IN A FIOA CASE INVOLVING THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT, THE ATTORNEY FOR CHERYL MILLS, HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSISTANT, HAS TOLD A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE — MS. MILLS HAS NO “PAPER COPIES OF ... RECORDS IN HER POSSESSION” – AND – FOLLOWING PRODUCTION OF [A VERSION] OF THE ELECTRONIC RECORDS, MILL’S ATTORNEY HAS “... INSTRUCTED HER TO DELETE ANY AND ALL ELECTRONIC RECORDS IN HER POSSESSION...”
PLAINTIFF IN CIVIL CASE IN FEDERAL COURT MOVED FOR EMERGENCY ORDER TO PRESERVE EVIDENCE IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE SERIOUS MISCONDUCT; AND, VERY LIKELY, A CRIMINAL VIOLATION
A legal correspondent for the Observer, Sidney Powell, reports that “[i]n a letter sent to the U.S. State Department and just filed today with U.S. federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the counsel for Cheryl Mills wrote: ‘Ms. Mills does not believe that she has paper copies of potential records in her possession. Following our production on August 10, 2015 [of the defense counsel’s version of the electronic records], we have instructed her to delete any and all electronic records in her possession.’... That is a far stretch from a statement by Ms. Mills under penalty of perjury, and she and her lawyers are planning to delete the emails Judge Sullivan wants produced[ ].... Judicial Watch has made an emergency filing in Judge Sullivan’s court to stop the further destruction of evidence of what may very well be assorted criminal conduct and violations of numerous federal laws.... ( See “BREAKING: Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton” by Sidney Powell, 8/7/15, NY Observer [http://observer.com/2015/08/breaking-cheryl-mills-to-destroy-emails-about-hillary-clinton/]).
The article’s author, Sidney Powell, also made note of the following: “.... This all just surfaced in State Department’s status report filed today in response to Judge Sullivan’s order. Yesterday evening, State finally produced some correspondence between it and Hillary’s right and left hands—Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills. It has not produced its correspondence with Mrs. Clinton, and it is now clear that Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills plan to thumb their noses at the Judge and the State Department. No one is “cooperating,” despite their empty rhetoric to the contrary....”
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Why would anyone with half a brain talk to a law enforcement agent? Wanna end up like Martha Stewart?
BACKFILL: THE “ALL THE ‘DOCUMENTS’ ARE ‘FEDERAL RECORDS’ ” EDITION
THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAD REQUESTED CLINTON’S AIDES TO TURN OVER “ALL COPIES” OF “ANY E-MAILS THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED A POTENTIAL FEDERAL RECORD” — “WHETHER THOSE BE IN ELECTRONIC, PRINT FORM, OR BOTH”
WHAT PART OF “ALL COPIES” AND “THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED A POTENTIAL FEDERAL RECORD” DO HILLARY CLINTON, CHERYL MILLS AND HUMA ABEDIN AND THEIR ATTORNEYS NOT GET ?
An article by Sarah Westwood, that appeared in yesterday’s "Washington Examiner" laid out a timeline for the demands for “documents” by various parties and government agencies connected to FOIA requests involving Hillary Clinton’s E-mails and those of her close aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin ( See “State Department demands Hillary aides return all copies of emails” by Sarah Westwood, 8/7/15, The Washington Examiner [http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-demands-hillary-aides-return-all-copies-of-emails/article/2569786]).
According to Ms. Westwood, “State Department officials released documents Thursday that indicated the agency asked Hillary Clinton's top aides to hand over all copies of private email records that may be government-related at the end of July... In more than a dozen letters produced through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, State [Department] officials indicated they were facing pressure from congressional investigators looking into Benghazi.... The process of requesting aides' emails began in November of last year, when the agency began its efforts to recover the former secretary's emails....”
The Westwood article also listed the variety of excuses used by Mills and Abedin, and their lawyers, wwhich have dragged out the process – as well as the State Department’s own foot dragging and its failure to disclose what was going on with Clinton and her aides vis a vis documents still in their possession.
This particular analysis by Sarah Westwood and the "Washington Examiner” concluded with this: “.... By July 31, [the State Department’s top records official, Patrick] Kennedy requested all copies of any emails that could be considered a potential federal record from Mills and Abedin, whether those be in electronic, print form, or both.... The escalating internal struggle to recover the documents reflects the public scrutiny of Clinton's email arrangement, which has grown as emerging details have painted a picture of an elaborate attempt to evade archival requirements.”
GIVEN THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S INSTRUCTIONS TO TURN OVER “ALL COPIES” OF "POTENTIAL" FEDERAL RECORDS, CHERYL MILLS’ ATTORNEY’S INSTRUCTIONS ARE SHOCKING
Inasmuch as the State Department documents custodian had previously demanded “all copies” of “potential federal records” – “whether those be in electronic, print form, or both”; it is completely shocking that Cheryl Mills’ attorney has instructed his client to delete or otherwise destroy some of those documents on August 10th – as is indicated in my main post above.
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