The Friday Document Dump - and The Other Shoe

You can see why they waited until Friday to dump these documents. Friday before Labor Day, to be sure.

Maybe this is why Henry Kissinger suddenly pulled public Hillary support.





But she thought she'd get around it, apparently.

But wait...the best part is yet to come...

A Clinton Foundation laptop and a thumb drive used to archive Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state are missing, according to FBI notes released on Friday.

The FBI documents describe how Monica Hanley, a former Clinton aide, received assistance in spring 2013 from Justin Cooper, a former aide to Bill Clinton, in creating an archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Cooper provided Hanley with an Apple MacBook laptop from the Clinton Foundation – the family organisation currently embroiled in controversy – and talked her through the process of transferring emails from Clinton’s private server to the laptop and a thumb drive.

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“Hanley completed this task from her personal residence,” the notes record. The devices were intended to be stored at Clinton’s homes in New York and Washington. However, Hanley “forgot” to provide the archive laptop and thumb drive to Clinton’s staff.

  Guardian

Say what?  She put copies of her Secretary of State communications on a Clinton Foundation laptop?!

And then LOST it?

In early 2014, Hanley located the laptop at her home and tried to transfer the email archive to an IT company, apparently without success. It appears the emails were then transferred to an unnamed person’s personal Gmail account and there were problems around Apple software not being compatible with that of Microsoft.

Holy shit!  Those SECRETARY of STATE of the United States of America emails have been everywhere!  Shit.  For all I know, I may be the only person who doesn't have a copy by now.

The unnamed person “told the FBI that, after the transfer was complete, he deleted the emails from the archive laptop but did not wipe the laptop. The laptop was then put in the mail, only to go missing.

Oh, holy, HOLY shit!

“Neither Hanley nor [redacted] could identify the current whereabouts of the archive laptop or thumb drive containing the archive, and the FBI does not have either item in its possession.”

Good God.  I wonder what price they're bringing?  And where?

The FBI has been criticised by Democrats for taking the rare step of publishing its account of confidential interviews with Clinton and others from the recently closed investigation, which found her to have been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information. Hopes that this would draw a line under the issue, however, appear to have been dashed.

More like drew a line right to it.

There's more.

The FBI identified a total of 13 mobile devices associated with Clinton’s two known phone numbers that potentially were used to send emails using clintonemail.com addresses.

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Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and Hanley “indicated the whereabouts of Clinton’s devices would frequently become unknown once she transitioned to a new device”, the documents state.

Holy shit.

“When asked about the email chain containing ‘(C)’ portion markings that state determined to currently contain CONFIDENTIAL information, Clinton stated that she did not know what the ‘(C)’ meant at the beginning of the paragraphs and speculated it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.”

Hahahahaha. Did she wonder what happened to 'A' and 'B'? It's bad enough to have to admit you're an idiot about cyber security, but she'd rather be thought of as a complete idiot about everything?

"Clinton was aware she was an original classification authority at the state department, but again “could not recall how often she used this authority or any training or guidance provided by state. Clinton could not give an example of how classification of a document was determined.”

Well, the CRS defense worked for Reagan. Why not her?

According to the notes, on 23 January 2009 Clinton emailed her predecessor, Colin Powell, to ask about his use of a BlackBerry. In his response, Powell told Clinton that if it became “public” that she was using a BlackBerry to “do business”, the emails could become “official records[s] and subject to the law”.

Powell wrote: “Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.”

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Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, said: “The FBI’s summary of their interview with Hillary Clinton is a devastating indictment of her judgment, honesty and basic competency. Clinton’s answers either show she is completely incompetent or blatantly lied to the FBI or the public.

Well, I expect that first debate between Hillary and Trump is going to be even better than we thought it might.

The Clinton campaign insisted that it was pleased the notes had been made public.

I'd wager you're rolling on the floor and howling by now.

Spokesman Brian Fallon said: “While her use of a single email account was clearly a mistake and she has taken responsibility for it, these materials make clear why the justice department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case.”

She "has taken responsibility for it."  What the Hell does that mean?  How has she taken responsibility?  And what about the missing laptop and thumb drive, Bri? Huh?

The Justice Department doesn't think there's a reason to go forward with this case?  Okay.  Whoever has that laptop and thumb drive - I guess bidding can begin.  (If it hasn't already.)

Good god.

I can't wait for the debates.

UPDATE: