Clinton: Hackers Targeted State Dept. ‘Every Hour of Every Day’

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Clinton: Hackers Targeted State Dept. ‘Every Hour of Every Day’

Cyber-attacks came against State employees' personal email accounts, Clinton told Wall Street bank

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BY: Lachlan Markay Follow @lachlan
November 2, 2016 1:40 pm

Hillary Clinton privately told a major Wall Street bank that her State Department was subject to cyber-attacks “every hour of every day,” and that those attacks targeted employees’ personal email accounts, hacked documents reveal.

Clinton said she was “very worried” about the state of the federal government’s cyber-security efforts after witnessing how vulnerable State Department systems, including email accounts, were to malicious hackers, during remarks to employees of Deutsche Bank AG.

“We were attacked every hour of every day and not only through the State Department system, but also through individual, personal accounts, just really fishing for anything they could get,” Clinton said.

A transcript of her remarks, which she made on October 2014, were attached to an email to campaign aides including chairman John Podesta, whose email account was breached by hackers believed to be acting in concert with the Russian government.

“I don’t think we’ve yet taken it seriously enough as a nation,” Clinton said of cyber-security generally. But she touted her own efforts to shore up vulnerabilities at State.

“I think this is a rolling threat that will only increase in intensity and so I appointed the first ever cyber security expert in the State Department,” Clinton said.

However, probes into Clinton’s email practices from the FBI and the State Department’s inspector general found that she routinely disregarded the guidance of cyber-security experts in her own department.

FBI director James Comey concluded that Clinton and her staff, who conducted State Department business through email addresses hosted on a private server in Clinton’s home, “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on her Deutsche Bank remarks.

In the course of its investigation, the FBI found that Clinton’s private server was breached by a hacker using the web anonymity service Tor.

Emails released since then in response to Freedom of Information Act requests by the groups Judicial Watch and Citizens United reveal numerous attempts to breach the server through the accounts of top Clinton aides Doug Band and Huma Abedin.

Brian Pagliano, one of the staffers who set up the Clintons’ personal email system, alerted staff in November 2010 to a handful of apparent attempts to illicitly access Abedin’s and Band’s clintonemail.com accounts.

Abedin sent an email two months later to Justin Cooper, another Clinton aide overseeing the email system, complaining that her “Clinton [black]berry” was not working.

“We were attacked again so I shut it down for a few min,” Cooper replied.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-hackers-targeted-st...

This is amazing yet this nitwit Hillary wants to blame Donald Trump and wants everyone to ignore what she had done. She wants to be the new liar in Chief ,she must be insane.... Anyone who doesn't seriously thing about the things she has done is really in denial.....  She is a big embarrassment to our Country and a laughing stock in the world..

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FBI: There is NO LINK Between Donald Trump And Russian Govt.

by Jeff Dunetz | Oct 31, 2016 | Politics

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Sorry Hillary while the FBI did what you asked they did not come up with the answer you wanted.  As reported by the NY Times, The FBI spent much of the summer looking for links between Donald Trump and the Russian Govt. and they found nothing.

[They] looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead — which they ultimately came to doubt — about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.

Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.

To put it a different way, the Democratic Party line that everything bad in their campaign originated from Russia at Donald Trump’s request is nothing but cow chips (unless of course the link can be found in one of the 650,000 new emails found on the laptop Huma Abedin shared with her soon to be ex-husband).

“You do not hear the director talking about any other investigation he is involved in,” Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Democrat of New York, said after Mr. Comey’s letter to Congress was made public. “Is he investigating the Trump Foundation? Is he looking into the Russians hacking into all of our emails? Is he looking into and deciding what is going on with regards to other allegations of the Trump Organization?”

If you see Congressman Meeks please explain to him (slowly), that the Trump Foundation had nothing to do with America’s secrets, nor did Trump trade influencing a public office for donations to the Trump foundation, but that’s what Hillary is accuse of doing.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, responded angrily on Sunday with a letter accusing the F.B.I. of not being forthcoming about Mr. Trump’s alleged ties with Moscow.

On the bright side Reid’s letter did not accuse Mitt Romney of not paying his taxes for the past ten years, so he is off that kick.

F.B.I. officials declined to comment on Monday. Intelligence officials have said in interviews over the last six weeks that apparent connections between some of Mr. Trump’s aides and Moscow originally compelled them to open a broad investigation into possible links between the Russian government and the Republican presidential candidate. Still, they have said that Mr. Trump himself has not become a target. And no evidence has emerged that would link him or anyone else in his business or political circle directly to Russia’s election operations.

At least one part of the investigation has involved Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman for much of the year. Mr. Manafort, a veteran Republican political strategist, has had extensive business ties in Russia and other former Soviet states, especially Ukraine, where he served as an adviser to that country’s ousted president, Viktor F. Yanukovych.

But the focus in that case was on Mr. Manafort’s ties with a kleptocratic government in Ukraine — and whether he had declared the income in the United States — and not necessarily on any Russian influence over Mr. Trump’s campaign, one official said.

And the investigation of Manafort involves dealings that occurred before he worked for Trump.

In classified sessions in August and September, intelligence officials also briefed congressional leaders on the possibility of financial ties between Russians and people connected to Mr. Trump. They focused particular attention on what cyberexperts said appeared to be a mysterious computer back channel between the Trump Organization and the Alfa Bank, which is one of Russia’s biggest banks and whose owners have longstanding ties to Mr. Putin.

F.B.I. officials spent weeks examining computer data showing an odd stream of activity to a Trump Organization server and Alfa Bank. Computer logs obtained by The New York Times show that two servers at Alfa Bank sent more than 2,700 “look-up” messages — a first step for one system’s computers to talk to another — to a Trump-connected server beginning in the spring. But the F.B.I. ultimately concluded that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts.

OMG SPAM!!! Trump gets SPAM. Thats going to be on MSNBC in the morning.

Investigators, the officials said, have become increasingly confident, based on the evidence they have uncovered, that Russia’s direct goal is not to support the election of Mr. Trump, as many Democrats have asserted, but rather to disrupt the integrity of the political system and undermine America’s standing in the world more broadly.

The hacking, they said, reflected an intensification of spy-versus-spy operations that never entirely abated after the Cold War but that have become more aggressive in recent years as relations with Mr. Putin’s Russia have soured.

A senior intelligence official, who like the others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing national security investigation, said the Russians had become adept at exploiting computer vulnerabilities created by the relative openness of and reliance on the internet. Election officials in several states have reported what appeared to be cyberintrusions from Russia, and while many doubt that an Election Day hack could alter the outcome of the election, the F.B.I. agencies across the government are on alert for potential disruptions that could wreak havoc with the voting process itself.

“It isn’t about the election,” a second senior official said, referring to the aims of Russia’s interference. “It’s about a threat to democracy.”

The article doesn’t mention any of the Hillary Clinton/Clinton Foundation ties to Russia such as the Uranium One deal that gave Russia control of 20% of the U.S. Uranium supply and netted the Clinton Foundation a  donation of at least $2.35 million and a $500K speaking engagement for Bubba.

Or the Skolkovo Foundation projects and companies kind of a Russian silicon valley that Hillary helped the Russians with. This project generated warnings from the FBI and within Ms. Clinton’s own state department at the time,  that Skolkovo may have created a legal way for Russia to gain access to America’s classified technology– the kind of access they used to employ espionage to access.

According to leaked documents obtained by Peter Schweitzer of Clinton Cash fame, beginning in 2009  U.S. State Department officials played a substantial role in assisting Russian government entities in accessing U.S. capital and in seeking investments from U.S. high technology companies. As Schweizer reported in “From Russia With Money“, 17 of the 28 companies that were ultimately listed as “key partners” in Skolkovo were also Clinton Foundation donors. I know –what a coincidence.

So the bottom line folks is despite what the Democrats contend Trump isn’t selling out to Putin, but Hillary did and nobody cares.

http://lidblog.com/fbi-no-link-donald-trump-russia/

Will the media mention this NEWS FLASH???? Probably NOT!!!!