Did Hillary Commit a Felony?

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Clearly, you never had Spanferkel.

clearly.

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The Clinton house of cards is falling down hard, and Hillgazi is no friend of the emperor. Hell hath no fury......

AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records

By STEVE PEOPLES

Mar. 11, 2015 11:00 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

The legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices.

"After careful deliberation and exhausting our other options, The Associated Press is taking the necessary legal steps to gain access to these important documents, which will shed light on actions by the State Department and former Secretary Clinton, a presumptive 2016 presidential candidate, during some of the most significant issues of our time," said Karen Kaiser, AP's general counsel.

"The press is a proxy for the people, and AP will continue its pursuit of vital information that's in the public interest through this action and future open records requests," she said.

State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach declined to comment. He had previously cited the department's heavy annual load of FOIA requests — 19,000 last year — in saying that the department "does its best to meet its FOIA responsibilities." He said the department takes requests "first in, first out," but noted that timing depends on "the complexity of the request."

Michael Oreskes, a senior managing editor at AP, said the news agency was planning to file additional requests under FOIA following the disclosure last week that Clinton used a private email account run on a server on her property outside New York while working at the State Department.

Clinton on Tuesday said she sent and received about 60,000 emails from her personal email address in her four years as President Barack Obama's secretary of state. She said roughly half were work-related, which she turned over to the State Department, while deleting tens of thousands more that were personal in nature.

The department says it will take several months to review the material Clinton turned over last year. Once the review is complete, the department said, the emails will be posted online.

The AP had sought Clinton-related correspondence before her use of a personal email account was publicly known, although Wednesday's court filing alleges that the State Department is responsible for including emails from that account in any public records request.

"State's failure to ensure that Secretary Clinton's governmental emails were retained and preserved by the agency, and its failure timely to seek out and search those emails in response to AP's requests, indicate at the very least that State has not engaged in the diligent, good-faith search that FOIA requires," says AP's legal filing.

Specifically, AP is seeking copies of Clinton's full schedules and calendars from her four years as secretary of state; documents related to her department's decision to grant a special position to longtime aide Huma Abedin; related correspondence from longtime advisers Philippe Reines and Cheryl Mills, who, like Abedin, are likely to play central roles in a Clinton presidential campaign; documents related to Clinton's and the agency's roles in the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices; and documents related to her role overseeing a major Defense Department contractor.

The AP made most of its requests in the summer of 2013, although one was filed in March 2010. AP is also seeking attorney's fees related to the lawsuit.

Other organizations have also sued the State Department recently after lengthy delays responding to public record requests.

In December, the conservative political advocacy group Citizens United sued the State Department for failing to disclose flight records showing who accompanied Clinton on overseas trips. Last week, the National Security Archive, an organization that gathers declassified government records, filed a lawsuit after waiting more than seven years for the State Department to release of details of former secretary of state Henry Kissinger's telephone conversations.

Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, predicted the State Department would speed up its review facing legal action, particularly given that Clinton has said that her email correspondence doesn't include classified material.

"When the government is under a court deadline, or really wants to review, they can whip through thousands of pages in a matter of weeks, which they should do here," Blanton said.

The State Department generally takes about 450 days to turn over records it considers to be part of complex requests under the Freedom of Information Act. That is seven times longer than the Justice Department and CIA, and 30 times longer than the Treasury Department.

An inspector general's report in 2012 criticized the State Department's practices as "inefficient and ineffective," citing a heavy workload, small staff and interagency problems.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5f35e25c77194546822769b2f9672fe3/ap-sues-state-department-seeking-access-clinton-records

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Hubby Bill didn't get any email? Whoopsie!

Bill Clinton Didn't E-Mail With Hillary, Ex-President's Spokesman Says

Bill Clinton is firmly in the luddite camp when it comes to e-mail. The former president has only sent two messages ever using the technology, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing spokesman Matt McKenna.

So when Hillary Clinton described her husband's involvement in her private e-mail server setup at a press conference Tuesday, it left some confused.

“The server contains personal communications from my husband and me,” she said. “The system we used was set up for President Clinton's office,” she added. “So, I think that the use of that server, which started with my husband, certainly proved to be effective and secure.”

Hillary Clinton's reference to a system for her husband's office doesn't clearly conflict with the Journal's report that “after leaving office, Mr. Clinton established his own domain that staff use—@presidentclinton.com.”

But some took “from my husband and me” to mean messages between the former president and first lady. “It appears at least one Clinton is not telling the whole truth,” wrote the Washington Examiner. “She runs into the brick wall of her husband’s own denial,” wrote the National Review. “Does Bill Clinton email? It depends whom you ask,” read a headline at the Hill.

Asked whether Bill Clinton e-mailed with his wife at her e-mail address, McKenna told Bloomberg he did not.

Perhaps Hillary Clinton meant messages on behalf of both of them. In any case, her description of the communication as “personal” would suggest that any Bill Clinton-linked messages were among the 31,830 she said she “chose not to keep.”

Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill did not respond to requests for clarification, nor did McKenna respond to further questions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-11/bill-clinton-didn-t-e-mail-with-hillary-ex-president-s-spokesman-says

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We who are so willing to allow cameras to watch our every move also willing to allow our government to do the same. That is excluding those who walk on water:

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Don't forget to allow email privacy for discussions about her yoga!

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I have my Groupwise e-mail, yahoo e-mail and gmail all on one phone! Damn, I didn't know I needed 3 different phones and people to carry them around. Clearly, I've been doing this all wrong!

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I have my Groupwise e-mail, yahoo e-mail and gmail all on one phone! Damn, I didn't know I needed 3 different phones and people to carry them around. Clearly, I've been doing this all wrong!

Hillary Clinton Regrets Not Driving a Car Since 1996 Former first lady tells auto dealers she has not driven herself since 1996.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ken-walshs-washington/2014/01/28/hillary-clinton-regrets-not-driving-a-car-since-1996

She has had a tough life

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It will be interesting to see what happens, but I doubt she'll end up in the clink.

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It will be interesting to see what happens, but I doubt she'll end up in the clink.

Not a chance she will do time.

I doubt it will even faze her run for the White House in 2016.

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/258428137/State-Dept-Office-of-Inspector-General-Oig-Report-2015-Emails

In 2011 over 1,000,000,000,000 email documents were created as part of official State Department business, but only 61,000 of them were properly archived and recorded as part of official business records.

The U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton’s leadership only kept 0.000061% of email documents for public inspection.

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Not a chance she will do time.

I doubt it will even faze her run for the White House in 2016.

Unfortunately I think you are correct.