Posted on 05/06/2017 11:07:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
Emails Reveal More Instances of Clinton Using Unsecure Email Server for Classified Info
JW Releases First Set of Numbers on President Trump Travel: Air Force One Costs for Two Trips: $1,281,420
Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi
Emails Reveal More Instances of Clinton Using Unsecure Email Server for Classified Info
This week, federal prosecutors were given more reasons to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
We have released 894 pages of State Department documents that include previously unreleased email exchanges in which Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin sent Clinton classified information through her unsecure clintonmail.com email account. 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 records were produced by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Abedin. The records were obtained in response to a court order from our May 5, 2015, lawsuit filed against the State Department ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) for:
All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-“state.gov” email address.
The new documents included 29 Hillary Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 317 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department. 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.
The emails show classified information was sent through the clintonemail.com account:
The new Abedin emails also reveal four instances in which Clinton’s then-Scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded the former secretary of state’s detailed daily schedule to top Clinton Foundation officials. In each case, those who received the schedules included Bill Clinton’s personal scheduler and Foundation aide Terry Krinvic, Justin Cooper , a then-aide to President Clinton who helped manage Hillary Clinton’s unsecure email system, and Clinton Foundation Director Doug Band.
The Abedin emails contain information sent from Clinton’s unsecured HDR22@clintonemail.com account in which she reminds an aide that she is to have a talk with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on “cybersecurity” and a reference to a “HRC Support Network”:
From: H [HDR22@clintonemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:10:34 PM
CC: Huma Abedin
Subject: Call list and HRC Support Network
***
Kirsten Gillibrand—cybersecurity
These records reveal that on January 17, 2010, five days after the massive Haitian earthquake, former Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper emailed 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. 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.)
According to minutes of a January 27, 2010, senior State Department staff meeting, diligent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents uncovered “at least a couple pedophiles ” attempting to adopt children in Haiti following the earthquake. The State Department was reportedly working with the Haitian government to expedite adoptions and removal to the United States of Haitian orphans.
These new emails show Hillary Clinton is a serial violator of various laws concerning the handling of classified material. The initial investigation into this criminal matter was compromised by Barack Obama’s corrupted FBI and Justice Department. This new information should spur new federal criminal investigations, hopefully under a new director of the FBI (see my comments for our friends at Breitbart on the disastrous FBI Director Comey here .)
JW Releases First Set of Numbers on President Trump Travel: Air Force One Costs for Two Trips: $1,281,420
Your JW wouldn’t be a credible watchdog group if we stopped asking questions depending on who is in office. We are a go-to source for information about what politicians are up to – including on where they are traveling and the associated costs for put upon taxpayers.
As part of this accountability mission, we released records from the Department of the Air Force in response to Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) requests that show President Trump’s flights to Mar-a-Lago for two weekends (in February and March) cost $1,281,420.00.
According to the Air Force documents, the cost to operate Air Force One is $142,380 per hour. The Air Force records show a total of nine hours for trips from Feb. 3 – 6 and March 3 – 6 . The latter trip involved a stop in Orlando where Trump met Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to tour a private Catholic school in support of school vouchers.
The Secret Service hasn’t responded to Judicial Watch’s request for records about this or any other trip by President Trump and other administration VIPs. Other trip cost information requests to the Air Force also remain pending.
From 2009, to the end of former President Obama’s term, JW tracked President Obama’s travel, resulting in a tabulation of at least $96,938,882.51 in taxpayer dollars for Obama family travel during his eight years in office. In fact, we’re still waiting on some of Obama’s travel numbers.
We’re pleased that the Air Force finally gave us some of the numbers for President Trump’s travel.
We’re preparing to go to court to get a full accounting of President Trump’s controversial trips.
Judicial Watch tracked some of the costs of President Obama’s unnecessary travel and we’re not closing up shop with a new administration.
This weekend, President Trump traveled to one of his homes in New Jersey and, seemingly responding to JW’s disclosures, highlighted in a tweet how going to stay in NJ is cheaper for taxpayers than visiting his home in mid-town Manhattan. It is good that, unlike the prior Oval Office occupant, he is at least showing some sensitivity on this issue and taking our advice to consider the taxpayer impact of any unnecessary travel.
Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi
I have some good news on bad news on getting more answers on the Benghazi outrage.
First the good news. We put out word this morning that on March 20, 2017, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over to Judicial Watch “eight identical paragraphs” of previously redacted material in two September 13, 2012, Hillary Clinton emails . The emails regarded phone calls made by President Barack Obama to Egyptian and Libyan leaders immediately following the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Both emails had the subject line “Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt” and were among the emails stored on Clinton’s unofficial email server. Judge Jackson reviewed the documents directly and rejected the government’s contention that the records had been properly withheld under the FOIA B(5) “deliberative process” exemption .
Judge Jackson ruled: “the two records, even if just barely predecisional, are not deliberative. [The State Department] has pointed to very little to support its characterization of these two records as deliberative, and the Court’s in camera review of the documents reveals that they do not fall within that category.”
The full emails may reveal what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama knew about the September 11, 2012, terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
Now the bad news!
Immediately following Judge Jackson’s March 20 ruling, the State Department asked the court to reconsider. The State Department argued that, due to an internal “mistake,” it failed to claim that the emails were classified and, therefore, exempt from production under FOIA Exemption B(1) .
You won’t be surprised to learn our attorney team went back to court to oppose this gambit. Our brief argues that the failure was not a mistake, but instead was part of a deliberate effort by the State Department to protect Clinton and the agency by avoiding identifying emails on Clinton’s unofficial, non-secure email server as classified.
Our filing cites an interview of an FBI employee who told federal investigators that top State Department official Patrick Kennedy pressured the FBI to keep Clinton’s emails unclassified. The employee told the FBI he “believes STATE ha[d] an agenda which involves minimizing the classified nature of the CLINTON emails in order to protect STATE interests and those of CLINTON.”
We also cite to an interview of a State Department employee who told the FBI that the State Department’s Office of Legal Counsel interfered with the FOIA processing of email from Secretary Clinton’s server, instructing reviewers to use Exemption B(5) (deliberative process exemption) instead of Exemption B(1) (classified information exemption). According to the FBI interview:
STATE’s Near East Affairs Bureau upgraded several of CLINTON’s emails to a classified level with a B(1) release exemption. [Redacted], along with [Redacted] attorney, Office of Legal Counsel, called STATE’s Near East Affairs Bureau and told them they could use a B(5) exemption on a upgraded email to protect it instead of the B(1) exemption. However, the use of the B(5) exemption, which is usually used for executive privilege-related information, was incorrect as the information actually was classified and related to national security, which would be a B(1) exemption.
Judicial Watch argues:
An agency’s deliberate withholding of a FOIA claim, either to gain a tactical advantage or, as appears to be the case here, to protect the agency’s interests and those of its former head, is “a motive undoubtedly inconsistent with FOIA’s broad remedial purpose …” It “counsels denying the Government’s request.”
The emails in question were sent to then-top administration officials, including Clinton, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan, Special Assistant Robert Russo, and Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough.
I’m sure you share my concern that this potentially historic Benghazi material may never see the light of day thanks to some within the Trump administration. Does President Trump know his State and Justice Departments are still trying to provide cover for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?”
I can’t believe this extraordinary court ruling that could result in key answers about the Benghazi outrage is being opposed by the Trump administration. This may well be an example of the “deep state” trying to get away with a cover up. If so, then the Trump administration must put a stop to it.
We fought the Obama administration in court repeatedly to uncover the truth about Benghazi that even Congress couldn’t get. Let’s hope the Trump administration appointees understand the stakes and stop fighting us in court (and wasting taxpayer dollars) to defend the indefensible.
Until next week,
Overall Judicial Watch has done some impressive work.
The other issue is weather or not to give Hillary a break if found guilty. Trump would need to get the message out that crime doesn’t pay. Putting her in jail serves no purpose but if she/Bill copt an attitude I say jail her/them. House arrest together would be fair as well as cruel and unusual.
Excellent! We might actually get the transparency 0bama promised us. Too bad it’s wayyy after the fact but we finally may get the truth about Benghazi.
If it as bad as we think the enemedia needs to be hanged for their part in this cover up. It sucks how corrupt they’ve become where anything bad for a democrat president, they feel the need to cover up. At least Sharyl Attkisson tried but the power of the crony corporate media and the government came down on her trying to keep this from the American people.
The enemedia needs to be slapped down hard for their role in this as well.
CGato
Welcome editor-surveyor, you’re on.
Yep, the enemedia are so much in the tank for Rats and leftists they’ve become a really not funny joke.
Sharyl Attkisson and Catherine Herridge are two of the good ones, hopefully the new lefty running FNC doesn’t do in Herridge.
So when do they go to jail?
Good points. It is not as if hanging around the WH
all the time is a big national freebie.
Hillary missed her chance to get a presidential pardon.....
Pardons Granted by President Barack Obama
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
You’re right.
You missed ‘em.
Stand down could only come from POTUS. Idiot Obama was off to Nevada to campaign by the next day. Criminal Clinton was asleep at “3 am” or totally drunk. She knew one way or another what Benghazi was about and the b*tch scum Susan Rice spread lies. All the evidence is out there about Libya and this administration. The infuriating aspect is that nobody has the balls to prosecute. Like everything else (Extortion 17, Fast and Furious etc) it all goes down the memory hole;Truly disgusting!
Depends on which "stand down" you are talking about. This phrase was picked up by the enemedia, politicians and FReepers and strewn about like grass seed.
The first time I heard it used - and the first time it *would* have been used re Benghazi - was from Heridge and it was given to those at the "annex" when they requested permission to go to the aid of those at the "consulate." This would NOT have necessarily been a call only POTUS could make.
Hey Jeremy Peters - why didn't the New York Times give a damn about this stuff... or is it what we think ...
At least Sharyyl Atkinson got away from CBS whom was her former employer.
There are TOO many felonies to have pardoned her. YES, the email felonies could have been pardoned but what about Seth Rich?
The more investigators dig, the more they will find on the most corrupt politician in history. Even Hussein Obama can't touch her.
“So when do they go to jail?”
Well... according to Comey as hard as he tried he could not find INTENT. Of course you can’t find intent if you ignore context, preponderance of evidence and deny the ability to see how the dots connect.
When you examine the context and connect the dots the INTENT to deceive is screaming at you.
INTENT only applies to Clintons and the elite in the progressive liberal democrat socialist party, I don’t know what Comey means by intent but I do know what motive is and there is an abundance of that.
If I break the law even if I had no intent to do so or was ignorant of the law, I’m going to jail.
So why does this continue? It continues because there is no opposition political party and that has yet to change.
I know freepers already understand all that I’m just venting.
Why isn’t HRC in jail yet?
Just like the mortgage scandal, allot of people are above the law in this country; the law is for us not them. This is the surest way to either desolve a nation or instigate a revolution.
Comparing Trumps use of Air Force One vs. the Obama use of air force one is pretty insane to me. Zero seldom did official business since val/jar was running things anyway.
Trump nearly always combines business of the govt. with a much needed precious few hours of relaxation in Fla.
We have a potus who is on duty 7 days a week 24/7 on call and Judicial Watch is complaining! They better find something else to do with their valuable time.
Excellent post.
Also, show me how many times zero met with the president of China on one of his weekend jaunts to Fla or anywhere else.
We have a for-real potus. Something we have not had since Reagan.I for one will not be nitpicking him to death.
During Benghazi potus ozero was otherwise occupied with a ten year old Kenyan. Male of course. It was his night for recreation.Val/jar used to drive the victim,errr.... entertainment, for the night to the WH using a white van.
NO telling who was making the stand down commands.
Finding out who made that original "stand down" over the phone to those at the "annex" is key to unraveling this whole mess. That person could very likely be equivalent to Alexander Butterfield.
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