Why did Hillary refuse to use a government secured server?

Why did Hillary refuse to use a server government server?

  • She accepted foreign donations to the Clinton Charity Fund and failed to disclose them as agreed

  • Sidney Blumenthal was used by the State Department after the president denied him the job.

  • It was a matter of convenience although she had a blackberry and a phone already.


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Not using a government server has gotten Hillary into heaps of problems. But maybe not as many if she had used the server.

It is known she accepted foreign donors to the Clinton fund and failed to disclose them as previously arranged with the president.

Obama had nixed Hillary's choice of Sidney Blumenthal to be an employee of the State Department. But she had him placed in the middle east and received frequent emails from him anyway.
 
Clinton Foundation paid Blumenthal $10K per month while he advised on Libya

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.

Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintonsā€™ global philanthropy


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-sidney-blumenthal-salary-libya-118359#ixzz3yniYgsBk



NYT: Banned from State Depā€™t, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway ā€” while pursuing business there;Update: Another e-mail lie


NYT: Banned from State Depā€™t, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway ā€” while pursuing business there; Update: Another e-mail lie
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Remember: Blumenthal didnā€™t work for the State Department. In fact, he was persona non grata in the White House. Clinton wanted to hire him, but President Obama refused to allow him to serve under his administration. That didnā€™t stop her from communicating with him about how things were going in war-torn Libya. Coincidentally, (or not-so-coincidentally) Blumenthal was working as an adviser to a shady business venture that sought to work with Libyan rebels. But more on that later.

Blumenthal didnā€™t work for the State Department. In fact, he was persona non grata in the White House.

He also sent her numerous private intelligence reports on the situation in Libya. She would then forward these reports to the White House ā€” after deleting his name from the emails, of course.
ā€œHe was a friend who sent me information that he thought might be in some way helpful,ā€ Clinton said on Thursday about the document swapping she did with Blumenthal. But the email correspondence between the two ā€” and financial records indicate ā€” that he was more than just a friend.

Letā€™s review the four times when their relationship got weird:

1. Blumenthal Asked For Too Many Favors

Blumenthal had invested in Osprey Global Solutions, a military contractor that wanted to do business with the Libyan rebels. While this was going down, he pushed Clinton, who was serving as Secretary of State at the time, to support business relations between western military contractors and Libyan rebels.

This kind of prompting, combined with his financial interests, seems to be on the illegal side of things,according to National Review. A cynic might even characterize Blumenthalā€™s efforts as blatant war-profiteering.


2. He Was Getting Paid To Be Their Friend

The Clinton Foundation hired Blumenthal in 2009, despite grumblings from other employees that he only got the job because he was a friend of the Clintons. He was getting paid $10,000 a month while handling the business venture in Libya and urging Clinton to help him out with it in her role as Americaā€™s most powerful diplomat.

3. He Advised Her, A Lot

When the use of torture overseas became a hot topic in the media during Clintonā€™s first year as secretary, Blumenthal was quick to advise her to keep quiet.

He wrote:


ā€œJane Mayerā€™s piece details the many moving and uncontrolled parts of the torture debate, which has become chronic and will flare up again and again. The ā€˜distractionā€™ will not go away. I would avoid ever being drawn into commenting on any aspect.ā€

This kind of advice and media finagling was evidently a regular thing he chatted about with Clinton. He sent her numerous emails claiming credit for manipulating the media

into covering news a certain way that was favorable to Clinton. This sort of odd advice mixed with humblebrags is par for the course between these two, at least according to her emails.
And letā€™s not forget those late-night phone chats.

In the initial batch of Clintonā€™s emails that were made public, there was one that alludes to the kind of friendship they had:

From: HRC
To: Sidney Blumenthal
Date: Oct. 8, 2009; 10:35 p.m.
Subject: Are you still awake?
Body: Iā€™ll call if you are
Translation: ā€œAre you still awake, Friend? Can we talk?? Please?!ā€

4. Clinton Paid More Attention To Sidā€™s Emails Than the Safety of Americans

Clinton apparently cared more about Dear Old Sidā€™s emails than she did the safety of her diplomats. As Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) pointed out during the third round of Thursdayā€™s committee hearing, she had asked Stevens to read and react to some of Blumenthalā€™s emails the same day she denied his request for more security at the Libyan embassy. Oh, and he asked for more security because the embassy suffered a bomb attack the day before.


So not only does it appear that Clinton dismissed the warning signs of a dangerous threat to American lives, but she also prioritized her friendship with Blumenthal over the safety concerns of Ambassador Stevens, who was serving under her.

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I think she did it so that the transfer of the documents to foreign countries would not be caught by the government systems.
She is a traitor and was most likely handing off information in exchange for contributions, or even to allow for the attack on U.S forces.
 
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department
In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.


The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clintonā€™s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clintonā€™s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bushā€™s second term.

The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obamaā€™s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.
In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clintonā€™s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation publishes only a rough range of individual contributorsā€™ donations, making a more precise accounting impossible.

Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department
 

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