A new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department released by Judicial Watch on Monday reveals that a former aide to Bill Clinton asked State to accommodate a request from Clinton Foundation supporter and U2 lead singer Bono.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner fielded questions about the latest Clinton email developments at a press briefing on Monday, including one about Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin.
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post confirms a data point implicit in today’s news that the FBI has found 15,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s unsecure homebrew server, from which she conducted the work as Secretary of State and housed classified information. She hid more emails from the State Department than she handed over to it for mandatory federal records keeping.
The FBI announced on Monday that it has discovered fifteen thousand previously undisclosed Clinton emails – a stash nearly half the size of the work-related emails Clinton actually turned over to the State Department. If Clinton was trying to keep this material
Legendary standup comic Jackie Mason delivered his hilarious take on President Obama’s claim that $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown to Iran aboard an unmarked jetliner the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody did not amount to ransom.
FBI notes handed over to Congress this week reveal that Hillary Clinton told investigators that one of her Republican predecessors as Secretary of State, Colin Powell, advised her to use a personal email account. Powell soon issued a statement that he could recall no such conversation.
A tweet from the official U.S. State Department account warning Pokemon Go players in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to avoid buried landmines has sparked outrage for its allegedly frivolous nature, but officials insist it is not a joke and intended to keep young players safe.
The State Department was unable to find any records showing that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed ethics training courses, as required by federal law.
The State Department says a $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of American prisoners.
TEL AVIV – U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation have provided new details about the transfer of $400 million in cash to Tehran earlier this year, depicting what the Wall Street Journal has described as a “tightly scripted
Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration, the Pentagon announced Monday.
As ISIS formed in Iraq, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slashed State Department “eyes and ears on the ground”, as reported in a co-published piece by ProPublica’s Jeff Gerth and the Washington Post’s Joby Warrick.
After refusing to divulge how the payment was transferred, the State Department has now refused to answer repeated requests about when it sent to Iran a sum of $1.3 billion, which was part of the same settlement for which the Obama administration delivered $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown aboard an unmarked jetliner in January. The cash was flown in the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody.
During Wednesday’s State Department press briefing, Associated Press Diplomatic Writer Matt Lee asked State Department Press Office Director Elizabeth Trudeau “am I not speaking English?” During a line of questioning about improper relationships between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. Trudeau
Questions continue to linger about the Obama administration’s decision to deliver $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown to Iran aboard an unmarked jetliner the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Special Investigations Unit Reporter Drew Griffin reported that the State Department spent seven months stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee why then-Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills traveled to New York on June 19,
The latest batch of Clinton emails revealed by Judicial Watch – including 44 Clinton failed to hand over to the State Department, in violation of what was once known as “the law” – reveal what the New York Post calls a “shocking pay-for-play scheme.”
The federal watchdog Judicial Watch on Wednesday released 10 pages of State Department records betraying efforts by employees at State to give personal aides to former secretary of state Hillary R. Clinton the heads-up regarding Freedom of Information Act requests that would have revealed Clinton’s extraordinary private email scheme.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of State broke out laughing at a Thursday press conference after introducing the event as an exercise in “transparency” and democracy.
The family of John Hamen of Chesapeake, Virginia, has filed a federal lawsuit against the governments of Syria and Iran, seeking $319 million in damages for his torture and murder by Iran-backed Houthi insurgents in Yemen.
PHILADELPHIA – Notoriously missing from Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech here at the Democratic National Convention was a list of any significant accomplishments from her time as Secretary of State.
PHILADELPHIA – The State Department on Wednesday blasted a plan by the Israeli government to expand already existing Jewish communities in the eastern sections of Jerusalem.
While tens of thousands of deportable aliens have been released into the United States because the aliens’ home countries declined to take them back, the Obama Administration has not withheld visas from a single country for refusing to repatriate its citizens, government officials testified Thursday before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
More evidence has emerged highlighting that Hillary Clinton did not turn all of her work related emails over to the State Department despite her public assurances. Clinton signed a document declaring she had provided the State Department with all work-related
A growing diplomatic spat between the U.S. and Russia has resulted in the expulsion of two American and two Russian diplomats.
The Arizona congressman with 12 years on the House Judiciary Committee threw in the towel after just one question to Attorney General Loretta Lynch during her testimony Tuesday in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
“There are serious and systemic security management problems at the State Department that span the tenure of several Secretaries,” said Sen. David Perdue (R.-Ga.), who filed the Securing our Secrets Act of 2016 to make it clear to State Department employees they can never use private email accounts and servers to handle sensitive and classified information.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is reopening an internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and top aides, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) downplayed the damage done by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mis-handling of classified information on her private email server, as FBI director James Comey testified at the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.
The State Department continues to hold off on administrative evaluation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of sensitive information. During a Tuesday press conference, Spokesman John Kirby repeatedly asserted that the department is not “lax” with classified information but would not weigh in on the FBI’s determination that “there is evidence of potential violations” by Clinton.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin refuted accusations that presidential candidate Donald Trump is anti-woman during a Friday speech as she lambasted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for her role in the Benghazi terror attack, her false assertions about a visit to
TEL AVIV – House Republicans investigating the Benghazi attacks wrote in their final report that questions about secretive activities in Libya related to weapons have not been satisfactorily answered by the Obama administration.
The Obama Administration is already infamous for slow-walking information requests, causing investigations to drag out for years, and then complaining loudly about how long the investigations are taking! But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
The US State Department on Thursday condemned a terror attack earlier in the day in which a 13-year-old Israeli girl was stabbed to death in her bed, calling it “simply unconscionable.”
Watchdog group Judicial Watch has released the deposition of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who identified her current position as Vice-Chair of the Hillary for America presidential campaign. The deposition was given on Tuesday as part of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over Abedin’s unusual employment status with the State Department, a lawsuit that was reopened after the secret ClintonEmail.com system was discovered.
The sister of the late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not to blame for the death of her brother during the 2012 Benghazi Libya attacks which also cost three more American lives. Instead, Dr. Anne Stevens blamed the Republican-dominated Congress for “underbudgeting” the State Department.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was busy praising presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Wednesday, criticizing his own party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, while Trump remained focused on calling out Clinton over failures from her time as Secretary of State.
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said in a legal proceeding that Clinton did not want the private emails that she mixed in with State Department emails on her private computer server to be accessible to “anybody,” according to transcripts released Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – The final report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi has disclosed publically for the first time that U.S. personnel at the attacked facilities in Benghazi were rescued the night of the attacks by a secretive force led by former military officers under Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
The emails were obtained from Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who also had an account on the Secretary of State’s secret home-brew email server. Judicial Watch forced the State Department to release the 165 pages of newly uncovered email with a court order.
