Former U.S. Attorney sees a "red flag" with Hillary's email scandal

Eh, what's up, doc?

Beth Wilkinson is an attorney representing four main figures in the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's email malpractice. This is what Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney and now running a government watchdog group calls a "red flag."

Wilkinson is representing former chief of staff Cheryl Mills; media gatekeeper Philippe Reines; Jake Sullivan policy adviser, and former aide Heather Samuelson, the person who helped Hillary decide which Clinton emails were the most damaging and therefore had to be destroyed before turning over to the State Department the 30,000 that remained.

"I think it would be a real red flag," Whitaker said, referring to the legal defense tactic. He is the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT). He believes that having a single lawyer helps the four get their stories straight for the FBI interviews.

That would imply that something untoward was perpetrated by these four in service of the Clinton dynasty. Otherwise, what's the big deal? 

"The benefit is to have one lawyer's brain have all the knowledge of the various pieces and parts, and so each of those potential targets or subjects of the investigation get to share information across that same attorney--and quite frankly get their story to sync up and understand what other people know of the situation," Whitaker said.

Wilkinson is a Washington D.C. lawyer who's married to former NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory. When asked for comment, her office gave no immediate response as it has been their practice not to respond to the press on this case.

Whitaker explained that "All you're trying to do is seek the truth, and when someone is sharing a lawyer, you worry that the interview that you just did an hour ago with that attorney has been shared with the next witness and they can fix or reconcile their story to be the same."

Why that isn't illegal is anybody's guess--it ought to be. And while it isn't the norm, the legal representation hasn't been challenged by Justice Department officials, perhaps because, hey,  it's Hillary Clinton, after all.

In April, Cheryl Mills and Wilkinson blocked questions about Bryan Pagliano, Clinton's IT specialist and a key figure in the probe. Although Pagliano struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department last year, now he is seeking to invoke the Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions in the same Judicial Watch proceedings. That's what is known as wanting to have it both ways.

FACT is seeking the emails of Dennis Cheng, Clinton's former deputy chief of protocol at the State Department. His records may reveal a connection between the slush fund known as the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. 

Cheng was the main person dealing with senior foreign government officials, and there were only a few emails of his among the 30,000 she turned over when she apparently felt comfortable to do so. Cheng was also a consultant to the William J. Clinton Foundation.

The plot sickens.


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Just how much damage has Hillary's server done?

Heather Samuelson, 34, is a lawyer and a long-time Hillary Clinton aide. She was Hillary's campaign staffer back in 2008 when the presumptive  "Queen of the White House" lost the campaign to a terrorist sympathizer who gave good speech, but was "all sizzle and no steak."

In any case, Samuelson was tasked with separating Hillary's 30,000 'personal emails' from her 30,000 'work-related emails.' And while all Secretary of State emails belong to the American people, the 'Pantsuit Princess' took it upon herself to keep them hidden and then decide which category she was going to put them in.  

Then Hillary Clinton had the server wiped of all emails.

The person who revealed Samuelson's role in this scandal was Cheryl Mills, Hillary's State Department chief of staff. Mills gave this information to the House Select Committee on Benghazi when questioned about the emails.

Clinton lied when she claimed to have turned over all of her work-related emails. This is one of those "stubborn facts" Ronald Reagan once spoke about. 

You see, Sidney Blumenthal, a close friend/confidant of Hillary's, and a man who was not supposed to be involved with her role as Secretary of State, produced 15 emails he exchanged with Clinton and they were clearly work-related and she failed to turn them over in December. Hillary also lied when she said that she only had "one device" for her emails--she had several.

At least 2 emails Hillary turned over that Samuelson had seen had "Top Secret" information in them at the time they were sent. So Clinton lied when she claimed to have never sent or received classified information on her private unsecured server, and this was the catalyst that got the FBI involved.

But what about Heather Samuelson? Does she have a security clearance to allow her to even see the emails in the first place? And what about David Kendall, Clinton's lawyer who was given a memory stick with classified information on it?

Is Hillary Clinton simply too stupid to be our president? Is her judgment so impaired that she would compromise the security of our nation just for her convenience? Or did she have something to hide?

We the people have a right to know.

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