Let's put our heads together on the Clinton e-mail scandal

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REVISED 3.30.16. Please note the correct protocol for listing: Name of Source, date of source. Article URL link, description, extract (optional), related link (optional), (recommendation of contributor)(optional).

* Wikileaks, accessed 30 March 2016. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/ Wikileaks Hillary Clinton Email Archive, searchable by keyword or case number, 50,547 pages of documents (29 March 2016) span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton. Source: State Dept. FOIA, federal court order.

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US State Dept FOIA Reading Room, accessed 29 February 2016, https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?collection=Clinton_Email_February_29_Release U.S. State Dept. FOIA Virtual Reading Room Documents Search, Feb. 29, 2016 release, 3800 documents. Searchable - indexed by topics, dates, case number, To/From. All USDOS FOIA releases are searchable on this site, including the complete set of Clinton Email releases.

Vice News, 30 March 2016. https://news.vice.com/topic/clinton-emails
Roughly 30,000 Clinton emails have been released since May, 2015 under a court order in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in January 2015 by VICE News that sought all of Clinton's emails. Site contains numerous related news releases tracking the results and releases of documents by the USDOS in response to the law suit. Many references and links to specific documents released.
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Vice News, 29 February, 2016. https://news.vice.com/article/the-final-1700-hillary-clinton-emails-were-just-released-and-one-was-not , Vice.com summary of last email batch release and review of classification status as determined by USDOS and intel agencies. Reviews the final 3,800 pages released : one email in this batch was being withheld as Top Secret at the request of an unnamed law enforcement agency. Another email, previously classified Top Secret by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, was downgraded to Secret. The July 2009 email pertains to North Korea's nuclear program. Twenty-two emails were previously classified Top Secret. 261 other emails released Monday were marked Secret and "confidential," bringing the total to 2,115 emails that contain classified information.
One email, linked at site, released in this batch was sent to Clinton on January 25, 2013 by her longtime confidante Sidney Blumenthal. It concerned "internal Libya security deliberations" and was based on "sources with direct access to the Libyan National Government, as well as the highest levels of European Governments, and Western Intelligence and security services."
Clinton's response: "Pls print," she told her aide Monica Hanley.

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Vice News, 29 February 2016. https://news.vice.com/article/why-the-controversy-over-hillary-clinton-emails-is-not-over
There Are 1,800 Reasons Why the Controversy Over Hillary Clinton's Emails Is Far From Over. More than 1,800 emails were withheld or heavily redacted under exemptions to the FOIA law, including 22 that were not released because they were deemed Top Secret and would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed. About 65 others were classified Secret and were heavily redacted. VICE News is currently fighting in federal court for a summary of the information contained in those emails.
Moreover, VICE News and dozens of other news organizations and good government groups are still in the process of obtaining emails from Clinton's top aides in response to separate FOIA lawsuits filed against the State Department. There is little doubt the issue will continue to play out through November's election. Posted February 29, 2016 | 3:15 pm

* Forbes.com, 29 September 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2015/09/29/the-mystery-of-hillarys-missing-millions/#71d6f37d5505 Since Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001, they have earned more than $230 million. But in federal filings the Clintons claim they are worth somewhere between $11 million and $53 million. After layering years of disclosures on top of annual tax returns, Forbes estimates their combined net worth at $45 million. Where did all of the money go? No one seems to know, and the Clintons aren’t offering any answers.

* Forbes.com, 29 August 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites#/sites/paulcoyer/2015/08/29/hillarys-emails-how-the-russians-the-chinese-and-the-white-house-have-benefited/ Both current and former intelligence officials have spoken privately, and with alarm, about how casually Hillary and her circle appear to have handled highly sensitive information, and have suggested that this may have caused much damage to American interests and significantly assisted American opponents. Some have expressed the belief that it is highly unlikely that Hillary’s use of private email servers (and her private email account had no encryption at all for the first few months of her tenure as Secretary of State) were not penetrated by foreign intelligence, particularly the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the North Koreans, all of whom would see such a target as high priority, and that such emails did not provide such hostile foreign powers a critically useful insight into foreign and national security policy decision-making at the highest levels of the Obama Administration, to say nothing of the actual classified information contained in those communications, which would have revealed sources and methods of intelligence gathering.


* Harpers, 17 November 2015. https://harpers.org/blog/2015/11/shaky-foundations/ Shaky Foundations. The Clintons’ so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends. Canadian charity called the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership—which is run by one of Bill Clinton’s close friends, Frank Giustra—has been moving significant sums of money into the Clinton Foundation’s flagship in New York. There’s no way for the public to know precisely how much total money the CGEP has taken in over the years—or how much it has forwarded on to the Clinton Foundation—because, unlike in the United States, under Canadian non-profit law charities don’t need to report donors to tax authorities. Earlier this year, after being severely criticized by the Canadian press, the CGEP released the names of twenty-four of its donors, but more than 1,000 are still unknown. (CGEP wrote in an email that “going forward [it] will publicly disclose all future donors.”)
The Clinton Foundation’s list of donors on its website puts the CGEP in the top category of $25 million-plus, however a financial-industry source who has seen the relevant records estimated that the figure is at least $33 million. According to Ortel that number is certainly understated. “There are no effective controls over the Clinton Foundation or the Giustra entity,” he told me. “No independent party has had access to the bank account records, including wire transfer records. There are no independent directors ensuring compliance with the law. Only a fool would have any confidence in their numbers; it’s like Al Capone forming a foundation.”
One money-laundering expert and former intelligence officer based in the Middle East who had access to the foundation’s confidential banking information told me that members of royal families in Middle Eastern countries, including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have donated money to the CGEP that has then been sluiced through to the Clinton Foundation. . . There are other signs that the Clintons and their foundation may have violated federal, state, and international law. Under Treasury Department money-laundering rules, the Clinton Foundation is required to disclose every financial account it holds abroad. It has failed to disclose an account linked to the CGEP on its past eight tax returns.
I have been told by a source with firsthand knowledge that the Treasury Department, the IRS, the FBI, and Canadian tax authorities were informed of this and other transgressions many months ago but thus far have done nothing. Posted Nov. 17, 2015

* Truepublica, 23 March 2016. http://truepublica.org.uk/global/google-able-effect-regime-change-appears/ “Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week. Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s team and one of the company’s executives (Jared Cohen) detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region.
It appears that Jared Cohen emailed in July 2012 “Please keep close hold, my team is planning to launch a tool … that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from.” Cohen continues: “Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition.” Cohen then admitted that the plan was for Google to covertly give the ‘tool’ to Middle Eastern media. Cohen, deeply involved in the geopolitical outcomes of the region was partnering up with the media friendly to US foreign policy with a view to broadcasting the defections back into Syria to encourage more of the same.
“Please keep this very close hold and let me know if there is anything [else] you think we need to account for or think about before we launch. We believe this can have an important impact,” Cohen concluded. The Cohen emails were directed to Clinton’s senior advisors and deputy secretary of state and then forwarded to Clinton herself with one advisor describing the technology tool as “a pretty cool idea.”

* Kaggle, accessed 29 March 2016. https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/hillary-clinton-emails Independently run search engine of Clinton e-mails drawing upon State Department release. Has a discussion page of persons who have used it. However, the last update of the software was seven months ago (about September 2015) so this data set may be incomplete. Requires uploading a large body of documents and coding. (Use at your own risk. Recommend against inclusion – leveymg)

* NY Post, 20 March, 2016. http://nypost.com/2016/03/20/will-hillary-get-charged-or-what/ “FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain that presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private email server, career agents say.” (Anonymous sourcing, article is largely opinion. NY Post is not held to be highly credible. Recommend against inclusion – leveymg)