Posted on 03/03/2015 8:17:31 PM PST by kristinn
The first public sign of the email imbroglio now enveloping former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have come more than a month ago in an obscure court filing in a lawsuit demanding details of Clinton’s response to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
Last year, government lawyers handling the case brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch told a federal judge that the agency had searched its files and had no more records to produce.
They changed their tune on Feb. 2.
”In the course of preparing additional information to provide to Plaintiff for purposes of settlement discussions, Defendant has discovered that additional searches for documents potentially responsive to the FOIA must be conducted,” the attorneys wrote.
The legal filing was one of the first indications that Clinton’s use of a personal email account to conduct business as Secretary of State might complicate matters for parties wanting to know more about her official actions.
The flap that erupted this week looks to be a difficult one for Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, to shake anytime soon.
Clinton’s allies moved to douse the controversy by pointing to similar practices by her predecessors and to what her supporters say were murky government rules at the time.
But all signs Tuesday pointed towards a protracted legal morass as advocacy groups, the courts and Congress try to determine whether Clinton’s practice denied them access to critical information during her four years in the Obama Cabinet and thereafter.
Clinton aides and State Department officials argued that the impact of her use of personal email on the government’s permanent files was limited because she turned over 55,000 pages of the emails in December at the department’s request. They also contend that most of Clinton’s work-related emails were preserved on work accounts used by other officials.
However, those explanations overlook or minimize a series of problems caused by the personal email arrangement.
One is that searches of Clinton’s office files done for Congress, for Freedom of Information Act requests or for litigation may not have captured relevant emails if the recipient was outside Clinton’s immediate office and that account wasn’t part of the search. Work-related emails that went to parties outside the State Department or to aides’ personal accounts also would have been missed in these searches.
Clinton’s personal aide, Huma Abedin, and her communications adviser, Philippe Reines, regularly used unofficial email accounts for work-related email, former colleagues said.
SNIP
Here is a gmail address that she was unable to get because it was taken.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3263914/posts
I’m old and I retired before E-mail was commonly used but even I know that business should not be conducted on personal E-Mail accounts.
It’s plain,old common sense.
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FEDGOV has also as of 3 months ago cut access to any type of personal e-mail accounts on FEDGOV computers.
No yahoo, Gmail, etc. allowed.
This was done to bolster security.
Yet THE EFFIN SECRETARY OF STATE IS USING a non-secure network?
MARCH 3—The disclosure that Hillary Clinton used a non-governmental e-mail address while she was Secretary of State originally came courtesy of “Guccifer,” the Romanian hacker now serving time in a Bucharest prison for his online attacks against scores of public figures.
As TSG first reported in March 2013, “Guccifer” illegally accessed the AOL e-mail account of Sidney Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, and later became a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
When “Guccifer” (who was later identified as Marcel Lazar Lehel) breached Blumenthal’s account, he discovered an assortment of correspondence sent to Hillary Clinton at the e-mail address hdr22@clintonemail.com. The “clintonemail.com” domain was registered in 2009, shortly after her nomination to become Secretary of State.
While Blumenthal, a longtime Hillary Clinton confidant, used her private e-mail to send personal messages (like a get well note after she fell at home and suffered a concussion in December 2012), he also forwarded the Cabinet member a series of “Confidential” memos about foreign policy matters.
The “For: Hillary, From: Sid” memos, provided to TSG by “Guccifer,” address a wide range of topics in global flashpoints like Algeria, Turkey, Mali, and Libya. Blumenthal also provided Clinton with information about the European Central Bank, the Georgia elections, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The memos to Clinton carried titles like “Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya,” and included all-cap warnings that, “THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCES AND SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE.” Blumenthal has not held a public post since leaving his White House job in January 2001.
Hillary’s morass...
Not all the soap in the world could clean all the filth off of Hitlery.
FEDGOV makes it’s employees take cyber security training every year.
USE OF PERSONAL E-MAIL ACCOUNTS TO CONDUCT FEDGOV BUSINESS IS PROHIBITED.
EVERY FEDGOV WORKER KNOWS THIS.
For the obvious reason that personal e-mail accounts ARE NOT SECURE and not retrievable under the Records Act.
THE ONLY REASON THIS MARXIST BITCH WOULD USE PERSONAL E-MAIL IS TO AVOID LEAVING ANY EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING.
THAT A SOS WOULD DO THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE
This CANNOT BE SPINNED AWAY.
EVEN LOIS LERNER knew not to use personal e-mail.
THATS WHY THEY “LOST “ her e-mails.
SHRILLARY! is TOAST.
CRUCIFY THE CARPET MUNCHING MURDERER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She certainly doesn’t need morass!
This is a trend in the Federal Government. Those in power, even at low and medium levels act as sovereigns and are effectively unaccountable. These people know, like Hillary Clinton knows that stonewalling, lying, obfuscation and delay tactics are all valuable and effective tools in the never ending battle against the truth. .
Maybe there are some hair-raising selfie posts by Huma’s former husband/beard ‘Carlos Danger’?
(”And here I am doing a ‘Geraldo’....”)
Unless they're Republicans.
Lolol....I KNEW that one had to be posted, already :)
If I remember correctly, Al Gore lost all his VP e-mails. I don’t think his were ever found.
Hillary should be forced to turn over all her private e-mail accounts to investigators. Yes, some of the e-mails may be private, but that is the least that should be done for mixing private and public e-mail accounts.
If Hillary is too damaged, maybe the Democrats can get Romney to come out of retirement.
Drawn???...like she's a victim. Puke.
HILLARY/HUMA@CARPETMUNCH.HOTBOX More to follow I’m sure! (Gotta be a ‘Hitler finds out.....’ on this Hillary story!)
Hillary being herself, again..!
With the US Ambassador murdered (for only the second time in US history) and an Embassy black with soot, the ABUNDANTLY OBVIOUS choice of US official to get out in front of the lights and cameras would be the freaking SECRETARY OF STATE, right..?
Yet, no..! Lo and behold, the victim is the US Ambassador to the UN...! WHY..?
Cuz...
1. Hillary was the person with PERFECT KNOWLEDGE of the bald-faced LIE
2. Hillary had Presidential ambitions —for her whole LIFE, actually.
So she just shoved someone else out in front, and resolved to be more stealthy, which we now see neatly in front of us, now.
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