Gilligan's Purgatory

No Mrs. Doubtfire: Clinton Directed Her Maid To Print Out Classified Materials

The New York Post — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government e-mails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, e-mails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material.

In fact, Marina Santos was called on so frequently to receive e-mails that she may hold the secrets to E-mailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would subpoena her and the equipment she used.

Clinton entrusted far more than the care of her DC residence, known as Whitehaven, to Santos. She expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets, further opening the Democratic presidential nominee to criticism that she played fast and loose with national security.

Clinton would first receive highly sensitive e-mails from top aides at the State Department and then request that they, in turn, forward the messages and any attached documents to Santos to print out for her at the home.

Among other things, Clinton requested Santos print out drafts of her speeches, confidential memos and “call sheets” — background information and talking points prepared for the secretary of state in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state.

“Pls ask Marina to print for me in am,” Clinton e-mailed top aide Huma Abedin regarding a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.

In a classified 2012 e-mail dealing with the new president of Malawi, another Clinton aide, Monica Hanley, advised Clinton, “We can ask Marina to print this.”

“Revisions to the Iran points” was the subject line of a classified April 2012 e-mail to Clinton from Hanley. In it, the text reads, “Marina is trying to print for you.”

Both classified e-mails were marked “confidential,” the tier below “secret” or “top secret.”

Santos also had access to a highly secure room called an SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) that diplomatic security agents set up at Whitehaven, according to FBI notes from an interview with Abedin.

From within the SCIF, Santos — who had no clearance — “collected documents from the secure facsimile machine for Clinton,” the FBI notes revealed.

Just how sensitive were the papers Santos presumably handled? The FBI noted Clinton periodically received the Presidential Daily Brief — a top-secret document prepared by the CIA and other US intelligence agencies — via the secure fax.

A 2012 “sensitive” but unclassified e-mail from Hanley to Clinton refers to a fax the staff wanted Clinton “to see before your Netanyahu mtg. Marina will grab for you.”

Yet it appears Clinton was never asked by the FBI in its yearlong investigation to turn over the iMac Santos used to receive the e-mails, or the printer she used to print out the documents, or the printouts themselves.

As The Post first reported, copies of Clinton’s 33,000 allegedly destroyed e-mails still exist in other locations and could be recovered if investigators were turned loose to seize them. Higher-ups at the Justice Department reportedly have blocked them from obtaining search warrants to obtain the evidence.

It also appears the FBI did not formally interview Santos as a key witness in its investigation.

This is a major oversight: Santos may know the whereabouts of a missing Apple MacBook laptop and USB flash drive that contain all of Clinton’s e-mails archived over her four years in office.

In 2013, Hanley downloaded Clinton’s e-mails from her private server to the MacBook and flash drive.

“The two copies of the Clinton e-mail archive (one on the archive laptop and one on the thumb drive) were intended to be stored in Clinton’s Chappaqua and Whitehaven residences,” the FBI said in its case summary.

But Hanley says the devices were “lost,” and the FBI says it “does not have either item in its possession.”

In addition to Abedin, Santos worked closely with Hanley at Whitehaven and could shed light on the mystery — if only she were asked about it.

When a Post reporter confronted Santos at her DC apartment Friday, she would say only, “I don’t speak to reporters.”

According to a 2010 profile in The Philippine Star, close Clinton friend Vernon Jordan recommended Santos to the Clintons after she worked part-time for him.

Bill Clinton gave a speech in Manila as part of his foundation and took time to visit with the family of the “mayordoma [housekeeper] of his Washington, DC, home — Marina Santos.”

He was quoted as describing Santos as the “wonderful woman who runs our home in Washington, without whom Hillary will not be able to serve as secretary of state.” The article ended remarking, without a hint of irony: “Marina now runs his house so that he and his wife can better serve interests higher than their own.”

Santos could turn out to be the Betty Currie of the Clinton e-mail scandal. Currie was the secretary for President Clinton. She also came recommended by Jordan, and became famous as a central witness in the Monica Lewinsky scandal for her handling of gifts given to Clinton’s mistress.

Investigators had sought the gifts, allegedly hidden under Currie’s bed on orders from Clinton, as evidence.

The State Department and Clinton campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Hillary And Huma: The Panic Room

Listen, folks! Hillary Clinton can't step aside now. It would really anger the countries that've already paid for special favors.

— Josh Earnst (@NotJoshEarnest) October 31, 2016

“Ugh. These e-mails. Underwear pic, underwear pic, nude, underwear - wait… WTF is that?”
“That, my fellow agent, is classified information.” pic.twitter.com/zqNMijFiUk

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 28, 2016

Mean Tweets: DickiLeaks

#SchlongerTogether pic.twitter.com/Y79reaqGTk

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 28, 2016

"#Abedin herself was often responsible for overriding security & diplomatic protocols on behalf of Clinton.” #FBIhttps://t.co/Eo04HriDrD

— CounterJihad (@CounterJihadUS) October 28, 2016

Hillary's campaign calls on Director Comey to release whatever new info he has. Unless it's really bad, in that case go ahead and burn it

— Josh Earnst (@NotJoshEarnest) October 28, 2016

Sounds like it's time for Bill Clinton to once again board Loretta Lynch's jet.

— Razor (@hale_razor) October 28, 2016

We are now getting word that Hillary has just smashed Anthony Wiener with her hammer.

— WH PRESS SECRETARY (@weknowwhatsbest) October 28, 2016

From Body Bags To “Burn Bags”: What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make?

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, was deposed by lawyers from Judicial Watch in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit into Clinton’s emails while she was at the State Department.  During the deposition Abedin divulged that Clinton destroyed at least some of her schedules.

“If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, that…that certainly happened on…on more than one occasion,” Abedin said.

A lawyer for Judicial Watch asked, “And during your tenure at the State Department, were you aware of your obligation not to delete federal records or destroy federal records?”

Clinton has admitted to destroying “private personal emails” as Secretary of State. But Abedin’s admission that she used so-called “burn bags”—a container that material is placed in before it is destroyed—for some of her schedules is the first time anyone close to her has disclosed destroying public records.

From The New York Post:

“I spent eight years at the State Department and watched as four US ambassadors and two secretaries of state shared their daily schedules with a variety of State Department employees and US officials,” said Richard Grenell, former diplomat and US spokesman at the United Nations. 

“I’ve never seen anyone put their schedule in the burn bag—because every one of them had a state.gov email address and therefore their daily schedules became public records, as required by law,” Grenell added.

From the body bags containing the slain bodies of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans which laid on the tarmac at Benina Airport in Benghazi waiting for the flight home to be buried to the “burn bags” used to destroy any nexus between her public role and her private dealings involving the Clinton Foundation, it is painfully clear Clinton believes “what difference, at this point, does it make?”

Huma Almost Wept Because She Feared Hillary's Wrath

Washington Free Beacon - Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin is so devoted to her boss that she almost sobbed upon learning Clinton had to carry her own bag, a Newsweek profile revealed Thursday.

“Abedin took her duties so seriously, the source recalled, that when she learned that Clinton had once carried her own bag up a flight of stairs in her aide’s absence, Abedin nearly burst into tears,” Newsweek reported.

The same source said that Clinton once snapped her fingers and said “Gum” to Abedin.

“A lot of times, Hillary would snap her fingers and go, ‘Gum.’ And Huma would fetch it,” the source said.

Although Abedin no longer totes her boss’s bags around, she still carries Clinton’s infamous cell phone and serves her boss coffee and Mexican food.  Read the rest at the Washington Free Beacon.