Posted on 02/27/2018 10:29:51 PM PST by bitt
Illustrating how government hides information from the American public, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama’s second attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to “protect her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business efficiently via email.”
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.gov. She eventually resigned over the scandal, which brought to light the agency’s violations of federal open-records laws.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...
But you have to ask why. Why did she do it?
It was not to violate the Espionage Act. That was a simple matter of gross negligence, albeit felony serious.
It was not about needing to carry a second Blackberry.
It was to evade the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
Why would she want to do that?
Why, to hide her corrupt dealings re the Clinton Foundation and her husband's ill-gotten speaking fees! Think Uranium One! Millions of dollars' worth of Russian collusion flowing into Clinton coffers!
There is a new sheriff in town. :)
Judicial Watch: Court Orders State Dept to Speed Up Production of Clinton Email Records
Judicial Watch | Jan 11, 2018 / FR Posted by jazusamo
State Dept Must Complete Review and Release of 72,000 Pages of Records by September 28
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced that a federal court judge ordered the State Department to speed up processing and production of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg recently ordered the State Department to complete processing the remaining documents that were recovered by the FBI in its investigation into Clinton’s illicit email server by September 28, 2018.
The Court’s latest order accelerates State’s production rate which would have continued until 2020. Last year, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. The State Department had been processing the documents at a rate that would have required Judicial Watch and the American people to wait until at least 2020 to see all the releasable Clinton material.
Prior to the FBI investigation, Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Dept in Dec 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in another Judicial Watch case, she declared under penalty of perjury that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.”
Clinton failed to turn over at least 627 emails in that 55,000-page production, further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, “ as far as she knew ,” all of her government emails had been turned over to department.
Judge Boasberg’s November 30 order came in a Judicial Watch (FOIA) lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687 )) seeking: All emails sent or received by former Secy of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her official capacity as Secy of State, as well as all emails by other State Dept employees to Secy Clinton regarding her non-“state.gov” email address.
The court also ordered the State Dept to identify and explain the basis for all documents withheld in full from both the 55,000 pages of emails turned over by Clinton and the 72,000 pages of records recovered by the FBI which have been processed thus far by April 6, 2018.
“How ironic it is that the Trump State Dept had to be ordered by a federal court to stop slow-rolling the release of Clinton emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuits – not Congress or the media – uncovered Clinton’s email cover-up and related crimes.
Now it is up to the Justice Dept to finally follow up with an honest and independent investigation.”
In Nov 2016, Judge Boasberg ordered the State Deptt to process no less than 500 pages a month of records responsive to Judicial Watch’s request. The following year, in October 2017 , Judicial Watch asked the court to increase the State Dept’s processing requirement noting that under its current pace of production, the Clinton emails would not be completely released until at least 2020.
At the October 2017 hearing, the State Dept reported to the court that they were revamping their FOIA
processing and reallocating resources. Judge Boasberg then issued an order instructing the State Dept to explain “how its anticipated increase in resources will affect processing of records in this case …”
In a related case, Judicial Watch found at least 18 classified emails in 806 documents recently produced by the State Dept from the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s illicit email system. The emails were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, who is the husband of former Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Obama State Dept Made Deal With Hillary Allowing Removal Of Records.
By RYAN SAAVEDRA, daiywire.com, December 15, 2017
Newly-revealed documents obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch reveal that the Obama State Department allowed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove sensitive documents that were not to be made public records (including official “Muslim Engagement Documents”).
Judicial Watch received the records on Thursday in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that sought all DS-1904 forms completed by or on behalf of Former Secretary Hillary Clinton, Former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and Former Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan.
Clinton and Abedin were permitted to remove both electronic and physical records, claiming “they were ‘personal’ materials and ‘unclassified, non-record materials,’ including files of Clinton’s calls and schedules, which were not to be made public.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton noted the gravity of the latest revelations, stating they showed further corruption in the Obama administration and with Clinton.
“We already know the Obama State Department let Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information,” Fitton said in a statement. “But these new records show that was only part of the scandal. These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws.”
Electronic records Clinton was allowed to remove:
Copy of “daily files.”
Non-record copy of a log of calls the Secretary made since 2004.
Official and personal copy of the Secretary’s “call grid” which is a running list of calls she wants to make.
Physical records Clinton was allowed to remove:
16 boxes of personal schedules from 1993-2008 (prior to her becoming Secretary of State).
29 boxes of miscellaneous public schedules ranging from her time as FLOTUS all the way up to her appointment at the State Department.
1 box of personal reimbursable receipts.
1 box of personal photos.
1 box personal schedule.
Personal correspondence.
Daily file binders. Gift binders. Gifts (actual). Topic binders.
Electronic records Abedin was allowed to remove:
Outlook contacts.
Physical records Abedin was allowed to remove (5 boxes):
Travel Records
Muslim Engagement Documents
Newspaper Articles
Gift Archive Binder
FLOTUS “Courtesy Storage/Box Content List” Binder
CODEL Trips Binder
Menu Cards & Table Arrangement Binder
Personal Event Planner (2001 thru 2011)
“The originals of some Clinton documents were retained, such as the call logs and schedules,” Judicial Watch reports.
“For other records, including material that predates Clinton’s tenure, there is no indication that a copy was made.
The most significant of these are her personal correspondence and gift binders, which could reflect Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative ties.”
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Later, thanks
Didn’t Mueller just indict someone for “identity fraud” for using fake alias?
- Samuel Adams
“Skirted” nothing! That’s a full, open kimono!
Best intel I’ve seen says this:
The server was her conduit to selling state secrets. When a person or government made the payment (to Clinton Foundation or to Bill for a speech, etc.), she would then put the classified information she was selling them on her server for them to “hack”.
This way there was no direct trail of her transferring the info. She would claim that she used the server for “convenience” and that she had no idea that anyone could/would hack into it.
I call that “implausible deniability.” No one who is that stupid should have ANY position in our government, much less SoS or President.
Ozero ( AKA Harrison J Bonnell ) would have no issue with this practice...
It should be clear that no matter how stupid--if you really want to call devising and executing a method to get away for several years with selling chunks of the nation's assets and secrets in exchange for officers-of-the-court-mediated, hundreds of millions of dollars, more than any other spy in world history "stupid", she really must have intended to "violate the Espionage Act."
From what's known, it seems she didn't particularly feel the need to pay off her co-conspirators with anything more than their undeserved professional positions, a temporary, luxury-hobnobbing life-style or lucrative fees, lest they think bribes could later lead to blackmail, given the ignominious "Clinton Body Count."
There are no laws when there is no one who will enforce and prosecute violations of those laws.
Our DOJ and FBI are the most corrupt agencies in this nation, everyone knows it and still there is no one who will do anything about it.
Jeff Sessions is useless and his title is an insult to all of us.
I disagree. Just use actual name with s coded suffix for various levels of comms.
Loretta violated Federal records retention requirements by using this tactic.
Oh, and she damn well knows it.
So what? Until these hyenas are prosecuted, none of this matters.
But, give him some credit. At least he had one.
Shouldn’t this criminal loser be in prison for the rest of her worthless life?
Unless someone in “power” does hold these criminals/seditionists/traitors accountable, what doe sit matter? How pathetic.
You couldn’t be more right! Our country and our people are poorly served by Jeff Sessions who, by remaining inactive in the face of obvious corruption gives permission for the next democrat AG to do the same.
I am sick of corrupt dems, but just as sick of cowardly republicans.
Golly Jeff.... Prosecute something. The orange jumps suits are ready. These Democrats will expire with obituaries saying the cause was “natural.” Phooey.
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