On June 29 I cross posted a Vincent Vendetta
video (a little over 7 minutes) which reported on a Judicial
Watch deposition of the Crooked Hillary lawyer (Heather
Samuelson) that aided in wiping
subpoenaed emails from the illegal server.
Three Search Engine Views of Person Identified as
Heather Samuelson
Yesterday my Facebook friend Rose Reed Brown Messaged me a
link from The
Epoch Times went into greater detail about Samuelson than the
video. The original Epoch Times
article was posted June 30 but by the time Rose emailed the link, it had a July
3 update. That update is the detail I am cross posting below.
JRH 7/4/19
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Hillary Clinton speaks in Baltimore on June 5, 2017. (AP
Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Hillary Clinton’s
Lawyer Changes Story on When She Knew About Emails
June 30, 2019 Updated:
July 3, 2019
WASHINGTON—Heather Samuelson, Hillary Clinton’s personal
attorney, gave the FBI and Judicial Watch conflicting explanations of when she
learned that the former secretary of state used a private email system to
conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.
“I believe I first became aware when either she e-mailed me
on personal matters, such as wishing me happy birthday, or when I infrequently
would receive e-mails forwarded to me from others at the department that had
that e-mail address listed elsewhere in the document,” Samuelson told Judicial
Watch lawyers during a June 13, 2019, deposition.
Samuelson worked in the Department of State’s liaison office
to President Barack Obama’s White House at the time, according to Judicial
Watch.
Samuelson told the FBI in 2016 that
she didn’t learn of the Clinton email system until becoming Clinton’s personal
attorney in 2014, after serving for a year in the White House counsel’s office.
The 2016 conversation with the FBI was part of the bureau’s
highly controversial investigation of the Clinton private email system, which
culminated with then-FBI Director James Comey’s July 5, 2016, announcement that
he wouldn’t recommend prosecution of the former chief diplomat.
Clinton used the private email system, originally on a
server located in the New York mansion she shares with former President Bill
Clinton, throughout her tenure as the top U.S. diplomat, from 2009 to 2013.
The non-profit government watchdog released the transcript of
the deposition on June 28. The Samuelson deposition is the latest in a series
of depositions by Judicial Watch of senior Clinton aides that were ordered Dec.
6, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth.
Lamberth described Clinton’s private email system as “one of
the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” and ordered Samuelson
and nearly a dozen other former Clinton aides to answer Judicial Watch’s
questions either in depositions or in written responses.
“After Clinton left office, Samuelson worked for a year in
the office of the White House Counsel before becoming Clinton’s personal
attorney” in 2014, Judicial Watch said in a statement accompanying
release of the deposition.
“She was primarily responsible for conducting the review of
Clinton emails and sorting out ‘personal’ emails from government emails, which
were returned to the State Department under the direction of [former Clinton
Chief of Staff] Cheryl Mills and [another] Clinton lawyer, David Kendall,” the
Judicial Watch statement said.
“After the emails were returned to State, Clinton deleted
the rest of the ‘personal’ emails from her server, wiping it clean. Samuelson
conducted the review of emails on her laptop, using Clinton server files
downloaded from Platte River Networks, which housed the Clinton email server,” the statement
continued.
Samuelson’s contradiction of her prior statement to the FBI
is significant because she also told Judicial Watch that she had been granted
by the Department of Justice (DOJ) what she described as “limited production
immunity” in June 2016.
It isn’t known whether the DOJ’s grant of immunity insulated
Samuelson against whatever legal obligation she may have had while working in
the White House or the State Department to disclose to law enforcement
officials her knowledge that Clinton wasn’t using a secured U.S. government
communications system to conduct official diplomatic business.
U.S. officials knew that Chinese intelligence had hacked
into Clinton’s private system, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times on June
29.
Gohmert said the Chinese “actually hacked Hillary Clinton’s
personal server—as our intel community established without any question—even
though the FBI refused to ever examine the evidence.”
A forensic analysis of Clinton’s emails conducted by the
intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) had determined that a copy of
virtually every email from Clinton’s server was sent to an unauthorized source,
Gohmert said.
Dozens of highly classified documents were sent to and from
Clinton on her private email system when she was secretary of state.
Samuelson is the second former Clinton associate to be found
in the Judicial Watch depositions to have told the FBI one thing in 2016, only
to have it contradicted in 2019.
Former Clinton State Department aide Justin Cooper told
Judicial Watch in a deposition released
earlier this year that he worked with the secretary’s then-deputy chief of
staff Huma Abedin in setting up the private email system.
Cooper’s claim contradicted Abedin’s previous claim in a
2016 deposition by Judicial Watch that she only learned of the private email
system in 2015 by “reading in some news articles about a year, a
year-and-a-half ago, when it was—it was being publicly discussed.”
Abedin was deputy chief of staff throughout Clinton’s tenure
at the State Department and then worked for her throughout her primary and
general election campaign for president in 2016.
“The news that the Obama DOJ gave immunity to Heather
Samuelson, Hillary Clinton’s lawyer responsible for the infamous deletion of
33,000 emails, further confirms the sham FBI/DOJ investigation of the Clinton
email scandal,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the statement
accompanying the deposition’s release.
“And it is curious that Ms. Samuelson changed her story
about what she knew and when about the Clinton email system. Attorney
General William Barr can’t reopen the Clinton email investigation fast enough,”
Fitton said.
Contact Mark Tapscott at mark.tapscott@epochtimes.nyc
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