The Gatekeeper

Gate Keeper, Srivaikundam

FBI Director James Comey a few hours ago made a revelation now reverberating throughout the political pre-election world. The discovery of additional emails pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, of sufficient import for the FBI to “reopen” her criminal investigation.

The files were discovered during an unrelated investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner's illicit, sexual correspondence with a 15-year-old girl. But how did files intended for "Hillary's eyes only" end up in Weiner's smut laden archives?

Clinton's quintessential aide Huma Abedin shared a laptop with her husband Weiner. A laptop she also used at State to send, receive, and print emails after transferring them to/from her various Yahoo, State Department, or Clinton server accounts. By using an unencrypted, unsecured and unauthorized network, she circumvented prescribed State Department protocol, breaching security. She also breached security by using unsecured and unauthorized hardware i.e., a personal laptop and printer.


It appears that she often transferred, sent, received, and printed emails without being aware of the classification of the content, suggesting additional lapses in security.

The volume of her email traffic was very significant because she is essentially Hillary's interface and gatekeeper to the world.

Abedin's frequent breaches of security may be of sufficient import for the FBI to “open” a second investigation.


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