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Hello and welcome, I’m Gina Shakespeare.
Today on Declassified, we look into the
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Clinton email scandal, plus FBI and DOJ
corruption. This story by Epoch Times
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contributor Brad Johnson. Brad is a
retired CIA senior operations officer
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and a former chief of station. He is
president of Americans for Intelligence
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Reform. Just before we begin please feel
free to Like, Comment, Share and Subscribe.
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We have seen a growing list of senior
officials at the Federal Bureau of
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Investigation and Department of Justice
being fired or leaving in disgrace. Now,
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the New York Times informs us that the
FBI began an investigation in May of
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2017 looking at whether President Donald
Trump was a spy for the Russians. The
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accusation was naturally completely
devoid of any evidence and so it seems a
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safe bet that it was purely political
and another stain on the FBI and DOJ.
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Even in the face of direct and
conclusive proof of political corruption
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the FBI and DOJ leadership appear to
continue unchallenged since they are
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lacking any form of checks and balances.
Brad would like to remind everyone of
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the classified documents found on former
Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop that were
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discovered as part of the dissemination
of indecent material to a minor case
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against him. Each of those classified
documents is illegal to have on a
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private laptop at home, period. Intent is
completely irrelevant former FBI
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director James Comey openly admits the
crime took place but not only was it not
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investigated as a crime, it was also said
to be a crime. The following quote was
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taken directly from Comey’s July 5th 2016
statement clearing Hillary Clinton from
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any wrongdoing with regard to these
classified documents: “From the group of
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30,000 emails returned to the State
Department, 110 emails and 52 email
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chains have been determined by the
owning agency to contain classified
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information at the time they were sent
or received. Eight of those chains
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contained information that was
top-secret at the time they were sent.
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Thirty-six chains contained secret
information at the time, and eight contained
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confidential information, which is
the lowest level of classification.”
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“Separate from those, about 2,000
additional emails are were ‘up-
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classified’ to make them confidential; the
information in those had not been
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classified at the time the emails were
sent.” Two points from this are extremely
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important. First:
According to Comey, there were at least
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2,110 individually classified
documents on that laptop that were
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discovered by examining approximately
30,000 emails. Each one of those is
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individually a crime. No intent or any
other qualifications are needed for this
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to be illegal; it is a very
black-and-white. You have classified
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documents at home—that is illegal. Lots
of people have gone to jail for exactly
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that crime. Second: Something that is
never discussed in mainstream media is
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the process of how a classified document
can end up in someone’s personal email.
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All classified computer systems are
fully closed systems; that is to say
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there is no possible way to make a
mistake where a classified document gets
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sent to a non-classified system like a
private email address by accident. Let us
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explain how this particular crime was
committed. The classified documents were
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printed. On each document there was a
header and footer that gave the
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classifications and other information.
Those were cut off or concealed and then
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the document was scanned. Once scanned it
could be attached to a private email and
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sent out to anyone. And they were not
marked as classified that way. This is
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also highly illegal of course but it is
the only way it can realistically be
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done under these circumstances. You will
notice Clinton never says whether
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anything was classified or not. She
always states that nothing was marked
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‘classified’ at the time that’s a
convenient lawyerly answer if one knows
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that the headers and footers were all
cut off. If you were wondering what it
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means to up-classify, just take a
classified document; cut the headers and
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footers off so it is not marked
classified, and then when it is found you
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up-classify it by marking it classified
again. An additional point worth making
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is that it’s child’s play to see which
printers were used to print the
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classified documents and who was doing
it. The full case is actually even worse.
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The FBI agent initially
in charge of exploiting the Weiner
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laptop told the Office of the
Inspector General:
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“I have private Hillary Clinton emails,
number one, and BlackBerry messages,
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number two. I’m telling you that we have
potentially 10 times the volume that
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Director Comey said we had on the record.
Why isn’t anybody here?” “And … I said the
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thing that also bothers me is that
Comey’s testimony is inaccurate.” The FBI
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agent clearly implies that he believes
more than 20,000 classified documents is
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a more accurate number and that in his
opinion at Comey was lying to the
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American public.
The FBI eventually moved the laptop to
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Quantico for further exploitation. In
the IG report documents there eventually
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just under 50,000 documents were
examined, many of which were duplicates
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of the initial 30,000 documents
examined. The little secret there has not
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been well reported is that according to
the IG report the laptop contained
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approximately 1,355,980
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items or files. As everyone knows
each file can contain a large number of
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individual documents or emails. So
according to the FBI more than 1,300,000
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documents and perhaps a much
higher number of documents were not
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looked at to see if they contained
classified information. This whole
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situation stinks to the High Heavens of
political corruption. The Senate
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confirmation hearings for William Barr
is the next US Attorney General taskbar
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to dig into this specific case into
overhaul the DOJ FBI corruption. Probably
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more significantly, a federal judge just
ordered discovery on the Benghazi
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Clinton email scandal this is a
devastating loss for the DOJ FBI since
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now organizations such as Judicial Watch
will be able to submit Freedom of
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Information Act requests and demand
testimony from everyone involved. If
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there is more to learn about Benghazi
or more classified documents to be found
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among the million plus documents ignored
by the FBI
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the corruption will be out in the light
for all to see. This is going to be one
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of the big stories for 2019 and will
define the battle lines between liberals
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and conservatives. Excellent
story there by Brand Johnson,. And just in
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