State Dept. Makes Curious Redaction in Hillary Email

Among the emails released by the State Department today was one sent by Hillary Clinton to Jake Sullivan on April 8, 2011. Clinton was forwarding a private intelligence report that Sidney Blumenthal had sent her with the subject line: "UK game playing; new rebel strategists; Egypt moves in."

In the State Department release today, Clinton responds with "FYI" and a sentence that is redacted. 

But the New York Times posted its versions of the emails earlier this week and the sentence is not redacted. In theTimes's version the redacted sentence reads: "FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered." 

The redaction in the State Department version is labeled a "B5" Freedom of Information Act exception, which provides for a "deliberative privilege" in keeping the information from the public.

The obvious question: Why did the State Department redact that sentence?

Via: Weekly Standard

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State Dept. Releases Hillary’s Benghazi Emails, Site Quickly Crashes

The State Department today released Hillary Clinton‘s Benghazi emails, and the website they posted them to very quickly crashed.

Earlier this week the department said they’d be releasing a full report on Clinton’s emails in time, with a planned release date in January 2016. A federal judge rejected that and ordered a “rolling release” of the emails instead.

They released roughly 300 emails today, reportedly including all of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails, tweeting this out beforehand:

 

Department of StateVerified account‏@StateDept

The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks.

• RETWEETS108
• FAVORITES52
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9:06 AM - 22 May 2015

Via: Mediaite

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IRS Scandal Blows Wide Open As New Emails Uncovered

Lois Lerner's Own Words

Emails undercut the official IRS story on political targeting.

 The Wall Street Journal-Congress's investigation into the IRS targeting of conservatives has been continuing out of the Syria headlines, and it's turning up news. Emails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee between former Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and her staff raise doubts about IRS claims that the targeting wasn't politically motivated and that low-level employees in Cincinnati masterminded the operation.

In a February 2011 email, Ms. Lerner advised her staff—including then Exempt Organizations Technical Manager Michael Seto and then Rulings and Agreements director Holly Paz—that a Tea Party matter is "very dangerous," and is something "Counsel and [Lerner adviser] Judy Kindell need to be in on." Ms. Lerner adds, "Cincy should probably NOT have these cases."

That's a different tune than the IRS sang in May when former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller said the agency's overzealous enforcement was the work of two "rogue" employees in Cincinnati. When the story broke, Ms. Lerner suggested that her office had been unaware of the pattern of targeting until she read about it in the newspaper. "So it was pretty much we started seeing information in the press that raised questions for us, and we went back and took a look," she said in May.

Via: Wall Street Journal

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