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SOURCES: China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 10:17 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote: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.”
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:01 PM
WHOZIT
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by whozit: I bet a lot of people hacked Hillary
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:52 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8:17 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 10:26 PM
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:59 AM
THG
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Jack - I'm not finding humor in sex by coercion. And if the situation was reversed - if I were to make fun of men being punished after a false accusation - you wouldn't find it funny, either.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:39 AM
Quote: Trump, Liberaloids without evidence, blames China Trump for hacking Clinton email colluding with Russia
Thursday, August 30, 2018 6:34 PM
REAVERFAN
Thursday, August 30, 2018 7:22 PM
Quote: Here's a little hint for ya, Siggy: Daily Caller is and always has been full of shit. Fascist propaganda for the gullible dupes and trolls, nothing more. The FBI is publicly disputing a report that China hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server after Trump tweeted about it https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-disputes-china-hacked-hillary-clin tons-server-trump-2018-8 Before you dismiss FACTS, think, just for once. What motive would the FBI have to lie about this?
Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh, and you lack imagination too. Do your knuckles drag on the ground as well? Does your breathe stink?
Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: REAVERFAN, you're such a fucking jerkwad troll. Didn't you notice my Interesting if true and We shall see what comes of this skepticism? Is "reading with comprehension" not in your skill set? Quote: Here's a little hint for ya, Siggy: Daily Caller is and always has been full of shit. Fascist propaganda for the gullible dupes and trolls, nothing more. The FBI is publicly disputing a report that China hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server after Trump tweeted about it https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-disputes-china-hacked-hillary-clin tons-server-trump-2018-8 Before you dismiss FACTS, think, just for once. What motive would the FBI have to lie about this? Oh, and you lack imagination too. Do your knuckles drag on the ground as well? Does your breathe stink?
Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:05 PM
Friday, September 14, 2018 6:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by whozit: I bet a lot of people hacked Hillary
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