[Vision2020] Jared Kushner used private email for official business
Nicholas Gier
ngier006 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 22:02:54 PDT 2017
Mr. Crabtree:
I have appended my column once again, because it was previously sent to
you alone. I correct only the fact that I quoted one military expert not
many.
Letters from Gen. Dana Chipman, the committee’s own former chief counsel
with 33 years’ military experience, have now been released. In one to
former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chipman states: “I think you ordered
exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a position where
they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi.” Contrary to the
right-wing press, there were no orders for those forces to stand down.
I challenge you to counter anything I've written in this column. Until you
do, the points stand.
nfg
*Benghazi: The GOP is Beating a Dead Horse*
*None of the Charges Against Clinton are True*
The GOP House Select Committee on Benghazi has interviewed 100
witnesses, spent $7 million of its own funds, and has forced other agencies
to spend an additional $13 million. The Defense Department is at its wit’s
end and is rightly accusing the committee of making frivolous requests.
Letters from Gen. Dana Chipman, the committee’s own former
chief counsel with 33 years’ military experience, have been now released.
In one to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chipman states: “I think
you ordered exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a
position where they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi.”
Contrary to the right-wing press, there were no orders for those forces to
stand down.
One of the most inflammatory charges made against Hillary
Clinton was that she dismissed the Benghazi deaths by saying “What
difference does it make”? In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee (1/23/13), the gravity of this loss is clear: “With all due
respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a
protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that
they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it
make?”
There is also the accusation by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa that
Clinton had “personally signed” a cable requesting reduced security in
Benghazi. Fact checkers at the *Washington Post* awarded Issa four
Pinocchio’s (a Whopper) for this lie. The fact is that every cable from
the State Department has the Secretary’s signature renders its author
unidentifiable.
GOP Sen. Rand Paul charged that Clinton “was asked repeatedly
to provide security in Benghazi on several occasions, including direct
cables.
<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/may/22/rand-paul/rand-paul-says-hillary-clinton-was-asked-repeatedl/>”
Investigators at Politifact have judged this claim “mostly false.” They
state that “no one has shown Clinton willfully ignored the cries for help
from Libya. Paul’s office didn’t provide evidence linking requests for
security directly to Clinton.” All cables to the State Department cables
are addressed to “SECSTATE” in “WASHDC,” but only a select few ever reach
the secretary.
On the October 15, 2012, Fox New’s Sean Hannity claimed that
“somebody at the State Department was watching the attack in real time” via
video, and therefore should have known exactly what was happening.
First, there was of course no live video feed from Libya to any
government office; and second, Hannity may have misunderstood Charles
Lamb’s testimony that Clinton was in telephone contact with state
department officials in Libya as if it were “almost in real time.”
Clinton’s critics apparently did not realize that this claim
of real time contact contradicts their accusation that Clinton and Obama
were “unaccounted for” during and after the attack. Not only was Clinton in
constant telephone contact with the deputy chief of mission in Libya, but
she was also speaking directly with national security advisor Tom Donilon,
President Obama, and other administration officials.
With regard to the cause of the attack, UN Ambassador Susan Rice
has been rightly criticized for blaming it on an anti-Islamic video that
caused protests in Egypt but not Benghazi. From the very beginning,
however, Clinton was sure it was a terrorist attack.
On the day after the attack, September 12, 2012, she called the
Egyptian prime minister stating that “we know it had nothing to do with the
film. It was a planned attack — not a protest.” On September 21,2012,
Clinton declared: “What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and we
will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the
terrorists who murdered four Americans.”
Critics have charged that at a ceremony honoring the Benghazi
victims, Clinton told their family members that the video caused the
attack. But Jan Stevens, father of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Cheryl Bennet,
Tyrone Wood’s mother, and Barbara Doherty, Glen Doherty’s mother, each said
that Clinton did not mention the video in conversations with them. Only
Charles Wood, Tyrone Wood’s father, recalled that Clinton referred to the
video.
Allegations that Clinton ordered the “scrubbing” of Benghazi
documents, that she blocked a whistle blower from coming forward, that she
was silent about Benghazi attack for weeks, and that she did not take
responsibility for the attacks have all been found to be false.
When she was Secretary of State Clinton’s approval ratings were 70 percent,
but the fact that they are now at 45 percent is primarily due to this dark
cloud of lies hanging over her head.
Nick Gier of Moscow taught philosophy at the University of
Idaho for 31 years. Read all of his columns on the 2016 election at
www.NickGier.com/Election2016.pdf.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:42 PM, g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com> wrote:
> You stated that " the GOP congressmen ended up looking like fools" and
> that "Hillary proved her toughness for the presidency right then and
> there." Then you contend that this opinion is borne out by the testimony of
> "the committee's own military experts?
>
> Your opinions are as unique as your notion of what constitutes a fact.
>
> g
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it is my opinion but backed up by facts, including the committee's
>> own military experts.
>>
>> nfg
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Crabtree,
>>>
>>> Are you forgetting about the 11-hour hearing on Bengazi in which none of
>>> the charges stuck and the GOP congressmen ended up looking like fools?
>>> Hillary proved her toughness for the presidency right then and there.
>>>
>>> Appended below is my column from that period.
>>>
>>> nfg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Benghazi: The GOP is Beating a Dead Horse None of the Charges Against
>>> Clinton are True*
>>>
>>> The GOP House Select Committee on Benghazi has interviewed
>>> 100 witnesses, spent $7 million of its own funds, and has forced other
>>> agencies to spend an additional $13 million. The Defense Department is at
>>> its wit’s end and is rightly accusing the committee of making frivolous
>>> requests.
>>> Letters from Gen. Dana Chipman, the committee’s own former
>>> chief counsel with 33 years’ military experience, have been now released.
>>> In one to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chipman states: “I think
>>> you ordered exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a
>>> position where they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi.”
>>> Contrary to the right-wing press, there were no orders for those forces to
>>> stand down.
>>> One of the most inflammatory charges made against Hillary
>>> Clinton was that she dismissed the Benghazi deaths by saying “What
>>> difference does it make”? In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations
>>> Committee (1/23/13), the gravity of this loss is clear: “With all due
>>> respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a
>>> protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that
>>> they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it
>>> make?”
>>> There is also the accusation by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa that
>>> Clinton had “personally signed” a cable requesting reduced security in
>>> Benghazi. Fact checkers at the *Washington Post* awarded Issa four
>>> Pinocchio’s (a Whopper) for this lie. The fact is that every cable from
>>> the State Department has the Secretary’s signature renders its author
>>> unidentifiable.
>>> GOP Sen. Rand Paul charged that Clinton “was asked
>>> repeatedly to provide security in Benghazi on several occasions, including
>>> direct cables.
>>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/may/22/rand-paul/rand-paul-says-hillary-clinton-was-asked-repeatedl/>”
>>> Investigators at Politifact have judged this claim “mostly false.” They
>>> state that “no one has shown Clinton willfully ignored the cries for help
>>> from Libya. Paul’s office didn’t provide evidence linking requests for
>>> security directly to Clinton.” All cables to the State Department cables
>>> are addressed to “SECSTATE” in “WASHDC,” but only a select few ever reach
>>> the secretary.
>>> On the October 15, 2012, Fox New’s Sean Hannity
>>> claimed that “somebody at the State Department was watching the attack in
>>> real time” via video, and therefore should have known exactly what was
>>> happening.
>>> First, there was of course no live video feed from Libya to
>>> any government office; and second, Hannity may have misunderstood Charles
>>> Lamb’s testimony that Clinton was in telephone contact with state
>>> department officials in Libya as if it were “almost in real time.”
>>> Clinton’s critics apparently did not realize that this
>>> claim of real time contact contradicts their accusation that Clinton and
>>> Obama were “unaccounted for” during and after the attack. Not only was
>>> Clinton in constant telephone contact with the deputy chief of mission in
>>> Libya, but she was also speaking directly with national security advisor
>>> Tom Donilon, President Obama, and other administration officials.
>>> With regard to the cause of the attack, UN Ambassador Susan
>>> Rice has been rightly criticized for blaming it on an anti-Islamic video
>>> that caused protests in Egypt but not Benghazi. From the very beginning,
>>> however, Clinton was sure it was a terrorist attack.
>>> On the day after the attack, September 12, 2012, she called
>>> the Egyptian prime minister stating that “we know it had nothing to do with
>>> the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest.” On September 21,2012,
>>> Clinton declared: “What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and we
>>> will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the
>>> terrorists who murdered four Americans.”
>>> Critics have charged that at a ceremony honoring the Benghazi
>>> victims, Clinton told their family members that the video caused the
>>> attack. But Jan Stevens, father of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Cheryl Bennet,
>>> Tyrone Wood’s mother, and Barbara Doherty, Glen Doherty’s mother, each said
>>> that Clinton did not mention the video in conversations with them. Only
>>> Charles Wood, Tyrone Wood’s father, recalled that Clinton referred to the
>>> video.
>>> Allegations that Clinton ordered the “scrubbing” of Benghazi
>>> documents, that she blocked a whistle blower from coming forward, that she
>>> was silent about Benghazi attack for weeks, and that she did not take
>>> responsibility for the attacks have all been found to be false.
>>>
>>> When she was Secretary of State Clinton’s approval ratings were 70
>>> percent, but the fact that they are now at 45 percent is primarily due to
>>> this dark cloud of lies hanging over her head.
>>> Nick Gier of Moscow taught philosophy at the University of
>>> Idaho for 31 years. Read all of his columns on the 2016 election at
>>> www.NickGier.com/Election2016.pdf.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:17 PM, g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well you're edging a tiny bit closer to being on the money. Right about
>>>> hillary having so many issues, still wrong about the "prosecuted and
>>>> then exonerated."
>>>>
>>>> g
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Andy Boyd <
>>>> moscowrecycling at turbonet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I must have been thinking bengazigate. So many issues.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy Boyd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* g crabtree [mailto:direoutcome at gmail.com]
>>>>> *Sent:* Monday, September 25, 2017 12:41 PM
>>>>> *To:* Andy Boyd <moscowrecycling at turbonet.com>
>>>>> *Cc:* Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>; Moscow Vision 2020 <
>>>>> vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Jared Kushner used private email for
>>>>> official business
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At What point was hillary indited much less prosecuted? At what point
>>>>> was she exonerated? None of these things happened once much less multiple
>>>>> times.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> g
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Andy Boyd <
>>>>> moscowrecycling at turbonet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> And will Kushner be prosecuted and then exonerated for emails multiple
>>>>> times by congress like Hillary was?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy Boyd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at mos
>>>>> cow.com] *On Behalf Of *g crabtree
>>>>> *Sent:* Monday, September 25, 2017 9:39 AM
>>>>> *To:* Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
>>>>> *Cc:* Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Jared Kushner used private email for
>>>>> official business
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the similarity extend to a clandestinely set up private server in
>>>>> Mr. Kushners bathroom in a deliberate attempt to circumvent public records
>>>>> requirements?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Did Mr. Kushner immediately attempt to delete over 30,000 improperly
>>>>> documented e-mails when found out?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When discovered, did Mr. Kushner go into overdrive destroying devices
>>>>> that could possibly have traces of "job related information?" Did he order
>>>>> lackeys to use blow torch software on a server that they fought desperately
>>>>> to avoid turning over to proper authorities?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Did Mr. Kushner instruct underlings to obfuscate when asked about said
>>>>> information?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess you're right, tom. The similarities boarder on the uncanny.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> g
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jared Kushner is currently senior advisor to President Trump. As such
>>>>> he possesses a Top Secret security clearance (after providing false
>>>>> information on his SF-86, application for security clearance).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I going to fast for you, Dan?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The similarity between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
>>>>> Senior Advisor Jared Kushner is that emails from a private server,
>>>>> containing job-related information, have been generated by both of them
>>>>> (Hillary and Jared).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you picking up what I'm laying down?
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>>>
>>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 25, 2017, at 6:01 AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Did I miss the part where Kushner is running for president? Just want
>>>>> to get the analogy straight
>>>>>
>>>>> DC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 25, 2017, at 04:43, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Altogether now . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LOCK HIM UP . . . LOCK HIM UP . . . LOCK HIM UP . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>>>
>>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 24, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Debi Smith <Debismith at moscow.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm. But let's keep on hitting Hillary for e-mails, shall we?
>>>>> Hypocritical much?
>>>>>
>>>>> Debi R-S
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/24/2017 2:49 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Courtesy of the *Washington Examiner *at:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jared-kushner-used-private
>>>>> -email-for-official-business-report/article/2635438
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jared Kushner used private email for official business: Report
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jared Kushner has used a private email server to correspond with other
>>>>> administration officials.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kushner, a senior White House advisor and son-in-law to President
>>>>> Trump, set up the email account in December, shortly after the presidential
>>>>> election, according to Politico, which first reported on the email account.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The emails have gone to White House officials as well as to outside
>>>>> advisers, and have contained discussions about news coverage and event
>>>>> planning. Recipients of such emails included National Economic Council
>>>>> director Gary Cohn as well as former chief of staff Reince Priebus and
>>>>> former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Abbe Lowell, Kushner's lawyer, said he has forwarded all the private
>>>>> emails to his White House account. In most cases, Lowell said, the emails
>>>>> to the private account were initiated by other officials.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House
>>>>> business," Lowell told Politico in a statement Sunday. "Fewer than 100
>>>>> emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr.
>>>>> Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account.
>>>>> These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most
>>>>> often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to
>>>>> his personal rather than his White House address."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Private email accounts can bypass the requirements of the Presidential
>>>>> Records Act, which requires archiving all documents about government
>>>>> business.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kushner has been under scrutiny during investigations over whether the
>>>>> Trump campaign colluded with Russian government officials to influence the
>>>>> U.S. election.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly attacked his
>>>>> Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, for using a private email server when
>>>>> she was secretary of state. She was cleared by the FBI of wrongdoing, but
>>>>> credits the news reporting about her emails as one of the reasons for her
>>>>> defeat.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>>>
>>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know
>>> they shall never sit in.
>>>
>>> -Greek proverb
>>>
>>> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
>>> Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
>>> from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
>>> lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
>>> guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
>>> understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
>>>
>>> --Immanuel Kant
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
>> shall never sit in.
>>
>> -Greek proverb
>>
>> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
>> Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
>> from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
>> lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
>> guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
>> understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
>>
>> --Immanuel Kant
>>
>>
>>
>
--
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.
-Greek proverb
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
--Immanuel Kant
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