"What, like with a C?"
Posted on 11/01/2016 11:26:42 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Harry Reid’s explanation of how John Kerry and State are violating the Hatch Act will be awesome. Just days after the FBI notified Congress about a trove of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, the State Department suddenly released over three hundred e-mails last night. The Washington Examiner reports that the new release includes messages between Hillary and Huma Abedin that were not disclosed prior to now — and they came via a separate FOIA fight:
State Department officials produced 323 pages of correspondence from Hillary Clinton‘s tenure on Monday, including previously undisclosed emails between Clinton and top aide Huma Abedin that have since been classified. …
At least one of those was an email chain Clinton sent Abedin that has since been classified. In it, Clinton asked Abedin to print a sensitive memo from informal advisor Sidney Blumenthal about the political situation in Northern Ireland.
This raises even more questions about how Sid Blumenthal had access to classified information. Before, the explanation was that he was on the ground in Libya and was just passing along information he came across, which was already a bit difficult to believe based on the quality of intel he had. Was Blumenthal also running businesses in Northern Ireland, too? Without seeing the actual redactions, it’s difficult to tell whether it might just be coincidental based on publicly available knowledge, but now we have multiple “coincidences” involving Blumenthal and classified intel while Hillary was Secretary of State.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
State was forced to release these messages because of a FOIA demand from Judicial Watch, which notes that three exchanges got classified and redacted by State for reasons of national security. The messages not only show that at least some of the deleted e-mails contained classified information, they also demonstrate pay-to-play shenanigans between State and the Clinton Foundation:
The emails also include an exchange between Abedin, Clinton personal assistant Lauren Jiloty, and Iris Anaya, the assistant to sugar magnate and Clinton Foundation donor Alfonso Fanjul concerning a request for special access to Clinton. On October 13, 2009, Anaya emailed Abedin seeking to arrange a meeting between Fanjul, the CEO of Florida Crystals, and Clinton. Jiloty responded the next day, asking that Anaya talk with Clinton scheduler Lona Valmoro about “setting up a meeting.” Fanjul donated more than $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and was a Bill Clinton co-chairman in Florida.
In an October 26, 2009, email exchange, power attorney and Hillary Clinton financial supporter, Charlie Ann Syprett, contacted Doug Band, apparently seeking help in getting around U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) restrictions on U.S. citizens’ ability to travel to Cuba. Syprett ostensibly wanted a waiver from the restrictions to enable people from her organization, SYC Charitable Foundation, to travel to Cuba, noting “we are not asking for something out of the ordinary.”
The emails also show that Valmoro sent Clinton’s government schedule to the unsecure email addresses of numerous members of the Clinton Foundation staff on October 16, 2009, again on October 18, 2009, and on October 25, 2009. The emails also include discussions of personnel matters and appointments on Clinton’s unsecure account, which may run afoul of federal privacy law.
So … should Harry Reid question the timing and accuse Kerry of violating the Hatch Act, too? The timing does look curious. These records, JW’s Tom Fitton writes, were produced under a court order from May. Had State wanted to settle this before the final week of the election, they certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so.
A better question, though, would be whether the FBI knew about these records before Comey’s announced conclusion of the investigation in early July. It would almost certainly appear so — but if so, why wait until October 31st to release them? And if they did know about these, especially the exchanges between Hillary and Huma Abedin, why didn’t they take a closer look at Abedin and her other devices? Fitton wonders the same thing: “It is frankly remarkable that the FBI and Justice Department are only now investigating Abedin’s connection to Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.”
That does seem pretty remarkable, when put in context. It seems as though the FBI didn’t have much desire to fully investigate Abedin until a completely unrelated probe of her estranged husband dropped a ton of evidence in their laps. That’s certainly one indicator that even with the investigation reopened, observers should not bet on much changing in the end.
And the thickening plot sickens - even more
And Hitlery has the gall to say Trump can’t be trusted with the nuclear codes. Hey bitch: You would SELL the nuclear codes AND the nukes!
“This raises even more questions about how Sid Blumenthal had access to classified information.”
Follow the money - with Clintons it’s always ‘the money’...
There are, in fact, not one but five separate FBI investigations which involve members of Clinton’s inner circle or their closest relatives.
The five known investigations are into: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin’s estranged husband sexting a 15-year-old; the handling of classified material by Clinton and her staff on her private email server; questions over whether the Clinton Foundation was used as a front for influence-peddling; whether the Virginia governor broke laws about foreign donations; and whether Hillary’s campaign chairman’s brother did the same.
Chinese government front? Wang Wenliang, the billionaire McAuliffe at first claimed he had never met, filmed entering a fundraiser attended by the governor at Clinton’s home
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/chinese-donor-linked-to-terry-mcauliffe-probe-also-caused-trouble-for-hillary.html
“Indirectly the Clinton Foundation has political influence, that’s why people give to it,” Jim Mann, former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, told CBS.
Cue up the music: “Everybody Wang Wenliang tonight”.
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[–]space_10 4 points 5 months ago
Might be part of the reason the US is loosing trade wars etc.
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[–]ackthpptdizzydean on Old Kos[S] 5 points 5 months ago
And the sad part of a sad story of corruption:
McAuliffe added that he and the Clintons “travel in the same circles” and that donors to the Clinton Foundation have been “friends of mine for years and years.”
On the 74th floor of the Time Warner Center, Condominium 74B was purchased in 2010 for $15.65 million by a secretive entity called 25CC ST74B L.L.C. It traces to the family of Vitaly Malkin, a former Russian senator and banker who was barred from entering Canada because of suspected connections to organized crime.
Last fall, another shell company bought a condo down the hall for $21.4 million from a Greek businessman named Dimitrios Contominas, who was arrested a year ago as part of a corruption sweep in Greece.
A few floors down are three condos owned by another shell company, Columbus Skyline L.L.C., which belongs to the family of a Chinese businessman and contractor named Wang Wenliang. His construction company was found housing workers in New Jersey in hazardous, unsanitary conditions.
The foreign owners have included government officials and close associates of officials from Russia, Colombia, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan and Mexico.
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VITALY MALKIN, FORMER RUSSIAN SENATOR Official who battled the Canadian authorities over entering their country.
They have been able to make these multimillion-dollar purchases with few questions asked because of United States laws that foster the movement of largely untraceable money through shell companies.
Vast sums are flowing unchecked around the world as never before — whether motivated by corruption, tax avoidance or investment strategy, and enabled by an ever-more-borderless economy and a proliferation of ways to move and hide assets.
Three months after Clinton and Giustra met, they traveled around the world together on a trip that included a stop in Kazakhstan where Clinton introduced Giustra, who was closing in on a $425 million mining investment there, to the Central Asian country’s leader. Giustra made millions on that deal.
Each leader came away from the dinner with something. Clinton collected a $500,000 pledge from Kazakhstan’s president to assist Hurricane Katrina victims. Nazarbayev issued a press release claiming support from Clinton for Kazakhstan’s bid to chair the 56-state Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, based in Vienna. Kazakhstan was awarded the chair last November.
Clinton and Giustra were in China three days later when negotiations concluded on the uranium deposits, according to an October 2005 Canadian securities filing that outlines the deal.
The titular seller of two of the three properties was Mukhtar Ablyazov, 44, Kazakhstan’s energy minister in the late 1990s. He received $350 million through holding companies he controlled in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, according to the filing. The government retained a 30 percent stake in the properties.
Dzhakishev says Ablyazov, a college roommate of his in the 1980s, had obtained title to the uranium deposits from the government in early 2005, assuming $1.7 million in debt.
Could we be seeing the betrayal of Hitlery by Team Hussein? All these events, with a public face of support still being granted, makes one wonder....
Hussein works for the defeat of the only possible rival in his own party, and will focus his guns (yes, he has guns) on any remaining Republican afterwards.
Just heard on Fox that the FBI is scouring its ranks to find cleared personnel to go through the Weiner files - probably indicates they have already found classified and want to be sure they don’t end up with uncleared folks seeing too much....
People talk.
The NYPD rush in once again. A political WTC. And there they are.
Looks like she might be the last to know:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode Hitlery younder (sorry tennyson for the paraphrase)
Hitlery may be candidate without a ticket if they pull her. Maybe they try to stick in Lieawatha.
Mazzini Autorizza Furti Incendi Avvelenamenti (Italian: Mazzini Authorizes Thefts, Fires and Poisonings)
All mine has to do is be updated, I stand ready to assist.
Oh, darn! Hillary says to bring it all out. Release all that you guys know.
At this stage it would only worsen the constitutional crisis already afoot - what to do about all the early voters....
What a circus.
There could be files there that are so restricted that no-one in the FBI will have clearance to look at them.
"What, like with a C?"
Benghazi, with a silent H.
A document cannot be classified AFTER it's released.
You cant make something top-secret once it's out in the public. This post-release re-classification is unprecedented.
I have never in my almost 60 years heard of a document classified after it was released out in the public.
"DuhhhhHeyyyyyy..this here document has some pretty secret stuff on it.. go out and ask everyone to to forget they saw it so we can 'reclassify' it as top secret, mmmmm'kay?"
I carried TS/SCI for most of 39 years (24 AD and 15 DOD Civilian) - would volunteer in a heartbeat...
Which would make things really interesting....
Hmmm, I had 30 years with S/TS/SCI clearances. I wonder if I could get hired as a "temp" to help out? :D
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