2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumItchy on Yahoo News: A new focus on John Bentel in e-mail scandal
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-sleuths-focus-ex-state-000000777.htmlThe role of John Bentel, whose identity as a key figure in the email probes was first reported by Yahoo News on Wednesday, is expected to be one focus of questioning today when Clintons former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, is deposed in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch over the State Departments handling of Freedom of Information Act requests relating to Clintons emails, according to a source close to the case.
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Bentel served as the chief of Information Resource Management essentially, the top official in charge of internal communications, security issues and record-keeping inside the State Departments Executive Secretariat, the professional support staff for the secretary of state. In late 2010, according to the inspector generals report, two staffers inside his office, in separate meetings, raised concerns that Clintons private emails could contain government records that needed to be preserved a standard requirement under a 1950 law known as the Federal Records Act.
One of the staffers told the inspector general that Bentel responded that Clintons private email account had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff and that the matter was not to be discussed any further. In fact, according to the inspector generals report, State Department lawyers had never approved Clintons use of a private email server for government communications, nor were they ever consulted about it.
The second staffer who raised concerns told the inspector general that Bentel responded that the mission of the office is to support the Secretary and instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretarys personal email system again.
amborin
(16,631 posts)The emails Ms. Clinton turned over to State reflect so poorly on her that one wonders what was in the emails she deleted
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/31/clintons_corruption_126800.html
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I'm still gobsmacked at how quickly the government was able to deflect the seriousness of the event and how quickly the public bit on the next shiny thing.
amborin
(16,631 posts)they were funneling weapons to Syria, etc.....
unc70
(6,120 posts)Within the first week after the attack we were discussing the CIA and arms to Syria aspects of the story. I will look up my posts about this and link to a couple of threads back then.
DU has traditionally been excellent at piecing together what is really going on. We have many experts in almost any field, any business, any location worldwide. And we are news junkies who suck in and retain information of all types.
DU is currently crippled by those desiring to thwart those focused on assembly the facts and making sense of things.
it would be great is you could assemble those posts and articles about the CIA activity out of the embassy.
We need to get this info to the public asap.
unc70
(6,120 posts)Benghazi and CIA - what we knew at DU
Here are several posts from DU with links to other sources from the weeks immediately after Benghazi. There was early discussion that the State Department did not list a consulate in Benghazi and of reports that Benghazi was the center for collecting and shipping US arms from Libya stockpiles to rebel groups in Syria.
I will collect some other interesting threads from that period and make an OP out of it. There was a lot going on at that time including Petraeus scandal.
Did the US actually have a consulate in Benghazi? Or was it only a CIA post?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021588331
It was a CIA Operation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125120339
What we knew in 2012 - CIA and Benghazi
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027280827
JudyM
(29,277 posts)That response is symptomatic of a cultural environment of question at your own peril. Or are we to expect that it is just this one guy who had those marching orders? What else were staffers supposed to not question her about?
antigop
(12,778 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)I should have mentioned that.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)No doubt he "lied" to Clinton about the server having been approved.