The Obama White House Tracked a FOIA Request for Clinton Emails We now have further evidence that the Obama White was in on the lies about Secretary of State Hillary Clintons email use. In late April we announced that <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13568&F=H> E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, had admitted in writing and under oath that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President. Now we have obtained <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13785&F=H> 44 pages of records from the State Department through <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=12820&F=H> court-ordered discovery revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records concerning Clintons use of an unsecure, non-government email system. Months after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed. Our discovery is centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department acted in bad faith in processing our FOIA request for communications from Clintons office. U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as E.W. Priestap, to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=11336&F=H> ruled that the Clinton email system was one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency. The State Departments Office of Inspector General issued <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13786&F=H> a report in January 2016 saying: At the time the request was received, dozens of senior officials throughout the Department, including members of Secretary Clintons immediate staff, exchanged emails with the Secretary using the personal accounts she used to conduct official business. Also, the IG found evidence that [Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills] was informed of the request at the time it was received ... The State Department produced records in response to court-ordered document requests that detail Obama White House involvement in the Clinton email FOIA request. In a December 20, 2012, <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13787&F=H> email with the subject line Need to track down a FOIA request from CREW, Sheryl L. Walter, director of the State Departments Office of Information Programs and Services (A/GIS/IPS), writes to IPS officials Rosemary D. Reid and Patrick D. Scholl and their assistants: WH called have we received a FOIA request from CREW (Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington) on the topic of personal use of email by senior officials? Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give me the details so I can call the WH back? I think theyd like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl In the same email chain, Walter on December 20, 2012 also emailed Heather Samuelson, Clintons White House liaison, describing the CREW FOIA request: Hi Heather Copy attached, it was in our significant weekly FOIA report that we send to L and S/ES also. Do you want us to add you to that list? Its a subset of things like this that we think likely to be of broader Department interest. More detail below re this request. As a practical matter given our workload, it wont be processed for some months. Let me know if there are any particular sensitivities. If we dont talk later, happy holidays! All the best, Sheryl Sheryl: The request is assigned Case #F-2012-40981. It was received on 12/6/2012 and acknowledged on 12/10/2012. The request is assigned for processing. On January 10, 2013, Walter <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13788&F=H> writes to Samuelson that she is not including personal accounts in the FOIA request search: Hi Heather - did you ever get any intell re what other agencies are doing re this FOIA request that seeks records about the number of email accounts associated with the Secretary (but isnt specifying personal email accounts so we are interpreting as official accounts only). We are considering contacting the requester to find out exactly what it is they are looking for. Do you have any-concerns about that approach? Soon afterward, Samuelson responds, White House Counsel was looking into this for me. I will circle back with them now to see if they have further guidance. CREWs general counsel, Anne Weismann, submitted a <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13797&F=H> FOIA request to the State Department on December 6, 2012, seeking records sufficient to show the number of email accounts of or associated with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those of or associated with Secretary Clinton. On May 10, 2013, [Information Programs and Services] <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13790&F=H> replied to CREW, stating that no records responsive to your request were located. Samuelson became Secretary Clintons personal lawyer and in 2014 led the review of Clintons emails to determine which ones were work-related and which were personal. She was also one of five close Clinton associates <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13791&F=H> granted immunity by the Department of Justice in the Clinton email investigation. Samuelson is one of several Obama administration and State Department officials <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=12820&F=H> ordered by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth to respond under oath to our questions regarding whether Clintons private email use while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA. The new documents also include a January 2013 <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13792&F=H> email exchange discussing Clintons departure from the State Department in which Agency Records Officer Tasha M. Thian specifically stating that Secretary Clinton does not use email. This was directly contradicted by an <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13793&F=H> email exchange between Secretary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus dating back to January 2009 the very first days of Clintons State Department tenure in which she tells Petraeus that she had to change her email address. Interestingly, this email exchange between Petraeus and Clinton was not produced in a related FOIA <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=3796&F=H> lawsuit seeking all emails of Hillary Clinton. The bottom portion of the <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13794&F=H> email chain was produced, but <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13795&F=H> not the beginning emails. In a January 2013 <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13792&F=H> email under the subject RE: Sec Clintons papers, Thian writes: Just so you know, Secretary Clinton she brought with her a lot of material as Senator and First Lady 47 boxes. In case you hear there are many boxes I wanted you to know what they are. She is taking her copies of photos, public speeches, press statements, contacts, templates (some of these are both hard copy and electronic), reimbursements, etc Although Sec. Clinton does not use email [emphasis added] her staffers do I have agreed that the emails of the three staffers will be electronically captured (and not printed out). Also included in the new batch of documents is the draft <https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6431985&N=36372&; L=13796&F=H> Departing Officials Notice, which states that State Department personnel are not to remove classified records from Department custody and control. These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012. A federal court granted us discovery into the Clinton emails because the court wanted answers about a government cover-up of the Clinton emails. And now we have answers because it looks like the Obama White House orchestrated the Clinton email cover-up. President Trump has more house cleaning to do. Until next week <https://cf.pr.judicialwatch.org/imagesJW/6039/content_original_sig.png> Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton EM -> { Trump for 2020 } On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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