Newly released FBI documents shows Petraeus disclosures less damaging than Clinton emails

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112. The Presidential power of pardon is part of his Article II powers. He can pardon anyone, some argue

including himself, at any time for all offenses against the United States.

As for the Secretary's ability to communicate, she The SOS had a State Dept smart phone on the Department system offered to her at the time she became Secretary on January 22, 2009 (the same day she signed her Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement), but refused demanding the NSA to issue half a dozen clones of Obama's phone.

Her attorney, Cynthia Mills met with NSA during the last week in January, but was rebuffed, with a warning from a top NSA security manager that Clinton's Blackberry was unsecure, and that she should stop using it. Mills and Clinton discussed her private email server. Clinton continued using her own Blackberry that had email through an AT&T account. On or about the end of January, the Blackberry was hooked up to the Clintonemail.com server in her New York house.

That server, which had originally been set up by the Secret Service immediately after Bill Clinton left the White House was soon swapped out after it was determined that it lacked sufficient capacity to run the Clintonemail network. A new server was installed and set up by a long-time aide to Bill who had no security certification or knowledge. For the first four months, it was misconfigured so that it lacked an encryption certificate and was completely exposed to even the most primative hackers. There were several hacking attempts detected during this early period, and the system had to be repeatedly shut down for temporary periods.