giuliani-comey-made-special-exception-clintons
2882 	'So Discouraging': Giuliani Says Comey Made 'Special Exception for the Clintons' 
2883
2884
2885http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/election-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-fbi/index.html
2886	Trump: FBI decision on Clinton proves 'our system is totally rigged'
2887
2888	Donald Trump on Tuesday night repeatedly hammered his message that there is a "rigged system" at work, pointing specifically to the FBI decision to not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of email while serving as secretary of state.
2889
2890	Trump seized on the FBI's decision as he addressed the crowd of fervent supporters in this potential battleground state, calling it the "best evidence ever that we've seen that our system is totally rigged."
2891
2892	He accused Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, of bribing the U.S. attorney general -- offering little to back up the dramatic accusation. And he called the FBI's decision, announced earlier Tuesday by the agency's director James Comey, a "tragedy."
2893
2894	"Everybody thought based on what was being said she was guilty. She was guilty. And it turned out that we're not going to press charges. It's really amazing," Trump said as his crowd of more than 2,200, according to the theater, erupted in a chorus of boos.
2895
2896	"We have a rigged system, folks," he added.
2897
2898
2899http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/10/26/bill-oreilly-is-our-political-system-rigged.html
2900	Bill O'Reilly: Is our political system rigged? 
2901
2902	...The appearance of corruption is staggering. Talking Points is not saying there is corruption. But the optics are awful and FBI Director James Comey had to know that. If you combine the McCabe stuff, we just told you about, with Comey not calling for a grand jury and basically giving Secretary Clinton every benefit of every doubt, again, you have the appearance of impropriety. So it's no surprise. Many Americans, including Mr. Trump, believe the system is rigged. Did I mention Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton during the investigation?
2903
2904	I mean, come on. Again, the vote cannot be possibly rigged two weeks from tonight. And Mr. Trump should accept whatever happens at that vote, unless there is compelling evidence of corruption. Undermining our electoral system is not a patriotic thing. But overall, if you don't think the federal political and justice system has severe problems, you are living in the Land of Oz. And that's "The Memo".
2905
2906
2907http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/22/trump-gains-on-clinton-poll-shows-rigged-message-resonates.html
2908	Trump gains on Clinton, poll shows 'rigged' message resonates
2909
2910	...The Reuters/Ipsos data showed only half of Republicans would accept Clinton as their president, and nearly 70 percent of them said a Clinton victory would be because of illegal voting or vote rigging.
2911
2912	Trump's crowd chanted "Lock her up!" at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania after he declared Clinton a "corrupt globalist," a reference to campaign documents released by WikiLeaks in which Clinton was quoted advocating free trade and open borders.
2913
2914	After the chant went around the room for several seconds, Trump responded, "Don't worry, that whole thing will be looked into." 
2915
2916
2917http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36860740
2918	US election: Do 'lock her up' chants mark a new low?
2919
2920	Many of the speakers have focused more on the faults of Hillary Clinton than the virtues of Donald Trump.
2921
2922	...Much of the criticism from the stage, from Mr Christie and others, was about Mrs Clinton's use of a private email account while she was serving as secretary of state.
2923
2924	An FBI investigation said she was "extremely careless" but found her actions didn't warrant criminal prosecution. 
2925
2926
2927http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/majority-disapproves-decision-charge-clinton-emails-poll/story?id=40445344
2928 	A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI's recommendation not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime over her handling of email while secretary of state, and a similar number in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the issue leaves them worried about how she would handle her responsibilities as president if elected. 
2929
2930	...Overall, 56 percent disapprove of FBI Director James Comey's recommendation not to charge Clinton, while just 35 percent approve. Similarly, 57 percent say the incident makes them worried about how Clinton might act as president if she is elected, with most very worried about it. 
2931
2932
2933http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/290892-trump-says-second-amendment-folks-could-stop-clinton
2934	Trump: 'Second Amendment people' could stop Clinton
2935
2936	...Trump was discussing the possibility that Clinton, the Democratic nominee, would be able to appoint liberal justices to the Supreme Court if she wins the race for the White House.
2937
2938	He then said that there was nothing that could be done in that scenario, before mentioning “Second Amendment folks.”
2939
2940	“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” Trump said to boos from the crowd.
2941
2942	“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” he then added.
2943
2944	“Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.”
2945
2946
2947http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/politics/joe-walsh-donald-trump-protest-tweet/index.html
2948	Ex-congressman: 'If Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket'
2949
2950	...Walsh, who was elected with support from the tea party movement, is now a conservative talk radio host, tweeted Wednesday: "On November 8th, I'm voting for Trump. On November 9th, if Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket. You in?"
2951
2952
2953http://fortune.com/2016/07/15/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-poll/
2954	Hillary Clinton Survived Her Email Scandal, But Not Unscathed, New Poll Shows
2955
2956	Hillary Clinton enters the summer damaged by perceptions that she violated the law by using a private email system while serving as secretary of state, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds.
2957
2958	More than half of Americans think the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee broke the law by using a private email account and server at the State Department and nearly 4 in 10 think she did so intentionally, according to the poll.
2959
2960	..."She's innocent until proven guilty, but to me the FBI director called her guilty and then gave her a pass card," said James Thompson, a 57-year-old Republican from Colchester, Connecticut. "If that was anyone else in this world, they would have been gone. They would have been down the river. They would have been in jail."
2961
2962
2963http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/5/hillary-clinton-emails-only-american-people-can-fi/
2964	Only the American people can fix this now
2965
2966	Obama, FBI Director James Comey let Hillary off the hook
2967
2968	So there you have it.  We now know the results of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices while secretary of State: No charges even though the FBI director himself said she was extremely negligent with classified information, including special compartmental access information, and there is a high likelihood foreign entities accessed this data.  
2969
2970	...If I had negligently taken TS SCI information out of secure environment and opened it up to possibility of theft by a foreign adversary, I can guarantee you I would have been thrown in jail for years.  
2971	The Obama administration simply let Hillary Clinton off the hook for criminal behavior.  They did this because they are criminal themselves, through and through.  
2972
2973	Today I realized that the America I knew is no more.  It is gone. It has been stolen, corrupted by the largest organized crime syndicate ever known to man, the Democratic Party.  
2974
2975	...Now we have a criminal gang openly flouting the legal system, backed by a corrupt, cheerleading media.  An elite oligarchy is in charge, that is above the law and has destroyed trust in our rule of law.  We are no better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where this type of thing is commonplace, where freedom and democracy are only a sham, to be trotted out for pictures.  This is no less threatening than the South seceding from the Union.  This is sedition.
2976
2977	This cannot stand.  
2978
2979	In the late 18th century, we fought a revolution over much worse—a tax on tea, taxation without representation.  This is no longer about partisan politics.  This is no longer about conservatism.  This is about what is right and wrong.  This is about freedom.  This is about the entire notion of America itself.   
2980
2981	America is dying. 
2982
2983	...If Hillary Clinton is elected president, we will no longer have a country.  We will have a totalitarian oligarchy.
2984
2985	This can no longer be fixed by the system.  This can only be fixed by the American people themselves.  We fought a revolution for less.  
2986
2987
2988http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/georgia-voter-predicts-civil-war-if-clinton-wins-patriots-are-going-to-overthrow-the-government/
2989	Georgia voter predicts civil war if Clinton wins: ‘Patriots are going to overthrow the government’
2990
2991
2992http://www.nbcnews.com/card/pence-revolution-rally-goer-dont-say-n664776
2993	 Mike Pence had to talk down a supporter at an Iowa town hall Tuesday suggesting a "revolution" if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
2994
2995	The woman, who identified herself as Rhonda, told the GOP vice presidential nominee that she was worried because "our kids' futures depend on this election."
2996
2997	"I will tell you just for me — and I don't want this to happen — but I will tell you for me, personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in ... I'm ready for a revolution because we can't have her in," she said in an emotional moment.
2998
2999	Pence, who remains steadfast to running mate Donald Trump, interjected: "Yeah, you don't want — don't say that." 
3000
3001
3002http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/presidential-election-election-hillary-clinton-james-comey/2016/11/06/id/757336/
3003	Trump on FBI Probe: Proves System 'Rigged'
3004
3005	Donald Trump on Sunday criticized James Comey for his announcement that the FBI had not changed its conclusion regarding her emails, telling a crowd in Michigan that it was hard to believe the agency could review "650,000 new emails in eight days."
3006
3007	"Right now, she is being protected by a rigged system. It's a totally rigged system. I've been saying it for a long time," said Trump.
3008
3009
3010
3011The core of Trump's campaign message was of populist "outsider" campaigning against a corrupt, "rigged system." The decision not to indict helped validate this message for some, as well as galvanize Trump's anti-establishment base.
3012
3013For Russia, the appearance of a rigged justice system might have helped drive public anger and distrust toward the U.S. Government and media:
3014
3015
3016http://www.gallup.com/poll/193832/americans-satisfaction-drops-sharply.aspx
3017	July 21, 2016
3018	Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Drops Sharply
3019
3020	Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. dropped 12 percentage points in the past month, amid high-profile police killings of black men and mass shootings of police. Currently, 17% of Americans are satisfied with the state of affairs in the U.S.
3021
3022
3023http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
3024	September 14, 2016
3025	Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low
3026
3027	Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year.
3028
3029
3030Presumably this is something Russia wants in general--the more untrustworthy the U.S. "establishment," the easier it is for Russian propaganda to gain Americans' trust instead.
3031
3032Comey's decision--and the email scandal overall--also helped Russia make the 2016 election angry and divisive. As a general rule, corrupt politicians like Clinton and Trump are more divisive--political polarization has a way of making partisans hyper-aware of flaws in the leaders of the opposing party, but blind to the flaws in members of their own:
3033
3034
3035http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-politics-breaks-our-brains-and-how-we-can-put-them-back-together/453315/
3036	How Politics Breaks Our Brains, and How We Can Put Them Back Together
3037
3038	We're partisans by nature, and once we pick a side we see the world in red or blue.
3039
3040	...The NYU team is trying to show that our brains are hardwired for partisanship and how that skews our perceptions in public life. Research at NYU and elsewhere is underscoring just how blind the "us-versus-them" mind-set can make people when they try to process new political information. Once this partisanship mentality kicks in, the brain almost automatically pre-filters facts—even noncontroversial ones—that offend our political sensibilities.
3041
3042	"Once you trip this wire, this trigger, this cue, that you are a part of 'us-versus-them,' it's almost like the whole brain becomes re-coordinated in how it views people," says Jay Van Bavel, the leader of NYU's Social Perception and Evaluation Lab.
3043
3044	Our tendency toward partisanship is likely the result of evolution—forming groups is how prehistoric humans survived. That's helpful when trying to master an unforgiving environment with Stone Age technology. It's less so when trying to foster a functional democracy.
3045
3046	...But to create the base "us and them" structure, none of that is needed. The brain is so hardwired to build such groups that Van Bavel says he can turn anyone on the street into a partisan. "I can do it in five minutes with a random stranger," he says. All it takes is a coin flip.
3047
3048	"Somebody comes into your lab and you tell them, 'You're part of the blue team,' " he explains. "The next person who comes in, you flip a coin, let's say it comes up the other way. And you say, 'You're on the red team.' "
3049
3050	That's it. The teammates never have to meet. Or interact. There doesn't need to be anything at stake. But within minutes, these insta-partisans like their teammates better than they like the other guys. And it shows when Van Bavel puts his subjects through his MRI dollhouse.
3051
3052	Red-team members are more likely to see humans when they're told they're looking at fellow red-team faces. Blue-team members respond the same way. Other tests reveal that red-team members remember red-team faces more accurately, and if Van Bavel asks subjects to allocate money, red-team members will pay out more to their own. Team members also have less sympathy for those on the other side, and even experience pleasure while reading about their pain.
3053
3054	...BUT WHEN IT COMES to American politics, how troubled should we be by any of these findings? America's partisan divide is as old as America's democracy. And it's neither feasible nor desirable to hope for a national consensus on every issue. Even if we all worked from the same set of facts, and even if we all understood those facts perfectly, differences of opinion would—and should—remain. Those opinions are not the problem. The trouble is when we're so blinded by our partisanship that it overrides reason—and research suggests that is happening all the time.
3055
3056	With just a hint of partisan priming, an Arizona State University researcher was able to instantly blind Democrats to a noncontroversial fact, leading them immediately to fail to solve the easiest of math problems. In the 2010 experiment, political scientist Mark Ramirez asked subjects two similar questions. The control group saw this question: "Would you say that compared to 2008, the level of unemployment in this country has gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse?" A separate group saw this one: "Would you say that the level of unemployment in this country has gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse since Barack Obama was elected President?"
3057
3058	The key difference between the two: the first mentions the time period for assessing unemployment, while the second frames the issue around President Obama. When asked the first question, Democrats and Republicans responded similarly, with most saying unemployment had remained about the same. But among subjects who got the second question, opinions shifted along partisan lines: Around 60 percent of Democrats said unemployment had gotten better or somewhat better, and about 75 percent of Republicans said the opposite.
3059
3060	In fact, the unemployment rate increased between Obama's election and Ramirez's study. One can argue about whether this is a fair frame for evaluating this or any president's economic record, but from a raw-numbers perspective, the rise in the unemployment rate between 2008 and 2010 is indisputable.
3061
3062	But even giving Democrats that information did not increase the accuracy of their responses. Ramirez's study asked some participants the following question: "The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows unemployment has increased by 4.6 percent since 2008. Would you say that the level of unemployment in this country has gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse since Barack Obama was elected President?"
3063
3064	Clearly, the answer is in the sentence that immediately precedes the question. But the mention of Obama launched a partisan mental process that led many astray: Nearly 60 percent of Democrats said unemployment had lessened since Obama's election.
3065
3066	Essentially, once Democrats focused on Obama, most of them largely ignored the facts. (About 80 percent of Republicans got the answer right when it was spoon-fed to them, but Republicans tempted to cry victory should be cautioned that researchers have found them to be similarly off base in assessing the economy when one of their own is in the Oval Office.)
3067
3068
3069(Also, if you read any of the hundreds of articles I'm making you read, read this one--it explains a lot.)
3070
3071
3072From what I can tell, the divisiveness of corrupt (or dishonest, evil) political leaders rests on two phenomena in the partisan psyche:
3073
3074	1. Partisans have a hard time recognizing flaws in their own leaders
3075	2. Partisans impugn flaws of opposing leaders on the opposing party
3076
3077
3078This manifests especially during elections: 
3079
3080
3081https://pcl.stanford.edu/research/2012/iyengar-poq-affect-not-ideology.pdf
3082	Using data from a variety of sources, we demonstrate that both republicans and democrats increasingly dislike, even loathe, their opponents. We also find that partisan affect is inconsistently (and perhaps arti-factually) founded in policy attitudes. The more plausible account lies in the nature of political campaigns; exposure to messages attacking the out-group reinforces partisans’ biased views of their opponents.
3083
3084	...Policy-based division is but one way of defining partisan polarization. An alternative, and in our view, more diagnostic, indicator of mass polarization is the extent to which partisans view each other as a disliked out-group. The definitional test of social identity (Tajfel 1970; Tajfel and Turner 1979) requires not only positive sentiment for one’s own group, but also negative sentiment toward those identifying with opposing groups. So, to the extent that party identification represents a meaningful group affiliation, the more appropriate test of polarization is affective, not ideological, identity.
3085
3086	Affect based on partisan identity may reflect some combination of ideological disagreements and group-centric impulses. Partisans may attribute the more extreme policy positions of party elites and activists to party supporters, producing “principled” dislike. We present evidence that partisan affect is inconsistently related to policy preferences and that the relationship between partisan affect and policy attitudes hasn’t notably strengthened over time. The more plausible explanation, in our view, is that the mere act of identifying with a political party is sufficient to trigger negative evaluations of the opposition, and exposure to prolonged media-based campaigns only reinforces these predispositions. We present evidence showing that partisans’ feelings for their opponents become more negative following exposure to presidential campaigns.
3087
3088	Our principal goal is to document the extent of affective polarization. We show that democrats and republicans not only increasingly dislike the opposing party, but also impute negative traits to the rank-and-file of the out-party. We further demonstrate that affective polarization has permeated judgments about interpersonal relations, exceeds polarization based on other prominent social cleavages, and that levels of partisan affect are significantly higher in America, compared to the United Kingdom. Finally, we present evidence suggesting that exposure to political campaigns is a potential contributory factor. Overall, the evidence is unequivocal: in terms of affect, Americans are polarized along party lines.
3089
3090	...Between 1960 and 2008, stereotyping of partisan supporters and opponents increased exponentially. Among the Americans, in-party bias—the tendency to view one’s party more favorably than the opposition—climbed from 0.47 to 2.86!
3091
3092	...In sum, the evidence presented above—the non-effects of sorting on the level of affective polarization, and the moderate to weak effects of policy preferences on net partisan affect—is at odds with the view that partisan affect is driven primarily by ideological affinity.
3093
3094	...For parties to be seen in ideological terms would require an awareness of their policy stances, yet most Americans have difficulty correctly locating parties on issue scales
3095
3096
3097The general idea is: a partisan will see how awful the opposing party's candidate is and think "How can they support someone so awful? They must all be nuts!" At the same time, a partisan sees attacks on his candidate by the opposing party as disingenuous or hypocritical, making them easier to dismiss. Attacks by an out-party can actually make partisans like their candidate even more:
3098
3099
3100http://faculty2.ucmerced.edu/snicholson/Polarizing_Cues.pdf
3101	Lastly, I compare the effects of party labels (e.g., the Democratic Party) to party leaders (e.g., Barack Obama). The results indicate that partisans change their opinion to hold the opposite opinion of an out-party leader but that party labels, by themselves, largely do not have this effect. Based on these results, political figures, not party labels, appear to cause opinion polarization.
3102
3103
3104The effect is that corrupt candidates--and the negative campaigns that go with them--drastically increase the animosity (or "affective polarization" as Iyengar et. al. put it) between political parties.
3105
3106There is some evidence that Russian propagandists tried to use the email scandal to increase this effect during the 2016 election:
3107
3108
3109http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017
3110	The Squalid Case Against Hillary and Her Emails
3111	By John Dean 
3112
3113	Endless efforts by congressional Republicans to foil or foul up Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency have hit a new low.
3114
3115	The members of Congress involved cannot be sued for defamation, since they are protected by the “Speech and Debate Clause” of the Constitution. But the fact that they are not merely smearing the former secretary of state but are trying to send her to jail on phony charges of perjury and lying to Congress is beyond the pale of dirty politics.
3116
3117http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/john-dean-trump-inexperience-shows-needs/2017/05/15/id/790294/
3118	National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster's denial didn't really hit all the points of what Monday's Washington Post story alleged, Dean noted, sparking speculation from critics that it was essentially a non-denial denial.
3119
3120	"It is conspicuous," he said. "It's very obvious they are not banging away at the story itself. They are playing around it. I don't know if they think this will get confused in translation or what's going to happen. It's not a very strong defense even."
3121
3122
3123http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-emails-republicans-revel-another-fake-scandal-478575
3124	Hillary Clinton’s Emails: Republicans Revel in Another Fake Scandal
3125	By Neil H. Buchanan
3126
3127	...Comey has already gone outside of his portfolio and given Republicans some talking points that they will surely enjoy repeating. Even though the bottom line of his comments is, "There are a bunch of things here that bother me, but this was not a close call," Comey did give Republicans some political sustenance.  
3128
3129	For Republicans, however, that is never enough.  They will overplay this, as they always do.
3130
3131http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2017/05/time-for-careful-lying-by-team-trump.html
3132	 Time for Careful Lying by Team Trump
3133	by Neil H. Buchanan
3134
3135	...after The Washington Post's blockbuster May 15 scoop that Trump had revealed highly classified information to two top officials of the Russian government, the Administration sent out Trump's national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, to do some careful lying.
3136
3137
3138http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/timid-liberals-flinching-hillary-clintons-email-server/
3139	Timid Liberals Blew the Election by Flinching at Hillary Clinton’s Email Server
3140
3141	Kevin Drum
3142
3143	So here’s what we’ve got. Clinton used a private server for her unclassified emails. However, that doesn’t provide any reason to think she was any more careless about discussing classified information than any other secretary of state. Nevertheless, Republicans used the excuse of the Benghazi investigation to demand an inspector general’s audit of her emails. The intelligence community, naturally, concluded that Clinton’s archives contained thousands of discussions of classified programs. They would most likely conclude the same thing if they audited the email account of any ranking State Department official. It’s just a fact of life that State and CIA disagree about this stuff.
3144
3145http://washingtonmonthly.com/2005/09/18/final-entry/
3146	Final entry
3147
3148	by Leon Fuerth
3149
3150	This is my final post here. Many thanks to Kevin Drum 
3151
3152
3153http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/rush-limbaugh-hillary-clinton-security-risk/2016/06/28/id/736151/
3154	Rush: Hillary a National Security Risk and Dem Voters Don't Care
3155
3156	The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is a national security risk, and half of the country doesn't care, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said on Tuesday.
3157
3158
3159http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/25/democrats-suddenly-very-concerned-about-email-hacking/
3160	Democrats Suddenly Very Concerned About Email Hacking
3161
3162	After spending a year downplaying the risk of Hillary Clinton’s highly vulnerable email server getting hacked — and exposing the classified documents it wasn’t supposed to contain — to foreign intelligence services, Democrats are suddenly very concerned about email hacking. That’s because they desperately need to discredit the devastating leak of DNC emails as a Russian dirty trick to rig the U.S. election.
3163
3164
3165And spreading "disunity" and "dispute" and "divide and conquer" strategies are something the Okhrana is known for:
3166
3167
3168https://books.google.com/books?id=h3By77UU4nIC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
3169	The Okhrana developed the tradition of using not just informers (osvedomiteli), but also active agents (predateli or 'traitors') within opposition groups. Georgii Sudeikin, the head of the Special Section of the Police Department in the 1880s (himself assassinated in 1883), defined the role of Russian agents extremely broadly. As well as collecting information, they should 'generate suspicion and demoralization, thereby greatly retarding possible revolutionary activity', attempt the 'cultivation of quarrels and clashes amongst the revolutionary groups, the spreading of false rumours to intimidate the revolutionaries and instill a fear of betrayal and espionage
3170
3171
3172http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2008/12/love-letter-to-america-part-two.html
3173	500 years before Christ, the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu formulated the principle of subversion this way:
3174
3175    1. Cover with ridicule all of the valid traditions in your opponent's country.
3176    2. Implicate their leaders in criminal affairs and turn them over to the scorn of their populace at the right time;
3177    3. Disrupt the work of their government by every means;
3178    4. Do not shun the aid of the lowest and most despicable individuals of your enemy's country.
3179    5. Spread disunity and dispute among the citizens.
3180    6. Turn the young against the old.
3181    7. Be generous with promises and rewards to collaborators and accomplices.
3182
3183	...these “rules” are almost a literal interpretation of those “theories and practices” which I learned from my KGB superiors and colleagues within the 'Novosti' Press Agency.
3184
3185(Supposedly Sun Tzu is required reading for the KGB, if you can find the source for that)
3186
3187
3188https://books.google.com/books?id=h3By77UU4nIC&pg=PA151
3189	'Active measures' (aktivnye meropriiatia) against any opposition or would-be opposition are a key part of the new governing formula. Over and above the use of black PR and kompromat (see pages 70-1), or the cruder types of administration resources (legal deregistration, etc.), active measures proper involves the deployment of virtual objects or events created or staged by political technologists to weaken the opposition.
3190
3191	...political technologists can seek to alter the entire dynamic of the political system to work against the opposition, most often via artificial polarisation or so-called 'strategies of tension'.
3192
3193	...Marat Gelman is right to say that many political tactics characteristic of the post-Soviet states are as old as the hills. The most obvious active measure is the traditional game of divide and rule.
3194
3195
3196https://cepa.ecms.pl/files/?id_plik=2715
3197	If there is one common thread in the Kremlin’s many narratives it is the use of conspiratorial discourse and a strategic use of disinformation to trash the information space, break trust, increase polarization and undermine the public space for democratic debate
3198
3199
3200If dividing the country in the 2016 election was Russia's goal, it worked. It's often missed that the 2016 election itself was a kind of psychological warfare against the American public:
3201
3202
3203https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/31/poll-clinton-trump-most-unfavorable-candidates-ever/89644296/
3204	Poll: Clinton, Trump most unfavorable candidates ever
3205
3206	Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular presidential candidates in more than 30 years of ABC News/Washington Post polling.
3207
3208
3209http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/poll-hillary-clinton-trump-voters-dislike-223504
3210	Poll: 6 in 10 dislike or hate Trump and Clinton
3211
3212
3213https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/trump-election-foreign-policy/505934/
3214	Thomas Wright: Firstly, I’m not saying that Trump is equivalent to Nazis in Germany—to their rise. But since those elections, I think there’s never been an election where so much is riding on how a major power would behave in the world. What’s unique about this election is that Trump has a very, very different notion of American foreign policy and [America’s] global role, and would dramatically change U.S. foreign policy if he was elected. Since the world is essentially organized around American power and American intentions, that would have an enormously disruptive effect...
3215
3216	...To some degree it’s about his views on authoritarianism. But also his first view reinforces his third view: He’s already of the view that the U.S. shouldn’t really be in NATO or in Europe, helping Europe defend itself from Russia. 
3217
3218	...We underestimate just how much he’s committed to this. He’s been voluntarily speaking about this for three decades. Everyone accuses him of not studying, and that is true. But in this very narrow way, when he says he listens to himself [for foreign-policy advice]...
3219
3220	Friedman: Do you think the president of the United States has the power to undo that order single-handedly? ...
3221
3222	Wright: I think the answer, unfortunately, is yes
3223
3224	...what would probably happen is that the world would become much more dangerous in terms of other countries coming close to conflict with each other
3225
3226	...I [also] think the global economy would take a huge dive. There would probably be a very severe recession because the U.S. would not be guaranteeing the openness of the global economy. Trump’s position basically is: For the U.S. economy to do well, other countries must do worse.
3227
3228
3229https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/29/clinton-and-trump-accept-their-nominations-by-telling-you-what-you-should-vote-against/
3230	Welcome to the next, most negative presidential election of our lives
3231
3232	Hillary Clinton is the first female nominee of a major American political party, and she would love for you to vote for the first female president.
3233
3234	But she's okay if you just want to vote against Donald Trump.
3235
3236
3237https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/hillary-clinton-campaign-final-weeks.html
3238	Clinton told me. “I’m trying to run a campaign that presents an alternative case.” It’s telling that a candidate with the name recognition, résumé and baggage of Hillary Clinton is nonetheless left to present her campaign as an “alternative case.”
3239
3240	...As I was leaving our interview, she smiled, looked me in the eyes and left me with a casual reminder. “As I’ve told people,” she said, “I’m the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse.”
3241
3242
3243https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/13-percent-of-people-prefer-a-giant-meteor-crashing-to-earth-over-a-trump-or-clinton-presidency
3244	13 Percent of People Would Rather Have a Meteor Hit Earth Than Elect Trump or Clinton
3245
3246	How much do some people hate the idea of a President Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?
3247
3248	Apparently enough that they'd rather die in an apocalyptic event than see it become a reality.
3249
3250	According to the latest survey by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, 13 percent of people would rather have a giant meteor hit Earth than elect Clinton or Trump.
3251
3252	The exact question: "If the choices for President were Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, and a Giant Meteor hitting the earth which would you choose?"
3253
3254	About 43 percent opted for Clinton, 38 percent for Trump, 13 percent for the giant meteor, and 7 percent were unsure.
3255
3256
3257http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
3258	DAVID MUIR: Here we sit, five months into your campaign and there are some eye-opening poll numbers out there, and I'm sure you're aware of them, when it comes to how Americans see you. Our ABC poll, Gallup, Quinnipiac showing your favorability numbers taking a sharp dive.
3259
3260	In one poll, the lowest ever. And when voters were asked, "What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Hillary Clinton?" Words like liar, dishonest, untrustworthy were at the top of the list. Does this tell you that your original explanation about the private server, that you did it to carry one phone out of convenience, that this didn't sit well with the American people?
3261
3262	HILLARY CLINTON: Well, David, obviously, I don't like hearing that...
3263
3264	DAVID MUIR: ...Americans have watched you as First Lady, they watched you run for Senate, they watched you run for president the first time. You served as Secretary of State. And now you're running for president a second time. And I, I wanna know in your most private of moments, is there ever an instance when you ask yourself, "Why am I doing this again?"
3265
3266	HILLARY CLINTON: ...young mother stands up with her four-and-a-half-month old baby in her arms
3267
3268	...issues that I have fought for my entire adult life
3269
3270	...people have told me all my life about the difficulties they encounter just trying to raise a family. Just trying to make it in America again. So it's hard but--
3271
3272
3273http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-meteor-idUSKCN12I20S
3274	Some 53 percent of the 1,247 people aged 18 to 35 said they would prefer to see a meteor destroy the world than have Republican New York real estate developer Trump in the Oval Office, with some 34 percent preferring planetary annihilation to seeing the Democratic former Secretary of State win.
3275
3276	Some 39 percent said they would prefer that U.S. President Barack Obama declare himself president for life than hand over power to Clinton or Trump, with 26 percent saying the nation would do better to select its next leader in a random lottery.
3277
3278	Some 23 percent, nearly one in four, preferred the giant meteor outcome to either Trump or Clinton.
3279
3280
3281http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
3282	DAVID MUIR: So you do wake-up--
3283
3284	HILLARY CLINTON: --it's absolutely worth it.
3285
3286	DAVID MUIR: --you wake-up like the rest of us every once in a while and think--
3287
3288	HILLARY CLINTON: Yeah, it's hard.
3289
3290	DAVID MUIR: --"Am I really doing this again?"
3291
3292	HILLARY CLINTON: Well, yeah, of course. You know, I, I never, you know, I...
3293
3294
3295https://pcl.stanford.edu/research/2012/iyengar-poq-affect-not-ideology.pdf
3296	...presidential campaigns have since become more antagonistic and harder to ignore.
3297
3298	...On Fox news and, more recently, MSNBC, partisans encounter news and commentary on the campaign that only confirms their stereotypes of the out-group. 
3299
3300	...our analyses suggest that greater levels of negativity in advertising campaigns and general exposure to political campaigns both contribute to higher levels of affective polarization. Campaigns reinforce voters’ sense of partisan identity and confirm stereotypical beliefs about supporters and opponents 
3301
3302
3303https://newrepublic.com/article/135148/trump-made-america-racist-republicans-ok-that
3304	Trump Has Made America More Racist. Republicans Are OK With That.
3305
3306	...Trump has already awakened and sanctioned a kind of latent social disorder among his supporters, many of whom harbored racist sentiments silently or privately
3307
3308
3309http://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/
3310	[HILL-A-RY chants]
3311
3312	I know there are only 60 days left to make our case -- and don't get complacent, don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think well he's done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?
3313
3314	[Laughter/applause]
3315
3316	The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it.
3317
3318
3319http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/01/the-emerging-trumpian-majority/
3320	The Emerging Trumpian Majority
3321
3322	Populists vs. Elitists
3323
3324	...Meanwhile, under Hillary Clinton, the Democrats are now the elitist establishment party.
3325
3326	...For their part, the Democrats haven’t changed much.  The big change is that they are trying to hide their true selves, and they are using big money to help them do the hiding.
3327
3328	However, if we take a close look, we can see that the Democratic Party is as devoted to its pet causes as ever, including quotas of all kinds and fawning treatment for street radicalism.
3329
3330	...So the Democrats, being bought and paid for, can’t help but appear smug and oblivious.
3331
3332
3333http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/31/liberals-dont-care-about-the-health-of-democracy-they-care-about-hillary/
3334	 Democrats Don’t Care About The Health Of Democracy, They Care About Hillary
3335
3336	When liberals claim Comey is endangering democracy, they mean he’s endangering Hillary -- which to them is the same thing. 
3337
3338
3339http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/america-in-2016-partisan-fearful-and-angry/
3340	America in 2016: Partisan, Fearful and Angry
3341
3342	As Republicans and Democrats begin gathering this week for their national conventions, the partisan divide between both parties is the widest it’s been in at least a quarter century.
3343
3344	...But voters aren’t just frustrated with members of the opposing side. They’re also fearful of them. More than half of Democrats say the GOP makes them “afraid,” while 49 percent of Republicans say the same about Democrats. Nearly half of all Republicans say Democrats make them feel angry, and vice versa.
3345
3346	In many cases, the study notes, “negative feelings about the opposing party are as powerful — and in many cases more powerful — as are positive feelings about one’s own party.”
3347
3348
3349http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702188-donald-trumps-nomination-cleveland-will-put-thriving-country-risk-great
3350	The dividing of America
3351
3352	...This nation is going to hell
3353
3354
3355http://www.businessinsider.com/november-new-yorker-cover-captures-americas-election-despair-2016-11
3356	The cover of The New Yorker's November 14th issue sums up how a lot of Americans will likely feel after Tuesday's election: anguish.
3357
3358	The cover depicts a New York City subway rider reading a newspaper splashed with the headlines, 'Oh, sweet Jesus please god, no," "Anything but that," and, "Come on."
3359
3360	...Time Magazine's latest cover shows both candidates smiling and holding a sign reading, "The end is near."
3361
3362
3363http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/10/presidential-election-stress.aspx
3364	APA Survey Reveals 2016 Presidential Election Source of Significant Stress for More Than Half of Americans
3365
3366	...APA offers the following tips to help people manage their stress related to the election:
3367
3368	- If the 24-hour news cycle of claims and counterclaims from the candidates is causing you stress, limit your media consumption. Read just enough to stay informed. Turn off the newsfeed or take a digital break. Take some time for yourself, go for a walk, or spend time with friends and family doing things that you enjoy.
3369
3370	- Avoid getting into discussions about the election if you think they have the potential to escalate to conflict. Be cognizant of the frequency with which you’re discussing the election with friends, family members or coworkers.
3371
3372
3373https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-04/this-election-will-end-the-mental-damage-may-not
3374	This Election Will End. The Mental Damage May Not
3375
3376	...The “election cycle has unleashed negativity and somehow given license to be mean and hateful. It has left deep scars on our society”
3377
3378
3379https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/02/12/a-united-pilot-ranted-about-trump-clinton-and-divorce-her-passengers-fled/
3380	Dozens of passengers fled a plane and police removed their United Airlines pilot after she gave a long, bizarre speech before takeoff on Saturday.
3381
3382	...The pilot touched on recent politics.
3383
3384
3385http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/02/11/emotional-pilot-removed-from-sfo-bound-flight-after-bizarre-rant/
3386	“She started off by saying that she had not voted for either Trump or Clinton because they’re a bunch of liars,” said passenger Noel Portugal. “That’s an odd way to start of the welcome to your flight. It really sort of went downhill from there and didn’t make a lot of sense to any of us.”
3387
3388
3389https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/02/12/a-united-pilot-ranted-about-trump-clinton-and-divorce-her-passengers-fled/
3390	“She’s like ‘I don’t care if you voted for Trump or Clinton. They’re both [expletive],” Reiss wrote.
3391
3392	When she changed the subject to the plane’s imminent takeoff, Reiss began to shake, and another passenger began videotaping the drama.
3393
3394	“So I’ll stop, and we’ll fly the airplane,” the pilot said in the video, which has since been removed from YouTube. “Don’t worry. I’m going to let my co-pilot fly it. He’s a man.”
3395
3396	...He heard one flier yell “Stop!” at the pilot. Others were crying as they streamed back to the terminal.
3397
3398	...“People were pleading … ‘Please call security,'”
3399
3400	...Before he re-boarded, Reiss said, he watched police walk the pilot back through the airport.
3401
3402	The pilot apologized and hugged him before they parted, he said.
3403
3404	She offered to write a book with him.
3405
3406	It looked to him as if she’d been crying, too.
3407
3408
3409http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abcs-david-muir-interviews-hillary-clinton/story?id=33607656
3410	DAVID MUIR: Are you having fun?
3411
3412	HILLARY CLINTON: I am. It's hard but it's fun. Most of the things that are hard in life are fun. And, you know, one of my great favorite lines from A League of Their Own when Tom Hanks, playing the broken down drunken coach, you know, confronts you know, the player that, you know...
3413
3414
3415Apparently, the psychological warfare that is the 2016 election is powerful enough to bring down airplanes.
3416
3417Why would the Russians want this, besides to make us miserable? One likely reason is to make the Government more dysfunctional (e.g. Gingrich's idea that the minority party should make Congress fail to win the next election)--the more Congress is fighting with each other, the less they get done (and the more likely they harm the country, e.g. with the recent removal of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees). Political animosity among the public could also give Russian spies in Congress cover to act in more harmful or divisive ways ("I was just doing what my constituents wanted!").
3418
3419As a general rule, in any divide and conquer strategy you want your opponent to be fighting themselves instead of fighting you. Divide and conquer is, paradoxically, a method of waging conflict based on the idea that conflict is wasteful.
3420
3421For the Russians, political polarization specifically (which has been rising significantly for the past several decades http://www.people-press.org/2016/06/22/partisanship-and-political-animosity-in-2016/) has the added benefit of literally making Americans dumber, as explained above. Polarization clobbers partisans ability to reason objectively about politicized issues (partisan motivated reasoning), and more and more issues are becoming politicized. Researchers have been trying to tackle political polarization in America with limited success:
3422
3423
3424http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-politics-breaks-our-brains-and-how-we-can-put-them-back-together/453315/
3425	A MONTH OF SPEAKING TO scientists about the political brain produced no shortage of depressing conclusions. Their research reveals our brains to be frustratingly inept at rational, objective political discourse. And those revelations come at a time when elected officials have strong incentives to stay the partisan course, and when the people who elect those officials are increasingly getting their political news through sources pre-tailored to reinforce their opinions.
3426
3427	But the research is more than just another explanation for our current partisan morass. On balance, it offers a better case for optimism—about Congress, about voters, about your outspoken extremist uncle at Thanksgiving, and about the power of reason in democracy. Because the research is also revealing that our brains, while imperfect, are surprisingly flexible, and that they can be nudged in a better direction. Yes, we wall ourselves off from unappealing truths. But when motivated—by money, by the right environment, by an affirmed sense of self, by institutions that value truth and civility—those walls come down.
3428
3429
3430As far as the human brain is flexible, values and standards can mitigate the effects of polarization. But this can also go the other way--traumatic events like the 2016 election can rewire partisans brains to hate each other enough that standards get thrown out the window. This seems to be something the Russians are gunning for:
3431
3432
3433http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
3434	...infowars.com ... zerohedge.com ... naturalnews.com...
3435
3436
3437https://www.infowars.com/america-on-the-brink-of-bloody-civil-war/
3438	America On The Brink Of Bloody Civil War
3439	Tensions in the U.S. are higher than ever
3440
3441	Alex Jones breaks down the deep state’s strategy in creating civil unrest in America to usher in a time of chaos to which the only solution presented will be total communism.
3442
3443
3444http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-21/simple-reason-why-second-american-civil-war-may-be-inevitable
3445	The Simple Reason Why A Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable
3446
3447	...You can feel it in the air. Our nation has clearly never been this divided since the Civil War. A lot of people noticed it after the last election, but the truth is that these divisions have been deepening for decades, and they’re just now reaching a very noticeable breaking point. 
3448
3449	...One Trump supporter admitted to being surrounded, pepper sprayed, and beaten with sticks by a mob of “protesters.”
3450
3451	But wait, that’s not the dark part. After these groups clashed, the leftist protesters took to Reddit and admitted that they lost this particular battle (I can’t believe I’m using the word “battle” to describe it), and that it was time for them to attain more combat training and better weapons, including firearms.
3452
3453
3454http://www.naturalnews.com/055146_social_chaos_election_results_popular_revolt.html
3455	Chaos will erupt across America in less than 100 days... no matter who wins the election
3456
3457	As I've publicly predicted numerous times over the last year, if Donald Trump wins, the radical extreme leftists go on a violent rampage that leads to the rest of us begging for martial law. After half a dozen cities burn with riots and looting, Trump invokes a national emergency, deploying National Guard troops across the most devastated urban areas, and the radical left finds itself in a shooting war with the government.
3458
3459	If Hillary Clinton wins, all the Trump supporters who have been violently assaulted, spat upon and physically attacked by the radical left un-holster their concealed weapons and start shooting back. This quickly escalates into open warfare between lunatic leftist Hillary supporters and armed Trump "Second Amendment" people who basically figure they've got nothing left to lose anyway, so why not fight to save America?
3460
3461	...Hundreds of millions of guns across America are now in the hands of people who are fed up with being stomped on, ridiculed and marginalized by a corrupt leftist regime that's destroying America
3462
3463	...What the author is saying is, essentially, America is quite likely just 70 days away from the start of the next revolution... or even events that could escalate into Civil War.
3464
3465	...A Hillary victory would set off an immediate popular revolt
3466
3467	If Hillary wins the election, it's hard not to imagine some sort of popular revolt across America as the citizens reject the obvious criminality and corruption of not just the Clinton crime family but also a complicit mainstream media. The same media that has funneled millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation also intentionally downplays all the Clinton scandals. The entire system is a corrupt, incestuous, rigged f--kfest that benefits the deceitful plutocrats whom the voters are sick and tired of seeing remain in power.
3468
3469	...If Trump wins, the globalist banksters crash the debt bubble to unleash mass chaos
3470
3471	...Once the globalists declare open warfare against the Trump administration, all bets are off and anything could unfold over the next few years. Expect things to get very nasty, very desperate and incredibly violent. Life as you know it in America is about to be disrupted in a serious way.
3472
3473	By the way, I also predict that Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Anonymous will all play key roles in these unfolding events, exposing mind-blowing government secrets that spur populations across many western nations into escalating their action against the corrupt government regimes they've foolishly allowed to rule over them. Much of the real war taking place across our globe right now is a cyber war... a "war of secrets" where the hackers and cyber activists are increasingly exposing all the corruption and criminality of governments, which maintain their power by constantly lying to the public and withholding the truth.
3474
3475	...Even if Clinton does win the election and occupy the White House, the global end game is fast approaching anyway. A Clinton White House only further encourages the calls for revolt across the population, and Hillary's deep corruption and criminality is so despised by nearly all soldiers and police officers that it's hard to imagine her being able to demand respect from either of those groups. In fact, it's a lot easier to imagine a military coup against President Clinton that it is to imagine a successful eradication of the Second Amendment by her presidency. Even if Clinton ordered police across America to go door to door and confiscate all the firearms of private citizens, what cop would be stupid enough to even attempt such a suicide mission?
3476
3477	I can't overstate this point: Things are at a breaking point in America, and the only thing holding back a mass revolt right now is the looming election, which presents at least a glimmer of hope to the people of America that they might beat back tyranny and government oppression with a Trump victory.
3478
3479	...What Washington elites utterly fail to realize is that for many Americans, they have nothing else left to lose if they lose this election. They've already lost their job and their health coverage. In many places across America, they're losing their own national flag and national pride. They've been ridiculed, condemned and spat upon by the dishonest media and the crybully leftist f--ktards, and they realize full well that if they don't draw a line in the sand right here, right now, they're going to be disarmed, enslaved, impoverished and named "enemies of the state" in the very same country they once fought for (and pledged allegiance to).
3480
3481	The psyche of real America has reached its last straw. With the culture under attack, the Constitution demonized, religious beliefs targeted for merciless condemnation and the industrial base of America utterly gutted beyond restoration, there is nothing left to surrender to the demands of the tyrannical left. It is at that breaking point where, in the minds of many citizens throughout history, they pick up pitch forks and march en masse against the oppressors in power.
3482
3483	We are very, very close to that day in America. It may, in fact, unravel in just the next 100 days. No matter who wins this election, mass violence breaks out across America in one way or another.
3484
3485
3486Supposedly, something like this has worked before:
3487
3488
3489http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/article136721193.html
3490	How did the plantation owners mislead so many Southern whites?
3491
3492	They managed this con job partly with a propaganda technique that will be familiar to modern Americans, but hasn’t received the coverage it deserves in our sesquicentennial celebrations. Starting in the 1840s wealthy Southerners supported more than 30 regional pro-slavery magazines, many pamphlets, newspapers and novels that falsely touted slave ownership as having benefits that would – in today’s lingo – trickle down to benefit non-slave owning whites and even blacks. The flip side of the coin of this old-is-new trickle-down propaganda is the mistaken notion that any gain by blacks in wages, schools or health care comes at the expense of the white working class.
3493
3494
3495https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/why-non-slaveholding-southerners-fought
3496	...Southerners heard the identical message from their community leaders.  In the fall of 1860, John Townsend, owner of a cotton plantation on Edisto Island, authored a pamphlet delineating the consequences of Lincoln’s elevation to presidency.
3497
3498	...Non-slaveholders, he predicted, were also in danger.  “It will be to the non-slaveholder, equally with the largest slaveholder, the obliteration of caste and the deprivation of important privileges,” he cautioned.  “The color of the white man is now, in the South, a title of nobility in his relations as to the negro,” he reminded his readers.
3499
3500
3501http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/historians-reveal-secrets-of-uk-gun-running-which-lengthened-the-american-civil-war-by-two-years-9557937.html
3502	Other research, carried out over the past decade, has revealed the extraordinary extent to which substantial sections of Britain’s business elite were working with impunity to help the slave-owning southern states win the Civil War – despite the fact that Britain was officially neutral and had outlawed slavery almost 30 years earlier.
3503
3504	...The entirely illegal, but tacitly British-Government-approved pro-Confederate gun-running operation is thought to have lengthened the American Civil War by up to two years – and to have therefore cost as many as 400,000 American lives.
3505
3506	...Researcher Gerald Hayes is piecing together the previously unstudied details of a complex of more than half a dozen blockade-busting companies based in Liverpool and London and their relationship with other Confederate sympathizers – including pro-Confederacy MPs at Westminster.
3507
3508	Britain was split down the middle in its attitude to the American Civil War. The left, many liberals and much of the working class was pro-US and anti-Confederate – mainly because of the South’s pro-slavery stance. But many Tories and much of the business sector were actively pro-Confederate, as there were considerable fortunes to be made from supplying guns, uniforms, medicines, textiles and even food to the south.
3509
3510	Geopolitically, the British government saw the USA as a growing challenge to its global domination – especially in terms of merchant marine carrying capacity. The British also feared US expansionism and potential US-originating threats to Canada and British colonies in the Caribbean.
3511
3512	“Economically Britain saw huge advantages in the break-up of the United States. It saw the American South as a source of raw cotton – and as a market for manufacturing goods, whereas it saw the North as an industrial competitor which sought to use protectionist policies to exclude Britain from American markets,” said Dr. Graham.
3513
3514
3515(also, FWIW for U.S. - British relations: all that Britons that did that are now dead)
3516
3517
3518Partisan animosity has another key benefit for the Okhrana--thanks to partisan motivated reasoning, the more Republicans and Democrats hate each other, the easier it is for the Okhrana to blame their activities on America's partisans. If the Okhrana can get Republicans and Democrats to hate each other enough, Democrats will *want* to believe Republicans are out to destroy America, and vice versa:
3519
3520
3521http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
3522	...infowars.com ... ronpaulinstitute.org ... russia-insider.com...
3523
3524
3525https://www.infowars.com/video-liberal-plan-to-destroy-america-revealed/
3526	Video: Liberal Plan To Destroy America Revealed
3527
3528	Globalists plan to destabilize world by flooding Europe and US with illegal immigrants...
3529
3530
3531https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-03-24/how-russia-is-weaponizing-migration-to-destabilize-europe
3532	How Russia Is 'Weaponizing' Migration to Destabilize Europe
3533
3534
3535http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2017/june/15/there-will-be-blood-the-alexandria-shooting-and-civil-war-in-america/
3536	There Will be Blood: The Alexandria Shooting and Civil War in America
3537
3538	The shooting at a Republican baseball practice in Virginia shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s the result of months of establishment agitprop. From Kathy Griffin posing with Trump’s severed head to a Trump-like Julius Caesar killed in Central Park play, the media has fixated on strife between the two establishment parties.
3539
3540	This isn’t an accident. It’s designed to keep Americans distracted and at each other’s throats as the economy slowly implodes and the wars expand with horrific toll.
3541
3542	The election of Trump provides a unique opportunity to create partisan battle lines. Social media is rife with venom and hatred as the alt-left faces off against the alt-right. Factions are established and receive support behind the scenes from George Soros, the Koch Brothers, and the Democrat “resistance,” a ludicrous moniker cooked up by the Democratic National Committee under its new chairman Tom Perez. The DNC announced it will throw a million dollars at its Summer of Resistance. This will further widen the political divide. Polarization is increasingly intense and the establishment propaganda media is fanning the flames.
3543
3544	...We’re in the early stages of an engineered civil war. Who benefits from this? The state.
3545
3546
3547https://www.infowars.com/trump-is-right-heres-proof-hillary-obama-founded-isis/
3548	Trump Is Right: Here’s Proof Hillary & Obama Founded ISIS
3549	Hillary even admitted U.S. created al-Qaeda, the precursor of ISIS
3550
3551
3552http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/09/ex-soviet-bloc-`spy-chief-explains-hidden-origin-todays-jihad.html
3553	By 1972, Andropov's disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that the U.S. intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom. He wanted us to convince Muslims that the U.S. Congress was a "Council of the Elders of Zion" which conspired to have the Jews take over the world. If we whipped up Muslim anti-Semitism, then terrorism and violence against Israel and America would naturally follow.
3554
3555	Thus, the Romanian DIE (counterpart of KGB foreign intelligence), which I headed, in 1972 received from the KGB an Arabic translation of the old Russian forgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” We also received "documentary" material in Arabic produced by the Soviet disinformation "proving" America was a Zionist country whose aim was to transform the Islamic world into a Jewish fief. 
3556
3557	My DIE was ordered to disseminate these documents within its targeted Islamic countries. During my later years in Romania, the DIE disseminated thousands of copies of “The Protocols” and similar “documents” each month.
3558
3559	...What is the lesson here for us? We can win the current War on Terror only by detoxing the Islamic world of its anti-Americanism. When I worked for the Soviet bloc disinformation machine, I helped foment that toxin.
3560
3561
3562http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/world/anti-semitic-elders-of-zion-gets-new-life-on-egypt-tv.html
3563	Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV
3564
3565	The ''Protocols,'' which purports to depict Jewish leaders plotting world dominion, has long been recognized as a fabrication by the czarist secret police. It was used in early 20th-century Russia and in Nazi Germany as a pretext for persecution of Jews. Still, the show's backers say they are keeping an open mind about its authenticity. They say that in any event, reality seems to bear them out, in that Israel controls part of the Middle East.
3566
3567	''In a way, don't they dominate?'' said Hala Sarhan, Dream TV's vice president and feisty personality on the air. ''Of course, what we read from the 'Protocols,' it says it's a kind of conspiracy. They want to control; they want to dominate. I represent everybody in the street. We will see whether this happened throughout history or not.''
3568
3569	Ms. Sarhan is quick to point out that the material about the ''Protocols'' is only one aspect of a sweeping television panorama. But others who have seen the entire program say that a Zionist conspiracy to control Arab lands is one of the themes running through the series.
3570
3571	At one point, men in the Arab anti-British resistance movement find the ''Protocols'' and have it translated, said a co-writer, Muhammad Baghdadi. ''They discovered that many things in this document were happening in reality,'' Mr. Baghdadi said, ''whether they were written by the Jews or not.''
3572
3573
3574http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/454
3575	The Syrian régime, both the former, controlled by the late president Hafiz al-Assad and the current, controlled by his son Bashar, is infected with anti-Semitism. The comments made by Bashar, the anti-Semitic bias of the Syrian media (including the production of anti-Semitic TV shows such as The Exile1) and the publication of anti-Semitic books (including the new edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) have all given witness to it.
3576
3577	A new edition of The Protocols was published early in 2005 and, as noted by the publisher, authorized by the Syrian Ministry of Information in May 2004. It is marketed through DarAl-Awael’s Internet site, as are other anti-Semitic books. 
3578
3579	The roots of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion lie in classic, Christian European anti-Semitism; however, the introduction to the Syrian edition also supports its libels with Islamic sources, and the result is a fusion of European and Islamic motifs. Not merely a reissuing of the familiar Protocols, it has been prefaced with an introduction and chapters dealing with current political issues, combining anti-Semitic myths of Jewish world domination, theories of Jewish influence on world politics and on American policy, encouragement of Palestinian terrorism and blatant anti-American and anti-Israeli incitement. 
3580
3581
3582http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/24/why-are-russian-hackers-posing-as-isis-propagandists/
3583	Why Are Russian Hackers Posing as ISIS Propagandists?
3584
3585
3586https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/22/sorry-but-its-entirely-the-rights-fault/
3587	Sorry, But It’s Entirely the Right’s Fault
3588
3589	Many commentators are suggesting that both right and left are equally to blame for all the polarization between them. They’re wrong. The reason for all the bitterness between left and right is entirely the right’s fault. Right-wingers who suggest otherwise are self-deluded – and usually projecting.
3590
3591	Exhibit A: Newt Gingrich.
3592
3593
3594http://www.newsweek.com/american-who-dared-make-putins-case-231388
3595	The American Who Dared Make Putin’s Case
3596	By Zoë Schlanger On 3/10/14 at 6:35 PM 
3597
3598	An academic with generally progressive beliefs married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of the left-leaning Nation, he has a view of events in Ukraine that urges Americans to understand Putin’s point of view.
3599
3600	In his article “Distorting Russia,” Cohen wrote that American “demonization” of Putin in news coverage amounts to “toxic” “media malpractice” that verges on the alarmist language of the Cold War.
3601
3602	...But while their opinions have gone largely unremarked, Cohen has been widely derided as a Putin apologist. Yet former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, of all people, has backed him up.
3603
3604	Cohen says he is the real American patriot and those who are pressing President Barack Obama and the European Union to counter the Russians in Crimea are a danger to our national security.
3605
3606
3607http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/03/sitroom.01.html
3608	COHEN: Well, you know, Reagan says it -- said it took two to tango, and that's absolutely true. I'm pushing back against the American narrative.
3609
3610	The long story is -- and I'll give it to you short -- in the 1990s, President Clinton decided to begin to expand NATO toward Russia. Russia is now on NATO's borders. That's a military alliance.
3611
3612	To make the short story in the foreground, in November, when this current crisis in Ukraine began, Putin said to Washington and to Brussels, to the European Union, why are you forcing Ukraine to choose between Russia and the west? Why don't we do a joint economic aid to Ukraine? And our answer was, "No, it's either/or. It's our way or the highway." And now you are where you are. 
3613
3614	BLITZER: Let's let the former speaker, Newt Gingrich, respond. Go ahead.
3615
3616	NEWT GINGRICH, CO-HOST, "CROSSFIRE": There's a lot to what he just said.
3617
3618	BLITZER: A lot of accuracy?
3619
3620	GINGRICH: A lot of accuracy. The United States and Europeans have been trying to pull Ukraine away from Russia at a time when half their natural gas and oil comes from Russia. They're deeply in debt to the Russians. Crimea is, in fact, a Russian naval base. It was a Soviet Union base. It goes back 300 years as Russian territory. And I think Putin sent a lot of signals that he was going to do something sooner or later.
3621
3622	I worry about this both in terms of Crimea and what happens to Ukraine but also in terms of what lessons does he learn about dealing with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who are members of NATO and are on the northern Russian flank? It's very important that Putin understands there are consequences to this kind of aggressiveness, but I do think that the United States and Europe did a lot to set up the crisis. 
3623
3624
3625http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/21/weekinreview/seeing-green-the-red-menace-is-gone-but-here-s-islam.html
3626	In the absence of other compelling threats to the United States, Islamic radicalism has also seized the imagination of some in Congress. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has warned about "totalitarian Islam," led Congress last month to approve $20 million in covert aid to moderate Iran's behavior. No matter that there is no viable opposition to Iran's Government; that the Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that despite severe economic problems the regime is not going to collapse any time soon, and that the policy is likely only to fuel paranoia in Teheran that the United States is determined to destroy Iran's Islamic republic. The initiative was so odd that the Administration (which calls Iran an "outlaw state") found itself in the bizarre position of weakening the covert program so its mandate did not include overthrowing Iran's Government.
3627
3628
3629https://www.thenation.com/article/how-newt-gingrich-crippled-congress/
3630	How Newt Gingrich Crippled Congress
3631
3632	No single person bears more responsibility for how much Americans hate Congress than Newt Gingrich. Here’s what he did to it.
3633
3634	...There is no greater pathology in today’s Congress than obstructionism, from Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) refusal to raise the debt ceiling in July to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) taking disaster relief funds for Hurricane Irene hostage. Both parties have long used Congress’s procedural rules to promote legislation they favor, but Gingrich created something new. “There is the assumption—pioneered by Newt Gingrich himself, as early as the 1970s—that the minority wins when Congress accomplishes less,” Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the number-two Democrat in the House, explained in a 2009 speech at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “Gingrich’s proposition, and maybe accurately, was that as long as…our party cooperate[s] with Democrats and get[s] 20 or 30 percent of what we want and they get to say they solved the problem and had a bipartisan bill, there’s no incentive for the American people to change leadership,” Hoyer told the Washington Post after the speech. “To some degree, he was proven right in 1994.”
3635
3636
3637https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/jan/27/features11.g22
3638	Like pathologists trying to explain a freak viral outbreak, American historians have been poring over the McCarthyist phenomenon for the past half-century, striving to explain how a small group of legislators, the House Un-American Activities Committee, managed to paralyse US democracy and scar a generation.
3639
3640	But the great, ironic secret at the committee's roots has emerged only now, in Moscow. According to newly unearthed KGB files, the committee's founding father - the man who paved the way for Senator Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts - was a Soviet spy.
3641
3642	His name was Samuel Dickstein, a Democratic congressman from Manhattan who created the committee's prototype in 1934 as a means for hunting down home-grown Nazis.
3643
3644
3645http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023
3646	It took a new generation of hard-line Republican politicians, led by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to make the environment a partisan issue while positioning the GOP as the party of the fossil-fuel industry. Oil, gas and coal companies had typically divided their campaign donations evenly between the two parties; now they began funneling tens of millions of dollars to the GOP – two and three times more than Democrats received – and into front groups and sham think tanks working to undermine climate science. Flush with cash, the Republican leadership "started running the Congress from the top down," Waxman recalls. "Committees had less and less say over policy, decisions were made at the level of the speaker, and a lot of legislation was being drafted behind closed doors with special interests."
3647
3648
3649https://www.infowars.com/paper-global-warming-biggest-science-scandal-ever/
3650	Paper: ‘Global Warming’ Biggest Science Scandal Ever
3651	Globalists falsify temperature records
3652
3653
3654http://russia-insider.com/en/russia-already-knows-man-made-climate-change-hoax-now-west-waking/ri19041
3655	Russia Already Knows Man-Made Climate Change Is a Hoax. Now It's Time For the West to Wake Up
3656
3657	Climate change is a fanatical western dogma based on fabricated data. And Russia is a proud and unapologetic heretic
3658
3659
3660https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/since-over-1000-confidential-e.html
3661	Climategate: Russian secret service blamed for hack
3662
3663
3664This is a tactic that the Okhrana uses over and over again. The same principle works for animosity between countries, ethnic groups, really any groups of people that can be put in conflict: people who hate each other are inclined to blame each other for their problems. The famous Okhrana forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion) blamed a "global Zionist conspiracy" for much of the same kind of clandestine or subversive activities the Okhrana was up to, perhaps taking advantage of the antisemitism of the time. The KGB forgery "U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Field_Manual_30-31B) blamed U.S. military and intelligence agencies for the same. And the NKVD's "Tanaka Memorial" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka_Memorial) blamed Japanese leadership for incidents that, at least, had more than a few Okhrana fingerprints (see https://pastebin.com/e4qCs1AT). It can be said that animosity is another tool for the Okhrana to cover their tracks.
3665
3666Clinton is also useful to them in this regard--it looks like there were attempts in Russian propaganda to blame Clinton for Justice Scalia's death, for example, and possibly some kind of effort to blame Clinton for the Russian print and social media propaganda targeting the left:
3667
3668
3669https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/793147437389144064
3670	More dead than will fit in a Twitter animation, so many the artist got ill making it. #ClintonBodyCount #StopHillary http://stopthesteal.org 
3671
3672
3673https://www.infowars.com/wet-works-podesta-email-makes-assassination-reference-days-before-scalia-death/
3674	‘Wet Works’: Podesta Email Makes Assassination Reference Days Before Scalia Death
3675	“Didn't think wet works meant pool parties at the Vineyard.”
3676
3677	Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta used a term known to reference assassination in an email sent to a lobbyist days before Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s mysterious death.
3678
3679
3680http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/killed-antonin-scalia-conspiracy-theorists-run-wild-article-1.2533100
3681	Who killed Antonin Scalia? Conspiracy theorists run wild 
3682
3683	A blogger who conjures up conspiracy theories under the name Paladin Justice said Bill and Hillary Clinton may have orchestrated Scalia’s killing in an attempt to stifle a possible Supreme Court ruling over the former Secretary of State’s email controversy.
3684
3685
3686http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-25/hillary-unleashes-million-dollar-professional-internet-troll-army
3687	Hillary Clinton-aligned Super PAC, Correct the Record, is taking a page out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook by employing a $1 million dollar professional internet troll army to build a paid, positive consensus about the Clinton campaign. 
3688
3689
3690http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-08/podesta-files-show-illegal-coordination-david-brock-super-pac
3691	Another startling discovery from the "Podesta Emails" seems to indicate that the Clinton campaign openly coordinated with the "Correct The Record" Super PAC run by David Brock...which we believe is technically a felony.  That said, we're sure the FBI could find a way to argue the intent.  
3692
3693
3694http://www.mintpressnews.com/trolling-way-white-house-clinton-linked-pac-launches-1m-campaign-trump-bernie-bros/216264/
3695	Hillary Clinton is taking her battle for the White House to social media, as a new super PAC linked to her campaign prepares to spend big to participate in online flame wars.
3696
3697	...Chris Matyszczyk, CNET’s reporter on online culture, suggested Clinton was adopting Trump’s tactics. “It’s not a pretty picture for Trump and it is, indeed, just the sort of thing he himself would release if he were running against himself,” he wrote of one ad earlier this month.
3698
3699	Clinton is increasingly perceived to be losing control of the election, at least on social media. “The lack of engagement is one of Clinton’s bigger tactical vulnerabilities, particularly when compared with rivals like Donald Trump, whose viral social media attacks are legion, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is backed by a passionate army of media-savvy millennials,” Halper wrote.
3700
3701
3702http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-09/new-email-leak-reveals-unprecedented-coordination-between-hillary-campaign-and-press
3703	Newly Leaked Emails Reveal Unprecedented Coordination Between Hillary Campaign And Press
3704
3705	It is no secret that the mainstream media has a "slight" left-leaning bias in their political reporting.  But newly leaked emails from Guccifer 2.0, obtained exclusively by The Intercept, reveal just how "cozy" and pervasive the Clinton campaign's relationship is with the press.  From "off-the-record dinners with the key national reporters" to feeding pre-written propaganda pieces to "friendly" journalists, the new leaks reveal startling coordination between the Clinton campaign and the mainstream media.
3706
3707		...We have has a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed.
3708
3709
3710This is another way Comey's decision worked in the Russians' favor: Russian propaganda had long built-up Clinton as some kind-of globally-connected, shadowy figure able to buy influence and buy her way out of justice--a fitting scapegoat. But Comey's handling of the case added to that perception, essentially that the system is rigged for shady, powerful people, and that Clinton is one of those people:
3711
3712
3713https://www.intellihub.com/clinton-family-criminal-roots-exposed/
3714	One woman even claimed that she “had sex” and did “cocaine” at toga parties” with Clinton’s crew and other prominent members of government and the police department on a number of occasions when Hillary, Bill’s wife, was “nowhere to be found.”
3715
3716	At one point the criminal activity became so blatant that it was said to be commonly known throughout certain circles exactly what had been taking place, people even ended up dead. Many were awaiting indictments but the Clinton family tentacles were just too long and the path taken by investigators led to nowhere.
3717
3718
3719https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/our-shadow-government-the-cfr/
3720	Hillary Clinton admits that the CFR runs the Government
3721
3722
3723https://www.infowars.com/hillary-to-use-shadow-government-to-cancel-the-election/
3724	Hillary To Use Shadow Government To Steal The Election
3725	A group literally called “the shadow government” was overseeing the Clinton email inquiry
3726
3727
3728http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-fbi-docs-reveals-shadowy-group-protected-clinton-email-investigation/221545/
3729	New FBI Docs Reveals Shadowy Group Protected Clinton In Email Investigation
3730
3731	...In the FBI’s summary, the Shadow Government is said to have urged the FBI to drop the investigation documents all at once “for coordination purposes.” This information comes from an unidentified person, the FBI documents claim.
3732
3733
3734https://www.infowars.com/fbi-source-clinton-foundation-can-bring-down-entire-government/
3735	FBI Source: Clinton Foundation Can Bring Down Entire Government
3736
3737	“There is enough for her and the entire government to be brought down,” he revealed. “People do not realize how enormous this whole situation actually is.”
3738
3739	...“The problem is with the Clinton Foundation as I mentioned, which you should just imagine as a massive spider web of connections and money laundering implicating hundreds of high-level people,” the source said. “Though I do not have a high opinion of Hillary, she is just a piece – albeit a big piece – of this massive sh*tstorm.”
3740
3741	...“Bill Clinton met with Lynch, and he was there to assure her that when Hillary gets to be president she’ll be able to keep her job,” said Nichols on the Alex Jones Show Friday. “I would imagine he gave Lynch a slip of paper that had on it a couple of things about the career prosecutors that are working the case. What was on that? The things they have on them. The drugs, women, men, whatever.”
3742
3743	The source indicated the Clinton Foundation is likely a nexus of blackmail material keeping everyone in D.C. in line behind the Clintons – even those with tremendous influence.
3744
3745	...Additionally, the source said the investigation took so long because FBI Director James Comey didn’t want to face the “Clinton Machine” and the “rest of Washington D.C.”
3746
3747	“…This case would explode into a million other cases if fully brought to light, and then we would be one agency competing against the entire government and a hoard of other interests,” he continued. “
3748
3749
3750http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/10/exposed-fbi-director-james-comeys-clinton-foundation-connection/
3751	Exposed: FBI Director James Comey’s Clinton Foundation Connection
3752
3753
3754https://www.infowars.com/fbi-comey-a-clinton-fixer/
3755	Confirmed: Comey Planted Inside FBI as Clinton Fixer
3756	Former FBI Director made sure Clintons were never prosecuted
3757
3758	FBI Director James Comey is a Clinton-fixer with a long history of running interference within the Department of Justice to make sure the Clintons are never prosecuted – a loyalty that the Clintons have repaid in corporate board appointments that have earned Comey millions of dollars.  
3759
3760
3761http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/21/judge-napolitano-what-if-fix-was-in-for-hillary-at-obama-justice-department.html
3762	Judge Napolitano: What if the fix was in for Hillary at the Obama Justice Department?
3763
3764	...What if FBI management began to intimidate FBI agents who had the goods on her? What if FBI management forced agents to sign highly irregular agreements governing what the agents can tell anyone when it comes to what they learned about Clinton?
3765
3766
3767The effect of this shouldn't be understated--a lot of Trump's campaign involved raging at the "lying mainstream media" and accusing Clinton of plotting to rig the election. But there was fairly-wide perception that the media was biased in favor of Clinton, and rumors that Clinton rigged the Democratic primary in ways beyond what was reveled by the DNC hacks. If Americans were suspicious that the justice system was rigged in favor of Hillary, it's not a large step to suspect the media or election systems could be rigged too:
3768
3769
3770http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/only-voter-suppression-can-stop-bernie-sanders_b_9780128.html
3771	Only Voter Suppression Can Stop Bernie Sanders
3772
3773	...The biggest issue, and something the corporate media barely touches, is that Hillary’s two wins over the past month  —  New York and Arizona  —  came in the two state primaries that were most fraught with problems and that are now under legal investigation.
3774
3775	A similarity between the two states is disturbing. In both states, massive voter roll changes and purges took place in the days and weeks leading up to the primary, disqualifying thousands upon thousands of new Democratic voters.
3776
3777
3778http://time.com/4472169/russian-hackers-arizona-voter-registration/
3779	Russians Hacked Arizona Voter Registration Database -Official
3780
3781	Russians were responsible for the recent breach of Arizona's voter registration system, the FBI told state officials in June.
3782
3783
3784http://www.gallup.com/poll/197090/majority-voters-think-media-favors-clinton.aspx
3785	WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently accuses the media of biasing its coverage of the 2016 election campaign in favor of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. A majority of registered voters (52%) agree with the Republican nominee. Meanwhile, 8% think the media favors Trump and 38% perceive no media bias.
3786
3787
3788https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krP7rqYKHxs
3789	Bernie Sanders Schools Clueless News Anchor On Why Hillary Clinton Lost 
3790
3791
3792https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cOLIOaikU
3793	What did CNN mean by this?
3794
3795
3796https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/17/remember-its-illegal-to-possess-wikileaks-clinton-emails-but-its-different-for-the-media-says-cnns-chris-cuomo/
3797	‘Remember, it’s illegal to possess’ WikiLeaks Clinton emails, but ‘it’s different for the media,’ says CNN’s Chris Cuomo
3798
3799
3800https://www.infowars.com/cnn-its-illegal-to-read-wikileaks-clinton-emails-you-have-to-go-through-us/
3801	CNN: “It’s Illegal” To Read Wikileaks Clinton Emails, You Have To Go “Through Us”
3802	"Everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us," he says
3803
3804	...The most important up to this point, according to Wikileaks themselves, is the revelation Hillary Clinton knew Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding ISIS in 2014 yet took over $30 million from both nations through her crooked foundation.
3805
3806	Additionally, Bill Clinton was given a $1 million dollar “birthday check” from ISIS funding Qatar.
3807
3808	These facts alone should be enough to indict both Hillary and Bill Clinton for treason, but the sold out GOP are a bunch of cowards and traitors and would prefer Hillary beat Trump so the rigged system continues unabated.
3809
3810
3811https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/05/16/cnns_chris_cuomo_thank_god_for_leakers.html
3812	CNN's Chris Cuomo: "Thank God For Those Leakers"
3813
3814	CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: So, the president is once again providing the pathway to our understanding on something. The White House came out with a quick response in the form of General McMaster, respected national security adviser. He said, story is false that you heard. President didn't reveal any sources, methods or any military operations that weren't already public.
3815
3816	Now, apple and oranges. That's not what "The Washington Post" reporting was about. It was about what the president may have given in detail of highly classified information that could allow the Russians to deconstruct, backtrack and find out where it might have come from.
3817
3818	So, different things. But then the president this morning doesn't follow McMaster. He takes his own path, which is much closer to the reporting.
3819
3820	...I have the absolute right to do, he says. Facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus, I want Russia to step up their fight against ISIS and terrorism. I have been asking Director Comey and others from the beginning of my administration to find the leakers in the intelligence community.
3821
3822	Thank God for those leakers, Senator Sasse, otherwise we might not have known about this 
3823
3824
3825http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/nancy-pelosi-cnn-town-hall/index.html
3826	Pelosi made her comments at a CNN town hall Monday evening moderated by anchor Chris Cuomo in the wake of a Washington Post report citing current and former US officials saying Trump revealed highly classified information in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last week.
3827
3828	"It undermines the trust that we would have with our allies," Pelosi said.
3829
3830	National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster pushed back on the report from the White House Monday evening, saying, "I was in the room. It didn't happen."
3831Pelosi said McMaster's response was not satisfactory.
3832
3833	"I thought that the statement of McMaster's was sad for him, for him to be able to come out and speak in that way," Pelosi said. 
3834
3835(OK, I put that last bit on Pelosi in there on purpose)
3836
3837
3838But it does look like a lot of the rigging by "Clinton agents" was, in fact, done by Russian agents.
3839
3840This isn't to absolve Clinton of her misdeeds--Both Clinton and her husband have a long history of shady behavior:
3841
3842
3843https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4175323.html
3844	 WASHINGTON A federal judge Tuesday ordered the White House not to destroy any files, reports or correspondence that belonged to the now-disbanded health care task force headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
3845
3846	U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, concerned about a report that boxes of task force mail have been shredded, told the administration to say who is in charge of the record-keeping.
3847
3848	"I want a name and address of who's going to be accountable, and who's going to be held in contempt if there are documents destroyed," Lamberth said.
3849
3850
3851http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/health-care-debate-what-went-wrong-health-care-campaign-collapsed-special-report.html
3852	THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE: What Went Wrong? How the Health Care Campaign Collapsed -- A special report.; For Health Care, Times Was A Killer
3853
3854	...In hindsight, people who worked for the task force say its organization and secrecy planted the seeds of trouble for the President. 
3855
3856	 The policy experts developing proposals for universal coverage, a comprehensive package of health benefits and Federal subsidies for poor people, rarely spoke to the fiscal experts. The task force deferred the discussion of costs. Experts on mental health and long-term care argued for a richer and richer package of benefits without knowing how much it would cost. Meeting, but Not Listening
3857
3858	Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Magaziner met with many outside groups, but did not confide in them. After one such meeting, in March 1993, Dr. Quentin D. Young, chairman of Physicians for a National Health Program, which represents 6,000 doctors, said, "It was a magnificent exercise in pseudo openness." 
3859
3860
3861https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich#U.S._indictment_and_pardon
3862	In 1983 Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during the oil embargo (at a time when Iranian revolutionaries were still holding American citizens hostage). The charges would have led to a sentence of more than 300 years in prison had Rich been convicted on all counts.
3863
3864	...Learning of the plans for the indictment, Rich fled to Switzerland and, always insisting that he was not guilty, never returned to the U.S. to answer the charges. Rich's companies eventually pleaded guilty to 35 counts of tax evasion and paid $90 million in fines, although Rich himself remained on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most-Wanted Fugitives List for many years, narrowly evading capture in Britain, Germany, Finland, and Jamaica.
3865
3866	...On January 20, 2001, hours before leaving office, U.S. President Bill Clinton granted Rich a highly controversial presidential pardon.
3867
3868
3869https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/01/fbi-marc-rich-pardon-files/93136458/
3870	The FBI gave the Hillary Clinton campaign another unpleasant surprise Tuesday, this time releasing 129 pages of documents from a 2001 investigation into Bill Clinton's controversial presidential pardon of fugitive Marc Rich.
3871
3872	..."This initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization," reads a statement on the FBI records vault website. "The bulk of these records come from a 2001 FBI investigation into the pardon of Marc Rich (1934-2013), aka Marcell David Reich, by President Clinton in 2001;"
3873
3874	...In a statement, the FBI said that any material requested three or more times under the Freedom of Information Act is automatically made available to the public online on a "first in, first out basis."
3875
3876	...Comey took over the FBI probe into the Rich pardon in 2003 and the case was closed in 2005 with no charges filed...
3877
3878
3879https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich#U.S._indictment_and_pardon
3880	...Denise Rich had given more than $1 million to Clinton's political party (the Democratic Party), including more than $100,000 to the Senate campaign of the president's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and $450,000 to the Clinton Library foundation during Clinton's time in office.
3881
3882
3883http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/us/prosecutors-clear-clintons-in-clemency-of-4-hasidic-men.html
3884	Federal prosecutors said yesterday that no criminal wrongdoing was committed when President Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of four swindlers from a Hasidic enclave in New York State that voted overwhelmingly for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
3885
3886	James B. Comey, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a two-sentence statement that he had closed his investigation of clemency granted to the four men from New Square, N.Y.
3887
3888	Mr. Comey said he would continue the investigation into the more than 170 other pardons and clemencies Mr. Clinton granted on his last day of office, including the one that has drawn the most ire: a pardon for the financier Marc Rich, a commodities trader who fled the country in 1983.
3889
3890	The New Square case also drew attention because of its mix of the Clintons, New York ethnic politics and suggestions of vote-trading.
3891Continue reading the main story
3892
3893	The four men, convicted of bilking the state and federal government of tens of millions of dollars, were prominent members of New Square, a reclusive Rockland County village. The village leaders' aggressive courting of the president and Mrs. Clinton before and after the 2000 Senate election raised questions of whether the men's sentences were reduced in exchange for votes.
3894
3895	''The investigation was closed because we thoroughly investigated and determined it wasn't appropriate to bring charges against anybody in the case,'' Mr. Comey said at a news conference on an unrelated case. ''I can't really go into it because it was an investigation that didn't result in charges. That may be a frustrating answer, but that's the one I'm compelled to give.''
3896
3897
3898http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/us/elusive-papers-of-law-firm-are-found-at-white-house.html
3899	Elusive Papers of Law Firm Are Found at White House
3900
3901	After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's.
3902
3903	Federal and Congressional investigators have issued subpoenas for the documents since 1994, and the White House has said it did not have them. The originals disappeared from the Rose Law Firm, in which Mrs. Clinton was a partner, shortly before Mr. Clinton took office.
3904
3905	The newly discovered documents are copies of billing records from the Rose firm, where Mrs. Clinton helped represent Madison Guaranty, a savings and loan run by James B. McDougal, the Clintons' business partner in the Whitewater land venture. The originals are still missing. Investigators have been seeking the documents to determine the role Mrs. Clinton played in the firm's representation of the savings and loan.
3906
3907	The Clintons' personal lawyer, David E. Kendall, said tonight that the documents show that the work Mrs. Clinton performed was limited both in time and scope, as she has repeatedly said.
3908
3909	But Representative Jim Leach, the Iowa Republican who heads the House Banking Committee, said he believed the billing records contradict Mrs. Clinton's account of her involvement with Madison, and show that her legal work for the savings and loan was "extensive and detailed."
3910
3911	Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, Republican of New York, tonight called the discovery of the copies of the records "the second miraculous discovery within the past 24 hours."
3912
3913	Mr. D'Amato, who is chairman of the Senate Whitewater committee, was referring to the disclosure on Thursday of a two-year-old memorandum written by a former Presidential aide. The memorandum said that Mrs. Clinton had played a far greater role in the dismissal of employees of the White House travel office than the Administration has acknowledged.
3914
3915	By their sheer volume -- 115 pages -- and the variety of contacts and conferences they document, the Rose billing records raise new questions about Mrs. Clinton's account of her work that are likely to give new impetus to investigations in Congress and by Federal prosecutors.
3916
3917	...Investigators have also been trying to determine whether Mrs. Clinton sought to block Justice Department lawyers from examining files in Mr. Foster's office in the days after his death. White House aides searched the office and brought files to the Clintons' private residence before allowing investigators to look at them.
3918
3919
3920http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/05/us/hillary-clinton-s-fingerprints-among-those-found-on-papers.html
3921	Hillary Clinton's Fingerprints Among Those Found on Papers
3922
3923	Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee released a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today showing that the fingerprints of the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were found on records discovered in the White House family quarters two years after they were first sought by investigators.
3924
3925	...But Mark Fabiani, a special White House counsel, said Mrs. Clinton had acknowledged that she probably read the documents in 1992 during the election campaign when questions about Whitewater were being raised by reporters. He added that she had testified under oath that she had nothing to do with the documents during the two years they were missing and did not know how they ended up in the family quarters.
3926
3927
3928http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitewater-case-closed/
3929	Six years and more than $50 million in taxpayer money later, an independent counsel has concluded there is "insufficient evidence" to charge President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with any criminal wrongdoing in the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas.
3930
3931	"The invesigation in connection with Madison Guaranty / Whitewater matter is now closed," said Independent Counsel Robert Ray on Wednesday, hours after releasing his written statement on the matter.
3932
3933	The White House immediately cheered the outcome as New York voters are just seven weeks away from deciding whether to elect Mrs. Clinton to the U.S. Senate.
3934
3935	...In June, Ray found "substantial evidence" that Mrs. Clinton played a role in the purge of the White House press travel office. She swore to congressional investigators in 1996 that she had no role in the decision to fire the employees.
3936
3937	In March, Ray concluded there is no credible evidence of criminal activity in the White House's improper gathering of hundreds of FBI background files of former Republican appointees.
3938
3939	...Mrs. Clinton's billing records disclosed that she prepared a real estate document valuing a parcel of Castle Grande property at $400,000. The federal government got just $38,000 for it six years later following the S&L's collapse. Federal regulators concluded the S&L used the document prepared by Mrs. Clinton to deceive bank examiners about hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions paid to Ward.
3940
3941	Questioned about her work for the S&L, Mrs. Clinton said on 99 occasions in a two-and-a-half hour interview with federal regulators in 1996 that she was unable to recall it.
3942
3943	The billing records reveal that Mrs. Clinton and Ward spoke at least 15 times from mid-November 1985 to June 1986 about Castle Grande and other business related to McDougal's S&L. Mrs. Clinton and Ward said they didn't recall the conversations. Ward died this year.
3944
3945	The Clintons have criticized the Whitewater probe as politically motivated. 
3946
3947
3948http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/committee.pdf
3949	104TH CONGRESS
3950
3951	INVESTIGATION OF WHITEWATER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND RELATED MATTERS
3952
3953	[pg 3 of 690]
3954
3955	...JAMES B. COMEY, Deputy Special Counsel...
3956
3957
3958Rather, a lot of evidence points to Russian intelligence finding people like Bill and Hillary Clinton (or Trump for that matter) and promoting them to positions of power. This has already gotten too long, but it does look like the Russians have been interested in Clinton for awhile:
3959
3960
3961http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/podesta-manafort-lobbying/index.html
3962	One of Washington's most powerful lobbying firms did not disclose the wide extent of its lucrative political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both onetime Trump adviser Paul Manafort and to pro-Russian politicians, new records show.
3963
3964	The firm, the Podesta Group, said nothing in a 2012 lobbying report to Congress about at least 32 meetings, emails and other communications it had with the State Department, at a time when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scrutinizing Ukraine's upcoming election, records show.
3965
3966	...The Podesta Group was representing a Ukrainian nonprofit, the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, as it sought to counter the Obama administration's critical stance toward Ukraine's pro-Russia government and Congress' growing annoyance with Ukraine's leaders.
3967
3968
3969http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/russian-fem-spy-cynthia-murphy-spooked-us/story?id=16061957
3970	Russian Fem Spy Spooked US, But It Wasn't Anna Chapman
3971
3972	April 3, 2012 
3973
3974 	A female Russian agent got "close enough" to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that the FBI felt they had to swoop in and arrest the lot -- but it wasn't the famous femme fatale Anna Chapman, federal officials said today. 
3975
3976	...."We were becoming very concerned they were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue," Figliuzzi said. 
3977
3978	 ...According to court documents relating to the spies' arrest, Murphy had been in contact with a fundraiser and "personal friend" of Hillary Clinton, who took the office of Secretary of State in January 2009. The fundraiser, Alan Patricof, said in a statement in 2010 he had retained Murphy's financial services firm more than two years before, had met with her a few times and spoke with her on the phone frequently. Patricof said they "never" spoke about politics, the government or world affairs.
3979
3980	A spokesperson for Clinton told ABC News in 2010 that at the time there was "no reason to think the Secretary was a target of this spy ring." 
3981
3982
3983http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062904525.html?hpid=topnews
3984	Clinton confidant believes he might have been spies' target
3985
3986 	...Patricof said he was as surprised as everyone else by his involvement, albeit peripherally, with the spies.
3987
3988	"It's just staggering," said Patricof in a telephone interview. "It's off the charts." 
3989
3990	..A shocked Patricof reiterated in the interview that, "We never discussed anything but paying the bills." 
3991
3992 	..."This is the most wild story ever," said Patricof. 
3993
3994
3995http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/11/hillary-clinton-donor-back-in-the-fundraising-mix/comment-page-1/
3996	Hillary Clinton donor back in the fundraising mix
3997
3998	(CNN) - After Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 primary to President Barack Obama, Alan Patricof, a wealthy financier who had helped raise sizable donations to the Clinton campaign, took a step back from politics.
3999
4000	...Attendees to the Tuesday night fundraiser paid the maximum allowable campaign donation for an individual under current campaign laws: $32,400 per person.
4001
4002	...Patricof has been a longtime supporter of Clinton. In 2008, he was part of a loyal group of fundraisers – called the "Hillraisers" – who donated and bundled millions of dollars for the then-senator's White House bid.
4003
4004	When asked by CNN earlier this year if he would look to bundle and fundraise for Clinton in 2016 – should she run – he said, "Yes, I can say that with certainty."
4005
4006	"I remain a Clinton supporter," Patricof said. "I definitely am very supportive of Hillary should she decide to go forward."
4007
4008	In the invitation to the Obama fundraiser, Patricof acknowledged his "various efforts to convince Hillary to run in 2016 and to demonstrate financial, as well as moral support, if she decides to go forward."
4009
4010
4011http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/229759-clinton-fundraiser-donors-tripping-over-themselves-to-back-hillary
4012	Longtime Hillary Clinton friend and fundraiser Alan Patricof says that major Democratic donors are "tripping over themselves" to donate to the former secretary of State.
4013
4014	Appearing on "Bloomberg Surveillance" on Friday, Patricof was asked if "all of the deep Democratic pockets" are still behind Clinton. 
4015
4016
4017https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/08/28/clinton-quietly-trying-to-discourage-biden-from-a-2016-bid
4018	In ways both subtle and blunt, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sending a message to Vice President Joe Biden about his potential presidential campaign: This won't be easy.
4019
4020	...Donors who have publicly expressed support for a Biden run have later been contacted by the Clinton team, according to fundraisers and Democratic strategists who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the private conversations. Even Clinton herself has made a few calls, they said, to express her disappointment in the defector.
4021
4022
4023http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/229759-clinton-fundraiser-donors-tripping-over-themselves-to-back-hillary
4024	..."Based on the number of calls I get on a daily basis, I’d say people are tripping over themselves. That’s why you have the formation of this organization called Ready for Hillary," Patricof said. 
4025
4026
4027Supposedly, Russian agents helped Clinton's Senate campaign too (some rough notes here: https://pastebin.com/Vx46ZcAM Also, the so called Mahogany Row "Shadow Government," who tried to cover-up Clinton's email scandal but ended up sensationalizing it, would be another good place to look for Russian agents.)
4028
4029A theme is that Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Trump all have something wrong with them--like they can't help lying or acting corruptly. The reader by now can guess what damage can be done to American society by promoting corrupt and unstable people to positions of power and influence.
4030
4031Russian spies are said to be opportunistic in their scouting for future American leaders:
4032
4033
4034http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/31/nation/la-na-russian-spies-20111101
4035	Russian spies were succeeding, FBI official says
4036
4037	The 10 sleeper agents exposed in 2010 were reportedly succeeding in efforts to rise in American society and gain connections to policymakers. 
4038
4039	...The agents, whom the U.S. sent to Russia in July 2010 in the largest spy swap since the Cold War, are not accused of stealing any U.S. secrets. But they were more dangerous than commonly believed, C. Frank Figliuzzi, FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, said in an interview.
4040
4041	They were "the cream of the crop" of trained Russian intelligence agents, he said, and they were sent here to blend in and befriend American policymakers. They were succeeding, Figliuzzi said.
4042
4043
4044http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2010/07/10/biden-tells-leno-he-wanted-send-rush-limbaugh-russia-spy-swap
4045	LENO: Are they just sort of like moles, they just sort of plant people here and say, "See what you can find out?" Or do they come with a specific mission, "You're going to go work for Lockheed" or "You're going to work for..."
4046
4047	BIDEN: The former. 
4048
4049
4050https://newrepublic.com/article/63602/now-we-know
4051	June 17, 2009
4052
4053	But amusing though the details may be, the most significant contribution of Klehr's and Haynes's book is its revelation of the sheer extent of Soviet espionage in America, and the numbers of people involved in it. Despite the length of this hefty volume, Haynes and Klehr discuss only a portion of some five hundred agents who at some point worked for the KGB, and about whom some details can be found in Vassiliev's notes or in the Venona files. Not all of these people were actually passing on information. Some worked as handlers, couriers, recruiters and talent spotters. The role of others may well have been exaggerated, as critics have pointed out, by the eager workers of the KGB--though certainly not all of them, given the specific details of information handed over.
4054
4055	If only a quarter of the people whose names appear in the files were truly agents, the numbers are still much larger than anyone previously suspected, and they represent a far deeper penetration into American society than we have hitherto known. As it turns out, the KGB in the 1930s had agents or contacts in the State Department, the Commerce Department, the Justice Department, and the OSS, the wartime intelligence agency. KGB associates were scattered throughout the Manhattan Project as well as in research institutions and private companies specializing in chemistry, aviation engineering, and physics. There were agents in the media and the literary world. The KGB even tried, not very successfully, to recruit Ernest Hemingway.
4056
4057
4058https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/09/spy-swap-whos-who-russia
4059	Cynthia Murphy, married to Richard Murphy, lived in a suburban neighbourhood in Montclair with their daughters, Kate, 11, and Lisa, 9. Concealing her true name Lydia Guryev, the 39-year-old worked for Morea Financial Services, a lower Manhattan-based accounting firm that offered tax advice, earning $135,000 a year, and had recently earned her MBA.
4060
4061	Prosecutors said one of her assignments had been to network with Columbia University students.
4062
4063
4064https://books.google.com/books?id=JI6ZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA115
4065	The 2009 case of Russian spy Lidiya Gurveva (using the name Cynthia Murphy) is particularly illustrative of how the campus environment can be exploited merely to collect information on professors and students. Gurveva was pursuing an MBA degree at Columbia Business School ... when her handlers gave her the following assignment:
4066
4067		[S]trengthen...ties w classmates on daily basis .... [r]eport to C[enter] on their detailed personal data and character traits w. preliminary conclusions about their potential (vulnerability) to be recruited by Service.
4068
4069	They also directed Gurveva to "dig up personal data of those students who apply (or are hired already) for a job at the CIA"
4070
4071
4072https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-inside-the-russian-spy-case
4073	The deep-cover Russian spies may not have achieved their objective, but they were not idle. They collected information and transmitted it back to Russia, and they were actively engaged in what is known in the spy business as “spotting and assessing.”
4074
4075	They identified colleagues, friends, and others who might be vulnerable targets, and it is possible they were seeking to co-opt people they encountered in the academic environment who might one day hold positions of power and influence.
4076
4077	Perhaps the most famous example of this tactic—the Cambridge Five—took place in Great Britain. Soviet intelligence “talent spotters” were able to recruit Cambridge University students in the 1930s—including future spy Kim Philby—who would later rise to power in the British government and become Soviet operatives during World War II and into the 1950s.
4078
4079	“We believe the SVR illegals may well have hoped to do the same thing here,” said a counterintelligence agent.
4080
4081
4082http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russian-spies-eye-golden-prize-white-house-source/story?id=45531117
4083	“They always targeted political figures,” David Major, a retired FBI counterintelligence agent explained to ABC News. “They want to know who is a mover and shaker in our society, who affects it.”
4084
4085	And today as questions continue to mount over what contacts Trump campaign aides may have had with Russian intelligence operatives, the White House continues to dispute media reports that any of the president’s associates had such contact while on the campaign trail.
4086
4087	U.S. intelligence officials say the Russians are engaged in a massive campaign to infiltrate and disrupt American politics. It has gone on for decades, originally with the Cold War goal of placing a mole inside the White House, a retired KGB officer who once ran spy operations in Washington told ABC News.
4088
4089
4090Between Trump, Gore (see https://pastebin.com/r5PHGSnz), and Clinton (and Nixon? Obama?), we can make a good guess that part of what they're looking for is people who are easily influenced, craven, depraved, or morally flexible who they can promote in American society.
4091
4092
4093http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2008/11/interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-part-three.html
4094	This was my instruction: try to get into large-circulation, established conservative media; reach filthy-rich movie makers; intellectuals, so-called ‘academic’ circles; cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. These are the most recruitable people: people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or too [much] suffer from self importance. They feel that they matter a lot. These are the people who[m] [the] KGB wanted very much to recruit.
4095
4096
4097http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2008/12/love-letter-to-america-part-two.html
4098	...Do not shun the aid of the lowest and most despicable individuals of your enemy's country...
4099
4100 
4101(And to be clear Clinton, Trump, and Gore don't strike me as witting agents, and I guess there are different levels of "recruiting" somebody--just having Russian agents in a position to advise them might be enough to make them unwitting agents.)
4102
4103
4104And a dishonest and loathed agent of influence is more useful than one might think--remember how Gore helped the Russians politicize climate change:
4105
4106
4107https://www.livescience.com/22069-polarization-climate-science.html
4108	...Part of the problem is that climate change has moved out of the realm of research and into the political arena
4109
4110	...This was in the midst of the polarizing Clinton administration, and for some, the association made global warming belief seem unsavory. Even today, many climate-change naysayers think of former vice president Al Gore when they hear the words "climate change."
4111
4112	"They loathe Al Gore," Leiserowitz said. "Sometimes I joke that Al Gore could hold a press conference tomorrow to say that science has determined that the Earth is round and people out there would say, 'Well, no it isn't.'" 
4113
4114
4115It's often that the best way to get someone to believe a lie is to let them know you're a liar and tell them the truth. For Clinton, Comey's handling of the email probe brought her dishonesty and penchant for scheming to the forefront of national attention:
4116
4117
4118https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-without-charges-fbi-rebuke-leaves-a-heavy-political-cloud-over-clinton/2016/07/05/79b6f712-42c8-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html
4119 	FBI rebuke leaves a heavy political cloud over Clinton 
4120
4121	Public polls show that many voters do not trust Clinton and that the email controversy already has harmed her political standing. Polls consistently show that roughly two-thirds of Americans do not consider Clinton “honest and trustworthy” — typically her lowest rating in a series of attribute questions.
4122
4123
4124https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/4-brutal-poll-numbers-that-greet-hillary-clinton-at-the-democratic-national-convention/
4125	4 brutal poll numbers that greet Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention
4126
4127	July 25, 2016
4128
4129	...68 percent say Clinton isn't honest and trustworthy
4130
4131	That's according to the CNN poll, and it's her worst number on-record. It's also up from 65 percent earlier this month and 59 percent in May. The 30 percent who see Clinton as honest and trustworthy is now well shy of the number who say the same of Trump: 43 percent.
4132
4133	You heard that right: Trump — he of the many, many Pinocchios — now has a large lead on Clinton when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness.
4134
4135	...Her image has never been worse
4136
4137	...Gallup's new numbers on Monday — 38 percent favorable and 57 percent unfavorable — are also unprecedented over the course of Clinton's political career.
4138
4139	This also appears to be the first time ever that Clinton's image measures worse than Trump's. It does so in both polls.
4140
4141
4142But this was just in time for Clinton to start using Trump's ties to Russia as a campaign talking point:
4143
4144
4145https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/
4146	Here are the latest, most damaging things in the DNC’s leaked emails 
4147
4148	July 25, 2016
4149
4150
4151http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/politics/robby-mook-russia-dnc-emails-trump/index.html
4152	Clinton's campaign manager: Russia helping Trump
4153
4154	Mon July 25, 2016
4155
4156	Hillary Clinton's campaign manager is alleging that Russian hackers are leaking Democratic National Committee emails critical of Bernie Sanders in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election in November. 
4157
4158	..."I don't think it's coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that's disturbing," he said. 
4159
4160	...Mook downplayed the possibility that the email release will rip open divides between supporters of Clinton and Sanders just before the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Philadelphia. 
4161
4162
4163https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/
4164	...Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.
4165
4166	...When the Sanders campaign alleged that the Clinton campaign was improperly using its joint fundraising committee with the DNC to benefit itself, Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias offered the DNC guidance on how to respond.
4167
4168	"My suggestion is that the DNC put out a statement saying that the accusations the Sanders campaign are not true,"
4169
4170	...On May 21, DNC national press secretary Mark Pautenbach suggested pushing a narrative that Sanders "never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess."
4171
4172	After detailing several arguments that could be made to push that narrative, Paustenbach concludes: "It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together."
4173
4174
4175http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-democrats-idUSKCN10B0ST
4176	Mon Aug 1, 2016 
4177
4178	Clinton says Russia behind DNC hacking, draws line to Trump
4179
4180	U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she questioned Republican rival Donald Trump's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
4181
4182	"We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC and we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released and we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin," Clinton said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday."
4183
4184	The United States has not publicly accused Russia of being behind the hack of Democratic Party computers.
4185
4186
4187http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290540-new-clinton-video-questions-trumps-ties-to-putin
4188	Clinton video questions Trump's ties to Putin
4189
4190	A new video from Hillary Clinton's campaign questions Donald Trump's connections to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and suggests the Kremlin may be trying to influence the U.S. presidential election. 
4191
4192	...The video also hits Trump for complimenting the Russian president. 
4193
4194	It displays the text "We don't know why Trump praises Putin" before playing a video clip of the Republican presidential nominee saying Putin has been a "very strong leader."
4195
4196	The video also questions Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort's ties to Putin, referencing his work with a former pro-Putin prime minister in the Ukraine.
4197
4198	"We don't know why Russia is trying to influence this election," the text continues ahead of video clips tying Russia to leaked emails from Democratic National Committee leaders. 
4199
4200	"We don't know what's going on here, and Donald won't tell us," the text concludes. "We'll let you guess." 
4201
4202
4203http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/06/russian-conspiracy-hillary-clinton-absurd-trump/
4204	Hillary Clinton’s Absurd, McCarthyist Russian Conspiracy Theory
4205
4206 	Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reiterated her campaign’s bizarre conspiracy theory Monday that Russia is working with Donald Trump to steal the 2016 election. 
4207
4208
4209http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/politics/robby-mook-russia-dnc-emails-trump/index.html
4210	"What a joke," Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement. "This shows that Hillary Clinton will do and say anything to win the election and hold onto power in the rigged system."
4211
4212	Donald Trump Jr., the son of the Republican nominee, also bashed Mook's comments later on "State of the Union."
4213
4214	"It just goes to show you their exact moral compass. I mean they'll say anything to be able to win this. This is time and time again, lie after lie," Trump Jr. told Tapper. "It's disgusting. It's so phony. I watched him bumble through the interview."
4215
4216	He added "These lies and the perpetuating of nonsense to try to gain some political capital is outrageous and he should be ashamed of himself."
4217
4218
4219http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/11/01/hillarys-russian-hack-hoax-the-biggest-lie-of-this-election-season/
4220	Hillary’s ‘Russian Hack’ Hoax: The Biggest Lie of This Election Season
4221
4222	...Anyone who was paying attention back then knew this ‘Russian hack’ talking point was purely political, but then again, who’s really paying attention these days? Certainly not the US media.
4223
4224	...as Charles Lane of the Washington Post pointed out on Fox News’ Special Report later that day, the Russians are no longer communists
4225
4226
4227http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289420-trump-i-hope-russia-is-able-to-get-clintons-emails
4228	Trump: 'I hope' Russia is able to get Clinton's emails
4229	07/27/16
4230
4231	Trump on Clinton's email: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30K emails that are missing" pic.twitter.com/zU83hXkEuy
4232
4233	Donald Trump on Wednesday said he hopes that Russian hackers have obtained the tens of thousands of emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private email server. 
4234
4235
4236https://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-assange-hillary-tries-to-link-trump-to-putin-to-hide-her-many-connections-to-russia-video-2/
4237	WikiLeaks’ Assange: Hillary Tries To Link Trump To Putin To Hide Her ‘Many Connections’ To Russia [VIDEO]
4238
4239	“My analysis of Trump and Russia is that there is no substantial connection.”
4240
4241
4242http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-24/deep-states-dominant-narratives-and-authority-are-crumbling
4243	The Deep State's Dominant Narratives And Authority Are Crumbling
4244
4245	...If various Security Agencies sign off on the narrative that "Russia hacked our election" (a nonsense claim from the start, given the absurd imprecision of the "hacking"--hacking into what? Voting machines? Electoral tallies?), and that narrative is evidence-free and fact-free, i.e. false, then the expertise and authority of those agencies comes into legitimate question.
4246
4247	...[picture of Boris and Natasha]
4248
4249	The dominant narrative: these two are the source of all our problems.
4250
4251
4252https://theintercept.com/2016/08/08/dems-tactic-of-accusing-adversaries-of-kremlin-ties-and-russia-sympathies-has-long-history-in-us/
4253	Democrats’ Tactic of Accusing Critics of Kremlin Allegiance Has Long, Ugly History in U.S.
4254	Glenn Greenwald
4255
4256	A frequent weapon for Democrats in the 2016 election is to publicly malign those they regard as critics and adversaries as Russia sympathizers, Putin stooges, or outright agents of the Kremlin. To put it mildly, this is not a new tactic in U.S. political discourse, and it’s worth placing it in historical context. That’s particularly true given how many people have now been targeted with this attack.
4257
4258	Strongly insinuating that the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, has nefarious, possibly treasonous allegiances to Moscow has migrated from Clinton-loyal pundits into the principal theme of the Clinton campaign itself. “The depth of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin is revealing itself by the day,” her website announced yesterday
4259
4260	...But this smear tactic extends far beyond Trump. It is now used to vilify anyone perceived to be an impediment to Clinton’s victory.
4261
4262	...When Bernie Sanders looked earlier this year to be the one who was standing in Clinton’s way, slimy suggestions began emerging of his dark connections to Russia.
4263
4264	...Trump, WikiLeaks, Sanders, The Intercept, Jill Stein. Other than loyal Clinton supporters, is there anyone left who is not covertly controlled by or in service to The Ruskies?
4265
4266
4267https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/06/syria-israel-bombing-moral-relativism
4268 	Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
4269	Glenn Greenwald
4270
4271	...but then argues that the attack on Syria is justified, in part, by the fact that Assad has "apparently" used "chemical weapons" on his own people. The only problem...
4272
4273
4274To summarize, this is what happened:
4275
4276
4277- Clinton spends most of her life acting suspiciously and being dishonest, generally sets herself up as a villain
4278
4279- James Comey draws attention to her email scandal in an unprecedented and galvanizing way, the world learns Clinton is a liar
4280
4281- Clinton chooses the DNC leaks, of all things, to tie her opponent to Russia and further her campaign (which looks dishonest anyway, as if this were a strategy to dismiss the leaks), and does this ahead of the USIC
4282
4283- Trump and the media do the rest of the work to downplay (welcome, even) or politicize Russia's meddling
4284
4285
4286Knowing how partisan motivated reasoning and "the messenger overwhelming the message" works, the outcome was predictable:
4287
4288
4289https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/6oxnwsm36w/econTabReport.pdf#page=181
4290	July 30 - August 1, 2016
4291
4292	From what you have heard, do you believe the Russian govenrment is responsible for hacking the DNC computers and leaking the emails? 
4293
4294	                            Total   Democrat  Independent  Republican
4295	Russia is responsible       29%     42%       25%          18%
4296	Russia is not responsible   22%     17%       22%          28%   
4297	Not sure                    49%     41%       54%          53%
4298
4299
4300	...Do you think Donald Trump's remarks about Russian finding Hillary Clinton's emails were appropriate or inappropriate?
4301
4302	                            Total   Democrat  Independent  Republican
4303	Appropriate                 27%     11%       27%          51%
4304	Inappropriate               58%     83%       54%          32%   
4305	Don't Know                  14%      5%       20%          17%
4306
4307
4308http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-poll-favorability-trump-2016-9
4309	According to a YouGov/Economist poll, Putin's favorability rating in July 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea, was -54 among Democrats and -66 among Republicans.
4310
4311	A poll from the same outlets released in August 2016 showed that Putin's favorability rating among Democrats remained identical. But the Russian leader's rating among Republicans improved dramatically, from -66 to -27.
4312
4313
4314Comey and Clinton helped politicize Russia's interference, making debate on how to respond impossible (see: global warming) and, critically, giving Russian spies in Congress cover to downplay or ignore Russian meddling (Clinton's "hypocrisy" about her own Russian ties might be meant to help with this too). For some Republicans, Clinton and the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" effect might have made Putin look better, too.
4315
4316In that sense, Clinton has been useful to the Russian government for awhile:
4317
4318
4319https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/452130729691201536/photo/1
4320	Great to meet the strong & brave young women from #PussyRiot, who refuse to let their voices be silenced in #Russia.
4321
4322	--Hillary Clinton
4323
4324
4325http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pussy-riot-hillary-clinton-we-916063
4326	Pussy Riot on Hillary Clinton: "We Would Be Happy if America Chose a Woman" (Exclusive)
4327
4328 	...Russia's punk provocateurs weigh in on how the DNC email scandal reminds them of life under Putin: "We are watched." 
4329
4330	..."I do not believe that the ex-KGB is able to hit someone who is really strong," she said. "We would be happy if America chose a woman for president. It would be a wonderful sign that America is the land of opportunity."
4331
4332	...Asked to comment on Russia's involvement in the hack, she said she couldn't say who, specifically, was behind the cyberattack. "Luckily I am not an agent of the Russian security services"
4333
4334(she may or may not be an agent of the Russian security services)
4335
4336
4337http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/world/europe/russian-parliamentary-elections-criticized-by-west.html
4338	“A big hello to you,” says the cameraman, Yegor Duda, a 33-year-old volunteer election observer. “This is a violation of the criminal code. The chairman of the electoral commission is filling out ballots. Everything has been captured on the video camera,” he said.
4339
4340	Mr. Duda raced home and uploaded the clip to YouTube. Though just three minutes long, it quickly became an election-day sensation, helping fuel a major demonstration of as many as 5,000 people on Monday evening in central Moscow. They chanted “Russia without Putin!” and “Putin is a thief.”  Several hundred were arrested, including two major opposition leaders. 
4341
4342
4343http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/06/world/europe/russia-elections-clinton/index.html
4344	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "full investigation" of irregularities in Sunday's parliamentary elections in which the party of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appears to have suffered a serious setback.
4345
4346	"We have serious concerns about the conduct of the election," she said Tuesday as ministers gathered for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
4347
4348	..."The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted," Clinton said. "And that means they deserve free, fair, transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them."
4349
4350
4351http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/world/europe/putin-accuses-clinton-of-instigating-russian-protests.html
4352	Putin Contends Clinton Incited Unrest Over Vote
4353
4354	In a rare personal accusation, Mr. Putin said Mrs. Clinton had sent “a signal” to “some actors in our country” after Sunday’s parliamentary elections, which were condemned as fraudulent by both international and Russian observers. Anger over the elections prompted a demonstration in which thousands chanted “Putin is a thief” and “Russia without Putin,” a development that has deeply unnerved the Kremlin.
4355
4356	Speaking to political allies as he announced the formation of his presidential campaign, Mr. Putin said that hundreds of millions of dollars in “foreign money” was being used to influence Russian politics, and that Mrs. Clinton had personally spurred protesters to action. The comments indicate a breakdown in the Obama administration’s sputtering effort to “reset” the relationship between the United States and Russia.
4357
4358	...“She set the tone for some actors in our country and gave them a signal,” Mr. Putin continued. “They heard the signal and with the support of the U.S. State Department began active work.”
4359
4360
4361http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_how_russia_has_come_to_loathe_the_west311346
4362	Putin’s first public reaction to the protests was to blame the US. “Certain figures in Russia,” he said, “heard the signal and, with the support of the US Department of State, began active work.” In the following months, the term “GosDep” (the Russian acronym for the US State Department) became a political slur that stood for the “evil America” that was plotting against Russia. The pro-Kremlin propagandists launched a smear campaign aimed at discrediting the protesters by portraying them as serving the anti-Russian interests of the West. These accusations were soon extended to liberal journalists as well as civic and political activists, who were commonly condemned as the “fifth column” and “national traitors”.
4363
4364
4365For Russia, Clinton is the perfect boogeyman. Just like Gore has the power to make people believe global warming is a myth, Clinton discredits the people and ideas she claims to support. The idea that Russian agents helped Clinton's career shouldn't be surprising--she makes a mockery of our country:
4366
4367
4368http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/washington/19diplo.html
4369	Clinton Praises Indonesian Democracy
4370
4371	“Indonesia has experienced a great transformation in the last 10 years,” she said, referring to the Asian financial crisis of 1998, which led to the ouster of Suharto, its autocratic president, and set Indonesia on the path to becoming a robust democracy.
4372
4373	“If you want to know if Islam, democracy, modernity and women’s rights can coexist, go to Indonesia,” she said at a dinner of academics, journalists, environmentalists and women’s rights advocates.
4374
4375
4376http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-connections-paid-off-for-indonesian-tobacco-tycoon/
4377	Clinton Connections Paid Off for Indonesian Tobacco Tycoon’s Group
4378
4379	An Indonesian tobacco magnate secured U.S. government assistance for his foundation after donating to Hillary Clinton’s and hiring lobbyists, themselves Clinton Foundation donors, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
4380
4381	The Putera Sampoerna Foundation, founded by the Indonesian tobacco heir Putera Sampoerna, got the U.S. government to underwrite millions in loans offered by the foundation and secured high-profile support for its activities from Sec. Clinton and other senior federal officials.
4382
4383
4384http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788562/indonesia-on-track-to-worlds-highest-smoking-rates
4385	Loose regulations have also allowed the tobacco industry to target children, resulting in 20.3 per cent of teenagers aged 13 to 15 becoming smokers.
4386
4387	In 2011, Philip Morris subsidiary Sampoerna erected a billboard in Jakarta depicting a young man reaching out to catch up with friends on a bus, with the slogan: “Dying is better than leaving a friend. Sampoerna is a cool friend.”
4388
4389
4390http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/indonesian-boy-6-praised-cutting-5-cigs-day-article-1.2161081
4391	Indonesian boy, 6, praised for cutting down to 5 cigs a day
4392
4393
4394http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130614005845/en/Clinton-Global-Initiative-Announces-Program-Train-Thousands
4395	Clinton Global Initiative Announces New Program to Train Thousands of Women Entrepreneurs
4396
4397	Senator Hillary Clinton Highlights Importance of Supporting Women-Owned Businesses
4398
4399	A new online business training program for women entrepreneurs across America was featured today by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI) meeting in Chicago. American DreamBuilder: The Women’s Business Creator, is being created by Bluedrop Performance Learning, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
4400
4401
4402http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-helped-companies-that-donated-to-foundation-profit-off-africa/article/2564001
4403	Clinton helped companies that donated to foundation profit off Africa
4404
4405	...At the time, Lundin owned a 24.75 percent stake in the mine and another company, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, owned 57.5 percent, leaving the Congolese government in control of 17.5 percent of the mine.
4406
4407	Freeport is also a major Clinton Foundation donor, giving between $250,000 and $500,000, according to donor records.
4408
4409	The Congolese government saw its stake in the mine climb by just 2.5 percent in 2010 after talks that were thought to have been conducted by the State Department "in support of Freeport," the Financial Times reported that year.
4410
4411
4412https://thunderbird.asu.edu/knowledge-network/clinton-global-initiative-america
4413	Behind the Scenes at the Clinton Global Initiative America
4414
4415	On Friday June 14th, I stood on stage at the CGI America meeting beside my colleagues Tracy Bame from Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold
4416
4417
4418https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/is-a-us-mining-company-funding-a-violent-crackdown-in-indonesia/249164/
4419	Is a U.S. Mining Company Funding a Violent Crackdown in Indonesia?
4420
4421	...The strikers have a reason to be wary for their safety: Freeport is paying millions of dollars directly to the police officers who guard its mine, although Indonesia's police force has a history of brutality and corruption.
4422
4423	...Rights organizations fear the security payments are tainting police neutrality in the region
4424
4425	...In October, police officers opened fire on striking Freeport workers who were trying to board Freeport buses from the nearby town of Timika to demonstrate by the mine's gate. One striker died from gunshot wounds
4426
4427	...Freeport has given $79.1 million to police and military forces in the past 10 years, according to a group called Indonesian Corruption Watch.  Most of that funding has been through in-kind contributions such as food, housing, fuel, and travel costs, but officers have also received direct payments.
4428
4429
4430Putin doesn't like democracy, and Clinton has reliably played the part of Putin's foil. She cheapens everything she says.
4431
4432Reportedly, Putin and his associates don't like women either:
4433
4434
4435http://motto.time.com/4400914/fox-roger-ailes-gretchen-carlson-harassment/
4436	At least 6 more women have accused the Fox News CEO of harassment
4437
4438	...One, Kellie Boyle, alleges that Ailes propositioned her in 1989 after learning she was to sign a contract with the National Republican Congressional Committee. After she refused him, she was passed over for the job. 
4439
4440	...Another woman, Marsha Callahan, was a model when she met Ailes in the 60s. She auditioned for The Mike Douglas Show, which he was producing at the time. She says he specifically requested that she wear a garter belt to the interview and that he asked her to lift her skirt up several times during their conversation. Callahan says that he told her that she needed to sleep with him to get the job, and that he said, “Oh, pretty girls like you are a dime a dozen.”
4441
4442
4443http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-donald-trump-pussy-grabbing-access-hollywood-harassment-seminars-hollywood-reporter-a7675451.html
4444	Fox uses Trump's 'pussy grabbing tapes to teach employees about harassment'
4445
4446
4447http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-officially-divorces-his-wife-lyudmila-n70141
4448 	Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally divorced his wife Lyudmila after more than 30 years of marriage, Kremlin spokesman said on Wednesday, following a surprise breakup announcement last year.
4449
4450	"The divorce has taken place," Dmitry Peskov said, without giving any further details. 
4451
4452	...In 2008, Putin said there was no truth to a newspaper report that he was preparing to marry Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, who was born in 1983, the same year he married Lyudmila.
4453
4454	Putin told journalists to keep their "snotty noses" out of his private affairs and the newspaper, Moskovsky Korrespondent, folded shortly afterwards. 
4455
4456
4457https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/vladmir-putins-very-flexible-girlfriend-rumored-light-olympic-torch/357799/
4458	Vladimir Putin's Very Flexible Girlfriend Rumored to Light the Olympic Torch
4459
4460	Alina Kabaeva is a 2004 Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics. She could be the one to light the Olympic flame at Sochi's opening ceremonies.
4461
4462
4463http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8865545/Vladimir-Putin-a-wife-beater-and-philanderer-documents-allege.html
4464	Vladimir Putin 'a wife beater and philanderer', documents allege 
4465
4466	 The documents from the archive of the BND, Germany's spy agency, paint a dark picture of the Russian prime minister, who plans to return to the presidency next year.
4467
4468	Gathering information through the work of an agent posing as an interpreter for Ludmilla Putina, Mr Putin's wife, the BND heard that the then youthful 33-year-old spy chief was a "wife beater and a philanderer" during his stint in the German city from 1985 to 1990. 
4469
4470
4471http://time.com/4663532/russia-putin-decriminalize-domestic-abuse/
4472	Vladimir Putin Just Signed Off on the Partial Decriminalization of Domestic Abuse in Russia
4473
4474	Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law that partially decriminalizes domestic abuse, a measure that sailed easily through the country’s socially conservative legislature despite pushback from women's- and children’s-rights advocates.
4475
4476
4477http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
4478	...amren.com...beforeitsnews.com...dailystormer.com...
4479
4480
4481https://www.amren.com/features/2015/06/the-cult-of-white-extinction-and-how-to-reverse-it/
4482	...Feminism is also an important factor in the decline in fertility in the West. White women have always been especially susceptible to feminism...
4483
4484
4485http://it-video.beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2015/05/obama-clinton-want-christians-to-change-our-beliefs-not-going-to-happen-3009326.html
4486	Obama & Clinton Want Christians To Change Our Beliefs – Not Going To Happen
4487
4488	...Hilly has just said that we have to change what we believe in to support the Radical Feminist and Gay agendas. 
4489
4490
4491https://www.dailystormer.com/evil-wench-accuses-glorious-leader-of-collaborating-with-glorious-leader-east/
4492	Evil Wench Accuses Glorious Leader of Collaborating with Glorious Leader East
4493
4494	Hillary Clinton, a braindamaged feminist icon who is running for President in America, has adjusted her tinfoil hat and accused the last White nation of supporting the last White candidate.
4495
4496	...Hillary Clinton accused Russian intelligence of interfering with the American election
4497
4498
4499Reportedly, Putin tries to push a "traditional" and "patriarchal" society on the Russian people (https://www.theddguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/vladimir-allies-russias-iron-ladies-useful-anti-feminists), and there's evidence he's trying to push that here too. For whatever reason, Putin seems to want women around the world to be submissive to men (It's fitting then, that if you look at the timeline of the Flynn controversy https://pastebin.com/nCwti01C it looks like Russian agents tripping over themselves trying everything they can to stop former AG Sally Yates).
4500
4501But Clinton, with her uncanny power to discredit whatever she claims to stand for, helped Putin promote that idea too:
4502
4503
4504https://twitter.com/alanjpatricof/status/797805521420091392
4505	My beef over Hillary Clinton's loss is with liberal feminists, young and old https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/12/hillary-clinton-liberal-feminists?CMP=share_btn_tw-as … always Tina Brown says it best!
4506
4507	--Alan Patricof
4508
4509
4510https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/12/hillary-clinton-liberal-feminists
4511	 My beef over Hillary Clinton's loss is with liberal feminists, young and old
4512	Tina Brown
4513
4514	...“She was my champion. I miss her,” my 26-year-old daughter grieved last night. Every disappointed Democratic supporter has her own target for anger, it seems. My daughter’s is her fellow millennials, who didn’t come out in enough numbers to take Clinton to the White House. Clinton won this group by 54%, six points down from Obama in 2012. Always in a storm of umbrage about micro-aggressions, those crucial solipsistic stay-at-home millennials wound up enabling the macro-aggression of Donald Trump.
4515
4516
4517http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/27/hillary-clinton-welcomes-trumps-woman-card-attack/
4518	‘Deal me in:’ Clinton welcomes Trump’s ‘woman card’ attack
4519
4520
4521https://www.hillaryclinton.com/post/om-what-hillary-clinton-said-after-becoming-first-woman-top-major-party-presidential-ticket/
4522https://m.hrc.onl/cms/original_images/27009973360_5c73d18c80_o.jpg
4523	"Woman Card"
4524
4525
4526https://www.hillaryclinton.com/post/om-what-hillary-clinton-said-after-becoming-first-woman-top-major-party-presidential-ticket/
4527	For the first time in history, ninety-six years after women first won the right to vote, a woman will be a major party’s nominee for President of the United States.
4528
4529	After making history, Hillary Clinton had a message to share with the country: Tonight is for all of us—and the future we’re building together.
4530
4531	"Tonight’s victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible."
4532
4533	"We all believe that America succeeds when more people share in our prosperity; when more people have a voice in our political system; when more people can contribute to their communities. We believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls."
4534
4535
4536http://www.bbc.com/news/av/election-us-2016-37329812/clinton-half-of-trump-supporters-basket-of-deplorables
4537	Clinton: Half of Trump supporters 'basket of deplorables'
4538
4539
4540https://www.hillaryclinton.com/post/om-what-hillary-clinton-said-after-becoming-first-woman-top-major-party-presidential-ticket/
4541    	..."Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings—no limits—on any of us."
4542
4543
4544http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-idUSKCN0QV01U20150826
4545	As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden considers jumping into the 2016 White House race, the Democratic donor class appears relatively united in its support of front-runner Hillary Clinton.
4546
4547	"I like Joe Biden very much, but it's time to line up for Hillary and we are lining up," said Karin Birkeland, a top Democratic bundler for President Barack Obama in 2012 who recently committed to Clinton. "She has by far the best resume, she's ready, she's younger and she's a woman."
4548
4549
4550http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/299892-millennials-lack-enthusiasm-for-clinton-trump
4551	Millennials lack enthusiasm for Clinton, Trump
4552
4553	...But the lack of enthusiasm felt by young voters interviewed by The Hill is clear. That’s a complication for Clinton
4554
4555
4556https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/elizabeth-warren-vp-yik-yak-survey/
4557	Millennials really want Hillary Clinton to pick Elizabeth Warren for VP 
4558
4559	...they overwhelmingly favor Clinton tapping the consumer-advocate-turned-progressive-lawmaker for VP. Seventy-four percent of respondents wanted Clinton to pick Warren. Only 9 percent favored Sen. Tim Kaine 
4560
4561
4562http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/elizabeth-warren-wall-street-vice-president-224489
4563	Big Wall Street donors have a message for Hillary Clinton: Keep Elizabeth Warren off the ticket or risk losing millions of dollars in contributions.
4564
4565
4566http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-hillary-clintons-interview-abc-news-anchor-david/story?id=39676932
4567	MUIR: The last 24 hours, Senator Tester, a key Democratic leader, was asked about the idea of a Clinton-Warren ticket. Elizabeth Warren, of course. He answered, ‘Is the country ready for two women? I don’t know.’ 
4568
4569 	CLINTON: Well, I’m not gonna get into vice presidential choices but I have the highest regard for Senator Warren. 
4570	
4571	MUIR: Let’s put her name aside though. Do you think the country would be ready for two women?
4572
4573	CLINTON: I think at some point. Maybe this time, maybe in the future. But we’re gonna be looking for the most qualified person to become president should something happen to me, if I’m fortunate enough to be the president.
4574
4575
4576https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/06/hillary-clinton-interview-election-russia-misogyny
4577	Hillary Clinton: misogyny 'certainly' played a role in 2016 election loss
4578
4579	In first post-election interview, former Democratic presidential candidate calls for US intervention in Syria and a ‘patriotic’ investigation into Russia
4580
4581
4582http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
4583	...infowars.com ... prisonplanet.com ... newstarget.com...
4584
4585
4586https://www.infowars.com/trump-if-hillary-were-a-man-she-wouldnt-even-win-a-city-council-election/
4587	Trump: If Hillary Were A Man She Wouldn’t Even Win A City Council Election
4588	Presumptive GOP nominee once again refuses to rule out nuking ISIS.
4589
4590	...In an appearance on NBC’s Today, Trump said that if Hillary were a man, she wouldn’t even be able to win a local election.
4591
4592	“The primary thing that she has going is that she’s a woman and she’s playing that card like I have never seen anybody play it before,” Trump said Thursday morning.
4593
4594
4595https://www.prisonplanet.com/total-desperation-sets-in-as-president-obama-plays-the-woman-card.html
4596	Total Desperation Sets In as President Obama Plays the Woman Card
4597
4598	With neither the racist nor the Putin-puppet label sticking to Trump, team Clinton and its lobotomized surrogates have regressed back to square one: playing the woman card.
4599
4600	As I noted in a post earlier this week, a professor of linguistics at Berkeley just published an article at Time claiming (with zero evidence of course), that the Hillary Clinton email server scandal only exists because she is a woman.  Here’s a brief snippet of what she said:
4601
4602		...I am mad. I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.
4603
4604		The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female...
4605
4606	I know. It’s really hard to believe the above is real, but it is.
4607
4608
4609http://www.newstarget.com/2016-11-08-why-hillary-clintons-fact-less-feminist-arguments-are-anything-but-womens-rights.html
4610	Why Hillary Clinton’s fact-less ‘feminist arguments’ are anything BUT women’s rights
4611
4612	One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest weapons is the fact that she is a woman.
4613
4614	In 2016, there are few tools greater than this one, which goes to show just how far feminism has drifted from its original purpose. Instead of promoting the equality of women, the modern feminist movement exists solely to silence men who happen to disagree with leftists on any subject
4615
4616
4617Active measures is sort-of like putting on a play (the historian Andrew Wilson calls it "political technology" https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andrew-wilson/political-technology-why-is-it-alive-and-flourishing-in-former-ussr): agents of influence play the part of protagonists and their foils, and their sum influence on the public is not so much what they say as it is the "lesson" of the "story" these agents play-out. Think I.F. Stone, playing a sort of "voice of reason" to McMarthy's "wild conspiracy theorist" (remember the Soviet spy Dickstein was his predecessor), with the moral of the story being "maybe Soviet influence operations aren't that big a deal after all."
4618
4619From what can be gathered from their propaganda, the Okhrana's play was, roughly, this: America is an "imperialist" country, imposing a "decedent" Western version of democracy and equality on the rest of the world. Clinton, apparently, was meant to play the part of the corrupt, hypocritical Western leader who pays lip-service to these values only to grab power for herself. Comey's decision to let her off without a trial was where the villain's true colors are revealed, before Trump, the heroic underdog, finally defeats her, perhaps a prelude to Trump's final showdown with the shadowy and scheming "deep state." Clinton played her part well.