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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Weiner Emails Contain Classified Information



New Huma Emails Break… Contain Unsecured Hillary Message Referring to Cybersecurity


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A new batch of emails sent or received through former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured email server by top aide Huma Abedin has been unearthed by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, and it revealed even more classified information passed through the server during Clinton’s time at the State Department than previously thought.
In addition, a jaw-droppingly ironic message involving a cybersecurity meeting with the woman who replaced Clinton in the Senate was included in the latest trove of messages, which was obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The emails included “894 pages of new State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent additional classified information through her unsecure clintonmail.com email account by top aide Huma Abedin,” according to a Judicial Watch news release.

“The Abedin emails also include repeated instances of Clinton’s detailed daily schedules being sent to top Clinton Foundation officials at unsecured email addresses,” the release added.
The new batch of emails also included 29 conversations that hadn’t been turned over to the State Department, bringing the grand total of emails not turned over to 317.
“These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, ‘as far as she knew,’ all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department,” Judicial Watch said.
A message from three days later from Clinton was also released saying “Pls review the memcon of my call w FM Kouchener (sic) (Redacted),” indicating more classified material, apparently related to then-French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Then there were emails from Abedin that revealed that scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded the secretary of state’s schedule to Clinton Foundation officials, once again showing the blurred lines between the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s “charitable foundation.”
That was hardly the only appearance of the Clintons’ well-heeled slush-fund in the documents.

“On Jan. 17, 2010, five days after the massive Haitian earthquake, former Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper emails Hillary Clinton’s then-deputy chiefs of staff, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin, to ask if they can do a conference call to discuss Haiti,” Judicial Watch noted.
“Clinton Foundation officials Laura Graham and Doug Band are also provided the call-in information for the conference call. (Author Peter Schweizer would later describe in his book ‘Clinton Cash’ how the Obama administration, during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer-funded reconstruction contracts for Haiti to flow through the Clinton Foundation.)”
And then there was the most darkly humorous of the emails — one in which Abedin reminded staff about a cybersecurity meeting with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democrat who replaced Clinton in the Senate when she took the job at the State Department.
“These new emails show Hillary Clinton is a serial violator of various laws concerning the handling of classified material,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the group’s news release. “The initial investigation into this criminal matter was compromised by (former President) Barack Obama’s corrupted FBI and Justice Department. This new information should spur new federal criminal investigations.”
Whether or not that will happen is very much an open question; chants of “lock her up!” have become noticeably less common since President Donald Trump’s election in November. However, this trove of emails proves anew that Hillary Clinton knew that classified information was passing through her homebrew server and covered it up.
That sounds a lot like the grounds for an investigation to me.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

If You Think Obama Administration Is Not Open Now, Wait Until He Gets Re-Elected Of If We Are Wrong And Hillary Gets Elected

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President Obama
President Obama
An annual report by the Associated Press shows the Obama administration’s claim to be the most transparent ever to be a categorically untrue.

A review of all Freedom of Information Act requests to 100 federal agencies during fiscal 2015 revealed a record for the number of times the White House couldn’t find a single page requested by journalists and citizens.
Government researchers “completed” 129,825 requests – one in six cases – by telling individuals or organizations they came up empty-handed, AP reported Friday. Approximately 77 percent of all requests were closed out after censored or blank files were released, a jump of 12 percent since Obama first took office.
“It’s incredibly unfortunate when someone waits months, or perhaps years, to get a response to their request – only to be told that the agency can’t find anything,” Adam Marshall, an attorney with the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told the news service.
AP said the Obama administration had a peculiar habit of finding documents after organizations filed expensive federal lawsuits. When Gawker sued the State Department over documents related to former Secretary of Hillary Clinton’s aide Philippe Reines, for example, the Obama administration suddenly found 90,000 documents; it had initially found zero.
“I want to avoid FOIA,” Reines said in one email, which his lawyer later claimed was a joke.
The federal government is supposed to undertake a good-faith effort in finding documents, but there is no way for journalists or citizens to know if that actually happened.
“It seems like they’re doing the minimal amount of work they need to do,” said Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter at Vice News and a leading expert on the records law, AP reported. “I just don’t believe them. I really question the integrity of their search.”
The White House defends its efforts by saying it completed a record 769,903 requests last fiscal year, a 19 percent increase over 2014. AP was quick to note, however, that government employees also increased the number of times they could not find anything by 35 percent.
Some of the other findings from the report include:
  • The FBI failed to find records in 39 percent of cases, or 5,168 times.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency regional office that oversees New York and New Jersey failed to find records 58 percent of the time.
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection were unsuccessful in finding results in 34 percent of cases.
  • That government counted 250,024 times when it could not find records, a person refused to pay for documents or the government determined the request to be unreasonable or improper.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest tried to deflect attention away form Obama and onto Congress.

“Congress writes the rules and they write themselves out of being accountable,” Earnest told reporters, AP reported. “[Reporters should] continue the pressure that [they] have applied to Congress to encourage them to subject themselves to the same kinds of transparency rules that they insist other government agencies follow.”
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

White House Lied To Us On Benghazi--Heads Must Roll. Is This Impeachable?

Cantor: New Benghazi Email Proves White House Misled Americans

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Wednesday, 30 Apr 2014 06:06 PM
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Wednesday that an email in which a White House official advises former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to link the 2012 Benghazi attack to an anti-Muslim video to protect President Barack Obama's re-election bid proved that the administration "from the beginning misled Congress, the media — and most importantly, the American people."

"For nearly two years, Congress and the American people have sought answers to important questions surrounding the attack on our mission in Benghazi," the Virginia Republican said in a statement. "For nearly two years, the White House has sought to avoid answering those questions.

"Now we know why it required a court order to finally force the White House to respond to those inquiries," Cantor said.

In a Sept. 14, 2012, email released by Judicial Watch on Tuesday, White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on the YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest that led to the attack on Sept. 11, 2012.

That was in the face of previously released emails showing that senior defense officials told the administration on the night of the attack that it was terrorism linked to al-Qaida and that no protest had occurred.

Rhodes outlined several talking points for Rice, now Obama's national security adviser, with the advice "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."

Rice appeared on five Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16, saying the attacks were caused by the video.

The assault on the U.S. Consulate and nearby CIA annex killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith — and two Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents on April 18 via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit it filed against the State Department last June. They obtained 41 emails, many of which had portions redacted.

Republicans charged to Newsmax that the email was a "smoking gun" showing that proved the White House used the attack to bolster Obama's claims that al-Qaida was on the run in Libya.

They also stepped up their calls into an independent investigation into the attacks.

"It is increasingly clear that this administration orchestrated an effort to deflect attention away from their failed Libya policy and the resurgence of al-Qaida and other terrorists," Cantor said. "The emails provide additional evidence that senior officials knew the attack on our mission in Benghazi was a complex attack and not a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video.

"Some may say, what difference at this point does it make?" the majority leader asked.

"Well, four brave Americans were killed in Benghazi — and to date it appears that more has been done to protect internal emails than to bring the murderers of these Americans to justice."

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