The Russia Hoax

Gregg Jarrett

• Publisher: Broadside e-books
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780062872753
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Campagne ed elezioni politiche

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton' s deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election. The Russia Hoax   reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama' s Justice Department worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. When this suspected effort failed, those same people appear to have pursued a contrived investigation of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president. The evidence suggests that partisans within the FBI and the Department of Justice, driven by personal animus and a misplaced sense of political righteousness, surreptitiously acted to subvert electoral democracy in our country. The book will examine: How did Hillary Clinton manage to escape prosecution despite compelling evidence she violated the law?, Did Peter Strzok, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, and others obstruct justice by protecting Clinton?, Why was there never a legitimate criminal investigation of Clinton in the Uranium One case?, Are the text messages exchanged between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page evidence of a concerted effort to undermine the electoral process?, Was there ever any real evidence of "collusion" between Trump and the Russians?, Did Trump obstruct justice in the firing of Comey or was he legally exercising his constitutional authority?, Did the FBI and DOJ improperly use a discredited "dossier" about Trump to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump associates?, Should Muller have disqualified himself under the special counsel law based on glaring conflicts of interest?, Was fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn unfairly charged with making a false statement?. With insightful analysis and a fact-filled narrative, The Russia Hoax delves deeply into Democrat wrongdoing.

Chapter 1

Hillary Clinton’s Email Server

Convenience is not a legal principle.

—LORD JUSTICE EDWARD PEARCE, QUEENS BENCH, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES (1961)

This is a story of corruption. It begins, as it must, with Hillary Clinton.

Clinton’s determination to set up a private email server in the basement of her home to use as the exclusive method for electronically communicating all of her official business as secretary of state was a fateful decision. At its core, the idea was fundamentally reckless. It also appears to have been criminal. More than any other event or factor, it led to the inexorable end to her aspiration to be President of the United States.

The Email Setup

Unraveling Clinton’s private server apparatus was complicated by the hidden nature of its design. The domain was not registered in her name, but under a separate identity even though the IP address was connected to the Chappaqua, New York, residence of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Indeed, the server itself was installed in the basement of their house.¹ The State Department never certified the server as secure, as its rules require.² Thus, anyone within the home, including those without security clearance, had physical access to it, as did the two individuals who were instrumental in its installation, operation, and maintenance, Justin Cooper and Bryan Pagliano. Neither was cleared for handling classified information.³

Why would Clinton want to keep all her communications as secretary of state on a private server? The obvious answer is often the correct one. With no emails on a government account, Clinton would be able to avoid complying with various requests filed by the media and the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This explanation is reinforced by the conscious decision she and her staff made not to utilize an electronic program called SMART, which would have preserved her records for the government.⁴

The motivation behind Clinton’s decision to use a secret server invites the question: if someone has nothing to hide, why hide? People who engage in improper, if not illegal, activities often cloak them in darkness. They seek to obscure their illicit behavior. Clinton may have wanted to hide decisions and mistakes that would look bad when she ran for president. She may have wanted to keep from public view any evidence that she and her husband used her position of power in government to enrich themselves. As will be detailed in Chapter 4, their charity, the Clinton Foundation, served as the conduit for hundreds of millions of dollars that flowed from foreign sources at the same time Hillary appeared to have exerted influence on their behalf. At the same time, Bill pocketed tens of millions for speaking engagements overseas, many of them connected to his wife’s work.

The improper use of Clinton’s surreptitious server stands in stark contrast to the promises she made before taking office. While campaigning for president in 2008, Clinton had promised complete transparency and vowed to fulfill all FOIA requests.⁵ In retrospect, her public assurances were nothing more than a carefully crafted deception. Her private server afforded her a clever and clandestine way to evade the public disclosure of her communications and to hide her self-serving deals.

On or about the day Clinton was sworn in to office, January 21, 2009, the State Department activated a classified email account on its secure government server for her benefit. Clinton never used it.⁶ Instead, she chose to utilize her unsecured private server for all her work-related communications, including classified documents.

How this went undetected during her four-year term remains inexplicable, unless those with knowledge were complicit in enabling her scheme or turned a blind eye to Clinton’s conduct. Staffers at the State Department and the White House, including President Obama, regularly communicated with the secretary of state at her private email address.⁷

Documents uncovered by the FBI show that Obama used a pseudonym in communicating with Clinton on her private email account.⁸ Sometimes he did so while his secretary of state was overseas using an unprotected mobile device. When the FBI showed a copy of one such Obama email to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, she exclaimed, “How is that not classified?”⁹ Indeed, it surely was classified. Thereafter, the White House refused to disclose the contents of any of the president’s emails involving his fake name. Obama was not only concealing his communications with an alias, he was mishandling classified information in the same negligent manner as Clinton. This may explain why the FBI and the DOJ were motivated not to charge Clinton. If they did so, Obama’s mishandling of classified communications would be exposed.

It is hard to imagine that the president and others never noticed that Clinton was using a nongovernment, nonsecure private account. Indeed, emails prove that many of them did know.¹⁰ But the secretary of state was surrounded by long-time Clinton cronies. They shielded her. They were not about to challenge the person they were certain would become the next president of the United States.

Clinton’s disdain for regulations and statutory law was also evident in her use of BlackBerrys linked to her home server, despite warnings from State Department security personnel.¹¹ According to an FBI report, she insisted on keeping her mobile device in an area where they were not allowed because hackers can infiltrate them to record classified discussions.¹² While on foreign visits, Clinton incessantly used her unprotected BlackBerry to send or receive dozens of confidential emails that were susceptible to interception by foreign governments.¹³ She ignored security protocols and the law with impunity.

Clinton’s Server Discovered

Before Clinton left office in early 2013, FOIA requests seeking information about her emails resulted in terse statements from the State Department that no such records could be located.¹⁴ No wonder. Clinton had stealthily kept all her emails on her private server and never preserved them on a government account as regulations required. These vacuous responses to FOIA demands should have immediately raised red flags of alarm.

It was not until 2014 when the House Benghazi Committee began investigating the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Libya during Clinton’s tenure that the true nature and extent of her secret server began to slowly unfold. During the summer of 2014, the Committee demanded access to her emails which prompted the State Department to contact Clinton who was now out of office. Negotiations among lawyers ensued and, several months later on December 5, 2014, Clinton reluctantly handed over 30,490 emails from her private account. Simultaneously, she withheld some 31,839 emails, insisting they were private and personal.¹⁵

At least one of Clinton’s lawyers, Heather Samuelson, who helped sort the emails that included classified documents, appeared to have no security clearance in violation of the law.¹⁶ Although Clinton later stated under oath that she had provided all work-related emails, this was not true. According to then-FBI director James B. Comey, thousands of work-related emails were improperly held back by Clinton.¹⁷

Upon examining the large cache of documents provided by Clinton’s attorneys, the Benghazi Committee realized something was amiss: as secretary of state, Clinton had never used her secure government account for any of her communications. Instead, she had conducted all of her business on an unsecured account on a private server located in the basement of her residence. It was, in essence, a hacker’s paradise. Confidential information was exposed to theft. Foreign governments with their sophisticated computer expertise could readily access America’s classified secrets. Clinton’s egregious breach of rules, regulations, and laws jeopardized national security.

New York Times broke the story wide open on March 2, 2015, creating a firestorm of controversy with immense political consequences for Clinton, just as she prepared to launch another bid for president of the United States in the next month.¹⁸ Her actions, decried by many as irresponsible and reckless, called into question both her judgment and competency to hold the highest public office in the land. More important, Clinton’s unmitigated disregard for the law quickly metastasized into allegations of criminal wrongdoing.

Clinton’s Attempts to Cover Up

Initially, Clinton employed a phalanx strategy of “no comment.” It did not quell the gathering storm. On March 10, 2015, she decided to address the matter with reporters by holding a news conference.¹⁹ It was an unqualified disaster. Under questioning, she appeared unsteady in front of cameras, unsure of her answers and seeming to prevaricate at every turn. Her statements stretched credulity.

Clinton insisted, “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.”²⁰ That remark was brazenly untrue. Clinton had sent numerous classified emails on her unauthorized and unsecured server.

Later, when faced with evidence that contradicted her claim, Clinton changed her story significantly by stating, “I am confident that I never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent or received.”²¹ In other words, she claimed the classifications were made retroactively. But this amended statement was also false. In truth, the FBI confirmed that 110 of her emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.²²

As the emerging facts continued to belie Clinton’s statements, she altered her story for a third time by claiming, “I never sent or received any email that wa...