Will Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin find herself in prison with her soon to be ex-husband Anthony Weiner? The Daily Caller revealed that in 2009 she forwarded emails containing passwords from government systems to her Yahoo private email account. Abedin also used an email address that did not end with “state.gov” to conduct official business over Clinton’s poorly secured private email server.

Every single Yahoo email account was later hacked. Some of the hackers were Russians and some of those had known ties with Russian intelligence or the Kremlin. In 2014, U.S. authorities charged Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin with hacking into 500 million Yahoo accounts. He worked for the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital — the bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech in 2010. He was also an agent with Russia’s Federal Security Service — the successor to the KGB.

Does anyone know how the Russians or others might have used those passwords? Do we know what secret information they might have gotten and used against us?

The emails were retrieved as the result of a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to force the State Department to release Abedin’s emails that showed up on Weiner’s laptop last summer. They were discovered right before last year’s presidential election, when Weiner was arrested for sexting with a minor.

Some of the emails that were turned over were redacted to hide classified information. Clinton has repeatedly said that none of the emails that were sent over her poorly secured server contained any such information.

No Prosecution?

Last week on Fox and Friends, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee asked why Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t prosecuting Abedin. If Sessions doesn’t, “I think we’re all going to lose patience with the attorney general.” He implied that Sessions isn’t taking action because of Abedin’s high-level status under Clinton.

President Trump tweeted that Abedin deserves jail and that the DOJ should be looking into it.

Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018

So far, Abedin and Clinton have received favorable treatment from the DOJ and FBI. Peter Strzok, the FBI’s former No. 2 counterintelligence official, softened the original wording the statement on Clinton’s misuse of classified information. He changed former FBI Director James Comey’s draft memo had called her “grossly negligent.” He changed it to “extremely careless.”

Strzok cleared Clinton months before questioning her and other crucial witnesses. He questioned Abedin and fellow Clinton aide Cheryl Mills. Even though they lied to him about when they had knowledge of Clinton’s private server, he did not recommend perjury charges. In contrast, he recommended perjury charges for Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who lied about his contacts with Russia.

Dangerous E-mails

Clinton and her allies have said the insecure emails don’t matter. They claim the unscrupulous Republicans used it as a campaign issue. But even their supporter Strzok called Clinton “extremely careless.” That’s bad. Do we want people who treat possible classified information so carelessly in charge of even more classified information?

Think of sensitive, classified emails as bullets. You don’t want to give bullets to the wrong people. They will shoot you and your friends with those bullets. You keep bullets secure and safe. And you’re responsible if through your own carelessness or negligence, bad people get those bullets and use them.

There’s a reason disclosure of classified information is a felony. Are the FBI and the DOJ hiding any fallout that may have taken place due to recklessness with classified information? Or is the fallout still to come? We hope it won’t take serious damage to finally enforce consequences against Clinton and Abedin for putting lives at risk.
 

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