All Discussions Tagged 'State' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T10:01:34Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?groupUrl=clnton-for-prison-2016&tag=State&feed=yes&xn_auth=noClinton Struck Deal With Obama State Dept. to Keep Records Privatetag:12160.info,2017-12-14:2649739:Topic:17380732017-12-14T23:54:18.253ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p>December 14, 2017 10:49 am</p>
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<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton struck a deal with the State Department while serving in…</p>
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<p>December 14, 2017 10:49 am</p>
<p><span class="sep">BY:<span> </span></span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://freebeacon.com/author/jack-heretik/" title="View all posts by Jack Heretik" rel="author">Jack Heretik</a></span></p>
<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton struck a deal with the State Department while serving in the Obama administration that allowed her to take ownership of records she did not want made public, according to recently released reports.</p>
<p>Clinton and her then-deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin were permitted to remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were "personal" materials and "unclassified, non-record materials."</p>
<p>Judicial Watch made the <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-state-department-made-deal-hillary-clinton-keep-call-log-schedules-secret/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">revelation</a> after filing a FOIA request with the State Department and obtaining a record of the agreement.</p>
<p>The newly released documents show the deal allowed Clinton and Abedin to remove documents related to particular calls and schedules, and the records would not be "released to the general public under FOIA." Abedin, for instance, was allowed to remove electronic records and five boxes of physical files, including files labeled "Muslim Engagement Documents."</p>
<p>The released records included a list of designated materials that "would not be released to the general public under FOIA" and were to be released "to the Secretary with this understanding."</p>
<blockquote><p>Electronic copy of "daily files" – which are word versions of public documents and non-records: speeches/press statements/photos from the website, a non-record copy of the schedule, a non record copy of the call log, press clips, and agenda of daily activities</p>
<p>Electronic copy of a log of calls the Secretary made since 2004, it is a non-record, since her official calls are logged elsewhere (official schedule and official call log)</p>
<p>Electronic copy of the Secretary’s "call grid" which is a running list of calls she wants to make (both personal and official)</p>
<p>16 boxes: Personal Schedules (1993 thru 2008-prior to the Secretary’s tenure at the Department of State.</p>
<p>29 boxes: Miscellaneous Public Schedules during her tenure as FLOTUS and Senator-prior to the Secretary’s tenure at the Department of State</p>
<p>1 box: Personal Reimbursable receipts (6/25/2009 thru 1/14/2013)</p>
<p>1 box: Personal Photos</p>
<p>1 box: Personal schedule (2009-2013)</p>
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<p>A physical file of "the log of the Secretary’s gifts with pictures of gifts" was also handed over to Clinton. Gifts received by government employees is highly regulated, and often strictly limited. However, gifts that are "motivated by a family relationship or personal friendship" may be accepted without limitation.</p>
<p>Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton released a statement condemning the agreement between the government and Clinton.</p>
<p>"We already know the Obama State Department let Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information. But these new records show that was only part of the scandal," Fitton said. "These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws."</p>
<p>"When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?" he added.</p>
<p><a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-struck-deal-obama-state-dept-keep-records-private/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newswatch&utm_term=members&utm_content=20171214234224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a></p> Judicial Watch Uncovers Shocking New Clinton Emailstag:12160.info,2017-06-06:2649739:Topic:16901032017-06-06T12:38:07.269ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p>Let’s remember that amid the miasma of charges and accusations hovering over Washington the real scandal of the Clinton email scheme is being exposed – without fanfare in the press – as bureaucrats reluctantly relinquish the evidence to the only game in town when it comes to fighting and exposing government corruption – Judicial Watch!</p>
<p>This week JW released <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/tag/huma-production-17/">2,078 pages</a> of documents revealing yet more…</p>
<p>Let’s remember that amid the miasma of charges and accusations hovering over Washington the real scandal of the Clinton email scheme is being exposed – without fanfare in the press – as bureaucrats reluctantly relinquish the evidence to the only game in town when it comes to fighting and exposing government corruption – Judicial Watch!</p>
<p>This week JW released <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/tag/huma-production-17/">2,078 pages</a> of documents revealing yet more instances of the former secretary of state sending and receiving classified information via an unsecured email server. They also show Clinton’s daughter Chelsea and others involved with the Clinton Foundation receiving special favors from Huma Abedin, the former secretary’s deputy chief of staff.</p>
<p>The records were obtained in response to a <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-jan-11-order-00684/">court order</a> from a May 5, 2015, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-seven-new-foia-lawsuits-against-state-department-to-force-release-of-clinton-emails-other-secret-email-records/">lawsuit</a> filed against the State Department (<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-00684-abedin-non-state-emails/"><em>Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State</em></a> (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: “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.”</p>
<p>The new documents include <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-unpublished-00684/">115 Clinton email exchanges</a> not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-huma-abedin-emails-reveal-additional-instances-clinton-sending-receiving-classified-emails-unsecure-server/">known total</a> to date to at least 432 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, “<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-hillary-clinton-submits-email-information-to-court-under-penalty-of-perjury/">as far as she knew</a>,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.</p>
<p>On December 6, 2010, Secretary Clinton shared <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-1244-1246/">classified information</a> with non-U.S. government employees <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/clintons-top-aide-cheryl-mills-answers-questions-oath-reveal-pagliano-concerned-guccifer-hack-blumenthals-emails-compromise-clintons-u/">Justin Cooper</a>, then-aide to President Clinton who helped manage Hillary Clinton’s unsecure email system, and Clinton Foundation director Doug Band (neither of whom held security clearances). The email instructs her aide Oscar Flores to “print for Bill” (presumably Bill Clinton). The email exchange, which involved allegations of the theft of foreign aid by Bangladeshi banker and <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/25/exclusive-hillary-aides-threatened-prime-ministers-son-with-irs-audit/" class="extl">major Clinton Foundation donor</a> Muhammad Yunus, started with an email from an unidentified person to State Department official Melanne Verveer, who forwarded her exchange on to Hillary Clinton, who then sent it on to Flores, Cooper and Band.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus" class="extl">Yunus was accused</a> of embezzling $100 million from the Grameen Bank he founded and was removed from it, although the charges were never proven, and Yunus reportedly returned the money. Subsequently, Clinton’s State Department was <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/25/exclusive-hillary-aides-threatened-prime-ministers-son-with-irs-audit/" class="extl">accused</a> of threatening IRS action against the Bangladesh prime minister’s son in an attempt to stop a Bangladesh government investigation of Yunus.</p>
<p>In a similar instance on March 14, 2011, State Department official Maria Otero emailed Clinton information about the Grameen Bank/Foundation that was again <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-1431/">deemed classified</a> as Confidential by the State Department and redacted under <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/foia-exemptions/">FOIA exemption</a> B1.4(D) – “Information specifically authorized by an executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy … Foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.” Clinton then responds to Otero using her HDR22@clintonemailcom account and copies Abedin on Abedin’s unsecure email account, huma@clintonemail.com.</p>
<p>In a May 21, 2011, email exchange sent to Abedin’s unsecure account, then- Ambassador <a href="https://www.usip.org/people/princeton-n-lyman" class="extl">Princeton Lyman</a> sent information relating to his conversation with South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit that is also <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-1555/">redacted and classified</a> as “Confidential.”</p>
<p>On July 17, 2012, Abedin forwarded to her private email account for printing a call briefing sheet for Clinton’s upcoming call with Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, which was <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-1783-1884/">classified Confidential</a> and redacted under FOIA exemption B1.4(D).</p>
<p>The new Abedin emails also reveal additional instances in which Clinton’s then- scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded the former secretary of state’s detailed <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/tag/huma-17-clinton-schedules/">daily schedule</a> to top Clinton Foundation officials.</p>
<p>The new emails also reveal a number of favors that were requested and carried out.</p>
<p>In May 2010, Ben Ringel, whose donations to the Clinton Foundation Judicial Watch <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/new-abedin-emails-reveal-hillary-clinton-state-department-gave-special-access-top-clinton-foundation-donors/">previously documented</a>, asked Abedin to intervene in an <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-586-589/">employment dispute</a> on behalf of a USAID employee. Abedin agreed, telling Ringel to forward the woman’s documents to her official State Department email account.</p>
<p>Also in May 2010, Abedin tells Band that she has “<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-production-17-00684-pg-540/">hooked up</a>” people from the Russian American Foundation with “the right people” at the State Department after Abedin received a request from Russian American Foundation Vice President <a href="http://russianamericanfoundation.org/about" class="extl">Rina Kirshner</a>, forwarded by Clinton Foundation donor <a href="http://biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2441:we-have-our-own-trumps-thank-you-&catid=50:community-news&Itemid=258" class="extl">Eddie Trump</a> (no relation to President Trump).</p>
<blockquote><p>On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Huma Abedin <Huma@clintonemail.com> wrote:</p>
<p>Hi Rina – wanted to connect on meeting at state department. Eddie trump passed on your email. Will be in touch soon</p>
<p><strong>From:</strong> Rina Kirshner</p>
<p><strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:29 AM</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Huma Abedin</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Eddie Trump/Doug Band</p>
<p>Ms. Abedin,</p>
<p>Just wanted to follow up and express our gratitude. I was contacted today by Ms. Christina Miner who invited us to be part of the US-Russia Cultural Sub-Working Group meeting next week. Thank you very much for all your assistance – if there is any way we can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Rina Kirshner</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com]</p>
<p><strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:19:12</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Doug Band</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> FW: Eddie Trump/Doug Band</p>
<p>fyi – we hooked her up with the right people here</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shocking-new-clinton-emails/">http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shocking-new-clinton-emails/</a></p>
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