2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton's email scandal
OIG identified two individuals who provided technical support to Secretary Clinton . The first, who was at one time an advisor to former President Clinton but was never a Department employee, registered the clintonemail.com domain name on January 13, 2009. The second, a Schedule C political appointee who worked in IRM as a Senior Advisor from May 2009 through February 2013...
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2842460/ESP-16-03-Final.pdf(US Department of State, 5/25/2016)]
http://www.dickmorris.com/bill-clintons-personal-aide-no-security-clearance-operated-hillarys-email-server/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/27/monica-crowley-the-linchpin-of-the-fbis-hillary-cl/
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=222852653&privcapId=40152409
This could be the most important thing to come out of the IG report, the revelation that Justin Cooper was so involved in managing Clinton's private email server.
And don't worry about the Dick Morris connection in one of those links. Yes, he's a right wing weirdo, but all he's doing is putting together the info from the IG report. And yes, it's definitely Cooper mentioned in the report. The report almost never names names, but it leaves enough info for people to figure out who is being referred to. In this case, the person being talked about is the one who registered Clinton's server, and previous news reports identified that as Cooper, and other details mentioned could only apply to Cooper.
Why is this so important? As Morris points out, it's highly likely that Cooper had no security clearance, since he never worked for the US government. He was basically Bill Clinton's personal assistant, which meant the Clintons trusted him, but he had no legal authority to look at classified information. And yet he helped manage Clinton's private server, which contained above top secret information!
Here's my theory on why he was involved. Bryan Pagliano was the main person to run the server, but he had a full time job working for the State Department in Washington, DC. (And the IG report reveals that he was managing the server during his business hours in that job, another big no-no.) Most of the time, Pagliano could deal with server problems remotely. But from time to time, one had to deal with the problem by physically interacting with the server. That's where Cooper comes in. My theory is that Cooper was usually where Bill Clinton was, which meant the Chappaqua house where the server was located or in nearby New York City (less than 100 miles away). So the IG report notes that when the server had to be physically shut down and then restarted due to a hacker attack, it was Cooper who did it, not Pagliano.
And that would have been fine if Cooper had the proper security clearance to have access to the info on that server, but there's no evidence so far that he did. This could put Hillary Clinton in great legal jeopardy, because it meant she willingly exposed the entire contents of her server to someone she knew shouldn't be seeing that information.
It's been reported by The Washington Times that the Clintons have been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars of Cooper's legal bills. That didn't make sense to me. Why would he have such high legal bills in the first place when he hasn't even been linked to any legal case? But now that makes total sense. Although the mainstream media has totally missed it, it's likely that Cooper (along with Pagliano) is a key part of the case the FBI is building against Clinton.
It would be great if people here could dig up more info on Cooper. For instance, when did his ties to The Clinton Foundation and Teneo begin? It seems he was deeply involved in some of the Clintons' corrupt quid pro quo arrangements, which makes his access to all that classified information that much more disturbing.
Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)We have missed you.
virgdem
(2,130 posts)We missed you.
Thanks for the info
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Not likely to post again for months if ever. I hope to see you again then.
virgdem
(2,130 posts)Hope to see you over at jpr in the future.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)virgdem
(2,130 posts)But will transition to jpr (I joined in March) when the "purge" happens.
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Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)It was also noted in the link that the hack attempts were while she was overseas. Did I mention that her BlackBerry connects over public cell towers?
Great post!
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)But not actually assigned to any state business.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)he also was paid by the Foundation
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I've been reading this closely and that's the first I've heard of his name. I was wondering who the hell was in NY physically interacting with this thing though.
Man that's a lot to pay in legal bills for an assistant.
unc70
(6,130 posts)Remember how easy it is to do cell tower spoofing -- masquerading as a valid cell tower -- and intercepting communications. The US military and law enforcement do this routinely; so do other countries. Of course it is even easier if an unfriendly happens to itself control the local communications infrastructure.
Oftentimes this "spoofing" is totally legit, for example extending cellular service inside a large building that blocks signals from outside cell towers.
All of these are great for man-in-the-middle attacks on security.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)the pay to play between the state department and the Clinton Foundation?
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=222852653&privcapId=40152409
when you hear Hillary say "personal" with regard to email, she means "Foundation."
azmom
(5,208 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)A public service.
It's a shame that the original author of this OP, paulthompson, keeps getting his work hidden. Here is the latest hide: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512072459
I wish I knew what the grounds for the repeated alerts are.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Not only a conspiracy theorist, but the dude is a 9/11 truther.
I know that you don't care about that, but you did ask.
arikara
(5,562 posts)comes into it here. Considering how everything has to be based on establishment rules and viewpoints.
Don't question anything, just take what you are given... from approved sources only.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Discuss and debate - according to some, the list of approved sources you can cite shrinks by the minute. Not to mention Paul brought some damn fine points and has done some extensive research. We should all be grateful to have someone willing to share their hard work with us.
If you don't agree with his work, well that is one thing but to try and shun it outright is childish and petty.
senz
(11,945 posts)He is always thorough and well-organized, backs up his points with links or logical reasoning, is always polite, never gets personal with anyone. It's outrageous. I get the impression they are in such a lather over Hill's legal problems that they cannot tolerate anyone looking too closely and carefully at the Clintons.
Meanwhile, people get away with outright lies and verbal abuse.
It's incredibly unjust.
It's totally unjust and makes me sad.
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)So people are automatically flagged based on two quick hides, right? And most of them come back within a few days (although bmus hasn't come back.)
The thing is, paulthompson never fights with anyone, never insults anyone, never uses profanity or anything. He's a model poster. All he does is research.
What kind of people are afraid of research? People with something to hide?
I sure hope the government investigators aren't encountering this much censorship.
Paul, if you're reading this: thank you for all your painstaking work and I hope you'll be back soon.
grasswire, do you know if lobbying on a DUer's behalf makes a difference?
dana_b
(11,546 posts)it won't stop the truth from coming out in other areas apart from DU. They can't hide/PPR MSNBC, CBS, ABC, WaPo, NYT, twitter, FB, etc.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Sorry for the error.
I heard that BMUS has been released from limbo, but no one has seen her here.
senz
(11,945 posts)As for bmus, she, like some others, was put back on "Active" but has literally disappeared. I've seen this happen to others and it's always disturbing, but for me it's especially so with bmus because she was one of the main people to make me feel welcome here. I even asked about it here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125611351 but no one really knows.
One of the missing people eventually came back, but she had changed. Someone on the other side also came back, but very subdued. I have hunches about what's going on.
Hope to see paul back soon though, unchanged.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)I believe a lot of people think that is big part on this puzzle.
Sam
Hydra
(14,459 posts)And this is great info. Whether Clinton is ever charged is still an open question, but what she did had nothing to do with the requirements of her position and the law.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)I think I have to KICK and STRETCH.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Politics
Report: Clintons Are Paying Legal Bills For Aide Who Registered Private Email Address
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/29/report-clintons-are-paying-legal-bills-for-aide-who-registered-private-email-address/#ixzz49vIcO4hD
nenagh
(1,925 posts)bookmarking...so enjoy seeing you back here...