MSM bury reports that
Chinese company hacked Hillary's email server when Secretary of State
2009-13
Newsletter published on August 30, 2018
(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 sent that 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
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 forwarded them 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’s identity, 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 third party and that third party was a known
Chinese public company that was
involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence 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 TheDCNF
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 contained classified material.
“IC IG was involved in the classification review of certain information 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 from the Inspector General of the
Intelligence Community, dated July 6,
2015 regarding the potential compromise of classified information,” a July 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 Government official,” 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 have probably 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
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}
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 former
Secretary 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 the findings to Strzok, but that the FBI official did
not do anything with the
information.
Strzok
acknowledged meeting with Rucker,
but said he did not recall the
“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 did nothing 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 forward publicly to say that he perceived
pushback after he began raising the
alarm about issues with Clinton’s servers to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
He said he found it “maddening” that Democrats, including
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California,
were underselling the amount of classified information 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 News reported.
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 an investigation 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, 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. It was a compartmentalized bit of information that was sending it to
an unauthorized source. Do you
recall 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's involvement 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 former
Democratic presidential candidate’s private email server's programming and make copies of the emails.
Officials from the Intelligence
Community 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 to investigate 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 the information 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
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 Washington area 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 classified information!"
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 sever 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 an intrusion."
An FBI official said Wednesday after the Daily Caller story and Trump tweet that the "FBI has not found any
evidence the servers were
compromised."
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 it had 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 by then-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 FBI exonerated
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 not recall 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" Trump from 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 electoral prospects." 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
regarding hacking 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's
criminally 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 evidence they came across.
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