Archives for March 2015

Read the full story: National Review

Meanwhile, the government accountability group Cause of Action made three new FOIA requests regarding HRC’s email use. One is being sent to the State Department’s Inspector General, asking for all documents relating to any review, audit or investigation, whether merely considered, ongoing or completed, concerning Secretary’s Clinton’s compliance with electronic recordkeeping requirements and use of personal devices for agency business. The group is also asking for “All documents, including but not limited to electronic communications, including any person at the White House, the U.S. Department of State, the Clinton Family Foundation, and the Clinton Foundation, referring or relating to any document in the request above.” A spokesman for Cause of Action writes, “It’s clear that the White House, including President Obama, knew Secretary Clinton was using a non-government email address. The key question we’re asking is, did the White House ever do anything about it?”

Read the full story: Washington Times 

It is hard to imagine the 2016 presidential race without Hillary Clinton.

 

But Mrs. Clinton seems to have missed the most important lesson that everyone else learned from the Watergate scandal: The cover up is worse than the crime.

 

“The Federal Records Act requires that an agency head preserves a record. It also requires that if records were unlawfully removed, defaced or destroyed that the agency head notify the archivist at the National Archives. In this case, Mrs. Clinton should have notified the head archivist that she had in her possession, official agency records,” said Daniel Epstein, executive director of Washington transparency group Cause of Action.

 

Mrs. Clinton may have also been in violation of national security laws if any of her emails contained classified information.

Read the full story: IJ Review

Supporters of Hillary Clinton continue to ask the equivalent of ‘What difference does it make?’ with regard to the former Secretary of State’s use of a personal email account to conduct official State Department business.

 

Meanwhile, many investigative reporters are combing through federal rules and regulations to discover what criminal charges Clinton could face for her actions.

 

Executive Order 13526 and 18 U.S.C Sec. 793(f) of the federal code make it unlawful to send of store classified information on personal email. Casey Harper at The Daily Caller delved into this angle:

 

“‘By using a private email system, Secretary Clinton violated the Federal Records Act and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual regarding records management, and worse, could have left classified and top secret documents vulnerable to cyber attack,’ Cause of Action Executive Director Dan Epstein said in an email to reporters.

 

‘This is an egregious violation of the law, and if it were anyone else, they could be facing fines and criminal prosecution.’”