Just When You Think the Clinton Insanity Is Over, There’s More!
It’s been a rough start to the week for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, State Department attorneys announced that they had retrieved 30 emails relating to the 2012 Benghazi attacks from Clinton’s private server.
According to the Washington Examiner, a judge requested that the agency review the documents ahead of a release to the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, which filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that resulted in a year-long FBI probe involving around 15,000 emails — over 2,000 of which were believed to contain classified information.
As the Examiner points out, the new discovery is noteworthy because Clinton had repeatedly insisted to government agencies and to the public that she turned over all work-related communications in the batch of 55,000 pages she submitted to the FBI in late 2014.
During the hearing Tuesday, State Department lawyers told Judge Amit Mehta of U.S. District Court that they had yet to determine how many of the 30 emails had already been disclosed in the 2014 email dump, according to the Examiner.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton announced in a tweet Tuesday that the State Department requested 30 days to review the new emails before releasing them to the watchdog group.
State finds 30 Benghazi-related "deleted" Clinton emails, wants 30 days to turn them over. Court demurs and suggests they move quicker.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 30, 2016
But wait — there’s more! On Wednesday, the New York Post announced that it has exclusively learned that Clinton continued to send classified information over her private server months after leaving the State Department:
On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton sent an email to a group of diplomats and top aides about the “123 Deal” with the United Arab Emirates.
But the email, which was obtained by the Republican National Committee through a Freedom of Information Act request, was heavily redacted upon its release by the State Department because it contains classified information.
The email, sent from [email protected] (the account associated with Clinton’s private server), is marked classified until May 28, 2033. The RNC eventually received a heavily redacted copy through its Freedom of Information Act request, as it includes “information regarding foreign governors” and “foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.”
Clinton sent the email to Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, diplomat Jeffrey Feltman, policy aide Jake Sullivan, diplomat Kurt Campbell, State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills, and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The “123 Deal,” also called the “123 Agreement,” was a 2009 agreement between the United States and United Arab Emirates that established “a required legal framework for commerce in civilian nuclear energy between the two countries,” according to the UAE Embassy website.
“Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information was so pervasive, it continued after she left government,” RNC research director Raj Shah told the Post. “She clearly can’t be trusted with our nation’s security.”
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