The Clinton email scandal is far from over. A federal court
ordered discovery in a major Judicial Watch lawsuit, will ultimately result in
nearly 20 witnesses having to testify under oath to our attorneys. And thanks
to the court’s orders, we’re also getting new documents proving the Clinton
email cover-up. Specifically, the State Department released a
previously hidden email showing that top State Department officials
used and were aware of Hillary Clinton’s email account.
On December 24, 2010, Daniel Baer, an Obama State Department deputy assistant
secretary of state, writes to Michael Posner, a then-assistant secretary of
state about Clinton’s private email address:
Baer: “Be careful, you just gave the secretary’s personal email address to a bunch of folks …”
Posner: “Should I say don’t forward? Did not notice.”
Baer: “Yeah-I just know that she guards it pretty closely.”
Posner had forwarded Clinton’s email address, which was contained in an email sent to State Department senior leadership, about WikiLeaks.
It appears that the State Department produced this email in 2016 in redacted form, blacking out Clinton’s personal email address and the discussion about Clinton’s wanting to keep her email address closely guarded.
We sought the email after a former top Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) State Department official testified to us about reviewing it between late 2013 and early 2014.
The testimony and the email production come in discovery granted to us on the Clinton email issue in a FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). Clinton also faces potential questioning under oath in this lawsuit.
Despite a recent court order requiring production of the email, the DOJ and State Departments only produced it 10 days ago, after we threatened to seek a court order to compel its production.
In other words, we just caught the State Department and DOJ red-handed in another email cover-up. They all knew about the Clinton email account but covered up the smoking-gun email showing this guilty knowledge for years.
The scope of the court-ordered discovery that produced this email find includes: whether Secretary Clinton used private email in an effort to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); whether the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 and 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to our FOIA request.
During a recent hearing, Judge Lamberth specifically raised concerns about a Clinton email cache, discussed in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), and wants Judicial Watch to “shake this tree” on this issue.
Judge Lamberth also criticized the State Department’s handling and production of Clinton’s emails in this case stating, “There is no FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence.”
The court rejected DOJ and State efforts to derail further Judicial Watch discovery. Judge Lamberth called their arguments “preposterous” and cited a prior Judicial Watch FOIA case in which he ordered U.S. Marshals to seize records from a Clinton administration official.
Judge Lamberth detailed how the State Department “spent three months from November 2014 trying to make this case disappear,” and that after discovering the State Department’s actions and omissions, “Now we know more, but we have even more questions than answers. So I won’t hold it against Judicial Watch for expanding their initial discovery request now.”
Judge Lamberth stated his goal was to restore the public’s faith in their government, which may have been damaged because of the Clinton email investigation.
The court granted us seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Hillary Clinton and her former top aide and current lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 days to oppose our depositions of them.
On December 6, 2018, Judge Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”
Our FOIA lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.
Our discovery over the last several months found many more details about the scope of the Clinton email scandal and cover-up:
- John Hackett, former Director of Information Programs and Services (IPS), testified under oath that he had raised concerns that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff may have “culled out 30,000” of the secretary’s “personal” emails without following strict National Archives standards. He also revealed that he believed there was interference with the formal FOIA review process related to the classification of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails.
- Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison at the State Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, admitted under oath that she was granted immunity by the Department of Justice in June 2016.
- Justin Cooper, former aide to President Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the unsecure clintonemail.com server that Clinton used while serving as Secretary of State, testified he worked with Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, to create the non-government email system.
- In the interrogatory responses of E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, he stated that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically the Executive Office of the President.
- Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, testified that both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to conduct official State Department business.
- Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testified that Clinton was warned twice against using unsecure BlackBerry’s and personal emails to transmit classified material.
The court will next decide whether Judicial Watch attorneys can question Mrs. Clinton directly under oath – so stay tuned….
Printed with permission from – Judicial Watch – by Tom Fitton
If they “shake the tree” as described in the article I’m certain a dozen or so Mao-style pant suits would fall out
yet Another Government corruption, sex, drugs,secrets to the enemy/Scandal? Ho Hum, wake me up when someone is in prison Orange.
Nothing will happen to her.She no where the bodies are buried.
There is absolutely NO REASON TO TRUST GOVERNMENT, IF THERE WERE, WE WOULD NOT BE TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT.
Keep up the good work, the corrupt Clintons are working to let as much time as possible get used before their entire corrupt, illegal and possibly treasonous schemes are exposed.
Results matter,until she is in prison this carries little weight
Plus what about Huma Abedin’s husband, Weiner’s laptop? Will anyone ever look through them for real?
I have heard there are many, many of them.
Of course the FBI wanted them checked but the powers that be never did.
This whole administration under Obummer was nothing but lying and scamming the American people.
Nixon was going to be impeached, had he not resigned, over a few minutes of erased audio tape. Yet nothing happens to her for deleting over 33,000 emails that were subpoena’d? Also…Nixon was going to be impeached for spying on the democratss, so why aren’t we looking into the fake dossier being used to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016?
Phil, please go to the (best) news aggregator out there: Whatfinger.com — here you will see all the details.
Throw the whole 9 yards in Leavenworth or Gitmo!!!
LOCK HER UP IN GETMO.
Yes, I like the way you think. And no special rations, either.
I feel sure that Hillary’s response to any questions regarding this matter these years later will be, “What difference does it make?”
Back to being that liar again! Hopefully intelligent, honest people will see right through her and prove all the scams she has pulled.
Her other possible response is, “I don’t recall.” Our question should be, “What did she know, and when did she forget it?”
Tom Fitton, go get ’em, brother!
Please…..
Hallelujah, finally justice may be coming? Hey Hillary, Gods Word says “Be sure your sin will find you out”! Here’s hoping to see your fat ass hanging by your neck SOON!!!
Well, there’re lotsa metaphors in your message but the general idea is there: hang her by something, anything.
When are some of the Democrats going to be prosecuted and sent to jail, the USA is in deep trouble with todays standards.
I agree how can we expect our children to obey the law when Hillary and the lying Dem’s get away with crime and get rich doing it.
When are some,of the Democratic going to be prosecuted and sent to jail. Wake up people.
Hillary Clinton and her cohorts will still lie even if it is under oath! She should be convicted and sentenced and jailed without further ado!
This says it all…..once a liar, always a liar….easy out until it catches up to her hopefully soon.
Why is this woman still walking around free? Any eighteen year old in the Military would be in prison for life, if they handled Classified information the same way as Hillary did. One heck of a double standard. OH I forgot she and Bill are above the Law.
You are spot on. When will equal justice under the law become the way it sounds? Richard did you know that these government elites rewrote the statute of limitations terms for themselves? If I remember it’s quite a bit shorter than what we have. I wonder if new evidence will extend their terms and open the door to prosecution? Or would our department of unjustice will either give them a pass or intentionally tank any and all possible court cases against the obvious criminal acts of Democratic Crime Community?
She’s a democrat, so it’s okay. We should be very grateful for double standards. If not for them, democrats would have no standards at all.