Posted on 10/23/2019 7:44:36 AM PDT by zaxtres
OCTOBER 21, 2019 | JUDICIAL WATCH JUDICIAL WATCH: NEW BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS CONFIRM CLINTON EMAIL COVER-UP
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released new Clinton emails on the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for years and would have exposed Hillary Clinton’s email account if they had been released when the State Department first uncovered them in 2014. The long withheld email, clearly responsive to Judicial Watch’s lawsuit seeking records concerning “talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack,” contains Clinton’s private email address and a conversation about the YouTube video that sparked the Benghazi talking points scandal (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). This Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.
The Clinton email cover-up led to court-ordered discovery into three specific areas: whether Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA; whether the State Department’s intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s request. The court also authorized discovery into whether the Benghazi controversy motivated the cover-up of Clinton’s email. (The court ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”)
The September 2012 email chain begins with an email to Clinton at her private email address, “hdr22@clintonemail.com,” from Jacob Sullivan, Clinton’s then-senior advisor and deputy chief of staff. The email was copied to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s then-chief of staff, and then was forwarded to then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications and Clinton advisor Phillipe Reines:
From: Sullivan, Jacob J
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 11 :09 AM
To: ‘hdr22@clintonemail.com’
Cc: Mills, Cheryl D
Subject: Key points
HRC, Cheryl –
Below is my stab at tp’s for the Senator call. Cheryl, I’ve left the last point blank for you. These are rough but you get the point.
I look forward to sitting down and having a Hillary~to-John conversation about what we know. l know you were frustrated by the briefing we did and I’m sorry our hands were tied in that setting.
It’s important we see each other in person, but over the phone today I just wanted to make a few points.
First, we have been taking this deadly seriously, as we should. I set up the ARB in record time, with serious people on it. l will get to the bottom of all the security questions. We are also in overdrive working to track down the killers, and not just through the FBI. We will get this right.
Second, the White House and Susan were not making things up. They were going with what they were told by the IC [Intelligence community].
The real story may have been obvious to you from the start (and indeed I called it an assault by heavily armed militants in my first statement), but the IC gave us very different information. They were unanimous about it.
Let me read you an email from the day before Susan went on the shows. It provides the talking points for HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and for her public appearance. It’s from a very senior official at CIA, copying his counterparts at DNI [Director of National Intelligence], NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center], and FBI:
Here are the talking points …
–The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the US Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the US Consulate and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations.
-This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated.
–The investigation is on-going, and the US Government is working with Libyan authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the deaths US citizens.
That is exactly what Susan said, following the guidance from the IC. She obviously got bad advice. But she was not shading the truth.
Third, you have to remember that the video WAS important. We had four embassies breached because of protests inspired by it. Cairo, Tunis, Khartoum, and Sanaa. We had serious security challenges in Pakistan and Chennai and some other places. All this was happening at the same time. So many of the contemporaneous comments about the video weren’t referring in any way to Benghazi. Now of course even in those countries it was about much much more than the video, but the video was certainly a piece of it one we felt we had to speak to so that our allies in those countries would back us up.
(In fact, as Judicial Watch famously uncovered in 2014, the “talking points” that provided the basis for Susan Rice’s false statements were created by the Obama White House.)
Judicial Watch requested records related to the Benghazi talking points in May 2014. In July 2014, it filed suit. The Clinton email finally released this month was first identified by the State Department in September, 2014 but was withheld from Judicial Watch despite it specifically referencing talking points. After it was specifically described in an Office of the Inspector General report, the court ordered its production. It was only after Judicial Watch informed the State Department it was prepared to file a motion with the court to compel production of the records that the Department relented and produced the 2012 email in question.
(In an August 22, 2019, hearing, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered production of the record in granting Judicial Watch significant new discovery in the case. Judge Lamberth said, “There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence.” The judge also stated that the government has mishandled this case and the discovery of information including former Secretary Clinton’s emails so poorly that Judicial Watch may have the ability to prove they acted in “bad faith.”)
“This email is a twofer – it shows Hillary Clinton misled the U.S. Senate on Benghazi and that the State Department wanted to hide the Benghazi connection to the Clinton email scheme,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Rather than defending her email misconduct, the Justice Department has more than enough evidence to reopen its investigations into Hillary Clinton.”
The court is considering whether to allow Judicial Watch to question Hillary Clinton and her top aide in person and under oath about the email and Benghazi controversies.
Last month, the State Department, under court order, finally provided Judicial Watch a previously hidden email, which shows top State Department officials used and were aware of Hillary Clinton’s email account.
Judicial Watch’s discovery over the last several months found many more details about the scope of the Clinton email scandal and cover-up:
John Hackett, former Director of Information Programs and Services (IPS) testified under oath that he had raised concerns that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff may have “culled out 30,000” of the secretary’s “personal” emails without following strict National Archives standards. He also revealed that he believed there was interference with the formal FOIA review process related to the classification of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails. Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison at the State Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, admitted under oath that she was granted immunity by the Department of Justice in June 2016. Justin Cooper, former aide to President Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the unsecure clintonemail.com server that Clinton used while serving as Secretary of State, testified he worked with Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, to create the non-government email system. In the interrogatory responses of E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, he stated that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President. Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, testified that both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to conduct official State Department business. Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testified that Clinton was warned twice against using unsecure BlackBerry’s and personal emails to transmit classified material.
Another massive screw-up by the CIA.
They are NOT keeping the US us safe. They are spending most of their energy protecting the deep state and their jobs.
As has been observed since before 9/11.... It is not the job of The Alphabet Agencies to keep “us safe”. It never was. The Agencies are self governed and have the full authority to control citizens and amass data collection. WAKE UP! This is not a test.
Ever meet or work with any of them? 95% are useless government unionoid lefty blobs of s**t that don't do a fkn thing all day.
What's worse is once they get high up enough, they all get these HUGE elastic budgets of tax payer money that they personally spend.
Literally like royalty. It's probably like that throughout all the agencies too. We have a neo-monarchy.
Despite the thousands of employees, billions of dollars and exclusive legal powers, they still can't do their jobs.
So, what do they do? They say they need MORE money, MORE people and MORE powers.
Try THAT the next time YOU screw up at work.
The government is the Peter Principle on steroids.
Want a wake up call?
Listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Edward Snowden. Stop, then listen to it again. Clearly, this is not your father’s America. In fact, it is governed, but not by the people. As if you didn’t know.... Prepare. Protect. Defend. We have arrived at Oceania.
Not shocked.
People died, Hillary lied.
All so Obama could be re-elected in 2012.
Also saved us from 4 years of Mitt Romney Looney Leftism.
The truth can hit lefties right in the face and they will ignore it. I still can’t believe the GOP put Romney up against Obama...it was a play they hoped would fail so they too could engage in illegal activities for their own gains. And also to help cover for Clinton....
Such an incredible display of arrogance right in our own face. Kind of like an “F U America, we tell you what to do...you don’t tell us....”
Let’s hope Barr and Durham are the two to expose and convict those involved in all this bullchit. I’m so tired of getting wee wee’d on all the time.
Who cares about the emails? I want to hear about the GUN SMUGGLING and that Graham is also implicated.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Since Graham was attached at the hip with McCain, this doesn't surprise me. He was probably involved in McCain's dossier retrieval, and dissemination in some way.
COVER-UP Part two
The **court is considering whether to allow** Judicial Watch to question Hillary Clinton and her top aide in person and under oath about the email and Benghazi controversies.
...it was a play they hoped would fail so they too could engage in illegal activities for their own gains.
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I’m afraid this is the reason that the whole of government is coming down on Trump and nobody is pointing it out. It has nothing to do with Trump not being a politician except that he won’t play the graft game. It has nothing to do with Trump not being presidential, heck certainly Clinton was not presidential, Carter was hardly presidential, stupid peanut farmer. Bush with his slow talk and wierd words was hardly presidential, it had nothing to with anything except for the desire of politicians to keep lining their pockets.
They need to be in jail. The only hope they have of not being exposed is removal of Trump from office, it could be close very close. Limbaugh, Levine and Hannity are ignoring this. Romney is involved in taking money from Ukraine, Pelosi and family and of course Biden in a big way. We are starting to see evidence there several senators and representatives that are involved. If they don’t impeach and remove Trump their house of cards may fall down “bigly”. I’m starting to wonder if McConnell is involved, if he is then Trump is toast. We may lose the best president we have ever had in the last hundred years or more. I’m hoping for the fall of the traitors.
*** “Listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Edward Snowden” ***
I have been listening to it for the last 20 minutes
I haven’t listened to the complete podcast yet. Don’t be a spoiler....
I’m sure of it. Just need it to come out.
look, we were smuggling weapons from libya to syria, Quadafi didn’t want anything to do with it so we killed him and took his Gold,Ambassador Stevens saw the same fate when he questioned the ethics of Selling Weapons to our Named Enemy during a Time of War.
This is from today? I'll wait breathlessly for CNN to lead with this blockbuster story.
JW is going to keep digging long after Hillary’s death they bury her six feet deep; may they dig all the way to China:)
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