If there is a tragedy in American
history, it should be a look back on the criminality that exists amidst the
Democratic Party. The Dems are transforming America at all costs away from
our nation’s Founding Principles and the Christian Heritage that has been the
essence of a moral backbone. The Dems have committed crimes excused by the MSM
to perpetuate a transformed America. The transformation tarnishes any light
inspiring immigrants to become Americans based on self-reliance. Rather the Dem
paradigm is to attract immigrants inspiring socialist handouts & government
dependence.
The former moral backbone once led President Reagan to call
American Heritage a shining city on a hill.
President Reagan spoke of people coming to America to work
hard to become a part of American success and NOT promote a Socialist
government dependency. The Dem transformation increasingly dims the light that
has made America great. An extinguished light on a hill merely transform
America into a government by ruling elitists instead of by WE THE PEOPLE.
Speech: Ronald Reagan's Farewell
Address from the Oval Office, 1/11/89
Music: Thomas Bergersen's
"Remember Me".
"Ye are the light of the
world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." -- Matthew 5:14 (KJV)
I also like this quote writing about President Reagan:
Central to this hope and faith in
the American people was Reagan’s belief in American exceptionalism. He restored
that concept to the national vocabulary in a time when many Americans—and
certainly the nation’s political, educational, and cultural elites—had lost
sight of it.
In his election eve address in
1980, the day before he would be elected president, Reagan described his vision
of America by referring to the aims of the Puritans who settled Massachusetts
in the 1600s:
I have quoted John Winthrop's
words more than once on the campaign trail this year—for I believe that
Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining
"city on a hill" as were those long-ago settlers....
These visitors to that city on the
Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or
Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are
Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still … a
shining city on a hill.
For Reagan, as for the Puritans,
exceptionalism was more than just a natural process or a product of the
nation’s history and geographical position. As far back as 1952, presenting the
commencement address to William Woods College, Reagan invoked the idea of
America as a nation chosen by God for a special purpose: “I, in my own mind,
have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that
was set aside as a promised land.”
Winthrop, it is crucial to note,
was not saying that America is by nature great. Quite the contrary, Winthrop’s
point was that the American colonies, having been explicitly founded as free,
Christian states, bore a responsibility, indeed a burden, unique among the
nations of the world:
For we must consider that we shall
be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we
shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause
Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a
by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak
evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God's sake. We shall shame the
faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned
into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are
going. (RONALD
REAGAN’S AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; By S.T. Karnick; The Heartland Institute;
2/6/17)
AND YET America’s
Dems and their duped supporters have come severely close into turning America
into a cesspool of criminal elitists who have placed themselves above the rule
of law.
The ONLY way I see a reversal of this normalized
crime-ridden political curse is to at least have the Dem criminals face the
decision of a jury.
BEGINNING WITH but not limited to Crooked Hillary and clan. The Gateway Pundit
reporting on Tom Fitton’s quest to find the truth points out that President
Trump’s DOJ and State Department are actively thwarting the discovery of the
truth.
President Trump needs to step up to the 2016 campaign
rhetoric and clear the way to “lock her up”. The Mainstream Media (MSM) clears
little for the truth because they have shown themselves to be the propaganda
wing of the criminal Dems.
NO MATTER how President Trump proceeds, he will be
castigated by the MSM and once loyal Dem Party members in Congress. I can just
say, “Screw’em and proceed President Trump!”
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch revealed on
Wednesday that the DOJ is colluding with Hillary Clinton email scandal
witnesses to thwart court-ordered discovery to stop the watchdog’s efforts to
gather evidence.
Judicial Watch appeared in a DC federal court last month on
a motion to compel more testimony from Hillary Clinton as well as to make
public video recordings of depositions of top Clinton aides such as Huma Abedin
and Cheryl Mills.
Hillary Clinton arrogantly answered that she set up the
private server out of “convenience.”
Earlier this month,a
federal court blasted the DOJ and State Department on Hillary
Clinton’s emails and ordered a discovery plan in 10 days as to whether
Hillary’s private email system was intentionally set up to evade FOIA requests
and lawsuits.
Judge Lamberth said Hillary Clinton’s private server was
“One of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”
Specially, Lamberth ruled:
… the Court ORDERS the parties
to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether Hillary Clinton’s use of
a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade
FOIA; (b) whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late
2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately
searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests.
Terming Clinton’s use of her
private email system, “one of the gravest modern offenses to government
transparency,” Lamberth wrote in his MEMORANDUM OPINION:
Although Judicial Watch refuses to back down, the Justice
Department is actively working to stop the watchdog’s efforts to gather
evidence in federal court.
Tom Fitton was furious that the DOJ is working to block
their discovery efforts.
“Outrageously, this Justice Department is colluding with Clinton email scandal
to stop our efforts to gather evidence in federal court. President Trump should
ask this Justice Department why it’s still protecting Hillary Clinton,” Tom
Fitton said Wednesday.
Court Criticizes State Department for Providing False
Statements on Clinton Emails
(Washington, DC) – Judicial
Watch announced today that in his opening remarks at a Friday, October 12
hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth strongly criticized the
U.S. Department of State, stating, “The information that I was provided was
clearly false regarding the adequacy of the [Clinton email] search and… what we
now know turned out to be the Secretary’s email system.”
Turning his attention to the Department of Justice, Judge Lamberth said that he
was “dumbfounded” by the agency’s Inspector General report revealing that
Cheryl Mills had been given immunity and was allowed to accompany former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to her FBI interview:
I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath
in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her
unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given
immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case. So I
did not know that until I read the IG report and learned that and that she had
accompanied the Secretary to her interview.
(In an April 28, 2008, ruling relating to Mills’
conduct as a White House official in responding to concerns about lost White
House email records, Judge Lamberth called Mills’ participation in the matter
“loathsome.” He further stated Mills was responsible for “the most critical
error made in this entire fiasco … Mills’ actions were totally inadequate to
address the problem.”)
Lamberth also complained that the Justice Department attorney representing the
State Department was using “doublespeak,” and playing “word games.”
The hearing had been ordered by Judge Lamberth regarding a request from Judicial Watch for testimony
under oath from Clinton, Mills and several other State Department officials
regarding the State Department’s processing of Judicial Watch’s FOIA request
and Clinton’s emails. The State Department still opposes all of Judicial
Watch’s requests for additional discovery into the Clinton email scandal.
Judge Lamberth said he was relieved that he did not allow the case to be shut
down prematurely, as the State Department had requested:
The case started with a motion for
summary judgment [seeking to close the case] here and which I denied and
allowed limited discovery because it was clear to me that at the time that I
ruled initially, that false statements were made to me by career State
Department officials and it became more clear through discovery that the
information that I was provided was clearly false regarding the adequacy of the
search and this – what we now know turned out to be the Secretary’s email
system.
I don’t know the details of what kind of IG inquiry there was into why these
career officials at the State Department would have filed false affidavits with
me. I don’t know the details of why the Justice Department lawyers did not know
false affidavits were being filed with me, but I was very relieved that I did
not accept them and that I allowed limited discovery into what had happened.
Judge Lamberth also said the State Department was using
“doublespeak” and word games:
THE COURT: The State Department
told me that it had produced all records when it moved for summary judgment and
you filed that motion. That was not true when that motion was filed.
MR. PRINCE: At that time, we had produced all –
THE COURT: It was not true.
MR. PRINCE: Yes, it was – well, Your Honor, it might be that our search could
be found to be inadequate, but that declaration was absolutely true.
THE COURT: It was not true. It was a lie.
MR. PRINCE: It was not a lie, Your Honor.
THE COURT: What – that’s doublespeak.
***
PRINCE: There’s strong precedent
saying that items not in the State’s possession do not need to be searched….
THE COURT: And that’s because
the Secretary was doing this on a private server? So it wasn’t in the
State’s possession?… So you’re playing the same word game she played?
In March 2016, Judge Lamberth granted “limited discovery” to Judicial Watch:
Where there is evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith, as here,
limited discovery is appropriate, even though it is exceedingly rare in FOIA
cases.
***
[Judicial Watch] is certainly
entitled to dispute the State Department’s position that it has no obligation
to produce these documents because it did not “possess” or “control” them at
the time the FOIA request was made. The State Department’s willingness to now
search documents voluntarily turned over to the Department by Secretary Clinton
and other officials hardly transforms such a search into an “adequate” or
“reasonable one. [Judicial Watch] is not relying on “speculation” or “surmise”
as the State Department claims. [Judicial Watch] is relying on constantly
shifting admissions by the Government and the former government officials.
The development comes in Judicial Watch’s July 2014
FOIA lawsuit filed after the U.S. Department of
State failed to respond to a May 13, 2014 FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No.
1:14-cv-01242)). Judicial Watch seeks:
·Copies of any updates
and/or talking points given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal
agency concerning, regarding, or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on
the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
·Any and all records or
communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or updates
on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any
federal agency.
This Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit led directly to the
disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.
In May 2016, Judicial Watch filed an initial Proposed Order for Discovery seeking
additional information. The State Department opposed Judicial Watch’s proposal,
and in December 2016 Judge Lamberth requested both parties to file new proposed
orders in light of information discovered in various venues since the previous
May.
The full transcript of the hearing is available here.
“President Trump should ask why his State Department is still refusing to
answer basic questions about the Clinton email scandal,” said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. “Hillary Clinton’s and the State Department’s email cover
up abused the FOIA, the courts, and the American people’s right to know.”
Watch additional comments from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton here.
###
Judicial Watch: FBI Documents Detail Weiner
Laptop/Clinton Email Find Just Before the 2016 Election
‘A significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared
to be between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton …’
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced
today that it has received 45 pages of FBI documents that reveal a
“significant number” of 340,000 emails on the laptop of disgraced former
Congressman Anthony Weiner were between the former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents as the result of a September 2018 Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department did
not act on two FOIA requests for Anthony Weiner laptop investigation documents,
including any Clinton emails found on the laptop (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-02105)).
The new documents include an October 3, 2016, email to a FBI official in New York that
reads:
Just putting this on the record
because of the optics of this case.
During the course of my review of a computer seized from Anthony Weiner, a
seizure and search of which was authorized by an SDNY [Southern District of New
York] Search Warrant, I encountered approximately/at least 340,000 emails
stored on the computer. The large number of emails appears to be a result of a
mail client program installed on that computer (such as Outlook) that pulled
emails from servers belonging to both Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.
A significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared to be between Huma Abedin
and Hillary Clinton (the latter who appears to have used a number of different
email addresses). This is based simply a review of the header information. I
did not review content of these emails, as the warrant only authorized me to
view items that would give me probable cause to believe that CP [child
pornography] evidence may reside therein.
SDNY is comfortable with me continuing my review as I have, which is to NOT
read any emails to/from Anthony Weiner to which his wife, or a possible
attorney is a party. Even if there is a third party on those emails, I will not
review their content out of an abundance of caution. Obviously, I will not
review any emails to which Anthony Weiner is not a party (such as emails
between Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton). I just wanted to formally bring this to
your attention due to the pending election, the ongoing Congressional
investigation into the FBI’s own investigation into Ms. Clinton’s email
activities, etc.
The documents also include a September 29, 2016, FBI report indicating that after agents served
unidentified persons with a grand jury subpoena on September 22, “Discussions
immediately ensued between the US Attorneys’ Offices in the Southern District
of New York (SDNY) and [redacted], as well as the Department of Justice in
Washington, DC.”
RealClear Investigations’ reporter Paul Sperry reported that only 3,077 of the emails found
on the Weiner laptop “were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating
information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt
the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.”
In a related case, Judicial Watch obtained an email revealing that fired FBI official
Peter Strzok created the initial draft of the October 2016 letter then-FBI
director James Comey sent to Congress notifying lawmakers of the discovery of
Hillary Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop.
The notification to Congress, according the DOJ IG, came a full month after the emails were
discovered by the FBI on Weiner’s laptop. The delay, the IG suggests, may have
been the result of anti-Trump bias by FBI official Peter Strzok and others:
In September 2016, the FBI’s New
York Field Office (NYO) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern
District of New York (SDNY) began investigating former Congressman Anthony
Weiner for his online relationship with a minor. A federal search warrant was
obtained on September 26, 2016, for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer.
The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the
government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes:
transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and
activities related to child pornography.
The Weiner case agent told the OIG that he began processing Weiner’s devices on
September 26, and that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000
emails on the laptop.”
***
In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following
up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop,
we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that
potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions
they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations.
***
After October 4, we found no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear
investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took
any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24, and then
did so only after SDNY raised concerns about the lack of action.
“These new documents show the FBI knowingly sat on the
Clinton emails for over a month before notifying Congress,” said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. “And even worse, we now know the FBI didn’t even bother
to look at the emails, and then again only partially, for weeks. The Clinton
email scandal needs to be reviewed again and immediately by the Justice
Department.”
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I found a series of emails from Judicial Watch that
exposes the workings of the Deep State that is working to thwart the promises
of President Donald Trump.
Per the emails, I have three cross posts:
1)A video on the Comey memos.
2)Thanks to FOIA and Law
suits, the revelation of more Crooked Hillary emails revealing classified
materials on her nefarious private email server which includes Huma Abedin and
the exposure actual Pay-To-Play deals with the Clinton Foundation.
3)Ending with a Judicial
Watch Facebook video of On Watch with Chris Farrell exposing more
details of Crooked Hillary’s State Department silencing private security
contractors in relation to the Benghazi Islamic terrorist attack.
All these Judicial Watch information reporting relating to
Crooked Hillary shows good reasons for her to be locked up. ALSO, you should
realize if any DOJ courage exists to take on the Deep State protection of
Crooked Hillary, then the Obama Deep State “Resistance” means all clandestine
options will be made to protect Obama and his nefarious minions. Why? The
answer is obvious! If Crooked Hillary begins to go down for any of her crimes
including her husband, then Obama’s Deep State Resistance will be exposed.
Crooked Hillary will take the whole Manchurian Left down with her if she is
prosecuted. That would mean all things Barack Hussein Obama would tumble like a
reverse domino theory.
In this installment of
"Inside Judicial Watch," Carter Clews joins Mark Tapscott, the
Executive Editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation, to discuss the missing
memos of James Comey and the controversy surrounding the former FBI director.
Documents also
show more instances of pay to play with Clinton Foundation donors
Abedin’s
controversial mother advised Clinton speechwriter to exclude references to
‘democracy/elections/freedom’ and ‘empowerment of women’ for Clinton speech in
Saudi Arabia
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today
released 1,617 new pages of
documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing numerous additional
examples of classified information being transmitted through the unsecure,
non-state.gov account of Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, as well as many instances of Hillary Clinton
donors receiving special favors from the State Department.
The documents included 97email
exchanges with Clinton not previously turned over to the State Department,
bringing the known total to date to at least 627 emails that were not part
of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over, and further
contradicting a statement by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her
government emails had been turned over to department.
The emails are the 20th production of documents
obtained in response to a court order in a May 5,
2015, lawsuit Judicial Watch
filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). Judicial Watch sued after
State 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.”
On September 11, 2009, the highly sensitive name and
email address of the person giving the classified Presidential Daily Brief was
included in an email forwarded to Abedin’s unsecure email account by State
Department official Dan Fogerty.
The State Department produced many more Clinton and Abedin
unsecured emails that were classified:
oOn March 8, 2009, Clinton
sent classified information using
her unsecure hdr22@clintonmail.com account.
She forwarded to former Senator George Mitchell an email from Tony Blair
relating to Palestine. The email had been sent to her at hr15@att.blackberry.net.
Clinton responded to Blair, saying she
had forwarded the email to Mitchell. A former Senate majority leader, Mitchell
was serving as Special Envoy for
Middle East Peace.
oOn April 16, 2009, Deputy
Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman sent to Abedin’s unsecure email
account classified information about
an unknown subject.
oOn June 18, 2009, Abedin
sent classified information summarizing
a June 18, 2009, “Middle East Breakfast” meeting between various senators,
representatives and State Department officials, at which Deputy Secretary Jack
Lew and George Mitchell briefed the congressmen with “an update on our
discussions with the [Middle East] parties.”
oOn June 23, 2009, U.S.
diplomat Martin Indyk, who had his security clearance suspended in
2000 for “possible sloppiness” in the handling of classified information, sent
a memo containing classified information to
Abedin’s unsecure email account. The memo, written for Clinton, pertained
to Indyk’s discussions with top Israeli officials:
Could I ask you to review the memo
below that I wrote yesterday on my return from Israel? If you think it
worthwhile, I’d be very grateful if you showed it to HRC (I have already shared
it with Mitchell and Feltman). A confrontation with Bibi appears imminent.
I’ve never been one to shy away from that, as she may know. But it has to
be done carefully, and that doesn’t appear to be happening. And I’m
concerned that she will be tarred with the same brush if this leads to a bad
end. So I think she needs to make sure that the friction is
productive. I’ve made some suggestions at the end of the memo
oOn August 1, 2009, Abedin
forwarded classified information from
State Department official Richard Verma to her unsecure email account.
The email from Senator Russ Feingold was sent to Hillary Clinton regarding her
upcoming Africa trip.
oOn August 4, 2009,
Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman sent classified information about
discussions with Kuwaiti officials to Abedin’s unsecure email account.
Feltman noted that the Kuwaitis felt a lunch they had with Obama was
“chilly.” The discussions concerned Guantanamo as well as Kuwait’s
treatment of detainees.
oOn Sept 20, 2009, Abedin
forwarded classified information to
her unsecure email account. The email was from State Department official Esther
Brimmer and concerned foreign leaders’ discussions regarding a UNESCO
leadership appointment.
oOn November 1, 2009, U.S.
Ambassador to the UAE Rick Olson sent classified information to
Abedin’s unsecure email account. The email shows that Olsen was traveling with Hillary in
the Middle East, and Abedin asked him to “work on a list of everything covered
in the mbz [presumably Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the Crown
Prince of Abu Dhabi] meeting for
Hillary.” Olson asks: “do you want it on this system (I can sanitize), or on
the other system.” She replies: “This system easier. We are staying without
class[ified] computers. Thx.”
oOn December 1, 2009, Abedin
sent classified information about
foreign military contributions to the Afghanistan war effort to her unsecure
email account. The email originated with State official Sean Misko who wrote to
Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan that he first “accidentally” sent it on the
“high side” (secure) but was resending.
oOn December 25, 2009,
Abedin sent to her unsecure email account classified information prepared
by Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Francis Ricciardone concerning the
Afghan elections.
oOn December 26, 2009, U.S. Ambassador
to Mexico Carlos Pascual sent a memo to Clinton, which was found on Abedin’s
unsecure email account. It contained extensive classified information involving
U.S. and Mexican counter-drug operations in Mexico.
oOn March 22, 2010, Abedin
forwarded to her unsecure email account classified information about
a telephone conversation between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe
Calderon.
oOn April 13, 2010, Abedin
forwarded to her unsecure email account classified information from
Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman regarding diplomatic discussions with the foreign
ministers of Algeria and Morocco.
oOn May 24, 2010, Abedin
forwarded to her unsecure email account classified information about
the minutes of a State Department senior staff meeting regarding State
Department officials’ meetings in Uganda.
oAmong Abedin’s unsecure email
records is a document that is simply titled “NOTE” with the date September 12,
2010. The contents are entirely redacted as classified.
oOn January 28, 2011, Abedin
sent Clinton an unsecure email containing classified information relating
to a briefing White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave.
oOn March 21, 2012, Clinton
received a memo from State Department officials Joseph Yun and Derek Mitchell
marked “Sensitive But Unclassified” and sent to Abedin’s unsecure email
account. It contained classified information about
elections in Burma.
oJake Sullivan emailed to
Hillary’s unsecure email account classified information in
which Sullivan discussed the content of conversations with UK Prime Minister
Gordon regarding “the situation” in Northern Ireland. The date of this email is
not included on the document.
oOn April 8, 2012, Abedin
sent classified information to
her unsecure email regarding a call sheet and an “Action Memo” for Clinton
relating to a call with Malawi President Joyce Banda. On April 9, 2012, Monica
Hanley again forwarded the classified information to Clinton’s unsecure email
account.
Other emails contain sensitive information that was sent via
Hillary Clinton’s unsecure email servers.
On August 18, 2009, confidential assistant Monica Hanley
provided Abedin with laptop and fob (a physical device that provides a login
code) logins and passwords to
log onto a laptop, as well as a secure State Department website at https://one.state.gov.
Included were a PIN number and instructions on how to access her email from the
secure State Department website. Abedin forwarded this information to her
unsecure account.
(The FBI interviewed Clinton’s confidential assistant Monica
Hanley in its probe of Clinton’s email practices, and State’s Diplomatic
Security staff reprimanded her after she
left classified material behind in a Moscow hotel room. Hanley was the
staffer tasked with finding
BlackBerry phones for Clinton to use.)
On August 19, 2009, Hanley asked Abedin to call her and
provide Abedin’s computer password so that
she could download a UN document for Cheryl Mills from Abedin’s computer.
Instead of calling Hanley, Abedin apparently provided the computer password in
her unsecure reply email, saying, “Its [redacted].”
On April 17, 2009, Clinton aide Lona Valmoro emailed
Clinton’s sensitive daily schedule for April
18 to various Clinton Foundation officials, including Doug Band, Terry Krinvic
and Justin Cooper. She also forwarded Clinton’s daily schedule for July 16
to numerous Clinton Foundation officials. She did the same thing on September 8,
2009. She did so again on January 10,
January 14 and April 11, 2010.
The details of Hillary’s arrival on
November 18, 2009, in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan, for the inauguration of
President Karzai, were found on Abedin’s unsecure email account. Included were
precise times of landing at Kabul Airport, the occupants of her vehicle,
arrival and departure times at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and meeting times
with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The new documents show that Clinton donors frequently
requested and received special favors from the State Department that were
connected to the Clinton Foundation.
On July 14, 2009, Gordon Griffin, a XL Keystone lobbyist, sent an email to Clinton
Foundation executive Doug Band, asking if Band could get him into a Council on
Foreign Relations dinner at which Clinton was speaking. Band forwarded the
email to Abedin, saying, “Can u get him in?” Abedin replied: “Yes will get him
in.” Band was a top aide to President Bill Clinton and co-founder of Teneo. Griffin was a major
donor to Hillary Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns.
On July 16, 2009, Zachary Schwartz asked Band for help
getting visas to travel to Cuba for a film production crew from Shangri La
Entertainment. Band forwarded the request to
Abedin, telling her, “Please call zach asap on this. [Redacted.] Important.”
Abedin responded, “I’ll call zach when we land in India.” Abedin concludes with
“Enjoy. Cuba is complicated. Am sure you aren’t surprised to hear that.”
Schwartz worked for Steve Bing, a mega-donor to the
Clintons and owner of Shangri La Entertainment. Bing has reportedly donated $10-25 million to the Clinton
Foundation and paid Bill Clinton personally $2.5 million a year to be an
adviser to a green construction company Bing owned.
On September 11, 2009, Terrence Duffy, chairman of futures
brokerage firm CME Group, a donor to the Clinton Foundation, asked Clinton
to arrange “government appointments” for
him in Singapore and Hong Kong. Clinton, using her HDR22@clintonmail.com address,
forwarded the request to Abedin, “fyi.” Abedin responded to Duffy’s email,
saying she would “follow up” with Duffy’s secretary,
Joyce. Duffy gave $4,600 to Hillary’s 2008
presidential campaign; CME Group paid Hillary $225,000 for a speaking
fee and has donated between $5,001 and 10,000 to the
Clinton Foundation.
Abedin, using her huma@clintonmail.com address,
later told Joyce, “Would like to get some more information and details so we can try to help.” Further
along in the exchange, Joyce responds “We would also like some help in
arranging meetings with some key govt officials in both locations, such as the
Prime Minister of Singapore, and would appreciate any help you may be able to
provide.”
On September 29, 2009, Abedin followed up with Duffy, telling
him that “we are happy to assist with any
and all meetings” and that she had “discussed you and your trip with our
assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs,” suggesting
that Duffy write the assistant secretary, Kurt Campbell. Duffy replied, “Thank
you very much. I did connect with Kurt Campbell today.”
On May 5, 2010, major Clinton Global Initiative member, Clinton Foundation donor
and real estate developer Eddie Trump forwarded to “Dougie” Band a request for assistance from
Russian American Foundation Vice President Rina Kirshner to get the Russian
American Foundation involved in a State Department program. Band forwarded the
request to Abedin, saying, “Can we get this done/mtg set.” As Judicial Watch previously reported, the State
Department doled out more than $260,000 to the Russian American Foundation for
“public diplomacy.”
Major Clinton donor Bal Das, a New York financier who
reportedly raised $300,000 for Hillary’s
2008 presidential campaign, asked Abedin on November 11, 2009 if Hillary
Clinton could address the Japan Society at
its annual conference in 2010. Clinton did speak to the Japan
Society’s annual conference in 2011.
The emails also provide insight on the inner workings of the
Clinton State Department, in particular her engagement with her staff.
In a May 19, 2009, “Global Press Conference” memo, Clinton
was given in advance the “proposed questions” of four of
the seven foreign reporters. Examples include: “What is the Obama
administration’s view of Australian PM Rudd’s proposal to form an Asia-Pacific
Community” and “Why can’t American drones not find, detect and destroy the
insurgency supply line?”
In a document entitled “HRC Pakistan Notes” prepared
for Clinton by her staff, Clinton apparently had to be reminded about all her
trips to Pakistan and of “stories that you have told/remember.” Her reminder
instructions include: “You loved Faisal mosque, and it was especially
meaningful to have CVC [Chelsea] with you.” And: “Your first Pakistani friend
was in College. She introduced you to Pakistani food and clothes.” And: “You
have had lots of Pakistani and Pakistani American friends over the years. From
Chicago to California to Washington, DC, you have friends all over the country.
They know how much you love Pakistani food …”
On February 12, 2010, Case Button, a Clinton speechwriter,
asked Abedin if her mother, a professor at Dar
Al Hekma, a women’s university in Saudi Arabia where Clinton held a town hall
meeting, would be willing to give him advice on talking points he
was preparing for Clinton. Abedin responded, “Talk to my mom for sure. She will
have good points for you.” After reviewing Hillary’s draft remarks, Huma’s
mother, Saleha Abedin, (a controversialIslamistactivist), offered some advice:
“Do not use the political terms such as ‘democracy/elections/freedom.’ Do not
use the term ‘empowerment of women’ instead say ‘enabling women’ Do not even
mention driving for women! Don’t sound sympathetic to ‘women’s plight’ or be
‘patronizing’ as other visitors have done and made the students extremely
annoyed. They rightly consider these as in-house issues …”
No references to these issues appear in Clinton’s speech.
Abedin’s involvement in a major appointment at the State
Department is controversial given that Abedin’s mother was an Islamist
activist. On July 24, 2009, Cheryl Mills forwarded to Abedin a CV for someone
being considered for the position of Special Envoy to the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation. It had been sent to Mills from State Department recruiter
Margaret Carpenter. Rather than forwarding the resume on to Clinton for her
approval, Abedin simply responds to Mills: “I’m a hundred percent fine with him.”
Abedin also offered her opinion to Clinton on administration
leaders: On January 21, 2011, while on a trip to Mexico, Abedin emailed Hillary
that “Biden is a disaster here.”
On February 20, 2012, Clinton expresses outrage over an
apparent wardrobe miscommunication for a meeting in Mexico and sent an email to Abedin with
the subject line “I’m venting.” Clinton admonished:
So, here I sit in the meeting
surrounded by ever other person dressed in a white shirt provided by the
Mexicans. Patricia is not wearing the exact style that all others are but her
own white shirt. But, since no one ever told me about this, and instead assumed
I didn’t need to know, I had no idea about any of this until I just walked into
the large meeting in front of the entire press corps and I’m wearing a green
top. So, what’s my answer when asked why I think I’m different than all my
colleagues and why I’m dissing our hosts?
I am sick of people deciding what I
should know rather than giving me the info so I can make a decision. This
really annoys me and I told Monica [Hanley] I just didn’t understand.
“The emails show ‘what happened’ was that Hillary Clinton
and Huma Abedin obviously violated laws about the handling of classified
information and turned the State Department into a pay for play tool for the
corrupt Clinton Foundation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The
clear and mounting evidence of pay for play and mishandling of classified
information warrant a serious criminal investigation by an independent Trump
Justice Department.”
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11, 2012, Benghazi terrorist attack. New reports show just how dire security at
the compound really was and how security officials charged with protecting the
compound were later pressured by the Clinton State Department to keep
quiet.
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