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Investigators, State Department Release New Hillary Emails
Reach deep into the darkest recesses of your memories — way back in the distant past of August 8. A film called Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was in the theaters, there was a war going on in Syria, and Donald Trump was making rude comments about reporters and Republicans.
Back in that sepia-toned era, Hillary Clinton issued a sworn declaration that she had turned over all her work-related emails to the State Department. Yes, she might have wiped her server free of Groupons from Chipotle and Bikram Yoga, but under threat of perjury she promised to have been completely forthcoming in her official communications.
State Department officials have received new official emails sent to and from Hillary Clinton that the former secretary of state never released.
The email exchange involves a 2009 conversation with Gen. David Petraeus, who was then head of U.S. Central Command, according to a report Friday by the Associated Press.
The conversation began before Clinton became secretary of state, but continued into the beginning of her tenure. The State Department has already admitted, thanks to documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, that it does not have emails from the first weeks of her tenure…
A State official declined to comment on how the Pentagon obtained the document.
I bet the Obama administration is glad they don’t have a duplicitous executive like Hillary Clinton besmirching the fine name of the US State Department anymore. Now that she’s been gone for several years, the agency can get back to the ethical and transparent professionalism that is its trademark.
The State Department has said over and over again that it turned over all of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails to the committee investigating the 2012 attack.
Turns out, that wasn’t quite the case. Foggy Bottom mistakenly failed to produce a “small number” of those emails, a senior State Department official told The Daily Beast.
“Following our second review of former Secretary Clinton’s emails… the Department is producing a small number of emails relating to Benghazi,” the official said. The official could not say precisely how many Benghazi-related Clinton emails the State Department missed in its original review, but characterized it as a “handful.”
The good news: it’s only a “handful” of emails.
The bad news: State defines a “handful” as 925 emails.
I know that she’s an ex-Senator, former First Lady, and the expected Democratic candidate. But isn’t it about time she was charged with perjury — at the very least?
Published in Foreign Policy
“I did not send or receive any classified emails from my private email.”
“I did not send or receive any emails from my private email that were marked classified at the time.”
“As far as I know I don’t believe I knowingly sent or received any classified emails.”
Ladies and gentlemen, your Democratic front runner….oh wait, your democratic runner up behind Bernie.
One haunting possibility: FBI is doing its job. Valerie and Co. cannot control AG Lynch who has been a straight shooter, may not know everything, but suspects she knows where this might be heading and how it might sink people. Thus, the ranks are not as firm as when Holder was there. The FBI makes a very unusual statement publicly this week that it is recovering erased emails. The AG is unable to discuss the details or say exactly what is happening because she may not know all the facts and she is insulating herself and her office. So given the public statement from the FBI and the lack of a clear picture of what they might be finding, the WH counsel quickly calls all hands on deck to clean out the closet just in case the FBI finds stuff. They release the first stuff this afternoon.
This could have serious blowback if not handled properly by the WH. And an exposed, repentant, and chastised Petraeus may no longer be under the sway of influence of Valerie and Co.
More emails to come.
Woodward and Bernstein on call.
Maybe. Or maybe the DOJ is as politicized as ever, but Obama wants them to sink Hillary. I’ve never really seen the evidence that Obama is Hillary’s biggest fan. Even if she is “likable enough.”
Hillary Clinton- first woman presidential nominee.
Hillary Clinton- first presidential nominee to campaign while wearing an ankle monitor.
We can be a part of history, folks.
You my dear friend assume that Hillary Clinton is constrained by the law. Hillary Clinton is above the laws of men because she has assumed the mantle of all womanhood, and strides forth into a misty future to ascend the highest peaks of achievement as the avatar of women everywhere. Now you would seek to bar her path with a transparent ceiling? For shame. Your wicked war on her uterus is as transparent as her motives. To indite her is to indite women everywhere. Would you really cast this “real human being” into the same pit as you would a four star savior general?
Forgive us H(right arrow)illary. We shall not stand against the progress of one half or species.
Because I have some experience with the halls of justice in Washington, my suspicion is:
Agree Hillary would not be first on BO’s list. He is only concerned with having a winner to preserve his legacy for 4 years while implementation Obamacare and other executive orders and regulations begin to bite. So, BO’s interests are not aligned with HRC’s if she is tainted and it looks like she is. Plus as you suggest, probably no love lost between them.
HRC will produce some fascinating and deceptive explanations over the next few days and weeks.
#1 explanation will be, “I asked that this be done and do not know why it was not properly done. You really cannot get good help these days.”
The good old days when there was hope for a Walker presidency.
Admit it, you have got to admire Hilary’s work ethic. That woman is a scandal-machine, baby! She has has been involved in public displays of ethically challenged behavior for essentially all of my adult life. The Washington Examiner provides a handy list: Travelgate, Hilarycare, Filegate, Vince Foster’s Files (great name for a rock band, if anyone is interested), Rose Law firm billing records, selling seats on Commerce Department trade missions for campaign contributions, renting the Lincoln Bedroom for campaign contributions, John Huang, Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, Al “no controlling legal authority ” Gore, Monica Lewinsky, blue dresses, Pardongate, Bosnia sniper-gate, and the Clinton Foundation in general. I would add the cattle futures trading scandal and Whitewater off the top of my head. You go, grrl!
HRC will never face consequences that affect her lifestyle in any meaningful way.
Nick Stuart
HRC will never face consequences that affect her lifestyle in any meaningful way.
Unless there is life after we shuffle off this mortal coil… (I believe there is.)
I tend to agree with Larry here.
We’ll see if any of this gets Petraeus closer to testifying. His affair scandal was a lifeline, not a calamity.
I don’t expect serious consequences for Clinton either. But the ruthless are vulnerable to backstabbing.
Sweet.
Tell us more.
As much as I’d love to see justice done, I won’t believe it until I see it. Hillary and husband just never seem to be held to account.
I just do not get how she maintains any popularity at all. In addition to the constant scandals, she is very clearly mean, angry, shrill. Does she have any good qualities?
And how could any self-respecting feminist want her as the first female president given she wouldn’t even be on the scene if she weren’t married to Big Billy. Wouldn’t you prefer an actually accomplished woman?
And wait, I thought there wasn’t any difference between men and women anyway?
Sigh. I’m so confused.
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.
Hillary is not as invincible as some think. The Obama steamroller flattened her and the pants-suit army pretty effectively in 2008, surprising everyone who thought she was a cert and would force Barack to wait his turn.
I’m sure her tenure as Secretary of State has added some bitterness to that relationship too. Obama may even fear retribution of some kind (these are the Clintons, after all).
Could it be he’s now letting his DoJ have its wicked way with Hillary in the hope of sabotaging her campaign a second time, and replacing her with a candidate more likely to carry on with his legacy? Like Elizabeth Warren, perhaps?
Apparently not in this life. After that…?
Edit: Ah, I see Eustace beat me to the punch!
First remember that Hillary thought it was clever to call him General Betray-us when she was in the Senate.
Then cackle like her.
Oh, payback is… just beginning.
Part of me wonders if Hillary’s “female-ness” will grant her the same immunity to prosecution that Obama’s blackness gave him the last seven years. Somehow, I think that the penchant for affirmative forgiveness might be running a little thin as the consequences of this last years become more and more apparent. The next months will be very interesting, much more so if we could get Donald Trump off the front pages of the media and begin to focus on serious concerns.
And just think of the circumference of that monitor.
I feel so safe.
Thanks, State Department.
The 1% sure do live a lot better than we do. Millionaires for whom the law does not apply.
Here’s where I’m routinely gobsmacked: Hillary actively chose to hide her emails while Secretary of State. It wasn’t an accident, she wasn’t unaware – she actively chose to do this.
This isn’t someone you want holding the reins of power. This isn’t someone you want running a business. This isn’t someone you can trust. At all. She pre-emptively hid her emails.
Crapweasel for President. What a wonderful world we’ve created for ourselves here.
Here ya go. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/398264/gowdy-hillary-clinton-and-david-petraeus-need-testify-about-benghazi-joel-gehrke
If you can trust the source…
I cannot figure out whether Mrs. Clinton is one of the stupidest people on earth or whether she has decided that she is bullet proof. It may be both. How she could possibly have believed that deleting emails gets rid of them is beyond me. I am no computer expert, but I certainly know that hitting “delete” does not send the stuff on my computer to oblivion. The fact that she did not grind the hard drives on that server into sand is strong testimony to her stupidity and ignorance.
My bet is that the administration is paving the way for a Biden run and sees this mess as a good way to get Mrs. Clinton out of the race. It takes little imagination to envision someone coming to visit her to suggest that there will be an early morning January 20, 2017 pardon if she cites health issues and a desire to spend more time with her family in a withdrawal speech.
They got Susan Rice out of the way by making her “ambassador” to the UN, wrapping her in executive privilege — she doesn;’t have to talk. Petraeus; that was more difficult.
Petraeus was probably the cleanest man in the Obama admin, but that’s like being the best bullfighter on the moon.
Could it be both?
I believe Hillary will face the consequences of her actions. The remaining question is whether she faces them in this life or the next…
She’s got to remain a credible candidate to have the leverage she’ll need to exchange her withdrawal for a pardon. Given the way the bad news is snowballing for her, she may have to cut a deal very soon.