ABC is reporting on this –SEE HERE– but notice they would not be reporting on it if Citizens United Group wasn’t providing the documents and forcing them to cover it.
Stephen Mull is the third deposition released by Judicial Watch in the ongoing FOIA avoidance investigation behind Hillary Clinton’s home-brewed email server and subversive communication system intended to hide communication.
This Mull deposition is a long transcript with multiple objections by Team Clinton, 108 noted so far, and it’s taking some time to review in its entirety and take notes.
The Clinton lawyers are very twitchy about Mull’s communication with Huma Abedin.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Stephen D. Mull, executive secretary of the State Department from June 2010 to October 2012, who suggested that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be issued a State Department BlackBerry, which would protect her identity and would also be subject to FOIA requests.
Ambassador Mull now serves as the State Department’s lead coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation.
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The Federal Judge, Sullivan, overseeing the Judicial Watch lawsuit against the State Department, has requested that former Hillary Clinton Information Technology officer, Bryan Pagliano, explain the reasoning behind his intent to invoke Fifth Amendment protections in a non-criminal inquiry/deposition the judge previously ordered.
Lawyers for Bryan Pagliano previously asserted his intent to avoid answering questions in the court ordered deposition. Judge Sullivan apparently wants to know the details of the current immunity protection covering Pagliano as promised by the FBI investigators. (more…)
That’s a genuine question because as anyone who was following U.S. foreign policy while Clinton was Secretary of State would be licking their chops to deconstruct her history.
Hillary Clinton entered the State Department in January of 2009. She departed the State Department in January of 2013 because she needed the maximum amount of time possible between her tenure and her presidential bid – she needs people to forget how absolutely horrible she was.
♦ By the end of her first year as Secretary of State she was embroiled in her first scandal. The WikiLeaks Cables – where Wikileaks released the State Department communications showing her various staffers making fun of world leaders. She spent almost all of 2010 flying around apologizing for the releases.
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Against Hillary Clinton making ridiculous assertions about the Trump University lawsuit, the development of her former Information Technology aide seeking a protective order to avoid deposition is, well, beyond laughable.
Brian Pagliano, Hillary Clinton’s IT specialist who set up the home-brewed email server, is now seeking an emergency protective order to keep recordings away from his deposition, and further claiming he will invoke his fifth amendment rights and not answer questions.
Here’s a pdf of the court filing:
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Apparently, Mr. Pagliano doesn’t like the thought of being on the receiving end of the Vince Foster treatment.
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Today the State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted an official deliberately cut several minutes of tape from a 2013 news briefing dealing with U.S.-Iranian nuclear questions.
The Deletion – In a December 2nd 2013 press briefing, Fox reporter James Rosen asked Jen Psaki about the State Department’s denial of secret talks between Washington and Tehran. Those discussions had been periodically occurring, yet denied. Psaki stated: “There are times where diplomacy needs privacy.”
Rosen discussed the administration lies three weeks ago:
Judicial Watch has just released the deposition transcript of Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Ms. Cheryl Mills:
“I don’t know that I could articulate that there was a specific discussion as opposed to her continuation of the practice she had been using when she was a Senator. … I don’t have a specific memory of the conversations that may or may not have occurred. I know that I understood she was going to be using her personal email and that’s what she did.” [page 45]
“when she was a Senator“? A “Senator“. Oopsies.
Cheryl Mills (left) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right)
Cheryl Mills testimony covered Clinton’s use of emails; whether FOIA searches were done of Clinton emails, information about the set-up of the Clinton email server; Mills’ communication with Clinton email witness Bryan Pagliano; Mills’ involvement in prior Clinton email controversies; and the handling of politically sensitive FOIA responses. Mills’ attorneys directed her not to answer many questions.
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During one part of the deposition Cheryl Mills admits that none of the Clinton email was able to be captured by FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, because the State Department did not have access. Excerpt: (more…)
Last week Lewis Lukens was deposed as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system.
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Within the deposition Lukens describes the layout of Clinton’s 7th floor office and the proximity to the neighboring offices, including Cheryl Mills. (more…)
A Rasmussen Poll released today shows 50% of the electorate believe Hillary Clinton should continue running for President even if she is under federal indictment. Perhaps even more stunning is that 71% of Democrats think she should keep running if charged with a felony.
(Rasmussen) Most continue to believe likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a lawbreaker, but half of all voters also say a felony indictment shouldn’t stop her campaign for the presidency.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think Clinton should immediately stop campaigning if she is charged with a felony in connection with her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of State. Fifty percent (50%), however, think she should continue running until a court determines her guilt or innocence. (more…)
Last Thursday Judicial Watch released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the State Department’s executive secretariat.
The transcript pdf is embedded below.
Lukens was deposed last week as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). (more…)