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Home Front: Politix
Did Hillary Clinton Commit a Crime? Part II.
2015-03-12
[NationalReview] Finally, there is a formal certification by the State Department records official authorizing the employee to remove the documents from State's custody: 'Once the reviewing official is satisfied that documentary materials proposed for removal comply with Federal law and regulations the reviewing official completes Form DS-1904, Authorization for the Removal of Personal Papers and Non-Record Materials, and forwards the form and the inventory to the Department of State records officer.'
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Despite her repeated protestations at yesterday's press conference that she followed all applicable rules, it is pellucid that she did not.
I'd have been tempted to post this just for that pellucid alone...
Mrs. Clinton plainly did not just remove personal e-mails without clearing that removal with records officials; she also did not even return official records. Her defense now is that returning the documents two years later is good enough. But the same records manual emphatically rebuts that post-hoc justification. The department's records manual requires that departing officials "must ensure that all record material that they possess is incorporated in the Department's official files and that all file searches for which they have been tasked have been completed, such as those required to respond to FOIA,'Congressional, or litigation-related document requests.' And lest the employee not get the message, the manual adds that 'fines, imprisonment, or both may be imposed for the willful and unlawful removal or destruction of records as stated in the U.S. Criminal Code (e.g., 18 U.S.C., section 2071).'
Or, as the Washington Examiner asks more succinctly, Clinton was required to sign document claiming she turned over emails in 2013
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