Judicial Watch Uncovers More Classified Emails in Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure Email System
Police: Attack on Tucker Carlson’s Home Was ‘Suspected Hate Crime’
Obama Judge Frees Illegal Alien Who Got License with Fake Doc
Justice Department Misconduct, the Chicago Way
Judicial Watch Uncovers More Classified Emails in Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure Email System
Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents
she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of
her work-related emails. She even declared under penalty of perjury in
2015 that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my
custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the
Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been
done.”
It wasn’t, of course.
Two years later, in 2017, the FBI uncovered
72,000 pages of
documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose.
Until the court intervened, the State Department had been slow-walking
the release of those documents at a rate that would have required that
we and the American people wait until at least 2020 to see it all.
We have now received
756 pages of
newly uncovered emails that were among the materials Clinton tried to
delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted
over her unsecure, non-“
state.gov” email system.
The production of documents in
this case is
now concluded with the FBI being only able to recover or find
approximately 5,000 of the 33,000 government emails Hillary Clinton took
and tried to destroy.
We obtained these emails in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit we filed on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to our March 4, 2015, FOIA request (
Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)) seeking:
All emails sent and received by former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary
of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to
Secretary Clinton regarding her non-“
state.gov” email address.
This final batch of emails includes five new classified emails and
communications with controversial figures Lanny Davis and Sidney
Blumenthal.
Here is some of what was revealed in these documents.
On April 27, 2011, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent
classified information discussing Palestinian issues to Clinton’s personal unsecure email account.
On May 19, 2011, Blair again sent
classified information to Clinton’s personal unsecure email account discussing a “speech.”
A
classified email exchange
between Blair and Clinton took place from January 16, 2009, (while
George W. Bush was still president) and January 24, 2009. The subject
line is “Re: Gaza.” Blair on January 16, 2009, relayed information he
learned from Middle East leaders and noted that he wanted to get
something “resolved before Tuesday” (when Obama would be sworn in as
president). Clinton responded to Blair on January 19, 2009, writing
“Tony – We are finally moving and I am looking forward to talking w you
as soon as I’m confirmed, tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Your
emails are very helpful so pls continue to use this address,”
hr15@att.blackberry.net. Blair followed up by saying “It would be great if we could talk before any announcements are made.”
Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane sent Clinton
classified information,
apparently during early 2009. The subject line of the email is
redacted, but the text appears to show a discussion on information about
Iraq.
In a September 2, 2010, email exchange
marked classified,
longtime Clinton confidante Lanny Davis tells Secretary Clinton that he
could serve as a private channel for her to Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he had a “private and highly trusted
communication line, unofficial and personal, to PM N[etanyahu].” Davis
goes on to say “[N]o one on the planet (other than your wonderful
husband) can get this done as well as you.…” Secretary Clinton responds
with classified information, saying “I will reach out to you directly
and hope you will continue to do the same w me. The most important issue
now is [Redacted B1].”
In a September 18, 2010,
email,
Davis emails Clinton to tell her that “As soon as I wrote last email, I
reverted to my old role as your crisis manager and worrier about you,
read the word ‘optics’ I suddenly felt – oops. I am registered under
FARA for one or more foreign governments or businesses. I don’t think it
would look right. I want to avoid any even slight chance of
misperception.” Clinton replies, “Thx for looking out for me, my friend.
I’ll tell Cheryl to stand down.” Davis replied, “100% off-the-record.”
An email with the subject line “
Clinton-Ivanishvili Meeting” shows a meeting with pro-Putin, Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who was
reportedly involved
in a Russia-rigged election for president of the Republic of Georgia.
On May 29, 2012, longtime Clinton political operative Craig T. Smith
emailed Cheryl Mills, asking if a meeting between Secretary Clinton and
Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili was “happening,” saying: “Would
be a good thing if it can work out.” Mills tells Smith she’ll revert
and forwards the email to Jake Sullivan, Human Abedin and Lona Valmoro,
asking them if they were setting up the meeting, noting that it involved
“meeting with the opposition” and asking what she could tell Smith.
Valmoro responds that the meeting with Ivanishvili was “on the
schedule.”
An undated
email from former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott to Clinton discusses that “VP” Joe Biden was “thinking seriously about a
Biden-Putin Commission.”
The documents reveal that Clinton had been assigned an official
government email address with which she could have conducted government business, clintonhr@state.gov. She also
reportedly had
additional government addresses at her disposal:
SMSGS@state.gov and SSHRC@state.gov, neither of which were configured to
send or receive emails.
The documents also include
an email to
Tamera Luzzatto,
former chief of staff during Clinton’s tenure as U.S. Senator for New
York. Clinton talks about getting “a secure computer set up soon.”
Tamera–this is my new address, but, pls
know, I cannot check it during the day unless I leave my office. I hope
to have a secure computer set up soon to be able to get email during the
workday. Much love, H.
On October 29, 2009, a Clinton Foundation employee and close Clinton adviser,
Sid Blumenthal, forwarded
a proposal for
a commercial contract related to improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
from retired CIA officer-turned-contractor Gary Berntsen, to Clinton
(copying Cheryl Mills), saying that Berntsen had been “unable to break
through the bureaucracy with it.” Mills then forwarded the email to Jake
Sullivan. Blumenthal noted that “Cody [Shearer] and I are following
up.” Blumenthal and Shearer were
both implicated in
the creation of the Obama administration’s anti-Trump Russia
“collusion” counterintelligence operation by providing “reports”
relating to Trump-Russia collusion to the U.S. Government.
On January 29, 2009, Blumenthal
emailed Secretary
Clinton a memo he titled “Good Cop, Bad Cop,” in which Blumenthal
informs Clinton that his sources tell him that an “attack” on the
appointment by Obama of former Sen. George Mitchell as Special Envoy to
the Middle East was “coordinated by Jewish institutional leaders and
carefully scripted.” Also cited is Mitchell’s “Arab descent” as making
him “politically vulnerable.”
Blumenthal told Clinton that any conversations she had with Netanyahu
“flows directly and instantly back to top (U.S.) Jewish leadership.”
Further on in his memo, Blumenthal says that Netanyahu and “Jewish
leadership” should “be expected to use political means, including
outsourcing personal attacks” to counter Obama administration moves and
said Netanyahu was “deeply connected to political networks in the U.S. –
media, Jewish groups, Republican leaders, and right-wing Christian”
organizations. To provide a “heat shield” from Netanyahu’s attacks,
Blumenthal advises Clinton that Obama should hire a “bad cop” who is
“organically tied to the President” and a “political appointee, Jewish,
considered a true friend of Israel…” Clinton responded by saying,
“Thanks for these. And I will call you in the next few days.”
An October 20, 2012,
email exchange between
top State Department and Clinton Foundation officials discussed
arrangements for Bill and Hillary’s trip to Haiti. That trip focused on
the
opening of the Caracol Industrial Park, funded by a $300 million+ grant from USAID. The Caracol Park came to be seen as
a hugely wasteful disaster that was supposed to create 65,000 jobs for Haitians but as of January 2015
only produced 4,500.
On January 25, 2009, Chelsea Clinton’s high school friend Nicole Davison (now
Nicole Davison Fox), made a
hiring recommendation to
Secretary Clinton for the State Department. Clinton forwarded Davison’s
recommendation on to Cheryl Mills, telling Mills to “follow up” on the
“wonderful recommendation.” Mills replied, “K.”
Maggie Williams, campaign manager of Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid,
forwarded to Clinton a
note sent to her by then-managing partner of the Gallup Organization,
which said that “Gallup Polls suggest Obama’s plan to expedite
withdrawal from Iraq could help improve some residents’ opinion
[referring to Iraqis’ opinion of US leadership.]” Williams proposed to
Secretary Clinton sending a group of high-level State Department
officials to Gallup “for a presentation”, including Jack Lew, Jim
Steinberg, Cheryl Mills and Lissa Muscatine. Williams would later
suggest adding Jake Sullivan and Anne-Marie Slaughter to the Gallup
presentation.
On February 18, 2009, the chairman of telecom company Centurylink, Bill Owens,
emailed Clinton
(copying Abedin) asking if he could get a meeting with the secretary
during her upcoming trip to China. Abedin responded, saying that she was
talking to Owens’ assistant to “arrange for the two of you to visit for
a few minutes” during Clinton’s trip. Owens had been
appointed Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. After retiring from the Navy
in 1996, he became chairman of defense contractor SAIC.
In a January 3, 2011-March 1, 2011,
email thread, Susanne Helmsley, a staffer at the World Economic Forum (ie, Davos) emailed
leftist Christian writer-activist Jim Wallis to
inform him that former British PM Gordon Brown would not be invited to
the upcoming Davos meeting, because “our policy (and this makes Davos
distinctive) is to only invite people who are still in power.” She also
noted that the “theme” of the upcoming Davos meeting would be “Shared
Norms for the New Reality”, noting that “the discussions of values will
be a major element in Davos, since norms are only sustainable if built
on values.” Wallis mentions his prior partnership with Bangladeshi
banker Mohammad Yunus, who would be charged the next year with
tax fraud and embezzling from the bank he’d founded, Grameen Bank.
On
five occasions Clinton’s secretary, Lauren Jiloty, sent Clinton’s sensitive daily itinerary to her on her unsecure email account.
On January 29, 2009, State Department official Ashley Yehl received a
Judicial Watch press
release from Associated Press reporter Matt Lee about a lawsuit we
filed on behalf of State Department official David Rodearmel challenging
Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State. Yehl forwarded the email
on to several other State people, who in turn forwarded it on to State’s
Legal Office and official James Thessin. Thessin sent it along to
Cheryl Mills who sent it on to Secretary Clinton, assuring Clinton that
the Department of Justice would defend her against our lawsuit.
We continue to uncover classified information mishandled by Hillary
Clinton in emails that she tried to hide or destroy. This additional
evidence adds to the urgency for the DOJ to finally undertake a complete
and legitimate criminal investigation. Attorney General Barr should
immediately order a new investigation of the Hillary Clinton email
scandal.
Police: Attack on Tucker Carlson’s Home Was ‘Suspected Hate Crime’
Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, is an articulate and effective
voice against the excesses of the Left, and so he has been under attack.
On the evening of November 7, 2018, a mob descended on his home in the
Washington, DC, area. He wasn’t there, and his wife was so frightened
that she called 9-1-1 and barricaded herself in a pantry.
Carlson
said
the mob rang his doorbell and broke his oak door, and one protester was
reportedly caught on security video mentioning a pipe bomb.
We wanted to know more and sought the
police incident report about
the Antifa-linked group Smash Racism DC, which mobbed Carlson’s home.
We obtained the report in response in response to a DC Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request filed by our investigative team.
According to the report:
On the listed date, [Susie Carlson] heard
loud banging and pounding on her front door. [Susie Carlson] went to
investigate and saw a large group in front of her home. They had a bull
horn and were chanting loudly. She retreated to a room in the rear of
her home and summoned police. MPD arrived on scene and found a group of
approximately 20 people. It was discovered that unknown persons spray
painted an anarchy symbol on the driveway. There were also signs left on
the vehicles parked in the driveway as well as a sign left on the front
door of the home. The signs made reference to [Tucker Carlson’s]
political affiliation.”
The report classifies the incident as a “suspected hate crime” with
the “hate bias/motivation” being “anti-political.” Also, the report says
that six “hand-written posters” were seized as evidence. A handwritten
note included with the report says that the “suspected group is Smash
Racism DC.”
Tucker Carlson told
The Washington Post that the mob had blocked off both ends of his street and carried signs that listed his home address:
“Tucker Carlson, we are outside your
home,” one person could be heard saying in the since-deleted video. The
person, using a bullhorn, accused Carlson of “promoting hate” and “an
ideology that has led to thousands of people dying.”
“We want you to know, we know where you
sleep at night,” the person concluded, before leading the group to
chant, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at
night!”
***
The group called Carlson a “racist
scumbag” and demanded that he “leave town,” according to posts on
Twitter. A woman was also overheard in one of the deleted videos saying
she wanted to “bring a pipe bomb” to his house, he said.
Tucker Carlson wasn’t merely “targeted by protesters,” as some media
reported. Thanks to Judicial Watch, we know the disturbing truth: Tucker
Carlson’s family was terrorized by a mob of 20 people who vandalized
his property.
Obama Judge Frees Illegal Alien Who Got License with Fake Doc
The rule of law on immigration is suffering blow after blow thanks to
coordinated legal assaults by the open borders crowd and political
decision by activist judges.
Consider
this story in our
Corruption Chronicles blog.
It is not a crime for an illegal
immigrant to use fake federal documents to obtain a legitimate state
license, according to a remarkable ruling issued this week by an
Obama-appointed judge in south Florida. The defendant, 38-year-old
Rubman Ardon Chinchilla, was among 20 people arrested several months ago
in a scheme that used bogus immigration documents in driver’s license
applications. The man who masterminded the operation, a naturalized U.S.
citizen from Cuba, has been charged with fraud.
Chinchilla, a Honduran national, has lived illegally in the U.S. for decades, according to a local
newspaper report,
and has three American-born children. He works as a roofer and lives in
the Broward County city of Ft. Lauderdale. After getting busted using a
phony version of a federal document known as an Order of Supervision to
get a Florida license, he got indicated with two counts of violating
federal law. The illegal immigrant’s attorneys challenged the charges,
asserting that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor
Vehicles doesn’t even allow driver’s license applicants to use an Order
of Supervision as proof of legal status in the U.S. In their argument
they cited a case in which a California appeals court threw out the
conviction of a Chinese man who got two driver’s licenses while living
in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, appointed
to the bench in 2014, agreed and threw out the criminal charges against
Chinchilla. Siding with the illegal alien’s attorneys, Bloom proclaimed
that there is no actual law allowing the federal Order of Supervision
form to be used to prove “authorized stay in the United States.”
The bizarre reasoning will allow others
involved in the recent south Florida fake document sting to use the same
argument to avoid justice. The local newspaper article cited earlier in
this piece writes this: “It’s a highly technical legal argument, but
it’s opening the door for the others arrested in the sting to beat their
cases, and maybe even stay in the United States.” Another illegal
immigrant arrested along with Chinchilla, Jeovanny Gutierrez Nuñez, is
already using Judge Bloom’s decision to get his charges dropped. Federal
prosecutors plan to appeal Chinchilla’s case and his lawyers claim that
if Bloom’s ruling stands, it will allow the illegal alien to get legal
papers because his record will remain clean and he has three U.S.-born
kids.
This marks the second controversial
ruling for Bloom in her short time on the federal bench. In December the
judge determined that Broward County public schools and the Broward
County Sheriff’s Office had
no legal duty to protect students during
the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Seventeen people were killed and 17 others were injured at the Parkland,
Florida, school when a former student opened fire on the campus.
A lawsuit filed by 15 students named the
district and sheriff’s office among six defendants, along with school
deputy Scot Peterson and a campus monitor. In the complaint, the
students claimed their civil and due process rights were violated by the
defendants’ failure to protect them from school shooters. Bloom ruled
the school district and county law enforcement agency had no
constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody. “The
claim arises from the actions of [shooter Nikolas] Cruz, a third party,
and not a state actor,” she wrote in the decision. “Thus, the critical
question the Court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional
duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz.”
The Left’s radical vision for our country is the end that it uses any means to achieve.
Justice Department Misconduct, the Chicago Way
U.S. prosecutors are powerful, and they must be watched closely. If
you’re thinking of Robert Mueller and his hatchet man, Andrew Weissmann,
you’re correct. You would also be correct if you’re thinking of
Chicago’s Tim Bass,
known as “Badass Tim Bass.”
This veteran prosecutor went after a Republican congressman a few
years ago, and it looked like an airtight case, until certain
discrepancies came to light, including Bass’ personal ambitions. Our
chief investigative reporter, Micah Morrison, has
the details.
Aaron Schock always has been an awesome
character. At 23, he won a seat in the Illinois House of
Representatives, becoming the youngest member in state history. At 27,
he won a race for the Illinois 18
th Congressional district, becoming the youngest member of Congress. He was a Republican star, a prodigious fundraiser,
raising more than $11 million for his congressional campaigns. An exercise aficionado, he once appeared on
the cover of Men’s Health magazine. He got in trouble with the Washington Post for
decorating his DC office in the luxurious style of the British period drama, “Downton Abbey.”
That’s when it all came crashing down.
Washington had a good laugh over Schock’s cover shoot and interior
decorating, but questions about improper spending mounted and in March
2015, he resigned from Congress. And there was nothing funny about the
federal indictment that
came twenty months later, a few days after the 2016 election. The U.S.
Attorney for the Central District of Illinois charged Schock with 24
counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, theft, false statements and filing
false documents.
The indictment,
reported the Post,
“alleged that the former congressman from Peoria, Ill., reimbursed
himself for 150,000 miles he never drove, bought a new 2015 Chevrolet
Tahoe for his exclusive use with campaign committee funds, and
reimbursed himself with congressional funds for camera equipment
purchased for himself and his personal photographer. It alleges that
Schock used government and campaign money to take a private plane with a
group to Chicago for a Bears football game, and remodeled his Illinois
apartment and Capitol Hill office — paying those who did the thousands
of dollars’ worth of work at least in part from government and campaign
funds.”
The total tab for the misdeeds: $100,000.
Schock was, well, shocked. “I simply
cannot believe it has come to this,” he said in a statement after the
indictment. He said his campaign team “might have made errors among a
few of the thousands and thousands of financial transactions we
conducted, but they were honest mistakes—no one intended to break any
laws.”
Schock hired a powerhouse lawyer, former
deputy attorney general George Terwilliger, who hit back at the
government. The Schock indictment, Terwilliger said, was “just made-up
allegations of criminal activity arising from unintentional
administrative errors.”
But something more sinister was at work
as well, Terwilliger suggested. This was a case of prosecutorial
misconduct and government overreach. “Criminalizing a handful of
administrative mistakes, a few of the thousands of transactions from
Aaron’s 6 years in office, to charge Mr. Schock two days after a
national election has all the appearances of a politically calculated
ambush,” Terwilliger said.
The case soon went south. Erroneous
expense reimbursements were not crimes, Terwilliger argued, and Schock
had admitted his errors immediately on learning of them. Rumors
circulated that prosecutors were probing whether Schock was
gay. Investigators may have
illegally seized documents from
Schock’s congressional office. The trial judge in the case was removed
after improper communications with a member of the U.S. attorney’s
office. The lead prosecutor in the case, Tim Bass,
stepped aside in July.
It turns out that Bass harbored political
ambitions of his own. Bass had once said it would be an “honor and
privilege to be considered to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the
future,”
according to the Chicago Tribune, and his ambitions for the post were an
open secret in Illinois.
Bass’s role in the case appears to have
been the last straw. The Justice Department was forced to take action.
The case was removed from the Central District of Illinois and moved to
Chicago. Soon, the
charges were dropped.
Schock told reporters that there was “no
doubt” he had been targeted by Bass’s office. “It became very obvious to
all of us that he saw me as his ticket to stardom.” Read George
Terwilliger’s analysis of the case
here.
Aaron Schock’s ordeal is over. But he
would be within his rights to ask the question first posed by another
Republican driven from public service by false charges and later cleared
at trial. “Which office do I go to,”
said former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan, “to get my reputation back?”
Always beware of, in Schock’s attorney’s
words,
“flashy allegations in an indictment of what at bottom is a weak case.”
That has the ring of familiarity in the anti-Trump hysteria here in DC.
Until next week …
stock here. It's funny how lots of folks are pointing out all the Creepy Joe stuff that we have been pointing out for years. I think the Dems know that they desperately need to place several "cards", being black, muslim, female, probably throw in a gay card too. Biden is "too white" and he is going to be a spoiler for the Dems.
