Would be chief counsel was central to a cover-up
Started by ilona trommler
Meet the mastermind behind Clinton’s massive email coverup
September 5, 2016
Newly
released FBI documents detailing the bureau’s investigation of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails reveal the aide who would
likely follow her into the White House as chief counsel was central to a
cover-up of evidence sought by investigators.
Yet
despite signs Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills obstructed
efforts by investigators to obtain Clinton’s emails, the FBI invited
Mills to attend Hillary’s interview at FBI headquarters as one of her
lawyers.
“It’s absolutely outrageous,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
“The
FBI saw massive document destruction and clear intent to withhold
material evidence,” he added, “and they just ignored that obstruction,
and even let her sit in on the interview.”
The
smoking gun is on page 16 of the FBI’s 47-page report. It details how
Mills ultimately made the determinations about which emails should be
preserved before she and Clinton decided to delete the rest as
“personal.” Clinton conducted both government and personal business
using a personal email account — clintonemail.com — tied to an unsecured server set up in the basement of her New York home.
The FBI makes clear the procedure Mills used to sort out the emails was suspicious.
For
starters, Mills was the one who ordered the server host to move the
emails from the server to a laptop where she could screen them. She told
investigators she could “not recall” if emails with non-gov addresses
were included in the transfer. It’s unlikely they were, because an aide
who helped her search told the FBI she only screened for emails sent to
or from Clinton with .gov and .mil — not .com — addresses.
That
means messages involving government business between Clinton and her
then-deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin — the only aide who had an email
account on the clintonemail.com system—
were not likely captured. Nor were messages sent between Clinton and
Mills and other aides using personal email addresses.
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Laura J Alcorn
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