[Daily Caller] A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton and two of her top aides at the State Department, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to attest, under penalty of perjury, that they have turned over all official government records in their possession.
U.S. District Court judge Emmett Sullivan issued the bombshell ruling late Friday, hours after the State Department released its second batch of Clinton emails.
The ruling was issued in the matter of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department.
Sullivan issued three orders that will likely produce answers to looming questions about Clinton's private email server arrangement. Clinton has repeatedly stated that she turned over all work-related emails she maintained on her private email account -- hdr22@clintonemail.com. She gave the State Department 55,000 pages of emails in December but deleted a large batch that she said were personal in nature. But Clinton has not allowed anyone to check that claim as she has so far refused to turn the server over to a third-party for inspection.
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The potential for graft certainly warrants examination. With all of the classified email traffic floating about, I'm curious about any foreign contacts Ms. Abedin may have had.
Should read "reclassified."
[Rooters] Dozens of emails on the private email account that Hillary Clinton used when secretary of state were recently classified by the government, the State Department said on Friday, giving Republican critics more ammunition against the Democratic presidential hopeful.
How odd.
The emails, released by the State Department under a judge's order, date from the early period of Clinton's 2009-2013 tenure as America's top diplomat.
Many of them were heavily redacted and marked as "confidential" only this week before they were made public, meaning that Clinton was not aware when she sent or received them that their content might later be regarded as classified.
I'm guessing they weren't cake recipes for Chelsea's wedding...
The front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the November, 2016 election, Clinton is under scrutiny for using a private email account for her work as secretary of state. If she is that dull, perhaps she has no business seeking a party nomination for president of the United States.
Opponents accuse her of playing loose with secret information and transparency laws, but Clinton says she broke no laws or rules by eschewing a standard government email account.
The 1,356 emails released on Friday were the third batch from 30,000 or so emails from Clinton's private account that she handed over to the State Department after she left office. She says she had another 30,000 emails deleted because they were private.
A judge ordered the State Department to release in batches the 30,000 in its possession. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said government agencies that reviewed the latest collection before release deemed that 37 of them contain material that is "confidential," the lowest level of classification. Laws and regulations governing the handling of classified materials are obviously just for the little people.
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So the defense will need to raise only two points. This sailor has a constitutional right to defend himself, and a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. They will raise the fed law into question as unconstitutional.
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This is Obama's America, and he's not just a bad president. He's a bad person.
[Breitbart] Some critics made that claim a week ago, when Obama complained about "the money" and "the lobbyists" on the other side of the debate over the Iran nuclear deal. This week, Obama proved it.
On Thursday, Obama led a conference call with left-wing activists in which he repeatedly railed against his political opponents by using the old canard of rich Jews using their money to exert control.
Accusing critics of the deal of being "opposed to any deal with Iran"--i.e. of advocating war--Obama railed against "well-financed" lobbyists, as well as the "big check writers to political campaigns," and "billionaires who happily finance super-PACs." He complained about "$20 million" being spent on ads against the deal--a subtle reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC--whose support he had repeatedly courted when running for office).
Some of Obama's references were thinly-veiled attacks on specific (Jewish) individuals--columnist Bill Kristol, for example, the Weekly Standard publisher and former New York Times resident conservative who served in the George H.W. Bush administration, and also helps run the Emergency Committee for Israel, which opposes the Iran deal; or billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who is a prodigious Republican benefactor, super PAC donor, and well-known hawk on Israel issues.
On the call, Obama twice accused his opponents of being the same people "responsible for us getting into the Iraq war." That sweeping, and largely false, characterization of the opponents of the Iran deal repeats the sensational accusations of The Israel Lobby, a widely discredited 2007 book that accused a group of pro-Israel, and largely Jewish, individuals and organizations of pushing the U.S. into war with Iraq, and seeking to drag America into a new war with Iran.
Obama's deliberate, and jarring, choice of words clearly worried even some sympathetic Jews.
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Not really blatantly, flagrantly antisemitic language. Are they saying he's using some kind of code that he got from that book so that when he says "big check writers" and "billionaires" he really means Jews?
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Actually the people pushing the Iraq war in the beginning were the Democrats. The New York Times was strong for it, and the Clintons and lefties were all for it. They voted for it. Recall that Bill Clinton tried to distract from his sex scandal by bombing Iraq. The Republicans objected to that.
My impression is the at the time the Dems wanted to pose as the pro-war party thinking that Bush would not go along with getting involved.
If anyone pushed the Iraq war it was Obama's current friends, including Iran.
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