Homey Comey

Sandy Burgler

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave ..." It seems that Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, the Clinton Crime Family, Sandy Burgler and other actors in this recent political Kabuki play ... all have previous Washington connections ... see: WND Article. In keeping with my more recent practice, I will here quote a few salient passages from this article for those of you who don't follow hyperlinks:

In 2004, Comey, then serving as a deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, apparently limited the scope of the criminal investigation of Sandy Berger, which left out former Clinton administration officials who may have coordinated with Berger in his removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack. 

Curiously, Berger, Lynch and Cheryl Mills [Hellery's Chief of Staff] all worked as partners in the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state. 

Lynch and Comey both served as U.S. attorney in New York, Lynch for the Eastern District of New York, and Comey for the Southern District of New York. They crossed paths in the investigation of HSBC bank, which avoided criminal charges in a massive money-laundering scandal for which the bank paid a $1.9 billion fine. 

There is no evidence Comey’s investigation for the Justice Department made any attempt to determine if anyone affiliated with the Clinton White House prompted Berger or coordinated with him in the decision to remove the classified documents. 

Messages found stored on Clinton’s private email server show that Berger – a convicted thief of classified documents – had been advising Clinton while she served as secretary of state and had access to emails containing classified information. 

For example, in an email dated Sept. 22, 2009, Berger advised Clinton how she could leverage information to make Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more cooperative in discussions with the Obama administration over a settlement freeze.

Sandy Burgler has since passed away ...

Rigged

To use Donald Trump's words, "the system is rigged." There is more rigging in government ... and, in particular, this administration ... than on the biggest of clipper ships under full sail. One of the best examples of same is FBI Director Comey's partial exoneration today of Hellery Clinton in her private e-mail scandal ... see: FBI Document.

Again for those in a hurry, here are some key passages:

From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent. 

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked “classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it. 

With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.

So Comey and Lynch will both be reappointed were Hellery to win in November. Hooray! And our mighty clipper ship of state will sail on ... fully rigged.

However, Director Comey didn't address in this release the possible public corruption of Hellery's office in how she solicited foreign donations for the Clinton Foundation in exchange for State Department favors. But, I think we all also know the probable results of this sewer cleaning.