November 2, 2016

Thoughts On Comey And The FBI

Some very good information and questions in this email.  It’s worth your time to read!  Be sure to take a few minutes and look it over, and share with your friends who think Hillary is the right choice.

I did my best to fact check and verify this and was unable to find anything to deny it’s authenticity.

My opinion is – when Comey made the decision not to charge Hillary Clinton,  I think the purpose was to spread a wider net which included the Clinton Foundation and round up all of the people instead of just Clinton – which now has happened.

We cannot allow this woman in the White House.  So all of  you Americans, you must vote for Trump to save our country for our children and grandchildren.  Hold your nose if you have to.

Karl Denniger –  Market Ticker
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth – Sherlock Holmes.
Let’s talk about Comey and the newest “revelation” in the Hillary saga.
There was this gagging sound that had to have been from Huma Abedin when the announcement was made. She protested she “didn’t know” how the emails got on her estranged pervert husband’s laptop, but it wasn’t a
few
emails, as the Clinton camp originally protested — it appears it was
650,000
emails.
This is the consequence, incidentally, of the combination of technical incompetence and arrogance in the world of today. It is why there are protocols for secure communications, there are rules and laws governing classified data, and the government is,
except when a Clinton is involved,
assiduous about enforcing them.
It is why classified information is
never
allowed on the Internet.
It is why classified information is
never
allowed on a computer that is not under both active monitoring and control
by people who’s job it is to verify that said machine has been secure, remains secure, and the data on it is secure,

and

said machine

never

leaves that secure network and connects to insecure one.
It is why the SD card slots and USB slots are
locked out or physically disabled
on such machines, so you can’t stuff a thumb drive in there without it immediately setting off alarms at said monitoring locations and having
The Hammer of God
come down on your head.
And it is why
incompetent people
when it comes to cyber security, combined with arrogance, usually turns into disaster.
I’ve had several friends who had their machines “cryptolockered.” To an individual they claim they never ran anything off the Internet.
Yes they did.
That’s how it happens. They got a prompt, they clicked “ok”, and…. oops. Once done you can’t undo it, and yes, Mildred, encryption is real and if done properly it’s damn near impossible to actually break. For “ordinary people” the answer is that you reformat the device and start over. Like it or not.
I’m going to take an educated guess here that the email program in question on that laptop is Outlook.
At some point Huma signed into the Clintonemail server using the Exchange protocol,
which syncs emails, contacts and calendars. It’s very convenient. It also makes a copy of
everything
on said server pertinent to your account on the local disk, synchronizes it whenever it is connected
and never removes any of it absent explicit instruction to do so
because it is far faster (never mind working when you’re not connected to the Internet) to be able to do things like a keyword search if you do it on the local computer. It might have even been set to run all the time whenever the machine is on.
It also makes the security of said email and calendars utterly reliant on whatever security exists (or the lack thereof) on

every single computer

that connects to said resource, individually! If any such machine is insecure then everything on it is also insecure, including all of those emails. In short software like this takes what is a reasonable degree of security at a central site and destroys it because it makes

the least secure

end-node machine the “best” security you now have, and if those computers are personal and not under some form of active management

the security of said system as a whole is now effectively zero.

In an environment where even

a modest

amount of security is required you must have all such computers under domain control with group policy settings, you must have full-disk encryption on (e.g. Bitlocker) with some rationally strong control of the keys for same and you must have set and push Exchange policies to prevent this sort of thing from happening. We know for a fact that

none

of those things were done because the public record shows that even rudimentary (SSL) security on the clinton email server was

intentionally shut off

at one point and there is zero evidence that any sort of domain control or group policy, say much less exchange policy settings or encryption of data-at-rest, was implemented.
Why did all this happen? It happened because people who understand how to design, implement and operate a
reasonably secure
communication system
are also intelligent enough to realize that if they aid and abet a potentially criminal enterprise

they will go to prison!
You therefore simply don’t get the “best and brightest” or even the
minimally competent
people to do such a job, and those you
do
get will sit back and let one of the principals scream at them about security restrictions being “too much”
and drop shields in response
instead of replying with
“That’s insecure, I won’t do it, and if you don’t quit your hollering at me and shut your damned yap right now I quit!”
How dumb is this? If there needs to be security, very dumb indeed. It is dumb not because Huma is stupid
but because she was ignorant,
and as it turns out she has a pervert for a husband. There’s a very good reason why, when you’re looked at for a security clearance,
those who you associate with most-closely are looked at too.
In this case it’s utterly outrageous that Huma had
any
sort of clearance beyond Weiner’s 2011 resignation from Congress
because his inability to keep his dick in his pants and

lying

about it were, at that point, a matter of public record.
Sexual indiscretions
that you lie about and try to keep secret
are one of
the
big red flags when it comes to security clearances
because they are very potent blackmail material.
Had Huma and Weiner divorced
then
and never lived or been together beyond that point there
might
be reason, post-2011, to let her have and retain a clearance. But that’s not what happened. In point of fact Huma has been Clinton’s “right hand woman”
with access to both her and acting on her behalf during the entire time from 2009 to 2013 when she left as Secretary of State.
Huma apparently was granted a Top Secret clearance in 2009; how she managed to not have it
immediately
revoked in 2011 given that her husband was at that point
known
to be a security risk
and she did not leave him
is pretty damn odd. But then again, these are the Clintons, right? Never mind Huma’s past
factual
history through the 1990s and early 2000s in association with muslim organizations that have a colorable connection to extremism. Of course we’ll never know what the investigation into that in 2009 disclosed, how in-depth it was and whether “someone” (e.g. Obama) essentially poisoned what is supposed to be an impartial review.
Now let’s talk about today.
The Democrats are raising hell about Comey’s “timing” and some are even arguing that he violated The Hatch Act. Let’s get real — Comey
promised, under oath,
to provide any updates he got on the email situation
before Congress.
He was advised of this a
day
before he told Congress about it, which is hardly “sandbagging” or anything like that. Quite arguably he
had
to notify Congress or potentially be held susceptible to a perjury charge, never mind his already-tarnished reputation. What’s even worse is that it appears the FBI person who
did
know about them earlier is potentially poisoned
himself
by Clinton-linked campaign donations to a family member!
Now here’s the problem — by making the notification Comey basically shot himself politically. This, after multiple press reports that he
already
had a literal mutiny on his hands
both within the FBI

and at his home,
with his own
wife
being furious that he had not referred the investigation for indictment previously.
Let’s remember that Comey stood up on national television,

described in public the presence of all of the elements of a violation of Federal law,

and then said “no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case.”

He essentially told the nation that because it was a Clinton under investigation
the presence of a smoking gun, hair, blood and fingerprints belonging to Hillary on the weapon and a dead body at her feet the “facts” would not lead any “reasonable prosecutor” to charge her!
Absolutely
nobody
who is literate and can read the actual Statute (which is public, I remind you) could possibly get through that news conference and have it pass the giggle test. Yet he did it, and had a mutiny on his hands —
with good reason
— for doing so.
I have said
publicly,
and I stand
in front
of those words, that utterly
nobody
should ever assist
or respect
the FBI
or any other law enforcement agency
so long as this sort of blatant, raw, political corruption remains in America. I’m not alone in that sentiment. The FBI is
supposed
to be the elite
federal
law enforcement agency of the United States and is
supposed
to investigate and refer any clear violation of federal laws for prosecution.
When the director stands on national television,

describes such a violation in detail, putting forward every element of said crime as printed in the Statute,

and then dismisses same on national television he has destroyed said agency and its integrity.
Period.
So why did Comey do it? I don’t know. Maybe what was
really there
is so thermonuclear that he believed that if he
did
refer it the ultimate result would be the destruction of the nation. Maybe he’s a political hack. Maybe he was threatened by Clinton; it’s not like that hasn’t happened before.
What I
do
know is that by sending his letter last week Comey did an extraordinary thing
and the only reason to do it is that

failure

to do it was more harmful, in his opinion, than doing it.
Let’s remember here that what led to this was an investigation of Weiner allegedly sexting an underage girl. The investigation
began
with NY authorities and then the FBI gained jurisdiction when it became clear that the other party was across state lines. This is an
extremely
serious charge, standing alone folks — interstate sexual offenses involving minors are
serious business
and people go to prison for a very, very long time if they are proved to have committed those acts. Those are good laws, not bad ones.
By the point the FBI got jurisdiction and exclusive control of the evidence, however, it has to be assumed that NY State authorities, either in the NYPD or the NY State Police, had access to at least some of the material in question via forensic investigation, and perhaps to all of it.
That leads me to believe that what was uncovered in those emails and on that laptop was
nuclear waste-grade
incriminating evidence
and not toward Weiner or Huma, either of whom could be charged individually without much of an impact on anything else.
No, whatever was found had to relate to Hillary personally, it had to be of sufficient magnitude that James Comey came to the conclusion by manifest weight of the evidence that Hillary Clinton had committed acts so serious that she could not serve in the Office of President.
There are plenty of rumors flying around about exactly
what
was discovered. Those 650,000 emails may well include
every
one that Hillary and her staff tried to “bleach.”
If even one of them evidences felony criminal conduct
then the game is up because we have now gone from the conduct itself to intentional destruction of evidence for the purpose of covering up a crime.
My best guess is that not only is that conduct documented in these emails but that one or more of the acts involve something so outrageous that James Comey decided that irrespective of his personal reputation, his job
and maybe even his life
he could not allow Hillary Clinton to be elected come next Tuesday, and he was willing to flush everything he is and has down the toilet to stop it from happening.
Before you call my belief on this regard crazy consider this — there was a judge who signed off on a warrant for that laptop

on the weekend,

which means they called him or her up, presented the evidence and he or she agreed it was serious enough to provide the FBI with the warrant they were requesting to search that device on an immediate basis — said judge believed that approval could not wait until normal business hours, nor was it a “close call” and thus required some time to think it over, despite the FBI having the device in their possession and thus there being no risk of it being tampered with or destroyed.
We’ll see if I’m right, but in the meantime consider this:
If he’s right, and you ignore both his decision

and that of a federal judge,

in that you choose to vote for Hillary anyway, then

you, not he, are personally responsible for whatever occurs as a consequence — including, quite possibly, the literal death of not only America

but also your children, grandchildren and yourself.

kommonsentsjane