Clinton Aide Testifies that Official Schedules Were Burned ‘On More Than One Occasion’

The Gaze ^ | Jul. 4, 2016 | Kate Scanlon

[lqcincinnatus]

Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said that at least some of Clinton’s official schedules were destroyed while she was secretary of state during her recent deposition, according to the New York Post.

Abedin replied, “If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, that… that certainly happened on… on more than one occasion.”

[lqcincinnatus]

18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is Hillary pissed off at Huma?? Was Huma worried about being in legal trouble herself ??

Stay tuned.

[fhayek]

What more do they need? What ticks me off is these politicians are forever creating new laws, but when THEY get ensnared by a law, nothing happens. Why should you or I care about the law, if THEY don’t?

[semimojo]

If it really was a copy of the schedule there’s not much of a story here.

Smells like click bait.

[faithhopecharity]

the Mafia (which is where Hillary got her inspiration, to be sure) ... had a Code of Ethics

it prescribed a rather permanent penalty
for Ratting

Even Hillary’s IslamoNazi 24/7 girlfriend may discover this
now

[BenLurkin]

She had to take those records away from us. For the “common good”

[DugwayDuke]

There is so much BS going around from people who do not understand a thing they’re talking about.

Every federal office I worked at since 2000 (and some before) had a burn bag by every desk. Yes, you do have to maintain records but that does not include every copy of a record.

[aposiopetic]

at least some of Clinton’s official schedules were destroyed while she was secretary of state during her recent deposition

Does anybody think to edit this stuff?

[lqcincinnatus]

Funny, none I worked for since 1971 forward had a burn bag.

[skimbell]

From what's come down the past couple of days, it wouldn't surprise me if Huma gets run over by a semi as she steps out of her shower.

[HiTech RedNeck]

excellent point

[fhayek]

My thinking is that if the ORIGINAL has come up missing, burning COPIES is tantamount to burning the only existing form of the record.

[JimSEA]

I’d guess that they are just laying out unfortunate facts and saying, “So What?”

[Secret Agent Man]

Barbell in the throat.

Couldnt hapen to a better muslim jihada.

[BamaDi]

Thank you, I worked for the government from 1969 til I retired in 2005 and I never had a “burn bag” by my desk...

[semimojo]

My thinking is that if the ORIGINAL has come up missing, burning COPIES is tantamount to burning the only existing form of the record.

Fair enough if it was the only remaining copy.

It seems that one copy would be all that's necessary to satisfy the intent of the policy.

[DugwayDuke]

lqcincinnatus wrote: “Funny, none I worked for since 1971 forward had a burn bag.”

I retired from DoD. Since 2000, I worked on a single program that was so unclassified that we didn’t even have a security classification guide. We also were provided burn bags at each desk. We were told the only thing we could put in our trash cans were coke bottles, paper cups, and the brown bag we used to carry our lunch to work. This was SOP for the entire building.

The rationale was that even though the information might be unclassified, you can put piece together very sensitive information if you have enough ‘unclassified’.

I also worked on some very classified stuff back in the 80’s where we had to take our leftovers to a central location for disposal.

It varies. But, this deal about shredding a copy of a schedule isn’t that big a deal AS LONG AS a copy was retained for the official record.

[Osage Orange]

Don’t ruin FReeper’s fun...........

[VanShuyten]

If Hillary had the originals, she must have put them in those FBI files or the Travelgate folders, because she now can’t recall where they are, and besides, what difference does it make now?

[Mr Rogers]

I spent 25 years in the military. I handled a lot of classified, but I never had a burn bag near my desk, nor did I ever see such a desk in any office.