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Sep 12, 2015 15:39:35 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
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Once Again Obama's Justice Department Steps In And Rejected Criminal Probe of Hitlary Aide's Overpayment
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 12 Sep 2015
Federal investigators opened a criminal investigation into whether top Hitlary Clinton aide Huma Abedin improperly took maternity and vacation time while working at the State Department, but the Justice Department declined to follow through on its findings, according to documents unveiled in the case.
The FBI opened its criminal investigation into allegations of theft in 2013, reports Politico, after Abedin and her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, traveled to Europe in 2011 for a "babymoon" before their child was born.
According to reports, Abedin filed time sheets that charged the government for overtime, vacation pay, and maternity leave after she became a State Department contractor. When she left the department, she received a $33,000 lump-sum payment, but almost $11,000 of that was deemed improper by investigators.
She has admitted that she likely did not fill a required form when she went on the two-week vacation, resulting in the vacation time being cashed out to her in the lump-sum payment.
It is not clear why the Justice Department's public integrity unit didn't take up the investigation, reports Politico, but the case is now being handled through a claim process, with State asking Abedin to repay the vacation time pay.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the news that the matter is being handled as an administrative claim exonerates Abedin.
"This is someone who has spent nearly two decades in public service, and is widely known for her integrity and tireless work ethic, said Merrill in a statement for this story. After the birth of her son, she took maternity leave. The IG had questions about the details of her leave, Huma answered. There is a review ongoing. Anything beyond that is the product of partisan leaks with a clear agenda.
Abedin's attorneys say they're trying to fight the over payment issue, as they can prove she was working during the maternity leave and vacation time in question, even though she did not log it in properly to the State Department system.
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has been trying to determine if State's watchdog has been trying to elevate the disagreement into a criminal inquiry. He claims the denials don't match up with the State Department's investigative general's notice, and has written to Abedin's legal team to seek further information.
One of Abedin's attorneys, Miguel Rodriguez said the case has never been a criminal investigation, as the Inspector General cannot prosecute criminal allegations.
"That is the province of the Department of Justice, which rightly declined to pursue this matter involving the State Department's miscalculation of a new mother's maternity leave and personal leave," said Rodriguez.
The IG report has not yet been made public, but Grassley said the watchdog also found Abedin billed State for more than she was permitted and also exceeded the government's time limit for contractors by more than 100 days.
Abedin, in her last months at State, also received paychecks from the Clinton Foundation and a private-sector consulting firm, leading Grassley to question if she was guilty of a conflict of interest.
Report: Huma Abedin Email Includes Classified Intel From Three Agencies
By Courtney Coren | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015
There was one email found among those on Hillary Clinton's server that was sent from her aide Huma Abedin that included classified information from three different federal agencies, Fox News is reporting.
That email is what caused the FBI to launch its investigation into Clinton's server, Fox News learned. The email was sent in April 2011 and included classified intelligence from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
This is a violation of an executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, which defines rules for "classifying, safeguarding and declassifying national security information." It specifically says that only the intelligence agency where the classified information was sent is able to declassify it.
However, the State Department released the email in May as part of the documents relating to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in B******i, Libya.
The three agencies confirmed with the inspector general that is tasked with probing the intelligence community that when that intelligence was sent by Abedin to Clinton's private email account that it was indeed classified and that it still is.
The Clinton campaign has said that the email on the private server kept at Clinton's home is not classified and that whether or not something is classified is a matter of opinion.
"What you're seeing now is a disagreement between agencies saying, 'You know what, they should've.' And the other saying, 'No they shouldn't.' That has nothing to do with me," Clinton said last week.
Last Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the federal agency is getting a second opinion on the status of the emails' classification from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"We've asked the Director of National Intelligence for another assessment of those two, the two that the ICIG had determined should have been classified or at least portions of which should have been classified top secret. So we've asked the DNI to look at that and we'll see what happens," Kirby said.
However, a source told Fox News that once an agency determines that something is classified that it is "non-negotiable," and there is no appeals process in place.
Fox News is also reporting that the Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy, who was involved in the controversy surrounding the B******i attack, is running interference on Capitol Hill regarding the email controversy.
Kennedy reportedly visited lawmakers in July and argued that the Abedin email along with another one sent in 2012 by another Clinton aide, Jake Sullivan, are not classified. The under secretary argued that the information in the emails was already public.
However, one source said that it was odd that Kennedy wanted to discuss the matter in a secure facility for classified information, or a SCIF, while arguing that the Abedin email was not classified.
The source also said that Kennedy cited a report from the Irish Times in 2011 as evidence, but that the details were not comparable. Kennedy also said that someone from the CIA agreed with his conclusion. But Fox notes that the CIA was not the agency that sent the email.
WaPo: A Glimpse Into Abedin's Life in the Clinton Bubble
By Jason Devaney | Friday, 28 Aug 2015
A new report provides a glimpse into Huma Abedin's life inside the Hillary Clinton bubble, a life that ties her to the former secretary of state's email scandal threatening to derail her p**********l campaign.
Abedin has worked closely with Clinton ever since she was a White House intern in 1996 during President Bill Clinton's second term in office. Today, Abedin is Clinton's right-hand woman on the campaign trail but she's been implicated in the email scandal stemming from Clinton's use of a private email address and server during her time as secretary of state.
A Washington Post report details Abedin's history with Clinton.
Reports suggest emails from Abedin and another Clinton aide at the state department, Jake Sullivan, triggered the FBI investigation into Clinton's alternative email setup which eventually involved a small company in Denver with an office in a loft apartment storing her email server in a bathroom closet.
Abedin was Clinton's top aide while she was secretary of state. She was designated a "special government employee," which allowed her to work for the government on a part-time status while holding down two more positions outside of government work. Critics say she was ineligible for the program, according to the Post report.
Abedin is now employed by the Clinton campaign as a senior advisor, and has accompanied the former first lady on the campaign trail.
"She has a pretty symbiotic and unique relationship with Hillary," publisher and Clinton associate Niall ODowd told the Post. "It's almost mother-daughter."
While working for Clinton in the State Department, Abedin was employed by Teneo, a consulting firm that was co-founded by a longtime aide of Bill Clinton. Some people, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), think Abedin violated federal law by accepting thousands of dollars in unused vacation time when she left the state department. Her dual roles of working in both the state department and an international consulting firm have also come into question.
Abedin is also being investigated by the FBI, alongside Clinton, on whether any classified information passed through her private email address that was set up on Clinton's server.
~~ IT JUST WON'T END! ~~
Once Again Obama's Justice Department Steps In And Rejected Criminal Probe of Hitlary Aide's Overpayment
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 12 Sep 2015
Federal investigators opened a criminal investigation into whether top Hitlary Clinton aide Huma Abedin improperly took maternity and vacation time while working at the State Department, but the Justice Department declined to follow through on its findings, according to documents unveiled in the case.
The FBI opened its criminal investigation into allegations of theft in 2013, reports Politico, after Abedin and her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, traveled to Europe in 2011 for a "babymoon" before their child was born.
According to reports, Abedin filed time sheets that charged the government for overtime, vacation pay, and maternity leave after she became a State Department contractor. When she left the department, she received a $33,000 lump-sum payment, but almost $11,000 of that was deemed improper by investigators.
She has admitted that she likely did not fill a required form when she went on the two-week vacation, resulting in the vacation time being cashed out to her in the lump-sum payment.
It is not clear why the Justice Department's public integrity unit didn't take up the investigation, reports Politico, but the case is now being handled through a claim process, with State asking Abedin to repay the vacation time pay.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the news that the matter is being handled as an administrative claim exonerates Abedin.
"This is someone who has spent nearly two decades in public service, and is widely known for her integrity and tireless work ethic, said Merrill in a statement for this story. After the birth of her son, she took maternity leave. The IG had questions about the details of her leave, Huma answered. There is a review ongoing. Anything beyond that is the product of partisan leaks with a clear agenda.
Abedin's attorneys say they're trying to fight the over payment issue, as they can prove she was working during the maternity leave and vacation time in question, even though she did not log it in properly to the State Department system.
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has been trying to determine if State's watchdog has been trying to elevate the disagreement into a criminal inquiry. He claims the denials don't match up with the State Department's investigative general's notice, and has written to Abedin's legal team to seek further information.
One of Abedin's attorneys, Miguel Rodriguez said the case has never been a criminal investigation, as the Inspector General cannot prosecute criminal allegations.
"That is the province of the Department of Justice, which rightly declined to pursue this matter involving the State Department's miscalculation of a new mother's maternity leave and personal leave," said Rodriguez.
The IG report has not yet been made public, but Grassley said the watchdog also found Abedin billed State for more than she was permitted and also exceeded the government's time limit for contractors by more than 100 days.
Abedin, in her last months at State, also received paychecks from the Clinton Foundation and a private-sector consulting firm, leading Grassley to question if she was guilty of a conflict of interest.
Report: Huma Abedin Email Includes Classified Intel From Three Agencies
By Courtney Coren | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015
There was one email found among those on Hillary Clinton's server that was sent from her aide Huma Abedin that included classified information from three different federal agencies, Fox News is reporting.
That email is what caused the FBI to launch its investigation into Clinton's server, Fox News learned. The email was sent in April 2011 and included classified intelligence from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
This is a violation of an executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, which defines rules for "classifying, safeguarding and declassifying national security information." It specifically says that only the intelligence agency where the classified information was sent is able to declassify it.
However, the State Department released the email in May as part of the documents relating to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in B******i, Libya.
The three agencies confirmed with the inspector general that is tasked with probing the intelligence community that when that intelligence was sent by Abedin to Clinton's private email account that it was indeed classified and that it still is.
The Clinton campaign has said that the email on the private server kept at Clinton's home is not classified and that whether or not something is classified is a matter of opinion.
"What you're seeing now is a disagreement between agencies saying, 'You know what, they should've.' And the other saying, 'No they shouldn't.' That has nothing to do with me," Clinton said last week.
Last Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the federal agency is getting a second opinion on the status of the emails' classification from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"We've asked the Director of National Intelligence for another assessment of those two, the two that the ICIG had determined should have been classified or at least portions of which should have been classified top secret. So we've asked the DNI to look at that and we'll see what happens," Kirby said.
However, a source told Fox News that once an agency determines that something is classified that it is "non-negotiable," and there is no appeals process in place.
Fox News is also reporting that the Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy, who was involved in the controversy surrounding the B******i attack, is running interference on Capitol Hill regarding the email controversy.
Kennedy reportedly visited lawmakers in July and argued that the Abedin email along with another one sent in 2012 by another Clinton aide, Jake Sullivan, are not classified. The under secretary argued that the information in the emails was already public.
However, one source said that it was odd that Kennedy wanted to discuss the matter in a secure facility for classified information, or a SCIF, while arguing that the Abedin email was not classified.
The source also said that Kennedy cited a report from the Irish Times in 2011 as evidence, but that the details were not comparable. Kennedy also said that someone from the CIA agreed with his conclusion. But Fox notes that the CIA was not the agency that sent the email.
WaPo: A Glimpse Into Abedin's Life in the Clinton Bubble
By Jason Devaney | Friday, 28 Aug 2015
A new report provides a glimpse into Huma Abedin's life inside the Hillary Clinton bubble, a life that ties her to the former secretary of state's email scandal threatening to derail her p**********l campaign.
Abedin has worked closely with Clinton ever since she was a White House intern in 1996 during President Bill Clinton's second term in office. Today, Abedin is Clinton's right-hand woman on the campaign trail but she's been implicated in the email scandal stemming from Clinton's use of a private email address and server during her time as secretary of state.
A Washington Post report details Abedin's history with Clinton.
Reports suggest emails from Abedin and another Clinton aide at the state department, Jake Sullivan, triggered the FBI investigation into Clinton's alternative email setup which eventually involved a small company in Denver with an office in a loft apartment storing her email server in a bathroom closet.
Abedin was Clinton's top aide while she was secretary of state. She was designated a "special government employee," which allowed her to work for the government on a part-time status while holding down two more positions outside of government work. Critics say she was ineligible for the program, according to the Post report.
Abedin is now employed by the Clinton campaign as a senior advisor, and has accompanied the former first lady on the campaign trail.
"She has a pretty symbiotic and unique relationship with Hillary," publisher and Clinton associate Niall ODowd told the Post. "It's almost mother-daughter."
While working for Clinton in the State Department, Abedin was employed by Teneo, a consulting firm that was co-founded by a longtime aide of Bill Clinton. Some people, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), think Abedin violated federal law by accepting thousands of dollars in unused vacation time when she left the state department. Her dual roles of working in both the state department and an international consulting firm have also come into question.
Abedin is also being investigated by the FBI, alongside Clinton, on whether any classified information passed through her private email address that was set up on Clinton's server.
~~ IT JUST WON'T END! ~~
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Sep 12, 2015 17:36:34 #
Sep 12, 2015 18:03:53 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
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Sep 12, 2015 18:20:30 #
Naturally. We can't have our golden boy tarnished. Obama's justice department must be burning the midnight oil nightly with all the crap his office has pulled. None will see jail.
Meanwhile our prisons run buy for profit corporations are overbooked by low level criminals and doing just fine.
Meanwhile our prisons run buy for profit corporations are overbooked by low level criminals and doing just fine.
Sep 12, 2015 23:21:44 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
I agree with all of you, damn either I'm getting better or you folks are, ha ha... :-)
Sep 12, 2015 23:35:20 #
missinglink wrote:
Naturally. We can't have our golden boy tarnished. Obama's justice department must be burning the midnight oil nightly with all the crap his office has pulled. None will see jail.
Meanwhile our prisons run buy for profit corporations are overbooked by low level criminals and doing just fine.
Meanwhile our prisons run buy for profit corporations are overbooked by low level criminals and doing just fine.
You can bet they are running different scenarios to see what and how to cover their bases.
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