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Judicial Watch: Former Asst. Sec. of State for Diplomatic Security Testifies Under Oath that He...
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| May 29, 2019
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Posted on 05/29/2019 12:18:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Judicial Watch: Former Asst. Sec. of State for Diplomatic Security Testifies Under Oath that He Warned Hillary Clinton Twice About Unsecure BlackBerrys and Personal Emails
They had come from the campaign trail and they were
wedded to their BlackBerrys
They wanted to be able to have them at their desks where they were working, and they werent allowed to have that Eric Boswell
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Eric Boswell, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security during Hillary Clintons tenure as Secretary of State, in which he reveals that Hillary Clinton was warned twice against using unsecure BlackBerrys and personal emails to transmit classified material. A full transcript of the deposition is available here .
Boswell, who was responsible for securing classified and national security information, stated that Clinton and her staff were wedded to their BlackBerrys. Additionally, he stated that he and other former State Department employees were surprised that Clinton used clintonemail.com to conduct official government business.
In his deposition, Ambassador Boswell stated:
- Hillary Clinton and other Senior State Department officials were warned in 2009 that any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving emails and exploiting calendars.
- Clinton was warned again in 2011 that We also urge Department users to minimize the use of personal web email for business, as some compromised home systems have been reconfigured by these actors to automatically forward copies of all composed emails to an undisclosed recipient.
- Clinton assured him that she gets it when he informed her about dangers of Blackberries.
- Clinton and her staff were wedded to their blackberries and wanted to continue using them in secure areas even after warning because it was a convenience issue to them.
- He and other former State Department employees were surprised to learn that Clinton used clintonemail.com to conduct official government business. Boswell claimed that they were not aware of such activity while still employed by the government.
Boswell was deposed as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons unsecured, non-government email system ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).
Judicial Watch was granted both depositions and written questions under oath of former Clinton aides, State Department officials, and others:
- Justin Cooper , a former aide to Bill Clinton who reportedly had no security clearance and is believed to have played a key role in setting up Hillary Clintons non-government email system;
- John Hackett , a State Department records official immediately responsible for responding to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act;
- Jacob Jake Sullivan , Hillary Clintons former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff;
- Sheryl Walter , former State Department Director of the Office of Information Programs and Services/Global Information Services;
- Gene Smilansky , a State Department lawyer;
- Monica Tillery, a State Department official;
- Jonathon Wasser, who was a management analyst on the Executive Secretariat staff. Wasser worked for Deputy Director Clarence Finney and was the State Department employee who actually conducted the searches for records in response to FOIA requests to the Office of the Secretary
- Clarence Finney , the deputy director of the Executive Secretariat staff who was the principal advisor and records management expert in the Office of the Secretary responsible for control of all correspondence and records for Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials;
- Heather Samuelson , the former State Department senior advisor who helped facilitate the State Departments receipt and release of Hillary Clintons emails;
- Monica Hanley , Hillary Clintons former confidential assistant at the State Department;
- Lauren Jiloty , Clintons former special assistant;
- E.W. Priestap , is serving as assistant director of the FBIs counterintelligence division and helped oversee both the Clinton email and the 2016 presidential campaign investigations. Priestap testified in a separate lawsuit that Clinton was the subject of a grand jury investigation related to her BlackBerry email accounts;
- Susan Rice , President Obamas former UN ambassador who appeared on Sunday television news shows following the Benghazi attacks, blaming a hateful video . Rice was also Obamas national security advisor involved in the unmasking the identities of senior Trump officials caught up in the surveillance of foreign targets;
- Ben Rhodes , an Obama-era White House deputy strategic communications adviser who attempted to orchestrate a campaign to reinforce Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy;
- Heather Samuelson , the former State Department senior advisor who helped facilitate the State Departments receipt and release of Hillary Clintons emails;
- and one other person to be designated by the State Department.
Judge Royce Lamberth ordered that the Boswell video be sealed.
Thanks to our court-ordered discovery, we now have confirmation that Hillary Clinton was warned by the top security official in the State Department that unsecure Blackberry and email use was a security risk, yet Hillary Clinton ignored these warnings, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
In June 2017, Judicial Watch submitted evidence to Judge Sullivan showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly used an unsecure BlackBerry device despite being warned by security hawks against doing so.
In a related case , in 2016, Judicial Watch took depositions from Cheryl Mills , Huma Abedin , Patrick Kennedy , Stephen Mull , Karin Lang and Bryan Pagliano in connection to Secretary Clintons private email system.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; boswell; boswelldeposition; classifiedinfo; emails; ericboswell; heathersamuelson; hillaryclinton; hillaryemails; judicialwatch; jw; privateemails; statedept; susanrice
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:18:34 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Just smash them, like with a hammer ?
To: jazusamo
OOPS! Can’t claim ignorance anymore...
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:23:48 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:24:55 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: jazusamo
This will be in the news in 5-4-3-2-1 ? SILENCE.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:25:26 PM PDT
by
certrtwngnut
(4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
To: All
Proof positive that high ranking Democrats are stupid and only care about power grabbing and money...
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:27:35 PM PDT
by
topher
(America, please Do The Right Thing!)
To: jazusamo
But...but...but...Hillary is the smartest women in the world....right?
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:28:01 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
To: jazusamo
This removes the cover of “lack of knowledge or awareness” and establishes intent to circumvent controls on the email.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
To: jazusamo
How dare they tell a Clinton what they cannot do!........................
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:29:08 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Col Frank Slade
Or pour bleach over them after the cow is out of the barn.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:30:08 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
To: SMARTY
She ain’t in jail.
She ain’t indicted.
She ain’t charged.
She ain’t arrested.
She ain’t gonna...................
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:30:28 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: jazusamo
She has been and is indictable based on the charges and findings of the comey report.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:33:40 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:33:44 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
That guy won’t live for much longer.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:34:19 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: jazusamo
The "Smartest Woman in the Galaxy...."
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:35:29 PM PDT
by
nesnah
(Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
To: Red Badger
"She aint gonna..................."
This is maybe the second time in her life she might be sentenced to criminal prosecution. The first time was when she had no power working on the prosecution of Nixon when she lied about rule changes and then removed the paperwork that had those rule changes.
If Jerry Zeifman pressed charges we wouldn't have this mess with her today.
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:51:14 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: jazusamo
Judicial Watch always does their homework!
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posted on
05/29/2019 12:54:52 PM PDT
by
Maudeen
(Remember . . . Jesus is already in all of your tomorrows.)
To: Maudeen
I agree, like a pit bull they don’t let go.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:04:39 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Eric Boswell meet Vince Foster, you will soon have much in common.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:05:16 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
To: jazusamo
Judicial Watch; doing the job tbe Gutless Party should be doing.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:05:34 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
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