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Closer To The Truth

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The Daily Caller posted an article today about the ongoing quest for Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The article reports:

A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton and two of her top aides at the State Department, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to attest, under penalty of perjury, that they have turned over all official government records in their possession.

…In his ruling, Sullivan (U.S. District Court judge Emmett Sullivan) ordered the Staet Department to “identify any and all servers, accounts, hard drives, or other devices currently in the possession or control of the State Department or otherwise that may contain responsive information.”

The State Department must also request that Clinton, Abedin and Mills “confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all responsive information that was or is in their possession as a result of their employment at the State Department.”

“If all such information has not yet been produced, the Government shall request the above named individuals produce the information forthwith,” Sullivan ruled.

The State Department must also require the trio “describe, under penalty of perjury, the extent to which Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills used Mrs. Clinton’s email server to conduct official government business.”

The use of a private email server was illegal. It also posed a security risk because the private server did not have the anti-hacking software that would have been on the government server. It would probably be easier to ask the Chinese to give us everything that was on Mrs. Clinton’s server. Chances are that they have it.

From The New York Times?

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Evidently The New York Times is not entirely supportive of Hillary Clinton’s current political ambitions–they ran a story yesterday that is damaging to her image. It could be that they want to get this out of the way before the campaign heats up or it could be that they have another candidate they prefer. Time will tell.

Yesterday The New York Times reported the following:

Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.

But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State Department answered in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, it ignored the question and provided no response.

The New York Times reports the State Department reply:

In the State Department’s letter back to Mr. Issa, Thomas B. Gibbons, the acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs, described the department’s records management policies and guidelines.

He said “employees may use personal email on personal time for matters not directly related to official business, and any employee using personal email ‘should make it clear that his or her personal email is not being used for official business.’ ”

The State Department offered training on its record management programs to its employees, he said.

There is one particular time period of Hillary Clinton’s emails that Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for.

On March 5, I posted a story that included part of this request and some of the events surrounding the time period:

Judicial Watch submitted its original FOIA request on August 27, 2014. The State Department was required by law to respond by September 26, 2014 at the latest to Judicial Watch’s request for:

  1. Any and all records of communication between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Nagla Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2013; and
  2. Any and all records of communication between former State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin and Nagla Mahmoud from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2013.

To date, the State Department has not responded.

Ms. Mahmoud threatened Mrs. Clinton after Morsi was ousted.  According to JihadWatch.org:

In the words of El-Mogaz News, Morsi’s wife “is threatening to expose the special relationship between her husband and Hillary Clinton, after the latter attacked the ousted [president], calling him a simpleton who was unfit for the presidency.  Sources close to Nagla confirmed that she has threatened to publish the letters exchanged between Morsi and Hillary.”

This might be a problem.

Defying A Subpoena Usually Results In Jail Time

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Yesterday an article at the National Review revealed that Hillary Clinton had wiped her private email server clean. Depending on how well she did this, it is possible that some good computer geeks could manage to recover the contents. However, there is a serious question as to whether those investigating the lack of proper archiving of State Department records during Mrs.Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State will ever get their hands on that server. This is very reminiscent of the Internal Revenue Scandal where Lois Lerner’s computers crashed (and all related computers crashed at the same time) and her emails were lost (only to be rediscovered years later–after there was time to sort through them). Does anyone remember the Rose Law Firm records?
The article at the National Review reports:

“After seeking and receiving a two week extension from the Committee, Secretary Clinton failed to provide a single new document to the subpoena issued by the Committee and refused to provide her private server to the Inspector General for the State Department or any other independent arbiter for analysis,” Representative Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), the chairman of the select committee investigating the attacks, announced Friday evening.

“We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server,” he continued. “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.”

All of this information has come out as a result of the House of Representatives’ investigation of the attack on Benghazi.

The troubling thing here, other than the total disregard for the law, is the fact that evidently Mrs. Clinton was not the only person using her private email server. Huma Abedin was also using the server. Ms. Abedin (married to former New York Representative Anthony Weiner) was evidently corresponding by email to Nagla Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi, from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2013. Judicial Watch has made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request for those emails ( (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00321)). (See rightwinggranny).

All of this may be totally innocent, but we will probably never know. I am not optimistic that America will ever have the archives from Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State. If she becomes President, will we have archives of her term in the White House?

An Interesting Choice Of Words

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I don’t want to spend a lot of time on the Anthony Weiner story–I just want to point out that his choice of words at his press conference was revealing.

KSAT.com quotes part of the press conference:

“Some of these things happened before my resignation, some happened after,” Weiner said at a hastily organized press conference in New York, where he also pushed back when asked if the latest revelation would prompt him to drop out of the race.

He also commented on the things that had ‘happened to him and his family.’ Does anyone actually believe that obscene text messages just happen?

I just want to point out that nothing ‘happened’ to Anthony Weiner–he made the choices that resulted in his resignation from Congress and may cost him in the current campaign for Mayor of New York. One of the problems we are having in our society right now is that no one is willing to take responsibility for their actions. This is a prime example of that problem. If they residents of New York City elect Anthony Weiner as Mayor, they deserve anything they get.

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