Following the FBI’s bombshell discovery of thousands of new documents deemed pertinent to their criminal investigation of Clinton’s email server, two new reports are raising serious questions about whether her longtime aide, Huma Abedin, perjured herself.
The Daily Beast is reporting that these
new documents appear to directly contradict testimony Abedin gave in a
court-ordered deposition regarding Clinton’s server:
But the new information that the FBI found
State Department-related email on her home laptop also calls into question
whether Abedin in fact turned over all of the devices she used to send and
receive email while working at State. On June 28, 2016, Abedin said under oath
in a sworn deposition that she looked for all devices that she thought
contained government work on them so the records could be given to the State
Department. (These records were subsequently reviewed by the FBI.)
And
as the Associated Press also reports, Abedin signed a State Department document attesting under penalty of
perjury that she did not retain any “classified or administratively controlled
documents and materials” upon her departure from Foggy Bottom:
Abedin's testimony in the civil suit was
complicated by a routine State Department document she signed under penalty of
perjury in February 2013. She promised she would "turn over all classified
or administratively controlled documents and materials" before she left
her government job, and promised that she was not retaining copies,
"including any diaries, memorandums of conversation or other documents of
a personal nature." The document required her to give back all
"unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of
the government acquired by me while in the employ of the department."
As
the Daily Beast notes in its report, “Abedin is not simply a close aide, she’s
a critical member of Hillary Clinton’s tiny inner circle that protects and — at
times — enables the deeply flawed and secretive Democratic nominee.”
This
development surrounding someone who would certainly inhabit a West Wing office
were Clinton to win is a troubling reminder of the above-the-law mentality
Clinton and her inner circle operate with when they are in positions of power.
With the race tightening, how long will
Hillary Clinton continue to stand behind her?
