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The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says.

“This was all planned in advance” to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008.

The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov e-mail address like previous secretaries.

“That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?”

He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton’s entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5¹/₂-year vacancy was unprecedented.

“This is a major gap. In fact, it’s without precedent,” he said. “It’s the longest period any department has gone without an IG.”

Inspectors general serve an essential and unique role in the federal government by independently investigating agency waste, fraud and abuse. Their oversight also covers violations of communications security procedures.

“It’s clear she did not want to be subject to internal investigations,” Krongard said. An e-mail audit would have easily uncovered the secret information flowing from classified government networks to the private unprotected system she set up in her New York home.

He says “the key” to the FBI’s investigation of Emailgate is determining how highly sensitive state secrets in the classified network, known as SIPRNet, ended up in Clinton’s personal e-mails.

“The starting point of the investigation is the material going through SIPRNet. She couldn’t function without the information coming over SIPRNet,” Krongard said. “How did she get it on her home server? It can’t just jump from one system to the other. Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?”

As The Post first reported, the FBI is investigating whether Clinton’s deputies copied top-secret information from the department’s classified network to its unclassified network where it was sent to Hillary’s unsecured, unencrypted e-mail account.

‘It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later’

 - Howard J. Krongard on the State Dept. never giving Hillary an agency e-mail address

FBI agents are focusing on three of Clinton’s top department aides. Most of the 1,340 Clinton e-mails deemed classified by intelligence agency reviewers were sent to her by her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, or her deputy chiefs, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, who now hold high positions in Clinton’s presidential campaign.

“They are facing significant scrutiny now,” Krongard said, and are under “enormous pressure to cooperate” with investigators.

He says staffers who had access to secret material more than likely summarized it for Clinton in the e-mails they sent to her; but he doesn’t rule out the use of thumb drives to transfer classified information from one system to the other, which would be a serious security breach. Some of the classified computers at Foggy Bottom have ports for memory sticks.

Either way, there would be an audit trail for investigators to follow. The SIPRNet system maintains the identity of all users and their log-on and log-off times, among other activities.

“This totally eliminates the false premise that she got nothing marked classified,” Krongard said. “She’s hiding behind this defense. But they [e-mails] had to be classified, because otherwise [the information in them] wouldn’t be on the SIPRNet.”

Added Krongard: “She’s trying to distance herself from the conversion from SIPRNet to [the nonsecure] NIPRNet and to her server, but she’s throwing her staffers under the bus.”

 

Still, “It will never get to an indictment,” Krongard said.

For one, he says, any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women” — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Even if they accept the referral, he says, the case quickly and quietly will be plea-bargained down to misdemeanors punishable by fines in a deal similar to the one Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, secured for Gen. David Petraeus. In other words, a big slap on the wrist.

“He knows the drill,” Krongard said of Kendall.

Paul Sperry, a visiting media fellow at the Hoover Institution, is author of “Infiltration.”

http://nypost.com/2016/01/31/t...tate-dept-are-lying/

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Hillary's explanations are completely unbelievable now.  She stated the IGs for State and National Intelligence are part of a Republican conspiracy against her -- both IGs are Obama appointees. 

Now, that State identified email that is so sensitive the contents should never be released. However, Hillary says its just a case of over classification. Does she believe that State has joined that grand conspiracy.  Is Kerry now a Republican (shutter)?  The woman hasn't a leg to stand on and is just firing out chaff to confuse the issue. 

Hillary is the most contemptible person in politics today and that's saying a lot.  I mean this woman lies so much that she has absolutely no discernment about just what is true and what isn't.  She cares only for what will get her elected.  To hear those closest to her talk about her reveals a person that is so corrupt of morals and character that no one would trust to have her as a friend for fear that they would end up in her own target sights one day. 

Putting aside all the email issues she's involved with the greatest indication of her character and the type person she is ... is revealed when she actually accused the relatives of the Benghazi dead of lying about what she said was responsible for their deaths.

Every one of the relatives has been nothing but consistent in stating that Hillary blamed their death on a YouTube video, as if she had or could have no culpability in the  matter at all.  She made the statement then knowing it was a lie and it was made for political expedience and now she is calling the same relatives liars due to her own political expedience today.  This is not a nice person and that the American media is not revealing what she has done or is doing is alarming. 

We have a great majority of the American media today that is not only in bed with a certain political party but conceals or buries stories that might appear as negative toward anyone within that political party.  To say or even think we have an unbiased media today is impossible with the evidence to the contrary.  Most Americans have lost trust in the mainstream media outlets (CBS, ABC, NBC, & CNN) who have obviously put politics before integrity.  To call them news outlets is simply laughable.

 

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