The Daily Beast’s John R. Schindler, who wonders if other officials in the Obama administration, including the president, will be burned by this scandal, notes that many counterintelligence officials now assume Clinton’s emails have been read by foreign intelligence officials in Russia and China because her server was “wholly unencrypted for months.” A Department of Defense counterintelligence official was so certain of that reality he insisted that anyone working for the Chinese or Russians would be fired if they couldn’t explain why "they didn’t have all of Hillary’s email.”Read more here.
As if on cue, RadarOnline.com revealed a person claiming to be a computer specialist allegedly has 32,000 emails from Clinton’s private server, and is putting them up for sale for $500,000. "Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of State’s emails to the highest bidder, the specialist is showing subject lines as proof of what appear to be legitimate messages,” the website states.
The website’s source warns that if the 32,000 emails enter the public domain, "not only is Hillary finished as a potential Presidential nominee, she could put our country’s national security at risk.”
She already has, and the National Review's Stanley Kurtz reveals the unassailable logic behind that assertion. Even if Clinton was extraordinarily lucky, and the Russians and Chinese haven’t accessed some or all of her emails, it is nonetheless incumbent on the nation’s entire security community to behave as if they did. "Doesn’t that mean that we are now making massive changes to the sources and methods of our intelligence?” Kurtz asks. "Are we now withdrawing valuable agents? Are we trying to replace methods that cannot be easily replicated? Are we now forced to rebuild a good deal of our intelligence capabilities from the ground up? Are we not suffering tremendous intelligence damage right now, regardless of what foreign intelligence services did or did not manage to snatch from Hillary’s server — simply because we are forced to assume that they got it all?”
...Considering the stakes—as well as the reality there have been massive hacks at Office of Personnel Management, networks of the Department of Defense (DOD), the IRS, the State Department (called the “worst ever”), and the White House, compromising the personal data of million of Americans—the answer is an unequivocal yes.
Yet arrogant as ever, Hillary completely dismisses the possibility her emails were hacked, insisting in March her private system "was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.”
...What the FBI knows and what the FBI does may or may not coincide. And while Clinton supporters and their media enablers have long been able to stomach a trail of sleaze, from lucrative cattle futures and missing Whitewater and Rose Law firm records, to foreign cash donations for Russian uranium mines and other dubious deals reeking of quid pro quo that emanate from the swamp known as the Clinton Foundation, it remains to be seen if they’ll countenance a national security disaster precipitated by nothing more than Hillary’s Clinton’s penchant for self-protection. It is one thing to elect a president and subsequently discover his or her flaws. It is quite another to knowingly place a congenital liar in the White House. One who has undoubtedly placed this nation’s security at considerable risk. Rabid partisanship is one thing. Intellectual and moral bankruptcy is quite another.
Thanks to Curt Dale
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