During her blame-everyone-else-for-her-loss tour, Hillary Clinton referred to the scandal regarding her private email server as a big ‘nothingburger.’ She also referred to it as all the publicity regarding her ’emails’–not her private email server. Lest we forget, I would like to remind everyone that the private server she set up was not only illegal, it was a national security risk. I realize that the following Press Release is rather long, but please read it to the end. What was going on at the State Department during the Obama Administration was criminal.<\/p>\n
The following Press Release was posted by Judicial Watch<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n Emails also show Abedin providing government plane and hotel reservations to Chelsea Clinton<\/a> for trip to Germany<\/a> while employed at Clinton Foundation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Abedin tells Band that she has \u2018hooked up\u2019 people from the Russian American Foundation with \u2018the right people\u2019 at the State Department<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n (Washington, DC<\/a>)<\/strong> \u2013 Judicial Watch today released 2,078 pages<\/a> of documents revealing more instances of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/a> sending and receiving classified information via an unsecured email server. They also show Clinton\u2019s daughter Chelsea and others involved with the Clinton Foundation receiving special favors from Huma Abedin<\/a>, the former secretary\u2019s deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n The records were obtained in response to a\u00a0court order<\/a>\u00a0from a May 5, 2015,\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(No. 1:15<\/span>-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)<\/a> request seeking: \u201cAll emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-\u2018state.gov<\/a>\u2019 email address.\u201d<\/p>\n The new documents included 115 Clinton email exchanges<\/a> not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total<\/a> to date to at least 432 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department. These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, \u201cas far as she knew<\/a>,\u201d all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.<\/p>\n On December 6, 2010, Secretary Clinton shared classified information<\/a> with non-U.S. government employees Justin Cooper<\/a>, then-aide to President Clinton who helped manage Hillary Clinton\u2019s unsecure email system, and Clinton Foundation director Doug Band (neither of whom held security clearances). The email instructs her aide Oscar Flores to \u201cprint for Bill\u201d (presumably Bill Clinton). The email exchange, which involved allegations of the theft of foreign aid by Bangladeshi banker and major Clinton Foundation donor<\/a> Muhammad Yunus, started with an email from an unidentified person to State Department official Melanne Verveer, who forwarded her exchange on to Hillary Clinton, who then sent it on to Flores, Cooper and Band.<\/p>\n Yunus was accused<\/a> of embezzling $100 million from the Grameen Bank he founded and was removed from it, although the charges were never proven, and Yunus reportedly returned the money. Subsequently, Clinton\u2019s State Department was accused<\/a> of threatening IRS action against the Bangladesh prime minister\u2019s son in an attempt to stop a Bangladesh government investigation of Yunus.<\/p>\n In a similar instance on March 14, 2011, State Department official Maria Otero emailed Clinton information about the Grameen Bank\/Foundation that was again deemed classified<\/a> as Confidential by the State Department and redacted under FOIA exemption<\/a> B1.4(D) \u2013 \u201cInformation specifically authorized by an executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy \u2026 Foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.\u201d Clinton then responds to Otero using her HDR22@clintonemailcom account and copies Abedin on Abedin\u2019s unsecure email account, huma@clintonemail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n In May 2010, Ben Ringel, whose donations to the Clinton Foundation Judicial Watch previously documented<\/a>, asked Abedin to intervene in an employment dispute<\/a> on behalf of a USAID employee. Abedin agreed, telling Ringel to forward the woman\u2019s documents to her official State Department email account.<\/p>\n In a May 21, 2011, email exchange sent to Abedin\u2019s unsecure account, then- Ambassador Princeton Lyman<\/a> sent information relating to his conversation with South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit that is also redacted and classified<\/a> as \u201cConfidential.\u201d<\/p>\n On July 17, 2012, Abedin forwarded to her private email account for printing a call briefing sheet for Clinton\u2019s upcoming call with Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, which was classified Confidential<\/a> and redacted under FOIA exemption B1.4(D).<\/p>\n The new Abedin emails also reveal additional instances in which Clinton\u2019s then- scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded the former secretary of state\u2019s\u00a0detailed daily schedule\u00a0<\/a>to top Clinton Foundation officials.<\/p>\n The new emails also reveal a number of favors that were requested and carried out.<\/p>\n In May 2010, Abedin tells Band that she has \u201chooked up<\/a>\u201d people from the Russian American Foundation with \u201cthe right people\u201d at the State Department after Abedin received a request from Russian American Foundation Vice President Rina Kirshner<\/a>, forwarded by Clinton Foundation donor Eddie Trump<\/a> (no relation to President Trump).<\/p>\n On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Huma Abedin <Huma@clintonemail.com<\/a>> wrote:<\/p>\n Hi Rina \u2013 wanted to connect on meeting at state department. Eddie trump passed on your email. Will be in touch soon<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> Rina Kirshner<\/p>\n Sent:<\/strong> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:29 AM<\/p>\n To:<\/strong> Huma Abedin<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> Re: Eddie Trump\/Doug Band<\/p>\n Ms. Abedin,<\/p>\n Just wanted to follow up and express our gratitude. I was contacted today by Ms. Christina Miner who invited us to be part of the US-Russia Cultural Sub-Working Group meeting next week. Thank you very much for all your assistance \u2013 if there is any way we can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Rina Kirshner<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n Sent:<\/strong> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:19:12<\/p>\n To:<\/strong> Doug Band<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> FW: Eddie Trump\/Doug Band<\/p>\n fyi \u2013 we hooked her up with the right people here<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Russia-American Foundation was staffed by Clinton political supporters and operatives<\/a>, received over $260,000 in grants<\/a> for \u201cpublic diplomacy\u201d from the Clinton State Department, and its leadership was supportive<\/a> of Obama\u2019s Russia policies.<\/p>\n In July 2011, when Chelsea Clinton, using the alias Diane Reynolds and the email address dreynolds@clintonemail.com<\/a>, was planning to fly to Germany to see the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team play, her travel agent asked Abedin to confirm that Chelsea\u2019s travel costs could be placed on her parents\u2019 credit card. In response, Abedin tells the agent that she can \u201cstand down\u201d from making arrangements to get Chelsea to Germany, as Chelsea and Bari Luri, Chelsea\u2019s Clinton Foundation chief of staff, would be made part of the \u201cofficial delegation<\/a>\u201d going to the match and she would \u201cfly on official govt plane both ways and they will take care of hotels and all transportation.\u201d Chelsea was a fully employed Clinton Foundation executive at this time.<\/p>\n In July 2011, Clinton tells Abedin that she doesn\u2019t wish to fly on the same airplane<\/a> with Michelle Obama on their way to Betty Ford\u2019s funeral: \u201cI\u2019d be honored to speak. Is it ok that we and Mrs. O take two separate planes?\u201d<\/p>\n A December 15, 2012, email chain<\/a> shows that a committee of Clinton staffers, including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines, was required to draft a \u201cdoctors statement\u201d as to why Hillary supposedly fainted due to \u201cdehydration,\u201d causing her supposedly to hit her head<\/a> and suffer a \u201cconcussion\u201d in December 2012. The same committee then prepared a \u201cdischarge statement<\/a>\u201d when Hillary was released from the hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cThese shocking new Clinton emails show why the Justice Department should reevaluate, reopen, or reinvigorate Clinton, Inc. investigations,\u201d said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. \u201cThe casual violation of laws concerning classified material and noxious influence peddling show the Clinton State Department was \u2018corruption central\u2019 in the Obama administration.\u00a0 No wonder Clinton\u2019s allies in the State and Justice Departments had been slow-walking and hiding these emails.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During her blame-everyone-else-for-her-loss tour, Hillary Clinton referred to the scandal regarding her private email server as a big ‘nothingburger.’ She also referred to it as all the publicity regarding her ’emails’–not her private email server. Lest we forget, I would … Continue reading Judicial Watch: New Clinton Emails Show Classified Information Sent to Clinton Foundation Employees<\/a><\/h2>\n