A bombshell email has been found on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, but the media, as usual, is not asking the truly gigantic question.
A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War.
The sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the invasion started.
It flies in the face of the Prime Minister’s public claims at the time that he was seeking a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
He told voters: ‘We’re not proposing military action’ – in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals.
The Daily Mail gets all hot and bothered:
Smoking gun emails reveal Blair’s ‘deal in blood’ with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started.
Here is the doc:
But you’ll note at the bottom that Powell writes “should military operations become necessary.”
But really, none of this is a big deal. What’s important is why is this on her server at all? As sundance over at the Conservative Treehouse asks, why was Clinton building a database of classified documents on her private server?
Without a doubt it was about the Clintons and money.
I can’t help but wonder whether extortion was going to be one of the cards in the game.
You’ll note that the document was set to be declassified in 2012. At the bottom the document suggests it was declassified in January of 2014 but there is a box near the top right which indicates it was classified and was to be declassified 4-1-2022.
April Fools Day. Hmmm.
Why is this document on her server at all? This is one more example of the how Clintons think they’re above the law. I do not know which classification markings take precedence and I’ll wait for those who know more to comment. But this is very odd. Hillary Clinton was stocking a database with classified documents.
Why? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Why was a document about a meeting in 2002 on her server?
Simple. Future blackmail against the parties involved, if necessary.
Do the democrats have an enemies list?
Is there blackmail material related to that list?
Just why do republican leaders roll over so much?
And why don’t the democrats?
Why did justice Roberts vote the way that he did, so out of character?
I’m seeing lots of smoke, where’s the fire?
Shades of Dimitri and Pavel Young!
Just another reason to vote them all out and start fresh.
Get rid of them all – the weak and the willing.
(It doesn’t even have to be the democret party with a blackmail list… Just one would be able to do it. What are the odds of finding one unethical, dishonest, vindictive, manipulating Democrat? Oh, wait, she’s running for President!)
Was this one of her ”deleted” emails, or was this one a ”keeper?”
Had she considered this work-related?
Or had she tried to pass it off as a yoga lesson?
In a cracked way she might have wanted historic context so as to direct policy harmoniously, but Obama’s policies have not been in harmony with those from that far back.
So, her even accessing this at all raised serious questions.
Her putting it on an unsecured server raises even more serious questions.
I expect her to do 2 things with regard this…..
1. Cackle like a witch, and
2. Parse like a lawyer.
Amazing how you can link this to Hillary. Idiot.
@Reem:
Yeah, because only dimwitted liberal hacks understand that you can’t link Hillary to Hillary’s own personal server.
@Reem:
“The documents, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, are part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal.”
You are impressively unintelligent
At the first, get-acquainted meeting in 2001 between Tony Blair and Bush 43, Blair said at the first presser he wanted to talk about Saddam and Iraq, changing the status quo there. No big secret here. Blair was concerned that the Iraqi air defense network will get off that lucky shot and down either a US or UK combat patrol over the no-fly zones. Obviously, reporters and editors don’t read their own stories.
So, what was Hillary’s purpose? Extortion, that’s awfully risky and would be awfully stupid by Hillary and Bill to engage in that practice. Money for the foundation? You bet. We know Hillary and Bill are very greedy, and are likely to have engaged in “pay to play” schemes when Bill was president, and she as SecState. The unknown factor is Chelsea. Ed Klein said the real power in the family foundation and CGI is Chelsea because she’s the “under the radar” player. She knows where all the skeletons are buried. Hillary wouldn’t be able to run for president without Chelsea’s approval.
“I can’t help but wonder”
Oh, come on, the Ozark Mafia already used compromising info out of the FBI docs hidden in the royal bedchamber to blackmail several important Republicans, including Henry Hyde, into resigning during the Monica impeachment thing.
Of course, they’d use it.
This is another example of “classified information on Hillary Clinton’s server” that was already public knowledge. Details of the private understanding between Tony Blair and George W. Bush regarding an attack on Iraq were reported in The Guardian on July 26, 2002: Bush and Blair agree terms for Iraq attack
The GOP’s increasingly transparent strategy to take down their most likely 2016 presidential opponent before the election could be about to blow up in their faces. Clinton’s upcoming testimony during Benghazi Investigation #8 is a likely moment for detonation. It will at least be the point when Clinton will light the fuse. I expect a direct, in-their-faces accusation that the GOP has been waging political warfare against her and the Obama administration at the taxpayers’ expense. If so, she’ll only be publicly stating what everyone is already thinking.
I’ve been wondering if smarter republicans might recognize this danger and attempt to forestall Clinton’s testimony, instead of giving her a perfect opportunity to suddenly change the topic and blow their investigation out of the water. What they’re doing for her is setting up a stage and spotlights.
@David:
Yawn….
Witnesses Disprove Benghazi Allegations Against Clinton As Republican Conspiracy Collapses
@retire05: “Yeah, because only dimwitted liberal hacks understand that you can’t link Hillary to Hillary’s own personal server. ”
Another article proving Bush lied about the war and you blame Hillary. Moron.
@Reem:
You can’t read either.
Trey Gowdy rips Elijah Cummings a new one:
https://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/TG%20letter%20to%20EEC%2010.7.15.pdf
@Greg: Why was this document classified (oh… and classified BEFORE it was on her server) if it was public knowledge and, the question of the day, why did Hillary have it on her private, secret, unsecured server?
Hillary had (or should have had) her hands full with maintaining national security; why was she screwing around with this kind of crap?
@Bill, #13:
It might be more interesting to know how The Guardian came to publish details of a private understanding between Tony Blair and George W Bush only 3 months after Colin Powell formally designated a memorandum about that understanding to be Secret.
Perhaps that’s what Hillary Clinton was wondering about. The details of the understanding had become public knowledge years before she would have had access to the memo itself. As successor to Powell and Condoleezza Rice, any concerns she had about how that had happened would be entirely legitimate.
@Greg:
Greg, if a document is classified, it is classified. That means only cleared persons can see it. We all know, for example that the secrets to making an atomic bomb were classified. Just because Russia learned how to build a bomb did not mean that the material was ‘public knowledge’ and therefore it was ok to release it to everyone.
It seems a little silly for you to take the dumbass approach just to coddle the Clinton’s. Classified means classified until it is officially declassified.
@Greg: SO! It was secret and it WAS on her server! Now you’re making a bit of progress, beginning to emerge out of your partisan, propagandized, left wing spin fog.
If she was merely “wondering”, she was doing so with classified information stored illegally on an unsecured server.
@Greg:
Greg
Notice those blocks of empty space? They’re called “redactions.”
Portions of this letter are still clearly classified. How did a classified document get onto Clinton’s private server? This is now exactly like Sandy Berger’s antics.
Today the CIA said that the @scandsl” over the name of a foreign agent was (shockingly!!) not classified material
Of course there will be no retraction or apology given by anyone for declaring it a crime
Dr J ??? Any apology to Cljnton in the future ?
As for his any paper with redactions got onyo hillarys computer ?? It got on to her computer the same way it hit onyo mine and everyone else who has seen it on this site
Do you think it a crime for that paper with redactions to have appeared here?
@John:
Nice canard.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cia-source-revealed-in-new-clinton-email/article/2574390
@John:
It was clearly redacted after it was taken from her server.
@DrJohn: You can not argue with ignorance!
@Randy #22 –
That’s so true.
@Bill, #16:
To my way of thinking, it’s absurd to insist that information that has already become public knowledge can still be considered to be secret from anybody. It’s sort of like closing the barn door and posting guards when everyone can see the horse wandering around the south pasture. Still, the CIA takes such a position, and it has been supported in court.
Opinions about how this relates to Clinton are divided. No matter what a court says, I’ll continue to take the position that it’s ridiculous to assert that the classified status of any particular information still matters, once it has become common knowledge. The entire point of its classification has been lost.
@Greg: YET… classified it was (is) and on her sever it was. Classified (long before) on on her server (illegally).
I don’t know, Greg; making criminal Hillary look innocent is getting harder and harder; you might want to resign while you still get your pension.
So, you would favor releasing Scooter Libby for NOT divulging the name of a CIA employee that not only was not an “agent”, but whose name was also “common knowledge”?
@Bill: Quit Bill before he drags you down to his level of insanity!
“There are no emails marked as classified on my server.”
Not that we believed her, but in this email it is very clearly marked as secret.
And what I missed on my first read through of SD’s article, why is Hillary collecting documents that predate her start at the State Department on her private server.
@mossomo, #27:
As Secretary of State, it’s remotely possible that she might have been interested in what had gone on behind the scenes that had brought us to the current circumstances she had just inherited.
Who knows? Perhaps she was attempting to fill in a few blanks left by the Bush Administration’s loss of several million official emails that had been kept on private RNC servers. Maybe an absence of emails relating to Colin Powell’s time as Secretary also raised a few questions. It’s recently come to light that Powell also used a private server for email, of which no copies remain.
Republicans consider all of that too trivial to wonder about, but I suppose a new Secretary of State might have felt differently.
@Greg: I’m sure that’s what it is, Greg. However, she shouldn’t be concerned; they were all about yoga classes.
@Greg:
Weak Greggie. Just a few weeks ago you were in complete denial that any classified information was on Hillary’s computer. Where are your mea culpas for those lies?
That parts of the documents (ie. redacted versions) were released prior, is immaterial to her having non-redacted versions of Classified Information on her private computer. Nor does this change the fact that classified information was stored on her private computer. That’s a huge no-no that can get you placed in federal prison. It is never OK for Classified information to be transferred to or stored on a government employee’s personal computer. That is Classified Information 101, training that every Government official and employee who may come into contact with Classified Information is briefed on during their orientation.
Everything the Clintons/Hillary do is designed to give them the edge in future negotiations with their adversaries.. Remember the 900+ FBI files Hillary sneaked a look at.