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Intelligence expert: The government has Clinton's 'deleted' emails
// Personal Liberty Digest™
A former National Security Agency official says the government has everything it needs to settle the question of whether Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton put American lives at risk by using private email at the State Department.
Clinton, during an interview over the weekend, again asserted that none of the emails she sent or received via her private server were classified at the time.
The former top diplomat added that she's put the email scandal behind her because, "Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails."
Clinton, of course, is lying.
In fact, The Washington Post's fact-checkers gave Clinton four "Pinocchios" for the remarks.
"Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative about the unusual setup of a private email server," wrote the Post's Glenn Kessler. "This allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation."
The more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation being that she lied to members of Congress about her email setup and covered her tracks by totally disregarding government transparency laws meant to give Americans the tools to keep government officials in check.
As Clinton began getting called out for her weekend lies on Monday, her campaign went into spin mode with the line that the American public is simply misunderstanding the whole situation.
"Well and you don't understand this. That's simply not true. You just don't send classified information over the unclassified system," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough when pressed about the former top diplomat forcing members of government to send classified information to her unclassified server.
He also added the "important caveat" that Americans will never really know whether any of the information actually was classified because Clinton destroyed the evidence.
"We can't see these emails," Mook explained. "We don't know. We don't know if they were marked. We don't know if they were marked properly. We don't know. And so the fact of the matter is, we are having to rely on what [Comey] is saying, and included in what he said was he did not believe that when she received these emails she had any reason to believe they were classified."
But the Clinton campaign shouldn't be so sure the emails aren't going to resurface. According to William Binney, a former top NSA official, the intelligence agency he worked at for three decades has a copy of every email Clinton sent or received.
"The NSA database, which is shown of course in the (Edward) Snowden material released, shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA. Which there is no oversight of, by the way. So that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those emails," Binney said.
"So if the FBI really wanted them they can go into that database and get them right now," he added.
And if the FBI refuses to do its job, Binney suggested that it may only be a matter of time before a disgruntled intelligence employee leaks the information to the public.
The former intelligence official noted that the recent DNC hack was likely the result of a similar situation rather than the work of foreign hackers.
"Hillary … has a problem with NSA because she compromised Gamma material. Now that is the most sensitive material at NSA. And so there were a number of NSA officials complaining …that she did that," he said. "She lifted the material that was in her emails directly out of Gamma reporting. That is a direct compromise of the most sensitive material at the NSA. So she's got a real problem there. So there are many people who have problems with what she has done in the past. So I don't necessarily look at the Russians as the only one(s) who got into those emails."
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