Hillary Clinton's relentless series of credibility-draining scandals started about one year ago when it was revealed that the former SecState had used a personal, unencrypted email account with the [email protected] moniker. Her contention ever since then has been that she did nothing wrong and that nobody had intercepted her emails, many of which were confidential, while Republicans have argued that not only was her use of said email a violation of government policy, but that she may have put the lives and careers of unknown staffers at risk, and had numerous other deleterious secondary effects.
While it is unlikely that this scandal will be resolved soon, if ever, thanks to the latest batch of emails released by the State Department, we now know that among the many third party organization who know about Hillary's "secret" email address was none other than career website LinkedIn as long as February 1, 2012, as the following exchange confirms.
As Manal Mehta points out, if LinkedIn knew about Hilary's personal email and server as early as 2012, then it is virtually assured that so did the Russians and the Chinese.
Related to this, earlier today Breitbart revealed that it has obtained confirmation on State Department letterhead that Hillary Clinton did not sign a mandatory OF-109 “Separation Statement” when she left the State Department.
As Breitbart explains, that statement would have required her to affirm that she had returned all classified materials in her possession. Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills also avoided signing a separation statement.
The OF-109 document would have required Clinton to affirm the following:
I have surrendered to responsible officials all classified or administratively controlled documents and material with which I was charged or which I had in my possession. I am not retaining in my possession, custody, or control, documents or material containing classified or administratively controlled information furnished to me during the course of such employment or developed as a consequence thereof…
Clinton never signed off on the above even though the State Department Foreign Affairs Manual requires all employees to do so. The office of the Speaker of the House and others have been desperately trying to figure out if Clinton signed an OF-109. Now we know.
Some more from Breitbart:
Additionally, Clinton never certified that she went through a mandatory security debriefing to learn how to handle classified information. State Department officials, meanwhile, admitted that they “mistakenly” mailed out sensitive information involving the Clinton case.
Citizen researcher Larry Kawa has provided to Breitbart News the most clear-cut evidence to date that Clinton avoided going through mandatory channels to return classified government information.
Clinton failed to sign a separation agreement when she left the State Department, around the time she was required to give back all of her classified materials. Clinton signed a “Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement” on January 22, 2009. This document is known as an SF-312. It is standard for government employees to sign an SF-312 when they begin working in a role that gives them access to classified information. But she was also required to sign an OF-109, or “Separation Statement,” when she left the job.
Breitbart concludes that according to a letter from State Department official Clarence N. Finney Jr. from the Office of Executive Secretariat Staff, "departing secretaries of state do not complete an OF-109 due to their continued need for a security clearance after their resignation."
Considering all of the above, it is almost not surprising that even the largely underinformed American people no longer has any trust left in Hillary.
Hillary trying to appeal to the common American pic.twitter.com/jHltPvXQ3K
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