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Biden Scandal Update [Obama Effort to ‘Evolve’ Explanation Benghazi Attack] [Weekly Update]
Judicial Watch ^ | June 26, 2020 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 06/26/2020 3:50:23 PM PDT by jazusamo

Revealed: Obama Effort to ‘Evolve’ Explanation of Benghazi Attack
Secret Service: Hunter Biden Took 411 Flights, Visited 29 Countries, Including 5 Visits to China
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It’s hard to keep your story straight if you’re making it up as you go along, which was the modus operandi of Obama fabricator Ben Rhodes.

The Justice Department released 80 pages of records showing top Obama White House officials scrambling to “evolve” its false claims that the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S. Government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, began “spontaneously” in response to an anti-Muslim video on the Internet.

The emails reveal top Obama White House official Ben Rhodes and Clinton State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan joking about being called “liars” and “leakers.”

The records were produced in response to our 2016 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice   (No. 1:16-cv-02046)). We filed the lawsuit after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request for records of the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure.

On September 16, 2012, then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday television talk shows claiming the Benghazi attack was incited spontaneously by an anti-Muslim Internet video. The newly released records show a redacted official’s email from September 27 to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and then-NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor, copying then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, saying, “What’s the plan here?” Rhodes responds:

Broader plan is IC [intelligence community] acknowledgement of an evolving assessment of what took place, which happens to be true (unlike just about everything else we’ve seen reported on Benghazi.)

Further along in the email thread, an official whose name is redacted, says, “Everyone know [sic] Susan [in her TV appearances] was using not just IC approved guidance, but IC created.”

Additionally, Rhodes says to Sullivan and other redacted officials:

At least you’re only a liar. Could be worse – we’re liars and also allegedly leakers. So you’ve got that going for you, which is something.

Sullivan replies: “We’re only lying footsoldiers [sic]. You’re lying masterminds. That’s cooler.”

A redacted official replies to Sullivan: “I prefer that we go by henchmen. Has more of a Marvel comic sinisterness to it. There should be a cable show where all the guests, and the anchor, have to wear polygraphs. Or, when there’s a dispute between source, the aggrieved parties take a poly, with some neutral third party rendering judgment. The Biggest Liar.”

Rhodes says to Sullivan: “I’d like to go on television and tell everybody what I think…. Look at it this way. I[t] could be worse. You could be a career bureaucrat whose greatest thrill in life is leaking half-truths, self-justifications and outright lies to the likes of Eli Lake, Kim Dozier, and whoever picks up the phone at Fox News.”

We previously uncovered that on September 14 Rhodes and other Obama administration officials were attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.” Also included were numerous emails sent during the assault on the Benghazi diplomatic facility. The contemporaneous and dramatic emails describe the assault as an “attack:”

September 11, 2012 , 6:41 PM – Senior Advisor Eric Pelofsky , to Susan Rice:

As reported, the Benghazi compound came under attack and it took a bit of time for the ‘Annex’ colleagues and Libyan February 17 brigade to secure it. One of our colleagues was killed – IMO Sean Smith. Amb Chris Stevens, who was visiting Benghazi this week is missing. U.S. and Libyan colleagues are looking for him…

At 8:51 pm, Pelofsky tells Rice and others that “Post received a call from a person using an [sic] RSO phone that Chris was given saying the caller was with a person matching Chris’s description at a hospital and that he was alive and well. Of course, if he were alive and well, one could ask why he didn’t make the call himself.”

Later that evening, Pelofsky emailed Rice that he was “very, very worried. In particular that he [Stevens] is either dead or this was a concerted effort to kidnap him.” Rice replied, “God forbid.”

The new records show a December 2, 2015, communication from NASA Regional Counterintelligence Director Arthur Payton to the FBI Counterintelligence Division in which Payton returns a review of evidence obtained in the course of the FBI investigation of Clinton’s email server, specifically, a “classification and determination review.” The contents of the classification review and determination were not included among the records released.

In an April 20, 2016, memorandum from Robert Zanger, of DOJ’s Office of Records Management and Policy, to Peter Strzok memorializing an earlier request by Strzok, Zanger indicates that Strzok had requested that DOJ produce “‘all electronic and transactional records between any @clintonemail.com email account’ and thirty-nine (39) specified DOJ email accounts …’” Strzok also asked the DOJ for a “general, or gateway, search of its [DOJ’s] systems for any other electronic and transactional records involving the identified external e-mail domain [@clintonemail.com].” The April 20 memo indicates DOJ complied with the request, saying, “JMD [Justice Management Division] searched for any appearance of the @clintonemail.com domain in the electronic information (including emails and documents) of current and departed named custodians from the components for which JMD maintains electronic information. JMD located a small number of documents, but no email between the @clintonemail.com domain and any named custodian.” The memo notes that JMD had other DOJ components search their records too, and that:

The Civil Division located nine documents containing the term @clintonemail.com. A review of the content of the nine records by the Civil Division confirmed that the responses were related to the Division’s handling of Freedom of Information Act litigation, not communications between the custodian and the @clintonemail.com domain.

The memo noted that while it conducted a search of DOJ’s email gateway server for any email between DOJ email accounts and the @clintonemail.com domain, “ The server log is maintained for a period of two years. [Emphasis added] JMD performed a search [April 2016] in the JMD-managed Email Gateway Server Log for the @clintonemail.com domain covering the period of 2/3/14 to 2/3/16 and found no email to or from the @clintonemail.com domain. [By the time this search was conducted, and no records were found, Clinton had been out of office as secretary of state since January 2013, a period of three years and three months.]

In a January 28, 2016, memo from Peter Strzok to the Counterespionage Group at the CIA, Strzok says that – due to a Section 811(c) referral under the Intelligence Authorization Act from the Intelligence Community Inspector General relating to the unauthorized release of classified information – the FBI is requesting a copy of a document, the title of which is redacted. Strzok notes that, “The assessment was provided to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the National Security Council (NSC) and to the Department of State (DoS) in, or around, October of 2009.”

In connection with an apparent response to the above “Request for Records,” an FBI memo dated June 27, 2016, indicates that the CIA provided the document sought. The synopsis of the memo reads: “CIA response to FBI LHM [Letterhead Memo] dated January 28, 2016 regarding a document request.” The memo further notes: “[redacted] document attached to CIOL [apparently referring to a Counterintelligence Operations Letter].”

Joking about being called ‘liars’ after being caught lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack says a lot about the Obama-Clinton team’s contempt for the rule of law and those four innocent Americans murdered in Libya September 11, 2012. The documents also show that Ben Rhodes, the Obama White House official who created the false story for Susan Rice to use on Benghazi, was planning to orchestrate again an ‘evolving’ explanation about the Benghazi attack by the Intelligence Community in time for then-President Obama’s reelection. You can see how this manipulation is a prelude to Obama’s extensive abuse of the “intelligence community” during the next election to go after President Trump!



Secret Service: Hunter Biden Took 411 Flights, Visited 29 Countries, Including 5 Visits to China

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1 posted on 06/26/2020 3:50:23 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Hunter took 411 Flights??? OMG!


2 posted on 06/26/2020 3:52:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jazusamo

Bam, hill, susan rice allowed muzzies to kill Americans and lied about it.


3 posted on 06/26/2020 3:52:54 PM PDT by I want the USA back (THERE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE A DEBATE TRUMP VS BIDEN! It will be the best show ever!)
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To: jazusamo

The GOP has had to help cover up the crimes of the Kenyanesian Usurpation because they enabled the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


4 posted on 06/26/2020 3:53:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; Tucker39; ...

Off the Wall Ping!

Contact to be added.


5 posted on 06/26/2020 3:55:37 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
Just saw this....

BREAKING: Judge orders Roger Stone to prison July 14th. Denies two-month delay— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 26, 2020


6 posted on 06/26/2020 3:56:32 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Secret Service Report: Private Citizen Hunter Biden Took 411 Flights, Visited 29 Countries, Including 5 Visits to China on tax-paid aircraft with tax-paid SS detail.


New Secret Service records show Hunter Biden’s significant overseas travels during the first part of the Obama-Biden administration.

Judicial Watch investigators uncovered records from the U.S. Secret Service showing that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively with a Secret Service protective detail. During the time period of the records, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights, including to 29 different foreign countries. He visited China five times.

Our February 7, 2020, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sought:

Records reflecting the dates and locations of travel, international and domestic, for Hunter Biden while he received a U.S. Secret Service protective detail; please note whether his travel was on Air Force One or Two, or other government aircraft, as applicable and whether additional family members were present for each trip; time frame is 2001 to present.

The Secret Service did not indicate, as was requested, whether Biden’s travel was on Air Force One, Air Force Two or other government aircraft, or whether additional family members were present.

The records show that countries and territories visited by Hunter Biden, between June 2009 and May 2014, included:

Ethiopia and India on June 14-22, 2009
Argentina on September 14-17, 2009
France and Spain on November 9-13, 2009
Canada on February 12-15, 2010
Dominican Republic on February 18-22, 2010
Puerto Rico on March 20-27, 2010
China on April 6-9, 2010
Belgium, Spain, and the United Kingdom on May 5-8, 2010
UK, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Ascension Island, U.S. Virgin Islands on June 6-13, 2010
Denmark and South Africa on August 9-24, 2010
Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on April 16-22, 2011
Mexico on May 15-17, 2011
Colombia, France, United Arab Emirates and France again on November 1-11, 2011
UK and Russia on February 15-18, 2012
Germany, France and UK on February 1-5, 2013
UK and Ireland on March 20-22, 2013
China on June 13-15, 2013
Switzerland and Italy on July 26-August 7, 2013
Japan, China, South Korea and the Philippines on December 2-9, 2013
China and Qatar on May 7-14, 2014

The records were also provided, but were not made public, to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson in a response to a request the senators sent to Secret Service Director James Murray on February, 2020.

In its cover letter to Grassley and Johnson, which was included in the records we received, the Secret Service said that the senators’ request was time and labor intensive, and they could only provide a limited amount of information by the senators’ imposed turnaround time of February 19.

Given the Burisma-Ukraine-China influence peddling scandals, Hunter Biden’s extensive international travel during the Obama-Biden presidency, including at least 5 trips to China, will certainly raise additional questions.

According to reports, Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two for the official trip to Beijing in December 2013. The records we obtained show Hunter Biden arrived in Tokyo on December 2, 2013, and departed for Beijing two days later. While it is typical for the families of the president and vice president to travel with them, questions have been raised about whether Hunter Biden used the government trip to further his business interests.

NBC reporter Josh Lederman, who was one of four reporters on the December 2013 trip, noted in an October 2, 2019, report that, “What wasn’t known then was that as he accompanied his father to China, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China.”

His travel is only one of our inquiries.

During the last year and a half of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden served on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings while his father was heading up Ukraine policy. We are seeking records through six lawsuits and dozens of FOIA requests related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings and the Chinese BHR Partners.


7 posted on 06/26/2020 4:09:40 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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To: jazusamo; All

“You can see how this manipulation is a prelude to Obama’s extensive abuse of the ‘intelligence community’ during the next election to go after President Trump!”

I’m BEYOND disgusted with all of them. I hope I live long enough to see some justice. JW is doing God’s Work, so there’s that! :)

*BUMP*


8 posted on 06/26/2020 4:10:12 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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THIS JUST IN: Hunter Biden’s Ukraine firm landed deal with USAID program while under corruption investigation
justthenews.com ^ | 06/26/20 | By Daniel Payne and John Solomon
FR Posted on 6/26/2020, 5:38:42 PM by blueyon

Just a few months after Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company landed a deal with an Obama administration renewable energy program that had been championed by one of his father’s key vice presidential advisers, newly released State Department memos show.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Burisma and USAID’s Municipal Energy Reform Project in Ukraine (MERP) was signed in October 2014, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act.

At that time, Burisma was under very public investigations by both the British government and the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office and considered by the State Department to suffer from corruption issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


9 posted on 06/26/2020 4:12:59 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Amen!

JW can put the information out to everyone but they can’t prosecute.


10 posted on 06/26/2020 4:20:57 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Ann Archy

Must have gone economy then cause that would cost a lot of mone............. Oh!?


11 posted on 06/26/2020 4:25:29 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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At least you’re only a liar. Could be worse – we’re liars and also allegedly leakers. So you’ve got that going for you, which is something.

Sullivan replies: “We’re only lying footsoldiers [sic]. You’re lying masterminds. That’s cooler.”

A redacted official replies to Sullivan: “I prefer that we go by henchmen. Has more of a Marvel comic sinisterness to it. There should be a cable show where all the guests, and the anchor, have to wear polygraphs. Or, when there’s a dispute between source, the aggrieved parties take a poly, with some neutral third party rendering judgment. The Biggest Liar.”

Rhodes says to Sullivan: “I’d like to go on television and tell everybody what I think…. Look at it this way. I[t] could be worse. You could be a career bureaucrat whose greatest thrill in life is leaking half-truths, self-justifications and outright lies to the likes of Eli Lake, Kim Dozier, and whoever picks up the phone at Fox News.”

Their contempt for the American People, and the truth, is stunning. They litterally enjoy lying to us, and look down on us.

12 posted on 06/26/2020 4:41:37 PM PDT by ETCM
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We conservatives have waited more than three years, we should not let this moment pass quietly. We open on Broadway or maybe Off-Off Broadway?

Remember this ? The dramatization to appreciative conservative audiences of the Strozk/Page adulterous love letters....it was hilarious.

I keep thinking how hilarious a dramatization of Suzan Rice’s Inauguration Day email would be.
To the Obama flunkies, Susan Rice’s “Dear Me” e-mail to herself on Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day they wish it would go away. They’ve been caught running a spying operation on the incoming administration and are now pulling out the Clinton MO....”there’s nothing to see here.’

Rice’s email bears witness to a seminal event in the quest to expose who knew what and who did what in the illicit effort to tip the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to undermine the safety and security of Americans to sabotage Trump’s presidency.

BACKSTORY The e-mail recounts a meeting on Jan. 5, 2017, where top Obama officials discuss the monitoring of Susan Rice’s replacement, incoming NSA Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador. Though FBI Director James Comey says Flynn hasn’t revealed any secrets, he worries about how often the two have spoken.

President ­Obama asks if they should withhold information from Flynn. “Potentially,” Comey replies.

The beauty of the e-mail is also its puzzle. Oddly, Rice puts Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the middle of a scam, places acting Attorney General Sally Yates at the scene and implicates J. Edgar Comey. By doing all that, Rice inadvertently confirms that a deep state will be more loyal to the former president than the new one. Resistance, leaks and ultimately impeachment will be the poisoned fruit of that cabal. (h/t NYP’s Michael Goodwin)


Suzan skipped down the Yellowbrick Road, along with the mental midgets of the Obama Administraton that notorious day.

<><>Rice’s e-mail clearly emanates from the mind of a political zero.....Rice fills in the blanks and exposes the raison d’etre for the cabal.

<><> Rice pinpoints the cast of characters and even writes of Obama’s “words of wisdom” to the colluders.....the first and only time the Halfrican is caught flatfooted in the web of deceit.

<><> Rice’s robotically penning “by the book” to describe Obama’s instructions is intended to create a narrative that emphasizes “Obama did nothing wrong.”

<><> Joe Biden looms large, ludicrously mentioning the Logan Act to nail Flynn. Apparently, the colluders thought this was (ahem) genius on Joe’s part.

<><> One of the most dramatic moments is Rice’s belatedly remembering that she wrote the memo at the suggestion of Obama’s WH counsel, Neil Eggleston. His tax-paid job was to protect the president, which the memo aims to do.


13 posted on 06/26/2020 4:55:04 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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To: jazusamo

OMG, ...this reads like a bad spy movie, too crazy to be believed.

And the reference to “aborted baby parts,” leaves me with tears in my eyes.


14 posted on 06/26/2020 4:59:43 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ETCM

Yep, in my view they’ve joined others that are the scum of the earth.


15 posted on 06/26/2020 5:05:17 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
......an FBI memo dated June 27, 2016, indicates that the CIA provided the document sought. --snip--

<><> The deceitful govt workers actually joked about being called ‘liars’ after being caught lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack
<><> this says a lot about the Obama-Clinton team’s contempt for the rule of law and of four innocent Americans murdered in Libya September 11, 2012.
<><> The documents also show that Obama flunkie, Ben Rhodes, created the false story for Susan Rice to use on TV talk
<><> Rhodes was next planning to orchestrate an ‘evolving’ explanation about the Benghazi attack by the Intelligence Community in time for then-President Obama’s reelection.

CLEARLY---this manipulation is a prelude to Obama’s extensive abuse of the “intel community"------
there to guard Americans' safety an security----as little more than a pawn to save the Halfrican's evil a**.

16 posted on 06/26/2020 5:05:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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To: Maris Crane

Agreed, shades of Josef Mengele.


17 posted on 06/26/2020 5:09:21 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

I think we know where the Benghazi 9/11 lie started. It started with Jeffrey Goldberg: https://foia.state.gov/scripts/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?File=\DOCUMENTS\HRCEmail_Jan7thWeb\O-2015-08641-JAN7\DOC_0C05795460\C05795460.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-15,792


18 posted on 06/26/2020 5:14:22 PM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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