[This article was submitted by Mr Norm Sauer of Nevada City, retired attorney, Nevada City resident, and member of the Union Editorial Board. The Union has declined to publish it. The piece appears here, as received, in line with RR's policy on publishing its readers, and also to augment my thin coverage of HRC's astounding 'interview' - definitely not an interrogation as part of a criminal investigation - with the self-evidently corrupt FBI (more here).
27sep16 update. Today Mr Sauer's article appeared in The Union here. gjr]
Norm Sauer
On Friday before the long Labor day weekend the FBI dumped its documents about Hillary’s illegal server. The timing of the dump was probably with the hope that people were away from their homes and by their return the story would have passed from the news cycle.
The FBI’s data dump demonstrates Hillary is either dumb, dishonest or seriously mentally impaired.
FBI notes show by using her server and the open internet, Hillary compromised classified materials representing the full range of American espionage: human intelligence of HUMINT from the CIA, signals intelligence or SIGINT from NSA, and imagery intelligence or IMINT from NGA (National Geospatial Intelligence Agency).
Of 81 classified email chains, the FBI assessed 37 included Secret information while eight included Top Secret information. Also, seven chains included Special Access Program (SAP) information which is highly protected and shared only on a restricted, need-to-know basis. Worse, three chains contained Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) which always required special protection and handling.
Further, in December of 2012, Hillary suffered a concussion and then around the new year had a blood clot in her head. Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received.
We otherwise know that as late as this year she was seen losing her balance, having coughing fits, having uncontrolled head jerks, stumbling on stairs, and wearing thick black framed glasses with Fresnel prisms to counter double vision.
During the FBI interview Hillary denied being able to recall key details about her server at least 26 times. She asserted “no recollection” 40 times. For example, she couldn’t remember any briefing by the State Department on how to handle classified material, nor how to select a target for a drone strike, nor who had access to her Blackberry account, nor the process for deleting her emails, nor every briefing she received after suffering concussion.
As Secretary, Hillary lost at least 11 smartphones that included classified information on them, and it’s unknown whether they were destroyed or in the hands of someone else whether authorized or not. Incredibly, a laptop and thumb drive with downloaded information from her server with Platte River Networks were lost in the mail.
Also discovered from the FBI’s released documents is that Hillary did not release all her work-related emails as she had earlier claimed. The FBI found she actually withheld around 17,500 of them.
Furthermore, Hillary’s team wiped her server using Bleach Bit and other drastic methods after the New York Times disclosed its existence in her home. Meanwhile Hillary was falsely calling for the release of all her emails to the public!
Most stupefying, Hillary claimed she thought the letter “C” on sensitive emails that indicated a document is “classified,” was a symbol that indicated alphabetized paragraphs!
The information released Friday by the FBI raises serious questions about Hillary. The first is that she is mentally impaired and her campaign is lying about her being healthy. Second, if she is healthy, then she lied to the FBI about not recalling details due to her concussion. Third, she is an idiot about technology, national security matters and handling classified information. Fourth, her idiocy is just an act, in which case she is lying just to get into the White House.
One can accept any scenario above that suits their beliefs deduced from the facts. Unless in total denial, whichever of the four scenarios one chooses to believe Hillary is too dangerous to the country to be allowed anywhere near the White House.
Any normal person who put compartmented SIGINT on the open internet would be in federal custody in a New York minute! We now know Hillary sent it, received it, and kept it. It matters not that she kept her private server for convenience or to evade transparency regarding dealings enriching the Clinton Foundation. Her behavior contains the elements of a federal crime under 18 USC 1793, yet she is escaping prosecution entirely.
The current administration has hereby demonstrated its corruption, in which Hillary is complicit, by thumbing its nose at the people and saying, “What difference does it make?”
What is The Union's problem? Do they think their readers cannot handle the truth? The could not deal with the climate change, aka anthropogenic global warming facts, preferring Amy Goodman's views on AGW.
Standing in the middle of the road screaming babble will get you killed and trying the be newspaper for everyone by avoiding the truth could soon result in The Union's demise. They have not been a trusted news source in our house for a long time. I take the online version so I can comment on letters to the editor, offering the reader some facts to consider when reading the lefty tripe that appears on a regular basis.
I am thinking that we should quote some of Norm's facts when responding to letters supporting Hillary Clinton, noting in the comment that the Union refused to publish the information. Just a passing thought to share.
Posted by: Russ | 24 September 2016 at 01:42 PM
Norm wrote:
"Most stupefying, Hillary claimed she thought the letter “C” on sensitive emails that indicated a document is “classified,” was a symbol that indicated alphabetized paragraphs!"
Hmmm. Is it just me, or did anybody else notice where were no A, B, D, or E in the margins for the order of paragraphs? Hillary is not stupid. She is mentally diminished and morally bankrupt. Or, she is so smart that she thinks we are all that dumb. She has all the qualifications to be a Progressive politican, but President? Much to ponder.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 September 2016 at 03:28 PM
Bill. She has brain damage. Only her faithful minions buy the phenomena excuse.
I can'r seem to find it now, but there is a photo of Clinton with one eye not looking where the other is pointed. Then of course, her convictions before getting tossed into the van.
That two convulsion episodes caught on tape. BTW. Has anyone seen Trump with a Dr. by his side wherever he goes?
Posted by: Walt | 24 September 2016 at 05:09 PM
Did anyone catch the Clinton campaign arguing that foreign non-citizens have a 'right' to emigrate to the US!
Who says Hillary has no enthusiastic followers;
https://wasingtonexaminer.com/article/2602775
The dead rising to vote democrat. :-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 24 September 2016 at 05:17 PM
http://www.wasingtonexaminer.com/article/2602775
Posted by: Don Bessee | 24 September 2016 at 05:19 PM
Walt, we both are right so far. I said Hillary is not stupid. No one is that dumb to do what she did. She has brain damage! Yes, we both may be right. If you read the whole link (similar ones have been posted here), you will see why you maybe right about brain damage. Whatever it is, antibiotics won't help.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/09/dr_lisa_bardacks_faustian_bargain.html
Google reviewers are just like Yelp reviewers. :). Love the ending.
"........by Google reviewers. Purportedly coming from Chelsea is a one-star rating and the comment, “My mother died of Parkinson’s after she was diagnosed with pneumonia.”
Lisa Bardack will be fortunate if satiric reviews are the worst consequences for the disinformation campaign she has helped wage in Hillary’s behalf
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 September 2016 at 06:19 PM
My little ditty response to the Jim Firth crapola in today's union.
"As all can see, democrat Jim Firth, the leader of his party in Nevada County cannot stay away from personal attacks on Donald Trump. Orange?? How petty. And that is what a democrat does. Slimes the opposition. Hillary will take Firth's lead and do the same in debates. But the people of America are waking up. The see the failures of our country as democrat party failures. Trump may be brash and not PC, but that is why he is in a dead heat with Clinton. She has outspent him by millions but can’t make a dent in the polls. He has been a success in the private sector. Hired thousands of people. All colors, all races. And he signs the front of the check. Hillary always signs the back of the check. And Trump surrounds himself with loyal, honest and thoughtful people. Hillary has cooks and people taking the "fifth" regarding her failures with emails and her Foundation. So Firth, once the Chief for Leland Yee, the gun running State Senator, has no room for pointing fingers and calling names. He worked for a crook and now supports one for President."
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 24 September 2016 at 06:26 PM
Todd, you omitted two words. It should of been "anti-gun gun running State Senator" instead of just plain ole "gun running State Senator". He was coming after our guns! Now we know why. He had them pre-sold.
Jim Firth is doing exactly what any person in his position should be doing. He is heavily involved in and with the Democrat Party. It's his passion, his life. Orange? That did not even get my attention. Did he do the Dumpf Trumpf thang yet? Orange is soooo months ago. I feel that Jim can to better than that.
It's his job to do exactly what Hillary is doing if she wants to win, I.e., trash Trump. Trash talk all day long. Lord only knows she has nothing of her own to stand on. Damaged goods. Dent can with botchalism inside. Trump is the best and only thing going for My Gal.
I relish doing the same thing Jim is going. I love it. This is politics. I just wish Jim would take off the kid gloves and really let it fly. That would be fun.
Hillary Clinton is unfit at any speed. Even Ralph Nader is pissed she ain't in the slammer, the Pen, the clink, the Big House, Devil's Island, The Black Hole of Calcutta.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 September 2016 at 07:45 PM
Hillary Clinton corrupts everyone who serves her, including her Doctor.
Some more analysis of Hillary Clinton's medical conditions at the American Thinker. Jay Michaels takes a detailed look at the letters written by Lisa Bardack, Hillary's doctor in 2015 and 2016 and finds some discontinuity. Also discussed are the problems left out of the Doctors 2016 letter, coughing fits, special glasses to avoid seizures, the use of outdated treatment when better options are available, and the claimed use of drugs inappropriate for the conditions cited. One example of many:
7. Bardack’s 2015 letter mentioned the Fresnel prism glasses Hillary wore to eliminate double vision. The 2016 letter makes no mention of the Zeiss Z1 blue lenses she was wearing on September 11th. These are used to help prevent seizures, particularly in photosensitive epilepsy, and improve motor control. They are not normally prescribed for patients with pneumonia or seasonal allergies.
We saw the loss of motor control during the 9/11 incident at the van. The author concludes:
If she doesn’t have Parkinson’s, Hillary clearly has some major neurological disorder.
Please read the whole article, there is a medical condition that Clinton and her medical team are hiding from voters. What do you think it is?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/09/dr_lisa_bardacks_faustian_bargain.html
Posted by: Russ | 25 September 2016 at 06:11 AM
The Union's problem is they want to sell newspapers in a divided community, and the above piece is inflammatory. It's also a valid opinion piece largely supported by the facts at hand.
No matter who wins in November, employment for shrinks and counselors skilled in treating post traumatic stress syndrome will go through the roof.
Especially if Trump wins.
Regarding AGW, 97% of all people have no clue whatsoever about the science involved, and just listen to the authorities they choose to believe; this is true on both sides of the screaming match. Time will tell and I've been quite pleased to find the issues I noticed as pointing mostly toward natural variability in 2007 have only gathered more validity as time goes on. Aerosols and galactic cosmic rays, modulated by the sun's electromagnetic field, really are the missing link. That The Union leans towards climate alarmism is just going with the flow, especially for Democrats in California who have, as a party, all chosen to drink the same koolaid.
Posted by: Gregory | 25 September 2016 at 12:09 PM
I've no idea why the last note didn't go through only once, but the other thing about electioneering in Nevada County this cycle... there's not a chance in Hell that anyone but the Democrat will get every Elector, and, regarding the Senate seat, give the people a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, they'll choose the Democrat every time.
Throwing red meat to the crowds in Nevada County to get them even more riled up about Hillary does nothing to sell advertisements. Maine gives two Electors to the statewide winner of the popular vote, and one Elector for the winner in each of the two Congressional districts. Imagine the attention California would get if there were only two electors for the winner take all portion, and 53 that had to be won throughout the state.
Posted by: Gregory | 25 September 2016 at 02:14 PM
Yes, Gregory, the LIBS sure found a way to rig the system, and got the people to vote to make it happen. Here in "F"ed up state of Ca, there is no way the Repubs can be blamed for anything. they have no say. I wonder how high prices must go for the people to say enough is enough. The same goes with the regulation factory. The day will come nothing can be sold, or made that isn't Ca. compliant, or will meet the compliance mandates.
Ol' Moonbat just extended the law that mandates "greenhouse" gases to go back below 1990 levels... Good bloody luck.
Posted by: Walt | 25 September 2016 at 05:25 PM
Whether this pic and caption is accurate or not, I haven't a clue. I am the last person to call the wack job Gaddafi a good guy. But, he did finally start to behave himself, dumped his nuclear weapons ambitions, and played ball with us for the last decade or so. Plus, he accepted responsibility in 2003 for the Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing and paid reparations to the families.
Tell me again why Hillary pushed and pushed for us to go into Libya. To prove no boots on the ground works? For oil? For the Muslim Brotherhood? For USA's national interests? For fighting the war on terrorism? To make the world a better place? Because his speeches were too long?
Hillary Rodman Clinton is unfit to lead.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 26 September 2016 at 06:12 AM