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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 07:22 PM Sep 2019

State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides LOL

The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said.

As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The Washington Post.

State Department investigators began contacting the former officials about 18 months ago, after President Trump’s election, and then seemed to drop the effort before picking it up in August, officials said.


To many of those under scrutiny, including some of the Democratic Party’s top foreign policy experts, the recent flurry of activity surrounding the Clinton email case represents a new front on which the Trump administration could be accused of employing the powers of the executive branch against perceived political adversaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-dept-intensifies-email-probe-of-hillary-clintons-former-aides/2019/09/28/9f15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html




JFC.

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State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides LOL (Original Post) octoberlib Sep 2019 OP
No problem. DURHAM D Sep 2019 #1
By all means. What's sauce for the goose . . . . Arkansas Granny Sep 2019 #3
"retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations" Takket Sep 2019 #2
They interviewed 130 people?! How many did they interview about Kavanaugh? SunSeeker Sep 2019 #4
my guess would be 1 ... Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #6
I wondered if he hadn't ordered investigation to be reopened into Clinton's emails wishstar Sep 2019 #5
O. F.F.S. blm Sep 2019 #7
The ultimate panic button. Go after your former opponent. Raven123 Sep 2019 #8
Retroactively classified. What a joke. C_U_L8R Sep 2019 #9
Aside from his deplorable base, Talitha Sep 2019 #10
They're gonna stop Hillary from becoming president if it's the last thing they do!!! NCLefty Sep 2019 #11
That should be in campaign ads.. Cha Sep 2019 #12

DURHAM D

(32,609 posts)
1. No problem.
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 07:25 PM
Sep 2019

Now the House Intelligence Committee needs to get all of Ivanka and Jared's personal emails sent from the WH.

Takket

(21,565 posts)
2. "retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations"
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 07:28 PM
Sep 2019

well they've already shit over everything else in the constitution, so why not ex post facto laws too?

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
5. I wondered if he hadn't ordered investigation to be reopened into Clinton's emails
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 07:44 PM
Sep 2019

So this is the angle someone came up with to try and find something with which to threaten criminal indictments of Hillary or other Democrats who worked at State Dept during her tenure. By retroactively labeling emails as classified that weren't originally classified in order to smear her and the other officials so the sicko can lash out to keep his base ramped up.

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
9. Retroactively classified. What a joke.
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 08:42 PM
Sep 2019

This is a pr stunt at best because any court would toss this bullshit right out.

Talitha

(6,586 posts)
10. Aside from his deplorable base,
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 12:19 AM
Sep 2019

who on God's earth would swallow this idea of a retroactive classification?

My, my, my... he's really popped his cork this time.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
11. They're gonna stop Hillary from becoming president if it's the last thing they do!!!
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 03:23 AM
Sep 2019

/eyeroll

How much taxpayer money is this latest boondoggle costing us? They blew $7 million on Benghazi and came up with bupkis.

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