Aide (Huma) said Clinton didn't want emails accessible to 'anybody'

Associated Press ^ | June 29, 2016 | Stephen Braun

[Zakeet]

Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said in a legal proceeding that Clinton did not want the State Department emails that she sent and received on her private computer server to be accessible to "anybody," according to transcripts released Wednesday. Her comments provided new insights into the highly unusual decision by the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to operate a private email server in her basement to conduct government business as secretary of state.

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Abedin told lawyers for the conservative group Judicial Watch in a deposition Monday that she could not recall whether she or Clinton discussed with any State Department officials Clinton's use of her server exclusively for government business. ... "I assumed it was OK to do," she testified.

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The deposition also raised questions about the State Department's practices responding to government records requests under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Abedin, a senior aide during Clinton's entire tenure there, testified under oath that she never searched or was asked to search for documents in her State Department or her private Clinton email accounts in response to requests or lawsuits under the open records law.

But a review of all requests to the State Department during that period found several asking specifically for copies of Abedin's emails on a variety of subjects, including her husband, one-time disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner.

[Zakeet]

Violation of Federal law ... perjury ... conspiracy ... destruction of evidence ... coverup ... Hillary's personal Muzzie could be in a lot of trouble if the government would ever do its job!

[OttawaFreeper]

Oh my, making Tricky Dick look like a choirboy (again).

[roadcat]

... to be accessible to "anybody,"

Sunshine laws, as a government worker, all emails belong to the government and are part of the public record, fully accessible to anybody with clearance. That "anybody" doesn't refer just to her gay lovers.

[vette6387]

This may lead to a Weiner/Holder Ticket!

[Gunpowder green]

That’s the only Weiner that Hillary sleeps with.

When are they going to talk about espionage, providing secrets to third parties, and quid pro quo favors in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation?

[fhayek]

She wanted to engage in activities that were not under the watchful eye of anybody.

Accountability? That is only for the little people.

[HarleyLady27]

OHMYGOSH!!! ROFL....she just gave us everything we needed...’she didn’t want anybody to see the emails’, well thank you!!!

GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!

[tet68]

So, the meme now is 30,000 emails do not equal 18
minutes of tape?

Damn them.

[Paulie]

I’m surprised Hooma talked. But will she sing?

[freedomlover]

Kudos to Judicial Watch. Does anyone know how to donate money to them without getting spammed to death?

I tried it once, wasn’t pretty.

[GraceG]

If she wanted PERSONAL e-mail then she should have gotten a “Personal Cell Phone or Blackberry” that she could use and a separate STATE DEPT CLEARED WORK E-mail Device!!!!

But that would make sense, what she really wanted was a discrete untraceable channel.... for nefarious reasons...

[tumblindice]

Can you come over? The boys and I are going over Hillary's lesbo e-mails.

[DrDude]

So now we have a witness who testified under oath that Hillary intentional set up the server to avoid FOIA and other Laws. Hillary herself has admitted she erased 30,000 emails. Regardless of the reason this is illegal. She signed the forms stating she knew the rules. What is the FRB waiting for? Perhaps Bill C. fixed it today when he had a secret meeting with Loretta Lynch that became public knowledge.

[VanShuyten]

Maybe the Attorney General was trying to soften the blow in her private meeting with Billy Jeff by saying she knows a lot of good criminal and divorce lawyers.

Tough decision for him - will he save more cash by divorcing her before or after she’s arrested?

[Liz]

Sen Charles Grassley has been pressing the State Department to answer questions over Huma Abedins lucrative govt job arrangement facilitated by then SoS Hillary.

Sen Grassley wrote in a June 13, 2015 letter:

It appears that one of Abedin’s clients, the Clinton-connected Teneo Strategies, may have been compensating Ms. Abedin for gathering information from US government sources for the purpose of informing investment decisions of her consulting clients - or in other words, political intelligence. This raises important questions about whether Abedins dual role was adequately disclosed to government officials who may have provided her information without realizing that she was being paid by private investors to gather information.

Grassley’s letter recounted:

<><> Abedin allegedly sent or received more than 7,000 emails on her US government account that involved Teneo’s Doug Band, a close confidante and travel companion of the globe-trotting Bill clinton;

<><> one email exchange involved Teneo’s Doug Band pressuring Abedin to encourage her State Department boss, Hillary Clinton, to facilitate a White House appointment for one of his clients. Judith Rodin, then-president of the Rockefeller Foundation, “donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation,” Mr. Band allegedly noted in his email to Ms. Abedin.

<><> email evidence allegedly suggests that Ms. Abedin and another Hillary aide, Cheryl Mills, colluded to find a way to ensure the US govt paid for Ms. Abedin’s travel to and from New York.

<><> multiple allegations received by Sen Grassley’s Judiciary Committee indicated Abedin had actually taken leave during her time as a govt employee, casting doubt on whether Abedin should have received $33,000 in taxpayer money.

<><> allegations surfaced that the State Dept personnel rule was quietly bent to permit Abedin to collect her government paycheck while wielding her influence to the benefit of her other employers.

<><> Hillary Clinton jetted to Ireland with Abedin at her side for her last official trip before exiting the State Dept, during which Hillary attended an event hosted by a major Clinton Foundation donor that had been promoted by Teneo (for which Abedin then-served as a “consultant”)

<><> Abedin’s special employment status gave her heavy influence over Hillary Clinton’s State Dept daily schedule and travel plans at the same time Abedin served as a senior adviser at Teneo, and performed other duties at the Clinton Foundation.

<><> Abedin using information about Hillary’s travel schedule in discussions w/ her clients, could be a serious breach of US ntl security, since even the calendar and travel plans of the Secy of State is considered classified information.

<><> Abedin was among several key aides to Hillary Clinton that hosted email accounts on a private server in the 2016 presidential candidate’s Chappaqua, New York home, in violation of federal records laws.

REFERENCE Abedin worked as a full-time staffer to Hillary Clinton January 2009-June 2012; she was then given a “special government employee” designation and took on roles at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo. That designation is designed to allow individuals who fill “an unmet government need for rare or unique expertise” to retain their private-sector positions while receiving compensation from the government.

Abedin is currently vice-chair of Hillary’s presidential campaign committee.

[Canedawg]

So, the meme now is 30,000 emails do not equal 18 minutes of tape?

Not in a world where down is up and good is bad.

[Liz]

Sen Charles Grassley’s inquiry to State Dept investigator recently revealed that Huma Abedin improperly collected taxpayer dollars. Sen Grassley also inquired about Abedin’s unusual employment status-—whether US conflict-of-interest laws were violated when Hillary gave Abedin special employment status in which Abedin worked simultaneously for:

<><> (1) the State Department,

<><> (2) the Clinton Foundation,

<><> (3) as a private consultant,

<><> (4) consulted Teneo, a global financial firm w/ Bill Clinton a member of the board.

<><> formed her private company “Zain Endeavors,LLC” 12 days before she exited State.

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Taxpayers should demand to be informed if Huma, Mills, and other Clinton cronies are STILL listed as State Dept employees-—perhaps as contractors-—and are still receiving classified mail and govt paychecks.

Evidence indicates Hillary and aides did not sign exit forms. Signing the exit form would have cutoff access to State Dept info......info the Clintons rely on to cash-in.

Note Brian Pagliano-—Hillary’s personal IT-—left her employ then surfaced on the public payroll as a State Dept contractor.

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Taxpayers demand to know who else among the Clinton cronies are cashing US govt paychecks It’s an old bureaucratic trick for a politician to hand-pick people and put them on the public payroll long after you think they’re gone......perhaps as State Dept “contractors.”

<><> Hillary?

<><> Bill Clinton?

<><> Sid Blumenthal?

<><> Huma Abedin,

<><> Huma’s husband?

<><> Cheryl Mills?

<><> Cheryl mills’ live-in David Domenici?

<><> Chelsea Clinton?

<><> Chelsea’s husband?

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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Demand Congress send you all available information on individuals connected to Hillary still cashing US govt paychecks. In light of the $6 billion missing from the contractor fund when Hillary exited, taxpayers demand to know who is listed as a State Dept contractor.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"I assumed it was OK to do," she testified.

Here's your sign!

[HiTech RedNeck]

To get security for the correspondence, she had to violate the security rules.

Ho-kay!

Hillary was in this for nothing but Hillary. Certainly not for the USA.

[hadaclueonce]

the carpet cleaner should know.