Posted on 06/28/2016 10:22:32 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Cheryl Mills, the longtime attorney, friend and former chief of staff for Hillary Clinton, influenced the findings of an internal State Department review of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a draft of the final House Benghazi Committee report.
A section of the report obtained by POLITICO says the so-called Accountability Review Board did not act independently, as it was supposed to do, and was consistently influenced by Mills. Mills, the report says, helped select members of the panel, gave at least one other State Department official permission to talk to the reviewers, oversaw the production of some documents reviewed by the board and helped edit the final report.
“The decisions to deviate from longstanding processes raise questions about the board’s independence, thoroughness and therefore the fullness of their findings of accountability,” the report reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The Clinton team of criminals has infected every aspect of our government.
12/6/15 Judicial Watch Press Room: New State Department Emails Reveal Top Clinton Aide Focused on Her Private Company’s Logo 24 Hours After Deadly Benghazi Attack
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released State Department emails, written 24 hours after the terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate, in which former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills quickly moved past condolences over the slaying of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens to focus her attention on the design of her private company’s logo by prominent international advertising firm GSD&M. Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the State Department forced Mills and other Clinton aides to turn over emails from non-State.gov accounts on which they conducted government business.
The emails, obtained under a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, reference the logo design for the “cdmillsGroup,” a private company set up by Mills on January 3, 2013, a month before she left her job at the State Department. The Mills “cdmillsGroup” logo discussion includes another government employee, Jean-Louis Warnholz, then-State Department senior advisor to Hillary Clinton. (Warnholz would go on to be a business partner with Ms. Mills in another company.)
The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed on September 4, 2014, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01511)), seeking:
•All records related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes, but is not limited to, notes taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath.
On September 13, 2012, at 4:31 p.m., Judy Trabulsi, a co-founder of the GSD&M advertising firm, sent Mills the following email:
Cheryl — I haven’t stopped watching the news and my heart breaks for Ambassador Stevens’ family, for Hillary (and you) and all those who worked with him. What an amazing life he lived and he had to be among the best Ambassadors in the Foreign Service.
I was going to give you the printouts of the new logos tomorrow (I think they are great) but thought you’d like to look at them over the weekend.
Sending a “heart hug” to you.
Much love – Judy
Trabulsi also attached for Mills another email describing proposed logos:
The first has the cdmillsGroup logo in the sans-serif and the second has it in the serif font. Adjusted the burnt orange color to be more accurate. Both pdfs show the logo, letterhead, business card and envelope. The tag line is printed like a watermark on the letterhead. In addition, as we discussed, you’ll find the “double-globe endeavor branding element” used on a brochure cover and two powerpoint slides. Don’t hesitate to email me back with any questions.
Mills responded to Trabulsi on September 13, 2012 at 11:32 p.m.:
Dear Judy
The bough bent and nearly broke this week – Chris was truly one of our best – HRC had picked him especially to go b/c of who he was and what he represented. And Sean was a rising star. Tomorrow we will welcome their remains home wondering how this would be possible. Thank you for your kind words. And thanks for these – I really like them.
I think my preference is the one that is sans serif font. I will scan some comments on them this weekend – I think it’s exactly what I would want so would have only a few tweaks. Thank you so very much.
xo
cdm
Mills also forwarded the logo discussion to Jean-Louis Warnholz that night without comment. Warnholz, a senior advisor to Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, responded the next day, September 14, 2012, at 1:06 p.m.:
I really like the cdmillsGroup in sans serif font (first attachment) with the slogan. It’s clean and compelling. I still have reservations about the two globes. It just feels a bit too generic to me.
Separate Judicial Watch FOIA litigation uncovered documents that show that Cheryl Mills used the cdmillsGroup to represent Hillary Clinton in communications with the State Department about Mrs. Clinton’s separate email system.
The cdmillsGroup is apparently still in business. The Hillary For America campaign’s September 3 FEC disbursement report lists a $28,500 payment to the “CdmillsGroup LLC.”
Judicial Watch previously released documents revealing that between 2009 and 2011 former President Clinton spoke to more than two dozen leading international investment firms and banking institutions, many of them on more than one occasion. At least one of the documents shows that Mills used a non-governmental email account for the Clinton ethics reviews. Mills reportedly negotiated the “ethics agreement” on behalf of the Clintons and the Foundation that required the Clintons to submit to rigorous conflict-of-interest checks. Despite this, and in apparent violation of Obama administration ethics rules, the documents reveal that Bill Clinton’s requests for speaking engagement approval were invariably copied to Mills, who was involved in ethics reviews as chief of staff for Mrs. Clinton at the State Department.
The Washington Post reported that Mills was unpaid for her first few months at the State Department, “officially designated as a temporary expert-consultant — a status that allowed her to continue to collect outside income while serving as chief of staff.” (Judicial Watch recently filed a FOIA lawsuit for the ethics and employment records of Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, another longtime Clinton aide.)
“These new Benghazi emails are almost obscene,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That Hillary Clinton aide and confidante Cheryl Mills was focused on the font for the logo of her new company – as our Benghazi facility was still smoldering – is unconscionable. And it is no coincidence that Mills used her new business to help Hillary Clinton cover up her email scandal.”
ITEM Doesn't add up that Mills, a US govt employee, touts herself as a bigtime developer, unless there's Big money not being accounted for. Did Mills falsify BlackIvy documents? The preferred criminal MO to cover-up larger crimes is falsification of official documents.
ITEM The Obama factor also surfaces----Sub-Sahara Africans are pouring into the US. He had to have given the OK to Rodriguez over at USCIS to issue the visas.
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Hillary used the State Dept budget and its many agencies as an ATM for herself, her cronies, pals and foundation donors. The bloody foundation got a cut of everything.
INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS---Let's examine the hydra-headed Cheryl Mills--<><>Hillary's COS, <><>her personal lawyer, <><>Clinton Foundation employee, <><>campaign factotum, and, <><> perennial govt parasite leftover from the Clinton admin.
Mills lives in Washington, DC with her domestic partner, David Dominici, and their two children, Lucca and Indigo.
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Mills is billed as a full-time US govt employee, but she has time and money to develop businesses and property in sub-Sahara Africa under her do-good non-profit, "BlackIvy."
BLACKIVY WEB SITE--- http://blackivygroup.com/portfolio/outdoor-photoshoot/ Our 2015 enterprises to date include:
<><> Indigo Homes, middle and upper income housing in the capital city of Accra and the burgeoning Takoradi region of Ghana
<><> WestPark, the first modern industrial and commercial zone in the asset-rich oil and gas city of Takoradi, Ghana, providing a platform with reliable power and infrastructure to grow manufacturing and other local and international businesses
<><> Coast Intermodal Terminal, an intermodal logistics park in the Coast region of Tanzania, just outside Dar es Salaam. Served by two dedicated rail lines, the 500-acre site will handle cargo loading/unloading, customs processing, and container storage, with scope to expand into an industrial hub over the adjacent 3,800 acres of prime land we secured.
BGRND Founded by Cheryl Mills, former Counselor and Chief of Staff at the U.S. State Department, with Founding Principal Jean-Louis Warnholz, BlackIvy has an experienced and growing team of investment professionals, operators, and experts.
We are backed by an investor group of successful financiers and entrepreneurs, including Beck, Mack & Oliver, Steve Case, Continental Grain, Ray Dalio, Woong-Ki Kim, John Mack and Tony Welters.
BlackIvy assesses economic drivers that favor accelerated development; identifies enterprises poised to capitalize on a regions growth; and, leverages our assets to overcome barriers to entry and operation. We develop nascent opportunities, operating with local partners and teams we have on the ground.
We are skilled at deploying the acumen, talent and relationships needed in Africa. We have earned the trust of private partners, government leaders and local stakeholders.
Africa is the second fastest growing region in the world. The growth outlook is robust and underpinned by the world's fastest growing middle class, rapid urbanization and untapped mineral and agricultural resources. BlackIvy is anchored in Ghana and Tanzania, with 6.3% and 7% projected annual economic growth (2012-17) respectively.
Our anchor countries serve as the natural gateways to the thriving West and East African regions, enjoy political stability and harness the gains from natural resource booms and middle class consumers entering the marketplace, creating sustained demand growth for new products and service.
COPYRIGHT 2015 BlackIvy. All rights reserved.
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FROM A BUSINESS WEB SITE: Blackivy Group LLC Industry Business Consulting Services Office Address 1361 Locust Rd Nw Washington, District of Columbia 20012-1325
Blackivy Group LLC is a small, fairly new business consulting company in Washington, DC. It opened in 2013 and now has an estimated $51,000 in yearly revenue and 1 employee.
Dollars to donuts the missing State Dept 6 billion is connected to Hillary's people.
Of course no mention of those “peasants” Ty Woodsand Glen Doherty./sarc
Team Trump should educate the American public on who this criminal is and why she is tied to the hips of both Clintons.
Hang this traitor around Hillary’s neck like a lead weight. Use her as a poster for all things criminal in Clinton World...call her Cheryl “Corruption” Mills.
I agree but she has dual protected status....black and woman. Can’t wait til Hillary has to throw her under the bus.
Nothing will happen to her. Woman, african, hildabeast supporter.
Nothing will happen to her. Woman, african, hildabeast supporter.
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