Posted on 05/08/2017 4:53:41 PM PDT by detective
Candidate Donald Trump said of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, “This corruption and collusion is just one more reason why I will ask my attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor.” He later upped the ante with the declaration, “She has to go to jail.” Now, it appears that the Trump State Department is working to keep the e-mails secret.
On May 5, Judicial Watch issued a press release announcing that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over to the watchdog organization "eight identical paragraphs" of previously redact material in two September 13, 2012, Hillary Clinton e-mails regarding phone calls made by President Barack Obama to Egyptian and Libyan leaders immediately following the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Both e-mails had the subject line "Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt" and were among the e-mails stored on Clinton’s unofficial e-mail server.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
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You want the "last" word? Have at it; frankly, I don't care and have only replied as a courtesy and in order to refute the spurious, banal, puerile calumny you keep heaping, senselessly, upon me.
I remember quite well what I posted to you, and what it was in response to.
You stated you say good things about Trump too. I responded that I don’t follow you around to see what you’re saying all the time. You then respond that you never charged me with stalking.
You take care.
There may be a valid reason to not release them - might be some serious security issues contained in the data.
The New American is an old magazine that was originally put out by the John Birch Society, the anti-communist group. They are usually well intended and well sourced but sometimes go too far in seeing the government as a giant conspiracy. That is, they sometimes fail to recognize distinctions between the parties and as a result are too hard on the Republicans, who they lump in with the Dems. That may be what’s going on here. Or they might have a point. But they usually are not fake news.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Additionally, Judicial Watch makes the case that the Trump State Department is purposefully sabotaging the group’s effort to hold Hillary accountable, something that Trump repeatedly promised to do on the campaign trail.
Judicial Watch argues:
An agency’s deliberate withholding of a FOIA claim, either to gain a tactical advantage or, as appears to be the case here, to protect the agency’s interests and those of its former head, is “a motive undoubtedly inconsistent with FOIA’s broad remedial purpose …” It “counsels denying the Government’s request.”
The emails in question were sent to then-top administration officials, including Clinton, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan, Special Assistant Robert Russo, and Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough.
Mentioning the apparent increase in the influence of the so-called “Deep State” on the Trump administration, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton asks, “Does President Trump know his State and Justice Departments are still trying to provide cover for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?” Fitton continued, “An extraordinary court ruling that could result in key answers about the Benghazi outrage is being opposed by the Trump administration. This may well be an example of the ‘deep state’ trying to get away with a cover up — if so then the Trump administration must put a stop to it.”
Mike Lofgren, author of The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and The Rise of A Shadow Government, defines the Deep State as “the powers-that-be that they believe actually run the country regardless of electoral results:
the Wise Men, the Power Elite.” With this apparent legal maneuvering to keep Hillary Clinton from being held accountable for her betrayal of the Americans who perished at the Benghazi attack, one wonders if the Deep State has pulled even President Trump into their oligarchical orbit.
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My guess is that this problem of teh State Dept.(most likely) leftover obama tards trying to sabotage Trump is a function of not enough time to adequately drain the swamp.It will happen we just have to be patient,IMHO.
I think this is why Comey is and has backed off. He knows if he starts going after too many big names history says he's the one who pays not them. He could be right.
there well could be safety in numbers we are talking about in the criminal enterprises that go in the world wide cabal.
How do you successfully go after thousands of big names?
I think you are correct. I think this is what is going on. Trump has not yet been able to drain the deeper parts of the swamp.
Excellent post you are right there.
Your point is well-made.
Looking at the global antics of the Clinton Foundation, all of the players acted without restraint.
There is a distinctive uniform mindset.
I think they believed that all of their activities-—posed against the fake front of the Clintons’ predatory “do-goodism”——shielded them from the illegalities.
Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK
For some reason I have doubt that is the whole answer.
Then that’s your problem. Good luck with that.
LBJ !!!
Oh that’s why I didn’t know about this ‘The New American’...I don’t read the John Birch Society stuff...thank you for that information...
The Mafia
It is something that needed to be taken care of right away, but wasn’t and the longer it all remains as is, the worse things are going to get. And now, they are after Icahn, who doesn’t even have any position, in this administration....yet.
“So Trump defies this judge yet complies with the idiots on the 9th Circus?”
It was not Trump, it was State Department employees.
The headline should have been phrased better.
See post #16.
“There may be a valid reason to not release them - might be some serious security issues contained in the data.”
See post #16.
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