Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, the parents of two Americans
killed in Benghazi, are suing Hillary Clinton.
NBC News reports: The parents of two Americans killed in
the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya,
filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday against Hillary Clinton.
In the suit, Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, the
parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, claim that Clinton's use of a private
e-mail server contributed to the attacks.
They also accuse her of defaming them in public
statements.
Smith was an information management officer and Woods was
a security officer, both stationed in Benghazi.
"The Benghazi attack was directly and proximately
caused, at a minimum by defendant Clinton's 'extreme carelessness' in handling
confidential and classified information," such as the location of State
Department employees in Libya, the lawsuit said.
CLINTON STATE DEPARTMENT SLEAZE
Dozens of newly released emails Hillary Clinton failed to turn over
to the State Department “show her interacting with lobbyists, political and
Clinton Foundation donors and business interests as secretary of state.”
The State Department turned over 44 previously-unreleased
Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed
to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government
last year. For more details, see the below
AP article.
The emails show Clinton interacting with lobbyists,
political and Clinton Foundation donors and business interests as secretary of
state. They reveal how Clinton
Foundation officials and donors were hitting up the Clinton State Department
for favors just three months into Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of
state.
“That
the Clinton Foundation was calling in favors barely 3 months into Hillary
Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is deeply troubling and it is yet
another reminder of the conflicts of interest and unethical wheeling and
dealing she’d bring to the White House.” – RNC spokesman Michael Short
The New York Times reports: A new batch of State Department emails
released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between
the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as
secretary of state.
The documents raised new questions about whether the
charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at
the State Department, a charge that Mrs. Clinton has faced in the past and has
always denied.
In one email
exchange, for instance, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 sought
to put a billionaire donor in touch with the United States ambassador to
Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
In another email, the foundation appeared to push aides
to Mrs. Clinton to help find a job for a foundation associate.
Her aides indicated that the department was working on
the request.
Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, which has been
shadowed for 17 months by the controversy over the private email server she
used exclusively while at the State Department, had no immediate comment on the
documents.
The Associated Press reports: The State Department has
turned over 44 previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the
Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private
messages she turned over to the government last year.
They show her interacting with lobbyists, political and
Clinton Foundation donors and business interests as secretary of state.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch obtained the
emails as part of its lawsuit against the State Department.
They cover Clinton's first three months as secretary of
state in early 2009, a period for which Clinton did not turn over any emails to
the State Department last year.
The government found the newly disclosed messages during
a search of agency computer files from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
WE CAN’T AFFORD A CLINTON PRESIDENCY ON
NATIONAL SECURITY
Vice News reports: Two secret letters the FBI sent to the
State Department have revealed for the first time that the bureau's
investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and the classified
emails sent through it, stemmed from a so-called "Section 811"
referral from the Intelligence Community's Inspector General (ICIG).
The ICIG determined that classified, national security
information in Clinton's emails may have been "compromised" and
shared with "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power." Section
811 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1995 "is the statutory
authority that governs the coordination of counterespionage investigations
between Executive Branch departments or agencies and the FBI."
A Section 811 referral is a report to the FBI about any
unauthorized information that may have been disclosed to a foreign power. A
Section 811 referral "arises whenever there is a compromise of classified
information — for whatever reason," said Steven Aftergood, director of the
Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
Clinton's failed judgement has already failed on radical Islamic
terrorism, giving rise to ISIS and legitimizing Iran's nuclear ambitions and
global terror campaign.
Clinton lacked the judgement to use the term radical
Islamic terrorism or acknowledge that we are at war with ISIS.
Clinton has failed to propose any new strategy to combat
ISIS, instead displaying poor judgement by relying on Obama's failed plan.
Under the
Clinton-Obama failed foreign policy plan, ISIS has carried out devastating
attacks here in the United States and around the globe.
Clinton's poor judgement and failed foreign policy
created a power vacuum that allowed for the birth and growth of ISIS.
Clinton's horrible judgement led to the Iran deal which
gave the foremost state sponsor of terrorism billions of dollars to restock
their war chest and fund terrorism.
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Legal Group Issues Private Emails Clinton Did Not Turn
Over
By Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan
WASHINGTON — The State Department has turned over 44
previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic
presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she
turned over to the government last year.
They show her interacting with
lobbyists, political and Clinton Foundation donors and business interests as
secretary of state.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch obtained the
emails as part of its lawsuit against the State Department. They cover
Clinton's first three months as secretary of state in early 2009, a period for
which Clinton did not turn over any emails to the State Department last year.
The government found the newly disclosed messages during a search of agency
computer files from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
In one instance, Clinton exchanged messages with a senior
Morgan Stanley investment executive whom she met with later that year at her
office in Washington. They were among 246 pages of Abedin messages turned over
to Judicial Watch.
Clinton campaign officials did not immediately answer
questions about the issue.
The emails are separate from a larger batch of several
thousand work-related emails that FBI officials recovered from Clinton's
private server. Clinton's legal team turned over more than 30,000 emails from
her server to the State Department last March but only after deleting another
30,000 messages that Clinton's team deemed private and personal. The FBI plans
to turn over the reconstructed Clinton emails to the State Department for
public release.
The new Clinton emails include a February 2009 message to
her from Stephen Roach, then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, saying he planned
to testify to Congress that week and was "happy to help in any way I
can." Roach later met with Clinton over the summer for 30 minutes,
according to Clinton calendars obtained by The Associated Press.
In another email, Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills,
informed her that National Security Agency and State Department officials
discussed an attempt to develop a modified blackberry for Clinton that might be
used when she worked in a restricted State Department office that did not allow
private phones.
Clinton called the development "good news," but
she continued using a private Blackberry tied to her private server.
