Posted on 03/11/2015 5:48:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- The furor over Hillary Clinton's decision to conduct her government communications through a personal, hideaway, email account isn't going away.
Clinton's abbreviated, 20-minute news conference Tuesday raised more questions than answers. The chief one: Who gave her the right to determine which emails were personal and thus deleted?
Not only is the secret email revelation growing into a politically damaging story, the Senate Judiciary Committee is also investigating a little-known government program Clinton used where some of her top political agents worked for her at the State Department while still in private employment.
When the blockbuster story broke about the former secretary of state's obsessive, rule-breaking secrecy, New York Sen. Charles Schumer said it would blow over in a day or so and eventually "be regarded as a slight hiccup."
Instead, it has mushroomed into a major scandal that threatens her second run for the presidency, reminding voters of her imperious habit of hiding critical details about her official acts in government. In this case, details that may explain why the State Department initially attempted to cover up what led to the murders of four Americans in a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Some of us still remember the photo of Clinton in 2011 on her Air Force C-17 typing some message on her BlackBerry as she traveled from Malta to Tripoli, which we now know was surreptitiously stored away in her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
"Given the paranoid/legalese perspective that permeates Clintonland, this made sense," writes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, a one-time Hillary cheerleader.
"It's hard to request emails from an account you don't know exists. Clinton Inc. can tough it out and even make stuff disappear," Dowd says.
To this day no one knows the full story about how she handled or mishandled the explanation behind the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
"It strains credibility to believe if you're on your way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy that there is not a single document to turn over to Congress," Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said on the CBS program "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"There are gaps of months and months and months" in the public record, said Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee that is investigating Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack her department originally said was not led by terrorists.
As is her habit, Clinton has stonewalled the calls on Capitol Hill to hand over her workday emails, saying little, if anything, substantive about why she did not use the government's internal computer accounts -- until Tuesday.
She said she had asked the State Department to make the emails public. But officials there say that it will take a lot of time to comb through the ones she's turned over to them before making any of them public.
You can see where all of this is headed, can't you? So can Gowdy. "It's not up to Secretary Clinton to decide what's public record and what's not," he said.
But Hillary's troubles worsened this week when it was reported that Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, is investigating yet another troubling aspect of her leadership as secretary of state.
Grassley is demanding internal documents, including emails, about a program in which some of Clinton's political advisers and fixers worked for her at State while still in the private sector.
Not only that, they used only her private email account to keep their work-related political communications secret within the department. Hillary didn't address what became of these emails in her news conference. Why not?
Among Clinton's political aides who were permitted this unusual double status were: Huma Abedin, her longtime confidante; Maggie Williams, her former campaign manager; Jonathan Prince, a speechwriter for Hillary and Bill Clinton; and Jeremy Rosner, one of her campaign pollsters.
Grassley thinks this political arrangement smells and has no place in the corridors of government.
"The public's business ought to be public with few exceptions," he said in a statement over the weekend. "When employees are allowed to serve the government and the private sector at the same time and use private email, the employees have access to everything and the public nothing."
Grassley has dug into many scandals over his long career and plans to dig deeper into this cozy arrangement that Clinton set up while occupying the highest Cabinet post in the government. He's demanding all of her emails and other documents be immediately turned over to his committee.
Moreover, he wants the State Department "to answer for any blurring of the lines between public and private service and any concealing of the blurred lines through private email."
It is common knowledge in political circles that Hillary's husband is her chief campaign strategist. Did Bill Clinton have access to inside information from the State Department via his wife's email account and the political aides who used it?
Throughout all of the media disclosures that have come out in recent weeks, Clinton had refused to comment on the story, hoping the controversy would simply melt away of its own accord.
She broke her silence only after top Democrats urged her to respond, warning that it would hurt her politically if she continued to stonewall the story much longer. "From this point on, the silence is going to hurt her," California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday on "Meet the Press."
In the end, her excuse for using a private email account was a matter of "convenience." But it was also a way to hide communications.
Remember those long-lost Rose Law Firm records in the Clintons' Whitewater scandal that suddenly were found in a White House closet after they'd been subpoenaed? And the secrecy surrounding the development of her doomed health care plan that even Democrats in Congress couldn't stomach?
If you despise transparency, but love secrecy and rule-bending in government, Hillary Clinton is your candidate.
Maybe the committee on Benghazi ought to go pay a visit to the European Guccifer and just see about getting those emails published via a TPA (third party associate).
David Kendall, I believe.
Maybe the committee on Benghazi ought to go pay a visit to the European Guccifer and just see about getting those emails published via a TPA (third party associate).
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Well you or I would do that in a heartbeat but I’m afraid Trey Gowdy is a bit too straight arrow for such an approach. But he is our best man for the job and I did hear tonight that Hillary will be under oath when she testifies. I hope that’s true and I hope Gpwdy has the strength to withstand the coming attack from The Clinton Machine.
Stupid question of the week.
The only question is how much money did Clinton make off that information.
For Those of You Who Remember: How many children of color could have had a hot breakfast for what it cost to send Cheryl Mills to Benghazi and back?
Jeepers...
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Sen Charles Grassley recently demanded internal documents----including emails----about a program in which some of Clinton's political advisers and fixers worked for Hillary at State while simultaneously working in the private sector.
FACTOID Then Secy Hillary gave her aide, Huma Abedin, “State Dept special status" ---- in effect Huma was working for state AND working as a private contractor for Teneo Holdings. Read on.
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Back n 1/14. Sen Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) probed Hillary's State Dept aide's employment status...... asking how Huma Abedin got a sweetheart deal as an outside private six-figure consultant while at the State Department.
Abedin and hubby, disgraced sexter/loser ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, purportedly hauled in some $350,000 in outside income on top of Abedin’s $135,000 govt salary.
Abedin held “special government employee” status, and worked a sideline---as a private contractor. One of Huma's clients was Bill CLinton's Company---- Teneo Holdings--- a consulting firm that calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory.”
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HUMAN EVENTS EXCERPT: Last Dec, a former employee of bankrupt MF Global accused former president Clinton----chairman of Teneo's advisory board----of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before MFG careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as hundreds of millions of investor funds disappeared.
Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to HE.
The source, who is no longer associated with MF Global, said Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services. The Teneo contract with MF Global lasted at least five months, the source said. The board cancelled it after Corzine resigned.
The trustee for cheated MFG investors later sued JPMorgan bank for return of about $450M that MFG had wire-transferred to JPM's bank.
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An earlier NYT's expose also tarred Bill Clinton WRT Teneo's sub rosa dealings. Teneo is run by Clinton aide---Doug Band. Prosecutors found Band listed w/ Clinton in pedophile's Jeffry Epsteiin's records as having a shocking 21 email addresses and tele nos.
A comment over at Conservative Treehouse pointed to Teneo suggesting further investigation. Related?
•WashingtonExaminer: Teneo, where the Clinton crew seamlessly blend politics and getting rich August 13, 2013 One reason Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 primary was the liberal distaste for the corporatism, cronyism, K Street coziness, and flat-out corruption that defined Bill Clinton’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s Senate tenure. All of that unsavory blending of political clout and personal wealth is still going on in Clinton world, and the crux is a consulting firm called Teneo. Two recent New York Times pieces nicely captured it.
The Clinton Foundation, for instance, overlaps significantly with Teneo, the corporate consultancy where Bill Clinton and many friends of bill make lots of money. The Times reports on:...
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See Teneo Holdings Integrated Counsel for a borderless world
TENEO IS FOCUSED ON WORKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE CEOS AND LEADERS OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST COMPLEX COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS.
Leveraging the deep global relationships, experience and intellectual capabilities across all 12 of our operating divisions, we sit at the center of information and networks, offering unparalleled execution to capture opportunities and solve complex problems.
[Is Teneo involved in Hillary's private server set up?]
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Teneo has an office in
•Manhattan, NEW YORK GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS 601 Lexington Ave, 45th Floor New York, NY 10022 +1 (212) 886-1600
•DC 325 7th Street NW Suite 325 Washington, D.C. 20004 +1 (202) 558-3150
and in
•Dubai P.O. Box 506808 Gate 5, Office 603 Dubai International Financial Centre Dubai, UAE +971 (4) 422-9584
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Hillary's alleged 2016 campaign headquarters overlooks Times Square in Manhattan [anywhere near TENEO?]
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•IT Tech tracked Hillary server to Manhattan
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13 posted on 3/11/2015 9:24:51 PM by wtd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3266948/posts
Court documents in Clinton pal, Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex investigation, show that Epstein listed 21 private e-mail addresses and phone numbers for Clinton and his pal, Doug Band, CEO of Teneo.
Epstein kept Bill Clinton on speed dial as reports surfaced about Clinton attending sex parties at Epstein's "Orgy Island." Lawyers perusing documents stumbled upon 21 e-mail addresses and phone numbers for the fun-loving ex-president and his so-called "personal aide," Doug Band, stashed away in Jeffrey Epstein’s electronic directory, according to court documents.
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REMINDER An earlier two-year federal investigation revealed an elaborate web to carry out multiple frauds. The frauds used a sophisticated system of multiple telephone voice-mail accounts and post office boxes to avoid detection.
The Buckraking Clintons sucking up foreign donations is morally reprehensible----but the real problem is what exactly they are doing with the foreign monies once its in their Foundation's tax-exempt coffers.
It's becoming clearer why Bill Clinton used a shocking 21 phone nos and email addresses----because L/E knows multiple phone no's and emails is an indication of possible money-laundering and tax evasion.
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THE REPORT WE ALL WANT TO SEE:
<><> dates and times of Hillary's emails WRT to US foreign policy issues,
<><> dates and times of Obama's official statements on said foreign policy issues,
<><> dates and times of foreign govt donations to the Clinton Foundation(s).
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Let the money laundering, tax evasion and govt fraud investigations begin....start w/ the Clinton Foundation, The Epstein Foundation and Teneo.
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