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Senate sleuths focus on ex-State Department aide in Clinton email ‘cover-up’
Yahoo News ^ | May 27, 2016 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 05/28/2016 1:33:49 PM PDT by kiryandil

As Hillary Clinton seeks to rebound from a highly critical report from the State Department’s inspector general, Senate investigators and a conservative group are zeroing in on newly revealed evidence about the activities of a now retired State Department computer specialist in orchestrating what they charge was a “cover-up” of the former secretary of state’s email practices.

The role of John Bentel, whose identity as a key figure in the email probes was first reported by Yahoo News on Wednesday, is expected to be one focus of questioning today when Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, is deposed in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch over the State Department’s handling of Freedom of Information Act requests relating to Clinton’s emails, according to a source close to the case.

Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is also signaling that he intends to pursue Bentel’s role, saying that statements in the inspector general’s report show he “muzzled” staffers who warned that Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email system might be in violation of federal record-keeping laws...

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: email; hillarycriminalprobe; hillaryemailcoverup; johnbentel; statedeptscandals
Bentel warned off TWO separate State employees who expressed concerns.

And now he 'can't recall' the private server at all.

John Bentel: Next to be starring under the Big Clinton Bus...


1 posted on 05/28/2016 1:33:49 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

even kinda looks like a young craig livingstone.

I’d give Bentel limited immunity.


2 posted on 05/28/2016 1:55:01 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: kiryandil

Interesting headline.

Have they done stories about Islam as a “religion”?


3 posted on 05/28/2016 2:06:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: stylin19a

4 posted on 05/28/2016 2:06:52 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: kiryandil

Senate sleuths? There’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one. ‘Sleuths’ doesn’t apply to people who couldn’t find their ass with both hands.


5 posted on 05/28/2016 2:10:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: stylin19a
i meant older craig livingstone and now lookin at it, not so much.

But same kinda shennanigans.



Who Hired Craig Livingstone
6 posted on 05/28/2016 2:13:39 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: kiryandil

Wow! This is big.


7 posted on 05/28/2016 3:19:36 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: LucyT; WildHighlander57; maggief

Another name to the mix


8 posted on 05/28/2016 3:49:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama (1238 Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP GO)
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To: kiryandil

John Bentel????? Never HEARD of him, but being close to the Clintons will either get you KILLED or in HUGE LAWYER BILLS!!! LOL!!!! They dump these minions like dirt on their sandals.


9 posted on 05/28/2016 3:59:14 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Thibodeaux

WHERE IS GRAIG LIVINGSTONE.....a helper in Vince Foster’;s suicide cover-up!


10 posted on 05/28/2016 4:00:26 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: hoosiermama

“Bentel, who retired from the State Department in December 2012, was questioned in late June 2015 by the House Benghazi Committee and told investigators that he had “no memory or knowledge” of Clinton’s private email server and only learned about it from the newspapers, according to an email that his lawyer, Randy Turk, sent to Judiciary Committee staffers last January.”

FLASHBACK:

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-04-04/news/9704040358_1_craig-livingstone-clinton-friends-camp-david

Plenty Of Questions Should Prompt Some Investigating
April 4, 1997|By WILLIAM SAFIRE and N.Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON — “The answer you don’t give,” goes the political-legal adage, “never gets you in trouble.”

But there’s a journalistic corollary to that: Evasion of an answer is usually a clue to the presence of a story. Here are a half-dozen probes that meet resistance: 1. Who is paying Craig Livingstone’s legal bills, and why? The former bar bouncer reportedly hired at Hillary Clinton’s direction to oversee White House personnel security was able to amass private information on 900 Republicans from a roundheeled FBI. When newspaper stories forced Janet Reno to ask the independent counsel to investigate this invasion of privacy, Livingstone retained Randy Turk, a $400-per-hour Washington attorney previously indicated to be the Livingstone hand-holder in a White House counsel’s scandal-suppression plan.


11 posted on 05/28/2016 4:47:14 PM PDT by maggief
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To: kiryandil

We need to shepardize this guy john bentel. Wheredoes he live, what does he do now, who Is he, what his background is. Preferably before he winds up dead in ft marcy park with two fatal self inflicted bullet wounds to his skull lol.


12 posted on 05/28/2016 4:48:08 PM PDT by SteveH
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Senate investigators and a conservative group are zeroing in on newly revealed evidence about the activities of a now retired State Department computer specialist in orchestrating what they charge was a “cover-up”

There is no legitimate reason for the US Senate to be conducting an investigation of this matter, and only one legitimate reason for the House of Representatives to take it up. As far as "a conservative group", they have no standing to conduct an investigation with consequences, and they should stop whatever it is they are doing.

13 posted on 05/28/2016 4:50:26 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: stylin19a

I would give john bentel a few weeks at leavenworth to think about what kinds of kiddie porn might be discovered at his desk, then offer him limited immunity...


14 posted on 05/28/2016 4:51:10 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: maggief

Just like a lot of Hillary cronies, Bentel “retired” about the time Hillary left the DoS. Wonder when he was hired and by whom?


15 posted on 05/28/2016 5:33:11 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Jim Noble

This computer guy helped shrillary commit felonies.

National security level felonies.

An investigation should be done on him, and everyone else involved .


16 posted on 05/28/2016 5:35:32 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57
An investigation should be done on him, and everyone else involved

That investigation is already underway. Politicians grandstanding who have no enforcement powers have no role to play.

17 posted on 05/28/2016 5:44:43 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: maggief

Perjury???


18 posted on 05/28/2016 6:02:51 PM PDT by hoosiermama (1238 Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP GO)
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19 posted on 05/28/2016 10:25:08 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: kiryandil

Nothing but another bus distraction.


20 posted on 05/29/2016 11:21:29 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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