Yet Another “Private Email” Update
Well, we have a few new bits of news regarding the Clintoon “private email” brouhaha.
So, Clintoon’s lawyers have turned over all her “private email”? Well, maybe – or maybe not. There are gaps totaling roughly 5 months in what was turned over to government authorities by Clintoon’s lawyers. Specifically, in what was released by Clintoon’s lawyers there’s roughly 2 months with no email received by Clintoon: 21 January thru 17 March 2009. There’s also a roughly 3 month gap in email sent by Clintoon: 21 Jan thru 17 April 2009 – plus another sent email gap for her last month in office, 30 December 2012 thru 1 Feb 2013.
And then we have this: a senior DoS records management official apparently stated in an email to a colleague that they did not want to discuss certain matters by email, but instead wanted to discuss the matter in person. Why? Well here’s one possible reason: as that official knows quite well, email is considered a Federal record – and can be requested under a FOIA request. Verbal discussions that generate no written records are much easier to hide. (The specific details of what were to be discussed were redacted in the email from the senior DoS records management official that was made public. However, since that email was obtained by Judicial Watch in conjunction with the Clintoon private email scandal, it’s reasonable to infer the subject was – or was related to – the Clintoon email matter.)
Oh, and it seems that Congress is starting to get a bit fed up with the matter, too. They’ve asked the Attorney General to weigh in on whether or not they can meet privately with Brian Pagliano (the staffer who set up Clintoon’s private email server) and his lawyers while determining whether to grant Pagliano immunity and then compel him to testify. It seems that Pagliano’s lawyers are pulling out all the stops to prevent this; they’ve raised questions as to whether such a private meeting would constitute a waiver of Pagliano’s 5th Amendment rights. A couple of Congressmen have therefore asked the Attorney General for a formal reading on the subject. I guess Pagliano’s lawyers must never previously have been involved with similar private discussions with prosecutors with or on the behalf of other clients regarding possible testimony in exchange for immunity. Silly me – I thought lawyers did that on occasion.
That’s all for today, but stay tuned – this one seems worth watching.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Crime, Foreign Policy
Funny that Hillary was involved in hanging Nixon, in part over 18 minutes of missing audio tape.
Yeah, that thought has occurred to me on more than one occasion. She was so hot to nail Nixon that she tried to bend the rules (imagine that) and got thrown of the committee staff. Or so I’ve heard.
… And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us….
I wonder if she might be contemplating that little bit. The irony is kinda hard to miss.
Give the bitch a week in prison for every email thats missing!!
“Most transparent administration ever”, MY ASS! But alas, it’s demo-rat, thus their sniveling lackeys in the liberal media will still do their damnedest to ho-hum and whitewash it over.
I still don’t see this touching Hillary LEGALLY. She is too slimy for that. She’ll claim that she can’t control what her staffers do…and I would be shocked if there is anything that definitively connects her to this mess.
What I see here are a couple of true believers doing anything they think necessary to support Clinton even if it is illegal. Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin are the two that come to mind immediately. They see anything that makes Hillary’s life easier as just fine to do.
Shred documents? No problem. Cut classifications off of documents to put on NIPRNet? No problem. Anything to protect Hill.
From everything I’ve read and heard about Mills in particular, she is a real slimeball. A federal judge once called her loathsome. And wasn’t she the one who supervised the shredding party at DoS just after Benghazi. Yup, I see her fingerprints all over this.
And Abedin is more than likely just as guilty. A staffer who will break any rule, in their minds “thinking outside the box”, to support their boss.
I saw it often when I was on COCOM staffs. Nothing illegal mind you, but just a chronic stretching of the rules to the breaking point to support the commander…and the commander was never aware of such stuff.
Even though Mills and Abedin are more than likely guilty as hell, even they won’t pay the piper. There will be a patsy revealed very soon who will take one “for the team.” Not sure the IT guy is the one, but he may be. If he’s smart he’ll go for the immunity.
Even if someone spills the beans, Hill will still skate LEGALLY.
POLITICALLY is an entirely different story. My contention from the beginning has been that she is eminently beatable. She has NONE of the positives and ALL of the negatives of her husband. That’s what will kill her. The Dems must be freaking out.
Maybe, maybe not. Seems here that Clintoon herself swore recently – under pain of perjury – that all relevant emails had been turned over to Federal authorities.
If there really were no emails for the time periods listed, she’s clean. If not, well, it may depend on whether or not her lawyer is willing to take the fall for her.
Most lawyers don’t much like the idea of being a “long-term guest of the state”. I’m guessing hers are no different.
As Nixon found out, in this kind of scenario it’s not the initial crime that gets ya. It’s the cover-up and the related obstruction of justice afterwards that makes things fall apart in the end.
It would be delicious irony if Clintoon – who worked for the Congressional committee investigating Nixon’s Watergate scandal – were forced to depend on the same thing Nixon was to keep her butt out of jail. I’d love to see Lady Karma grant her that fate.
Anything can happen, of course, But I fall back on the bulletproof nature of the Clintons. They’ve dodged friggin’ big rounds before and I think they’ll do it again. They don’t care how they look. They only care that they win.
But, even though I firmly believe nothing legal will stick, I reiterate that she is being shredded politically and that probably pains Hillary more. She figured that she would finally get the brass ring now that that annoying Obama was out of it. Ha! Ain’t karma a bitch, Hillary?
As far as Nixon is concerned, it was a painful process, but he was surviving until the tapes came to light undeniably linking him personally to the burglary and coverup. If Clinton learned anything from her time on the Watergate Committee, it would be to make sure nothing links her personally to classification fiasco.
Um, Nixon was never personally linked to the planning or execution of the Watergate break in, nor did he know about it beforehand. In fact, when it was first brought to Nixon’s attention in a high-level meeting his words (confirmed on the “Smoking Gun” White House tape from a few days after the break-in) were, “Well, who was the asshole who did that?” (The specific context of the discussion was who ordered the break-in.) See transcript and audio at
http://www.vidqt.com/id/ehKRQ0N-dIg?lang=en
Involved in the cover-up? Different story. Nixon was indeed involved in that up to his armpits from damn near day 1 (as the “Smoking Gun” tape clearly shows). For that abuse of the powers of the Federal government, he dearly deserved to burn.
Guess it depends upon the meaning of the word “relevant.” Probably means something different to her than it does for the rest of us.
So at least for this one… “plus another sent email gap for her last month in office, 30 December 2012 thru 1 Feb 2013.” She’ll just claim she was recovering from her serious TBI but has no lingering effects or memories from the time period either. She belongs in jail.
Maybe she’ll claim her memory loss is a result of PTSD from her dodging sniper fire in Bosnia?
Had to be the sniper fire. Hillzy couldn’t admit that her BAC was probably north of .24 or more and that she fell, hitting her head on Huma’s battery operated pleasure device, causing her TBI.
Am I the only one who sees irony in this?
shrillary drooled all over herself to nail Nixon over those 18 missing minutes of magnetic tape. (I still say he took that stuff over to NPC and had someone in MOPIC do it for him.)
Now she’s scrambling to cover her OWN ass by destroying e-mails and other docs we probably do not know about, maybe never will.
Anyone who is really clever might see this as an opportunity to squirrel away paper or scanned copies of every single thing in a lock box some place like a bank vault, against the day when the classified status is dropped or gone.
I’m sure that all of you know exactly how easy it can be to copy something to a jump drive or a flash card and stick that in your wallet or a dark corner of your purse.
That’s what I would do.
Wasn’t Das Hildebeast fired from the Watergate committee for dishonesty?
I don’t think she was actually fired. But I have read that a former boss there refused to give her a letter of recommendation because he found her either untrustworthy or dishonest.
What will be her downfall?
Ego, pure and simple.
It’s too bad she had no one higher in rank than herself who was responsible for everything she did or failed to do.
So the wife had her first week as a GS a couple weeks ago, and was already calling BS on ‘not knowing it was wrong’ after her initial training. Then I reminded her that the training she just had would have to be repeated every single goddamn year until she retired.
It’s not like this is complex stuff here–it’s the ‘public servant basics’ of IA and record keeping. It can’t possibly be ‘just incompetence,’ no matter how much some folks seem to be trying to believe that.
And strangely enough, the LSM morning news still swears that there’s no big deal about Hildebeast’s email indiscretions. To which I reply that my cousin who’s part of one of the alphabet-soup agencies that handles intelligence would already be settling into her new accommodations at the federal prison if she were dumb enough to pull this same stunt. It was right there in the NDA she signed when she got hired. Then again, my cousin isn’t a self-serving fascist who thinks the rules don’t apply to her.
Wide Load has been in and around government (state and federal) for how long? Of course she knows–and knew–what’s what with emails and public records. Benghazi.
A while back, I made a hat-pull prediction about this sorry mess.
I am going to need a bigger bowl of popcorn!