Exclusive Clinton Email Update

Judicial Watch Announces its September 14 Leadership Summit on Washington Corruption and the Transparency Crisis
New Documents Raise Questions on Hillary Clinton and Classified Material
Judicial Watch Lawsuits Take Center Stage in Clinton Email Scandal
Judicial Watch Asks Federal Court to Stop Racist Separatist Election in Hawaii

Judicial Watch Announces its September 14 Leadership Summit on Washington Corruption and the Transparency Crisis

We are proud to announce that Judge Andrew Napolitano will be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Leadership Summit on Washington Corruption and the Transparency Crisis on September 14th.

The Summit will sell out soon, so I encourage you act quickly!

For anyone who cares about constitutional limited government and the rule of law, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano needs no introduction.  A legal analyst for the Fox News Channel since January 1998, Napolitano is also the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey.

A tenacious defender of natural law freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, Judge Napolitano is famous for his candid remarks, signature wit, and personal anecdotes.  Judge Napolitano is the American media’s most outspoken analyst of the legal system, most fervent critic of government intervention into personal lives and commercial transactions, and most passionate defender of the Constitution. He is also the author of eight books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times best-sellers.

Please join us for a full day of panel discussions and the special luncheon featuring Judge Napolitano.  Other top flight speakers include Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy, conservative Congressman Rep. Louie Gohmert, former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova, and Steve Bannon, Executive Chairman, of Breitbart News. Join us!

To learn more about this event and the opportunity to attend, please click here. Thank you!

https://www.judicialwatch.org/leadership-summit/

New Documents Raise Questions on Hillary Clinton and Classified Material

If Team Clinton and Team Obama had their druthers, the American people would know nothing about her non-government email system.  But thanks to numerous federal lawsuits and multiple federal court orders obtained by your Judicial Watch, the Obama State Department must disgorge document after document about this increasingly serious scandal.  Sure enough, we have another major breakthrough to report.

Your JW forced the release of State Department emails that show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top staff pushed for the use of personal digital assistant (PDA) devices for secret and top secret information.  The records also show that the State Department official rejected this “push” for the special PDAs.  A court order forced this document release in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit.  In a related court filing, we made it a point to highlight the agency’s failure to comply with the court’s orders regarding the production of the documents.

Let’s discuss the new emails, first.  A State Department email chain shows a February 2, 2009, discussion by State Department security staff, in which agency top security official (former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Eric J. Boswell) writes:

On the off chance that [Clinton’s] staff continues to push for [secret] or [top secret]-capable PDAs [redacted].  I’ll need a briefing on what we know [redaction] Pls schedule.

The email was sent to another top security official – Donald R. Reid, the State Department’s security coordinator for security infrastructure and Patrick Donovan, then-deputy assistant secretary of State and then director, Diplomatic Security Service.

(In a testament to government non-accountability, Mr. Boswell was placed on administrative leave because of the security failures tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack but reportedly was reinstated and reassigned to a new position by Secretary of State John Kerry.)

Getting back to the email, recall that State Department Executive Secretary Joseph E. McManus declared under penalty of perjury in another Judicial Watch lawsuit that the agency “does not believe that any personal computing device was issued by the Department to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and has not located any such device at the Department” (and possibly destroyed the BlackBerrys of her aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills).

You can also see how this week’s big 7,000-page email dump that produced emails showing Hillary Clinton snagged an iPad with the help of State Department employees is seemingly at odds with this State Department statement.

The State Department’s release of the few emails highlighting Hillary Clinton push for a classified PDA falls way short of the disclosure the federal judge overseeing our case demanded.  We informed the court  of the State Department’s failure to produce documents or information on its search for responsive records as ordered by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on July 7, 2015. Since its last report to the court on July 2, State has produced only these two pages of responsive email records – and they were a week late – delivered on August 27.

The State Department said that it had 250 potentially responsive documents, and didn’t tell us or the judge much else:

[The State Department] did not indicate when it located these records, where it located these records and why it did not include these records in its review of the initial production.  [The State Department] also stated that its search was ongoing, but did not give any indication when it will complete its search of all potentially responsive records.  It also did not indicate the scope of the search or the volume of all potentially responsive records.  [Judicial Watch] requested that [the State Department] supplement its response and provide this information before today’s Joint Status Report.  [The State Department] did not do so.

The July court order requires the State Department to “make its first production of responsive records by no later than August 20, 2015,” and detail both the volume and scope of responsive documents.  So it is a contemptuous fail all around as the State Department flouts court order after court order over the Clinton email issue.  This corruption wastes our resources (and the court’s), as it requires our legal team to spend precious time seeking relief again from the court.  Our attorneys had to ask the court to reorder the State Department to provide details about its search and stop hiding the ball about these documents.

One can see the motive for the stonewalling as these two documents further confirm that Hillary Clinton and her staff tried and failed to convince the State Department to issue them smart devices that could handle classified data.  This push for a “Top Secret”-safe smart phone or tablet also blows up Hillary Clinton’s obvious lie that she set up a separate email system because she didn’t want to use two devices.

And, as we note, there are more documents to come!

Judicial Watch Lawsuits Take Center Stage in Clinton Email Scandal

Judicial Watch litigation most assuredly led to the disclosure of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s separate email system.  Judicial Watch’s nearly 20 lawsuits touching on the Clinton email scandal continue to be the best vehicle for the American people to learn the truth, hold Mrs. Clinton accountable to law, and actually pry out documents that Hillary Clinton or the Obama administration have tried to keep secret contrary to law.

And we’re not slowing down.

We just filed a new lawsuit seeking access to two of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails in their original, native format.  The “native” format contains metadata, which provides details such as server information and hidden email recipients.

In May 2015, the State Department posted on its website several emails allegedly returned by Clinton to the State Department late last year.  In July, Judicial Watch submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking for email “as it was sent” for two of the emails – one by Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Sunday, August 21, 2011, from her [email protected] address, and the other email “as it was received” by Jacob Sullivan on Saturday, July 7, 2012, at his [email protected].

Being reasonable folks, we offered the State Department an option. If they could not produce the emails in their native format, the agency should then produce records that would identify the information contained in the email headers.

True to form, the State Department did not respond as required by federal law to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, even though it acknowledged receiving it on July 9.  So, we are pressing ahead.  Again quite reasonably, JW’s lawsuit also requests that the court order the State Department to produce the two emails promptly.

Here it is important to recall that a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit forced the State Department to demand that Clinton’s then-top State Department aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, return all copies, both electronic and paper, of government records in their possession.  Notably, the State Department had not demanded the same of Mrs. Clinton, even though federal law also prohibits her from keeping government records.

There remains a question of whether Mrs. Clinton used a “[email protected]” email address to conduct official State Department business.  Although Mrs. Clinton claims that email address was not created until 2013, the paper copy of the email sent to Jacob Sullivan on July 7, 2012, that was returned by Mrs. Clinton to the State Department shows the “from” email address as “[email protected]”.  Interesting how an email address supposedly not created until 2013 is used in 2012!  The requested native format copy or metadata of the email will definitely tell us whether Mrs. Clinton is also lying about this other email account.

In refusing to respond to our simple request about two emails that can answer many questions about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, the State Department is not only violating FOIA but helping provide protection for Hillary Clinton.  The fact that Mrs. Clinton only provided paper copies of her emails was not accidental.  Both she and the State Department have something to hide.

It was back in March that the news initially broke that Hillary Clinton used a non-government email during her four years as secretary of state.  And it was a JW FOIA lawsuit that forced Mrs. Clinton to do what no other congressional committee, FBI, or Justice Department investigation has been able to do – submit information, under penalty of perjury, about her email system.

This new Judicial Watch lawsuit, if the past is prologue, will enable the public to see documentary, first-hand evidence about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

Judicial Watch Asks Federal Court to Stop Racist Separatist Election in Hawaii

Washington, DC, is not the only place where our government is off the rails and out of control.  Hawaii, the American paradise that is about as far as one can get from DC, is hurtling down a path that could tear this nation apart thanks to corrupt, racist moves by its government.

Given the stakes, we are proud to represent concerned citizens who hold dear long-standing American principles in the face of a dangerous attack on the rule of law in Hawaii.

Your Judicial Watch just filed on behalf of these fine Americans an important legal brief, specifically a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, to halt a native Hawaiian election in which voter registration was restricted both by race and by a strict adherence to specified political viewpoints.  The motion was filed on behalf of five Hawaiian residents and one Texas resident of Hawaiian descent who oppose the discriminatory voter registration requirements instituted under Act 195. The motion was filed on August 28, 2015, as part of a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the State of Hawaii.

JW filed the underlying lawsuit a few weeks ago against the state of Hawaii, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission (NHRC), and other State officials alleging that the Hawaiian “self-governance” vote violates the U.S. Constitution and federal voting rights laws.

Hawaii State officials, through Act 195, which became law in 2011, have tried to create a list of “Native Hawaiians” who would be eligible to recommend amendments to the state constitution at a planned constitutional convention and to vote on issues concerning the sovereignty of the “Native Hawaiian people.”  The act defines a “Native Hawaiian” as any person whom the government determines to be a direct descendant of the State’s aboriginal peoples.

On July 20, 2012, using taxpayer funds from the State’s Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the NHRC launched the Kana’iolowalu campaign, opening a registration process strictly confined to native Hawaiians who desire to vote for a new race-based sovereign government.  The process, besides being racially discriminatory, excludes registrants who refuse to affirm all three of the following declarations:

Declaration One. I affirm the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people, and my intent to participate in the process of self-governance.

Declaration Two. I have a significant cultural, social or civic connection to the Native Hawaiian community.

Declaration Three. I am a Native Hawaiian: a lineal descendant of the people who lived and exercised sovereignty in the Hawaiian islands prior to 1778, or a person who is eligible for the programs of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, or a direct lineal descendant of that person.

JW attorneys represent citizens harmed by this outrageously discriminatory Hawaii election process.  Keli’i Akina and Kealii Makekau are descendants of the Hawaiian aboriginal people, who cannot register to vote because they will not affirm that they favor Native Hawaiian sovereignty and self-governance.  Joseph Kent and Yoshimasa Sean Mitsui are citizens and residents of the State of Hawaii, who are prevented from registering to vote in elections because of the race-based ancestry requirements of Act 195. Melissa Leina’ala Moniz and Pedro Kana’e Gapero are descendants of the aboriginal people of Hawaii and were registered to vote without their knowledge or consent.

In asking the court to halt the election process, Judicial Watch argues that the racially exclusive campaign obviously violates the Fifteenth Amendment’s protection against voting restrictions based upon race.  The U.S. Supreme Court previously ruled against another Hawaii attempt to restrict voting based on race, noting that Hawaii’s “position rests . . . on the demeaning premise that citizens of a particular race are somehow more qualified than others to vote on certain matters.  That reasoning attacks the central meaning of the Fifteenth Amendment.”

Judicial Watch argues that an injunction is warranted in light of the harm caused by the numerous violations of the Constitution and federal law:

If Defendants are allowed to proceed with the challenged activities under Act 195, a great and substantial harm will be done to the constitutional and statutory rights of Plaintiffs and of hundreds of thousands of other citizens of the State of Hawaii.  The deprivations involved, moreover, concern such fundamental constitutional guarantees as the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom from compelled speech, the Fourteenth Amendment rights to the equal protection of the laws and to due process, the Fifteenth Amendment right to vote free from denial or abridgment on account of race, and the basic antidiscrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

There is no doubt that Hawaii is abusing tax dollars on a separatist campaign that discriminates on the basis of race and viewpoint.  Right now, U.S. citizens are being denied access to the right to vote explicitly because of their race and their points of view.  This dangerous, divisive scheme can’t be halted soon enough by the courts.

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a Hawaii-based think tank, has been helping Judicial Watch investigate Hawaii’s plan for a race-based election.  Keli’i Akina, Ph.D., President of the Grassroot Institute (and a plaintiff in this case) said, “It is imperative to stop draining public funds on a racially discriminatory process that the majority of native Hawaiians have chosen not to endorse, especially while the needs of native Hawaiians for housing, jobs, education, and health go underfunded.”

Robert Popper, director of Judicial Watch’s Election Integrity Project, is Judicial Watch’s lead attorney on the lawsuit.  Mr. Popper was formerly deputy chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Michael Lilly of the Honolulu law firm Ning, Lilly & Jones is serving as Judicial Watch’s local counsel for the plaintiffs.

We are by no means late to this dance.  As usual, your JW is out in front.  Already, in separate litigation, Judicial Watch forced the release of the actual enrollment list, which includes the names of Hawaiian residents placed there without their permission.

Of course, the Obama administration is a major proponent of what fundamentally is a race-based secessionist movement.

The Obama administration took controversial executive action towards “the reestablishment of a government-to-government relationship with the Native Hawaiian community.  The plan seems to be to set up federal support just in time for the potential rump state that emerges from this separatist election.

The Hawaii state motto, even before translation, is quite beautiful:  “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ‘Āina i ka Pono.”  This translates as, “The Life of the Law is Perpetuated in Righteousness.”  I can think of few better ways to sum up a guiding principle for both this civil rights lawsuit and for your Judicial Watch generally!