Posted on 11/15/2018 12:25:15 PM PST by Red Badger
A federal court is compelling former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to respond to further questions — under oath — about her notorious emails.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the ruling Wednesday in response to a lawsuit from Judicial Watch, the conservative research and investigative group that has long had its sights on both of the Clintons. (RELATED: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Email Scandal On ‘Murphy Brown’)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds forcefully to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton was jubilant about the decision in a Thursday morning tweet: “Breaking: Court rules late today Hillary Clinton must answer more email questions — including key [questions] about the setting up of her email system.”
Breaking: Court rules late today Hillary Clinton must answer more email questions — including key q’s about the setting up of her email system. Court denied our request to unseal vid depositions of Clinton aides. Great work by Michael Bekesha! https://t.co/VBKkm3H8gi pic.twitter.com/00k6pRsHNe
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 15, 2018
The decision is the result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit initiated by Judicial Watch that sought to clarify why Clinton’s executive assistant, Huma Abedin, was authorized to be both an employee of the State Department and a “special government employee” for outside jobs, according to news release issued Thursday by Judicial Watch. (RELATED: Sources China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server)
The group says the judge gave Clinton 30 days to respond to questions about how she set up her private email server while secretary of state and whether the State Department ever issued any orders or instructions regarding the use of that server.
As Fitton said in the news release:
A federal court ordered Hillary Clinton to answer more questions about her illicit email system – which is good news. It is shameful that Judicial Watch attorneys must continue to battle the State and Justice Departments, which still defend Hillary Clinton, for basic answers to our questions about Clinton’s email misconduct.
The Daily Caller reached out to Fitton Thursday morning for further comment, but he has not yet responded. The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch have jointly asked a federal judge to preserve former FBI director James Comey’s private emails.
The Clinton emails and the FBI investigation into Clinton’s unauthorized use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state was a galvanizing issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Comey first announced that Clinton’s actions fell short of criminal prosecution and could instead be seen as “extremely careless,” though he reportedly called it “grossly negligent” privately. Just days before voters went to the polls to elect a new president, Comey revealed that the FBI investigation was reopening the email investigation as the bureau was now assessing Abedin’s private emails.
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Put yourself in Hillary’s shoes. This sucks!
Well, for her it does.
But ... that is old news.
Count on a coughing spell or note from her doctor to skate on this.
Where is that old Paul Shanklin number from the Rush Limbaugh Show in the 90’s?
I can’t remember
My brain’s in a blender
It’s JELL-O....
JELL-O....
JELL-O....
This email contains an amazingly detailed assessment of events in Sudan, specifically a coup being plotted by top generals in that war-torn country. Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from a top-ranking source with direct access to Sudan’s top military and intelligence officials, and recounted a high-level meeting that had taken place only 24 hours before.
To anybody familiar with intelligence reporting, this unmistakably signals intelligence, termed SIGINT in the trade. In other words, Mr. Blumenthal, a private citizen who had enjoyed no access to U.S. intelligence for over a decade when he sent that email, somehow got hold of SIGINT about the Sudanese leadership and managed to send it, via open, unclassified email, to his friend Ms. Clinton only one day later.
NSA officials were appalled by the State Department’s release of this email, since it bore all the hallmarks of Agency reporting. Back in early January when I reported this, I was confident that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from highly classified NSA sources, based on my years of reading and writing such reports myself, and one veteran agency official told me it was NSA information with “at least 90 percent confidence.”
We can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal’s June 8, 2011, email to Hillary Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal’s highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence.
Specifically, this information was illegally lifted from four different NSA reports, all of them classified “Top Secret / Special Intelligence.” Worse, at least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which from the CIA Ms. Clinton compromised in another series of her “unclassified” emails.
Currently serving NSA officials have told me they have no doubt that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from their reports. “It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” one of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret / Special Intelligence.
How Mr. Blumenthal got his hands on this information is the key question, and there’s no firm answer yet. The fact that he was able to take four separate highly classified NSA reports—none of which he was supposed to have any access to—and pass the details of them to Hillary Clinton via email only hours after NSA released them in Top Secret / Special Intelligence channels indicates something highly unusual, as well as illegal, was going on.
Suspicion naturally falls on Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA senior official who was Mr. Blumenthal’s intelligence fixer, his supplier of juicy spy gossip, who conveniently died last August before email-gate became front-page news. However, he, too, had left federal service years before and should not have had any access to current NSA reports. There are many questions here about what Hillary Clinton and her staff at Foggy Bottom were up to, including Sidney Blumenthal, an integral member of the Clinton organization, despite his lack of any government position.
<><> How Mr. Blumenthal got hold of this Top Secret-plus reporting is only the first question.
<><> Why he chose to email it to Ms. Clinton in open channels is another question.
<><> So is: How did not one aide to Secy Clinton notice the highly detailed reporting looked exactly like SIGINT from the NSA?
<><> Last, why did Hillary's State Department see fit to release this email, unredacted, to the public?
The woman should be in jail in all truth.....
“Soon the Email Queen
In a glaze of Vaseline
Will portay a Libertine
What a scene! What a scene.”
She is having a bad day.
Is Blumenthal on the govt payroll? Clinton, Huma, ValJar, Susan Rice and all of Hillary’s personal servants, even Bill and Chelsea, could also still be on the govt payroll.
We need to see the correspondence, emails, snail mails, hard drives, wire-transfers, text files, offshore banking activity, and the like.
ITEM——Demand to see govt reports of all tax dollars outlay to Clinton’s team and to Obama’s White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, and everyone employed in these offices.
ITEM-—DEMAND CONGRESS SEND YOU ALL AVAILABLE GOVT
INFORMATION specifically govt vouchers submitted by Susan Rice, Huma, Cheryl Mills, and Valerie Jarrett for tax dollars, including:.
<><> credit cards,
<><> gift cards,
<><> cell phone/landline bills,
<><> electronic/wire transfers,
<><> detailed expense accounts,
<><> transportation expenses
<><> office expenses
<><> office equipment expenses
<><> office supplies,
<><> unusual stamp purchases (a classic govt corruption MO)
<><> housing allotments,
<><> clothing allotments,
<><> entertainment including alco
<><> household help,
<><> reimbursements for varied business interests.
ITEM-—TAXPAYERS DEMAND TO KNOW WHO IN THE Clinton/OBAMA CIRCLE are CASHING GOVT PAYCHECKS, WHO IS GETTING GOVT PENSIONS, AND WHO IS STILL ON THE GOVT PAYROLL.
It’s an old trick politicians use-—hand-picking people and putting them on several govt payrolls. Long after you think they’re gone, they’re still cashing in.
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Yes, it’s done to the tune of ‘The Fantastiks’ musical song “Try to Remember (That Kind of September.”..................................
Huma Abedin, a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, routed sensitive information through Yahoo multiple times.
Huma Abedin forwarded sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows. Abedin, the top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, used her insecure personal email provider to conduct sensitive work.
This guarantees that an account with high-level correspondence in Clinton’s State Department was affected by one or more of a series of breaches—at least one of which was perpetrated by a “state-sponsored actor.”
The U.S. later charged Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin with hacking 500 million Yahoo email accounts. The initial hack occurred in 2014 and allowed his associates to access accounts into 2015 and 2016 by using forged cookies. Sushchin also worked for the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, which paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a June 2010 speech in Moscow.
A separate hack in 2013 compromised 3 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, Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, regularly forwarded work emails to her personal humamabedin@yahoo.com 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 shows. Long-time 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 email was deemed too sensitive by the government to release to the public and was redacted before being published pursuant to the Judicial Watch lawsuit. The released copy says: “Classified by DAS/ A/GIS, DoS on 10/30/2015 Class: Confidential.” The unredacted portion reads: “I have heard authoritatively from Bill Drozdiak, who is in Berlin. … We should expect that the Germans and Russians will now cut their own separate deals on energy, regional security, etc.” —SNIP—
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There behind the glass
stands her husband, what an ass,
(ladies) be careful as you pass,
move along, move along..
Meanwhile, Hillary is laughing so hard she’s having a cough attack.
Wow, that points toward a possibility here that I hadn’t considered before. Could it be that Hillary was selling secrets to foreign governments, and indirectly used Yahoo and the subsequent hack of millions of accounts to disguise it? Certainly would explain Huma’s otherwise unexplainable actions, and a widespread hack would permit the transfer of the targeted information from Hillary to go unnoticed, as well as provide a measure of plausible deniability for her if discovered (“Gee, I was just hacked like everyone else...nothing to see here”).
I saw ELP in person.
They can never be ‘covered’.................
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