Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap - Benghazi Gate. HT:
Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State
documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State
Department late last year. The documents also show that one key State
Department official did not want a written record of issues about the
Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about the
accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts,
Congress, and the public by the Obama administration and Clinton.
The documents were produced under
court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit Judicial Watch filed on May 6, 2013 (
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No.
1:15-cv-00687)). The lawsuit was filed after the Obama State
Department violated federal law and failed to respond to two separate
FOIA requests, including a request for records about the actual
production of the emails records by Clinton to the State Department.
The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a
heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to
Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject “HRC
Emails.” Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the
State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global
information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that
the “gaps” in Clinton’s emails include:
- Jan. 21 – March 17, 2009 (Received Messages)
- Jan. 21 – April 12, 2009 (Sent Messages)
- Dec. 30, 2012 – Feb. 1, 2013 (Sent Messages)
In addition, Stein notes Clinton’s employment timeline as follows:
- Secretary Hillary Clinton
- Appointed: January 21, 2009
- Entry on Duty: January 21, 2009
- Termination of Appointment: February 1, 2013.
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