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Clinton, in newly revealed emails, discussed classified foreign policy matters, secretive 'private' comms channel with Israel


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:pc:  Nope no double standard.  I can't imagine the shit a full blown Mueller type investigation would come up with.  

The 756-page group of new documents, revealed Thursday as part of a transparency lawsuit by Judicial Watch, seemingly contradicted Clinton's insistence under oath in 2015that she had turned over all of her sensitive work-related emails to the State Department, and included a slew of classified communications on everything from foreign policy to State Department personnel matters.

Additionally, according to the email dump, Clinton chatted with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair about classified foreign policy matters before she was sworn in, aided the application of at least one State Department applicant who was connected to her daughter, Chelsea, and apparently met with Putin-aligned Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili before he became prime minister on a staunchly pro-Russian platform -- and with reported help from a Russian interference operation.

Ivanishvili pointedly did not criticize Putin during his campaign, despite Putin's invasion of Georgia years earlier -- and in 2012, Ivanishvili made headlines for refusing to meet with Clinton unless it was a one-on-one sitdown.

Clinton's discussions with Blair included a classified 2011 conversation on foreign policy, and another classified, redacted 2011 conversation concerning a "speech." Clinton also apparently discussed job-related topics with Blair on January 16, 2009 -- while George W. Bush was still president but after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved her for the job. In one email thread with the subject line "Re: Gaza," dated January 16, 2009, Blair said he wanted to have a matter "resolved before Tuesday," apparently referring to Obama's inauguration.

Clinton replied: “Tony – We are finally moving and I am looking forward to talking w you as soon as I’m confirmed, tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Your emails are very helpful so pls continue to use this address, hr15@att.blackberry.net."

Meanwhile, according to the documents, Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane sent Clinton a heavily redacted, classified email concerning Iraq policy, seemingly in 2009 -- on a topic so urgent that Keane noted he had tried to call Clinton personally before sending it.

Separately, two email chains showed the apparently close coordination between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation, which has long been accused by Republicans of operating essentially as a corrupt "pay-to-play" operation that effectively sold access to the Obama administration. Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted after Clinton's 2016 election loss.

In one email thread, top Clinton aides at the State Department, including Huma Abedin, coordinated a trip to Haiti with Clinton Foundation officials, including Clinton Foundation Director of Advance John Zimmerebner. Bill and Hillary Clinton were headed to Haiti to promote the Caracol Industrial Park, a $300M project funded by U.S. taxpayers through USAID that was heavily promoted to investors by the Clinton Foundation. Slate later called the park a "disappointment by any measure," noting it had no discernible positive impact on Haiti's economy and created tens of thousands fewer jobs than anticipated.

 

And, Clinton Foundation employee Sidney Blumenthal sent Clinton a now-heavily redacted proposal from a former CIA officer concerning improvised-explosive devices, which Blumenthal called a "terrific project." Blumenthal told Clinton the CIA officer had been “unable to break through the bureaucracy with" the proposal.

In closed-door testimony last year, former FBI special agent Peter Strzok acknowledged that the Justice Department "negotiated" an agreement with Clinton's legal team that ensured the FBI did not have access to emails on her private servers relating to the Clinton Foundation, even as they probed her handling of classified information.

 

In a particularly striking January 2009 email uncovered by Judicial Watch, Blumenthal, citing sources, told Clinton that "Jewish institutional leaders" were working to derail President Obama's appointment of George Mitchell as Special Envoy to the Middle East. Citing the same sources, Blumenthal warned Clinton that "every one of your conversations and communications with Bibi Netanyahu flows directly and instantly back to top Jewish leadership ... You should, of course, assume that nothing involving him is private."

Blumenthal, attaching a memo titled "Good Cop, Bad Cop," said Mitchell was "politically vulnerable" because he was of “Arab descent," and was facing attacks "carefully scripted" by top Jewish leaders. Blumenthal advised Clinton and Obama to bring aboard a "bad cop" who was a “political appointee, Jewish, considered a true friend of Israel" to help resist the attacks.

Blumenthal invoked former Secretary of State James Baker, saying he was "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and among the phalanx of neoconservative media" for taking a tough stance on Israel that "stunned the Israelis."

"You are always in danger of being maneuvered into Baker's position," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "Mitchell is even more immediately in danger."

Blumenthal added: "Bibi and the Jewish leadership should be expected to use political means, including outsourcing personal attacks, to counter moves the administration seeks in any peace process or initiating any negotiations. As you know, Bibi is deeply connected to political networks in the US-media, Jewish groups, Republican leaders, and right-wing Christian right organizations."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-in-newly-revealed-classified-emails-discussed-secret-comms-channel-with-israel

 

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41 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

yawn...

were these "private" meetings done in complete secrecy? or were the normal "back-channels" presidents and admin use? i'm sure you don't know the difference..

:news:

 

derp.  :lol:  Missing the point try again.  

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5 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

Years and years of investigations, this is it, they finally got her, lock her up, lock her up.

Almost 2 yrs of collusion investigating...

Yet nothing.....

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8 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

Compare those 2 years to the number they have investigated her.  Yet nothing.

And?

So that means ones guilty and the others innocent in your pea brain.

 

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5 minutes ago, STUMP said:

And?

So that means ones guilty and the others innocent in your pea brain.

 

No, what it means is she had the benefits of a completely corrupt and biased DOJ and the intel depts helping her destroy evidence and cover her ass.

He doesn’t know that’s what he means tho.

:lol:

 

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1 minute ago, Zambroski said:

No, what it means is she had the benefits of a completely corrupt and biased DOJ and the intel depts helping her destroy evidence and cover her ass.

He doesn’t know that’s what he means tho.

:lol:

 

And theres been plenty of proof of that...but none of that matters where Hillary supporters are concerned. 

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5 minutes ago, STUMP said:

And?

So that means ones guilty and the others innocent your pea brain.

 

You are the one that thinks 2 years and nothing is a long time, with nothing yet, I asked how many years and nothing they investigated her.

No that means neither one has been proven guilty yet.

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2 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

You are the one that thinks 2 years and nothing is a long time, with nothing yet, I asked how many years and nothing they investigated her.

No that means neither one has been proven guilty yet.

Smh....

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3 minutes ago, STUMP said:

And theres been plenty of proof of that...but none of that matters where Hillary supporters are concerned. 

If there is proof, Trump should lock her up, if he doesn't he should be locked up for dereliction of duty. Why let her go free with all the proof you claim there is?  So many are sure she is guilty of so many things, should be a slam dunk just fucking put her in jail already.

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12 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

No, what it means is she had the benefits of a completely corrupt and biased DOJ and the intel depts helping her destroy evidence and cover her ass.

He doesn’t know that’s what he means tho.

:lol:

 

So the new doj isn't smart enough to make a case?  Trump doesn't have the pull or the balls to make it happen? Hillary is so smart no one can catch her?

 

Must be something, years of crying and whining, chants of lock her up, yet nothing happens.

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14 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

No, what it means is she had the benefits of a completely corrupt and biased DOJ and the intel depts helping her destroy evidence and cover her ass.

He doesn’t know that’s what he means tho.

:lol:

 

 

4 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

If there is proof, Trump should lock her up, if he doesn't he should be locked up for dereliction of duty. Why let her go free with all the proof you claim there is?  So many are sure she is guilty of so many things, should be a slam dunk just fucking put her in jail already.

 

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Just now, 1jkw said:

So the new doj isn't smart enough to make a case?  Trump doesn't have the pull or the balls to make it happen? Hillary is so smart no one can catch her?

 

Must be something, years of crying and whining, chants of lock her up, yet nothing happens.

I can see it happening after the collusion thing has run its course.....

In reality Hillary will essentially be beaten to death anyway once no collusion has been proven once and for all.

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