Williams & Connolly LLP Colluded With SOS Clinton to Hide Emails

Wikileaks ^ | 10/15/2016 | GregNH

[texas booster]

I just took a class for IRS Circular 230 tax preparers. Circular 230 covers CPAs, lawyers actuaries and little folk like me.

The legalese was all phrased “knew or should have known” in regards to my responsibilities.

Kendall and HRC hide behind all this lawyerly language, to hide their roles. It is all BS.

[Iowa Granny]

Ping

[LucyT]

Williams & Connolly LLP Colluded With SOS Hillary Clinton to Hide Emails

Check out list of names in article, then read # 1 through # 15 .

Thanks, Greg. Good find.

[piasa]

Speaking of CDMillsGroup:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-state-department-emails-reveal-top-clinton-aide-focused-on-her-private-companys-logo-24-hours-after-deadly-benghazi-attack/

3 posted by Liz

[bitt]

OH, that’s a hot mess right there...

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for the ping, lucyt!

[upchuck]

cdmillsgroup.com is a parked domain name. Not active.

http://cdmillsgroup.com/?hg=0&nr=0

[Liz]

The sender of the email aimed at covering Hillary's ***.

David Kendall--at Williams & Connolly LLP since 1978

After studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (Chelsea and Bill Clinton attended Oxford), graduating from Yale Law School, and clerking for Justice Byron R. White, he spent five years as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., litigating a variety of civil rights cases and defending a large number of death penalty cases.

He represented clients at trial, before state supreme courts, in the Supreme Court of the United States, and in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. He argued Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977), in which the Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional for rape.

<><> He devised a legal challenge to lethal injection. Chaney v. Heckler, 718 F.2d 1174 (D.C. Cir. 1983), rev'd 470 U.S. 821 (1985).

<><>At Williams & Connolly LLP since 1978, and a partner since 1981, he has litigated a variety of civil and criminal cases at the trial and appellate level. David Kendall is highlighted in the 2014 edition of The Legal 500 for his “diverse practice” which “sees him representing clients across the country from Maryland to Minnesota.”

<><>Mr. Kendall has represented a wide variety of criminal defendants who have been charged with such "white collar" offenses as conspiracy, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and obscenity at trial and on appeal. He has represented numerous clients before state and federal grand juries in agency investigations and in corporate internal investigations (many of these representations are, thankfully, unknown to the general public).

<><> He represented Bechtel Infrastructure in various criminal and civil investigations relating to the "Big Dig" in Boston.

In civil litigation, he has represented accounting firms in a number of different matters, including Arthur Andersen (went bust after Enron) in the University Savings case in Houston.

He has represented McGladrey & Pullen in the A.H. Robins bankruptcy proceedings arising out of the Dalkon Shield litigation, and other matters.

Mr. Kendall has represented lawyers and law firms in professional liability matters. He represented a number of clients during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, including accountants, lawyers, and S&L executives, in civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings.

<><> He began representing President and Mrs. Clinton in November 1993, involving Whitewater Development Company, Inc. He went on to represent the Clintons in a variety of matters, including Independent Counsel, Senate, House of Representatives, FDIC, RTC, and bar counsel investigations, civil litigation, and the 1998-99 impeachment proceedings, and currently represents them in miscellaneous civil matters.

He has represented a number of individual and corporate media clients over the years, defending libel, privacy invasion, and copyright suits, fighting subpoenas to news gatherers, and prosecuting FOIA actions (arguing Department of State v. Washington Post Co., 456 U.S. 595 (1982) in the Supreme Court).

<><> His clients have included The Washington Post, Newsweek, National Enquirer (where he supervised prepublication copy review for over a decade and a half), Playboy, Discovery Communications, U.S. Medicine, National Review, local television stations, and individual writers and journalists. He represented The Post at trial and on appeal in a marathon libel suit brought by the President of Mobil Oil and his son. Tavoulareas v. Washington Post Co. et al., 817 F.2d 762 (D.C. Cir. 1987) (en banc).

<><> Over the years, Mr. Kendall has advised the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and several member companies of both organizations on a variety of First Amendment, copyright, and other legal issues at trial, in Congressional and administrative agency investigations, and with respect to proposed legislation. He has represented a number of copyright holders in anti-piracy suits against various Napster-like Internet services, such as Scour, Aimster, Morpheus, KaZaA, and Grokster. He represented the motion picture studios in their 9-0 anti-piracy victory in the Supreme Court, MGM et al. v. Grokster, et al., 545 U.S. 913 (2005).

<><>He has also represented content providers in litigation against satellite, cable, and over-the-air copyright piracy. He has represented AOL in a number of Internet matters and has advised various clients on issues arising out of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

He is the author of several articles on constitutional, media, and criminal law and has taught constitutional and media law courses as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School and Georgetown University Law Center (GU is Bill's a/m). He was a member of the five-person ABA Task Force that drafted the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Fair Trial and Free Press released in 1991.

<><> He is on the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and The Sidwell Friends School (Obama kids' school).

[Liz]

KENDALL: I would prefer not to use the "March 18, 2009" date, because we know there were other emails using the her clintonemail.com address prior to that date.

[Liz]

Nice find.

EXCERPT / Josh Gerstein, Politico / 08/25/15

Hillary Clinton’s personal attorney David Kendall says he had a “top secret” security clearance granted by the State Department in order to review information related to the House Benghazi investigation, but a senior Republican senator insists that clearance didn’t give the lawyer authority to hold Clinton’s most sensitive emails.

For weeks, Republican lawmakers such as Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley have raised questions and demanded information about Kendall’s authority to access portions of Hillary Clinton’s emails that the State Department has determined are classified. State officials previously confirmed that Clinton’s attorneys had a clearance but did not name the lawyers.

In a new letter to Grassley, Kendall says he got a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance from the Justice Department in November 2013 and a Top Secret clearance from the State Department about a year later.

Kendall says his Williams & Connolly law partner, Katherine Turner, also got a Top Secret clearance from State in December 2014. “These State Department security clearances remain active. We obtained them in order to be able to review documents at the Department of State, to assist former Secretary Clinton in preparing to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi,” Kendall wrote.

Kendall's letter adds more detail to public knowledge about the clearances for Clinton’s lawyers, but it is unlikely to silence complaints from Clinton’s critics about mishandled classified information. Clearances, especially Top Secret ones, are normally granted in connection with specific matters and do not entitle recipients to all information classified at that level, absent an agency’s determination that an individual has a “need to know.”

Kendall called issuance of the State Department clearances “unrelated” to the roughly 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to her former agency from her personal server and account last December. “As I am sure you are aware, it was not until nearly six months later, that the first email in this group was retroactively classified as ‘Secret,’” Kendall wrote.

In a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley said Kendall’s clearance was inadequate because the intelligence community recently determined that at least two messages on Clinton’s server contained information classified at the “TS/SCI” level. The State Department disputes those classifications and has requested a review by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

“Neither Mr. Kendall nor Ms. Turner have a security clearance at a sufficient level to be a custodian of TS/SCI material. Thus, it appears Secretary Clinton sent TS/SCI material to unauthorized persons,” Grassley wrote. On Tuesday, the senator’s office released his letter as well as Kendall’s.

MORE AT http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clinton-lawyer-top-secret-clearance-121736

[Liz]

Nice work.

Cheryl Mills should be in one hot kettle of fish....but she's still up to her old tricks.....cashing in using the Clinton criminal MO ... pilfering classified govt info.

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US govt employee, Cheryl Mills group, BlackIvy, is developing a privately-financed dry port that will be located 56 km outside of the Port of Dar es Salaam, and will use shuttle trains to take transit and upcountry cargo to and from the Port,” BlackIvy spokeswoman Erin Pelton confirmed to Breitbart News. “BlackIvy is focused on in-land logistics, not operating seaports,” Pelton added, denying that BlackIvy is running into opposition from the Tanzania Ports Authority.

So how did BlackIvy, a brand new firm with no discernible track record of building ports, manage to become an overnight player in the East African energy market?

It turns out Clinton’s former aides had some help from a company called Symbion Power, which was created to profit off rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. invasions. Symbion Power happens to be a very good friend of Hillary Clinton’s.

BACKSTORY Hillary's pal, Sid Blumenthal was the conniving Clintons' bagman---a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation, he had numerous paid side interests----promoting any number of foreign deals and schemes in which he had a financial interest.....many of which were predicated on the toppling of Libya's Khadaffi.

Blumenthal was ambidextrous---chronically emailing Hillary Libya foreign policy messages w/ one hand....his other hand firmly in the State Dept cookie jar.

In one confidential e-mail to Clinton, Blumenthal was clearly colluding w/ onetime Amb Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame's hubby) to help himself to the tax dollars in the State Dept cookie jar.

GAME ON Amb Wilson pumped himself up as a 'director' of Symbion Power---an outfit seeking millions of dollars in contracts from an obscure government agency chaired by Hillary....the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC)

In September 2010, Hillary's MCC awarded Symbion $47 million tax dollars for (cough) 'power projects in Tanzania.'

EVER WONDER how much of the $47 million tax dollars got to Tanzania....after the players divvied it up among Blumenthal, Wilson, the Clintons, Obama?

<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation? <><> Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ her BlackIvy Group in some phony sub-Sahara scam “for the children?” <><> Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Mill’s Group tax monies? <><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed above donate to the Clinton Foundation?

NOTE Millenium is also the source of the 100 million tax dollars Michele gave to Morocco "to teach Muslim girls" ===========================================

FREEPER ACTION PROJECT--DO THIS NOW: demand the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) books be opened. We demand to know the financial details and the scope and dimension of individuals connected to these outrageous State Dept giveaways.........govt parasites profiting at taxayers' expense.

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

[Liz]

*From:* Kendall, David

*Sent:* ‎Saturday‎, ‎August‎ ‎8‎, ‎2015 ‎10‎:‎24‎ ‎PM

*To:* Heather Samuelson , Jennifer Palmieri , Cheryl Mills , Brian Fallon , Huma Abedin , Katherine Turner , John Podesta , Philippe Reines , Christina Reynolds *Cc:* Nick Merrill

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THAT *TO* LIST---names just the usual suspects.

The SUBJECT: how to cover Hillary's posterior.

The shocking activities of Hillary, Bill Clinton, their cronies Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Doug Band, John Podesta, Jennifer Palmeiri, and the rest named above, remind me of the fictional Philip Nolan....."The Man Without a Country."

Like Nolan all of the Clinton cronies have seemingly renounced our nation. They act like they never heard of the United States of America. They do nothing but disparage its citizens.

Its as if they live their lives in exile......they never even mention America or, more importantly, ways to preserve American values.

Even more egregious one could conclude Hillary and Bill gave explicit orders that no one shall ever mention the United States of America in their presence, ever again.

[Liz]

The Kendall email conforms Hillary and her cronies's high crimes and misdemeanors::

<><> opening up the e-mail scandal to further questions;

<><> compromising L/E to evade prosecution;

<><> the reckless mishandling of classified information

<><> exposing our national-defense secrets to hostile powers;

<><>the mass destruction of 1000's of government records after Congress requested them;

<><>the obstruction of government investigations;

<><>the serial lies to Congress and to the public;

<><>the shocking failure to provide security for Americans stationed in Benghazi;

<><> making no attempt to rescue Americans during the terrorist siege in Benghazi;

<><>lying to Americans and to murdered Americans' families about the attack's cause;

<><> inventing a video story to cover inaction in Benghazi;

<><> the trumping up of a prosecution against the video producer;

<><> unbecoming conduct by scapegoating a video producer;

<><>the Clinton Foundation corruption visited on the State Dept;

<><> the sale of State Dept influence for foundation donations;

<><> perks, privileges and favors for shady donors at the expense of national security,

<><> the use of the State Department as an arm of the Clinton pay-to-play enterprise;

<><> profiting by stealing State Dept data belonging to the citizenry.

<><> rampant cronysism;

<><> using the State Dept budget as a personal ATM;

<><> turning the State Dept into a racketeering enterprise;

<><> conducting political activites on govt time.

[WashingtonSource]

David Kendall is as corrupt as they come and enabler and defender of massive Democrat Party corruption.

[Liz]

WHERE THE REAL STENCH IS WITH HILLARY
The Market-Ticker ^ | July 5, 2016 | Karl Denninger /FR Posted by SatinDoll

The mere presence of Special Access Program (SAP) material on Hillary's "private" email server is a federal offense. Sometimes described as "above top secret" these programs are no-BS "need to know" and you must be read into each one individually, then you must access whatever material is involved in a secured facility from which that material may not leave. There is no such thing as "having access to them" on a general basis, no matter who you are.

These programs typically deal with human intelligence of some form -- an agent on the ground in a foreign nation employed in a very sensitive role and operation. Divulging the material will cause great harm to national security, usually will get people killed outright and might start a war -- literally. That's not hyperbole -- it's real and is no joke.

That Hillary is reported to have had this material on her server means that at least two serious felonies occurred. First, the person who caused it to be there committed a serious federal offense, since there is literally no possible way for it to happen without multiple breaches of security protocols to have taken place sequentially, acts that cannot happen by accident.

Second, for Hillary to not immediately report same and deal with the fallout is a second federal offense. ......Bill also had access to it so he's in trouble, too.

SNIP

Nonetheless this is not the most-serious aspect of the Emailgate scandal.....it's far worse -- it's the Clinton Foundation linkage. There is already plenty of evidence in the public that the Clinton Foundation basically sold access to information and even secrets themselves to persons in other nations for "donations", and this is not something that happened without the knowledge of literally hundreds of people in our government, including at the highest levels, all of whom had a legal and national duty to prevent and report it.

That America has a candidate for President who was not only deeply involved in this she was the architect and chief steering agent for it is beyond outrageous. There are plenty of people who believe that Obama has basically sold out America to various foreign interests, including the Muslim Brotherhood. What Hillary appears to have been involved in is not only far worse it's far more-pervasive.

SNIP

Hillary is facially disqualified by the laws of the United States from being President, or for that matter, holding any office in our government. That we continue to allow someone who is tantamount to Senator Palpatine to continue with this charade is an outrage. If it continues, and leads to her election, it very well may destroy our nation. Hillary Clinton, along with the rest of her cabal, must face indictment and prosecution -- not election.

[Liz]

As of 7/5/16, State Dept. refuses to say whether Hillary, her aides, still have security clearance
By Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner

Hours after FBI Director James Comey blasted Hillary Clinton and her aides for their "extremely careless" handling of classified information, the State Department rejected Comey's conclusion that the agency had a "lax culture" surrounding the treatment of sensitive material.

"We don't share the assessment that as an institution ... that the State Department has in the past or does today take lightly the issue of sensitive and classified information," agency spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday. Comey had said earlier Tuesday that the "security culture" at State was found to be "lacking" during the FBI's year-long investigation into Clinton's private email use.

Agents discovered on Clinton's multiple servers 110 emails that should have been considered classified at the time they were written.

Kirby also refused to comment on whether Clinton and the handful of State Department aides who transmitted classified intelligence on her private network retained their security clearances in light of the FBI investigation into their activities.

The spokesman cited an agency policy preventing public comment on individual security clearances. The State Department may still take action against the individuals involved in the mishandling of classified intelligence, Kirby said."The department will determine the appropriate next steps following a decision by the Department of Justice," Kirby noted, referencing the fact that the Justice Department must officially rule on whether to accept Comey's recommendations.

"We have an administrative process to evaluate cases where information might have been mishandled," Kirby added. "At the request of the FBI, we didn't move forward with that process."

The agency spokesman refused to comment on contradictions exposed by the FBI, including the fact that he and other spokesmen had repeatedly argued no emails on Clinton's servers were ever marked classified when several were indeed marked as such.

SOURCE http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-quiet-on-clinton-aides-security-clearance/article/2595636

[Arm_Bears]

Throw everyone in the firm—from the Managing Partner to the office boy—in jail and then wait for someone to sing.

[DrDude]

Is this guy, Kendal, the lawyer who had a thumb drive in his office safe with Hillary’s emails? I am not sure how they retroactively gave him a Security Clearance. I gather from these posts that the Thumb Drive had SAP information on same. Is Kendal allowed to posses SAP information with only a Top Secret Clearance? Does he need this approval on a case by case basis? Is Hillary guilty of providing this SAP info to him? Just asking. A little confused.

[TheOldLady]

Thank you for properly using “hanged” instead of “hung.”

I should have been an English teacher.

Sorry for being pedantic.

[GregNH]

Yes, with Godaddy. I meant it wasn't dead.