The REAL Email Scandal Is Bigger Than Clinton

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by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
September 14, 2016

In yet another sign that the establishment media has completely lost any semblance of a grounding in reality, the Washington Post just opined that "The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control," whining about how much attention the story of Clinton's homebrew email system is receiving in this campaign. This despite the fact that the facts on the ground here are incontrovertible:

But never mind all of that; the Washington Post has decided that the public is too concerned about the issue so I guess it's time to move on, right?

Wrong. Thankfully this is 2016 not 1966, and the dinosaur media no longer dictates the news cycle like they used to. CNN and the NYT can call it a "stumble" all they want, but we've seen the video; we know that Clinton's feet didn't move at all and she was literally dragged into that van. Similarly, we don't have to take the talking heads word for it; we know that Clinton broke the law with the emails, tried to lie her way out of it, and has only gotten away with it because of her political connections (and the body count, of course; let's not forget the body count).

But as it turns out, there's an even bigger story here than Clinton's illegal activities or the establishment media's willingness to cover it up.

A new email exchange between Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell has just been released. In it, Powell is remarkably frank about how he defied CIA/NSA and State Department orders not to use personal computers and how to avoid leaving a data trail that could become part of the public record (and thus subject to FOIA):

"I didn't have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line (sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers. I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts."

He goes on to explain:

"However, there is a real danger. If it is public that you have a BlackBerry and it it government and you are using it, government or not, to do business, it may become an official record and subject to the law. Reading about the President's BB rules this morning, it sounds like it won't be as useful as it used to be. Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data."

Shocking, right? Well, it's much worse. It's not just Secretaries of State pulling these kinds of shenanigans to evade potential FOIAs and cover up whatever they're trying to cover up when "do[ing] business with some foreign leaders." It's all of government trying to do this.

As TechDirt points out, it wasn't until 2014 that the DC Circuit Court finally ruled that city officials couldn't use private servers to hide information from the public record anymore.

And as long-time Corbert Reporteers will remember, the FBI goes to remarkable lengths to create separate storage devices for investigatory material that they use to keep information from being FOIA-ed.

The point here is not in any way to exonerate Clinton, of course. She is vile, corrupt, a criminal, a neocon warmonger, and, oh yeah, a threat to all of humanity.

The point is that if the powers-that-shouldn't-be truly don't want you to know about a piece of sensitive information then it isn't going to be available via FOIA.

But if you're reading this, then you probably already knew that. And if you didn't know it, maybe it's time to put down The Washington Post and spend more time with the alt media.
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I hear rumors already yesterday that this witch could be dead !! We can only hope as I don't see why we should pay for a cell and food for this creature of Satan that has done nothing but steal and lie against the American people and sure people of the world most of her miserable life !!

Politics is a game where the optimal strategy is to lie to the voters and stay faithful to donors. Trillions of dollars of influence are ready to be dropped to maintain this system. It is a roll call for the worst people in society, and once they get power the addition drives them to become even worse humans.

If you cherry pick the worst humans of course they are going to be bad, but a few bad humans are not the problem. These people are only able to hurt other people because there is a system that arms sick delusional power addicts. Hate and wishing the death of people harms humanity. Hillary like any sick person needs love and therapy not violence and prison...these things don't solve stuff, they just make people like you feel better.

Hillary is not the root cause of problems, hillary having power is a symptom. The root cause is the widespread belief that violence solves systemic problems in society. This is what legitimizes the system, and I worry your attitude is part of that root cause.

michaelkeyes Michael Keyes tweeted @ 03 Sep 2016 - 00:44 UTC

CNN Stunned when fact checkers confirm #HillaryClinton phones destroyed with hammers. She is disqualified to #potus https://t.co/KT2bm99OoX

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would it be the first american president criminal person ? nothing new in denmark kingdom ....

Not even remotely close. We're sick of this criminal cabal that's been running our country for countless generations but big change is all but impossible; we must begin with ourselves and our communities (but first, we have to rebuild them!)

Much to see these days as the onion is peeled back!

What needs to happen before these criminals actually start getting arrested? That is where this needs to lead. They've already been documented tampering with elections and lying to the public. Those identified in the recent leaks for provided zero evidence any of this information was fraudulent, imo this is a step towards admitting their guilt.

https://steemit.com/dncleaks/@broadperspective/open-source-corruption-remidiation

I didn't get too excited about the 28 pages for the same reason. We will only be allowed to know what they are sure won't hurt them.

James - I've been a follower of yours (and Sibel) for years.

Your How Big Oil Conquered the World doco is one of the best doco's that I've seen and I share it with people often in the hope of waking them up. It's effective.

I'm currently exposing the CDC and I have a post that I'd like you critique - https://steemit.com/health/@steemtruth/less-than-h2-greater-than-expose-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc-part-1-less-than-h2-greater-than

Let's hit them from many fronts.

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