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Saturday, October 1, 2016

TOP THIRTEEN REVELATIONS IN POLITICO STORY ON CLINTON EMAIL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS




- September 30, 2016 -

​TOP THIRTEEN REVELATIONS IN POLITICO STORY ON CLINTON EMAIL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS

A New Politico Story Has Revelations Ranging From Using Personal, Unsecured Email Accounts To Print Classified Documents To Hacking Threats To Technological Illiteracy


Revelation One: Top Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Would Forward Classified Emails To Her Yahoo! Email, Clinton Email And Anthony Weiner Campaign Accounts To Print Out For Clinton. “Since Clinton did not have a classified email account herself, all classified material went to her in hard copy—a process overseen by her executive assistants, Joe McManus and, later, Alice Wells. … Abedin, for her part, found that it was difficult to print from the State Department email system, so she’d often forward emails to her Yahoo email, Clintonmail.com accounts, or even another account that she’d previously used to support the campaign activities of her husband, Anthony Weiner.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Two: Clinton Forwarded Emails From Her Private Email Account To Clinton Family Staff To Print Out For Her To Read. “And there was a lot to print: Clinton didn’t like reading long emails—the BlackBerry font was too small—so she’d often forward such staff to staff to print. Deluged by tasks and information, Abedin reported that she’d often print and pass along documents to Clinton ‘without reading them.’ The FBI also uncovered hundreds of emails sent to one of the Clinton family’s staff on the presidentclinton.com domain requesting that he print emails for her to read.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Three: Clinton’s Personal Aide Monica Hanley Would Send State Department Emails To Her Personal Gmail Account To Print For Clinton To Read Even While She Was Overseas. “And there was a lot to print: Clinton didn’t like reading long emails—the BlackBerry font was too small—so she’d often forward such staff to staff to print. … Printing problems dogged Clinton’s team as they traveled the world, too. While special Mobile Communications Teams would outfit hotel rooms overseas with computers hooked up to the State Department network for Abedin or Hanley to use, the FBI found, ‘it was not uncommon for [aide Monica] Hanley to use her personal Gmail account to print from the mobile DoS unclassified terminal because even though she was using a DoS computer, the DoS connection was unreliable.’” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Four: Clinton IT Aide Bryan Pagliano Went To Clinton Chief Of Staff Cheryl Mills Over Concerns On The Secret Email Server, But Mills “Dismissed The Worries, Saying Other Former Secretaries Of State Had Done The Same Thing.” “But not everyone at the State Department was pleased with the setup. At some point in the summer of 2009, two State IT specialists summoned Pagliano and asked whether he was aware of the clintonemail.com domain. He said yes. When Pagliano relayed this to one of Clinton’s aides, that person, Pagliano told the FBI, had a ‘‘visceral’ reaction and didn’t want to know any more.’ Later in 2009 or early 2010, one of the same State Department employees asked Pagliano again about server, saying it might be a federal records-retention issue and asked him to relay that concern to Clinton’s ‘inner circle.’ Pagliano approached Cheryl Mills in her office and passed along the information. Mills dismissed the worries, saying other former secretaries of state had done the same thing.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Five: Top Clinton Aide Jake Sullivan Said “He Sometimes Used Gmail On Weekends Or While Traveling.” “[Sullivan] said he knew about records-retention rules, and so he didn’t delete anything from his State.gov email and he handed over his official papers when he left the State Department, but he also told the FBI he sometimes used Gmail on weekends or while traveling.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Six: Pagliano Did Not Install An Encryption System Onto The Private Email Server Because “He Figured There Wasn’t A Need For Encryption On A ‘Personal’ Server.” “[Pagliano] also never installed what was known as Transport Layer Security, which would have encrypted messages as they passed between the Clinton server and the State Department’s servers, telling the FBI that he figured there wasn’t a need for encryption on a ‘personal’ server.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Seven: Several State Department Staffers Had Their Personal Emails Hacked, With Email Settings Being Changed To Auto-Forward Incoming Mail To Other Accounts. “Yet across the department, email security concerns lingered through that spring of 2011. In February, several State Department employees had their personal Gmail and Yahoo accounts hacked after they responded to a ‘phishing’ email asking them to change their passwords. The hackers, unbeknownst to the employees, then changed the email settings to auto-forward copies of incoming mail to other accounts controlled by the intruders.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Eight: Clinton Aide Monica Hanley Transferred Clinton’s Emails Onto Apple Mail After She Switched Email Addresses. “The exposure of the email account encouraged Clinton’s aides to change the secretary of state’s address. Abedin selected hrod17@clintonemail.com, but the staff feared that they’d lose her existing emails when they changed addresses, so Monica Hanley retrieved an old MacBook laptop from Bill Clinton’s Harlem office and spent several days at her apartment transferring years of Hillary’s emails from the server files into Apple’s Mail program on the laptop.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Nine: Clinton “Didn’t Know How To Use A Desktop Computer.” “Yet something was going to have to change: Hillary Clinton, after all, didn’t know how to use a desktop computer.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Ten: Clinton Was Supposed To Work The Secure Fax Machine Herself, But Was So Technologically Un-Savvy She Relied On Staff To Operate The Machine. “Each secure room was also equipped with a secure fax, but while Clinton was supposed to pick up the faxes herself at home, she often struggled to use the technology and had to rely on staff for help operate the machines. As one aide described it, Clinton ‘wasn’t very tech savvy and would get frustrated with the process.’” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelations Eleven: All Clinton’s Emails Prior To March 18, 2009 Were Deleted When She Switched Email Accounts, Including All Emails From Her First Seven Weeks As Secretary Of State. “On March 18, 2009, Hillary Clinton stopped using her longstanding email, hr15@att.blackberry.net, and switched to a new account: hrod17@clintonemail.com. When she switched accounts, all of her old email disappeared—including all of the email from her first seven weeks as secretary of state. To date, neither Clinton nor the FBI have located any of her email from that period.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Twelve: Many State Department Employees With Clinton’s Email Address “Didn’t Understand She Had A Private Server.” “While ‘at least a hundred, if not several hundred’ State employees had her clintonemail.com address—emails from Hillary often arrived with just an ‘H’ in the ‘from’ field—and many of those employees, like Kennedy, were aware she used a personal email account, most didn’t understand she had a private server.” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
Revelation Thirteen: Top Clinton Aide Jake Sullivan “Said He Would Regularly Review ‘Situation Reports From Around The World In An Unclassified Email.’” “As for what arrived via unclassified email, Sullivan and Abedin both said, repeatedly, that they didn’t question the judgment of people sending that information and relied upon senders to properly mark sensitive information. Sullivan said he would regularly review ‘situation reports from around the world in an unclassified email.’” (Garrett M. Graff, “What the FBI Files Reveal About Hillary Clinton’s Email Server,” Politico, 9/30/16)
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