Joe Cooper
2016-01-10 19:59:33 UTC
While most of the attention on Hillary Clinton's emails dealt with a
document that included instructions from Clinton to tamper with the
headings of a possibly classified subject, another, even more explosive
email is big news in Sudan and could potentially lead to criminal
charges.
The email in question is from Sid Blumenthal, close Clinton friend and
ally, who was in Libya trying to drum up business with the Libyan
government for some business associates. To ingratiate himself with
Secretary Clinton and get the State Department to intercede with the
Libyan government on his behalf, he sent her "intelligence" briefs on
what was happening on the ground in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
One of them is explosive. It involves a conspiracy in the Sudanese
government to ally themselves with some rebels in order to get their
hands on some oil fields. The problems for Blumenthal and Clinton:
1. The email contains what appears to be information gleaned from
National Security Agency intercepts.
2. For some reason, the State Department did not mark the email
"classified" or "Secret" as they should have.
3. Even if it wasn't marked "Classified," Clinton should have seen the
incredible sensitivity of the information.
New York Observer security reporter John Schindler is a former NSA
officer and says he knows what agency intercepts look like:
This message includes a detailed intelligence report from Sid Blumenthal,
Hillarys close friend, confidant, and factotum, who regularly supplied
her with information from his private intelligence service. His usual
source was Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA senior official and veteran
spy-gadfly, who conveniently died just before EmailGate became a serious
problem for Hillarys campaign.
However, the uncredited June 8 memo, which Mr. Blumenthal labeled as
Confidential his personal classification system, apparently but
which the State Department has labeled Unclassified, doesnt appear to be
from Drumheller, whose assessments were written just like CIA
intelligence reports. This is not.
Remarkably, the report emailed to Hillary by sbwhoeop, which was Mr.
Blumenthals email handle, explains how Sudans government devised a
clandestine plan, in coordination with two rebel generals, to secure
control of oil reserves in the disputed region of Abyei. This is juicy,
front-page stuff, straight out of an action movie, about a region of
Africa thats of high interest to the American and many other
governments, and the report is astonishingly detailed.
But the most interesting part is that the report describes a conversation
in confidence that happened on the evening of June 7, just one day
before Mr. Blumenthal sent the report to Secretary Clinton. It beggars
the imagination to think that Sids private intelligence operation, which
was just a handful of people, had operators who were well placed in
Sudan, with top-level spy access, able to get this secret information,
place it in a decently written assessment with proper espionage verbiage,
and pass it all back to Washington, DC, inside 24 hours. That would be a
feat even for the CIA, which has stations and officers all over Africa.
In fact, the June 8, 2011 Blumenthal report doesnt read like CIA
material at all, in other words human intelligence or HUMINT, but very
much like signals intelligence or SIGINT. (For the differences see here).
I know what SIGINT reports look like, because I used to write them for
the National Security Agency, Americas biggest source of intelligence.
SIGINT reports, which Ive read thousands of, have a very distinct style
and flavor to them and Blumenthals write-up matches it, right down to
the Source Comments, which smack very much of NSA reporting and its
house rules.
[/Schindler]
The implications here are staggering. If Blumenthal had somehow gotten
his hands on NSA intercepts and sent them to Clinton using unsecured and
non-classified means, he should get his affairs in order and measure
himself for an orange jumpsuit. He is going to jail. The NSA will make
sure it's hard time too.
Clinton is hardly off the hook, even though there was no classification
on the email. A novice would have read about the Sudanese plot and
realized how explosive the information was. A responsible secretary of
state would have immediately classified the document and broken off all
communication with Blumenthal.
At the very least, this makes Hillary Clinton vulnerable to criminal
charges. Negligent handling of classified material is a felony and I
don't think a prosecutor would have much trouble proving negligence.
Another mystery: Why did the State Department release this email in the
first place? Someone fell asleep on the job because this is the sort of
intelligence that brings down governments. We'll have to see what happens
in Sudan over the next few days as the fallout continues.
Schindler concludes:
Its possible this Blumenthal report did not come from NSA,
but perhaps from another, non-American intelligence agency
but whose? If Sid was really able to get top-level
intelligence like this for Hillary, using just his
shoestring operation, and get it into her hands a day later,
with precise information about the high-level conspiracy
that was just discussed over in Sudan, the Intelligence
Community needs to get him on our payroll stat. Hes a pro
at the spy business.
Or perhaps Blumenthal's CIA source, Tyler Drumhell, made up the whole
thing. Drumhell publicly accused the Bush administration of fabricating
WMD intel in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, so he's not the most
credible or balanced of sources. Still, Schindler believes at the very
least that some SIGINT agency - NSA or foreign - has a serious leak.
More than the other email where Clinton ordered an aide to tamper with a
classified document, this could be the dagger that finally fells Hillary
Clinton.
Source: http://bit.ly/1nbEb0p
Hillary Clinton belongs in a federal prison. She'd love the orange
jumpsuit.
Wake up, America
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS."
ISIS: "We've contained Obama."
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"No doubt Hillary would like to call [Paula] Jones a liar, but Bill paid
Jones $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment suit. Can you imagine the
fun Donald Trump, for one, would have with that? Plus, it was Bill
Clinton, not Paula Jones, who was found by the presiding federal judge to
have committed perjury."--John Hinderaker
document that included instructions from Clinton to tamper with the
headings of a possibly classified subject, another, even more explosive
email is big news in Sudan and could potentially lead to criminal
charges.
The email in question is from Sid Blumenthal, close Clinton friend and
ally, who was in Libya trying to drum up business with the Libyan
government for some business associates. To ingratiate himself with
Secretary Clinton and get the State Department to intercede with the
Libyan government on his behalf, he sent her "intelligence" briefs on
what was happening on the ground in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
One of them is explosive. It involves a conspiracy in the Sudanese
government to ally themselves with some rebels in order to get their
hands on some oil fields. The problems for Blumenthal and Clinton:
1. The email contains what appears to be information gleaned from
National Security Agency intercepts.
2. For some reason, the State Department did not mark the email
"classified" or "Secret" as they should have.
3. Even if it wasn't marked "Classified," Clinton should have seen the
incredible sensitivity of the information.
New York Observer security reporter John Schindler is a former NSA
officer and says he knows what agency intercepts look like:
This message includes a detailed intelligence report from Sid Blumenthal,
Hillarys close friend, confidant, and factotum, who regularly supplied
her with information from his private intelligence service. His usual
source was Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA senior official and veteran
spy-gadfly, who conveniently died just before EmailGate became a serious
problem for Hillarys campaign.
However, the uncredited June 8 memo, which Mr. Blumenthal labeled as
Confidential his personal classification system, apparently but
which the State Department has labeled Unclassified, doesnt appear to be
from Drumheller, whose assessments were written just like CIA
intelligence reports. This is not.
Remarkably, the report emailed to Hillary by sbwhoeop, which was Mr.
Blumenthals email handle, explains how Sudans government devised a
clandestine plan, in coordination with two rebel generals, to secure
control of oil reserves in the disputed region of Abyei. This is juicy,
front-page stuff, straight out of an action movie, about a region of
Africa thats of high interest to the American and many other
governments, and the report is astonishingly detailed.
But the most interesting part is that the report describes a conversation
in confidence that happened on the evening of June 7, just one day
before Mr. Blumenthal sent the report to Secretary Clinton. It beggars
the imagination to think that Sids private intelligence operation, which
was just a handful of people, had operators who were well placed in
Sudan, with top-level spy access, able to get this secret information,
place it in a decently written assessment with proper espionage verbiage,
and pass it all back to Washington, DC, inside 24 hours. That would be a
feat even for the CIA, which has stations and officers all over Africa.
In fact, the June 8, 2011 Blumenthal report doesnt read like CIA
material at all, in other words human intelligence or HUMINT, but very
much like signals intelligence or SIGINT. (For the differences see here).
I know what SIGINT reports look like, because I used to write them for
the National Security Agency, Americas biggest source of intelligence.
SIGINT reports, which Ive read thousands of, have a very distinct style
and flavor to them and Blumenthals write-up matches it, right down to
the Source Comments, which smack very much of NSA reporting and its
house rules.
[/Schindler]
The implications here are staggering. If Blumenthal had somehow gotten
his hands on NSA intercepts and sent them to Clinton using unsecured and
non-classified means, he should get his affairs in order and measure
himself for an orange jumpsuit. He is going to jail. The NSA will make
sure it's hard time too.
Clinton is hardly off the hook, even though there was no classification
on the email. A novice would have read about the Sudanese plot and
realized how explosive the information was. A responsible secretary of
state would have immediately classified the document and broken off all
communication with Blumenthal.
At the very least, this makes Hillary Clinton vulnerable to criminal
charges. Negligent handling of classified material is a felony and I
don't think a prosecutor would have much trouble proving negligence.
Another mystery: Why did the State Department release this email in the
first place? Someone fell asleep on the job because this is the sort of
intelligence that brings down governments. We'll have to see what happens
in Sudan over the next few days as the fallout continues.
Schindler concludes:
Its possible this Blumenthal report did not come from NSA,
but perhaps from another, non-American intelligence agency
but whose? If Sid was really able to get top-level
intelligence like this for Hillary, using just his
shoestring operation, and get it into her hands a day later,
with precise information about the high-level conspiracy
that was just discussed over in Sudan, the Intelligence
Community needs to get him on our payroll stat. Hes a pro
at the spy business.
Or perhaps Blumenthal's CIA source, Tyler Drumhell, made up the whole
thing. Drumhell publicly accused the Bush administration of fabricating
WMD intel in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, so he's not the most
credible or balanced of sources. Still, Schindler believes at the very
least that some SIGINT agency - NSA or foreign - has a serious leak.
More than the other email where Clinton ordered an aide to tamper with a
classified document, this could be the dagger that finally fells Hillary
Clinton.
Source: http://bit.ly/1nbEb0p
Hillary Clinton belongs in a federal prison. She'd love the orange
jumpsuit.
Wake up, America
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS."
ISIS: "We've contained Obama."
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"No doubt Hillary would like to call [Paula] Jones a liar, but Bill paid
Jones $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment suit. Can you imagine the
fun Donald Trump, for one, would have with that? Plus, it was Bill
Clinton, not Paula Jones, who was found by the presiding federal judge to
have committed perjury."--John Hinderaker