JUDICIAL WATCH UNCOVERS EMAIL DESCRIBING HILLARY CLINON AS "OFTEN CONFUSED"

Judicial Watch Uncovers Email Describing Hillary Clinton as "Often Confused"

By: Tom Fitton, President

It became evident this week why Hillary Clinton was willing to violate the law to keep her government records (and those of her top aide Huma Abedin) away from the American people.
Getting information is never easy, as we had to file another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit just get the government emails the ethically-challenged Abedin sent and received on the illicit Clinton email server.

We forced out 35 pages of emails from Abedin's "Huma@clintonemail.com" address that are interesting and disturbing.

The first revelation you may have already heard about. The Abedin email material contains a January 26, 2013, email exchange with Clinton aide Monica Hanley regarding Clinton's schedule in which Abedin says Clinton is "often confused:"


• Abedin: Have you been going over her calls with her? So she knows singh is at 8? [India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]

• Hanley: She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call. Will go over with her

• Abedin: Very imp to do that. She's often confused.


That embarrassing email, unsurprisingly, went viral this week.

But another set of emails shows the Clinton email system was potentially dangerous. The newly released Abedin emails included a lengthy exchange giving precise details of the Clinton schedule on the secretary's final full day in office, Wednesday, January 31, 2013. The email from Lona J. Valmoro, former Special Assistant to Secretary of State Clinton, to Abedin, other top State Department staff, and Clinton associates, reveals exact times (including driving times) and locations of all appointments throughout the day:


8:25 am DEPART Private Residence

En route to State Department

[drive time: 10 minutes]

***

1:40 pm DEPART State Department

En route to Council on Foreign Relations

[drive time: 15 minutes]

***

3:05 pm DEPART Council on Foreign Relations

En route to State Department

[drive time: 15 minutes]

***

6:00 pm DEPART State Department

En route to Private Residence

[drive time: 5 minutes]


The detailed schedule provided in the Abedin email contains an annotation reading: "The information contained in this email is not to be shared, forwarded or duplicated." Can you imagine the threat to Clinton and others if that type of information got into the wrong hands? We should thank Heaven that Clinton's contempt for the rule of law in her use of this separate system didn't result in tragedy.

There is a revelation that shows that sensitive information that could impact foreign relations was put on the unsecure Clinton email server. You can see that in yet another Abedin email that provides embarrassing details about a meeting with Saudi Arabia's leadership. (The email shows Clinton had zero interest in meeting with a top Saudi government official during a visit to that nation.)

And of course there are revelations about the typical Clinton corruption from conflicts of interest and influence peddling operations at the State Department.

The Abedin correspondence includes several instances in which the Clinton top aide attempted to obtain special treatment from the State Department for business associates and relatives. In the first instance, Abedin apparently worked with Teneo co-founder and Clinton Global Initiative official Doug Band to intercede on behalf of an individual seeking a visa.

In the second instance, Abedin received an email from her mother, Saleha Abedin (a controversial Islamist activist) who founded and serves as dean at Dar al-Hekma University in Saudi Arabia. In the December 11, 2011, email, Saleha Abedin seeks the assistance of her daughter to help the president of her college, Dr. Suhair al Qurashi, attend a State Department "Women in Public Service" ceremony, which included remarks by Hillary Clinton. (Mrs. Clinton spoke at Dar al-Hekma University in 2010. Dr. Qurashi and Saleha Abedin introduced Clinton's speech and moderated the subsequent discussion.)

Abedin's description of Clinton as "easily confused" tells you all you need to know about why it took a federal lawsuit to get these government emails from Clinton's illegal email server.

These emails also show that Hillary Clinton's and Huma Abedin's decision to use the Clinton email server to conduct government business was both risky and dangerous. You can see how, ironically, ensuring that government officials like Hillary Clinton follow the law and security requirements in the conduct of government business are as much about protecting these very officials from harm as it is about the protecting the rule of law.



Until next week...

Tom Fitton
President