The timing couldn’t be worse for Hillary, as the hackers appear to have Russian roots.
They hoped, it seems, that the Secretary of State, who has said publicly that she hasn’t driven a car since 1996, would click on a virus-infused attachment that promised to allow her to print the ticket and snail mail in her payment. Under the subject line, “Uniform traffic ticket,” they used a speeding ticket scam a notice of a ticket from the New York State-Department of Motor Vehicles. If the consequences weren’t so potentially dangerous, the hackers’ method would be funny. This email dump also reveals-and this could be a serious problem for Hillary-that, on August 3, 2011, hackers tried, five times at least over four hours, to breach her private server. Not good for Hillary as the email mess continues to sink her poll numbers and gnaw at her trustworthy ratings. A few have been marked “SECRET” and two contained information, redacted in this release, on the Iranian nuclear program. That brings the total number of emails now labeled classified to more than 400. This time around, I kept having the same thought I had during the last go round: “The emails don’t sound like the electronic record of the world’s top diplomat.”įirst to the important stuff: There are additional emails, 215, that have retroactively been labeled as classified, almost all at the lowest level of classification-“confidential”-and all largely redacted. The reading experience recalled the one I had a month ago when I read emails from the fourth dump-that was before the FBI, employing forensic data recovery tools, reportedly recovered some of the 32,000 emails she and/or her lawyers deleted.
And yet, there’s plenty here that her handlers would rather, I’m sure, not have to face.
I didn’t find the smoking gun that could blow a hole in the Chicago native's White House ambitions in these emails, released every month by orders of a federal judge ruling on a FOIA case. I spent Wednesday evening reading the latest batch of emails-the fifth release covering early 2010 and late 2011-some 6,300 pages of the 55,000 Hillary Clinton generated during her four years as Secretary of State. Another month, another dump of emails from the woman who could be our next president.