Hillary Clinton's Email Server And The Execution Of An Iranian Scientist - Connecting The Dots

In 2015 it was revealed that Hillary Clinton set up and used a private server for purposes of sending and receiving emails as Secretary of State. Clinton did so for various reasons, mostly because of her unbridled paranoia of the "vast right wing conspiracy" she's always telling us about. Hillary has always believed that conservatives will stop at nothing to take her down. She also thought that using a private server to communicate as Secretary of State would keep folks from seeing what she was up to.

What Hillary doesn't get is that it's not the right that causes her problems. She only has to look in the mirror to identify the root of all her problems.

In terms of the server scandal, what Mrs. C failed to take into account is that cybergeeks can and will gain access to cyberspace communications whether you make it easy for them or not. In the case of Hillary's server, her team left the proverbial keys to the house under the doormat as you will soon see.

After its investigation into the server scandal, the FBI concluded that Clinton's server had almost certainly been hacked. That meant that anything on it was in the hands of bad people...like Russia, North Korea, China, and...is there any doubt that Iran would be in that mix? After all, Iran's nuclear ambitions was something the U.S. State Department would certainly have been discussed, analyzed, and debated while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Lest you have any doubt that Clinton's server was hacked, the recent Wikileaks dump of DNC emails should remove any such doubt. Oh, still not convinced? How about the State Department's admission that in 2010 its staffers had to disable all the security measures within the government's systems due to a problem (read viruses) that affected emails from Clinton's server? Again in 2011, IT personnel shut Clinton's server down because of a hacking attempt. Later that day, the server was attacked again and it was shut down for a few minutes. That bathroom server was getting an awful lot of attention, wasn't it?

Clinton's email server violated federal standards and State Department guidance. The setup left sensitive material vulnerable to hackers just so Hillary could keep pesky reporters from seeing what she was up to through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Big deal, you say. So what if the bad guys read about plans for Chelsea's wedding, or Hillary's yoga routines (the kind of stuff Hillary said was on her server)? Hillary was too smart to discuss sensitive information that might risk clandestine operations or compromise the safety of assets.

Uhhhhh, not.

In the last few days, Iran has verified that one of its nuclear scientists, Shahram Amiri, was executed. An Iranian judiciary spokesman said Amiri "...had access to the country's secret and classified information..." and "...had been linked to our hostile and No. 1 enemy, America, the Great Satan."

The news of Amiri's execution received little notice, until unclassified, unredacted emails making reference to Amiri were found on Clinton's server. One email referred to Amiri as “our friend”. Several other emails discussed Amiri in a context that jeopardized his life by verifying what Iranian intelligence officials suspected all along but weren't 100% sure - that he was a U.S. spy. The emails were rock solid, undisputed proof.

Amiri's story is a convoluted one and obviously didn't end well for him. Let me bring you up to speed as to why Iran would want to execute Amiri to begin with.

We must go back to 2009 when Amiri was supposedly on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and vanished. In reality, Amiri was plucked out of Saudi Arabia by the CIA because for years he had been providing information as to Iran's nuclear program. As a specialist in measuring nuclear radiation, Amiri had visited sensitive sites and kept the U.S. informed about the internal Iranian debate over whether the country needed a nuclear weapon or just needed  the ability to build one on short notice.

Amiri made the decision to defect and was promised $5 Million and a new identity in the U.S. He left an estranged wife and young son behind, used the cover of a religious pilgrimage, and vamoosed.

Tehran accused the U.S. of kidnapping Amiri but the U.S. vehemently denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Amiri was in Arizona as part of the CIA's spy protection/relocation program. A year later, Amiri began having second thoughts about his defection and secretly contacted his family in Iran. Tehran used this contacts to make it clear to Amiri that his son's life was being threatened by the Iranian government. He was told in no uncertain terms that unless he returned to the U.S. his son's life was in jeopardy.

Amiri insisted to Tehran that he had been kidnapped, that he would do what he could to escape his CIA captors, and that he return home as soon as he could. He posted a video online saying that he had been abducted by Saudi and American spies, that he was hiding from the CIA in Virginia, and that he was not a defector.

Another video depicting Amiri subsequently surfaced wherein he claimed that he was living in Arizona with no worries in the world. His estranged wife told Iranian television that the video was a fake and that Amiri was reading text. A third video was then posted reiterating the abduction story.

A couple of weeks later, Amiri turned up at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. and engaged in discussions with the Iranian Interests Section. On July 15, 2015, he returned to Tehran. His son rejoined him in a very public reunion and Amiri was hailed a hero for having escaped his American captors. Amiri told the world that he had been offered $50 million to stay in the United States and reveal Iran's nuclear secrets but he refused.

It didn't take long before Amiri disappeared, no doubt to be interrogated by Iranian Intelligence to ferret out the real story.

Amiri's mother and father later told the media that after Amiri's disappearance, he had been tried,  convicted of unspecified crimes, and had been sentenced to ten years in prison. They were upbeat about being reunited with their son in due time and were relieved that this ordeal would soon be over.

Then, some six years later, they received the news last week that Amiri had been hanged.

Now you know Amiri's story. Let's connect his dots with Hillary Clinton's use of that private email server and how it led to Amiri's execution.

Amiri's name appears in Clinton's emails as far back as 2010, nine days before he returned to Iran. In one of the unredacted, unclassified emails, the State Department’s special envoy for Eurasian Energy communicated with Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser calling Amiri "Our friend". The email was forwarded to "H". It also discussed plans to give Amiri a "way out" and how his defection could be spun:

References to Amiri appear again in a July 12 email to Clinton:

But wait....there's more. In a Sept. 17, 2010 email that was forwarded to Clinton, no pretense is made about who was being discussed.  Amiri's real identity is revealed through specific mention of his name. This mention was the result of an article about Oman’s foreign minister claiming that Omani negotiators had looked into the possibility of exchanging Amiri for the three American hikers arrested in Iran. The article and an email chain was forwarded to Clinton. In it, the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs said that the reported remarks of Oman's Foreign Minister's were “unhelpful.”

Long story short, the emails above and the others found on Hillary Clinton's server left no doubt to anyone reading them that Amiri was a defector and a paid informant who changed his mind about helping the U.S. and wanted to return to Iran. The emails also discuss the State Department's plans to get Amiri safely back to Iran. 

As with most things in the clandestine world, we will never know if the emails absolutely, positively led to Amir's hanging for treason. The Iranians will never confirm that they hacked into Clinton's server and discovered the careless email discussions about Amiri that essentially proved his treason. But the fact that Tehran did not execute Amiri immediately upon his return and allowed him to live for some six years after his return can only mean that even if Tehran had proof of Amiri's treason they were content to let him live - as long as they weren't embarrassed by having the world learn that Amiri had committed treason and duped them.

The execution of Shahram Amiri is announced by Tehran

Then, Hillary's emails were released as a result of the investigation into her improper use of the server. Had Hillary used proper email channels during her tenure as Secretary of State, the cavalier discussions by Clinton's staff about the Iranian spy could have been reviewed, marked classified, and would never have seen the light of day.

But no. The emails were made public and the ones pertaining to Amiri created a very embarrassing situation for Tehran. The world now knew that one of Tehran's scientists had been ratting out their nuclear secrets for years and then defected to the U.S. That sealed Amiri's fate. Tehran could not let him live and used him as an example to other scientists - this is what we will do if you even think about spying for the U.S.

The more we peel the Hillary Clinton onion the more we find. I'm just wondering how many more bodies are going to be found under the layers she has created while furthering her political ambitions.