Clinton State Dept. Official Gives Exact Same Answer to 90 Email Scandal Questions During Deposition
By Jason Howerton
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Another State Department official linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email scandal pleaded the Fifth on Monday after being ordered by a judge to appear for a deposition.
John Bentel, former director of State Department's Office of Information Resources Management, previously claimed he only learned about Clinton’s private email server through news reports in 2015. However, a judge determined that emails suggest he knew of the private server as early as 2009. Judicial Watch seized on the “significant discrepancies,” but they were unable to get answers In response to more than 90 questions from Judicial Watch on Monday, Bentel answered:
“On advice from my legal counsel, I decline to answer the question and I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights.”
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In his ruling ordering Bentel’s deposition, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan shared some additional revelations made about Bentel’s role in the email scandal in a 2016 Inspector General’s report:
Mr. Bentel told employees in his office that Secretary Clinton’s email arrangement had been approved by the State Department’s legal staff and also instructed his subordinates not to discuss the Secretary’s email again:
In one meeting, one staff member raised concerns that information sent and received on Secretary Clinton’s account could contain Federal records that needed to be preserved in order to satisfy Federal recordkeeping requirements. According to the staff member, the Director stated that the Secretary’s personal system had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff and that the matter was not to be discussed any further. . . . According to the other S/ES-IRM staff member who raised concerns about the server, the Director stated that the mission of S/ES-IRM is to support the Secretary and instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again.
Bentel was reportedly one of several officials who were granted immunity in the case by the FBI.
FBI Director James Comey – Image Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Bentel was accompanied by three government attorneys and two personal lawyers during the disposition, Judicial Watch reported.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Bentel’s decision to plead the Fifth “highlights the disturbing implication that criminal acts took place related to the Clinton email and our Freedom of Information Act requests."
READ MORE: http://ijr.com/2016/10/720117-clinton-state-dept-official-gives-exact-same-answer-to-90-email-scandal-questions-during-deposition/
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