Despite repeated claims from the Hillary Clinton camp her use of a private email account and server during her tenure as secretary of state were really ‘no big deal,’ the investigation has not only deepened into a criminal one, but it has now set its sights on the notorious Clinton Foundation, as well.
And that’s not all.
Four years’ worth of State Department emails from Clinton’s top IT staffer, Bryan Pagliano, have vanished.
“The State Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email pft file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” said State’s Elizabeth Trudeau, reported Investor’s Business Daily.
Though files from Pagliano’s “recent work at the Department as a contractor” have been found, they are “from after Secretary Clinton left the Department.”
Pagliano set up the private email server — which Clinton used exclusively to conduct State business — at the heart of the email investigation and controversy, and has been granted immunity by the Justice Department in return for his testimony in the case. As IBD put it, Pagliano “is, in other words, a key witness in what could end up being a criminal case.”
Pagliano’s suspiciously missing communications were discovered pursuant to a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee over the possible criminal nature of Clinton’s use of the private server, which was located in her private residence.
“It’s hard to believe that an IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s reckless email server never sent or received a single work-related email in the four years he worked at the State Department,” RNC deputy communications director, Raj Shah, told the Daily Beast.
“Such records might shed light on his role in setting up Clinton’s server,” Shah continued, “and why he was granted immunity by the FBI. But it seems his emails were either destroyed or never turned over, adding yet another layer to the secrecy surrounding his role.”
Despite Hillary Clinton’s prominent position as a potential presidential candidate, the FBI says it is committed to an impartial yet swift investigation. Former FBI agent and Managing Director for Global Intel Strategies, James Conway, told RT the legacy the FBI carries for fairness and impartiality in such investigations will be upheld — regardless who is subject of a probe.
“It is immaterial whether it is the First Lady, or it is the lady down the street, or it is the mayor of a city — it doesn’t matter,” Conway explained. “The FBI has a long history of enforcing the law. And sometimes people who are subjects to those investigations happen to be high-level political officials.”
Meanwhile, the parallel investigation over possible misuse of Clinton Foundation funding also continues. As explained by the Atlantic, two pertinent questions concerning the Foundation’s relevance in the ongoing Clinton probe demand consideration:
“The first is seemingly unavoidable conflicts of interest: How did the Clinton’s charitable work intersect with their for-profit speeches? How did their speeches intersect with Hillary Clinton’s work at the State Department? Were there quid-pro-quos involving U.S. policy? The second, connected question is about disclosure. When Clinton became secretary, she agreed that the foundation would make certain disclosures, which it’s now clear it didn’t always do. And the looming questions about Clinton’s State Department emails make it harder to answer those questions.”
Another facet to the email issue came with news of Romanian hacker Guccifer’s suspiciously-timed extradition to the U.S. Guccifer recently claimed he easily and repeatedly accessed communications on Clinton’s home server — and though he was already imprisoned in Romania, serving a seven-year sentence for hacking, the U.S. abruptly brought him to a prison outside Washington, D.C.
Clinton maintained on Sunday in an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation she had yet to be contacted by the FBI in the matter.
“No one has reached out to me yet, but last summer, I think last August, I made it clear I’m more than ready to talk to anybody, anytime,” Clinton asserted. “And I’ve encouraged … all of … my assistants … to be … very forthcoming. And I hope that this is close to being wrapped up.”
Longtime adviser to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin — who, apparently unlike Pagliano, appears prominently in the Clinton email files released to the public — recently answered FBI questions in the matter.
As ABC News reported, Clinton will also have to answer to FBI investigators sometime in the coming days.
It appears the dual investigations will be coming to a head soon — though whether or not the FBI’s conclusions, as well as any potential criminal charges resulting from them, will be levied before the presidential elections remains an open question. Should she be elected before charges are brought, the face of politics — and perhaps the Presidency — could be forever changed in the minds of Americans and the perception of the world.
#1: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
Surprise, surprise
Stoner posted on 2016-05-11 09:37:28 Reply Private Reply
#2: Deckard To: Stoner (#1)
Sarcasm?
LOL, I think we all knew that something like this was going to happen.
Deckard posted on 2016-05-11 09:38:43 Reply Private Reply
#3: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
Surprise, surprise.
In the video, typical Hillary - FOS !!! Should be wearing orange, in a cell! Or, standing on a gallows, waiting for the floor to drop !
Stoner posted on 2016-05-11 09:52:27 Reply Private Reply
#4: Vicomte13 To: Deckard (#0)
But this time she's running against a political outsider who has not taken various bribes in order to do things. He has PAID the bribes - legally to be sure, given our system - so he has the goods on an awful lot of politicians.
He will go after her in a way nobody has ever dared go after the Clintons. When the Republicans and Ken Starr went after them, they used legalities and parsed statements, claims of perjury, etc. They tried to do it in a legalistic way, and were unable to win their case before a partisan body full of corrupt politicians.
But Trump and Clinton are competing in a populist popularity contest, a beauty contest before the people, and Trump is completely unafraid to be insulting, to belittle a woman in public, to point straight at glaring personality flaws and ridicule them.
And the people LOVE THAT.
Hillary, in turn, cannot retaliate in any sense. SHE crushed women while enabling her husbands rapes and assaults. Donald merely was a rich New York playboy. Donald never hid HIS personal life, and he wasn't harassing women and raping them - they were throwing themselves at him.
If the Christian Right were running the show, Trump wouldn't be the nominee, for they judge ALL sexual sinners unworthy of office. But America is predominantly not the Christian Right. The Republican Party knows that Trump was a playboy, and they don't care, because that's not illegal, it's not perjury, and it's not the same thing as enabling a rapist. Nobody ever accused Trump of rape - he never HAD to rape anybody - they threw themselves at his feet.
But the Clintons...well.
Trump attacked on the female issue. This riled up a bunch of ugly old bitches, dykes and Democrats, but they were never going to vote for Trump ANYWAY. To most everybody else it was entertaining: that bitch Hillary is finally getting it thrown right in her face, and she can't hide behind anything.
Trump doesn't hide behind anything. He attacks. Hillary has always been ABLE to hide, behind law. But a popularity contest is not about law. It's about popularity. Trump is a mega-star, and Hillary is a mean old bitch.
She does not have a chance in Hell of beating Donald Trump.
The Democrat powerbrokers - Obama, specifically - know this. But they can't have Bernie either.
Hillary may be the nominee, but she'll drop out, and Biden will take her place.
Biden is popular, and he's congenial, and he isn't corrupt.
So when it's Biden versus Trump - THAT will be a race! Because then all of those people who were voting for Trump because they couldn't stomach Hillary will breathe a sigh of relief.
Trump said way back at the beginning of the campaign that Biden would be the toughest to beat. Trump's instincts have been spot on all year.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-11 09:54:23 Reply Private Reply
#5: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#4)
You mean Roger Stone's instincts.
VxH posted on 2016-05-11 10:16:54 Reply Private Reply
#6: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
Not as funny as her saying "Gee,I don't know what happened to all that stuff! It was here a minute ago.",and the alleged Justice Department telling her,"Don't worry your pretty little head about it. I'm sure it will show up one day before the world ends.",but still pretty funny.
I could have sworn I heard a phrase about "Equal Justice for ALL" as going one of the foundation stones of our Republic.
Guess I was wrong.
sneakypete posted on 2016-05-11 10:25:20 Reply Private Reply
#7: Vicomte13 To: VxH (#5)
Yeah, 'cause Trump is just a nameless, faceless, meek puppet on a string with no opinions of his own.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-11 10:47:19 Reply Private Reply
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nolu chan posted on 2016-05-11 11:53:55 Reply Private Reply
#9: SOSO To: nolu chan (#8)
That is wishful thinking.
SOSO posted on 2016-05-11 15:35:16 Reply Private Reply
#10: BobCeleste To: Deckard (#0)
The fib only does three things;
Investigate and they don't do that very well,
Arrest, as long as your poor white and not guilty that they do that pretty good.
And assassinate, their specialty is assassinating honest US Christian Patriots.
Every once in a while they eliminate one of the presidents enemies or threats, HilLiary is a threat, she could spill her guts and even the Boston Globe would have to turn on the Kenyan, so the fbi at the orders of herr obamait, may be opening a path for Bernie.
BobCeleste posted on 2016-05-11 17:15:18 Reply Private Reply
#11: nolu chan To: SOSO (#9)
nolu chan posted on 2016-05-11 17:17:24 Reply Private Reply
#12: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#7)
Opinions like:
"Who know more about financing than me!"
--Wile E. Trump on [FAILED] Trump Mortgage
?
VxH posted on 2016-05-12 10:33:07 Reply Private Reply
#13: Vicomte13 To: VxH (#12)
Trump knows as much as anybody on financing. Sometimes deals go bad.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-12 10:51:33 Reply Private Reply
#14: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#13)
VxH posted on 2016-05-12 10:59:34 Reply Private Reply
#15: Vicomte13 To: VxH (#14)
Could be because of the general mortgage market collapse. Could be because of mismanagement. I haven't looked into it.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-12 12:54:00 Reply Private Reply
#16: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#15)
Obviously.
VxH posted on 2016-05-14 12:46:02 Reply Private Reply