Friday, June 26, 2015

NEW YORK TIMES’ BOMBSHELL ARTICLE: Yes, it’s about Hillary Clinton and her missing Benghazi E-Mails — WHAT IT ALL MEANS — And what Congress will do next


NY TIMES SAYS: HILLARY CLINTON HAS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE DELETED WORK-RELATED E-MAILS FROM HER PRIVATE ACCOUNT


The NY Times article by Michael S. Schmidt has a tame-sounding headline:  “State Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn’t Hand Over”  —   IT AIN'T TAME,  AND BOY,  IT IS PITHY


The most important take-aways are: 1) that the NY Times made John Boehner look like he was dragging his feet not going after >>>  Bill and Hillary Clinton’s SERVER at their home in Chappaqua <<<   —   AND  —    2) GOP Presidential Candidate, Senator Lindsay Graham, wants to make Clinton’s missing State Department E-Mails part of his campaign for president; and that seems OK with the NY Times


The biggest news of the day on the Hillary Clinton-Benghazi front is that the New York Times is bashing Hillary Clinton again over her handling of Emails while she was Secretary of State. It’s no accident that the NY Times by-line on all of this again goes to Mike Schmidt  —   he’s the guy who broke the whole Hillary private E-Mail story in the first place.  So in its own Times-ish way of doing things,  the NY Times is DOUBLING-DOWN AGAINST HILLARY ON EMAILS  —  and the takeaway is this   —   FIRST,  HILLARY YOU HAVE TO TURN OVER THE SERVER TO CONGRESS  —   AND SECOND, THIS IS A LEGITIMATE ISSUE TO BE RAISED BY YOUR OPPONENTS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.......

According to the article in today’s New York Times by Michael S. Schmidt, “The State Department said on Thursday that 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she has turned over, raising new questions about whether she deleted work-related emails from the private account she used exclusively while in office....” (See “:  “State Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn’t Hand Over” by Michael S. Schmidt, 6-25-15 [Print editions 6-26-15]  NY Times/ Politics [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/us/state-dept-gets-libya-emails-that-clinton-didnt-hand-over.html?_r=0]).

A very important part of the Times-Schmidt article says, “....  Republicans said that the State Department’s statement was likely to increase pressure on the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to subpoena the server in Mrs. Clinton’s home that housed the account...."


THE BLUMENTHAL E-MAILS  —   STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMS IN THE OFFICIAL RECORD NINE (9) ARE MISSING AND SIX (6) OTHERS ARE INCOMPLETE

Schmidt points out that ".... Mrs. Clinton has said that she gave the State Department about 50,000 pages of emails that she deemed to be related to her work as secretary of state and deleted roughly the same number. She said the messages she deleted were personal, relating to topics like yoga, family vacations and her mother’s funeral.... ”  However, he also notes that  “[Hillery Clinton’s] longtime confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal, responding two weeks ago to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, gave it dozens of emails he had exchanged with Mrs. Clinton when she was in office. Mr. Blumenthal did not work at the State Department at the time, but he routinely provided her with intelligence memos about Libya, some with dubious information, which Mrs. Clinton circulated to her deputies....   State Department officials then crosschecked the emails from Mr. Blumenthal with the ones Mrs. Clinton had handed over and discovered that she had not provided nine of them and portions of six others....”

Clearly, these missing E-mails about Benghazi, produced by Sidney Blumenthal pursuant to a congressional subpoena show it could be a lot more than the personal stuff described by Hillary Clinton in her now-infamous UN press conference. It clearly raises questions as to whether relevant Benghazi-related were intentionally deleted off the Clintons’ personal server by Mrs. Clinton and/or her personal operatives.

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS  — THIS BENGHAZI E-MAIL STUFF IS POLITICAL  —  AND THAT’S PERFECTLY ALRIGHT

Here’s the kicker in the Times article by Michael Schmidt  —   “....  The disclosure [by the U.S. State Department] appeared to open the door for Republicans on Capitol Hill to get more deeply involved in the issue. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is running for president, said he planned to send a series of questions to the State Department about the missing emails and about why it allowed her to use the personal account....  Republicans said that the State Department’s statement was likely to increase pressure on the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to subpoena the server in Mrs. Clinton’s home that housed the account.”

QUESTIONS GO BEYOND HILLARY CLINTON’S E-MAILS 

The final issue raised in the Schmidt-Times article is this:   “...  While the State Department acknowledged that it did not have several of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, it also told the Benghazi committee that it had not turned over other messages of hers. The department said that it had not done so because the contents of those messages fell outside the requests made by the committee....  'The State Department is working diligently to review and publish the 55,000 pages of emails we received from former Secretary Clinton,'  it said in a statement....  That statement is unlikely to satisfy the committee, which believes it has been clear in its requests. Members of the panel have contended that the State Department has withheld documents to protect Mrs. Clinton and grind the investigation to a halt....”

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You left out the important stuff. The CNN News Poll taken in New Hampshire a/k/a as "Clinton Country".

Hillary 42%
Sanders 38%

Hillary will lose Iowa & NH and then what? Is she doing the Rudy/Lindsay strategy of taking it all in Florida. Nobody comes out of Florida still breathing. That includes the Brooklyn expats !!

Anonymous said...

Well Al there goes the Presidency

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “HILLARY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS — FAST” EDITION

.... OR ELSE GET OUT THE BUTTER AND JAM — HILLARY > IS > TOAST

CNN POLLING SHOWING: “... BERNIE SANDERS... IN STATISTICAL TIE WITH HILLARY CLINTON...” — INTERNAL NUMBERS FOR WMUR-CNN SURVEY ALSO VERY BAD FOR HILLARY


According to a report in the on-line edition of “The Hill,” an article by Jonathan Easley says, “Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) has pulled into a statistical tie with Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a new poll.... The WMUR-CNN survey released Thursday finds Clinton takes 43 percent support in the Granite State, compared to 35 percent for Sanders.... Because the poll has a 5.2-percentage-point margin of error, the results mean Clinton and Sanders are in a statistical tie, according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which conducted the poll....” (See “Poll says Sanders in statistical tie with Clinton in New Hampshire” by Jonathan Easley, 6/25/15, The Hill/ Campaign [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/246224-poll-finds-sanders-in-statistical-tie-with-clinton]).

Thank you, to my best BSI, Commenter – “Anonymous 9:18 AM...” above, whose heads-up directly led to this, my instant comment (See also, “Hillary Clinton's lead over N.H. Democrats dwindling, poll finds” by Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director, 6/25/15, CNN/ [http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-martin-omalley-new-hampshire-poll/]). The CNN article also indicated that the numbers inside the overall polling were very bad for former Secretary Clinton.

Anonymous said...

todays new york times has an article about hillary staffers having trouble finding apartments in brooklyn. yeah thats hillary problem. not enough staff. her campaign has loser written all over it.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE: THE “OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT BENGHAZI STONEWALL” EDITION

SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY MIGHT RESIST APPEARING BEFORE THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI TO ANSWER FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S RESISTANCE TO TURNING OVER ALL STATE DEPARTMENT BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS TO THE COMMITTEE

ALMOST THREE YEARS IN --- AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS STILL FAR FROM READY TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE BENGHAZI MATERIAL SOUGHT BY THE CONGRESS

According to a report from Newsmax, “The State Department on Monday declined to say whether Secretary of State John Kerry would be willing to testify to a Republican-controlled congressional panel that is probing a 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.... [Chairman] Trey Gowdy, told CBS television on Sunday he would seek Kerry's testimony if the panel does not get ‘satisfaction’ on why Kerry has been so ‘recalcitrant’ in handing over State Department documents from the period of the attack.... Among other things, Gowdy is seeking emails from ten of Clinton's aides as part of his investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans....”
(See “State Dept Won't Say If Kerry Will Testify on Benghazi” Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Sandra Maler, Kevin Drawbaugh and G Crosse, 6/29/15, Newsmax & Thomson/Reuters [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/State-Department-John-Kerry-Benghazi/2015/06/29/id/652752/]).

Instead of giving any indication that the State Department will expedite the transfer of material to Gowdy’s Committee, the State Department keeps referring to material that it had previously turned over, or to its attempts to comply with a court-mandated turn-over of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s E-mails.

Apparently, Chairman Gowdy is gearing up to question Secretary Kerry about what looks like a protracted pattern of evasion and obfuscation by the State Department concerning the release of all Benghazi material to the congressional committee now charged with its investigation. It will soon be three years since these matters unfolded on September 11th 2012; and the State Department looks like it is nowhere near assembling and analyzing all the relevant material, much less turning all of it over to Gowdy’s committee.