WASHINGTON—Top officials working in the White House under former President Barack Obama knew Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton was using a private email system for official government business three years before it became public, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.
“WH [White House] called—have we received a FOIA request from CREW on the topic of personal use of email by senior officials?
“Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give me the details so I can call the WH back? I think they’d like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl,” read a
Dec. 20, 2012 email from Sheryl L. Walter, then-director of the Department of State’s Office of Information Programs and Services. Her email was addressed to several of her subordinates.
She was referring to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request her office received from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which, like Judicial Watch, is a Washington-based non-profit that advocates for transparency in government.
In the same email thread, Walters forwarded the CREW request to Heather Samuelson, who was then Clinton’s liaison to the Obama White House.
“Hi Heather—Copy attached, it was in our significant weekly FOIA report that we send to L and S/ES also. Do you want us to add you to that list? It’s a subset of things like this that we think likely to be of broader department interest. More detail below re this request.
“As a practical matter given our workload, it won’t be processed for some months. Let me know if there are any particular sensitivities. If we don’t talk later, happy holidays! All the best, Sheryl,” Walter told Samuelson.
The email was among
44 pages of documents in the latest batch that Judicial Watch has obtained in discovery
ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth.
There are multiple references within the documents that indicate White House knowledge of Clinton’s non-secure email use, according to Judicial Watch.
In a
Jan. 10, 2013, email, for example, Walter asked Samuelson if she had determined whether other agencies received the CREW request.
Samuelson responded that “White House Counsel was looking into this for me. I will circle back with them now to see if they have further guidance.”
Walter’s office told CREW on
May 10, 2013, that “no records responsive to your request were located.”
Ultimately, it became known that Clinton had generated more than 50,000 non-secure emails to and from other U.S. government officials and private individuals.
“These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a
statement on May 10.
“A federal court granted Judicial Watch discovery into the Clinton emails because the court wanted answers about a government cover-up of the Clinton emails. And now we have answers because it looks like the Obama White House orchestrated the Clinton email cover-up,” Fitton said.
Lamberth
called Clinton’s use of the non-secure email system based in her home “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”
Federal law and regulations require all federal employees to use secure government communications systems for official business, especially when transmitting classified information and documents.
If using a private email or text message system is unavoidable, employees are required promptly to provide copies to agency officials.
It was not until March 2015 that Clinton’s use of the non-secure email system, instead of secure government email, became public knowledge.
The Clinton system used a home-brew server once located in a bathroom in the New York mansion she shared with former President Bill Clinton.
Obama told
CBS News shortly after Clinton’s private email system was
exposed March 2, 2015, by The New York Times that he discovered it “the same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”
When a 2016 Department of Justice Inspector General report revealed that Obama was one of 13 high-ranking administration officials with whom Clinton regularly corresponded using the private system, White House press spokesman Josh Earnest
admitted that “the president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office, trade emails with the secretary of state.”
The New York Times report sparked a huge scandal and an FBI investigation that shadowed Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Republican Donald Trump to become the nation’s first woman elected to the Oval Office, in great part because hundreds of classified documents were found on the private email server.
Then-FBI Director James Comey recommended no prosecution during a controversial July 6, 2016, news conference, despite Clinton’s “extreme carelessness.” Clinton backers contend Comey caused her defeat in November 2016.
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THE FRAUDULENT CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSED.
PAY-TO-PLAY FROM THE FIRST DAY!
Is it a signal that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason why she lost the 2016 election.
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“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
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The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”
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"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com
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THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
1. Globalism: Google VP Kent Walker insists that despite its repeated rejection by electorates around the world, “globalization” is an “incredible force for good.”
2. Hillary Clinton’s Democratic party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s loss. Not a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
3. Immigration: Maintaining liberal immigration in the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the most.
HILLARY CLINTON’S GLOBALIST VISION:
SURRENDER OF OUR BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX AND SUCKING IN GLOBAL BRIBES FOR THE PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION
Even though it has gone virtually unreported by Corporate media, Breitbart News has extensively documented the Clintons’
longstanding support for “open borders.” Interestingly, as the Los Angeles Times observed in 2007, the Clinton’s praise for
globalization and open borders frequently comes when they are
speaking before a wealthy foreign audiences and donors.
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIA CONNECTION
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WITH THESE TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance.
THE SHADY POLITICS OF HILLARY CLINTON and her PAY-TO-PLAY MAFIA
The left cared nothing about that bit of collusion.
Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY
GEORGE S OROS AND THE CLINTON GLOBALIST AGENDA FOR BANKSTERS AND WIDE OPEN BORDERS
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NEW YORK — Demand Justice, an organization founded by former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and associated with a “social welfare organization” financed by billionaire activist George S oros, is raising money for an eventual court fight against what the group describes as President Trump’s proposed “racist, unnecessary wall.”
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“Obama would declare himself president for life with S oros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
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“Hillary was always small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in the event that Hillary became disabled?”
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