Posted on 07/04/2016 1:56:54 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
Hillary Clinton’s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those very public records.
Huma Abedin was deposed in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit into Clinton’s e-mails — but her admission could be relevant to another lawsuit seeking Clinton’s schedules.
“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,” Abedin told lawyers representing Judicial Watch, the conservative organization behind the e-mails lawsuit.
Abedin made the surprising admission in response to a question about document destruction at the Department of State. A lawyer for Judicial Watch asked: “And during your tenure at the State Department, were you aware of your obligation not to delete federal records or destroy federal records?”
A former State Department official told The Post it was unprecedented for a diplomat to destroy a schedule like this.
“I spent eight years at the State Department and watched as four US ambassadors and two secretaries of state shared their daily schedules with a variety of State Department employees and US officials,” said Richard Grenell, former diplomat and US spokesman at the United Nations. “I’ve never seen anyone put their schedule in the burn bag — because every one of them had a state.gov e-mail address and therefore their daily schedules became public records, as required by law.”
Burn bag? Wow. Just wow.
“Law schmaw, I’m a Democrat.”
IF HRC SLASHED THE THROATS OF PUPPIES AND KITTENS AND THREW THEM INTO THE OCEAN WHILE LAUGHING, THE MSM WOULD COVER FOR HER AND THE UNDER 35 CROWD WOULD BELIEVE THEM.
How much more #####ing corruption proof do we need?!?!!!?!
If she gets elected, then as far as I’m concerned, America is in the beginning of its second Civil War.
The people with brains still matter. Just ask Target and its ####ing plummeting and crumbling empire.
Dont think they’re hurting. They were part of a presidential survey i took the other day. And I answer YUP, WILL NEVER SHOP THERE AGAIN.
When asked what they can do to change my mind..I can’t type what I wrote in the little area they gave to put an answer.
But Donald Trump used a picture of a star made in Microsoft in a graphic mocking Hillary. It looked like the Star of David! He’s an anti-Semite! Priorities, people!
It was clearly a sheriff’s badge and appropriate to the topic. To perceive it as a Star of David required quite a bit of projecting.
A bit of a Rorschach test that was. Exposed some anti Semites on the left.
Of course. The left is really grasping at straws on this one, but to look at the reporters following him for NBC, CBS, the NYT, WaPo, etc. why it’s YUGE news. They’ve finally gotten him this time.
Wiki:
“A burn bag is the informal name given to a container (usually a paper bag or some other waste receptacle) that holds sensitive or classified documents which are to be destroyed by fire or pulping after a certain period of time.”
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“... Sylvia M. Mathews said in a deposition that she was aware some of the documents in the bag were from the Foster office but that White House Counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum decided the papers were not relevant and ordered them destroyed.”
In his memoir (My Life), published after he left office, President Clinton said the single biggest error he made as President was not listening to Nussbaum and, instead, requesting the appointment of an Independent Counsel. He wrote: “It was the worst presidential decision I ever made, wrong on the facts, wrong on the law, wrong on the politics, wrong for the presidency, and the Constitution.” (My Life, p. 574).
It is hard to believe in this day of automated, connected everything, that a schedule is maintained in hard copy. The last two companies I worked for had a scheduler we were all required to fill out. Anybody could check my schedule and determine where I was or would be and who I was with and what I was doing. It was an amazing tool that let people request time on your schedule and you could accept or change the time to suit your two schedules. Hillary Clinton was the boss and do they imply that to get time with her you had to negotiate through a third party who had access to her hard copy schedule? Amazing.
Next we will hear that Hillary did not wipe her server with a cloth.
Huna said a “COPY” was put in a Burn Bag.....does that mean the ORIGINAL is still around?
“Huna said a “COPY” was put in a Burn Bag.....does that mean the ORIGINAL is still around?”
I think that if the original still existed the fact that a copy was burned would be irrelevant. The news says that the schedules were destroyed. The implication was there are no soft copies. If this is the case, and the department has an existing scheduling program that everyone else used but was not used by the Secretary then it is very suspicious. Every place I have been it was company policy to use the scheduler. If that was the policy but she didn’t and she is the only one; yet another scandal; yet another attempt to avoid scrutiny. It raises the question; my God, who did she meet with who was so scandalous that she needed to keep it secret? (Having said that, I think that she has lived her whole life under a veil of secrecy and paranoia and she simply can’t allow the sun to shine on any part of it for fear of what people might learn about the real Hillary.)
She’s PARANOID because she’s EVIL and afraid of anyone finding out what she REALLT does when the camera or mic isn’t around!!
Is Hooma ready to sing?
I wouldn’t put it past her to have destroyed all copies but it does seem unlikely.
“The [president’s] schedule was not classified but it was deemed ‘highly sensitive.’ Instructions were given at the White House and on the road that schedules would be disposed of through the use of ‘burn bags’ and/or shredding,” said Brad Blakeman, a scheduler for President George W. Bush. “This shows, in my opinion, a skewed sense of security. The Clinton people would dispose of the secretary’s schedule in the same manner as if it were classified yet those same safeguards were not in place with regard to e-mail communications.”
First appointment — Beelzebub
Last appointment — Jack Daniels
How would that be embarrassing?
“How would that be embarrassing?”
The Clintons can not be embarrassed. Embarrassment implies that they are good people doing bad things. They are bad people doing bad things. Their desire is to keep on doing bad things which requires a level of secrecy the rest of us could never maintain for long. You must be the top dog to maintain secrecy. You must be able to ignore policies intended to ensure there is transparency. It also requires enablers. Enablers, like Brian Pagliono must be paid under the table.
“We accidentally spilled coffee on them. They were yucky.”
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