Clinton email scandal gets more bizarre every day
With damning new details about her State Department emails emerging daily, things are looking bad for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her lackeys.
Here’s a rundown of the latest on the former top diplomat’s email scandal.
White House weighs in
On Friday, the White House spokesman Josh Earnest hinted that the executive branch has no reason to believe that Clinton will be prosecuted for her handling of sensitive government information.
Asked whether he could “say with certainty and confidence that Secretary Clinton will not be indicted because of this email scandal,” Earnest responded:
That will be a decision that is made by the Department of Justice and prosecutors over there. What I know that some officials over there have said is that she is not a target of the investigation, so that does not seem to be the direction that it’s trending. But I’m certainly not going to weigh in on a decision or in that process in any way. That is a decision to be made solely by independent prosecutors but again, based on what we know from the Department of Justice, it does not seem to be headed in that direction.
The spokesman’s statement is significant because it came just after the administration said it would block release of even the redacted form of at least 22 of Clinton’s emails because of the top secret information they contain.
Following Earnest’s remarks, Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge said her sources within the FBI and Justice Department are “super pissed” about the White House assessment.
She told Fox’s Greta Van Susteren:
Because number one, they say Josh Earnest has absolutely no clearance or visibility into the FBI investigation. Number two, they say it really seems part of a troubling pattern from the White House because the president earlier said he did not see any national security implications to the Clinton emails and then we found out he had never been briefed. And the whole idea is to not to make this even more political than absolutely necessary, but the White House is weighing in and certainly leaving the public with the impression that it’s not backed up by the evidence in the case.
Senate Judiciary Committee questions whether the State Department is intentionally hampering the email investigation
Judiciary Committee head Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday took State Department officials to task, saying “there is real potential” that State officials have lied to federal courts to help Clinton.
Grassley is upset over State’s slow and often incomplete responses to FOIA requests for the Clinton emails.
In a to Secretary of State John Kerry and the State Department’s government’s watchdog, Grassley declared: “[T]here is a real potential that some Department officials may have provided false declarations to federal courts when they attested to taking all reasonable steps to provide complete and accurate FOIA responses.”
Grassley is requesting copies of missing emails requested via FOIA as well as an explanation of how State plans to fix its transparency issues.
New information shows Clinton couldn’t figure out how to use a computer to check emails
According to internal State Department communications released Monday by Judicial Watch, the woman running for the most powerful office in the nation did not know how to use a computer to check her emails when she took over as Secretary of State in 2009.
In an email chain discussing plans to provide Clinton a private email server to handle official government business, Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, told State Department official Lewis Lukens that Clinton could only read emails on her Blackberry.
Lukens assured other members of the Clinton team it “would not take much training to get her up to speed” on how to check emails on her private server.
“These emails are shocking. They show the Obama State Department’s plan to set up non-government computers and a computer network for Hillary Clinton to bypass the State Department network,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That these records were withheld from the American people until now is scandalous and shows the criminal probe of Hillary Clinton’s email system should include current and former officials of the Obama administration.”
Read the full email exchange .
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February 2nd, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Former CIA director William Colby giving advice to his friend senator John DeCamp, urging to quit his investigations into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences (The Franklin Coverup, 2nd edition, foreword) said the following:
“What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face.”
Hillary is the modern day poster child for this harsh reality. She has more dirt on important people than J. Edgar Hoover had in his day. She knows where all the bodies are buried, and she arranged many herself. They will do whatever it takes to usher her in, and they clearly don’t give a rat’s ass if anyone knows either.
February 3rd, 2016 at 3:04 am
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