The Clinton Chronicles

By PAULA REID CBS NEWS August 22, 2016, 12:05 PM
Judge orders expedited release of 15,000 Hillary Clinton documents found by FBI
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At a heated hearing Monday, a federal judge pressed the State Department on when it would release the 15,000 documents uncovered by the FBI during its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Initially, the State Department attorney would not answer Judge James Boasberg’s repeated questions about the number of emails recovered by the FBI. The judge urged the State Department to expedite its review of what is called “Disc 1,” which is one of two discs handed over from FBI to the State Department in late July.

The soonest these emails will be released to the public is early October, a few weeks before the November elections.

These are all emails that Clinton sent or received during her tenure as secretary of state, and they were not among the 55,000 documents turned over by her lawyers last year. The conservative judicial watchdog Judicial Watch has filed several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the State Department for material from Clinton’s time as secretary of state. The group is keenly interested in Disc 1 because the information on it relates directly to Clinton.

FBI Director James Comey had said at the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the use of her server that the agency had found thousands of emails on her server that were work-related and that had not been submitted to the State Department. Comey, while referring to Clinton and those she corresponded with as “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information, also said that there was no evidence that emails were “intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.” Rather, he said she “periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were purged from the system when devices were changed.”

The State Department is vetting the emails to see whether they deem any of them are private and personal before releasing the rest.

On Friday Clinton scored a minor victory against Judicial Watch when a judge said she could answer questions from Judicial Watch lawyers in writing and did not have to be deposed. Her answers are not due until after the election.

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Breaking: FBI Confirms They Found Nearly 15,000 More Undisclosed Clinton Emails
by Ronn Blitzer | 11:41 am, August 22nd, 2016
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On Monday, State Department lawyers confirmed in federal court that the FBI found approximately 14,900 emails sent to or from Hillary Clinton‘s private email server that had not previously been turned over, The Hill reported. This is roughly 50 percent more than the 30,000 emails that Clinton’s lawyers turned over back in 2014.

The emails were discovered during the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s server. They turned the documents over to the State Department after they concluded the probe.

Attorneys told U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg that they are assessing the nature of the emails. It remains to be seen when or how many of the emails will be released to the public.

According to the Washington Post, the State Department had planned on a release date of October 14, but Judge Boasberg rejected that, ordering the State Department to have a new plan to present at a hearing on September 22.

Monday’s hearing was part of a lawsuit brought by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch in May 2015 under the Freedom of Information Act. Judicial Watch had sought all State Department emails sent or received by Clinton after learning that she had used a private email server while she served as Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013.

This article has been updated with information regarding the release of the emails as well as background information.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bre...nearly-15000-more-undisclosed-clinton-emails/
 
STATE DEPARTMENT
Clinton Foundation executive left 148 phone messages for Hillary Clinton's top aide

By James Rosen

Published August 22, 2016
FoxNews.com


EXCLUSIVE: A senior executive at the Clinton Foundation left almost 150 telephone messages for Hillary Clinton’s top aide at the State Department within a two-year time frame, according to previously unpublished documents obtained by Fox News.

A review of State Department call logs for Cheryl Mills, the longtime Clinton confidant who served as chief of staff for the entirety of Clinton’s four-year tenure as America’s top diplomat, reflects at least 148 messages from Laura Graham – then the Clinton Foundation’s chief operating officer – between 2010 and 2012. No other individual or non-profit appears in the logs with anything like that frequency or volume, the review found.

One of the messages Graham left for Mills, in August 2011, referenced “our boss” – without further identifying that individual. Another, from January 2012, appeared to reference former President Clinton, using his initials: “Please call. WJC is looking for her [Graham] and she wants to talk to you before she talks to him.”

The telephone records were released by the State Department to the conservative advocacy group Citizens United as part of a long-running lawsuit over the Freedom of information Act.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said he could not provide “a read-out of every one of those messages or every one of those calls,” nor estimate how many of them were returned. But he acknowledged that Mills and Graham never shared the same boss and insisted the department “always” acted under Clinton to advance U.S. foreign policy interests, “with no other intent in mind beyond that.”

“Secretary Clinton's ethics agreement at the time [she assumed office] did not preclude other State Department officials from engaging with, or having contact with, the Clinton Foundation,” Toner said.
 
So, Option, I guess that you are admitting that you are a blind partisan.

Your meme above is easily debunked with just the slightest effort toward an honest look at it.

I guess you want to stay deluded.
 
I guess I have to do it for you. It's truly pathetic that you ignorant deluded righties just want to stay that way. Seriously, what is wrong with you. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Hillary Clinton was not fired from the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman.

CLAIM: Hillary Clinton was fired from the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman.

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp
 
futurecurrents said:
I guess I have to do it for you. It's truly pathetic that you ignorant deluded righties just want to stay that way. Seriously, what is wrong with you. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Hillary Clinton was not fired from the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman.

CLAIM: Hillary Clinton was fired from the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman.

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FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp
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FC may be correct about this one.
 
One Lie Too Many for Hillary?
NOAH ROTHMAN / AUG. 22, 2016
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It’s been over 260 days since Hillary Clinton held her last press conference. Surely, the former secretary of state knew that stonewalling the press like this would antagonize political media and hand her Republican opponents a powerful rhetorical weapon, but she must have determined it was a small price to pay. If Clinton thought avoiding the press would keep her name out of the news, however, that was a significant lapse in judgment. The former secretary of state is still generating headlines from inside the bunker, and few of them are good.

Last week, the New York Times reported that Clinton had told the FBI of an exchange she had had with Colin Powell in which she claimed George W. Bush’s one-time chief diplomat had suggested she use a personal email address. The Times cited an excerpt from a forthcoming Bill Clinton biography by journalist Joe Conason who described that precise exchange between Clinton and Powell at a State Department gathering:

“Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat….Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer.”

This is no defense; it’s an indictment. Secretary Clinton had, according to Conason’s reporting, already determined that it was in her best interest to use a private server for her electronic communications. That server was used for all Clinton’s correspondence, including sensitive and classified emails related to American national and diplomatic security—despite Powell’s explicit warning against doing just that.

In a statement, Powell’s office insisted that he did not recall the dinner conversation, but he did remember describing to Clinton in writing how he had used a personal AOL address to archive and account for unclassified communications.

Powell did not like the way the story came out. To put it mildly. “The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did,” he told People Magazine on Sunday. “Her people have been trying to pin it on me,” he said of Clinton’s email antics.

This is no small thing. Clinton told the FBI in an interview regarding her special server that it was Powell who suggested to her that she use this personal email account. Powell now denies it. FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress that there was no basis to suspect that Clinton lied to federal investigators at any point. Without a verbatim transcript of Clinton’s interview with the FBI, there is no concrete evidence she did otherwise—except that Powell is saying, in effect, that she misled investigators by saying she was following his lead. He just threw her to the wolves.

On Monday, the group Judicial Watch revealed that it had secured some of the thousands of work-related emails Clinton had failed to hand over to the State Department. Judicial Watch says it will soon release emails showing that Clinton aide Huma Abedin provided donors to the Clinton Foundation with preferential access to the Secretary of State in violation of ethical standards and protocol. Moreover, the State Department is prepared to begin the release of nearly 15,000 emails the former secretary should have handed over in October, just before the nation heads to the polls.

The email scandal that has plagued Clinton since March of 2015 is beginning to close in around her, and she has yet to emerge from her foxhole. When will she?

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/...in-powell-hillary-clinton-email-scandal-lies/
 
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