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Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure...
Judicial Watch ^ | May 1, 2019 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 05/01/2019 5:27:27 PM PDT by jazusamo

Full title: Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

Insists that monitoring Clinton’s illicit use of private email ‘wasn’t really part of my job,’ but adds, ‘I wish she had used a State Department account’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released the transcript of a court-ordered deposition of Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, in which the top staffer admits that both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to conduct official State Department business. A full transcript of the deposition is available here .

Judicial Watch’s court-ordered discovery centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.

In the questioning, Sullivan admitted that he had used his personal Gmail account at times for State Department business but denied that he had sent classified information to Secretary Clinton’s unsecured personal system.

After Judicial Watch pointed out that on January 26, 2010, Sullivan sent a classified email with the subject line “ call sheet ,” Sullivan testified: “When I sent this email, my best judgment was that none of the material in it was classified, and I felt comfortable sending the email on an unclassified system. The material has subsequently been upclassified but at the time that I sent it, I did not believe that it was classified.”

Sullivan said in the deposition that he had not been concerned about Clinton’s use of a non-government email account, because it was not part of his job:

Like Secretary Clinton has said herself, I wish she had used a State Department account. It wasn’t really part of my job to be thinking about Secretary Clinton’s emails so I don’t think I sort of fell down directly in my job, but do I wish I had thought of it during the time we were at State. Of course. I mean, what human being at this point wouldn’t have thought of that?

Sullivan’s deposition is part of United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s order for senior officials — including Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Jacob Sullivan, and FBI official E.W. Priestap – to respond under oath to Judicial Watch questions.

A video of the Sullivan deposition exists but is under seal after the Justice Department and State Department, which opposed any discovery, objected to their public release. The court denied release of the video depositions for now and left the door open for reconsideration.

[T]he Court does not foreclose future releases of audiovisual recordings – in this or other cases. Judicial Watch may move to unseal portions of these recordings relied upon in future court filings. So too may it use the video recordings at trial, consistent with the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Judge Lamberth made the ruling in Judicial Watch’s July 2014 FOIA lawsuit filed after the U.S. Department of State failed to respond to a May 13, 2014 FOIA request ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). Judicial Watch seeks:

Copies of any updates and/or talking points given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency concerning, regarding, or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Any and all records or communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency.

“A federal court wants answers on the Clinton email scandal and Mr. Sullivan is one of many witnesses Judicial Watch will question under oath,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is shameful that the Justice and State Departments continue to try to protect Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration on the email scandal.”

U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as E.W. Priestap, to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”

Judicial Watch previously released interrogatory responses given under oath by E.W. (Bill) Priestap , assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, in which he stated that agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20120911; benghazi; doj; emailscandal; fbi; hillaryclinton; jacobsullivan; jake; jakesullivan; judicialwatch; jw; priestap; statedept
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1 posted on 05/01/2019 5:27:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Does anyone know if there is a Statute of Limitations on these crimes?


2 posted on 05/01/2019 5:30:24 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jazusamo

Well it was only Yoga talk


3 posted on 05/01/2019 5:33:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: laplata

excerpt:

“Although it would be controversial, the Justice Department is able to reopen the Clinton email case, and experts say President Trump’s 2016 adversary arguably could be charged until March 2025 — after Trump would leave office even if he wins a second term.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hillary-clinton-emails-could-still-face-charges


4 posted on 05/01/2019 5:36:06 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

If this critter had any kind of security clearance, they knew they were committing a felony.

Period.

We’ll know if we have any justice at all when and only when the Hillabeast has her fat *ss thrown in prison.


5 posted on 05/01/2019 5:37:12 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: jazusamo

So HE may be too stupid but she certainly knew she was not supposed to be sending classified info that way.


6 posted on 05/01/2019 5:38:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: jazusamo

Thank you very much, jazusmo. I should have read further.


7 posted on 05/01/2019 5:41:14 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jazusamo
Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

Which would be a federal crime.

Of course, Hellary believed she essentially "owned" the State Department as soon as she became Secretary, so in her mind everything about the State Department, including her emails and the emails of anyone who communicated with her, were her personal property.

8 posted on 05/01/2019 5:41:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: jazusamo

The private server setup itself was all the “intent” any “reasonable prosecutor” would have needed to indict


9 posted on 05/01/2019 5:42:18 PM PDT by digger48
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To: jazusamo

Seriously, we need to take bets where they are going to find his body.


10 posted on 05/01/2019 5:44:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: laplata

Most welcome but I didn’t get that from the article, I had to look that up for someone a few weeks ago because I didn’t know either. :^)


11 posted on 05/01/2019 5:45:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo; Liz
...'and I felt comfortable sending the email on an unclassified system.'

Did he have a choice? Mrs. Bill *Clinton had only one system.

12 posted on 05/01/2019 5:46:00 PM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: Da Coyote

Everyone who has security clearances gets it clearly spelled out multiple times what is allowed and what isn’t. They give people examples to explain why something is or isnt permitted.

And basically if you are unsure about something, then you dont do it until you ask someone in authority whether its ok or not and you receive a clear definitive answer.


13 posted on 05/01/2019 5:47:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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14 posted on 05/01/2019 5:48:04 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I agree and he is probably aware of that too.


15 posted on 05/01/2019 5:50:34 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

L8r


16 posted on 05/01/2019 5:50:56 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: jazusamo

L8r


17 posted on 05/01/2019 5:50:57 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Everyone knew exactly what they were doing and the pretense otherwise is just more lying and covering up.


18 posted on 05/01/2019 5:51:04 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: jazusamo

Hey Sullivan, don’t go jogging.


19 posted on 05/01/2019 5:53:01 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: jazusamo

And Odunga knew. Tick tick tick.


20 posted on 05/01/2019 5:53:07 PM PDT by DAC21
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