Hillary’s Home-Brew

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Oct 2016

As the Clinton Slime Creature slithered along the campaign trail this week, retailing vials of toxin to hundreds of astonished and gullible women, more juicy details came out concerning the construction of her nefarious home-brew email server, clintonemail.com.

The term “home-brew” was no exaggeration.  The details are these.  Clinton IT guy Brian Pagliano – defier of a congressional subpoena despite having an immunity from prosecution deal – built the server himself from parts with a soldering iron and a screwdriver.  Some of the parts came from remnants of computers used on Clinton’s failed 2008 nomination campaign.  Pagliano even worked in an office used by the Clinton campaign, on K Street in Washington, D.C.

Pagliano built the server at the request of Justin Cooper, a long-time employee of the Clinton Foundation.  Cooper made the request in the fall of 2008, and the job was finished early in 2009.  After the server was finished being built, Pagliano rented a minivan and transported the device personally to Hillary Clinton’s Chappaqua residence in New York, where he installed it and set it up as an email server.  This device was in addition to an Apple server already present in the residence.

Pagliano continued to maintain the server he built himself for Clintons even as he was employed by the State Department as Hillary’s IT specialist.  Pagliano told the FBI that he assumed that the email server he had built would be used for private email exchanges with Bill Clinton’s aides.  (Bill Clinton, famously, has sent only two emails in his life, and both were for demonstration purposes while he was president.)

After Pagliano’s home-brew was installed, up, and running, Cooper asked Pagliano to migrate a list of user names and passwords from the Apple server (which apparently belonged to Cooper) to Pagliano’s system.  Cooper, who never worked for the State Department and continues to be employed by the Clinton Foundation, registered the domain name clintonemail.com.

Why would Hillary Clinton order an email server be custom built from old junk when she had a perfectly good Apple server already installed in her residence?  If she wanted another one, why didn’t she simply buy a newer and better one from Apple or Dell?  Previously it was disclosed that Hillary paid Pagliano $5,000 for his IT services, which we now know was for building and installing this server.  Hillary could have purchased a better, more reliable device for less money, and yet she ordered and used this contraption.  In addition to paying Pagliano, she continued to pay rent for office space on K Street in Washington, D.C. where Pagliano constructed the home-brew long after her presidential campaign was finished.  Finally, why were email accounts transferred from Cooper’s Apple server to Pagliano’s device?

So that there would be no trace of the actual clintonemail.com server in commercial records is the obvious answer.

There would be no commercial record of an Apple server with serial number AP-01234567 being associated with the Clintons, even remotely.  The Apple server belonging to Justin Cooper that had been previously installed in the Clinton Chappaqua residence and that once held clintonemail.com accounts and addresses would be a decoy should the Congress or other Federal investigators subpoena the clintonemail.com server.  The actual device being used as the email server had no serial number because it was built by Brian Pagliano in Washington. D.C. from leftover parts of a long defunct campaign.  The active emails accounts that used to be on Cooper’s known Apple server had been migrated to something that didn’t commercially exist.  The clintonemail.com accounts would be seen as long-disused ghosts to an investigation that was given Cooper’s Apple server.  An investigation given Cooper’s Apple server might be confused and mystified by the lack of recent activity, and perhaps conclude that the trail had gone cold.

Lack of commercial traceability was why Hillary Clinton paid so much money to have Brian Pagliano build and maintain an off-the-books server.  If she had simply bought a server off the shelf, there would be a record of that commercial transaction somewhere.  (Even the Apple server that was owned by Justin Cooper and that he had lent to the Clintons had commercial traceability to the Clintons, however remote.) And because the off-the-books server needed maintenance, Hillary hired Brian Pagliano as an assistant at the State Department, buying his loyalty and silence.  Hillary was careful that Pagliano was paid separately and from non-government accounts for work that he did on the off-the-books server that he had built.

Hillary Clinton may have been extremely careless, even reckless, with the highest secrets of the United States while Secretary of State, but when it comes to her own secrecy, she demonstrated a cloak-and-dagger skullduggery and tradecraft that would impress the CIA.  The purpose of keeping such physical arrangements secret and proof from investigation was to hide the pay-for-play going on between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.  The Clintons had rented out the Lincoln bedroom in the Whitehouse to large campaign donors during Bill’s presidency, and pay-for-play with the Foundation is in keeping with this practice.  The secret server would keep the coordination secret from any sleuths in Washington.

Hillary said that she had this server at home and carried only one device “for convenience.”  But she spent a lot of money and created a lot of inconvenience for this convenience.

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