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State: Benghazi emails involving Clinton recovered by FBI

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BIESECKER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.

 

Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department's lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.

 

Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.

 

The hearing was held in one of several lawsuits filed by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has sued over access to government records involving the Democratic presidential nominee. The State Department has said the FBI provided it with about 14,900 emails purported not to have been among those previously released.

 

Clinton previously had said she withheld and deleted only personal emails not related to her duties as secretary of state. With the November election little more than two months away, Republicans are pressing for the release of as many documents related to Clinton as possible.

 

In a separate development Tuesday, Judicial Watch submitted 25 questions to Clinton about her 2009 decision to rely on a private server in the basement of her New York home rather than a government email account.

 

Clinton was ordered earlier this month by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to answer the group's questions under oath. The judge's order was only a partial victory for the group, which had sought to depose Clinton in person.

 

It was not immediately clear from the wording of Sullivan's order whether Clinton must answer the questions before or after the November election. Judicial Watch contends the deadline is Sept. 29.

 

Clinton lawyer David Kendall did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment about the timing of his client's planned response. A woman who answered the phone at Sullivan's chambers said he was unavailable to provide clarification.

 

A law enforcement official also told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the FBI is expected to release documents soon related to its investigation, which focused on whether Clinton and her aides mishandled government secrets.

 

The official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity, said documents in the case would be made public as the FBI responds to Freedom of Information Act requests. It wasn't immediately clear when the documents would be released or exactly what they would include.

 

Though he described Clinton's actions as "extremely careless," FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence that anyone intended to break the law and said "no reasonable prosecutor" would have brought a criminal case.

 

The FBI this month provided Congress portions of its file from the agency's yearlong investigation.

 

The FBI interviewed Clinton for several hours at FBI headquarters in Washington just days before announcing its decision to close the investigation. The Justice Department accepted the FBI's recommendation.

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-08-31

[ClutchClark]

30 emails will take one month to redact?

 

One email a day?

 

Do they just have one person at the State Dept that is working on this?

 

When the judge asked the State Dept lawyers why it would take so long they responded, "We hope to have an answer for you in a week". One week to even find out why the process is moving at a snails pace? 

 

As Secretary of State, Clinton oversaw the State Dept. 

 

Sadly, efficiency must not have been high on the priority list. 

 

Now if someone were the cynical sort they might suggest there is an intentional stall tactic going on but that is a ridiculous claim. After all, any truly compromising emails have long since been destroyed. 

 

This lethargic speed of the State Dept is simply the speed that the Beaurocratic Wheel spins in Washington.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 2016 by ClutchClark

[arjunadawn]

America is truly a people with amnesia. There has not been a single or collected series of scandals in my life time that even approached the nonstop siren of Hillary's apparent crimes. It is beyond credible to suggest that so much smoke has no fire. Nothing smoulders this much, for this long, variously dark, often white billowing clouds of scandal, unless... there is fire. At least Al Capone and John Gotti had personal gravitas, charisma. Hillary runs a crooked empire with a trail of dead bodies and billions changing hands AND she is a sociopath who laughs at the deaths of others. Hillary sent those men to their deaths as a sterilized mission and the Annex ruined the day by getting involved; thus the stand down orders.

 

The NSA has these emails. Jeez, wiping the server is enough to go to prison all on its own. If she is elected, after all this criminal activity, there really is no hope left for America at all.

 

[ClutchClark]

Is there even one hillary supporter here who thinks FBI Director James Comey's assessment of hillary as "extremely careless" in her duties is a hint of the woman's character at all? 

 

And please try and avoid responding by attacking Trump--I am asking about Dems views of hillary on a thread about hillary. 

 

 

Edited August 30, 2016 by ClutchClark

[Credo]

I think  a lot of people are a little sick of Benghazi.   The FBI has investigated and it's time to remove on, but there seems to be a group that simply won't let it go.   

 

 

[ClutchClark]

5 minutes ago, Credo said:

I think  a lot of people are a little sick of Benghazi.   The FBI has investigated and it's time to remove on, but there seems to be a group that simply won't let it go.   

 

 

 

I hear ya.

 

The whole thing has certainly made me sick time and again.

 

It was guaranteed to be a dog & pony show from the start--hillary simply has too much power to be tsken down. 

 

The only thing that amazes me is how her supporters are unphased by it all. The complete indifference is hard to fathom. 

 

[Ulysses G.]

50 minutes ago, Credo said:

I think  a lot of people are a little sick of Benghazi. 

 

 

Indeed and they are mostly very partisan Democrats.

[SheungWan]

1 hour ago, arjunadawn said:

America is truly a people with amnesia. There has not been a single or collected series of scandals in my life time that even approached the nonstop siren of Hillary's apparent crimes. It is beyond credible to suggest that so much smoke has no fire. Nothing smoulders this much, for this long, variously dark, often white billowing clouds of scandal, unless... there is fire. At least Al Capone and John Gotti had personal gravitas, charisma. Hillary runs a crooked empire with a trail of dead bodies and billions changing hands AND she is a sociopath who laughs at the deaths of others. Hillary sent those men to their deaths as a sterilized mission and the Annex ruined the day by getting involved; thus the stand down orders.

 

The NSA has these emails. Jeez, wiping the server is enough to go to prison all on its own. If she is elected, after all this criminal activity, there really is no hope left for America at all.

 

 

I guess you were born after Watergate then.

[SheungWan]

1 hour ago, ClutchClark said:

Is there even one hillary supporter here who thinks FBI Director James Comey's assessment of hillary as "extremely careless" in her duties is a hint of the woman's character at all? 

 

And please try and avoid responding by attacking Trump--I am asking about Dems views of hillary on a thread about hillary. 

 

 

 

I assume you would rather have Trump as President.

Edited August 31, 2016 by SheungWan

[Boon Mee]

Posted originally here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/939781-clinton-says-controversies-behind-her-trump-begs-to-differ/?page=4

 

ID #91

  No mention thus far regarding the discredited video she originally blamed the deaths on. 

Edited August 31, 2016 by Boon Mee

[ClutchClark]

35 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

 

I assume you would rather have Trump as President.

 

I would prefer to have neither Trump or hillary but I would be happy to see the GOP in the WH.

[SheungWan]

Just now, ClutchClark said:

 

I would prefer to have neither Trump or hillary but I would be happy to see the GOP in the WH.

 

That reads Trump.

[craigt3365]

1 hour ago, arjunadawn said:

America is truly a people with amnesia. There has not been a single or collected series of scandals in my life time that even approached the nonstop siren of Hillary's apparent crimes. It is beyond credible to suggest that so much smoke has no fire. Nothing smoulders this much, for this long, variously dark, often white billowing clouds of scandal, unless... there is fire. At least Al Capone and John Gotti had personal gravitas, charisma. Hillary runs a crooked empire with a trail of dead bodies and billions changing hands AND she is a sociopath who laughs at the deaths of others. Hillary sent those men to their deaths as a sterilized mission and the Annex ruined the day by getting involved; thus the stand down orders.

 

The NSA has these emails. Jeez, wiping the server is enough to go to prison all on its own. If she is elected, after all this criminal activity, there really is no hope left for America at all.

 

You know what every person in America thinks?  And how good their memory is? 

 

People are up in arms about this.  As proven by this post.There's many facets to this, and she is a powerful person.  Not an easy task.  Lady justice may be slow, but she is blind.  The truth as best it can will come out.  Sadly, almost all politicians lie.

[Pinot]

All the above still hoping and praying to gin up some shade for HRC. They're only hope really. 

 

"Madam President," boys. Get used to it. 

[Boon Mee]

Just now, Pinot said:

All the above still hoping and praying to gin up some shade for HRC. They're only hope really. 

 

"Madam President," boys. Get used to it. 

Well, as we are aware, the Fix is in.  In many aspects of this next election.  

Shade has been provided for Crooked Hillary by the Media for so long it's not true.

[Pinot]

Faux News has made an industry out of throwing shade on HRC. They've got a low-info audience that slurps it up like pigs at the trough. 

 

The Fix is in is the new battle cry of the Trumpeteers. The only fix is America fixing to send cheeto jesus back to his gilded (highly leveraged) cage for good. 

 

Face it, Trump doesn't have a prayer and the Republican party is toast.  

[craigt3365]

16 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Well, as we are aware, the Fix is in.  In many aspects of this next election.  

Shade has been provided for Crooked Hillary by the Media for so long it's not true.

Perhaps by some media sites, but if there was solid proof the media could get their hands on, it'd be out in a flash.  Impossible to hide it as a network somewhere would pay big bucks for it.  One nice thing about freedom of speech.

[Boon Mee]

Just now, craigt3365 said:

Perhaps by some media sites, but if there was solid proof the media could get their hands on, it'd be out in a flash.  Impossible to hide it as a network somewhere would pay big bucks for it.  One nice thing about freedom of speech.

Well, it's dribbling out bit by bit with Julian Assage releasing damaging information on Crooked Hillery.

Whether or not the sheep that vote for her acknowledge her crimes is the question.

[craigt3365]

2 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Well, it's dribbling out bit by bit with Julian Assage releasing damaging information on Crooked Hillery.

Whether or not the sheep that vote for her acknowledge her crimes is the question.

Julian Assange is a criminal who publishes people's private information.  He needs to face the consequences for that.  Not all information needs to be in the public eye.  I'm sure you'll agree your's doesn't.

 

I think this is more about politics than anything else.  Sadly.  And fodder for conspiracy theorists.

[Boon Mee]

3 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Julian Assange is a criminal who publishes people's private information.  He needs to face the consequences for that.  Not all information needs to be in the public eye.  I'm sure you'll agree your's doesn't.

 

I think this is more about politics than anything else.  Sadly.  And fodder for conspiracy theorists.

Data coming out regarding just one scandal - the Clinton Foundation, is certainly not conspiracy stuff.

[craigt3365]

1 minute ago, Boon Mee said:

Data coming out regarding just one scandal - the Clinton Foundation, is certainly not conspiracy stuff.

Agreed, but as reported by the investigators, they feel the push for the investigation is politically motivated.  One reason they are pushing back.

[Rob13]

3 hours ago, Credo said:

I think  a lot of people are a little sick of Benghazi.   The FBI has investigated and it's time to remove on, but there seems to be a group that simply won't let it go.   

 

 

 

And alot of people are not sick of it. Many people would like to see the truth come out and let Hillary have her day in court. Seems the only people who want to let it go are the Clinton supporters who live in fear of learning that their candidate might actually be as corrupt as the rest of the world already knows. It's way past time for the Clintons to show some transparency in their dealings. 

[Ulysses G.]

8 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Agreed, but as reported by the investigators, they feel the push for the investigation is politically motivated.  One reason they are pushing back.

 

Sure it is political, but so are those trying to cover it up.

[Rob13]

Of course it's political. OTOH,  she wants to be the C in C, people need to see how she handled herself as Sec of State to decide to vote for her or not. So far all she's managed to do is look like she's got something to hide.

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Though he described Clinton's actions as "extremely careless," FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence that anyone intended to break the law and said "no reasonable prosecutor" would have brought a criminal case.

The Clintons: I did not inhale. I never had sex with that woman. I never intended to break the law, it was just in my way.

[Rob13]

All the democrats had in '72 was Watergate. If there's something there, Benghazi is more than enough. Especially when the candidate already has trust issues.

[Publicus]

6 minutes ago, Rob13 said:

 

 

In that case it's an easy job for Hillary to take that away from them by releasing all the files and let the world see there's nothing to hide. Easy slam dunk really; unless of course, there is something to hide.

 

The glib statement is void of meaning.

 

Republicans dominated by a mob of right wingers have spent almost 30 years trying to stop the Clinton name being on any ballot in a November election anywhere at any time. The Clinton name on a November ballot is a winner and the object of elections is to win.

 

With Trump consistently behind in all the polling nationally and in the battleground states, the right are more desperate than ever. All the howling about Benghazi and emails has changed nothing in respect of how Americans will vote.

 

With Republicans and rightwhingnuts elections have become blood sport. Which makes the innocent sounding statement of the post vacuous. And rightwhingers just hate a political vacuum. 

[Rob13]

1 minute ago, Publicus said:

The glib statement is void of meaning.

 

 

 

So let her come clean and prove all the 'rightwingnuts' wrong. Till then they have a valid point.

[craigt3365]

The committee is due to release their findings soon.  Interesting to read why they are taking so long...they want to get it done right, not just quickly.  But yes, it's all political.

[Johpa]

12 minutes ago, Rob13 said:

All the democrats had in '72 was Watergate. If there's something there, Benghazi is more than enough. Especially when the candidate already has trust issues.

 

 

The Clintons certainly have trust issues, but they are not related to Benghazi where numerous investigations have indeed turned up that there was nothing there.  But there remain those skeptics who imagine that elite US military teams are in the habit of jumping into hot urban combat zones without any planning at a moments notice just like in the action movies which they, the skeptics, hilariously mistake for reality.