(1) Reports that Chinese company hacked Hillary's email server when Secretary of State 2009-13 (2) The China Hacking Hillary story - from the Boston Herald (3) Daily Caller Aug 27: China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server (4) Youtube video of Daily Caller report re Chinese company hacked Hillary email server (5) Daily Caller Aug 28: Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’ (6) International Business Times: Daily Caller report that China hacked Hillary email Server (7) Newsweek: mentions Daily Caller report but not the names Rucker, McMillan, Gohmert and Strzok (8) NYT buries China Hack story; no mention of Rucker, McMillan, Gohmert questioning Strzok (9) WaPo buries the China Hack story, says FBI "pushes back" (10) CNBC says 'FBI refutes' China Hack report (11) Did The FBI Cover Up Evidence That China Hacked Clinton's State Dept. Emails?
(1) Reports that Chinese company hacked Hillary's email server when Secretary of State 2009-13 by Peter Myers, Aug 30, 2018 These reports, delivered to The Daily Caller, state that a Chinese company, based in the US but associated with the Chinese government, inserted code into Hillary's private email server based at her home, which she used when Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, so that the Chinese company received a 'courtesy copy' of all her incoming and outgoing emails. Rep. Louie Gohmert questioned FBI agent Peter Strzok about that Chinese hack. The Daily Caller website features youtube videos of the recipients of the story, and of Rep. Louie Gohmert questioning Strzok. The reports are credible, and point to China rather than Russia. Trump called for the FBI to look into the matter. But the FBI and the MSM downplayed the reports. MSM such as the NYT and WaPo buried the story. They focused on Trump's call for an investigation, without mentioning the lead sources of the story, investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan from the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG). In other words, they focused on the trivia and censored the real. This latest report undermines the Deep State attempt to incriminate Russia. Surprisingly, the same Deep State shows no interest in the China Hack story. Although the MSM tried to bury the story, the details have leaked out at alternative and middle-ranked media. It was covered by the Boston Herald, The Daily Mail, International Business Times, and Epoch Times. When reading these stories, note which ones mention, and which do not, the names Rucker, McMillan, Gohmert and Strzok. The reports which do not mention those names are burying the story. In a worrying sign for MSM credibility, Investors.com asked 'Did The FBI Cover Up Evidence That China Hacked Clinton's State Dept. Emails?' (item 11)
(2) The China Hacking Hillary story - from the Boston Herald http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2018/08/unnamed_sources_to_daily_caller_china_hacked_hillary_clinton Unnamed sources to Daily Caller: China hacked Hillary Clinton Mary Markos Wednesday, August 29, 2018 A new report that Hillary Clinton’s private email server was hacked by a Chinese-owned company has a congressman calling for an obstruction of justice probe, while experts called for further investigation to determine the extent of the damage and stop it from happening again. The conservative Daily Caller, citing unnamed sources, reported Clinton’s controversial private server — on which she received classified emails — was hacked by a Washington, D.C.-based Chinese firm throughout her term as former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. Two sources told The Daily Caller that the company wrote code to get her server to send them a “courtesy copy” of nearly all her emails, and that the FBI failed to act when alerted by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, which detected the hacking in early 2015. The report said Peter Strzok, then the agency’s top counterintelligence officials, was one of the FBI officials alerted by the ICIG. Strzok, who played key roles in both the Clinton email probe and the Trump Russia probe, was fired last month over texts he sentthat showed at anti-Trump bias. In 2016, the FBI recommended that Clinton not face criminal charges for mishandling classified material. The update comes over a month after Texas U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert said that the ICIG informed a House Judiciary Committee hearing that almost all of Clinton’s emails were sent to a “foreign entity.” Gohmert called for further investigation into the email scandal. “I didn’t think there was any question before,” Gohmert said on WMAL radio yesterday. “Now it’s very clear. This is just as good of evidence as you could ever have to open an investigation of obstruction of justice. It wasn’t to help Trump, it was to hurt Trump and it was to help Hillary.” Gohmert said that of the approximately 30,000 emails she sent and received on that server, the Chinese received all but four of little significance. “The bad guys got everything that was important,” Gohmert said. GOP political consultant Bradley Blakeman, a senior White House staffer under former President George W. Bush, told the Herald, “I think, governmentally, people need to follow the rules. Had Hillary followed the rules in spirit as it was written she probably would not have been hacked, so No. 1 is people have to follow the rules. No. 2 is we have to make sure that we harden our systems to prevent any government friend or foe from hacking into us.” “The U.S. should react to this as it did to the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957,” Boston University professor emeritus Andrew Bacevich told the Herald. “We need a comprehensive evaluation U.S.cyber-vulnerabilities followed by a comprehensive, bipartisan program to address them. “I expect that we do our best to hack into Chinese networks. I sure hope so,” Bacevich said. “Yet here is a further indication that the U.S. government needs to up its game when it comes to cybersecurity.” (3) Daily Caller Aug 27: China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/china-hacked-clinton-server/ Sources: China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server 9:22 PM 08/27/2018 Richard Pollock | Reporter A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server, according to sources briefed on the matter. The company inserted code that forwarded copies of Clinton’s emails to the Chinese company in real time. The Intelligence Community Inspector General warned of the problem, but the FBI subsequently failed to act, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said during a July hearing. A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails, two sources briefed on the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The Chinese firm obtained Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server,according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation. The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server, which was kept in Clinton’s residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant “courtesy copy” for nearly all of her emails and forwardedthem to the Chinese company, according to the sources. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that virtually all of Clinton’s emails were sent to a “foreign entity,” Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said at a July 12 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing. He did not reveal the entity’sidentity, but said it was unrelated to Russia. (RELATED: Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’) Two officials with the ICIG, investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan, met repeatedly with FBI officials to warn them of the Chinese intrusion, according to a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues, who was briefed on the matter. He spoke anonymously, as he was not authorized to publicly address the Chinese’s role with Clinton’s server. Among those FBI officials was Peter Strzok, who was then the bureau’s top counterintelligence official. Strzok was fired this month following the discovery he sent anti-Trump texts to his mistress and co-worker, Lisa Page. Strzok didn’t act on the information the ICIG provided him, according to Gohmert. Gohmert mentioned in the Judiciary Committee hearing that ICIG officials told Strzok and three other top FBI officials that they found an “anomaly” on Clinton’s server. The former intelligence officer TheDCNF spoke with said the ICIG “discovered the anomaly pretty early in 2015.” “When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a thirdparty and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the formerintelligence officer told TheDCNF. “The [the ICIG] believe that there was some level of phishing. But once they got into the server something was embedded,” he said. “The Chinese are notorious for embedding little surprises like this.” The intelligence officer declined to name the Chinese company. “We do know the name of the company. There are indications there are other ‘cutouts’ that were involved. I would be in a lot of trouble if I gave you the name,” he told TheDCNF. A government staff official who’s been briefed on the ICIG’s findings told TheDCNF that the Chinese state-owned firm linked to the hacking operates in Washington’s northern Virginia suburbs. The source was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. The company that penetrated Clinton’s server was not a technology firm and it served as a “front group” for the Chinese government, the source told TheDCNF. The Fairfax and Loudoun county governments told TheDCNF that 13 state-owned Chinese companies operate in the area. Of those, three were not technologically oriented. Fairfax County Economic Development Authority communications manager Seth Livingston told The DCNF that all of the nine firms operating in his county were there in 2009 when Clinton began as secretary of state. “Our Asian folks believe that all of the companies have been around and known to us since that time period,” he said in an email. “This is the most combed over subject in modern American political history,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told TheDCNF. “The FBI spent thousands of hours investigating, and found no evidence of intrusion. That’s a fact.” “But in an age where facts are alternative and truth isn’t truth, it’s no surprise that an outlet like the Daily Caller would try to distract us from very real and very immediate threats to our democracy brought by the man occupying the White House,” he continued. Department of State Inspector General Steven A. Linick and then-ICIG I. Charles McCullough III scrutinized Clinton’s server in 2015. McCullough told Congress in July 2015 that her emails containedclassified material. “ICIG was involved in the classification review of certaininformation drawn from the private email server,” an agency spokeswoman told TheDCNF. She declined to comment further. The two IGs asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether the classified information was compromised, according to a July 23, 2015, New York Times report based on unnamed senior government officials. The FBI issued a referral to the Justice Department in July 2015. The bureau warned that classified information may have been disclosed to a foreign power or to one of its agents. “FBIHQ, Counterespionage Section, is opening a full investigation based on specific articulated facts provided by an 811 referral fromthe Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, dated July 6, 2015 regarding the potential compromise of classified information,” aJuly 10, 2015, FBI memo stated. An 811 referral informs the FBI of classified information that was potentially released to a foreign power or agent of a foreign power. “This investigation is also designated a Sensitive Investigative Matter (SIM) due to a connection to a current public official, political appointee or candidate,” the memo stated. Then-FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano sent a follow-up memo on July 21, 2015, to President Barack Obama’s deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, about two conversations he had with her about the criminal referral. “On 13 July 2015 and 20 July 2015, I verbally advised you of a Section 811(c) referral from the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community received by the FBI on 06 July 2015. The referral addressed the mishandling of classified information on the personal e-mail account and electronic media of a former high-level us Governmentofficial,” according to the FBI memo, which was hand delivered to Yates. Justice Department spokesman Devin M. O’Malley declined to comment on this story. Former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged in his recent book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” that the FBI was conducting a criminal investigation into Clinton’s conduct. London Center for Policy Research’s vice president of operations, retired Col. Anthony Shaffer, told TheDCNF that Clinton’s server was vulnerable to hacking. “Look, there’s evidence based on the complete lack of security hygiene on the server. Fourteen-year-old hackers from Canada could haveprobably hacked into her server and left very little trace,” Shaffer said. “Any sophisticated organization is going to be able to essentially get in and then clean up their presence.” And a former consultant to the U.S. trade representative, Claude Barfield, told TheDCNF: “The Chinese were in the process of really gaining technological competence in 2009 to 2010. This begins to really take off in the early years of the Obama administration. The Obama administration was kind of late and there was this slow reaction about how sophisticated the Chinese were.”
(4) Youtube video of Daily Caller report re Chinese company hacked Hillary email server https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=-NyvIrslqW4 Bombshell Report On Chinese Hacking of Hillary Clinton's Server, DCNF Reporter Dishes The Details Daily Caller Published on 28 Aug 2018
(5) Daily Caller Aug 28: Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’ {Visit the link to see Gohmert questioning Strzok} https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/12/ig-clinton-foreign-emails/ Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’ 6:08 PM 07/12/2018 Luke Rosiak | Investigative Reporter A member of the House Committee on the Judiciary said during a hearing Thursday that a government watchdog found that nearly all of formerSecretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent to a foreign entity and that the FBI didn’t follow-up on that finding. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list,” Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a hearing with FBI official Peter Strzok. “It was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia,” he added. Gohmert said the ICIG investigator, Frank Rucker, presented thefindings to Strzok, but that the FBI official did not do anything with the information. Strzok acknowledged meeting with Rucker, but said he did not recallthe “specific content.” “The forensic examination was done by the ICIG and they can document that,” Gohmert said, “but you were given that information and you didnothing with it.” He also said that someone alerted the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to the issue. “Mr. Horowitz got a call four times from someone wanting to brief him about this, and he never returned the call,” Gohmert said. The ICIG previously caught problems regarding Clinton’s server that the FBI missed. The bureau didn’t notice that some emails were openly marked classified with a “(C)” when they were sent. (RELATED: FBI Missed Clinton Emails Openly MARKED Classified, Wanted To Conclude Probe Before IG Caught Mistake) The ICIG spotted the oversight after the FBI missed it, texts between Strzok and his mistress, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, show. “Holy cow,” Strzok wrote, “if the FBI missed this, what else was missed? … Remind me to tell you to flag for Andy [redacted] emails we(actually ICIG) found that have portion marks (C) on a couple of paras. DoJ was Very Concerned about this.” In late 2017, ICIG Chuck McCullough — who was appointed by former President Barack Obama — took the unusual step of coming forwardpublicly to say that he perceived pushback after he began raising the alarm about issues with Clinton’s servers to then-Director of NationalIntelligence James Clapper. He said he found it “maddening” that Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, were underselling the amount of classifiedinformation on the server. McCullough said he “expected to be embraced and protected,” but was instead “chided” by someone on Capitol Hill for failing to consider the “political consequences” of his investigative findings, Fox Newsreported. The ICIG has not publicly disclosed the findings Gohmert described in the meeting between Rucker and Strzok, but the congressman said the watchdog can document them. Thursday’s exchange is below: Gohmert: You said earlier in this hearing you were concerned about a hostile foreign power affecting the election. Do you recall the former Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough having aninvestigation into an anomaly found on Hillary Clinton’s emails? Let me refresh your memory. The Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough sent his investigator Frank Rucker along with an IGIC attorney Janette McMillan to brief you and Dean Chapelle and two other FBI personnel who I won’t name at this time, about an anomaly they had found on Hillary Clinton’s emails that were going to the private unauthorized server that you were supposed to be investigating? Strzok: I remember meeting Mr. Rucker on either one or two occasions. I do not recall the specific content or discussions. Gohmert: Mr. Rucker reported to those of you, the four of you there,in the presence of the ICIG attorney, that they had found this anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, andwhen they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an addressthat was not on the distribution list. It was a compartmentalized bit of information that was sending it to an unauthorized source. Do yourecall that? Strzok: Sir, I don’t. Gohmert: He went on the explain it. And you didn’t say anything, you thanked him, you shook his hand. The problem is it was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia and from what you’ve said here, you did nothing more than nod and shake the man’s hand when you didn’t seem to be all that concerned about our national integrity of our election when it was involving Hillary Clinton. So the forensic examination was done by the ICIG — and they can document that — but you were given that information and you did nothing with it. And one of the things I found most egregious with Mr. Horowitz’s testimony, and — by the way Mr. Horowitz got a call four times from someone wanting to brief him about this, and he never returned the call.
(6) International Business Times: Daily Caller report that China hacked Hillary email Server Trump Claims China Hacked Hillary Clinton's Email Server, Mocks Russian Involvement By Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan International Business Times 08/29/18 AT 2:29 AM President Donald Trump on Tuesday night tweeted about an alleged hacking of Hillary Clinton’s email server by China and mocked Russia'sinvolvement in it. He called it “a very big story” as the correspondence contained classified information. The president, however, did not provide any evidence. “Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information! ” he tweeted. In 2015, Clinton admitted to using unsecured private server and email accounts for official business during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. A report Tuesday claimed that a Chinese company hacked Clinton’s emails and managed to forward them to a third party in real time. During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump said he hoped Russia would find the thousands of missing emails from Clinton’s server. According to the report published by the Daily Caller, the Washington D.C.-based Chinese company was able to insert a code into the formerDemocratic presidential candidate’s private email server's programming and make copies of the emails. Officials from the IntelligenceCommunity Inspector General's (ICIG) office found that all her emails were forwarded to a “foreign entity.” These claims were first made by Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, at a July 12 House Committee on the judiciary hearing of Clinton email investigation. Though he did not reveal the identity of the entity, he said it was unrelated to Russia. According to a former intelligence officer, who was briefed on the matter, two officials with the ICIG, identified as investigator Frank Rucker and lawyer Janette McMillan, met FBI agents repeatedly and warned them about the Chinese intrusion. Among the FBI officials was Peter Strzok, who was fired earlier this month after he was discovered sending anti-Trump texts to his co-worker Lisa Page. Gohmert said in July that ICIG officials told Strzok and three other top FBI officials about finding an “anomaly” on Clinton’s email server but to no avail. The former intelligence officer too confirmed the claims saying ICIG “discovered the anomaly pretty early in 2015.” “When the ICIG did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer said. “The ICIG believe that there was some level of phishing. But once they got into the server something was embedded,” he said. “The Chinese are notorious for embedding little surprises like this.” He, however, declined to name the company and said, “We do know the name of the company. There are indications there are other ‘cutouts’ that were involved. I would be in a lot of trouble if I gave you the name.”
(7) Newsweek: mentions Daily Caller report but not the names Rucker, McMillan, Gohmert and Strzok Trump Accuses China Of Hacking Hillary Clinton's Emails After Daily Caller 'Exclusive' BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 8/29/18 AT 8:06 AM President Donald Trump accused China of hacking into Hillary Clinton’s classified emails and called for the FBI and Justice Department toinvestigate the matter, despite offering no evidence to support his claims. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump took to Twitter to blame the Chinese government for the alleged hacking: “Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!” he tweeted. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone! Earlier on Tuesday night, Trump tweeted: “Report just out: ‘China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.’ Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information!” Trump’s accusations appeared to be response to a Daily Caller report released on Monday, which claimed that a Washington, D.C.-based Chinese-owned company hacked into the then-secretary of state’s private server between 2009 and 2013. The publication cited "two sources briefed on the matter." The report also said that the Intelligence Community Inspector General warned the FBI of the hacking and said it did not act on theinformation provided. During a daily news briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying dismissed the allegations as nothing new. “This isn’t the first time we’ve heard similar kinds of allegations,” she told reporters. “China is a staunch defender of cybersecurity. We firmly oppose and crack down on any forms of internet attacks and the stealing of secrets.” ...
(8) NYT buries China Hack story; no mention of Rucker, McMillan, Gohmert questioning Strzok https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/29/us/politics/ap-us-trump-clinton-emails.html FBI: No Evidence Clinton Server Hacked Despite Trump Tweet By The Associated Press Aug. 29, 2018 WASHINGTON — The FBI said Wednesday that it has no evidence Hillary Clinton's private email server was compromised even though President Donald Trump tweeted a news report that alleged the Chinese had hacked it. Trump tweeted Tuesday evening about a report in the conservative Daily Caller that said a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washingtonarea had hacked the server Clinton had used as secretary of state and obtained nearly all of her emails. Trump's tweet stated in part: "What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classifiedinformation!" FBI and Justice Department officials have said publicly that there was no evidence Clinton's server was hacked by a foreign power. Former FBI Director James Comey said at a July 2016 news conference that the FBI did not find direct evidence that the server had been successfully hacked though he also acknowledged that, "given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved," it would have been unlikely for the bureau to find such direct evidence. A June report from the Justice Department's inspector general on the FBI's handling of the Clinton investigation said FBI specialists did not find evidence that the server had been hacked, with one forensics agent saying he felt "fairly confident that there wasn't anintrusion." An FBI official said Wednesday after the Daily Caller story and Trump tweet that the "FBI has not found any evidence the servers werecompromised." The White House did not immediately comment on the FBI's statement.
(9) WaPo buries the China Hack story, says FBI "pushes back" FBI pushes back on unfounded Trump claim that China hacked Hillary Clinton’s email By John Wagner August 29 at 12:56 PM The FBI on Wednesday pushed back on an unfounded claim by President Trump that Hillary Clinton’s emails were hacked by China, saying ithad found no evidence that the private servers she used while secretary of state had been compromised. Trump asserted early Wednesday, without citing evidence, that China had hacked Clinton’s emails, and he said the Justice Department and the FBI risked losing their credibility if they did not look into the matter further. Writing on Twitter, Trump alleged that many of the emails that were purportedly hacked contained classified information and called it “a very big story.” “Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps . . . their credibility will be forever gone!” Trump wrote in a tweet posted shortly after midnight. Trump provided no details about the alleged hacking, but his tweets came shortly after the online publication of a story by the Daily Caller asserting that a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington area hacked Clinton’s private server while she was secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails. The publication cited “two sources briefed on the matter.” Fox News, which is frequently watched by the president, aired a segment on the report Tuesday night, with a guest calling it a bombshell if true. Asked about the president’s assertions, the FBI provided a statement Wednesday afternoon that simply said: “The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.” An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Trump’s call for the bureau to make a “next move.” A spokesman for the Justice Department also declined to comment. ...
(10) CNBC says 'FBI refutes' China Hack report FBI refutes report, promoted by Trump, that China hacked Hillary Clinton's emails The FBI on Wednesday pushed back against a right-wing news story that had been promoted by President Donald Trump just hours before. The story, published by The Daily Caller, claimed that a Chinese-owned firm operating in Virginia had hacked a private email server owned bythen-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and obtained "nearly all" her emails. "The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised," a bureau official told NBC News.
(11) Did The FBI Cover Up Evidence That China Hacked Clinton's State Dept. Emails? 8/28/2018 Accountability: More than three years after Hillary Clinton admitted that she'd used an unsecured private email server to handle classified emails while secretary of State, and two years after the FBIexonerated her, we finally learn what we should have known all along. That China apparently had unfettered access to all her emails, including many that were highly classified. According to the Daily Caller, the only news site that has continued to pursue this story, a Chinese-owned company gained access to Clinton's unsecured private server, and embedded code that then sent them copies of every email she sent. The story goes to note that the FBI knew about this, even as then FBI-Director James Comey was drafting Clinton's get-out-of-jail free statement. Two officials from the Intelligence Community Inspector General's office discovered the code, and "met repeatedly with FBI officials to warn them of the Chinese intrusion," the Daily Caller's Frank Pollock reports. The ICIG discovered the "anomaly" in early 2015, Pollock says, soon after the FBI started its investigation. One of the people the ICIG told about the "anomaly" was the disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, the agent in charge of the Clinton email investigation. When Rep. Louie Gohmert asked Strzok about his meetings with the ICIG at a congressional hearing last month, all Strzok said was that "I remember meeting Mr. Rucker on either one or two occasions. I do notrecall the specific content or discussions." It seems unlikely that the FBI's top counterintelligence official — who was leading the investigation into Clinton's emails — wouldn't remember being told that the Chinese had unfettered access to those emails while she was secretary of State. (You can follow IBD's complete coverage of the Clinton emails scandal here.) So, either Strzok is lying or the ICIG officials are. Our money is on Strzok. Strzok, you may recall, is the FBI official who, in text exchanges with an FBI lawyer, expressed his desire to see Clinton elected and his hatred for Trump, at one point texting that "we'll stop" Trumpfrom winning the election. He's the official whose biased rants led the Justice Department inspector general to conclude that Strzok showed "a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoralprospects." The FBI fired Strzok two weeks ago. Strzok also made sure to water down the section of Comey's statement exonerating Clinton, where it mentioned the possibility that "foreign actors" hacked her server. Here's the change made in Comey's original draft memo regardinghacking of Clinton's emails. Comey's original draft said it was "reasonably likely" that a foreign government accessed Clinton's emails. The final draft said only that it was "possible" and that there was no evidence that it had happened. Strzok was also the FBI official who sat on the bombshell discovery in late September 2016 that hundreds of thousands of Clinton emails wound up on former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop. (Weiner was then husband to Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin.) According to Real Clear Investigations, this "mother lode" of Clinton emails included classified emails the FBI hadn't seen before. Ignoring the Mother Lode of Clinton Emails But FBI officials were too busy investigating the bogus Trump/Russia dossier to bother with this news. And, they only acted on the discovery when they thought news about the Weiner laptop emails might leak, Real Clear Investigation's Paul Sperry reports. What's more, the FBI examined only a fraction of those emails, despite Comey's repeated assurances that investigators had reviewed them all, Sperry says. All this underscores what we've pointed out in this space on numerous occasions. Namely, that the FBI's "investigation" into Clinton'scriminally negligent handling of classified information was nothing more than a whitewash. It's seems increasingly clear that the FBI had planned to exonerate Clinton all along, even if it meant burying the most damning evidencethey came across. -- Peter Myerswebsite: http://mailstar.net/index.html |
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