Posted on 12/30/2017 10:44:39 AM PST by jazusamo
A Major Victory: State Releases Clinton Server Emails from Weiner’s Laptop!
Judicial Watch Opposes Secrecy in Obama IRS Scandal
Happy New Year!
A Major Victory: State Releases Clinton Server Emails from Weiner’s Laptop!
Today, the U.S. Department of State began releasing Huma Abedin’s work-related documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were found on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop.
This is a major victory. After years of hard work in federal court, Judicial Watch forced the State Department to finally allow Americans to see these public documents. We have been following this case closely because from our past experience we know that Abedin’s emails include classified and other sensitive materials.
The document are still being posted, but our team has seen enough to confirm that classified information from Hillary Clinton’s email server has been found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman from New York who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The fact that classified information has been found from Clinton and Abedin on Weiner’s laptop shows the urgent need for a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.
Back in October, in accordance with a court ordered production of documents, the State Department announced : “The State Department identified approximately 2,800 work-related documents among the documents provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The State Department told the court it expected to complete its review and production of the FBI records by December 31, 2017.
The production of these documents is the result of a May 5, 2015, lawsuit we filed against the State Department ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). We sued after State failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
Abedin was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. Weiner is a disgraced former congressman and New York mayoral candidate who pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. Abedin kept a non-State.gov email account that she used repeatedly for government business on Hillary Clinton’s notorious email server(s).
We previously released 20 productions of documents in this case that show examples of mishandling classified information and instances of pay to play between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation. Also, at least 627 emails were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradict a statement by Clinton that, “ as far as she knew ,” all of her government emails had been turned over to department.
Perhaps Clinton and Abedin were expecting all of this to just go away with Clinton’s election to the White House last year. Let’s hope the Justice Department finally gets it act together and proves that bet wrong.
Judicial Watch Opposes Secrecy in Obama IRS Scandal
Judicial Watch continues the fight for accountability over the misdeeds tied to the Obama IRS scandal. We just asked a federal court to unseal the depositions of Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements. Both played key roles in the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups opposed to Obama policies in the run up to the 2012 presidential election.
We made the request in an amicus curiae brief filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, supporting NorCal Tea Party Patriots’ class action lawsuit seeking the unsealing of the depositions ( NorCal Tea Party Patriots, et al. v. The Internal Revenue Service, et al. (No. 1:13-cv-00341)).
A federal judge sealed the depositions after Lerner’s and Paz’s lawyers claimed the two were receiving threats. Our brief argues that the documents sought may shed light on government misconduct, and the shielding of internal government deliberations does not serve the public’s interest.
We detailed how the Lerner and Paz depositions may significantly impact our ongoing lawsuits seeking information about misconduct by government officials in the IRS targeting scandal:
In addition to the revelation of IRS employees’ conduct in the emails uncovered, the records obtained by Judicial Watch [in the course of its FOIA investigation] also sparked investigations into Lois Lerner’s emails and IRS’ failure to preserve thousands of emails that were potentially relevant to the various investigations about the IRS’ treatment of conservative groups. While the federal government has now admitted that the targeting “was wrong” and “for such treatment, the IRS expresses its sincere apology” the IRS continues to this day to withhold from the public in Judicial Watch’s main IRS case … email communications with Lois Lerner and/or Holly Paz …
Lerner was actively engaged in the attempted cover-up of IRS misconduct. In July 2016, we revealed that both Lerner and Paz , knew the agency was specifically targeting “Tea Party” and other conservative organizations two full years before disclosing it to Congress and the public. They also knew donor lists of tax-exempt organizations were being used to target those donors for audits .
After refusing to acknowledge the targeting, the IRS was forced by Judicial Watch to finally admit that the agency had used “inappropriate political labels” to screen the tax-exempt applications of conservative organizations. IRS agents were targeting organizations requesting tax-exempt status based on “ guilt by association ” and “party affiliation.” We brought to light the fact that the IRS was going to require 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations to restrict their alleged political activities in exchange for “expedited consideration” of their tax-exempt applications.
In April 2015 we released court ordered IRS documents that included an email from Lerner asking that a program be set up to “put together some training points to help them [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls” of revealing too much information to Congress. The documents also contain a Lerner email from 2013 in which she says she is willing to take the blame on some aspects of the scandal. She also indicates that she “understands why the IRS criteria” leading to the targeting of Tea Party and other opponents of the President Obama “might raise questions.”
In July 2015 we revealed that the IRS scandal also included the Justice Department and FBI as well. According to documents we obtained under court order, in an October 2010 meeting Lerner, Justice Department officials and the FBI planned for the possible criminal prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations for alleged illegal political activity. As part of that effort, the Obama IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks, containing 1.25 million pages of confidential IRS returns from 113,000 non-profit, 501(c)(4) social welfare groups as part of its prosecution effort.
According to a letter from then-House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, “This revelation likely means that the IRS – including possibly Lois Lerner – violated federal tax law by transmitting this information to the Justice Department.”
In response to our litigation, the IRS initially claimed that emails belonging to Lerner were missing. Later, IRS officials conceded that the “missing” emails were on IRS back-up systems. Throughout our litigation, we have repeatedly exposed a variety of IRS record keeping inconsistencies, erroneous claims, and failures to produce court-ordered records:
In a republic, citizens have a right to know what their government is up to, especially when officials abuse the powers entrusted to them. This effort to seal Lois Lerner and Holly Paz depositions for all time is affront to the rule of law and government accountability.
For the full history on our IRS battles, click here .
A cold, cold snap ends 2017, but I pray your hearts are warmed by the prospects of renewal and hope in 2018.
With this in mind, all of us here at Judicial Watch wish you a Happy New Year!
Until next week …
Time for she-Weiner to join him behind bars.
Why are Koskinen and Lerner not in Leavenworth 20+ years for treason ?
They are absolutely as guilty as HRC, Obama and Holder.
If the Clintons had gone to prison got Whitewater, we’d have been spared DECADES of deep corruption.
Both sides need to focus on Objective Morality in our candidates, and Objective Law Abiding as well. Each time any political side chooses to “let one of our guys slide,” it’s like leaving one more broken window on the block. It eventually brings down a decent neighborhood. We sure as hell brought down DC by the lefties letting the Clintons slide because they supported globalist desires.
We all remember some of the talk about the Kennedy family’s mob connections through the old man, etc.
What’s not well known are Clinton’s mob connections - The Dixie Mob. Clinton’s mother and uncle had connections that went back to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Some people claim the string of car dealerships his uncle owned were used as fronts for both inter-state car theft and money laundering. (Car theft a big dollar item then for the Dixie Mob! Still important to them but coke and now meth is big money maker!)
The Dixie Mob still exists still into cigarette smuggling, illicit booze, car theft, fencing stolen goods, corrupting local politicians (key!) and prostitution, but the big ticket items are drugs -coke,(declining!), meth & opioids.
Under pressure from foreign competition now - Latins, Afghans, Russians to name a few obvious ones.
Larry founded both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. I believe he is head of Freedom Watch now.
Well, better get this to the head of the DOJ right away, so he can get that investigation started.
Oh wait....that would be Jeff Sessions - Hillary Clinton's AG.
Is Rosenstein’s wife opposing Fitton’s FOIA requests?
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/947210845771182080
“If anyone wants to search the #HumaAbedin email batch—I have converted the PDFs into searchable format. Hosted on my personal domain...”
http://huma-emails.thebradfordfile.com/
“If anyone wants to search the #HumaAbedin email batch—I have converted the PDFs into searchable format. Hosted on my personal domain...”
http://huma-emails.thebradfordfile.com/
From National Review, Andrew McCarthy, of all places:
Moreover, as is the case with Clinton’s e-mails, much of the information in Petraeus’s journals was “born classified” under the terms of President Obama’s own executive order — EO 13526. As I’ve previously noted, in section 1.1(d) of that order, Obama issued this directive: “The unauthorized disclosure of foreign government information is presumed to cause damage to the national security.” In addition, the order goes on (in section 1.4) to describe other categories of information that officials should deem classified based on the damage to national security that disclosure could cause. Included among these categories: foreign relations, foreign activities of the United States, military plans, and intelligence activities.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440380/obama-email-alias-clinton-why-fbi-didnt-prosecute-hillary
Here's something to look for:
1) does anyone know any of the aliases used by Hillary, Huma, Cheryl Mills, Obama, ValJar, or the rest, on GMail or similar?
2) Does anyone recall any of the "pay for play" scandals or entities in the Clinton Global Inititative and Pizza Palour?
Just a suggestion, it may well turn up empty. But sometimes redactors get careless...
Regarding the present dituation. But yes the clintons ought to have been jailed decades ago
Thanks for the ping. McCarthy makes a good point about e-mails that she and others composed likely being classified, even though they weren’t marked “classified” by the composer (Hillary). There’s even been some evidence that the classification marker on the messages was being stripped off on the .GOV side before they were (illegally) forwarded to her clintonemail.com mailbox.
Even if they weren’t actually “classified” as “secret” or higher, they at a minimum would have been considered “sensitive” which are still not ever supposed to leave the .GOV domain. Abuse of this should result in loss of security clearance. Yet we’ve heard Hillary and Huma still have their clearances? Probably do.
In my view, very little or no hacking took place OR WAS NEEDED. Hillary merely would have the classified material posted on her wide open pretend server, and then let any interested foreign nation have carte blance of whatever they wanted to pick off of it; and send their Million$ in gratitude to the Clinton Crime Family Slushfund.
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