This week's coverage of Hillary Clinton's email is sleazy journalism. I don't get emotionally involved with any politicians or candidates. But I am concerned to see the United States dropping to #49 in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. That's quite a drop from #20 in 2010. It means the US fell out of the top category and places only a few slots above the third category, now.
Today, the Associated Press reporter, Jack Gillum, didn't improve the reputation of American journalists when he claimed that a review of internet records found that Hillary Clinton kept an email server in her Chappaqua, NY home. Not that it would have been illegal if she did. It wouldn't have been prohibited by the rules for her position as Secretary of State either. If she did have an internal server for her own email traffic.
First of all, the physical location of an internet server is not disclosed in any internet records that exist. In fact, it's very difficult to determine the physical location of a server.
How do I know this?
Because the men in black have been crying over it. Their work is hindered and they want warrants that would allow them to search servers for content remotely. Even they can't determine the location of servers with far more sophisticated resources than internet records. If you follow the link to the FBI website you can use Control F to search the article for the word 'server.' The most relevant parts are near the end.
Gillum can't tell from internet records whether there's an email server in Hillary's house. Get a search warrant and go look there is the only way to know. There should be some reason we call 'probable cause' to support the search warrant. A pre-dawn raid would definitely not be necessary. Please proceed . . .
Gillum knows he over reached and he probably won't say whether he conducted a WHOIS search on clintonemail.com which might have returned a Registrant name and address at the Chappaqua house. But Registrant information is never an indicator of a server location. It's just a record of the owner of a domain name with contact information. I've done my share of WHOIS searches and they only provide the current record which has changed many times since 2009 for clintonemail.com.
A historical WHOIS search takes a few more dilithium crystals than I want to waste to accomplish nothing. It won't reveal the location of anyone's home-brew server as one of Gillum's pals called it, in his Twitter feed.
We have what we need anyway, because our intrepid reporter says now that he really didn't mean that the server he said was in her house, was in her house. Thanks, Jack. You're a sweetheart.
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". . . That doesn't necessarily mean that it was at that house. It could have been somewhere else . . ."
But this slimeball deliberately chose to say in the story he filed that the server was traced to her Chappaqua, NY home. The article may be changed somewhat to clarify what he really meant, if he knows.
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Here's an amusing finish to the story. Yesterday, Jason Chaffetz, who is the new Darrell Issa, said he'd get to the bottom of the Clinton email Spinghazi kerfuffle.
But what have we here? Is that a copy of Rep. Chaffetz's business card with, wait a minute, what's that? A gmail address? As comedians, aren't these tee-people in a class by themselves?
Think back to last November-December. The election results, the release of the Senate's torture report, the deadline for funding the federal government for the rest of Fiscal Year 2015, and a moment of joy when the President announced his executive action on immigration.
In the duration of that timeline, toward the end of November, no one noticed when a bill for the complete overhaul of the National Archives Recordkeeping system was passed in Congress. There was no rollcall. It was passed by a unanimous voice vote.
Before the vote, I gathered a number of documents pertaining to the recordkeeping in DC. There's a piece about it that I posted here sometime in December. For anyone who's curious or wants to back away a bit to see the big picture, some of it, click my name, and look back through the diary titles. It might say something about Bush, or the Bush Library.
To the Kossacks who pelted me with insults in a comment thread under another diary on this topic, I truly wish I could share my unending happiness with you. Peace.