Is State Department Protecting Hillary's Presidential Bid?

Investors.com ^ | December 11, 2014 | IBD Editorial

[jazusamo]

Election 2016: The State Department is dragging its feet with unusual delays in releasing records pertaining to presidential contender Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Some requests are up to four years old.

It's not as if the Associated Press and others that filed the Freedom of Information Act requests were asking for Clinton's private diaries or the encryption codes used by the State Department. Among the requests are such seemingly innocuous things as schedules, appointment, travel records, where and when she traveled, and who she traveled and met with.

There are items, however, that a 2016 presidential candidate might prefer to remain out of sight and out of mind for as long as possible. We're thinking about details on the Benghazi terrorist attack and subsequent cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four Americans, including the first U.S. ambassador killed on duty in three decades.

The AP requests also include documents pertaining to her department's decision to appoint her longtime aide Huma Abedin to a position seemingly created just for her, the State Department's role in the Osama bin Laden raid, and Clinton's role in overseeing a major defense contractor. At least one of the requests dates back to March 2010.

Abedin might be better known in public as the wife of disgraced former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner. As we've reported, Abedin served as Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the same time she worked as a consultant to the Clinton Foundation and a New York advisory firm tied to the Clintons, one that did business before the government.

Abedin also has some interesting family connections. Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government's Muslim World League and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood...

[jazusamo]

Silly question, of course they are.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Has the AP thought about attempting to interview Mohammed Morsi? He might spill the beans about Hillary’s involvement in supporting his terrorist organization in Egypt.

[Borderline]

Do bears leave leave stinky obama piles in the woods?

[CharlesOConnell]

M.A.S.H. notwithstanding, the bad guys in the Viet Nam war were STATE, not the military. The Chiefs of Staff wanted nothing to do with it. Soldiers returning from honorable service were spat upon because of Foggy Bottom. Joseph McCarthy’ s dipsomania notwithstanding, Soviet Intelligence Archives and the Vinona Project precisely confirmed his account of numbers of Communists who infiltrated STATE, to the integer.