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Romanian Hacker 'Guccifer' Sentenced To 52 Months In US Prison (reuters.com)
Romanian hacker "Guccifer" who targeted high-profile US politicians has been sentenced for 52 months in prison. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar, pleaded guilty in May on charges of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access of a computer. Lazar targeted former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Bush family and was arrested on hacking charges in Romania in 2014 and was sentenced four years. He was extradited to the U.S. to face charges in March 2016. Reuters adds: Lazar has said in interviews he breached Clinton's private server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, but law enforcement and national security officials say that claim is meritless. Lazar is believed to have hacked into email accounts of about 100 victims between 2012 and 2014. They include prominent political figures such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a relative of former President George W. Bush and Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House aide and an unofficial adviser to Clinton. Clinton is now the Democratic nominee for president. Lazar leaked online memos Blumenthal sent Clinton that were addressed to her private email account, which was used during her time as secretary of state to conduct both personal and work business in lieu of a government account.
He may be guilty under our legal system, but as many people are starting to understand a legal system and a justice system are not the same thing. If we had a justice system, the Bushes and Clintons would be in prison and Guccifer would be free. People like this should be considered heroes for exposing the criminals that lay claim to positions of leadership. The legal (not justice) system that those criminal leaders have set up are designed to keep themselves wealthy and powerful, and people like Snowden and Guccifer threaten their wealth and power.
Guccifer exposes Hillary's illegal email server and goes to jail for it.
Hilary gets off Scott Free.
BTW, Comey said "Leeeeave Hillary Alllloneeee" because there were more appropriate administrative punishments available.
And? What were they? Were the ever applied?
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Sweet Jesus, but there's a lot of slashdotters think they live in a Dan Brown novel.
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Guccifer exposes Hillary's illegal email server and goes to jail for it.
Hilary gets off Scott Free.
BTW, Comey said "Leeeeave Hillary Alllloneeee" because there were more appropriate administrative punishments available.
And? What were they? Were the ever applied?
It's 'kinda worse than that.
Hillary Clinton sent classified E-mails after leaving the state department, after the FBI concluded its investigation more deleted E-mails turned up that they should have been given, even more E-mails turned up that should have matched the FBI search terms Hillary was given.
(Also, Bill Clinton used tax dollars to subsidize the private E-mail server and pay for employees at the Clinton foundation.)
Looking at the media reports, things like Sigh. Yet Another Non-Scandal at the Clinton Foundation come up.
Nothing to see here, no smoking gun. She wasn't indicted, so let's leave her alone.
The first sentence of the ARSTechnica article by David Kravets with the same headline reads-
"The Romanian hacker who helped expose Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail as secretary of state was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in prison in connection to an admission that he broke into about 100 Americans' mail accounts."
Talk about a wicked psyop. It paints the picture that Hillary's use of private e-mail was a secret of some kind. I wonder how many hundreds or thousands of people she communicated with via that e-mail account who therefore knew of the activity long before any hackerZ came into the picture. That's an amazing conspiracy to have kept under everyone's radar for so many years. Or it's a political smear.
Failing to maintain Public Records, and sending and receiving classified information that isn't properly secured (and possibly involved in the murder of a scientist in Iran) actually IS illegal. Her having an email server wasn't the issue. The issue was using that server in an illegal way, which is ... illegal.
Quit trying to make it about the actual email server, rather than WHY she set it up, and how she actually used it. I have an email server, it isn't illegal to have an email server. I use that server as a tool in a commission of a crime ... that server is important evidence. She shredded that evidence, when she was required .. by law .. to maintain that evidence.
And we all know why she did this, she is on record as saying as much, to avoid congressional oversight (which is ALSO against the law).
So, Email server was legal, all the illegal things she did, was caught doing, reasons for doing ... all of that was ... illegal.
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I suppose you must live in a world where clumsy people do things like "shoot themselves in the back of the head" and "drop barbells on their own necks",
Pretty much. I live below the Mason-Dixon line. The above 2 examples wouldn't even make a top ten of "Dumbest Ways Floridians Killed Themselves in 2016".
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Honestly, this is the lamest argument and I say that as somebody who would like to see all of the criminals from both of your silly little teams in jail where they belong.
So what if the loyal party members only speak out when the other team does something wrong? Do you really expect anything else from all of these idiotic partisan hypocrites? Here you are acting as an apologist for another criminal and trying to deflect the argument away from her because she's on your stupid team. How is that any different?
A plague on both your houses.
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Failing to maintain Public Records
Do you know of people who went to jail for that?
No? You mean people generally don't even care about it??
Then why is Hillary different?
and sending and receiving classified information that isn't properly secured
Can you show someone who went to jail for similar actions?
No? You just realized those one or two instances of jail time are fundamentally different cases?
Then why should Hillary go to jail?
(and possibly involved in the murder of a scientist in Iran) actually IS illegal.
WTF? So an Iranian scientist publicly gives information to the US, then voluntarily returned to Iran (against the advice of anyone), and then gets predictably arrested and then executed.
And this is somehow Hillary's fault because there's an email where she made a vague reference to trying to convince him to not go back to Iran in an email?
She's lived in NYC, is she responsible for 9/11 too?
Basically BFD. Hillary isn't an absolutely perfect human being. She was careless with her communications, as countless public officials are. She was probably more likely to meet with people who contributed to her charitable foundation. Well welcome to politics!!
Yes these are real issues, but for anyone else it basically be a trivia question.
Hell, Trump gave a campaign donation to the Texas Attorney General right after they dropped the investigation into TrumpU. Why don't you want him investigated and arrested for bribery? That's a hell of a lot worse then Bill Clinton chatting with Loretta Lynch on a plane.
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Oh please, those people were clearly left alive for plausible deniability.
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Right after the Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld ones. A week from Never.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.