State Dept. Withheld Key Email From Clinton’s Private Server in FOIA Lawsuit
The State Department has now acknowledged that it withheld a key Benghazi e-mail in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in July 2014. The State Department acknowledged finding the e-mail in 2014, but it was withheld in its entirety until last week.
This latest admission comes in a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, that seeks records related to the drafting and use of the Benghazi talking points. According to Judicial Watch, it contradicts an earlier admission made by the State Department in the same lawsuit. In a letter dated April 18, 2016, the State Department writes:
Also, upon further review, the Department has determined that one document previously withheld in full in our letter dated November 12, 2014 may now be released in part.
The document in question is an e-mail from then Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan addressed to Hillary Clinton concerning Benghazi talking points to be used in discussions with Senators. Although redacted almost in its entirety, the e-mail is important because it contains Clinton’s private e-mail server address, hdr22@clintonemail.com. Had the State Department disclosed the e-mail at the time of the 2014 FOIA request, it would have exposed Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct official State Department business in the early fall of 2014. The timing is significant because the disclosure would have occurred several months before the Clinton campaign says she deleted several thousand “personal” e-mails.
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7:05 p.m. UPDATE:
In a statement to LawNewz.com on Tuesday evening, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, “The State Department can’t keep track of its cover-ups.” Fitton added, ” These changing stories are why two federal court judges granted us discovery.”
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I hate being forced to use conservative sources for anything I write, think, or talk about but as far as Clinton is concerned, it's not like TPTB on the 'Left' are ever going to tell the truth about Henry K's BFF
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It's not like
she's not conservative, either.
She's damn sure no liberal, she only plays one on TV. Kinda weird, seeing the 'Thugs going after one of their kin. Ya think maybe they're just pissed that she broke some laws?
I think that's why Repubs have hated the Clintons for decades
Deep down, they're pissed Hill and Bill stole their shtick and forced them to go to John Birch crazytown.
"The brilliance of Bill Clinton was that he transformed the Democratic Party into the Republican Party. And he pushed the Republican Party so far to the right, it became insane."
It's a big club...and you ain't in it!
You might be on to something there...
And because of all this, now we've got to deal with Trump!
I still think that whole thing was completely contrived, and that nobody had a clue how popular he was going to be, least of all, him. I seriously wonder if he's having second thoughts. The bits about Bernie being cheated? The most obvious conclusion is that he wants Sanders to go third-party to split the Hillary vote--or at least, that's the obvious conclusion being drawn by what few Clinton supporters I can get on the record. If that's the case, why doesn't he, Trump, go Indie? Oh, he wouldn't want to split the vote and have it benefit Clinton?
Fascinating, to consider all this in such a context, isn't it?
What would be REALLY funny
is if started making noises about asking Sanders to be his running mate as they are both "Outsiders". I honestly wouldn't put it past Trump to pull such a move. He knows what kind of media attention that would get him.
I am quite positive Bernie would never accept that, but damn, if he did? That would be the most bizarro world story ever, lol!. (Then Trump could resign and be done with it and get to go back to exploiting his name for profit, which I think his whole run was about in the first place. A way to better build his brand and sell some more books.)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Let's try the reverse
Bernie should ask Trump to be his Biden, an entertaining lunkhead kept free of any actual power.
I kid. Clearly Trump is better suited to be Secretary of Commerce so we can all enjoy classy products day in and day out.
And you just know
That they would GREAT products and everyone would LOVE them because he is Awesome and everyone loves the Donald right?
Or
Secretary of the Interior Decoration.
Gold toilet fixtures and all that, ya know.
LoL all you guys crack me up... :)
I love coming here, I finally have that feeling of Community again that I thought existed at TOP. I didn't realize how much I missed it till I got it back.
C99P is now a part of my morning, "Caffeine and Click" wake up routine.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Clinton's private emails
Don't disparage Judicial Watch. Right now, conservative watchdogs are OUR friends. They are truly the only entities willing and able to get through the muck of Hill's and States's coverup. The friends of my enemy are my friends.
I don't know if I would call JW a friend...
but they are the enemy of my enemy which at least makes them allies of convenience.
And right now? Well, lets just say I will take whatever allies I can get for the most part...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Nice column today by H.A. Goodman at Huff
Everyone Knows That...
H. A. Goodman & the Huffington Post is just a bunch of Right Wing Propaganda...
Oh! Wait a minute... LOL
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Forgot you were not at the GOS again?
I do that sometimes too.
I remember at the bottom of a comment or Essay I wrote one time making this long disclaimer at the end and then realized, "Oh shit, I don't gotta do that here." and actually laughed out loud at myself...
I'm thinking about calling it PKSD - #PostKosStressDisorder
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well, too many times now those RWNJ
talking points have had just enough of a grain of truth to them to not be so NJ. We too have been inoculated to think they are just total loons and nothing they say is ever remotely true - but sometimes it surely is, and right now we discount that at our peril. All those ugly "attacks" on the Clintons over the years by the Right Wing made us think it was just all about party, but this IS how they triangulate to screw us over. Hell, I bought into the whole racism thing with Obama, and when he turned around and cynically used that as an excuse to fastrack TPP? There was that triangulation, for all to see.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
In this I absolutely agree. I thought I said so.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Errrm...
You wanna rethink that? I really don't want to think that you really want Kissinger's friendship! :O
The more people I meet, the more I love my cats.
The enema of my fiends are
a friend in thyme?
Hmmm... Thyme Enema's? I bet there is a market for that...
I could charge a shit load (Teeheehee) for them at a high end spa someplace in Beverly Hills or thereabouts.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
The friends of my enemy are my friends
Is what the DNC and Kos are trying to sell us.
Beware the bullshit factories.
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State Dept. Withheld Key Email From Clinton’s Private Server in FOIA Lawsuit - LawNewz.com
HRC is neither conservative nor liberal.
She is power-hungry - pure and simple. All that matters to her is power. We all need to get that through our collective heads. It's all about the power - nothing more, nothing less. We must not grant her that power. Period.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
the difference between her and Bernie
Bernie sees the Presidency as a means, Hillary sees it as an end.
Not me -- US!
She may be right for once - another Clinton presidency may well
be the end of our noble experiment.
Yes, she is a megalomaniac plain and simple.
We may have the honor of choosing between a narcissistic, bigoted blowhard and a megalomaniacal war monger. Lucky us.
What is conservative?
Beyond the unproductive accumulation of power. I think by most broad measures, Clinton is conservative.
I don't think its power
I think it's fame and first woman "legacy."
If you don't know what you want, you deserve what you get.
Which leads to power.
That's her ultimate goal. Believe it.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I Don't Think It Is 1st Woman...
For anything more than a selling point...
Her feminism certainly lacks depth, and is nothing like Bernie's where there are only a few separate issues concerning women, and the rest come with advancing all people equally...
Really a lot of people aren't getting that message...
There is no sex, age, race, ethnicity, religion, etc. in "Us," we are all Brothers & Sisters in the movement and "We are Equals."
We are doing this so that the laws and actions of people, government, & business, in this country, take action to ensure that we are all equals...
Anything less is not for the cause...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
It's not about fame
It's about POWER
The Clinton wing was beyond PISSED when they lost the chance to get back in power and pick Up where they left off when Obama became president.
HRC is merely the figurehead they chose to put forth to the public but when you look behind her curtain you will see the exact SAME men who surrounded BILL pulling her strings.
Orwell was an optimist
That's a cover
It's the money. It's always been the money.
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me
No, it's power and money.................n/t
It's all of those things,
but in particular, it IS about "power" for her. Gawd, I can still hear my mom saying that exact thing--and this was LONG before Judicial Watch or the Internet.
I'll tellya something else it's about, at least IMO--this is also about Showing Up Bill.
Boy, whaddaya wanna bet the first thing she would do as POTUS is be the first POTUS to obtain a divorce while in office?
Funny you mention that. I was just wondering if Bill was hoping
to get her installed so he could 'stand by her' when she gets impeached, and he gets to feel vindicated since she's never let him forget how much smarter she is. Just wondering. Its a strange partnership of unenlightened low-class self-servers.
Power and money.....
And not in that order.
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me
Kinda reminds me of this classic clip.
[video:https://youtu.be/EBcflBBGKhE?t=19]
For some reason it doesn't start the video from the time you want to when embedding videos for some reason, but the appropriate line is at 18 sec. in. (Change last word to Presidency and it sums up Hillary)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Since Hillary's private email was the ONLY address she
used, it should have been revealed with the very first FOIA requests ever filed concerning her email communications early on in her tenure as SOS.
IMO there must have been a very active effort within the DOS to keep it under wraps. Notably, it was only after HRC and her interference running minions were out of office that the Kerry DOS actually started attempting to really comply with FOIA requests, or at least that's how it looks.
Mysteriously enough, her file of Benghazi communications were archived and effectively hidden while they were actually under subpoena - State Department Office Removed Benghazi Files After Congressional Subpoena
That story is from the Washington Free Beacon which is conservative AFAIK, but as someone else noted, it is the rightwing media that is doing the reporting on the emails.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
That one last piece of the puzzle....right here:
THIS is how the GOV servers enter into this scenario, and that's why the IT guy got immunity?
I hadn't seen that stated flat out, but it was the conclusion I drew and it sounds like it's what you're saying, more or less, with that acknowledgement---that by using his credentials, this IT guy did something he knew could get him fired--he went outside of protocol and left the government vulnerable. To grant Hillary her hearts desire--convenience.
??? Yeah, as if. This wasn't about convenience, it was about her being able to see her email before anybody else did, as well as hiding shit she didn't want seen in the sunlight.
Wonder how many Little Debbie emails reference "vote counting" in the upcoming primary? Maybe some dirt on how The Donald came to be a candidate? Holy crap, if I was that IT guy, I'd be hiring a food taster and staying out of planes and cars when I'm alone. Jesus, you know he's got a target on him...
That statement kind of begs the question
of why didn't anyone say anything during the entire four years she was SoS. Surely Obama and everyone she contacted knew she was not using a gov address, and NO ONE asked her about it. Not once.
I am pretty sure that Obama's statements pretty much pardoning her have nothing to do with covering his own ass. Right?
Today's daydream: Wouldn't it be nice if someone were to hack her current emails and publish them? President Sanders!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Well, Obama issued a statement on what he 'knew'
Obama Says He Didn’t Know Hillary Clinton Was Using Private Email Address
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/us/obama-says-he-didnt-know-hillary-cl...
Obama Says He Didn't Know Hillary Clinton Was Using Private Email Address
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But it's not like he hasn't bald-faced lied to us before. He lied on the campaign trail, he lied about what the ACA was going to do, he lied about what the NSA was up to.
NOTE: I have that link in two different ways. If it doesn't show up Google the New York Times.
I seriously don't like that guy. I think it's all the patronizing he dishes up with his whoppers.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
In Liar's Poker, which is an old barroom game,
there was a saying that "The first liar never had a chance." The problem with our current government officials is that lie after lie is stacked on top of another or intertwined with the other lies that it is getting increasingly difficult to see who the first liar was. I think I will start with Obama's statement of wanting there to be government transparency.
Thanks for the link.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Compromising national security at the highest level
for her own selfish purposes. Throw the book at her.
Beware the bullshit factories.
The gall of it is truly astonishing
I truly do not get it. If one has the entourage to carry a second phone, why not just, ya know, do what all the experts say needs to be done to uphold national security.
Then again, it's not like she got hacked or anything. Oh, wait...
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
One of the weirdest things to come out was the thing
about Hillary didn't know how to access email from a PC or laptop (!) which is the setup the State Department itself proscribed and which is what her predecessors used. It seems as though there was NO response to Clinton or her staff that was acceptable if it involved the slightest bit of inconvenience or change to her regular routine.
How hard could it be to show Hillary how to go into email on a computer?
Once Hillary was warned about the threat to security her blackberry offered to evildoers, every use of it in insecure surroundings or relative to sensitive communications was conscious flouting of that security IMO. She literally does not seem to think that rules are applicable to her.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
Seriously.
One would think that not understanding a BASIC TECHNOLOGY FUNCTION should disqualify you from almost any public office -- least of all the presidency.
(Of course, she full well knows how to access email on a laptop. It's just a shitty, transparent excuse to get what she wants).
I think that's a BS excuse too. But this is the first time
I've ever heard it. Regardless, it's BS. Think about it. We've been using PCs at work and at home for decades.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I get it
she's got a lot of shit to hide. Anything to do with the DNC, primary vote counting or Donald Trump.
She can't have that stuff subject to sunlight, and she damn sure can't afford to have some staffer see it before she does.
I have been hoping for a while now that Anonymous or someone
would upload the missing emails to several press outlets, Wikileaks, etc.
It's one of the headlines I hope to see when I first wake up and log into C99P.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
And campaign funds
I have absolutely no proof at all, but I suspect she is laundering money from big donors [including foreign ones] into her campaign.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
How Hillary Clinton Could Ask A Single Donor For Over $700,000
This year, by comparison, Hillary Clinton's organization can ask donors to give nearly three-quarters of a million dollars each. Here's how it works:
Donors who are rich — and willing — can give $5,400 to the Clinton campaign, $33,400 to the Democratic National Committee and $10,000 to each of the state parties, about $360,000 in all. A joint fundraising committee lets the donor do it all with a single check.
On Jan. 1, the contribution limits reset for the party committees, and the Hillary Victory Fund can go back to its donors for another $350,000 in party funds.
All told, a single donor can give more than $700,000 for the election. That's serious money, according to campaign finance lawyer Brett Kappel. He said, "It also shows you where campaign finance law has gone. We're now back in the era of soft money."
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/23/460762853/how-hillary-clinton-could-ask-a-...
OKAY - THE LINK IS IN BOTH WAYS. IF IT DOESN'T SHOW UP ALL I CAN SUGGEST IS 'GOOGLE IT'.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
The foreign money came in through the Clinton Foundation.
While it is illegal for foreign governments to donate to U.S. political campaigns there is no such restrictions on 501(s)(3) which is what the Clinton Foundation was. There are dozens of instances of foreign countries and business donating to the Clinton Foundation while those countries had matter pending State Department approvals. One of the most famous being Algeria which donated $500,000 The Clintons have admitted this was a violation of the conflict of interest protocols She agreed to with Obama prior to her appointment.
"The Clintons have admitted this was a violation of the
conflict of interest protocols She agreed to with Obama prior to her appointment."
Like she cares. And Obama is as crooked and worthless as she is so he let her slide.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I lost patience with Obama's...
willingness to let shit slide when he failed to prosecute those that brought down the market...
I voted for him again in his second term, but I held my nose to do it.
My nose is too damn sore for that shit anymore though....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Another way around
Foreign entities can pay Bill millions for a few speeches and as joint income she can donate unlimited amount to her own campaign.
Check out the 7:00 mark where she gets called out on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdYGcEHwq4
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me