ELECTION 2016
FEDERAL JUDGE SETS DEADLINE FOR HUGE HILLARY EMAIL DUMP
Scandal now threatens to shadow Clinton for remainder of presidential campaign
A federal judge has ordered the State Department to be on a schedule regarding the release of the latest emails and other documents from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state under President Obama.
Her emails have been causing her problems for about a year now, since it was revealed through one of the Freedom of Information Act cases pursued by officials with Judicial Watch that she had run her official communications, including that material that was classified and secret, through an unsecured private server in her home.
The FBI concluded she was “extremely careless” but declined to pursue charges against the one-time first lady of the U.S. and former New York senator.
Now, nearly another 15,000 documents have been found and CNN reported that a federal judge already has picked a path for them to be released.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ruled on Monday that the State Department must assess the information it got from the FBI as part of its investigation and report back Sept. 23.
Federal officials have wanted to release the documents much later – in October.
It’s unclear exactly how many of the newly discovered documents are emails and what else might be included.
But Judicial Watch asked the judge to have federal officials focus on getting the new information released.
It was when FBI Director James Comey announced back in July that Clinton was “extremely careless” with classified material that he also said his workers had found “several thousand” work emails for Clinton’s time in office that were not among those turned over earlier.
“As we have previously explained, the State Department voluntarily agreed to produce to Judicial Watch any emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton in her official capacity during her tenure as secretary of state which are contained within the material turned over by the FBI and which were not already processed for FOIA by the State Department,” agency spokesman Mark Toner said Monday.
The controversy appears to be far from over, even though there was no federal indictment against Clinton when Republicans were suggesting one was justified.
On Monday, they took it to the next level by issuing subpoenas to three companies that were involved in the computer server setup Clinton used.
CNN reported Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, described the legal documents as needed – because the companies were not cooperating with the work of his House Science, Space and Technology committee.
Sen. Ron Johnson R-Wis., said, “The companies have direct and unique knowledge of her private server and email account. The information being sought is a crucial step in bringing greater transparency to Secretary Clinton’s ‘extremely careless’ – I would call it dangerously reckless and grossly negligent – email practices.”
The companies are SECNAP Network of Boca Raton, Florida, Datto of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Platte River Networks in Denver.
The latest, however, bombed on Monday when former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, whom Clinton blamed for telling her to use a private email, said the truth is Clinton was using a private server for a year before he discussed with her how he had handled email.
“Her people have been trying to pin it on me,” Powell, 79, told People Magazine Saturday night.
Just one of the suspicions raised by Clinton’s email setup is that her actions as a federal official brought a $500,000 payment to her husband, Bill Clinton.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported communications obtained by Citizens United, an activist group that is the lead plaintiff in several Freedom of Information Act court cases over Clinton’s emails, show she publicly defended an “embattled banker” while visiting Bangladesh at the same time Clinton Foundation officials “tried to steer money from an Abu Dhabi oil company into the banker’s coffers.”
The report said the emails “peek into the byzantine worldwide network of deals hatched by the Clinton Foundation, and illustrates the massive potential conflicts of interest involving the Clintons, their foundation, wealth donors and foreign officials.”
The foundation said it traced a complicated payment by TAQA, also known as the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, to longtime Clinton Foundation donor Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank.
But then, “the oil company deal eventually put as much as $500,000 into President Bill Clinton’s pockets via a speaking fee he got in Scotland,” the report said.
It started with a May 7, 2012, email exchange between Cheryl Mills, who then was Secretary Clinton’s chief of staff, and Amitabh Desai, a foreign policy worker for the Clinton Foundation.
“TAQA is a huge oil and gas company 74 percent owned by the Abu Dhabi government that operates in 11 countries, including Canada and the United States. The firm in 2010 won the first of three ‘blanket agreements’ with the Obama administration to import billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Canada into the United States,” the Daily Caller said.
Clinton Foundation development officer Linda Andich raised the question of the TAQA donation after reading a report of Hillary Clinton’s advocacy for Yunus, who had been charged in Bangladesh with financial mismanagement of the bank, which was supposed to be giving micro-loans to people to encourage economic development.
“Just reading about HRC’s support of the Grameen Bank, which prompted me to check in for any updates for the State Department, re: the Donation from TAQA,” Andich wrote Desai and Dennis Cheng, the Clinton Foundation’s chief development officer.
Later, Desai told Mills, “We’d welcome your guidance on accepting funds from TAQA.”
She promised to “call to discuss.”
Reported the Daily Caller: “The emails show [Clinton] foundation officials were trying to complete a deal offered by TAQA managing director Leo Koot in Scotland. He agreed to give $60,000 to the foundation for Bill to speak at a Scotland charity and auction. The winner of the auction was to get a ‘Special Day with President Bill Clinton in New York.'”
Eventually the foundation accepted the $60,000, and “Bill went to Scotland where he received an additional $250,000 to $500,000 for his speech before a group called ‘Business For Change,’ according to the foundation’s website,” said the Daily Caller.
It explained Yunus’ connections to the Clintons date to Bill’s tenure as Arkansas governor, and his Grameen America foundation donated between $100,000 to $250,000, according to the Clinton Foundation website.
Further, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the U.S. Agency for International Development gave millions of grant dollars to Yunus and others.
“Mixing official State Department business and actions with Clinton Foundation fundraising is a huge red flag,” Citizens United President David Bossie told the Daily Caller. “What do discussions of foreign donations from the TAQA Group have to do with Hillary Clinton’s official duties as secretary of state?”
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