This is a “real deal” >>> LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT <<< moment for the whole Hillary Clinton cabal, top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top
“.... This story will only get more interesting as the fearless [U.S. District Judge] Emmet G. Sullivan digs deeper. Mrs. Clinton herself should be hearing that whistle blowin’ now.” * — Sidney Powell, The Observer
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* Reference to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison"
In the NY Observer yesterday, legal writer Sidney Powell penned the following opinion piece: “While Hillary Clinton’s lawyers are stalling Congress and ‘negotiating’ the terms of her testimony before the Benghazi committee—an option not allowed to ordinary Americans like bankers, executives, or accountants, federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has hit ‘refrigerator rule #6: Enough is enough.’ Earlier this week, federal Judge Richard Leon lambasted the State Department lawyers for their stonewalling. Now Judge Sullivan has chiseled a line in concrete. He has given the State Department only a week — until August 7 — to get some answers from Hillary Clinton, and her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills — under penalty of perjury....” (See “Judge Sullivan Strikes Again The State Department has been ordered to obtain answers From Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills under penalty of perjury” by Sidney Powell, 08/01/15, NY Observer/ Opinion [http://observer.com/2015/08/judge-sullivan-strikes-again/]).
The Observer piece by Sidney Powell went on with this: “.... Judge Sullivan recently reopened the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch to obtain emails from Huma Abedin, the top Clinton aide who is married to infamous and disgraced former Congressman Anthony Wiener. Judge Sullivan reopened the case when he learned that Clinton and her staff used personal email accounts to conduct government business. This is a flagrant violation of the Federal Records Act and jeopardizes national security—prompting rapidly escalating concerns of countless ramifications internationally, nationally, and criminally. Just hours ago, in that very case, Judge Sullivan entered a remarkable order, and he has given the State Department only a week to comply. Now the State Department must produce for the court’s docket its correspondence with and between Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin, and Ms. Cheryl Mills regarding the government records in their possession; identify what servers, etc. the State Department has; require Ms. Clinton, Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills to state under oath whether they have produced all responsive materials; and, have Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills describe the extent to which they used Ms. Clinton’s server for government business.”
Ms. Powell concluded her article with this: “.... This story will only get more interesting as the fearless Emmet G. Sullivan digs deeper. Mrs. Clinton herself should be hearing that whistle blowin’ now.”
Other that “LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT ?” Enough said — FOR NOW !
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Judge Sullivan is the wild card. He dismantled George W's Justice Department over the Ted Stevens fiasco and he ain't hauling in the Hillary crew just to chat.
UPDATE: THE “MAYBE, IT WILL BECOME A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AFTER ALL” EDITION
CRITICS SAY FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON’S ACTIONS MIS-HANDLING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL ON HER PRIVATE E-MAIL COMPARED UNFAVORABLY WITH THOSE OF FORMER CIA DIRECTOR DAVID PATREAUS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED FOR LESS SIGNIFICANT MIS-HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL
ANOTHER PRECEDENT WOULD BE THE PROSECUTION OF FORMER CIA DIRECTOR JOHN C. DEUTCH, WHO HAD STORED CLASSIFIED MATERIAL ON SEVERAL PERSONAL DEVICES (LAP-TOP COMPUTERS)
According to a report in the Washington Times, “With U.S. intelligence officials scrambling to contain damage from potentially hundreds of spy agency secrets in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private emails, questions are mounting over why the Justice Department has not yet opened a criminal investigation against the Democratic presidential front-runner for mishandling a mountain of classified information.... [S]ome secrecy experts believe that what the former secretary of state did was far more egregious than the mishandling of information that saw former CIA Director David H. Petraeus sentenced to two years probation and [having to pay] a $100,000 fine....” (See “Calls mount for Hillary Clinton criminal investigation amid email data breach fears” by Guy Taylor, 8/2/15, The Washington Times [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/2/hillary-clinton-emails-calls-mount-for-criminal-in/?page=all]).
The Washington Times article goes on to say, “.... [T]here is other precedent by which the Justice Department may pursue a criminal investigation.... Among the more high-profile instances of a former official facing charges for storing classified information on a personal device is one that came in the mid-1990s and involved material on several laptops owned by John M. Deutch, who, at the time, had just retired as director of the CIA.... Mr. Deutch ultimately was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001....”
NOTE & BACKFILL: THE “TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES” EDITION
STATE DEPARTMENT FACES APPROXIMATELY THIRTY (30) LAWSUITS SEEKING SOME OR ALL OF HILLARY CLINTON’S E-EMAILS AND THOSE OF HER ASSOCIATES THAT USED HER SERVER — THEY ARE IN FRONT OF DIFFERENT JUDGES, THEY SEEK DIFFERENT MATERIAL, AND THEY ARE UNDER DIFFERING SCHEDULES AND PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS
THE EFFECTS & CONSEQUENCES OF ANY SWORN STATEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE FORTHCOMING FROM HILLARY CLINTON, HUMA ABEDIN, AND/OR CHERYL MILLS COULD EXTEND FAR BEYOND THE SPECIFIC CASE IN WHICH THEY ARE NOW ORDERED
According to Politico’s report on the Emmet Sullivan order involving Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills — “.... [The U.S. State Department] now faces about 30 lawsuits seeking some or all of the Clinton emails and playing out in front of a variety of different judges.... [On Friday, Judge Emmet Sullivan] — a Bill Clinton appointee — told State to seek certifications from Hillary Clinton, [Huma] Abedin and former Deputy Secretary of State Cheryl Mills that they've produced all records related to Abedin's employment, even if they kept those records outside official State Department systems.... [According to Politico’s quoting from Judge Sullivan’s Order] ‘As related to Judicial Watch's FOIA requests in this case, the Government is HEREBY ORDERED to: (1) identify any and all servers, accounts, hard drives, or other devices currently in the possession or control of the State Department or otherwise that may contain responsive information; (2) request that the above named individuals confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all responsive information that was or is in their possession as a result of their employment at the State Department.... If all such information has not yet been produced, the Government shall request the above named individuals produce the information forthwith; and (3) request that the above named individuals describe, under penalty of perjury, the extent to which Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills used Mrs. Clinton's email server to conduct official government business.’..." ( See “Judge wants Clinton certification on emails” by Josh Gerstein, 8/1/15, Politico/ Under the Radar [http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/08/judge-wants-clinton-to-certify-shes-turned-over-some-211652.html]).
Politico went on to quote one of the parties seeking the information, as folows: “.... ‘This blockbuster ruling is the most significant legal development to date in the ongoing Clinton email scandal. Hillary Clinton will now have to answer, under penalty of perjury, to a federal court about the separate email server she and her aides used to avoid accountability to the American people,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. ‘This court action shows that the rule of law and public’s right to know will no longer take a back seat to politics. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration that is covering for her are not above the law.’...”
Needles to say, sworn information obtained in one case might well effect matters going on in the other cases involving Hillary's E-mails. Perhaps more important, the very same sworn statements obtained in the various court cases might take particular and different significance in the context of the Congressional hearings being chaired by Trey Gowdy.
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