Long after Judicial Watch brought suit to obtain documents from the State Department under the Freedom Of Information Act, U.S. district judge Emmet Sullivan finally threw up his hands in frustration at the way details about Clinton’s classified emails and her use of a “home-brew” server were coming out in dribs and drabs.
So he did a rare thing for FOIA cases — he allowed discovery.
But now we hear that State Department lawyers are pushing back.
“It appears that no one took any steps to ensure that agency records on Clintonemail.com were secured within the State Department’s record systems,” Judge Sullivan said at his ruling in February. “How in the world could this happen?” . . .
I think we can guess. The judge said it himself, when he observed that senior officials working under Clinton knew she was using the private server. He even said their failure to explain why it had been set up that way was cause for “a reasonable suspicion of bad faith” on the part of State Department officials, who may have been trying to skirt transparency laws . . .
Under the limited discovery that the State Department is requesting, Judicial Watch would be able to ask Clinton aides questions only about why the server was initially set up, not about how classified information might have been handled or about its security from hackers. Lawyers also said they may object to any attempt to depose Clinton at all. (Read more from “Huckabee Just Exposed 1 Major Reason People Shouldn’t Vote for Hillary, Everyone Needs to See It” HERE)
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CNN host Carol Costello abruptly ended a segment Tuesday after a guest brought up Hillary Clinton’s 1975 legal defense of an accused child rapist.
Appearing on “CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello” on Tuesday, Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg, who supports Donald Trump said, “When you get one-on-one, especially if it’s Hillary, Donald Trump will go places nobody is willing to go — where the media at this point isn’t willing to go: Bringing up Clinton’s women who say they were intimidated by Hillary. Having them come forward and speak. A litany of issues that you can’t even imagine.”
Costello then interrupted, “I’m thinking that might not be a winning argument for Donald Trump right at this moment” . . .
“How many derogatory things has he said about women? His negatives among women are 75 percent right now,” Phillips claimed. Trump is “not going to make that up. There is no way that he can win.”
“Do you know how many young women in this country don’t even know that Bill Clinton was impeached? No, maybe they’ve heard of Monica Lewinsky. They don’t know the women that have accused Bill Clinton of sexual improprieties and that say they have been threatened and intimidated by Hillary Clinton,” Malzberg said. (Read more from “This Is Why a CNN Host ABRUPTLY Ended Their Interview About Hillary” HERE)
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The Democrats don’t like Arizona’s popular Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his strong enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration. He’s one of their poster children for Republican white men who don’t care about people, especially immigrants. Even better, he’s what The New York Times called an “immigration proxy” for Donald Trump: an attack on Arpaio is also an attack on Trump, and they don’t even have to say Trump’s name.
Hillary Clinton said at a rally with numerous Latino supporters that Arpaio had treated his “fellow human beings with disrespect and contempt,” referring to his tough stance on illegal immigration. She went on, “It just makes my heart sink. We are better than that.”
At a rally in Flagstaff, Sanders warned, “It is easy for bullies like Sheriff Arpaio to pick on people who have no power. If I’m elected president, the president of the United States does have power. Watch out, Joe.”
Sanders’ wife went to tour Arpaio’s outside jail in the desert last month, known as “Tent City,” where she got into it with him. She asked him about the charges of racial profiling he’s facing now in federal court for arresting illegal immigrants, and complained about how hot it was in the tents. He ignored her question, and said that the conditions are similar to those endured by members of the U.S. military “fighting for our country” overseas, who are also living in tents in desert regions.
Not surprisingly, Arpaio supports Donald Trump for president (even though, as I’ve written previously, Ted Cruz has a stronger record on border security). “None of the candidates were talking about immigration as an issue until he brought it up,” Arpaio said at a rally for Trump in his home town of Fountain Hills last month. “He has opened the door to get people talking. Maybe something will get done about it.” He agrees with Trump that Mexico will pay for a wall on the border with the US.
The two became friends when they worked together in 2012 to retrieve President Obama’s birth certificate to determine whether he really was a natural born citizen and eligible to be president. “I’m not trying to say he copies me,” Arpaio said about the relationship recently. “It just so happens we see eye to eye. He’s somewhat like me. Or I’m like him. I don’t know which way it goes.”
Who’s the Bully?
Sanders called Arpaio a bully. Arpaio’s supporters would ask who’s the bully when people force their way over a border and overload limited federal safety net resources in a country drowning in public debt, and who commit crimes at a far higher percentage than the population at large? It is true that most illegal immigrants aren’t dangerous and are just looking for a better life, but it is also true that there is no more money left to provide additional benefits to millions of unskilled immigrants, and many dangerous illegal immigrants aren’t being prosecuted or deported.
Conservative observers in Arizona believe the legal proceedings against Arpaio for racially profiling are really an attempt to stop him from arresting, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that he is 83 years old and continues getting elected is evidence the people of Arizona — and the people around the country they represent — support his efforts to secure the border.
Clinton may describe them the way she does, but these people have common-sense concerns about the number of people sneaking into this country and the problems that come from illegal immigration. When the Democratic candidates use Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a punching bag, they’re punching a lot of voters at the same time. (For more from the author of “Hillary and Bernie Vilify Sheriff Joe Arpaio for His Hard-Fought Battle Against Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)
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Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton ran afoul of both the pro-life and pro-choice sides of the abortion debate Sunday when she said constitutional rights do not apply to an “unborn person” or “child.”
“The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights,” Mrs. Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Now that doesn’t mean that we don’t do everything we possibly can in the vast majority of instances to, you know, help a mother who is carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy, to have appropriate medical support” . . .
Diana Arellano, manager of community engagement for Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, said Sunday that Mrs. Clinton’s comments undermined the cause for abortion rights.
The comment “further stigmatizes #abortion,” Ms. Arellano said in a tweet. “She calls a fetus an ‘unborn child’ & calls for later term restrictions.”
Describing the fetus as a “person” or “child” has long been anathema to the pro-choice movement, which argues the terms misleadingly imply a sense of humanity. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Admits an Unborn Child Is a Person… They Just Don’t Get Constitutional Rights” HERE)
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The State Department has stopped an internal investigation into former Secretary Clinton, giving way to the FBI’s ongoing investigation of Democratic presidential candidate.
State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Friday that the FBI suggested last month that the State Department has ceased its review of several highly confidential emails in order to let the broader FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails go forward.
“While the ongoing law enforcement investigation is taking place, our internal review is on hold, pending the completion of that. We do not want our internal review to complicate or impede the progress of their ongoing law enforcement investigation,” Trudeau said, calling the decision “standard procedure.”
The State Department had been reviewing 22 emails that carried the highest level of secrecy and had not been made public in any form. The State Department review was designed to determine whether the emails contained classified information at the time they were sent, or whether the information became classified after the fact. Clinton’s defenders have said any classified information in her emails was made so after she sent them. Her opponents say Clinton would have known the information was sensetive, regardless if the documents were marked as “classified” at the time they were sent or not.
Asked at a press briefing if the State Department’s action should be taken as “a sign that the administration thinks that the laws may have been broken,” Trudeau said. “I wouldn’t read anything into it.” (Read more from “State Dept. Just Made Massive Announcement About Hillary’s Email Investigation” HERE)
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Hillary Clinton’s oversized motorcade gridlocked Manhattan traffic this week so she could, eh, get a coiffe.
Looks like the cut and color cost a mere $1,200. But she’s for the little people!
Hillary Clinton’s entourage — four big black cars plus her top aide Huma Abedin — was spotted outside Bergdorf Goodman on Wednesday morning waiting as the presidential hopeful got her $600 haircut.
According to one witness, “Hillary’s entourage was blocking traffic early this morning, and waiting as Hillary got her hair done before heading up to do an event at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.”
Clinton gets her hair done at the John Barrett Salon by John Barrett personally, who we previously reported charges $600 for a haircut, plus an extra $600 for color.
Reader Silby emailed us this, eh, unique reaction:
Not only is she a liar and a cheat, she’s a f***ing idiot!
Hillary has a $600 haircut yesterday at Bergdorfs in NYC and her limo and entourage blocked traffic for 4 blocks!! Put that f***ing ‘I’m working for the people’ bulls*** on your blog!!
Such a f***ing hypocrite. I despise her.
My haircut alone is $35. Roots and cut, $80. Roots and highlights and cut and blow-dry comes to $110.
My look kills hers.
If I spend $1,200, I better have hair that glows and has its own zip code.
F***ing $1,200 for a haircut and a color.
I guess $$$ is no object when you are in a quest for power!!
Why the hell doesn’t she spend $1,200 on Jenny Craig or Nutrisystems? How about a f***ing Zumba class? She can’t walk up the stairs without assistance, for f***’s sake!!
Or how about spending $1,200 on food for the homeless shelter in Harlem, where she can speak jive to pretend she cares about anyone other than herself?
She better not f***ing be my president. I’m going to have to go into a four-year hyper-sleep or something.
Which reminds me of what the late, great Dr. Bob once told me, presciently predicting the rise of Hillary Clinton, I guess. (For more from the author of “GRIDLOCK IN NYC SO HILLARY CAN GET A $1,200 HAIRCUT: A Female Reader Responds” please click HERE)
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ANDERSON COOPER: Are you suggesting that she’s in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry?
BERNIE SANDERS: No, what I am suggesting is that we have a corrupt campaign finance system. And instead of standing up to that finance system, Secretary Clinton has a Super PAC which is raising a lot of money from Wall Street and from the fossil fuel industry . . .
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EVA RESNICK-DAY: Will you act on your word and reject fossil fuel money in the future in your campaign?
HILLARY CLINTON: I do not have – I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies. I’m so sick, I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I’m sick of it. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Blows Gasket When Confronted With the Truth About Fossil Fuel Donations” HERE)
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There have been some interesting developments in the Hillary Clinton e-mail saga over the past two weeks.
In response to an FOIA request, conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch obtained documents which seem to show that Clinton was well aware her BlackBerry wasn’t secure from the very beginning of her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat. Correspondence between Senior Coordinator for Security Infrastructure Donald Reid, long-time Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and the NSA suggests the former First Lady had become “addicted” to her BlackBerry and essentially refused to use the secure desktop computer provided to her by security officials.
The e-mails published by Judicial Watch show Clinton and Mills went to great lengths to get around the ban on BlackBerry devices in Mahogany Row and the language in the correspondence clearly proves that the Secretary knew conducting State business from her unsecure phone was outside of the guidelines prescribed by the NSA. “These documents show that Hillary Clinton knew her BlackBerry wasn’t secure,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.
Further, one of the e-mails Mills sent to Clinton regarding the pair’s discussions with the NSA is dated February 13. That’s a problem because it seems to contradict statements Clinton made about when she began using her private e-mail server for work related correspondence.
Although, as we noted on Monday, there’s some ambiguity, there are legitimate questions around why she did not turn over that e-mail and others sent prior to March 18. One explanation seems to be that, again quoting Fitton, “she didn’t want Americans to know about her February 13, 2009, email that shows that she knew her Blackberry and email use was not secure.”
Now, in the latest developments from the never-ending Clinton e-mail saga, a second federal judge will allow Judicial Watch to seek sworn testimony from officials. “U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth entered an order Tuesday agreeing that Judicial Watch can pursue legal discovery — which often includes depositions of relevant individuals — as the group pursues legal claims that State did not respond completely to a FOIA request filed in May 2014 seeking records about talking points then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice used for TV appearances discussing the deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi in September 2012,” Politico writes. “Lamberth is the second federal judge handling a Clinton email-related case to agree to discovery, which is unusual in FOIA litigation.”
As Reuters goes on to note, Judicial Watch has “filed several lawsuits, including one seeking records about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.”
“Where there is evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith, as here, limited discovery is appropriate, even though it is exceedingly rare in FOIA cases,” Lamberth wrote in the order. “The government argues that this does not show a lack of good faith, but that is what remains to be seen, and the factual record must be developed appropriately for the Court to make that determination,” Lamberth wrote.
Although the ruling is, to quote Fitton again, “remarkable,” the “practical impact of could be limited” because, as Politico goes on to point out, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan – the first judge to give the go ahead for Judicial Watch to seek sworn testimony – has already received a discovery plan and will rule on it by the end of next month. In other words, Lamberth’s ruling is just icing on the proverbial cake.
“Discovery will allow us to get into the shifting explanations,” Fitton says.
Indeed. Or, as we put it on Monday:
“..the story keeps changing, and indeed that’s the whole problem. At this point it’s abundantly clear that Clinton would have been far better off telling the truth from the very beginning and the fact that incremental information continues to surface certainly seems to suggest that the former First Lady fully intends to admit only what someone else – in this case Judicial Watch – can prove.”
Well thanks to judges Sullivan and Lambreth, the group may be able to prove a bit more. (For more from the author of “THE NOOSE TIGHTENS: Second Judge Grants Discovery in Hillary’s Ever-Expanding Email Scandal” please click HERE)
The Florida prosecutor who brought battery charges against Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, supports Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president.
An article published by the Palm Beach Post on Nov. 17, 2015, has been circulating since Tuesday evening because it lists Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg as a member 150-member Florida Leadership Council, which was established by the Democratic Party to promote Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy.
The article states that Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg and Tax Collector Anne Gannon “are also part of Clinton’s Florida team.”
Mike Cernovich, writing Tuesday in the blog DangerAndPlay.com, cited the Palm Beach Post article in arguing the charges against Lewandowski were politically motivated. He contended “there was no assault,” because reporter Michelle Fields “was heading towards Trump and was brushed away due to security concerns” . . .
The official website for the Office of State Attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida notes Aronberg, elected state attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit in November 2012, is a former assistant attorney general, a White House fellow in 2000 and a Florida state senator. (Read more from “Lewandowski Prosecutor Outed as Hillary Supporter” HERE)
By Del Quentin Wilber. Federal prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton’s private email server have begun the process of setting up formal interviews with some of her longtime and closest aides, according to two people familiar with the probe, an indication that the inquiry is moving into its final phases.
Those interviews and the final review of the case, however, could still take many weeks, all but guaranteeing that the investigation will continue to dog Clinton’s presidential campaign through most, if not all, of the remaining presidential primaries.
No dates have been set for questioning the advisors, but a federal prosecutor in recent weeks has called their lawyers to alert them that he would soon be doing so, the sources said. Prosecutors also are expected to seek an interview with Clinton herself, though the timing remains unclear.
The interviews by FBI agents and prosecutors will play a significant role in helping them better understand whether Clinton or her aides knowingly or negligently discussed classified government secrets over a non-secure email system when she served as secretary of State. (Read more from “Clinton Email Probe Enters New Phase as FBI Interviews Loom” HERE)
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FBI Says It Has Limited Records on Clinton Email Case
By Josh Gerstein. The FBI hasn’t traded any correspondence with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton or her representatives in the course of the law enforcement agency’s “active, ongoing investigation” of the private email account and server she used as secretary of state, an FBI official told a federal court on Friday.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for FBI records about the probe, which is believed to have been underway for about nine months, FBI records official David Hardy said his agency had only a smattering of correspondence with the State Department about the matter and no records at all of authorizations to discuss the Clinton email inquiry with the media or other outside parties.
The suit, filed by Vice News reporter Jason Leopold, also sought copies of all emails and other files the FBI has managed to retrieve from Clinton’s server and backup devices such as thumb drives. The FBI appeared to acknowledge that some such records exist but said releasing them at this time could impair the probe.
“Any records responsive [to that request] still cannot be disclosed without adversely affecting the pending investigation,” Hardy said in a written declaration. The FBI official wrote that he was limited in what he could say publicly about the inquiry, but he added that the agency was submitting a classified declaration to U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss with more details about the probe. (Read more from “FBI Says It Has Limited Records on Clinton Email Case” HERE)
