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Finally, News that's going to be NEWS, Hillary's Benghazi Emails
13 Aug 17 | hapnHal

Posted on 08/13/2017 10:35:18 AM PDT by hapnHal

Court Orders State to Search Benghazi Emails of Clinton Advisors

Your Judicial Watch had a major court victory this week in our effort to get accountability in the Obama/Clinton Benghazi scandal.

This week, D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department “to search the state.gov e-mail accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan,” former aides of Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state. Judge Mehta ordered the State Department to search in those accounts “for records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] March 4, 2015, FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request.”

Of course, a JW FOIA lawsuit first broke open the Clinton email scandal – and Benghazi, too!

Judge Mehta, an Obama appointee, described our Clinton-Benghazi FOIA lawsuit as “a far cry from a typical FOIA case. Secretary Clinton used a private e-mail server, located in her home, to transmit and receive work-related communications during her tenure as Secretary of State.”

Further, Judge Mehta ruled:

[I]f an e-mail did not involve any state.gov user, the message would have passed through only the Secretary’s private server and, therefore, would be beyond the immediate reach of State. Because of this circumstance, unlike the ordinary case, State could not look solely to its own records systems to adequately respond to [Judicial Watch’s] demand.

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[The State Department] has not, however, searched the one records system over which it has always had control and that is almost certain to contain some responsive records: the state.gov e-mail server. If Secretary Clinton sent an e-mail about Benghazi to Abedin, Mills, or Sullivan at his or her state.gov e-mail address, or if one of them sent an e-mail to Secretary Clinton using his or her state.gov account, then State’s server presumably would have captured and stored such an e-mail. Therefore, State has an obligation to search its own server for responsive records.

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State has offered no assurance that the three record compilations it received [from Secretary Clinton and her aides], taken together, constitute the entirety of Secretary Clinton’s e-mails during the time period relevant to Plaintiff’s FOIA Request. Absent such assurance, the court is unconvinced “beyond material doubt” that a search of the state.gov accounts of Abedin, Mills and Sullivan is “unlikely to produce any marginal return.”

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Accordingly, the court finds that State has not met its burden of establishing it performed an adequate search in response to Plaintiff’s FOIA Request and orders State to conduct a supplemental search of the state.gov e-mail accounts of Abedin, Mills, and Sullivan.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-benghazi-court-victory/


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KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton
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1 posted on 08/13/2017 10:35:18 AM PDT by hapnHal
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To: hapnHal

Better late than never...


2 posted on 08/13/2017 10:39:21 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Millions more of Closet Trumpers than Never Trumpers)
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To: hapnHal

The Judge should start putting deep state actors in jail. The endless delays and misdirection won’t stop until individual Federal employees start being locked up.


3 posted on 08/13/2017 10:39:37 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: hapnHal

Here we go again. More investigations and Hitlery still walks the streets, a free person -— after all she has been found “guilty” of. What a sham.


4 posted on 08/13/2017 10:39:50 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: hapnHal

Nice try by Judicial Watch but the Hillary sympathizers in the State Department will foot drag, delay and slow walk everything hoping that Trump will be gone after one term. The State Department is infested with lefties.


5 posted on 08/13/2017 10:41:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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” the Hillary sympathizers in the State Department will foot drag, delay and slow walk everything hoping that Trump will be gone after one term. The State Department is infested with lefties.”

Unfortunately, that is true. The swamp is large and deep. I was glad to hear that Tillerson is in no hurry to fill vacant positions until he gets his arms around the existing bureaucracy. I’m hopeful, but it will take time. After 8 years of President Trump, most of the alligators will be slain and, hopefully, eaten.


6 posted on 08/13/2017 10:47:20 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: hapnHal

So they were ordered to search. They’ll just come back and say “We did. Didn’t find anything” and that’s that. Wake me up when something actually happens.


7 posted on 08/13/2017 10:48:07 AM PDT by Pravious
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Don’t bet the farm that any of this will stick to the Clintons. They have been padding their way for decades. And they still have ‘friends’ in high places.


8 posted on 08/13/2017 10:48:25 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Hillary’s entire purpose in using a private email server was to protect herself from precisely this kind of investigation. I doubt she ever sent anything incriminating through the official State Department email server, and I doubt anything will come of this. Still, I suppose one can hope.


9 posted on 08/13/2017 10:50:17 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: hapnHal

Bleach Bit


10 posted on 08/13/2017 10:55:31 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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ON THE SUBJECT OF ABEDIN---- As you may have read, the divorce is off and Anthony's moving back in. Huma needs to keep Anthony close-by to keep his mouth zipped (not his pants).

Left on his own, Anthony might spill the beans about Huma's endless string of cousins dipping into Hillary's State Dept 's numerous slush funds...... the cousins becoming instant millionaires sucking up State Dept tax dollars.

Anthony's moving back in also has A LOT to do w/ Huma's having the wherewithal to pay a pricey 12,000 monthly rental.....w/ her cut of the cousins' millions AND Anthony's multiple US govt checks.

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REFERENCE----This'll give you nightmares, people.....counting up the endless string of Huma's cousins w/ their greedy Muslim hands in the State Dept cookie jar.

UNDER HOUSE ARREST---This smirking creep is Huma's first cousin AKA a serial swindler
He subsidized businesses w/ our tax dollars looted from Hillary's State Dept. He made six million dollars vanish.

EXCERPT--“Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting,” Huma Abedin emailed June 23, 2009 to her cousin, Omar Amanat, business partner of Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.

In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped cousin Soliya get access to UN funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called "The Alliance of Civilizations." Then, in October 2010, Secy Hillary's State Dept directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a (cough) media technology project. “Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars),” said an attorney familiar with the case.

“This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million (that we know of) has vanished.”

Cousin Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, cousin Amanat, known as a “serial swindler,” was (a) in personal bankruptcy, and, (b) being sued by other investors. Despite Amanat's shady reputation, he still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned cousin, and his contributions to the Clinton Foundation.

THE CLINTON MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that cousin Omar Amanat and several other Abedin family members, and related Muslim (cough) "charities: have together donated as much as $1.2 million to (a) the Clinton Foundation, (b) to the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as to (c) the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Omar Amanat, Abedin's cousin, personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Cousin Amanat was then appointed to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.

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While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Secy Clinton’s unsecured private email server, its public corruption investigation into The Clinton Foundation remains open.

It’s not clear if this still-active FBI Clinton probe overlaps with cousin Amanat's fraud investigation.

However, investigators continue to look into alleged “pay-for-play” schemes involving secrecy and collusion of the Clinton State Department, the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.

Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors. And tax dollars....all you could possibly want.

11 posted on 08/13/2017 10:59:37 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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The Swamp has already made sure that they're gone.
12 posted on 08/13/2017 11:01:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Yawn. More melodrama with no ending.


13 posted on 08/13/2017 11:06:59 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: hapnHal

I’m going to hold off on celebrating until the State Dept. actually turns over the goods.


14 posted on 08/13/2017 11:08:34 AM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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Yup. It’s all been deleted. This is nothing more than phony theatrics.


15 posted on 08/13/2017 11:09:24 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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POINTS TO PONDER

<><> Cong Debbie Wasserman Schultz was a pox on the DNC so they dumped her for fixing the primary for Hillary.... Debbie "electronically rerouted" donations earmarked for Bernie’s into Hillary's campaign account.

<><> Probably, Imran, Debbie's Paki IT staffer, set-up that high-tech steal.

<><> Imran also had control of ALL of the House Dems' Blackberrys. If the Dems were using a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) (and I'm betting they did), then Awan could easily have ITed all the SMS and Email content sent through their Blackberry's for however long he had that access.

<><> Makes Awans' blackmailing elected members, Abedin and Hillary a distinct possibility.

16 posted on 08/13/2017 11:10:07 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: hapnHal
Now they need to demand to see those 650,000 emails Weiner collected on his laptop... Just ask the Republicans in the House .. they have all of Weiner’s collection...
17 posted on 08/13/2017 11:17:00 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: hapnHal

To me the real Libyan scandal is how we wound up bombing the troops of another United Nation recognized government without a ‘by you leave’ from Congress.


18 posted on 08/13/2017 11:17:52 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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At least the word, “BOMBSHELL” wasn’t used!


19 posted on 08/13/2017 11:21:22 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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It will not be in the news. The media will deliberately and intentionally suppress the contents, which will show that hillary and bammy did nothing to protect the Americans, in order to prove their undying love for m*slims.


20 posted on 08/13/2017 11:23:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Insanity, even when disguised by a nice-sounding name, is still insanity.)
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