State Dept Fighting AP Calls to Open Hillary Clinton/Huma Abedin Records

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If you loved six years of the Most Transparent Administration Ever threatening journalists, bugging them and trying to lock them up, just wait till you get a load of Hillary Clinton’s commitment to transparency.

The State Department has failed to turn over government documents covering Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state that The Associated Press and others requested under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign. They include one request AP made four years ago and others pending for more than one year.

The agency already has missed deadlines it set for itself to turn over the material.

The State Department denied the AP’s requests, and rejected the AP’s subsequent appeals, to release the records sought quickly under a provision in the law reserved for journalists requesting federal records about especially newsworthy topics.

The AP requested copies of Clinton’s full schedules and calendars from her four years as secretary of state; her department’s decision to grant a special position for longtime aide Huma Abedin; Clinton’s and the agency’s roles in the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices; and her role overseeing a major Defense Department contractor. The AP made most of its requests last summer, although one was filed in March 2010.

I can see why they wouldn’t want to turn over those records. Considering that they expect Hillary to be their boss soon, they’re still taking orders from her.

 

  • RAM500

    The only thing this government really wants to protect is Democrats in high places.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Get ready for another the dog ate my emails moment.

  • Bamaguje

    But Obama administration is gung-ho about revealing dubious CIA “torture” records that undermine America’s war on terror.

  • kasandra

    Why wouldn’t Hillary want these documents released? I’m sure they’ll burnish her reputation as the smartest and most honest person on the planet and help her presidential campaign.

    • truebearing

      Why yes they would. Great point. Those documents would showcase all her wonderful achievements…like the times she got drunk and danced with foreign girls.

  • truebearing

    The Freedom of Re-Dacted Information Act takes a little longer. First they have to remove any important information. Then they have to wait until the story is past its expiration date — truth goes bad after a certain number of days, but no one knows exactly how many.

    • cree

      Executive privilege elect in waiting.

      • truebearing

        Yes, but it is Executive White privilege. What if the Left decides they need another minority candidate, like Lying Dog Warren? Hillary is pasty white. Warren has those classic Indian features…you know…blonde hair and blue eyes.

        • cree

          They both being female (progressives) makes them even more privileged with our covert war with them and all; any kind of stigma thing they can accuse of, you know. The One though has sure set a high bar for them; a female would set the next.

          It’s a pretty depressing thought, the possibility of either of them winning; there is no way either (or any leftist) can live up to the job.

          As for our side? I’m becoming nearly as adamant against a D.C. asylum establishment republican as I am for lefties. I will have to admit to a fault, Reagan set too high a bar for me; and it seems for many others. His coming from the left and his faith seems to have made a lot of difference for Constitutional conservatism and in his foreign policy balance of powers role. Clues.

  • SoCalMike

    The US State Department is Occupied Territory.
    We need to root out the infestation of statist tumors.

  • Warren Raymond

    Imagine Shrillary for POTUS and Huma for VP!

    We would be empathising till the kumbaya melts the moon….

  • Libslayer

    “What DIFFERENCE, at this point does it make?!!” – Hillary Rotten Clinton

  • MarilynA

    Hillary has a lot to hide. Like, she played a big role in raising money for and supporting the Communist Sandinistas who were trying to take over Nicaragua during Reagan’s administration. She also served on the Board of directors and as President of Ted Turner’s New World Foundation from 1985 until Bill got the presidential nomination. During this time she handed out a $250,000 grant to fund sending a known agitator (trained at the Patrice Lumumba U in Moscow in terrorism) named Anthony Thigpen to East Los Angeles for the stated purpose of “Uniting those warring gangs and focusing their attention on their common enemies instead of each other.” Once this was accomplished, Thigpen was to train local grass roots activists from across the country in ways to organize local “actions” to support these peoples of color when they took to the streets to demand whatever sort of Justice they were seeking. Thigpen went to LA in November 1990. The Rodney King riots took place the following March. It seems the trainees couldn’t wait until Thigpen had the back up people trained to organize support for them. About six months later a meeting of all inner city gang leaders took place in the Midwest. Shortly after that meeting satellite gangs of Crypts and Bloods began to spring up in our public schools across the country. Hillary is well acquainted with and has given financial support to just about all of the national dissident groups who are poised to “unite all dissident groups and empower them to overthrow the government.” They will take to the street on demand when she gives the word. Lest you think I am making all this up, let me explain that I was in on the planning of this “revolution.” I have reported what I found out to the authorities and numerous newspapers and magazines. Although I have proof to back up what I am saying, only two of those I have contacted took it serious enough to follow up with investigations and reported their findings.

  • SoCalMike

    Treason is chic and cool.
    Treason has been institutionalized from the media all the way up to the highest echelons of government.
    The hatred of the Left (Hillary, Obama, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky) for the West is shared with the the Islamofascist world.
    They both loath us so is it any wonder Hillary’s closest advisor is Muslim Brotherhood royalty or Hussein Obama has put so Brotherhood connected individuals in positions of power?
    Treason is chic and cool and has been institutionalized at the policy making level of government with the help of mass media.

  • PouponMarx

    The higher the position, the less the punishment-if any at all. That’s how it was in the Ancient Regime in France and every where. An aristocracy controlled everything, there was no middle class, your vote was meaningless, the aristocracy had diplomatic immunity, and the aristocracy could take everything you had at any time for any reason (Google: civil forfeiture).

    http://en.wikipediadot}org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture

    There are two types of forfeiture cases, criminal and civil. Approximately half of all forfeiture cases practiced today are civil, although many of those are filed in parallel to a related criminal case. In civil forfeiture cases, the US Government sues the item of property, not the person; the owner is effectively a third-party claimant. The burden is on the Government to establish that the property is subject to forfeiture by a “preponderance of the evidence.” If it is successful, the owner may yet prevail by establishing an “innocent owner” defense.

    Federal civil forfeiture cases usually start with a seizure of property followed by the mailing of a notice of seizure from the seizing agency (generally the DEA or FBI) to the owner. The owner then has 35 days to file a claim with the seizing agency. The owner must file this claim in order to later protect his property in court. Once the claim is filed with the agency, the U.S. Attorney has 90 days to review the claim and to file a civil complaint in U.S. District Court. The owner then has 35 days to file a judicial claim in court asserting his ownership interest. Within 21 days of filing the judicial claim, the owner must also file an answer denying the allegations in the complaint. Once done, the forfeiture case is fully litigated in court.[19]

    In civil cases, the owner need not be judged guilty of any crime; it is possible for the Government to prevail by proving that someone other than the owner used the property to commit a crime. In contrast, criminal forfeiture is usually carried out in a sentence following a conviction and is a punitive act against the offender.