The fact that she set out to circumvent all the security in place is cause enough to question her judgement. That she was aware as well is obvious, but for some compelling reason she saw fit to sustain business as usual.
It is completely possible to argue that she thinks that the law of the land simply does not apply and that advice to the contrary is a mere inconvenience.
After all, a truly corrupt operator never deals directly but uses a willing agent who never writes anything down. Welcome to China. It is possible that she simply could not give up control of even that much.
The trouble is that the only rational for her behavior and the evidence at hand is corruption covered with plausible deniability which only a lawyer could love. All too smart by half.
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Could this ONE email guarantee a Clinton indictment?
it’s the one email Hillary Clinton didn’t want the world to see — and it could be the final nail in her coffin.
A new report has revealed that Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a
key message involving problems caused by her use of a private home brew
email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure
calls into question what other work-related emails may have been deleted
by Clinton.
Critics have accused her of intentionally deleting those emails to
hide her illegal activities. This new email revelation adds serious
credibility to that claim — right at the apex of an FBI investigation.
The new email was included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010,
between Clinton and one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma
Abedin. At the time, emails sent from Clinton’s BlackBerry device and
routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of
her New York home were being blocked by the State Department’s spam
filter. A suggested remedy was for Clinton to obtain a state.gov email
account.
“Let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” Clinton responded to Abedin.
Clinton never used a government account that was set up for her,
instead continuing to rely on her private server until leaving office.
The email was not among the tens of thousands of emails Clinton
turned over to the agency in response to public records lawsuits seeking
copies of her official correspondence. Abedin, who also used a private
account on Clinton’s server, provided a copy from her own inbox after
the State Department asked her to return any work-related emails. That
copy of the email was publicly cited last month in a blistering audit by
the State Department’s inspector general that concluded Clinton and her
team ignored clear internal guidance that her email setup violated
federal standards and could have left sensitive material vulnerable to
hackers.
“While this exchange was not part of the approximately 55,000 pages
provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton, the
exchange was included within the set of documents Ms. Abedin provided
the department in response to our March 2015 request,” State Department
spokesman John Kirby told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The November 2010 email was among documents released under court
order Wednesday to the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch,
which has sued the State Department over access to public records
related to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s service as
the nation’s top diplomat between 2009 and 2013. The case is one of
about three dozen lawsuits over access to records related to Clinton.
Before turning over her emails to the department for review and
potential public release, Clinton and her lawyers withheld thousands of
additional emails she said were clearly personal, such as those
involving what she described as “planning Chelsea’s wedding or my
mother’s funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as
yoga routines, family vacations.”
Clinton has never outlined in detail what criteria she and her
lawyers used to determine which emails to release and which to delete,
but her 2010 email with Abedin appears clearly work-related under the
State Department’s own criteria for agency records under the U.S.
Freedom of Information Act.
Dozens of the emails sent or received by Clinton through her private
server were later determined to contain classified material. The FBI has
been investigating for months whether Clinton’s use of the private
email server imperiled government secrets. Agents recently interviewed
several of Clinton’s top aides, including Abedin.
As part of the probe, Clinton turned over the hard drive from her
email server to the FBI. It had been wiped clean, and Clinton has said
she did not keep copies of the emails she choose to withhold.
On Wednesday, lawyers from Judicial Watch, a conservative legal
organization, questioned under oath Bryan Pagliano, the computer
technician who set up Clinton’s private server. A transcript released
Thursday shows Pagliano repeatedly responded to detailed questions by
invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as he did
last year before a congressional committee.
Dozens of questions Pagiliano declined to answer included who paid
for the system, whether there was technical help to support its users
and who else at the State Department used email accounts on it. Pagliano
also would not answer whether he discussed setting up a home server
with Clinton prior to her tenure as secretary of state, according to the
transcript.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the November 2010 email
cited in the inspector general audit was one of more than a dozen
work-related emails that his group identified that Clinton sent or
received but later failed to turn over the State Department.
“Contrary to her statement under oath suggesting otherwise, Mrs.
Clinton did not return all her government emails to the State
Department,” Fitton said. “Our goal is to find out what other emails
Mrs. Clinton and the State Department are hiding.”
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