Nearly seventy more pages of State Department records released today show that former Secretary of State Clinton and her top assistants, Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, received and sent classified information on their non-state.gov email accounts, according to the Government Watchdog organization, Judicial Watch.
The announcement comes as Clinton was defeated in the New Hampshire Primary by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 58% to 40%, and on the heels of official confirmation by the FBI that its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server is still "ongoing."
Fox News reported yesterday that FBI General Counsel James Baker wrote to State Department acting legal advisor, Mary McLeod that "...details about the ongoing investigation could end up undermining it ... We remain unable to provide the requested information without adversely affecting on-going law enforcement efforts ..."
The new private email / server development occurred as a result of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the State Department, after State failed to respond to a March 18 Freedom of Infomation Act request, in which they sought "...All 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-'state.gov' email address..."
The newly released documents contain information that reveal that:
"... Hillary Clinton used the clintonemail.com system to ask Huma Abedin (also on a non-state.gov email account) to print two March 2011 emails, which were sent from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (using the moniker “aclb”) to Jake Sullivan on Sullivan’s non-state.gov email account. The Obama State Department redacted the Blair emails under Exemption (b)(1) which allows the withholding of classified material. The material is marked as being classified as 'Foreign government information' and 'foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources.' ... Another email shows that Clinton wanted to know how meetings in Washington, including a four-hour meeting concerning America’s war on Libya, would impact her Hampton vacation. Responding to an email that details the sensitive meetings in DC, Clinton emails Abedin on August 26, 2011, 'Ok. What time would I get back to Hamptons?' Again, this email discussion takes place on non-state.gov email accounts.Meanwhile, Former President Bill Clinton was defending his wife, Hillary, against allegations of wrong-doing related to the Benghazi scandal. The Ex-President said his wife, as Secretary of State, was not responsible for the security of the Benghazi consulate, and claimed that she had been absolved already by a non partisan, very tough report on the Benghazi incident.
The documents also include advice to Clinton on Libya from Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton Foundation employee who, according to a Judicial Watch investigative report, also had business interests in Libya. Clinton wanted Blumenthal’s March 9, 2011, Libya memo to be printed 'without any identifiers.'
The newly released Abedin emails include a lengthy exchange giving precise details of Clinton’s schedule using unsecured government emails. The email from Lona J. Valmoro, former Special Assistant to Secretary of State Clinton, to Abedin and Clinton reveals exact times (including driving times) and locations of all appointments throughout the day. Another itinerary email provides details about a meeting at the United Nations in New York at 3:00 on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, with the precise disclosure, 'that would mean wheels up from Andrews at approximately 12:00pm/12:15pm.' ..."
David Rutz reported in the Washington Times Bill Clinton saying "...'the Secretary of State was not personally responsible because no secretary of state had ever overseen the details of security operations, even Colin Powell, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff'... Speaking at an event in New Hampshire, Clinton said the scrutiny Hillary faced since leaving the State Department amounted to something that 'no public official in the history of the republic has ever faced.' ..."
However, Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton, continued his assertions about the Clinton "emails:"
"...These emails show that Hillary Clinton isn’t the only Obama official who should be worried about being prosecuted for mishandling classified information. Her former top State aides (and current campaign advisers) Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan should be in the dock, as well ... The Obama State Department has now confirmed that Clinton, Abedin, and Sullivan used unsecured, non-government email accounts to communicate information that should now be withheld from the American people ‘in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, and properly classified.’ When can we expect the indictments?...”Fitton said this, just as U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras rejected on Tuesday the State Department's request for a one month extension in the deadline to release any remaining Clinton emails.
Julian Hattem reports for The Hill, quoting the Judge: "...Government has put me between a rock and a hard place ... which is a position I don’t want to be in...”
Hattem says The State Department won't be able to make public even a portion of the remaining 7,000 pages of Clinton's emails until at least late next week, an administration lawyer said in a courtroom on Tuesday afternoon, and that "Trying to speed up the process, attorney Robert Prince warned, may only delay things further."
Judge Contreras ordered the Obama Administration to explain in writing by the end of the day, Wednesday, why it cannot release the already cleared emails before Feb. 18.
Despite the scandals of Benghazi, SeverGate, an FBI investigation, and a loss to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is going on to campaign in South Carolina, forcing voters to cast uncertain votes in another election, in which her status as a candidate is in limbo.
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