Posted on 02/02/2016 9:00:15 AM PST by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a "stand-alone PC" so that Clinton could check her emails in an office "across the hall" through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, "The stand-alone separate network PC is a great idea." The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.
The new emails were obtained by Judicial Watch in response a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for State Department records about Hillary Clinton's separate email system ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00689)).
In the email chain, Lewis Lukens , former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the secretariat, responds to a request from Mills by informing her, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and Kennedy that the new personal computer "in the secretary's office" would be "connected to the internet (but not through our system)." Abedin responds, "We are hoping for that if possible."
The email exchange discussing plans to provide Clinton a separate computer to skirt the internal State Department computer network begins with a message from Mills to Lukens in which she requests Clinton being able to access her emails through "a non-DOS computer." The email discusses how the stand-alone computer can be set up and why it is "a great idea' and "the best solution:"
From: Cheryl Mills
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:45 AM
To: Lukens, Lewis A
Subject: Re: Series of questionsLew - who can I talk to about:
- Can our email be accessed remotely through the web using a non-DOS computer like my laptop?
- I am traveling to the M-E - will my DOS bb work there and is there a cell phone attached?
- Spoke to Dan [Daniel B. Smith, former DOS executive secretary] re: bb for HRC (and reports that POTUS is able to use a super encrypted one which)
- Spoke to Dan re: setting up Counselor office for HRC so she can go across hall regularly to check her email
***
From: Lukens, Lewis A
To: cmills [REDACTED]
Cc: Habedin [REDACTED]; Kennedy, Patrick F; Smith, Daniel B
Sent: Saturday, Jan. 24, 19:10:33 2009
Subject: Re: series of questionsWe have already started checking into the NSA bb. Will set up the office across the hall as requested. Also, I think we should go ahead (but will await your green light) and set up a stand-alone PC in the Secretary's office, connect to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check her emails from her desk. Lew.
From: Kennedy, Patrick F KennedyPF@state.gov
To: Lukens, Lewis A ; Cheryl Mills
Cc: Huma Abedin; Smith, Daniel B
Sent: Sat, Jan 24 19:48:25 2009
Subject: Re: Series of questionsCheryl
The stand-alone separate network PC is [a] great idea
Regards
Pat
From: Huma Abedin
To: Kennedy, Patrick F; Lukens, Lewis A; Cheryl Mills
Cc: Huma Abedin; Smith, Daniel B
Sent: Sat Jan 24 19:48:27 2009
Subject: Re: Series of questionsYes we were hoping for that if possible so she can check her email in her office.
***
From: Lukens, Lewis A
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:26 PM
To: Kennedy, Patrick F
Subject: Re: Series of questionsI talked to Cheryl about this. She says a problem is hrc does not know how to use a computer to do email - only bb [Blackberry]. But, I said would not take much training to get her up to speed.
In separate litigation , the State Department told Judicial Watch and federal courts that Hillary Clinton was never issued secure State Department computing devices.
"These emails are shocking. They show the Obama State Department's plan to set up non-government computers and a computer network for Hillary Clinton to bypass the State Department network," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "That these records were withheld from the American people until now is scandalous and shows the criminal probe of Hillary Clinton's email system should include current and former officials of the Obama administration."
Judicial Watch filed these new emails with U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan, who is now considering whether to grant discovery in a lawsuit seeking information on the "special government employee" status of Abedin. In its filing, Judicial Watch states:
[Judicial Watch] just recently received additional evidence that demonstrates that senior management at the State Department was well aware that Mrs. Clinton was using a "non-state.gov" system to conduct official government business. This evidence also shows that the senior management at the State Department knowingly aided Mrs. Clinton in establishing and using a "non-state.gov" system.
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[T]his newly discovered email demonstrates that there is at least a "reasonable suspicion" that the State Department and Mrs. Clinton deliberately thwarted FOIA by creating, using, and concealing the "clintonemail.com" record system for six years.
Beautiful.. Just frigging beautiful.
So Mills gets a “Get Into Jail For Free” card.
And, of course, Hillary skates.
Wasn’t this “stand-alone” PC just about what they got?
Once again, Herself was aboard a plane dodging incoming fire, corkscrewing its way down for a landing, and Herself was ducking sniper fire all the way to the terminal.
Could be because the “smartest woman in the world” didn’t know a thing about computers or rules.
Why would she have a separate server anyway? Is she sharing classified information with Sid Blumenthal and others who aren’t authorized to receive it?
I want to see what happens with this coin toss garbage. Hitlery miraculously beats 1 - 64 odds. Oh nothing to see here, just accept it. Reminds me when she was running for Satanor of New York and she was getting 100% votes in different districts. Oh nothing to see here.
I’ll take Mills, Huma, and Kennedy, oh and Sid Vicious in PRISON.....Hillary will NEVER go, but these criminals just MIGHT!
I pray the FBI found the answer to that as a “Yes.”
A DOS PC are you kidding? This is the Onion, right?
WTF is the coin toss fiasco?? Can you explain?
Bkmrk
I remember a quaint little saying that went something like this:
“No justice, no peace”.
Eh, Judicial Watch making a mountain out of a molehill on this one.
There’s nothing wrong with setting up a computer to access the outside internet for personal email, web browsing (within acceptable “safe for work” guidelines), etc. - especially if said computer is not connecting to the state department network.
That is, such a system is intended for personal, non-governmental use, and it’s reasonably routine.
The problem in this case is that we NOW know that Clinton and others were conducting government business, not personal use, on these computers. But looking at the request at the time it was made, it would have been perfectly reasonable to provide this arrangement for nominally personal use.
Ping
Dept of State
Six delegates from Iowa - out of some 36 total! - could not be decided in the “live voter meetings” called caucuses. Sanders was leading in delegate count without these 6 delegates to the national democrat convention.
The “democrat party” officials flipped a coin six times to see who would get which delegates in the tie.
And Hillary won the coin toss 6 times out of 6 tosses.
DOS - Dept of State
If they pulled this off without anyone going to their respective Inspector General, I’d be amazed. If they did go to the their IG and got blown off, it’s even worse.
A whole lot of people had to know about this, even if they didn’t object, and they should have.
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