New Documents Show Obama Administration Continually
Lied About Knowledge Of Hillary Email Server
But her emails, right?
I mean, if we can focus on 35 year old tax returns that show
Trump legally lost a lot of money, I don’t see any issue going back a few years
to corruption in the Obama administration.
Judicial Watch has obtained new emails (and http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JW-v-State-HRC-emails-WH-01242-3.pdf?D=1
- rongchoi) which show that not only did they know about Hillary’s server
long before they claimed, but they were keeping tabs on it all to manage the
situation.
(Washington,
DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained 44 pages of
records from the State Department through court-ordered discovery
revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records concerning then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecure, non-government email system. Months
after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded to the
requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely
stating that no such records existed.
While legitimate FOIA requests were flowing in, the Obama
administration was lying to requestors and saying the records didn’t exist. All
the while, they knew Hillary had a private server full of official emails, to
the point where even Obama himself would correspond with her via a pseudonym.
On January 10, 2013, Walter writes to Samuelson
that she is not including “personal” accounts in the FOIA request search:
“Hi Heather – did you ever get any intell re what other agencies
are doing re this FOIA request that seeks records about the number of email
accounts associated with the Secretary (but isn’t specifying “personal” email
accounts so we are interpreting as official accounts only). We are considering
contacting the requester to find out exactly what it is they are looking for.
Do you have any-concerns about that approach?”
Soon afterward, Samuelson responds, “White House Counsel was
looking into this for me. I will circle back with them now to see if they have
further guidance.”
CREW’s general counsel, Anne Weismann, submitted a FOIA request to the
State Department on December 6, 2012, seeking “records sufficient to show the
number of email accounts of or associated with Secretary Hillary Rodham
Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those
of or associated with Secretary Clinton.”
On May 10,
2013, [Information Programs and Services] replied toCREW,
stating that “no records responsive to your request were located.”
The short of this is that Hillary kept all her official emails
on her personal server. When outside parties would make requests, they would
only search her unused official accounts and then respond back that no records
existed. All the while, they knew Hillary was doing business outside of
official channels in a way that clearly subverted FOIA laws
This
scheme started back when Clinton first assumed her role.
The new
documents also include a January 2013 email
exchangediscussing Clinton’s departure from the State Department in
which Agency Records Officer Tasha M. Thian specifically stating that
Secretary Clinton “does not use email.”
This
was directly contradicted by an email
exchange between Secretary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus dating
back to January 2009 – the very first days of Clinton’s State Department tenure
– in which she tells Petraeus that she “had to change her email address.”
What we
are seeing here is a pattern of continual lying by the Obama administration and
its officials about Clinton’s use of a private email server. Furthermore, they
did so to directly avoid FOIA requests which were lawfully supposed to be
fulfilled.
You are
not allowed to simply say “whoops, that’s on my personal account so that’s not
subject to FOIA” for obvious reasons. It would allow widespread corruption.
Clinton
is bulletproof so nothing will come of this, but it’s just another in the long
list of bad, possibly illegal behavior by her and the Obama administration.
This entire thing deserves a real investigation and not the whitewashing it got
under James Comey. Anyone that opposes that is only doing so for partisan
reasons.
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