Posted on 09/26/2015 10:05:36 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Judicial Watch Puts Hillary Clinton on the Spot over Abedin Patronage Job
I’m sure you’ve seen and read the usual DC establishment talking heads professing confusion as to why Hillary Clinton would make the “mistake” in setting up a separate email system to conduct government business as secretary of state. Of course, these types never see the obvious answer – because she had something to hide! And so did a lot of other Obama administration officials, some still running things at the State Department.
If you have any doubt about this, please take a look at the new State Department records we released yesterday that reveal Hillary Clinton personally signed the authorization for Huma Abedin, her then-deputy chief of staff, to become a special government employee.
The records also show that Abedin declined to provide complete information about her husband Anthony Weiner’s financial dealings. The records were uncovered as a result of a court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial, to put it charitably, employment status of Abedin ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The records show also that Abedin used a clintonemail.com account to communicate about her special status. (We know only that Abedin had a clintonemail.com account to conduct business. Neither Clinton nor the State Department are telling who else from the State Department participated in this shady Clinton email system.)
The lies on this particular issue began in February 2014, when the State Department assured Judicial Watch that it had searched several individual offices of the department, including the office of the executive secretary, which would have included the offices of the secretary of State and top staff. Relying upon the State Department’s misrepresentation that the agency conducted a reasonable search, Judicial Watch agreed to dismiss its lawsuit on March 14, 2014. Judge Emmet Sullivan reopened the lawsuit on June 19, 2015, in response to revelations about Clinton’s separate email system.
The newly uncovered documents show that Clinton personally signed the form for Abedin’s appointment as a “Special Government Employee/ senior advisor to Clinton on March 23, 2012.” The position description form details that Hillary Clinton certifies that Abedin’s “position is necessary to carry out Government functions for which I am responsible.” The Obama State Department blacked out Clinton’s signature on the form, allegedly to protect Clinton’s privacy.
As Politico, which first reported our find, points out, this document suggests that Mrs. Clinton is a liar:
Clinton, in an interview with MSNBC on Sept. 4, said she “was not directly involved” with Abedin’s job arrangement.
“Do you think [Donald Trump] had a point in raising the question of whether it was appropriate for her to be taking a State Department salary and also be paid by an outside company closely associated with your husband, by you?” asked reporter Andrea Mitchell.
“Well, I was not directly involved in that, but everything that she did was approved under the rules as they existed by the State Department,” Clinton said.
Obviously, she was directly involved and, as you’ll see below, the “rules” were violated left and right.
The documents detail Abedin’s “expert” position, which evidently also required a continued top secret clearance:
As a Senior Advisor (Expert) to the Secretary, the incumbent will provide expert advice and guidance on varying issues related to the planning of logistical arrangements for foreign and domestic missions, and for the coordination of the foreign policy requirements, press, and protocol and security components necessary for a successful and sensitive foreign policy mission.
The documents raise questions about whether Abedin’s position complied with a federal law that prevents special government positions created for work already performed by current employees. On June 4, 2012, Abedin states “NO, MY NEW POSITION IS IDENTICAL TO MY OLD POSITION.”
Abedin also expressed concern in March 2012 about the State Department finally paying for her travel from New York. In a March 27, 2012, email about her “conversion to expert appointment,” Abedin writes:
Have a few questions. One is time sensitive, I need to come down to state tomorrow. Can state start paying for my travel since ny is now my base? I’ve been paying personally for the last 6 months. Thanks.
The records show that there was a rush to appoint Abedin to the position, which was initially set to begin on April 1, 2012. When Abedin was finally approved in June 2012, she had failed to provide her husband Anthony Weiner’s financial information, despite repeated requests from the State Department.
In a March 21, 2012, email, Cynthia Motley, administrative officer in the State Department, writes to Abedin requesting the financial disclosure information:
Huma, I have been advised to begin the process to convert you from your Non-Career SES position as Senior Adviser (Expert-SGE) in the Office of the Secretary which is to be effective April 1, 2012. In order to initiate the conversion appointment, I will need the following from you as soon as possible:
The attached SF-278 Financial Disclosure Report must be completed for your termination from the Non-Career SES appointment.
On April 3, 2012, in a response to Motely, Abedin begins what turns out to be a lengthy period of non-compliance:
Anthony filed his separate disclosures last june. Nothing has changed. I don’t need to include his stuff on mine, right? Just want to confirm Thanks!
On April 4, Motley again advises Abedin that Weiner’s assets must be disclosed:
I have confirmed with the Legal Office that his assets are imputed to you so his assets are reportable on your OGE-278 which should include all of 2011 and 2012 up to the date.
In May 2012, after Abedin has still failed to file the required disclosures, Sarah Taylor, the chief of the State Department’s financial disclosure division, is forced to contact Abedin in an email marked “Importance: High:”
I have your termination OGE-278 report and the financial disclosure report for the Senior Advisor position. While reviewing your termination OGe-278, I noticed your spouse had several assets that weren’t reported on your report. Can you kindly provide an end of year summary statement so that I can update your report accurately?
After months of non-productive wrangling, Abedin was appointed to the SGE position on June 3, 2012, without having submitted the proper financial disclosure documents for Weiner, as indicated in a June 22 email from Taylor to Marcela Green of the DOS Financial Disclosures Division:
Yes, she [Abedin] was supposed to give me some information regarding her spouse’s assets and she has not done so.
Another email suggests that as of August 29, 2013, Abedin still hadn’t provided the required financial information.
In a June 6, 2012 email, Abedin admits, “I don’t really know [Weiner’s] clients or his work.” This email chain discloses that Abedin had already been cleared for the “other position.”
So if the “rules” had been followed, Abedin would never have gotten her sweetheart job that allowed her to double dip from federal taxpayers and Clinton Foundation/Clinton front operations.
Interestingly, the State Department produced these records after performing a second search of State Department offices. The first search, conducted in early 2014, produced only eight pages. I wonder how these documents were missed in the first place? You can bet we’ll be asking the court the same thing.
This same litigation saw the development of the FBI and Justice Department rejecting an order by Judge Sullivan to produce information about searching for records on the server and other material reportedly taken from Mrs. Clinton. As Judicial Watch responded in a court filing this week:
We still do not know whether the FBI… has possession of the email server that was used by Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Abedin to conduct official government business… We also do not know whether the server purportedly in the possession of the FBI – an assumption based on unsworn statements by third parties – is the actual email server that was used by Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Abedin to conduct official government business… Nor do we know whether any copies of the email server or copies of the records from the email server exist.
These documents show the Huma Abedin received special treatment contrary to law and that Hillary Clinton personally approved a corrupt patronage position.
These new documents are smoking gun evidence of what Hillary Clinton’s separate email server was all about – keeping secret the corruption of her and her top staff.
What else is out there?
Politico reported that, since June 2012, Abedin had been double-dipping, working as a consultant to outside clients while continuing as a top adviser at State. Abedin’s outside clients included Teneo, a strategic consulting firm co-founded by former Bill Clinton counselor Doug Band. According to Fox News, Abedin earned $355,000 as a consultant to Teneo, in addition to her $135,000 SGE compensation.
Teneo describes its activities as providing “the leaders of the world’s most respected companies, nonprofit institutions and governments with a full suite of advisory solutions.” [Emphasis added] Outside of the U.S., it maintains offices in Dubai, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Brussels, Washington, and Beijing. Teneo was also the subject of various investigative reports, including by the New York Times, which raise questions about its relationship with the Clinton Foundation. This week, Politico also reported that other State Department documents show Abedin was asked to help both the Foundation and Teneo in April 2012.
If JW catching Clinton and Abedin in scams and lies regarding the misuse of public office and your tax dollars isn’t enough for you, then read on….
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There was a State Department - and a Shadow State Department. That’s why the sever was kept quiet to all but a chosen few...
Yep and Hillary knows nothing about it, she’s as pure as the new fallen snow. If you ask her she’ll affirm that, whatta gal.
What do you suppose are the odds that John Q. or Jane Q. Public would bump into this broad on the public sidewalk?
Exposing a Clinton lie is like exposing a blade of grass in a country club. There are so many of them, who knows where to begin?
Bill was always shucking and jiving his way out of messes. Biting his lip, apologizing and, at least, trying to scream innocence and come up with a lasting cover story even when caught red handed.
Hillary isn’t even trying. She is, in effect, saying, “screw you, laws are for the little people, the truth is for the little people. Don’t you know who I am?!?! Call off your dogs Barak!!”
I’d guess very slim to none. She probably hasn’t been on a public sidewalk unless surrounded by security since she and Willy Jeff lived in the Governors mansion.
“...Call off your dogs Barak!!”
Precisely, and you left a word out:)
Until there is a large and continuing public outcry for the indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and hanging of Traitorobama and members of his regime, including Hillary (and her husband, too) for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, this ongoing mockery and destruction of our country by Demonicrats and RINOs will continue and even grow worse.
Turns out it there was more than one "thing" to hide.
Jaz? Will you ping me to these when you post them? Thanks!
Yep, pure as the driven snow...
Yellow snow?
Sure nuf will my FRiend, it’ll be my pleasure. ;-)
these email summaries show that the Clinton Foundation was the State Department and the State Department was the Clinton Foundation. - Hillary Clinton vs. FOIA
dear jaz,
Meebe ah’s din’t say whut ah’s ment too well.
ah’s wuz speakin’ on d’at A-rab broad d’at is named w’it hillrey d’eze days.
Can Abedin be prosecuted for all this?
“JW Exposes Hillary Clinton Lie (Weekly Update)”.....
JW has and is going to have a lot of material as Hitlary keeps moving her lips.
Oh, then I’d say we probably wouldn’t recognize her wearin’ the burka and all:)
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