Posted on 08/24/2015 6:00:28 AM PDT by maggief
In response to Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon’s super-informative and not-at-all biased or smug “Fact Check” video on the Clinton private email scandal (and congratulations to the slightly less than 10,000 people who actually watched at least some of it), Breitbart News has put together the definitive explainer of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
Have you been as hooked on this story as we have? Can’t wait for Hillary to testify before Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)85% ’s House Benghazi Committee in October? Or maybe you’re just another everyday aficionado of federal government record-keeping practices (in which case, you’re probably horrified by all of this). Let’s break it down:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A lawyer for Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, has accused Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of damaging Ms. Abedin’s reputation through “unfounded allegations” about her time at the State Department.
The lawyer, Miguel Rodriguez, sent a letter to the State Department on Friday responding forcefully to two sets of questions posed by Mr. Grassley, Republican of Iowa: whether Ms. Abedin, while a department official, had been overpaid during her maternity leave and a vacation, and whether she had demonstrated a conflict of interest by aiding one of her part-time employers through her work at the State Department.
By the time she gets around to appearing before Trey Gowdy about the only thing she will be able to say is “I am asserting my 5th amendment rights”
According to Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton, this is all the fault of the bored press and the right wing conspirators. Hillary must DEMAND a Special Prosecutor to save her good name. I say we need to get this option out there before the bored press and the vast right wing ruin this honest yet misunderstood poor public servant.
Yes, that is me exactly. I am an aficionado of federal government record-keeping practices!
Hillary, Huma, and more will eventually be indicted. People continue to onfuscate and dance around this issue - this was clearly more than just a horrific lack of judgement.
By the time she gets around to testifying before Trey Gowdy, she will do it from her grave. The neutered Pubbies in Congress will roll over to have their bellies scratched.
It’s all kabuki. Nothing will happen to Her.
When do we start calling it a crime?
-PJ
She will take the same successful tactic Lois Lerner used, make a lengthy “proclamation” of innocence, and then refusing to answer questions about her statement or anything else.
Technically, it’s not a scandal unless the Washington Post and New York Times uses the word scandal on the front page. By that metric, the Obama administration is the most scandal-free in history. That’s what they assert, without a hint of irony. It’s a Catch-22. It’s like letting a perp walk because he has no criminal history, and he has no criminal history because you let him walk.
There is no public record.
This bitch forgets she is an employee of American citizens.
Hillary’s aides used their tax-paid positions at the State Dept to cash-in-—they romped all over the State Dept looking for money-making opportunities .....like it was their private playground.
Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon details how Cheryl Mills, another one of Hillary Clinton’s longtime underlings, apparently collected a paycheck from New York University at the same time she was serving as Chief of Staff of the State Department.
According to the article: After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses.
The UAE is a major funder of the Clinton Foundation, on whose board Mills sat. The article quotes NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm:
“Federal of conflict interest statutes are very strict, and they want to ensure that federal employees, especially very senior special employees like Cheryl Mills, do not have any conflicts of interest in any matter that they have a hand in,” said Boehm. “Given her position, the dual position of counselor and chief of staff, presumably she would have access to almost any decision of importance that came out of the State Department.”
UPDATE—
<><> Mills rejoined the board of the Clinton Foundation in 2013, after Hillary exited State.
<><> Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on dirt-poor Sub-Saharan Africa.
CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
DEMAND CONGRESS SEND YOU THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
<><> Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Cheryl Mill’s BlackIvy Group tax monies?
<><> did any of the Sub-Sahara groups receive foreign aid grants from Hillary’s State dept?
<><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed below donate to the Clinton Foundation
<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation?
<><> Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ BlackIvy Group in sub-Sahara projects?
SUB SAHARAN AFRICA—— African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.
<><> (A) TAXPAYERS DEMAND TO KNOW HOW MANY GOVT PAYCHECKS MILLS WAS POCKETING
<><> IS CHERYL MILLS STILL ON THE PAYROLL COLLECTING US GOVT PAYCHECKS (an old bureaucratic trick)?
A shady aspect of top Hillary aide, Huma Abdein’s unusual State Department career: she founded a private company called “Zain Endeavors LLC” eleven days before she left Hillary’s employ (named for her infant son).......
BGRND Abedin worked as a full-time staffer to Hillary Clinton January 2009-June 2012; she was then given a “special government employee” designation designed to allow individuals who fill “an unmet government need for rare or unique expertise” to retain their private-sector positions while receiving compensation from the government.
Judiciary Chair, Sen Charles Grassley, has been pressing the State Department to answer questions over Abedin’s lucrative govt job arrangement. Grassley wrote in a June 13 letter, “It appears that Teneo Strategies may have been compensating Ms. Abedin for gathering information from government sources for the purpose of informing investment decisions of her consulting clients - or in other words, political intelligence.
Sen Grassley observed: “This raises important questions about whether Abedin’s dual role was adequately disclosed to government officials who may have provided her information without realizing that she was being paid by private investors to gather information.”
Grassley’s letter recounted:
<><> Abedin allegedly sent or received more than 7,000 emails on her US government account that involved Teneo’s Doug Band, a close confidante and travel companion of the globe-trotting, buck-raking Bill Clinton;
<><> one email exchange involved Teneo’s Doug Band pressuring Abedin to encourage her State Department boss, Hillary Clinton, to facilitate a White House appointment for one of his clients. Judith Rodin, then-president of the Rockefeller Foundation, “donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation,” Mr. Band allegedly noted in his email to Ms. Abedin.
<><> email evidence allegedly suggests that Ms. Abedin and another Hillary aide, Cheryl Mills, colluded to find a way to ensure the US govt paid for Ms. Abedin’s travel to and from New York.”
<><> Abedin apparently falsifed govt financial documents to get $33,000 tax dollars for paid State Department leave she said she hadn’t used.
<><> yet, multiple allegations received by Grassley’s Judiciary Committee indicated Abedin had actually taken leave during her time as a govt employee, casting doubt on whether Abedin should have received $33,000 in taxpayer money.
<><> allegations surfaced that the State Dept personnel rule was quietly bent to permit Abedin to collect her government paycheck while wielding her influence to the benefit of her other employers.
<><> Hillary Clinton jetted to Ireland with Abedin at her side for her last official trip before exiting the State Dept, during which Hillary attended an event hosted by a major Clinton Foundation donor that had been promoted by Teneo (for which Abedin then-served as a “consultant”)
<><> Abedin’s special employment status gave her heavy influence over Hillary Clinton’s State Dept daily schedule and travel plans at the same time Abedin served as a senior adviser at Teneo, and performed other duties at the Clinton Foundation.
<><> Abedin using information about Hillary’s travel schedule in discussions w/ her clients, could be a serious breach of US ntl security, since even the calendar amd travel plans of the Secy of State is considered classified information.
<><> Abedin was among several key aides to Hillary Clinton that hosted email accounts on a private server in the 2016 presidential candidate’s Chappaqua, New York home, in violation of federal records laws.
<><> Abedin is currently vice-chair of Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign committee.
save for later
This is Hillary Clinton we're talking about. Rules don't apply to her. I think she just won't appear at all. What are they going to do, arrest her?
IS CHERYL MILLS STILL ON THE PAYROLL COLLECTING US GOVT PAYCHECKS (an old bureaucratic trick)? ...........................Will Cheryl be found by the time she is required to testify before the committee??
Perhaps Heeyah-word Dean would consider running in 2016.
As a concerned citizen I consider every communication between the Secretary of State and ANYONE to be of a highly sensitive and secret nature. The office after all is in the succession line to the Presidency and a very critical position in the government. The fact that she thinks she can dictate to anyone how and when her communications were to be maintained is a serious breach of protocol and security and frankly blame should go beyond her to the administration for allowing her to do such a thing.
The “born classified” assessment needs more emphasis.
Some of the items have digital watermarks, which means somebody has to actively obscure those marks before they physically transfer the item to an unclassified environment, to be attached in an e-mail.
NOBODY does this without direction and assurance of legal cover.
This IS a full blown conspiracy that could only have happened at Hillary’s direction.
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