Posted on 07/08/2015 1:52:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE >> Hillary denied the Bengahzi committee subpoenaed her, so Trey Gowdy shared her subpoena with the entire Internet
Hillary Clinton’s stunted, aloof interview with CNN on Tuesday was supposed to be an easy play for the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. Her interlocutor was known to be sympathetic, and Clinton indeed enjoyed plenty of softball questions that essentially asked her to finish sentences or fill in obvious blanks.
Still, Clinton managed either to lie (or to err) when she told CNN’s Brianna Keilar that she had never been subpoenaed — not in connection with Benghazi, not in connection with anything.
Here’s a portion of the interview, transcribed by CNN:
KEILAR: One of the issues that has eroded some trust that we’ve seen is the issue of your email practices while you were secretary of state. I think there’s a lot of people who don’t understand what your thought process was on that.
Can you tell me the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 emails and how that deletion was executed?
CLINTON: Well, let’s start from the beginning. Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate. Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing. And people across the government knew that I used one device — maybe it was because I am not the most technically capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.
KEILAR: But you said they — that they did the same thing, that they used a personal server and —
KEILAR: — subpoena deleted emails from them?
CLINTON: You know, you’re starting with so many assumptions that are — I’ve never had a subpoena. There is — again, let’s take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system.
Now I didn’t have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system.
And now I think it’s kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.
KEILAR: Wearing warm socks, you said to John Podesta.
Wasn’t Hillary’s cat named “Socks?”
Anyway, Clinton appears not to have learned much about how stubborn the Internet can be in revealing those truths that exist outside one’s own sphere of influence.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who heads the House Select Committee on Benghazi, responded to Clinton’s subpoena denial Wednesday by doing something he could have done — but had chosen not to — all along: He shared her subpoena with the rest of the world.
In a press release, the Select Committee revisited its questioning of Clinton, who served as secretary of state in September 2012, when four Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Here’s the committee’s statement in its entirety:
The House Select Committee on Benghazi today released its March 4, 2015, subpoena to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in response to her inaccurate claim she had not been subpoenaed. The committee subpoenaed Clinton directly after it became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server and that the State Department was not the custodian of Clinton’s official record. The State Department failed to reveal this essential information to the Benghazi Committee or any other investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attacks until days before a media outlet was going to publish the information, meaning no investigation prior to the Benghazi Committee’s had access to the Secretary of State’s communications as part of its review.
“The committee has issued several subpoenas, but I have not sought to make them public,” said committee Chairman Trey Gowdy. “I would not make this one public now, but after Secretary Clinton falsely claimed the committee did not subpoena her, I have no choice in order to correct the inaccuracy. The committee immediately subpoenaed Clinton personally after learning the full extent of her unusual email arrangement with herself, and would have done so earlier if the State Department or Clinton had been forthcoming that State did not maintain custody of her records and only Secretary Clinton herself had her records when Congress first requested them.”
“The fact remains, despite when this subpoena was issued, Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her entire time in office, and she had a legal duty to cooperate with and tell the truth to congressional investigators requesting her records going back to September of 2012. Yet despite direct congressional inquiry, she refused to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement. This information only came to light because of a Select Committee request, not a voluntary decision to turn over records almost two years after leaving office, records which always should have been in State’s custody.”
“Moreover, the timing of the Secretary’s decision to delete and attempt to permanently destroy emails is curious at best. The Secretary left office in February of 2013. By her own admission she did not delete or destroy emails until the fall of 2014, well after this Committee had been actively engaged in securing her emails from the Department of State. For 20 months, it was not too burdensome or cumbersome for the Secretary to house records on her personal server but mysteriously in the fall of 2014 she decided to delete and attempt to permanently destroy those same records.”
And here’s a link to the actual subpoena. It’s dated March 4 of this year.
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OK.............. What you going to do about it.
The kabuki theater rolls on............
And Gowdy did not realize she was a liar before this?
Every American knows Clinton is a liar.
Why do they let this poor woman out in public ,LOL
She really is pathetic. Mrs. henkster occasionally has Jimmy Fallon on with his nauseating “stand up routine” that worships Clinton and 0bama...I didn’t know that you could perform fellatio while standing up...
...but I digress...
From what I hear of the audience reaction to his Hillary Clinton comments, there are a handful of “plants” in the audience who are there to whoop and holler for Hillary. But its obvious it’s only a handful. The rest of the audience reaction is less than tepid.
Hillary is astroturf.
"CLINTON: You know, you’re starting with so many assumptions that are — I’ve never had a subpoena. There is — again, let’s take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system."""........
What she said really: You know, your starting with so many.........MEANS, your starting to annoy me with truth.
She: Let's take a deep breath here...MEANING you nearly caused me to disclose something.
She: Everything I did was permitted by LAW & REGULATIONS. OOPS, MS CLINTON you just said a couple of paragraphs above there was NO LAW OR REGULATIONS. If there were none then how can any permitting exist when you did what you did? HUH?
I think I will go listen to Abbott and Costello, they make more sense and they are supposed to be funny..
Busted. :-)
47% of Americans will vote for Hillary knowing she lies, rides a broom, and hates America because they like that she’s from the party of thieves who give the proceeds of theft to them.
ping for later
I’m reminded that twice, our good people of this country elected a community “organizer” that sat around, smoked pot, sniffed coke, talked all day about being black, and never worked at a real job. She would get elected.
I know Gowdy gets a lot of flak here for not getting anything done, but what if he is smarter than we think, and just keeps dragging this out on purpose so that it ends up becoming front burner during the primary and/or general election? In the mean time, he keeps giving her just enough rope to slowly hang herself, while keeping the story fresh so she can't say "Old news."
Story on “Special Report” next...
I saw the interview and read it here. My reading is she was addressing the e-mail issue. Quotes require context. Don’t we have enough to imprison her yet?
That same 47% would vote for Charles Manson if he was the Dem Nominee...
And that's a demonstrable lie as well.
At this point, that's the best strategy remaining. What it really means is that he couldn't get her or her minions before.
[I know Gowdy gets a lot of flak here for not getting anything done, but what if he is smarter than we think, and just keeps dragging this out on purpose so that it ends up becoming front burner during the primary and/or general election? In the mean time, he keeps giving her just enough rope to slowly hang herself, while keeping the story fresh so she can’t say “Old news.”]
This is my hope too, although we may be setting ourselves up for another “Lucy and the football” moment. I believe Gowdy truly despises Clinton. What better time to take her out then after she becomes the Democrat nominee?
And then have a Republican President-appointed Attorney General (Gowdy?) prosecute her!
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