ANOTHER EMAIL SCANDAL BOMBSHELL: Top
Clinton aide Huma Abedin admitted in a deposition this week that Hillary
Clinton didn’t want “anybody” to have access to her emails.
The Associated
Press reports:
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma
Abedin said in a legal proceeding that Clinton did not want the State
Department emails that she sent and received on her private computer server to
be accessible to "anybody," according to transcripts released
Wednesday.
Her comments provided new insights into the highly unusual decision
by the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to operate a private email
server in her basement to conduct government business as secretary of state.
Abedin also said under oath that she was not aware whether Clinton personally
deleted any emails during her tenure as secretary.
Abedin told lawyers for the
conservative group Judicial Watch in a deposition Monday that she could not
recall whether she or Clinton discussed with any State Department officials
Clinton's use of her server exclusively for government business.
National Review reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the State Department to
produce the e-mail records of Hillary Clinton’s scheduler during her tenure as
secretary of state, expanding an investigation being pursued by conservative
nonprofit Citizens United into the overlap between Clinton’s official travel
and her meetings with foreign Clinton Foundation donors.
Citizens United is
slated to receive all e-mails sent to and from Lona Valmoro, Clinton’s State
Department scheduler, in the two-week periods before each of 14 international
trips Clinton took during her four years in office.
As part of a joint filing
with the State Department on Monday, Citizens United presented the judge with
several pieces of evidence suggesting Valmoro deliberately struck from the
official schedule a December 6, 2012 dinner in Dublin, Ireland with several
Clinton Foundation and Clinton campaign donors, organized by Teneo co-founder
Declan Kelly.
Though Valmoro was made aware of the Dublin meeting through an
earlier e-mail chain, neither Clinton’s archived daily calendar nor her
detailed official schedule make any note of it. Citizens United
characterizes the State Department’s decision to go along with the filing as an
acknowledgement that Clinton did, in fact, maintain a secret schedule.
ATTORNEY GENERAL LORETTA LYNCH’S SCANDALOUS CONFLICT
OF INTEREST:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is
raising eyebrows after privately meeting with Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac
despite her agency’s ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email
server.
CBS News reports:
As his wife is under federal
investigation for her use of a private email server, former President Bill
Clinton met privately with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Airport
Monday evening in what both sides say was an unplanned encounter.
An aide to
Bill Clinton confirmed to CBS News that the meeting wasn't planned in advance:
Clinton realized she would be on the same tarmac at the same time and wanted to
say hello, adding that it's a courtesy Clinton "always extends" to
public officials.
The meeting comes as former secretary of State Hillary
Clinton is still under investigation for her email practices--and also came the
day before House Republicans released a report criticizing the Obama
administration's response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
News complied by the RNC.
