Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and estranged wife of pedophile Anthony Weiner, forwarded State Department emails — including the classified passwords for government systems — to her personal email account on Yahoo, a service provider that later saw every account hacked, according to a new report.
Abedin used her unsecured personal email account to conduct politically sensitive work, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows. “This guarantees that an account with high-level correspondence in Clinton’s State Department was impacted by one or more of a series of breaches — at least one of which was perpetrated by a ‘state-sponsored actor,’ ” the Caller reported.
President Trump hit the report hard on Tuesday morning and called for her to go to jail.
Abedin and Clinton, during her time as Secretary of State, routinely forwarded emails from the secure State Department system to Yahoo and other unsecured providers. Clinton operated a secret email server in her home, which was uncovered by a Republican investigation after Clinton destroyed more than 30,000 emails she unilaterally deemed not work-related.
Millions of Yahoo’s accounts were hacked in 2014. Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin was charged in March 2017 with hacking 500 million email accounts. As it turned our, Sushchin worked as an undercover officer at Renaissance Capital, which paid former President Bill Clinton a $500,000 fee for a 2010 speech in Moscow.
A separate hack in 2013 compromised three billion accounts across multiple Yahoo properties, and the culprit is still unclear. “All Yahoo user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft,” the company said in a statement.
Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, regularly forwarded work emails to her personal [email protected] address. “She would use these accounts if her (State) account was down or if she needed to print an email or document. Abedin further explained that it was difficult to print from the DoS system so she routinely forwarded emails to her non-DoS accounts so she could more easily print,” an FBI report says.
Abedin sent passwords for her government laptop to her Yahoo account on Aug. 24, 2009, an email released by the State Department in September 2017 shows.
The Caller also reported that longtime Clinton confidante Sid Blumenthal sent Clinton an email in July 2009 with the subject line: “Important. Not for circulation. You only. Sid.” The email began “CONFIDENTIAL… Re: Moscow Summit.” “Abedin forwarded the email to her Yahoo address, potentially making it visible to hackers,” the Caller said.
Abedin also sent sensitive information through her Yahoo accounts multiple times, “such as notes on a call with the U.N. secretary-general, according to messages released under the lawsuit,” the report said.
Clinton downplayed the risks of her email use days later, saying it was simply a matter of convenience.
“After a year-long investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using and there is no evidence that anyone can point to at all, anyone who says otherwise has no basis, that any classified materials ended up in the wrong hands. I take classified materials very seriously and always have,” Clinton said on Oct. 9, 2016, at the second presidential debate,
Abedin’s use of Yahoo email is consistent with the determination by the FBI that Clinton associates’ emails were, in fact, compromised. “We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private email accounts of individuals with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her private account,” then-FBI director Jim Comey said in 2016.