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Top Clinton aide: 'Wasn't really part of my job' to think about her emails
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/01/19 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 05/01/2019 3:32:24 PM PDT by Libloather

A former top aide to Hillary Clinton said it was not part of his "job" to think about her emails.

Jacob Sullivan participated in a deposition this month, part of a court-ordered discovery related to Clinton’s use of an unauthorized email server during her time as secretary of state. A federal judge ruled that several Obama administration officials would have to answer conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch's questions about whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act by using a nongovernment email system.

**SNIP**

"Like Secretary Clinton has said herself, I wish she had used a State Department account," Sullivan said on April 19, according to a transcript. "It wasn't really part of my job to be thinking about Secretary Clinton's emails so I don't think I sort of fell down directly in my job, but do I wish I had thought of it during the time we were at state. Of course. I mean, what human being at this point wouldn't have thought of that?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; emails; hillary; hillaryemails; hillaryemailserver; jacobsullivan; jakesullivan; jw; lockherup; sullivan
Sullivan said he sometimes used his personal Gmail account for State Department business. However, he said he did not believe he sent classified information to his boss' unauthorized server, hosted in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Judicial Watch pointed to a classified email he sent on Jan. 26 with the subject line “call sheet,” but Sullivan said he believed it has been subsequently "upclassified."

Uh, oh. Will the judge fall for it?

1 posted on 05/01/2019 3:32:24 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The old “I’m not a criminal, I’m just stupid” defense.


2 posted on 05/01/2019 3:35:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

Sullivan: “My job was to resupply the vodka and clean up the broken glass after her angry tirades. Nothing at all to do with emails.”


3 posted on 05/01/2019 3:36:17 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Libloather

If he had a security clearance, then he was personally responsible for the proper handling of all sensitive information, no matter what his boss commanded him to do, except if his boss was the President. Thankfully, Hillary Clinton was not President, and never will be.


4 posted on 05/01/2019 3:36:20 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: BenLurkin

This helps build the plausible deniability defense for Hillary. If the people who should have known didn’t speak up to her about it then that will allow her to claim that her staff let her down and blame them.


5 posted on 05/01/2019 3:39:14 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Libloather

“It really wasn’t my job to move the roadkill so I just painted the line across it.
....but it was already dead....”


6 posted on 05/01/2019 3:39:18 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: Libloather

“I don’t think about things I don’t think about.” —Inherit The Wind (1960)


7 posted on 05/01/2019 3:40:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: shotgun

This helps build the plausible deniability defense for Hillary.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

She knew exactly what she was doing. She was the one who set up a server in her own home.


8 posted on 05/01/2019 3:42:56 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: thesharkboy

Yes and he would have been read-in extensively on the protocols and consequences of violating the laws regarding classified documents and using unsecured communications channels. Part of that would have been his duty to report any violations he was aware of.


9 posted on 05/01/2019 3:42:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: thesharkboy
"...never will be." I love the sound of that. Hahahaha. At least that is some Justice for the criminal hag and wretch.
10 posted on 05/01/2019 3:59:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TigersEye

Throw this criminal bum in prison!


11 posted on 05/01/2019 4:00:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Libloather

It was, in fact, his job, as per security requirements, and he would have had to sign his name to that understanding.


12 posted on 05/01/2019 4:02:18 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: hal ogen

He could be facing prison time because his failure to report a crime like that is a crime. He’s probably more useful as someone to sweat and drop a dime on bigger players though.


13 posted on 05/01/2019 4:19:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Libloather

Leftists always want the credit for the good things without the blame for the bad; all the rights without any of the responsibilities.

The whole stinking lot of them should be in jail or worse.


14 posted on 05/01/2019 4:24:15 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat gets prosecuted. ))))
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Hey it’s the infamous ‘no intent’ or something....


15 posted on 05/01/2019 4:32:37 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: shotgun
Lawyer on the Nixon impeachment team, First Lady of both Arkansas and the US, junior New York US Senator, Secretary of State, and acknowledged “Smartest Woman on Earth,” pleads complete ignorance about basic Federal e-mail security measures and procedures and pins her sins and crimes on her staff.

HA!!!


16 posted on 05/01/2019 6:30:18 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Her staff may have the last laugh.

“yeah, you want to stick us with these crimes?”


17 posted on 05/01/2019 6:32:38 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: shotgun

That is to say, it’s a defense that I wouldn’t buy if I were on a jury!


18 posted on 05/01/2019 6:33:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: thesharkboy

“...Hillary Clinton was not President, and never will be.”

Chris Plante says this at least 1x everyday...to his audience’s delight.


19 posted on 05/01/2019 6:44:34 PM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: Libloather

Sergeant Shultz - “I know nuzzing!”


20 posted on 05/01/2019 7:34:35 PM PDT by glorgau
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