Mrs. Clinton Private Emails Contained Sensitive Information, says Hacker

by Jack

The summary of the email controversy breaks down to a few key questions that have not been fully answered:

1. Why did Mrs. Clinton setup a private email server in her home that she used for official business?
2. Why were alleged personal emails not read or verified as personal before their destruction?
3. Why is Mrs. Clinton refusing to let a neutral third party review her home email server for Congress?
4. Did Mrs. Clinton lie when she said she never sent or received classified information over her private email server?

In 2009 a Romanian hacker using the handle Guccifer allegedly broke into Mrs. Clinton private email and stole email from Clinton’s former political adviser Sidney Blumenthal. If true, Blumenthal’s email did contain sensitive, but unclassified information. The email memos contain information regarding the September 11, 2012 attacks on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, as well the January 2013 hostage crisis in Amenas, Algeria.   Blumenthal is refusing public comment so far.

If you would like to see the leaked emails click here.     Guccifer copied and pasted the correspondences into new files using bold Comic Sans text layered over a pink background, possibly as a security precaution. The letter ‘G’ on the memos appears to be the hacker’s watermark.

Why delete the personal emails anyway?  The timing is very suspicious.  In a speech before Silicon Valley executives two weeks ago, Mrs. Clinton said regarding her records, “I don’t throw anything away, I’m like two steps short of a hoarder.” Then suddenly she deletes thousands of (alleged) personal emails that no one has verified as personal, and we’re just supposed to take Mrs. Clinton’s word for it.  Right.

Two days ago MSNBC asked, How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal? Did she or even her staff scroll through her sent items scanning emails about “yoga routines” or “family vacations” before deleting them? Nope. No one looked at them. The Clinton campaign said those emails that did not crop up in a keyword search performed by her team were automatically deleted. No eyes. No one to be subpoenaed. Just highlight all and press delete. That method seems better for missing emails than to finding them. And it would sound reckless and haphazard coming from another politician. In this case, though it sounds like a woman covering her tracks in preparation for a long and bloody legal fight over subpoenas to come.”

Time magazine reporter David Von Drehle wrote, “The Clintons play by their own set of rules. And in this case, the former Secretary of State explained, those rules bless her decision to erase some 30,000 emails from the family server despite knowing that the emails had become a subject of intense interest to congressional investigators,”

This investigation is far from complete and it would be foolish to drop it at this point.