FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email (dailydot.com)

blottsie writes from a report via The Daily Dot: The Romanian hacker known as Guccifer (real name Marcel Lehel Lazar) admitted to the FBI that he lied to the public when he said he repeatedly hacked into Hillary Clinton's email server in 2013. FBI Director James Comey testified before members on Congress on Thursday that Guccifer never hacked into Clinton's servers and in fact admitted that he lied. Lazar told Fox News and NBC News in May 2016 about his alleged hacking. Despite offering no proof, the claim caused a huge stir, including making headline news on some of America's biggest publications, which offered little skepticism of his claims. "Can you confirm that Guccifer never gained access to her server?" asked Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold. "He did not. He admitted that was a lie," Comey replied. Lazar is currently imprisoned in Alexandria, Virginia, following his extradition from Romania.

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[MightyMartian]

Hillary Clinton is hardly the first Secretary of State to use back channels for communications and intelligence. Her method had some serious security issues, to be sure, and she's been rightly vilified for that, but to imagine that Secretaries of State since the office was instituted haven't used various means of varying degrees of (il)legality is absurdly naive.

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[TheGratefulNet]

what the history books will remember about the clintons and this era:

something about a blowjob, and something about email.

I wonder what history will write about the bush gang? something tells me history will not be so kind about all the actual trouble they started.

perspective, people. keep things in perspective. I could care less about the little shit. if that's all the R's have, that's fucking pathetic. sad and pathetic.